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A Practical Guide to Successful Data Deduplication
Data explosion is a primary contributor to IT sprawl - which is
taking business performance to the breaking point. As you gear
up for your data deduplication implementation, here are some
pragmatic questions to ask your vendor and considerations
designed to minimize surprises along the way.
http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51434336/
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Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives?
* Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years
* How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way
* Firefox 8.0 Beta Available
* Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
* Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus
* Top 1% of iOS Game Developers Make a Third of All Revenue
* SpaceX Reveals Plans For Full Launch System Re-usability
* An Operating System For Cities
* Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK
* The (Mostly) Sad Fates of 32 First-Generation iPad Rivals
* How Google Drove Samsung Away
* Ask <em>They Might Be Giants</em> About Almost 30 Years of Music
* MIT's 'Artificial Leaf' Makes Fuel From Sunlight
* Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot
* Ask Slashdot: Trustworthy Proxy Services?
* Dutch Usenet Provider Ordered To Remove Infringing Content
* The Inside Story of the Kelihos Takedown
* Oracle: Proud, Self-Reliant, Increasingly Isolated
* Foxconn's Brazil Plan Stalled
* Amazon In Talks With HP To Buy Palm
* Free Press Sues FCC Over Discrepancy In Net Neutrality Rules
* <em>A Game of Thrones</em> RTS Game Released, RPG On the Way
* Nokia Consolidating Locations, Laying Off 3500 More Employees
* Security Flaw Bypasses AT&amp;T Samsung Galaxy S II Screen Lock
* Analyzing Data Retention By Wireless Carriers

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| Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives?
| from the burn-it-with-fire dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 29, @23:47 (Data Storage)
| with 958 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/0059235/ask-slashdot-best-way-to-destroy-hard-drives?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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First time accepted submitter THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER writes "I have 10-15
old hard drives I want to trash, some IDE and some SATA. Even if I still
had IDE hardware, I don't want to wait several weeks to run DBAN on all
of them. I could use a degausser, but they are prohibitively expensive. I
could send them to a data destruction firm, but can they be trusted?
What's the fastest, cheapest DIY solution?"

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| Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years
| from the not-cool dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @15:35 (Earth)
| with 328 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/190210/canadian-ice-shelves-halve-in-six-years?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]eldavojohn writes "The CBC reports on new research that shows
thousand-year-old ice shelves (much different than sea ice) are breaking
up and [1]have been reduced by half in a region of Canada over the last
six years. 'This summer alone saw the Serson ice shelf almost completely
disappear and the Ward Hunt shelf split in half. The ice loss equals
about three billion tonnes, or about 500 times the mass of the Great
Pyramid of Giza.' [2]More detailed pictures can be seen at The
Conversation, with a quote from Professor Steven Sherwood, Co-Director of
the University of NSW's Climate Change Research Centre: 'The real
significance of this, in my view, is that this ice has reportedly been
there for thousands of years. The same is true of glaciers that have
recently disappeared in the Andes. These observations should dispel in
one fell swoop any notion that recent global warming could be natural.'"

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Links:
0. http://patternizer.com/
1. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/09/28/north-ice-shelves.html
2. http://theconversation.edu.au/canadian-ice-shelves-halve-in-six-years-3635

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| How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way
| from the wrong-turn dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday September 30, @08:09 (Programming)
| with 311 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/0315207/how-adobe-flash-lost-its-way?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]snydeq writes "Despite early successes on the Web, the [1]latter years
of Flash have been a tale of missed opportunities, writes Fatal
Exception's Neil McAllister. 'The bigger picture — [2]which I've touched
on before — is that major platform vendors are increasingly encouraging
developers to create rich applications not to be delivered via the
browser, but as native, platform-based apps. That's long been the case on
iOS and other smartphone platforms, and now it's starting to be the norm
on Windows. Each step of the way, Adobe is getting left behind,'
McAllister writes. 'Perhaps Adobe's biggest problem, however, is that
it's something of a relic as developer-oriented vendors go. How many
people have access to the Flash runtime is almost a moot point, because
Adobe doesn't make any money from the runtime directly; it gives it away
for free. Adobe makes its money from selling developer tools. Given the
[3]rich supply of free, open source developer tools available today,
vendors like that are few and far between. Remember Borland? Or Watcom?'"

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Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/how-adobe-flash-lost-its-way-174444
2. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/windows-8-and-microsofts-big-gamble-173211
3. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/04/18/2256200/open-source-programming-tools-on-the-rise

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| Firefox 8.0 Beta Available
| from the another-day-another-version dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @11:15 (Firefox)
| with 266 comments
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1436223/firefox-80-beta-available?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader tips news that Mozilla has [0]released the beta
version of Firefox 8, only a few days after going live with the final
version of [1]Firefox 7. According to the announcement, the big changes
this time around include the ability to use Twitter as a default search
engine, more versatility in restoring tabs on startup, and [2]improved
user control over add-ons. "Users will receive a one-time notification to
review and confirm third party add-ons they want to keep, disable or
delete. When Firefox starts and finds that a third-party program has
installed an add-on, Firefox will disable the add-on until the user has
explicitly opted in, giving users better control over their Web
experience."

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Links:
0. http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/09/30/firefoxbeta8/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2025254/mozilla-foundation-releases-firefox-7
2. http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/08/11/strengthening-user-control-of-add-ons/

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| Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
| from the you-are-who-google-says-you-are dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @10:54 (Cloud)
| with 259 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1422217/cloud-powered-facial-recognition-is-terrifying?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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oker sends this quote from The Atlantic: "With Carnegie Mellon's
cloud-centric new mobile app, the process of [0]matching a casual
snapshot with a person's online identity takes less than a minute. Tools
like PittPatt and other cloud-based facial recognition services rely on
finding publicly available pictures of you online, whether it's a profile
image for social networks like Facebook and Google Plus or from something
more official from a company website or a college athletic portrait. In
their most recent round of facial recognition studies, researchers at
Carnegie Mellon were able to not only match unidentified profile photos
from a dating website (where the vast majority of users operate
pseudonymously) with positively identified Facebook photos, but also
match pedestrians on a North American college campus with their online
identities. ... '[C]onceptually, the goal of Experiment 3 was to show
that it is possible to [1]start from an anonymous face in the street, and
end up with very sensitive information about that person, in a process of
data "accretion." In the context of our experiment, it is this blending
of online and offline data — made possible by the convergence of face
recognition, social networks, data mining, and cloud computing — that we
refer to as augmented reality.'

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Links:
0. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/cloud-powered-facial-recognition-is-terrifying/245867/
1. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/face-recognition-study-FAQ/

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| Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus
| from the if-it-quacks-like-a-horse dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @13:53 (Chrome)
| with 235 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/176230/microsoft-security-products-flag-google-chrome-as-a-virus?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter maeltor writes "Reports [0]poured in this morning that
Microsoft's security products, namely Microsoft Security Essentials and
Forefront Client Security, were [0]flagging Google Chrome as a virus
(PWS:Win32/Zbot) and removing the browser if users chose to clean and
reboot their machines. Users reported that the only way to mitigate the
problem was to set MSE and Forefront to 'always allow' Zbot, which is
generally considered to be a bad idea." A Google employee in the above
support thread notes that Microsoft has now [1]pushed another update to
resolve the issue. "On September 30th, 2011, an incorrect detection for
PWS:Win32/Zbot was identified. On September 30th, 2011, Microsoft
released an update that addresses the issue. Signature versions
1.113.672.0 and higher include this update."

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Links:
0. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=42d6ba02d7eed070&hl=en
1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=PWS:Win32/Zbot&threatid=2147598479

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| Top 1% of iOS Game Developers Make a Third of All Revenue
| from the fighting-for-scraps dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @03:51 (Businesses)
| with 228 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/0730251/top-1-of-ios-game-developers-make-a-third-of-all-revenue?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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donniebaseball23 writes "The top one percent of iOS game developers earn
over a third of the gaming revenue made on the App Store, [0]according to
a new survey of iOS developers. The survey, set up by Canadian indie
developer Owen Goss, found that [1]the bottom 80 percent of iOS
developers are splitting a mere three percent of all App Store game
revenue."

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Links:
0. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/iphone-devs-in-top-20-make-97-of-total-category-revenue/
1. http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2011/09/28/results-ios-game-revenue-survey/

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| SpaceX Reveals Plans For Full Launch System Re-usability
| from the waste-not-want-not dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @08:50 (Space)
| with 206 comments
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1226232/spacex-reveals-plans-for-full-launch-system-re-usability?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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FleaPlus writes "During a talk at the National Press Club, SpaceX's Elon
Musk [0]revealed the company's plans for [1]making their Falcon 9 rocket
fully reusable. A rendering depicts the first stage, upper stage, and
Dragon capsule all separately returning to the Earth's surface and making
a controlled, rocket-powered landing. During the next few years SpaceX
will be testing VTVL (Vertical Takeoff, Vertical Landing) maneuvers and
re-usability with their Falcon 9-based [2]'Grasshopper' testbed, with up
to 70 test launches per year. Musk stated that if reuse is successful, it
would result in a 100x reduction in their already-low launch costs, a key
step toward Musk's long-term aim of lowering the price of a ticket to
Mars to $500K."

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Links:
0. http://www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=32777
1. http://www.universetoday.com/89347/spacex-to-develop-a-fully-reusable-launch-system-and-elon-musk-wants-to-send-humans-to-mars/
2. http://news.discovery.com/space/grasshopper-rocket-spacex-110927.html

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| An Operating System For Cities
| from the can't-wait-for-those-citywide-blue-screens dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @12:19 (Networking)
| with 200 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1458245/an-operating-system-for-cities?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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CProgrammer98 writes "BBC News reports that [0]cities may soon get their
own operating system. From the article: 'The Urban OS works just like a
PC operating system but keeps buildings, traffic and services running
smoothly. The software takes in data from sensors dotted around the city
to keep an eye on what is happening. In the event of a fire, the Urban OS
might manage traffic lights so fire trucks can reach the blaze swiftly.
The sensors monitor everything from large scale events such as traffic
flows across the entire city down to more local phenomena such as
temperature sensors inside individual rooms. The OS completely bypasses
humans to manage communication between sensors and devices such as
traffic lights, air conditioning or water pumps that influence the
quality of city life."

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Links:
0. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15109403

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| Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK
| from the electric-slide dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday September 30, @02:21 (Power)
| with 194 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/016224/pavegen-to-tap-pedestrians-for-power-in-the-uk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Several years ago Laurence Kembell-Cook
unveiled [0]Pavegen floor tiles, which capture kinetic energy from
footsteps and convert it to electricity. Now after two years of product
testing and picking up a slew of awards across the U.K., [1]Pavegen has
received its first commercial order — to light up the new Westfield
Stratford City Shopping Centre."

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Links:
0. http://www.pavegen.com/
1. http://inhabitat.com/award-winning-pavegen-floor-tiles-will-use-energy-from-footsteps-to-light-up-uk-shopping-center/

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| The (Mostly) Sad Fates of 32 First-Generation iPad Rivals
| from the competing-with-vaporware-is-easy dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @17:26 (Handhelds)
| with 194 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/2052238/the-mostly-sad-fates-of-32-first-generation-ipad-rivals?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]harrymcc writes "Back in August of 2010, I rounded up 32 tablets —
existing, announced, and rumored — that weren't the iPad. So much has
happened to tablets since then that I decided to revisit my list and look
at what happened to all 32 contenders. The results aren't pretty, but
they do provide plenty of evidence that [1]competing with Apple was far
harder than most companies expected."

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Links:
0. http://www.technologizer.com/
1. http://technologizer.com/2011/09/30/ipad-alternatives-3/

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| How Google Drove Samsung Away
| from the and-stay-out dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday September 30, @04:53 (Android)
| with 186 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/036250/how-google-drove-samsung-away?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]itwbennett writes "The [1]patent licensing agreement between Microsoft
and Samsung this week set off a firestorm of childish tit-for-tat between
[2]Microsoft and [3]Google. But more telling is what Samsung had to say
about its relationship with Google: 'Samsung knows it can't rely on
Google. We've decided to [4]address Android IP issues on our own,' a
Samsung official told The Korea Times. The only good news to come from
all of this, says blogger Brian Proffitt, is that we may be [5]headed for
a courtroom showdown over just what patents Microsoft believes are in
violation, which really is what should have happened to begin with."
Update: 09/30 20:05 GMT by [6]S : As it turns out, the so-called "Samsung
official" cited by The Korea Times [7]turned out to be patent blogger
Florian Mueller.

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Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/28/1433259/samsung-joins-ranks-of-android-vendors-licensing-microsoft-patents
2. http://twitter.com/#!/fxshaw/status/119121957189988352
3. http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/microsoft-samsung-extortion-google/
4. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2011/09/133_95716.html
5. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/208357/how-google-drove-samsung-away
6. mailto:soulskillatslashdotdotorg
7. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/208955/why-did-korea-times-quote-florian-mueller-samsung-official

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| Ask <em>They Might Be Giants</em> About Almost 30 Years of Music
| from the no-one-in-the-world-ever-gets-what-they-want-and-that-is-beautifu dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Friday September 30, @11:36 (Music)
| with 173 comments
| https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/000225/ask-they-might-be-giants-about-almost-30-years-of-music?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Back in 1982, John Flansburgh, John Linnell, and a drum machine formed
They Might Be Giants. Over the last 29 years TMBG have released 15 studio
albums, won 2 Grammy Awards, and have become one of the most nerd-loved
bands ever. In addition to projects like [0] Dial-A-Song, TMBG were one
of the first bands to create their own online music store, and have been
making podcasts on a semi-monthly basis since 2005. The band has agreed
to answer all your questions about the naming conventions of Turkish
cities, building spiritual bird houses, and the music business. As usual,
[1]ask as many questions as you'd like, but please keep it to one
question per post.

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Links:
0. http://tmbw.net/wiki/Dial-A-Song
1. http://slashdot.org/faq/interviews.shtml

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| MIT's 'Artificial Leaf' Makes Fuel From Sunlight
| from the do-you-think-energy-just-falls-off-trees dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @13:01 (Power)
| with 141 comments
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1512249/mits-artificial-leaf-makes-fuel-from-sunlight?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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New submitter nfn writes "MIT has published a new paper ([0]abstract),
along with a video of a working prototype, of what they're describing as
an 'Artificial Leaf' that [1]separates water into oxygen and hydrogen
using cheap, non-exotic materials. 'The artificial leaf — a silicon solar
cell with different catalytic materials bonded onto its two sides — needs
no external wires or control circuits to operate. Simply placed in a
container of water and exposed to sunlight, it quickly begins to generate
streams of bubbles: oxygen bubbles from one side and hydrogen bubbles
from the other. If placed in a container that has a barrier to separate
the two sides, the two streams of bubbles can be collected and stored,
and used later to deliver power: for example, by feeding them into a fuel
cell that combines them once again into water while delivering an
electric current.' No word on the arrival of 'Artificial Salads,' or when
any of their other alchemy projects will bear artificial fruit."

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Links:
0. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/09/28/science.1209816.abstract
1. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/artificial-leaf-0930.html

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| Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot
| from the it-will-chase-you-in-your-nightmares dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @09:32 (Robotics)
| with 131 comments
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1241201/boston-dynamics-unveils-alphadog-quadruped-robot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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An anonymous reader writes "Boston Dynamics, the company that created
[0]the BigDog quadruped robot, has [1]unveiled a new, bigger system
called AlphaDog. AlphaDog, a DARPA-sponsored project, can carry a payload
of 400 pounds for up to 20 miles without having to refuel, and it's also
much quieter than BigDog. The robot is designed to assist humans in
carrying heavy equipment over rough terrain, and Boston Dynamics'
schedule has the first walk-out of AlphaDog taking place sometime in
2012, when U.S. Marines will begin to put the robot to the test for
real."

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Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/03/19/0045255/new-bigdog-robot-video
1. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/boston-dynamics-alphadog-prototype-on-video

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| Ask Slashdot: Trustworthy Proxy Services?
| from the carrier-pigeons-are-reliable dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @18:10 (Networking)
| with 105 comments
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/2059234/ask-slashdot-trustworthy-proxy-services?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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gusoline writes "Since I'm now living in Brazil (originally from the
U.S.), I'm looking for a reliable, trustworthy proxy service I can use to
both access services I've used for a long time (Pandora, Netflix, etc.)
and services I want to try out (Spotify). Since I'm not looking for
illegal downloads or to hide what I'm doing, I'm less concerned about
anonymity than I am about region restrictions, reliability, latency, and
security of passwords and traffic through their network. I'm OK paying
for services that deliver what I want (including the Proxy service
itself). Any suggestions from the Slashdot crowd?"

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| Dutch Usenet Provider Ordered To Remove Infringing Content
| from the trouble-in-the-usenets dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @16:43 (Piracy)
| with 81 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1949213/dutch-usenet-provider-ordered-to-remove-infringing-content?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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dutchwhizzman writes "Amsterdam-based Usenet wholesale provider News
Service Europe has been mandated by a court to [0]remove all
copyright-infringing content on their servers, or face severe financial
penalties. Dutch copyright organization BREIN has won a court case making
the Usenet provider [1]responsible for the content posted on platforms
other than their own. Could this be the end of Usenet as we know it, or
will an appeal be won by NSE? Why didn't the judge make the provider that
allowed the posts responsible? Why didn't the judge honor the 'cancel
message' procedure that technically exists in the NNTP protocol?"

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Links:
0. https://torrentfreak.com/major-usenet-provider-ordered-to-remove-all-infringing-content-110929/
1. http://vrritti.com/2011/09/30/dutch-anti-piracy-organization-brein-wins-court-case-against-europes-largest-usenet-provider-news-service-europe-nse-has-to-remove-pirated-content-or-will-risk-fine-of-50000-eur-per-day/

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| The Inside Story of the Kelihos Takedown
| from the with-a-little-help-from-my-friends dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 29, @21:30 (Botnet)
| with 79 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/29/2244252/the-inside-story-of-the-kelihos-takedown?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Trailrunner7 writes "Earlier this week, Microsoft released an
announcement about [0]the disruption of the Kelihos botnet that was
responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information,
pump-and-dump stock scams, and distributed denial-of-service attacks. The
botnet had a complex, multi-tiered architecture as well as a custom
communication protocol and three-level encryption. Kaspersky Lab
researchers did the heavy lifting, [1]reversing the protocol and cracking
the encryption and then sink-holing the botnet. The company worked
closely with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), sharing the relevant
information and providing them with access to our live botnet tracking
system."

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Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1929236/microsoft-disables-kelihos-botnet
1. https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/inside-story-kelihos-botnet-takedown-092911

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| Oracle: Proud, Self-Reliant, Increasingly Isolated
| from the sitting-in-the-corner-for-a-timeout dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @15:58 (Cloud)
| with 75 comments
| https://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1855204/oracle-proud-self-reliant-increasingly-isolated?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]jfruhlinger writes "One of Oracle's stated purposes when it [1]bought
Sun more than two years ago was to create full-stack appliances: SPARC
servers running Solaris or Oracle Linux and Oracle's suite of app servers
and of course its omnipresent database. Its [2]new T4 processor is a
reaffirmation of that strategy. But has the company painted itself into a
corner? While it's cautiously embraced the cloud, its cloud services
don't work with Windows or other companies' offerings, which kills much
of their potential value; meanwhile, they've managed to alienate open
source developers and big swaths of the Java community. It seems that
[3]Oracle's inability to play well with others is locking them out of the
multipolar future."

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Links:
0. http://joshreads.com/
1. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/04/20/128246/oracle-buys-sun
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1222233/oracle-demos-new-sparc-t4-processor
3. http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/207913/oracle-has-sun-spot

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| Foxconn's Brazil Plan Stalled
| from the brazilian-workers-rejoice dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday September 30, @19:33 (China)
| with 73 comments
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/238229/foxconns-brazil-plan-stalled?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hackingbear writes with an article from Reuters about Foxconn's plans to
move iPad production to Brazil. From the article: "A much-hyped $12
billion plan for Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn to [0]produce iPads in
Brazil, announced in April by President Dilma Rousseff during an official
visit to China, is 'in doubt'due to [1]stagnant negotiations over tax
breaks and Brazil's own deep structural problems such as a lack of
skilled labor and bad infrastructure, government sources tell Reuters.
'(Foxconn) is making crazy demands' for tax breaks and other special
treatment, the official added. Local media have reported that Foxconn is
also seeking priority treatment at Brazilian customs, which is
notoriously slow even by the standards of emerging markets."

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Links:
0. https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/1649217/is-apple-moving-ipad-production-to-brazil
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/us-brazil-ipad-foxconn-idUSTRE78S4O420110929

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| Amazon In Talks With HP To Buy Palm
| from the might-come-in-handy-some-day dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @14:36 (HP)
| with 66 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1832241/amazon-in-talks-with-hp-to-buy-palm?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]Nemilar writes with this excerpt from VentureBeat: "Who will save
what's left of Palm from HP's bumbling? It could be Amazon, as the online
retailing giant is [1]in serious negotiations to snap up Palm from HP. No
other company seems as fitting a home for Palm and its webOS software.
It's worth noting that former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, who now holds a
vague 'product innovation' role at HP's Personal Services Group, joined
Amazon's board late last year."

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Links:
0. http://www.techthrob.com/
1. http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/29/amazon-buy-palm/

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| Free Press Sues FCC Over Discrepancy In Net Neutrality Rules
| from the give-me-interwebs-or-give-me-death dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @10:12 (The Internet)
| with 65 comments
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1258241/free-press-sues-fcc-over-discrepancy-in-net-neutrality-rules?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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hypnosec writes "The Free Press has filed a [0]lawsuit against the
Federal Communications Commission, challenging the net neutrality rules
laid out by the regulator. The [1]lawsuit (PDF), which was filed in the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, claims the rules
are [2]different for fixed line and mobile wireless broadband. According
to the rules, mobile wireless carriers are not allowed to block voice and
other applications that compete with their own services, but other than
that, they are free do to what they want."

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Links:
0. http://www.itproportal.com/2011/09/30/free-press-sues-fcc-over-discrepancy-net-neutrality-rules/
1. http://www.freepress.net/files/Petition_for_review.pdf
2. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393772,00.asp#fbid=EgdXcXYsdqg

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| <em>A Game of Thrones</em> RTS Game Released, RPG On the Way
| from the rated-R-for-you-know-what dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @17:47 (Books)
| with 65 comments
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/2117253/a-game-of-thrones-rts-game-released-rpg-on-the-way?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Game development studio Cyanide launched their real-time strategy
interpretation of George R. R. Martin's acclaimed fantasy series A Game
of Thrones yesterday. You can see [0]a trailer and [1]a few screenshots
if you're so inclined. Cyanide also confirmed one of their other offices
is [2]working on a completely different RPG based on the series as well.
It's still a ways out, but they say it will be "Mass Effect-style," and
will pick up at the start of the first book. "True to the style of
Martin's books, it will tell the story of two different characters,
switching back and forth between them as their tales move alongside the
events of the first book (and occasionally intersect with one another).
None of the characters from the book will be playable, though the game's
protagonists will cross paths with plenty of familiar faces over the
course of the game."

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Links:
0. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/22/a-clot-of-colons-game-of-thrones-genesis/
1. http://www.bluesnews.com/screenshots/games/agameofthronesgenesis/20110928/
2. http://kotaku.com/5845578/the-game-of-thrones-rpg-is-actually-happening

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| Nokia Consolidating Locations, Laying Off 3500 More Employees
| from the elop-lops-off-the-arms dept.
| posted by Unknown Lamer on Friday September 30, @18:52 (Businesses)
| with 62 comments
| https://slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/2213226/nokia-consolidating-locations-laying-off-3500-more-employees?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]angry tapir writes with an excerpt from a Techworld article: "Nokia is
planning to [1]lay off an additional 3,500 employees, as the company
continues to restructure after announcing its decision to focus on
Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. The affected employees work
in [2]manufacturing, location and commerce, and supporting functions."

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Links:
0. http://www.techworld.com.au/
1. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/402513/nokia_lays_off_3_500_employees/?fp=16&fpid=1
2. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576600130074355052.html

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| Security Flaw Bypasses AT&amp;T Samsung Galaxy S II Screen Lock
| from the your-kid-knows-the-password-anyway dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @16:22 (Security)
| with 36 comments
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1953214/security-flaw-bypasses-att-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-screen-lock?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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zacharye writes "BGR has uncovered a security flaw on AT&T's version of
the Samsung Galaxy S II that renders Android's unlock pattern feature
completely useless. Using a simple workaround, [0]the security hole
allows anyone to bypass the unlock pattern, which normally denies users
access to an Android device unless a preset pattern is drawn on a grid of
nine dots spread across the device's lock screen."

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Links:
0. http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/30/major-security-flaw-lets-anyone-bypass-att-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-security-video/

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| Analyzing Data Retention By Wireless Carriers
| from the privacy-on-a-timetable dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday September 30, @15:16 (Cellphones)
| with 20 comments
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1850214/analyzing-data-retention-by-wireless-carriers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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adeelarshad82 writes "How long does your cell phone carrier retain
information about your calls, text messages, and data use? According to
data gathered by the Department of Justice, it can be as little as [0]a
few days or up to seven years, depending on your provider. The [1]data
was made public after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom
of Information Act request related to an [2]investigation into cell phone
location tracking by police."

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https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1850214/analyzing-data-retention-by-wireless-carriers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393887,00.asp
1. http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/how-long-your-cell-phone-company-hanging-your-data
2. http://www.aclu.org/protecting-civil-liberties-digital-age/cell-phone-location-tracking-public-records-request

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