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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* NSF Announces Supercomputer Grant Winners
* Privacy Winning Search Engine War
* BitTorrent Closes Source Code
* Human Origins Theory Tested By Recent Findings
* How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser
* DARPATech Shows off Robot Doc and Cancer Breathalyzer
* Blockbuster Throws Hat into Movie Download Business
* American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross
* Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images
* Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace
* Pay-For-Visit Advertising
* NASA Tests Hydrogen-Fueled BMW
* Google News Allowing Story Participants To Comment
* Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem?
* Dell Considers Bundling Virtualization on Mobos
* Microsoft Moves in on the Graphics Market
* Microsoft DRM Code for Netflix Streams Hacked
* Gamers Don't Know Their Own Consoles
* RIAA Campaign Against Students Hits Stormier Seas
* DUI Defendant Wins Source Code to Breathalyzer
* MySQL Closing Off Its Source
* DARPA Semifinalists Selected
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| NSF Announces Supercomputer Grant Winners |
| from the I-can't-allow-you-to-do-that-dave dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 08, @20:01 (Supercomputin|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/08/2236255
|
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An anonymous reader writes "The NSF has tentatively announced that the
Track 1 leadership class supercomputer will be [0]awarded to the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Track 2 award winner is University of
Tennessee-Knoxville and its partners." From the article: "In the first
award, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will receive
$208 million over 4.5 years to acquire and make available a petascale
computer it calls "Blue Waters," which is 500 times more powerful than
today's typical supercomputers. The system is expected to go online in
2011. The second award will fund the deployment and operation of an
extremely powerful supercomputer at the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville Joint Institute for Computational Science (JICS). The $65
million, 5-year project will include partners at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and the National Center
for Atmospheric Research."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/08/2236255
Links:
0. http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109850&org=NSF&from=news
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| Privacy Winning Search Engine War |
| from the I-don't-even-know-who-you-are-anymore dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 08, @21:13 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/08/2243215
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[0]amigoro writes "Privacy is emerging as the real winner of the Internet
search engine war as companies aggressively compete with one another by
[1]offering stronger protections for user records, a report published
today by the Center for Democracy and Technology concluded. The report
notes that until recently, most of the major Internet search engines kept
detailed and potentially personally identifiable records of their
customers' searches indefinitely. But today the companies are trying to
outdo each other in privacy protection by announcing steps to delete old
user data, strip the personally identifiable information out of stored
search records, and, in one case, give users the option to have all of
their search records deleted."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/08/2243215
Links:
0. http://groundviews.org/
1. http://pressesc.com/news/97208082007/privacy-winning-search-engine-war
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| BitTorrent Closes Source Code |
| from the taking-my-toys-and-going-home dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 08, @22:34 (Software) |
|
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/08/2246230
|
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An anonymous reader writes ""There are two issues people need to come to
grips with," BitTorrent CEO Ashwin Narvin told Slyck.com. "Developers who
produce open source products will often have [0]their product repackaged
and redistributed by businesses with malicious intent. They repackage the
software with spyware or charge for the product. We often receive phone
calls from people who complain they have paid for the BitTorrent client."
As for the protocol itself, that too is closed, but is available by
obtaining an SDK license."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/08/2246230
Links:
0. http://www.slyck.com/story1566_BitTorrent_Addresses_Closed_Source_Issues
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| Human Origins Theory Tested By Recent Findings |
| from the ebony-and-ivory dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 08, @23:49 (Science) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/08/2254232
|
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annamadrigal writes "The BBC news is reporting on findings presented in
Nature which suggest that [0]Homo Erectus and H. Habilis were in fact
sister species which co-existed. This challenges the view that the
upright humans evolved from the tool users."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/08/2254232
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6937476.stm
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| How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser |
| from the a-thousand-tiny-burn-marks dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 09, @01:59 (Toys) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/0412215
|
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[0]Lucas123 writes "Using the laser from a DVD burner, this instructional
video shows you how to create a [1]hand-held laser that is powerful
enough to light a match and pop a balloon. There's some soldering
involved and the Maglite's bulb housing needs to be drilled out to fit
the new laser diode, but with some basic skill, most people could do
this. Just plain cool." Update: 07/09 12:23 GMT by [2]KD : Warning, the
device that results from following these instructions will blind you if
you look into it.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/0412215
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://lifehacker.com/software/diy/turn-a-flashlight-into-a-handheld-burning-laser-287252.php
2. http://slashdot.org/~kdawson/
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| DARPATech Shows off Robot Doc and Cancer Breathalyzer |
| from the cyborg-monkey-still-a-dream dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 09, @04:55 (Robotics) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/0419203
|
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mattnyc99 writes "DARPATech, the Pentagon research arm's annual R&D
free-for-all, has some pretty groundbreaking stuff on display this year:
[0]the first portable, self-contained robotic surgeon (which a Defense
Dept. scientist said would be deployed by 2009), plus [1]a breath-testing
gadget that can scan for multiple diseases (including breast cancer) and
[2]three new autonomous 'bots that reflect the Pentagon's increasing need
for autonomous machinery as the IED-filled Iraq war continues."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/0419203
Links:
0. http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4220163.html
1. http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4220196.html
2. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/robotics/4220197.html
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| Blockbuster Throws Hat into Movie Download Business |
| from the no-more-late-charges dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 09, @07:55 (Media) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/049212
|
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jtroutman writes "Stepping into the ring to compete with entities such as
Amazon, CinemaNow and, of course, NetFlix, Blockbuster announced today
the [0]acquisition of Movielink, LLC. The deal had been scheduled to take
place earlier this year, but was quashed amid trouble between the then
CEO, John Antioco, and the Board of Directors."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/049212
Links:
0. http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAW17008082007-1.htm
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| American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross |
| from the hard-to-win-a-pissing-match-with-a-saint dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday August 09, @08:40 (The Almighty Buc|
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/125203
|
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[0]Swampash sends us a story that even this community may find hard to
believe. Johnson & Johnson, the health-products giant that uses a red
cross as its trademark, is [1]suing the American Red Cross, demanding the
charity halt its use of the red cross symbol on products it sells to the
public. It seems J&J began using the trademark in 1887, 6 years after the
Red Cross was formed, but 13 years before the charitable organization was
chartered by Congress. Lately the ARC has begun licensing the symbol to
third parties to use on fund-raising products such as home emergency
kits.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/125203
Links:
0. mailto:swampash@gmail.com
1. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/09/america/NA-GEN-US-Red-Cross-Lawsuit.php
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| Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images |
| from the mind-the-gap dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday August 09, @09:32 (Graphics) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/131207
|
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[0]Beetle B. writes in with research from Carnegie Mellon demonstrating a
new way to [1]replace arbitrarily shaped blank areas in an image with
portions of images from a huge catalog in a totally seamless manner. From
the abstract: "In this paper we present a new image completion algorithm
powered by a huge database of photographs gathered from the Web. The
algorithm patches up holes in images by finding similar image regions in
the database that are not only seamless but also semantically valid. Our
chief insight is that while the space of images is effectively infinite,
the space of semantically differentiable scenes is actually not that
large. For many image completion tasks we are able to find similar scenes
which contain image fragments that will convincingly complete the image.
Our algorithm is entirely data-driven, requiring no annotations or
labelling by the user."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/131207
Links:
0. mailto:beetle_bNO@SPAMemail.com
1. http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/scene-completion/
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| Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace |
| from the without-a-trace dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday August 09, @10:19 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/138224
|
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An anonymous reader writes "University of Cambridge researcher [0]Robert
Watson has published a paper at the First USENIX Workshop On Offensive
Technology in which he describes serious [1]vulnerabilities in OpenBSD's
Systrace, Sudo, Sysjail, the TIS GSWTK framework, and CerbNG. The
technique is also effective against many commercially available
anti-virus systems. His slides include sample exploit code that bypasses
access control, virtualization, and intrusion detection in under 20 lines
of C code consisting solely of memcpy() and fork(). [2]Sysjail has now
withdrawn their software, recommending against any use, and NetBSD has
disabled [3]Systrace by default in their upcoming release."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/138224
Links:
0. http://www.watson.org/~robert/
3. http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/
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| Pay-For-Visit Advertising |
| from the maybe-the-fbi-will-have-to-pay-royalties dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday August 09, @11:10 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/1331207
|
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[0]theodp writes "US patent office documents released Thursday show that
a startup named Pelago is seeking a patent covering [1]Pay-For-Visit
Advertising, which uses GPS, Bluetooth, or RFID on your mobile devices to
track your travels to see if you wander into a place of business that
appeared in an ad shown earlier on your cellphone, PDA, or laptop. To
maximize ad revenue, phone calls are also tracked to see if you dial a
number associated with an ad, and financial transactions are examined to
see if you make a purchase from an advertiser. The application goes on to
note that the system may be of interest to government agencies. Pelago
[2]just raised $7.4M from the likes of KPCB and Jeff Bezos."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/1331207
Links:
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220070185768%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20070185768&RS=DN/20070185768
2. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/108617.asp
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| NASA Tests Hydrogen-Fueled BMW |
| from the hold-the-lox dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday August 09, @11:54 (Power) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/1357224
|
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Rio sends us word that NASA has completed an 8-week test of a fleet of
[0]BMW luxury sedans powered by liquid hydrogen at Kennedy Space Center.
The new BMW Hydrogen 7 sedan uses the same fuel that powers the space
shuttle and reduces CO2 emissions by 90 percent, according to a news
release. Its engine can burn gasoline or liquid hydrogen and can switch
seamlessly between the two. From the article: "One hundred BMW Hydrogen
7s have been built, and 25 are used in test programs in the US. The cars
have already covered more than 1.3 million miles in test programs around
the globe."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/1357224
Links:
0. http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/7683
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| Google News Allowing Story Participants To Comment |
| from the starting-at-web-1.0 dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday August 09, @12:36 (Google) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/1429250
|
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Jamie found this analysis of [0]Google News's foray into community
commentary. They are starting it off by only allowing people involved
with the story to comment ��� and participants must first be authenticated
by email. The article rounds up other bloggers' views on the
game-changing nature, and the possible dangers to Google, of this new
feature. Here is a [1]sample of comments to a Google News story.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/1429250
Links:
0. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_google_news_feature_comments.php
1. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ncl=1119040683&scoring=r&btclp=1#670f33a2e31fc6c6
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| Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? |
| from the too-bad-about-the-noise dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday August 09, @13:15 (Math) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/1535231
|
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6 writes to let us know that two optical researchers have proposed, as a
thought experiment, a novel idea for [0]solving the traveling salesman
problem. From the abstract: We introduce an optical method based on white
light interferometry in order to solve the well-known NP-complete
traveling salesman problem. To our knowledge it is the first time that a
method for the reduction of non-polynomial time to quadratic time has
been proposed. We will show that this achievement is limited by the
number of available photons for solving the problem. It will turn out
that this number of photons is proportional to NN for a traveling
salesman problem with N cities and that for large numbers of cities the
method in practice therefore is limited by the signal-to-noise ratio. The
proposed method is meant purely as a gedankenexperiment."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/1535231
Links:
0. http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?id=140598
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| Dell Considers Bundling Virtualization on Mobos |
| from the wave-of-the-future dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday August 09, @14:06 (Operating Systems) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/171248
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[0]castrox writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Dell may be
[1]considering bundling virtualization on some of their motherboards. No
more dual boot or VMs inside the running OS? 'Any way you slice it,
though, putting the hypervisor in a chunk of flash and letting it handle
loading the OS is the way forward, especially for servers and probably
even for enterprise desktops. Boot times, power consumption, security,
and flexibility are all reasons to do this ... The big question is: which
hypervisor will Dell bundle with its machines? Vance suggests hypervisors
from XenSource and VMware as two options, but I think that VMware is the
most likely candidate since it seems to be the x86 virtualization
solution of choice for the moment. However, if Dell doesn't try too hard
to lock it down, this system could easily be modified in an aftermarket
fashion to include almost any hypervisor that could fit on the flash
chip.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/171248
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~castrox
1. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070808-dell-virtualization-on-motherboards.html
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| Microsoft Moves in on the Graphics Market |
| from the good-visuals-lucrative-software dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday August 09, @14:53 (Microsoft) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/1816211
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[0]Ian Lamont writes "Microsoft has quietly been building up
graphics-related R&D, reports Computerworld, noting that Microsoft
employees will be presenting [1]one out of every eight papers at SIGGRAPH
2007. And it's not a fluke ��� other recent Microsoft graphics-related
developments include Photosynth, which has been discussed on Slashdot
[2]several [3]times, as well as the Silverlight/Expression Studio
graphics suite, which [4]will compete with Adobe's
Flash/Illustrator/Lightroom/Dreamweaver offerings. At [5]SIGGRAPH,
Microsoft will supposedly have demos of some new software including image
deblurring tools and Soft Scissors, which 'solves the vexing problem of
how to cut and paste an image from one background to another if the
image's edges ��� hair blowing in the wind, blades of grass ��� are very
complex.' Microsoft's competitors aren't sitting down. Adobe's CEO,
calling Microsoft a '$50 billion monopolist,' has [6]questioned whether
Silverlight will be compatible with non-Windows operating systems, and
Google has also been building up its own graphics-related software
products, such as the 3D modeling tool [7]SketchUp, and Google Earth."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/1816211
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/blog/19
1. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9029480&intsrc=hm_list
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/06/1848214&tid=185
3. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/06/079210&tid=236
5. http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/
6. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9016834
7. http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/07/google-official.html
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| Microsoft DRM Code for Netflix Streams Hacked |
| from the don't-cross-the-streams-it-would-be-bad dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday August 09, @15:42 (The Internet) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/1834228
|
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[0]reddburn writes "Macworld has posted a story by IDN News Service about
a hacker who posted [1]instructions for saving streaming movies from
Netflix, defeating Microsoft's DRM code designed to prevent users from
saving the content. From the article: 'A hacker who calls himself Dizzie
wrote late last month on the Rorta hacking forum that "Netflix doesn't
easily allow you to save the flicks and watch them at your leisure
because the films are entrapped in some ... Windows Media DRM wrapper,"
referring to Microsoft's DRM system. Word of his hack spread more widely
this week in various blogs and Web sites...He writes that the process for
removing the DRM could take a few attempts, and the process does not
remove the time limit imposed by Netflix on viewing the content. The
Netflix site was down for maintenance early Thursday, although it was
unclear if it was related to the hack. The site was back up later
Thursday morning.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/1834228
Links:
0. http://moc.liamgta1nrubder/
1. http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/08/09/netflix/index.php
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| Gamers Don't Know Their Own Consoles |
| from the you-paid-up-now-pay-attention dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday August 09, @16:21 (Games) |
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/1925237
|
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deadmantyping writes "Ars Technica reports on a survey of 6,260 responses
which indicates that only 40 percent of PS3 owners knew that their
console included Bluray. Apparently a large portion of [0]gamers aren't
aware of the non-gaming capabilities of their systems. Ars speculates
that this might help explain Nintendo's apparent dominance in the console
market since their introduction of the Wii."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/1925237
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| RIAA Campaign Against Students Hits Stormier Seas |
| from the get-out-of-the-pool dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday August 09, @16:31 (The Courts) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/1925220
|
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "It's been astutely observed that the
RIAA's "ex parte" campaign against "John Doe" college students seems to
have [1]run into much stormier waters than its campaign against regular
folks. Discovery motions were thrown out by the judges in cases involving
the [2]University of New Mexico and the [3]College of William and Mary,
and motions to quash have been made by students at [4]Boston University,
[5]Oklahoma State University, and the [6]University of South Florida. The
RIAA might find it particularly troubling that the students are coming in
armed with substantial expert witness declarations attacking the entire
underpinning of the RIAA's case, that the students are finding each other
and banding together, and that the Chairman of Boston University's
Computer Science Department went to bat ��� as an expert witness ��� for the
BU students."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/1925220
Links:
0. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
2. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12550
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/1328256&tid=123
4. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/08/experts-challenge-riaa-claims-in-boston.html
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/07/2316248&tid=123
6. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/08/university-of-south-florida-students.html
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| DUI Defendant Wins Source Code to Breathalyzer |
| from the one-way-to-fight-the-man dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday August 09, @17:23 (Software) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/2043254
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[0]MyrddinBach writes "CNet's Police Blotter column looks into a
Minnesota drunk driving defendant case with a twist. The defendant says
[1]he needs the source code to the Intoxilyzer 5000EN to fight the
charges in court. Apparently the company has agreed to turn over the code
to the defense. 'A judge granted the defendant's request, but Michael
Campion, Minnesota's commissioner in charge of public safety, opposed it.
Minnesota quickly asked an appeals court to intervene, which it declined
to do. Then the state appealed a second time. What became central to the
dispute was whether the source code was owned by the state or CMI, the
maker of the Intoxilyzer.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/2043254
Links:
0. mailto:myrddinbach@gmail.com
1. http://news.com.com/Police+Blotter+DUI+defendant+wins+breathalyzer+source+code/2100-7348_3-6201632.html?tag=nefd.top
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| MySQL Closing Off Its Source |
| from the new-tactic-in-open-sorcery dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday August 09, @18:06 (Databases) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/2047231
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vboulytchev writes "The folks at MySQL has quietly announced that it will
[0]no longer be distributing the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a
tarball. It's been about a year since the split between the paid and free
versions of the database project. The Enterprise Server code is still
under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and as a result MySQL appears
to be making it harder for non-customers to access the source code. 'One
of the things that many users worry about is whether they're getting an
inferior version of MySQL by using the Community version. Urlocker says
that MySQL "wants to make sure the Community version is rock solid," but
admitted that the company has introduced features into the Community
edition of the software that "[weren't] as robust as we thought, and
created some instabilities." Because of that, the company is revising its
policies about when features go into the Community releases.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/08/09/2047231
Links:
0. http://www.linux.com/feature/118489
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| DARPA Semifinalists Selected |
| from the go-speed-robot-go dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday August 09, @19:33 (Robotics) |
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/229206
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An anonymous reader writes "[0]DARPA has selected thirty-six teams as
Urban Challenge semifinalists to participate in the National
Qualification Event. Both the webcast and press release can be found on
[1]the official site. Dr. Tony Tether reports that only 1 of the top 5
previous teams was rated in the top 5 of teams this year and 3 of the top
5 were not in the challenge finals last year. 'The semifinalists will
compete in a final qualifying round at the site on October 26th and be
whittled down to 20 teams. Those teams' vehicles will have to perform
like cars with drivers to safely conduct a simulated battlefield supply
mission on a 60-mile urban course, obeying California traffic laws while
merging into traffic, navigating traffic circles and avoiding obstacles
-- all in fewer than six hours. The team to successfully complete the
mission with the fastest time wins.'"
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Links:
0. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_521419.html
1. http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp
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