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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Pro-ODF Legislation Loses In Six States
* iPhone Release Date Is June 29
* Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe
* GPLv2 Vs. GPLv3
* New Fuel Cell Twice As Efficient As Generators
* Internet Tax Imminent?
* Concerns Over Microsoft's Internet User Profiling
* Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG
* Insight Into AMD's Linux Driver Development
* Microsoft Gives Xandros Users Patent Protection
* Turning Heat Into Sound Into Electricity
* A Hardware-Software Symbiosis
* Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public
* DRAM Makers Suffer Due to Lackluster Vista Adoption
* Breakthrough Brings Star Trek Transporter Closer
* Radio Wave on Saturn's Moon Hints at Hidden Ocean
* GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait
* Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House
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| Pro-ODF Legislation Loses In Six States |
| from the best-paid-suits dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday June 03, @20:16 (Microsoft) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/03/2143218
|
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ajanp writes "Computerworld discusses the [0]defeat of pro-ODF
legislation in the states of [1]California, [2]Florida, [3]Texas,
[4]Oregon, and [5]Connecticut which 'would have required state agencies
to use freely available and interoperable file formats, such as the Open
Document Format for Office Applications, instead of Microsoft Corp.'s
proprietary Office formats.' A similar bill in [6]Minnesota was changed
to study the issue instead. There was heavy lobbying being done in
private on both sides with one problem being 'the jargon-laden
disinformation that committee members felt they were being fed by
lobbyists for both IBM and Microsoft. Although lobbyists would tell the
committee one thing in private, they got cold feet when asked to verify
the information publicly, under oath.' However, 'Despite the string of
defeats, Marino Marcich, executive director of the Washington-based ODF
Alliance, said the legislative fight has only begun.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/03/2143218
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9022878
1. http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1668_cfa_20070416_103510_asm_comm.html
3. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/fiscalnotes/html/HB01794I.HTM
4. http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measures/hb2900.dir/hb2920.intro.html
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| iPhone Release Date Is June 29 |
| from the lines-form-now dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday June 03, @22:28 (Portables (Apple)) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/0218221
|
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[0]willith writes "Apple has placed [1]three iPhone commercials on their
Web site today, and each ends with a tag: 'Coming June 29.' This puts to
rest the question of when the thing will hit the streets, but there are
still worries about allocation ��� AppleInsider is reporting that the
[2]supplies at Cingular/AT&T stores may be relatively tight." And [3]some
fanatic sites are already parsing the ads for such enigmas as the
"mystery app."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/0218221
Links:
0. http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/
1. http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/
3. http://macenstein.com/default/archives/640
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| Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe |
| from the reagan-won-this-didn't-he dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday June 04, @01:42 (United States) |
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/0154243
|
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[0]Melugo writes to let us know that Russian president Vladimir Putin has
warned that US plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe
would force Moscow to [1]target its weapons against Europe. This reader
notes: "It feels like the Cold War all over again." "'If the American
nuclear potential grows in European territory, we have to give ourselves
new targets in Europe,' Putin said... 'It is up to our military to define
these targets, in addition to defining the choice between ballistic and
cruise missiles.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/0154243
Links:
0. http://alittlebitoffreedom.blogspot.com/
1. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/06/03/ap3782478.html
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| GPLv2 Vs. GPLv3 |
| from the feature-not-a-bug dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday June 04, @04:35 (GNU is Not Unix) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/0020213
|
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[0]chessweb writes "Here is a rather enlightening article by Richard
Stallman on the [1]reasons for moving to GPLv3 that puts the previous
[2]TiVo post into the right context." From the article: "One major danger
that GPLv3 will block is tivoization. Tivoization means computers (called
'appliances') contain GPL-covered software that you can't change, because
the appliance shuts down if it detects modified software... The
manufacturers of these computers take advantage of the freedom that free
software provides, but they don't let you do likewise... GPLv3 ensures
you are free to remove the handcuffs. It doesn't forbid DRM, or any kind
of feature. It places no limits on the substantive functionality you can
add to a program, or remove from it. Rather, it makes sure that you are
just as free to remove nasty features as the distributor of your copy was
to add them."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/0020213
Links:
0. http://live-chess.com/
1. http://gplv3.fsf.org/rms-why.html
2. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/02/2219230&tid=129
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| New Fuel Cell Twice As Efficient As Generators |
| from the when-and-how-much dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday June 04, @07:59 (Power) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/0237222
|
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[0]Hank Green writes "A [1]new kind of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell has been
developed that can consume any kind of fuel, from hydrogen to bio-diesel;
it is over two times more efficient than traditional generators.
Acumentrics is attempting to market the technology to off-grid
applications (like National Parks) and also for home use as personal
Combined Heat and Power plants that are extremely efficient (half as
carbon-intensive as grid power.)"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/0237222
Links:
0. http://www.ecogeek.org/
1. http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/684/
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| Internet Tax Imminent? |
| from the everybody-freak-out-like-the-last-fifty-times dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 04, @10:05 (The Internet) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1356235
|
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[0]jhigh writes "[1]Proposals to tax the Internet are gaining steam as
state legislators see a giant pot of money just waiting to be dipped
into. "At the moment, states and municipalities are frequently barred by
federal law from collecting both access and sales taxes. But they're
hoping that their new lobbying effort, coordinated by groups including
the National Governors Association, will pay off by permitting them to
collect billions of dollars in new revenue by next year.""
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/1356235
Links:
0. mailto:jason.high@gmail.com
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6186193.html#
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| Concerns Over Microsoft's Internet User Profiling |
| from the like-they-don't-already-know dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 04, @10:42 (Microsoft) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/144243
|
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[0]jcatcw writes "[1]Microsoft research on Internet user profiling could
lead to tools that help repressive regimes identify anonymous dissidents,
the [2]Reporters Without Borders advocacy group warned last Friday.
Microsoft's new algorithms correctly guessed the gender of a Web surfer
80% of the time, and his or her age 60% of the time. "In China, it is
conceivable that this type of technology would be used to spot Internet
users who regularly access such 'subversive' content as news and
information websites critical of the regime," the group said."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/144243
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/carpenter
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9022918
2. http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20
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| Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG |
| from the can-you-spot-the-secret-message-in-this-dept-line dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 04, @11:26 (Encryption) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1439208
|
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Linux.com (Same owners as Slashdot) has a story up about [0]FireGPG and
says "Gmail may be an excellent Web-based email application, but there is
no easy way to use it with privacy tools like GnuPG. The FireGPG
extension for Firefox is designed to solve this problem. It integrates
nicely into Gmail's interface and allows you...
[1]Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/1439208
Links:
0. http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/index.php?page=home&lang=en
1. http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1643208&from=rss
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| Insight Into AMD's Linux Driver Development |
| from the they-should-all-wear-hats-while-they-code- dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 04, @12:07 (AMD) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1532215
|
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[0]Cowards Anonymous writes "It's no secret that [1]ATI Technologies has
had a rough time in the past delivering display drivers that met the
expectations of their customers. When ATI started out producing a FireGL
and Radeon Linux driver they for some time were greatly behind NVIDIA's
feature-rich driver. The early ATI Linux driver had lacked essential
functionality such as PCI Express and x86_64 architecture support and was
also affected by stability and performance problems ��� not to mention a
great deal of bugs."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/1532215
Links:
0. mailto:sector@sp00fed.dk
1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=735
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| Microsoft Gives Xandros Users Patent Protection |
| from the try-try-again dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 04, @12:55 (Microsoft) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1630233
|
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DigDuality writes "Microsoft, shrugging off licensing moves to prevent it
from repeating its controversial patent deal with Novell, has signed a
set of [0]broad collaboration agreements with Linux provider Xandros that
include an intellectual property assurance under which Microsoft will
provide patent covenants for Xandros customers."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/1630233
Links:
0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2140955,00.asp
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| Turning Heat Into Sound Into Electricity |
| from the sounds-like-a-hot-idea dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 04, @13:38 (Power) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/176254
|
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WrongSizeGlass writes "Science Daily is reporting on work by physicists
at the University of Utah who have developed small devices that [0]turn
heat into sound and then into electricity. 'We are converting waste heat
to electricity in an efficient, simple way by using sound [...] It is a
new source of renewable energy from waste heat.' They report that
technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity,
harnessing solar energy and cooling computers and radars."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/176254
Links:
0. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070603225026.htm
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| A Hardware-Software Symbiosis |
| from the your-job-will-be-replaced-by-robots-soon dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 04, @14:22 (Software) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1811257
|
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[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "We all want smaller and faster computers.
Of course, this increases the complexity of the work of computer
designers. But now, computer scientists from the University of Virginia
are coming with a radical new idea which [1]may revolutionize computer
design. They've developed Tortola, a virtual interface that enables
hardware and software to communicate and to solve problems together. This
approach can be applied to get a better performance from a specific
system. It also can be used in the areas of security or power
consumption. And it soon could be commercialized with the help of IBM and
Intel."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/1811257
Links:
0. http://www.primidi.com/2007/06/04.html
1. http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=2173
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| Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public |
| from the bandwidth-fu dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 04, @15:04 (Mars) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1842258
|
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[0]Riding with Robots writes "The team that runs the high-rez camera on
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has just released more than 1,200 Mars
images to the [1]Planetary Data System, NASA's mission data archive. The
team has also released 1.7 Terabytes of data to a [2]user-friendly site
that allows users to quickly home in on each image, most of which are a
gigabyte-sized files measuring 20,000 by 50,000 pixels. Not all the
images have been thoroughly studied yet: in the announcement, the
camera's lead scientist said, 'These images must contain hundreds of
important discoveries about Mars. We just need time to realize what they
are.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/1842258
Links:
0. http://www.ridingwithrobots.org/
1. http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/
2. http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/
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| DRAM Makers Suffer Due to Lackluster Vista Adoption |
| from the betting-on-the-wrong-horse dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 04, @15:47 (Microsoft) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1850217
|
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[0]quixote9 writes "We've heard conflicting estimates of how widely
adopted Vista has been. Now comes some hard data. DRAM makers ramped up
to meet the huge expected demand for more memory needed by Vista. Except
[1]the demand hasn't materialized. Now they're suffering. Alternatively,
maybe everyone's cleverly hacked their Ultimate Aero Glass Vista to fit
on their old PCs."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/1850217
Links:
0. http://molvray.com/acid-test/
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| Breakthrough Brings Star Trek Transporter Closer |
| from the scott-me-up-beamy dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 04, @16:32 (Communications|
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/2022212
|
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japerr writes to mention The Independant is reporting that a new
breakthrough may bring scientists one step closer to a [0]Star Trek style
transporter. " A team of physicists has teleported data over a distance
of 89 miles from the Canary Island of La Palma to the neighbouring island
of Tenerife, which is 10 times further than the previous attempt at
teleportation through free space. The scientists did it by exploiting the
"spooky" and virtually unfathomable field of quantum entanglement - when
the state of matter rather than matter itself is sent from one place to
another. Tiny packets or particles of light, photons, were used to
teleport information between telescopes on the two islands. The photons
did it by quantum entanglement and scientists hope it will form the basis
of a way of sending encrypted data."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/2022212
Links:
0. http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2611757.ece#2007-06-04T00:00:25-00:00
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| Radio Wave on Saturn's Moon Hints at Hidden Ocean |
| from the still-no-spice dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 04, @17:17 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/219234
|
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[0]SleepyHappyDoc writes "The [1]European Space Agency has announced that
a [2]mysterious radio wave may indicate the existence of a hidden ocean
underneath the surface of Titan. The [3]Cassini-Huygens spaceprobe, which
entered Titan's atmosphere over two years ago, collected evidence and
information which has led to this potential discovery. This technology
may lead to entirely new ways of finding out information about other
planets."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/219234
Links:
0. http://www.rankaroo.com/contest/referral/136
1. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEM17F9RR1F_0.html
2. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/06/04/science-titan-radio.html?ref=rss
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens&oldid=134627829
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| GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait |
| from the hopefully-worth-waiting-for dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 04, @18:00 (Software) |
|
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/2113201
|
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[0]lisah writes "After keeping users waiting for nearly six years,
[1]Emacs 22 has been released and includes a bunch of updates and some
new modes as well. In addition to support for GTK+ and a graphical
interface to the GNU Debugger, 'this release includes build support for
Linux on AMD64, S/390, and Tensilica Xtensa machines, FreeBSD/Alpha,
Cygwin, Mac OS X, and Mac OS 9 with Carbon support. The Leim package is
now part of GNU Emacs, so users will be able to get input support for
Chinese, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, and other languages without
downloading a separate package. New translations of the Emacs tutorial
are also available in Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, simplified and
traditional Chinese, Italian, French, and Russian.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/2113201
Links:
0. mailto:lisahoover@gmail.com
1. http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1629254&from=rss
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| Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House |
| from the drag-it-out-'til-2008 dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday June 04, @19:13 (Republicans) |
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/220220
|
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[0]Science data nerds writes "The White House is consistently and
persistently [1] claiming that the US is doing better than Europe in
reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is false ��� their claim is purely
based on carefully selecting the only subset of the data that supports
this conclusion. When all the data are used, it is plain that European
emissions have declined substantially and US emissions have grown
substantially. The article, and [2]this linked analysis, debunk the White
House claims."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/220220
Links:
0. http://www.integrityofscience.org/
1. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/601/1
2. http://www.pacinst.org/topics/integrity_of_science/case_studies/selective_use_climate_update.pdf
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