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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, fit–PC
* Canadian ISP Co-Op Shows Upside of Line Sharing
* EA Denies DRM Problems With Sims 2
* Universal and Sony Plan "Free" Music Service
* New Car Sensor System Simulates Birds-Eye View
* New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing
* Freeware FPS Alien Arena 2007 Reviewed
* Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit
* Human-Robot Love and Marriage
* Consumer Group Demands XP for Vista Victims
* Blade Runner, The Final Cut
* Florida Literally Scraps Touch-Screen Voting
* Intel X38 High End Chipset Launch and Benchmarks
* Solar Cells Crystallized Out of Molten Silicon
* Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad
* IU's Choice of Search Engine ChaCha "Explained"
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| Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, fit–PC |
| from the where-the-watts-aren't dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 12, @20:47 (Hardware) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/12/2118247
|
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[0]ThinSkin writes "Meet the fit-PC, a tiny 4.7 x 4.5 x 1.5-inch PC that
only draws 5-watts, consuming in a day less power than a traditional PC
consumes in one hour. By today's standards, the fit-PC has [1]very little
horsepower, which makes it apt for web browsing and light applications;
today's games need not apply. Loyd Case over at ExtremeTech [2]reviews
the fit-PC and puts it through its paces, noting that performance is not
this PC's strength, but rather its small size and price tag of $285."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/12/2118247
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/
1. http://www.fit-pc.com/specifications.htm
2. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2194852,00.asp
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| Canadian ISP Co-Op Shows Upside of Line Sharing |
| from the grass-roots-muni-wifi dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 12, @22:38 (Communicati|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/12/222249
|
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Golden Gael writes "The FCC got rid of mandatory line sharing in the US a
few years ago, but it's [0]alive and kicking in Canada, and an
interesting article at Ars Technica looks at what can happen when there's
vibrant broadband competition. 'Wireless Nomad does things a little
differently. The company is subscriber-owned, volunteer-run, and
open-source friendly. It offers a neutral Internet connection with no
bandwidth caps or throttling, and it makes a point of creating wireless
access points at the end of each DSL connection that can be used, for
free, by the public. Bell Canada this is not.' The ISP has some ambitious
plans for the future, including getting involved in WiMAX."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/12/222249
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/Sticking-it-to-lhomme-Canadian-co-op-forms-own-ISP.ars
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| EA Denies DRM Problems With Sims 2 |
| from the typical-mmo-company-response dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday October 13, @00:25 (Security)|
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/12/2218231
|
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[0]Fizzlefist writes "For the past 2 weeks there has been an uproar on
the Sims 2 forums concerning the inclusion of Sony's SecuROM DRM software
in the latest expansion pack, Bon Voyage. It seems paid customers have
been having problems since day one of release, but EA is only now, 5
weeks later, issuing an [1]official statement on the matter. A lot of
what's in the statement is outright fiction with proven reports of issues
with disabling of disc burning software, optical disc drives, printers,
cameras, system slowdown and even system crashes. [2]Fan responses have
been cold to say the least. Interestingly enough, the expansion pack was
cracked and up on the internet less than 24 hours after its release."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/12/2218231
Links:
0. mailto:fizzlefist@gmail.com
1. http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=586cb2d4a69162c5b8937c45c94b79e5&directoryID=211&startRow=1&openItemID=item.211,root.1,item.61,item.23
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| Universal and Sony Plan "Free" Music Service |
| from the get-what-you-pay-for dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday October 13, @02:34 (Music) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/12/239228
|
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Damon Tog writes "Macworld reports that Universal Music Group has
enlisted the help of Sony to join forces in a [0]new music service. The
price of the subscription is expected to be built-in to the cost of
digital music players, leaving the music 'free' to the consumer. 'The
plan is still in flux and faces several hurdles, BusinessWeek notes.
Among them is finding a business model that allows the hardware makers to
subsidize the cost of the music. In addition, the labels have tried to
develop their own online music services before without success.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/12/239228
Links:
0. http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/10/12/universal/index.php
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| New Car Sensor System Simulates Birds-Eye View |
| from the and-people-still-wont-be-able-to-parallel-park dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday October 13, @04:19 (Toys) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/0054252
|
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[0]narramissic writes "Remember when you had to turn around in your seat
to parallel park? Ok, maybe you still do, but if you drive a Nissan,
those days may soon be behind you. The company's '[1]Around View Monitor
system' displays a virtual bird's-eye view of the car and what's around
it. Video from four small video cameras with wide-angle lenses ��� two
mounted on the underside of the wing mirrors, one at the front under the
grill and one at the rear under the license plate ��� is displayed on the
navigation system monitor so that it appears to be a view from above the
car and sonar sensors at each corner of the vehicle provide an audible
warning when it is coming close to an object or person. And as if that
weren't enough... the system also projects the car's future course based
on the current direction of the wheels."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/0054252
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/Tech/5051/071012nissanparking/index.html
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| New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing |
| from the true-spirit-of-the-internet dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday October 13, @06:31 (The Inter|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/0111204
|
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beafpeat writes "Both The Boston Globe and NPR are reporting on new apps
such as Enemybook and Snubster that [0]parody the social networking
phenomenon. 'Tired of bogus online friendships... [the creators] hope to
encourage people to undermine, or at least mock, the online social
communities sites such as Facebook were designed to create.'" Relatedly
News.com wonders, with the opening of the Facebook API and the ensuing
app frenzy, [1]how much is too much of a good thing?
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/0111204
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| Freeware FPS Alien Arena 2007 Reviewed |
| from the best-of-the-cheap dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday October 13, @07:19 (First Per|
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/0132232
|
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[0]Alienkillerrace writes "Linux.com has reviewed the brand new release
of [1]Alien Arena 2007, giving it a glowing review. 'New Alien Arena 6.10
blows away its FPS competition' claims that Alien Arena is now the very
best of the freeware FPS games, surpassing even Tremulous."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/0132232
Links:
0. mailto:alienrace@comcast.net
1. http://www.linux.com/feature/119775
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| Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit |
| from the bigger-inboxes-incoming dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday October 13, @09:07 (Google) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/111211
|
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An anonymous reader writes "Google claims that people are devouring
capacity with photos and other attachments on its Gmail e-mail service
faster than the company can add to it at its current pace. So Google said
on Friday that it would [0]increase the rate at which it is adding
capacity to its web-based service. There's only one problem, Google's
main competitors ��� Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail ��� far surpassed
Gmail this year with their own capacity."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/111211
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| Human-Robot Love and Marriage |
| from the hardly-miss-hoomans-at-all dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday October 13, @10:04 (Robotics) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/116201
|
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An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC has an article on the [0]impending
robo-human coupling: 'My forecast is that around 2050, the state of
Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with
robots,' artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University
of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/116201
Links:
0. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/
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| Consumer Group Demands XP for Vista Victims |
| from the more-poison-is-the-cure dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday October 13, @11:03 (Windows) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/1110258
|
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thefickler writes "Dissatisfaction with Windows Vista seems to be
swelling, with the Dutch Consumers' Union (Consumentenbond) [0]asking
Microsoft to supply unhappy Vista users with a free copy of Windows XP.
Not surprisingly, Microsoft refused. This prompted Consumentenbond to
advise consumers to ask for XP, rather than Vista, when buying a new
computer."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/1110258
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| Blade Runner, The Final Cut |
| from the no-more-doubts-about-deckard dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday October 13, @12:01 (Sci-Fi) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/1118258
|
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Bowman9991 writes "A new promotional website is up and trailers for Blade
Runner: The Final Cut have been released. I've been waiting ages for this
one. SFFMedia has some [0]details about the Blade Runner Ultimate
Collector's Edition on HD-DVD and Blu-ray with new footage. It's slated
for a December 18th release. Apparently it's also being released in the
cinemas again in the US."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/1118258
Links:
0. http://sffmedia.com/content/view/143/37/
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| Florida Literally Scraps Touch-Screen Voting |
| from the do-not-want dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday October 13, @13:15 (Security) |
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/1653203
|
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[0]Kaseijin writes "Florida Governor Charlie Crist is [1]getting his wish.
The New York Times reports [2]the state will replace touch-screen voting
machines with optical-scan models by July 1, 2008 ��� the most aggressive
timetable of any jurisdiciton rethinking this approach to voting. The
touch-screen machines most likely will be sold to other jurisdictions or
stripped for parts."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/1653203
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~Kaseijin
1. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/02/0514230&tid=103
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/us/politics/13voting.htm
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| Intel X38 High End Chipset Launch and Benchmarks |
| from the new-flagship dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday October 13, @14:31 (Intel) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/183209
|
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[0]MojoKid writes "Though many leaks of the product have been circulating
for some time, Intel officially took the wraps off and launched their new
X38 Express chipset for the high-end desktop motherboard market. With
this launch, the Intel desktop chipset line-up gets a new flagship.
[1]Intel's new X38 chipset encompasses all of the technology advances
that have made the P35 a success and adds a slew of new features designed
to increase memory and graphics subsystem performance, like PCI Express
2.0 SerDes and Intel Extreme Memory technology in the new X38 MCH. The
Asus motherboard tested by HotHardware even features an embedded
Linux-based OS that boots in a matter a seconds."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/183209
Links:
0. http://www.hothardware.com/
1. http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?articleid=1038
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| Solar Cells Crystallized Out of Molten Silicon |
| from the news-to-us dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday October 13, @15:49 (Power) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/1923240
|
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Hot Toddy sends in a link to a story up on Digital World Tokyo about a
[0]more efficient process for manufacturing solar cells. It involves
dropping molten silicon from a height of 14 m; surface tension causes
tiny spheres 1 mm in diameter to form; the silicon crystallizes in the
1.5 seconds of free-fall. The spheres can be mounted on surfaces of any
shape. They capture light from many directions, increasing their solar
efficiency. Kyosemi is the company behind the [1]Sphelar technology. Some
of the pages on this site date to 2003 and the status of most listed
Sphelar products is either "under development" or "engineering sample is
available."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/1923240
1. http://www.kyosemi.co.jp/product/pro_ene_sun_e.html
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| Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad |
| from the trademarks-are-not-political dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday October 13, @17:06 (Google) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/212220
|
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[0]Whip-hero writes in with an Examiner.com story about [1]Google's
rejection of an ad critical of MoveOn.org. The story rehashes the
controversy over MoveOn.org's ad that ran in the NYTimes on the first day
of testimony of Gen. Petraeus's Senate testimony. The rejected ad was
submitted on behalf of Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins ��� its text
is reproduced in the article. The implication, which has been picked up
by many blogs on the other side of the spectrum from MoveOn.org, is that
Google acted out of political favoritism. [2]Not so, says Google's policy
counsel: Google's trademark policy allows any trademark holder to request
that its marks not be used in ads; and MoveOn.org had made such a
request.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/212220
Links:
0. http://www.maxint.net/
1. http://www.examiner.com/a-983100~Google_bans_anti_MoveOn_org_ads.html
2. http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2007/10/our-advertising-policies-and-political.html
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| IU's Choice of Search Engine ChaCha "Explained" |
| from the how-many-speechwriters-does-it-take dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday October 13, @18:18 (Education) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/2139229
|
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[0]theodp sends a follow-up to the discussion here a couple of months
back about Indiana University librarians and students being [1]forced to
use the 'human-powered' ChaCha search engine because IU's President and
one of its Trustees were business buddies of ChaCha CEO (and IU alum)
Scott Jones. Don't be ridiculous, insisted indignant IU officials. It was
ChaCha's ability to fill in gaps in a speech he was writing in 2007 that
convinced IU's CIO that the University had to do a deal with ChaCha.
[2]What a coincidence, notes Valleywag. The need to fill in gaps in a
speech he was writing back in 2005 is what convinced ChaCha CEO Jones
that he had to create ChaCha in the first place. Way to anticipate what
your customers need before they do.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/13/2139229
Links:
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/05/0133209&tid=146
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