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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Cassini Finds Evidence For Ocean Inside Titan
* FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn
* Game Developers Should Ignore Software Pirates
* "Manhattan Project" For Prosthetic Arms
* Inside The Twisted Mind of Bruce Schneier
* Buckyballs Can Store Concentrated Hydrogen
* Blu-ray BD+ Cracked
* Road Coloring Problem Solved
* Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Released
* Sony Blu-ray Under Patent Infringement Probe
* Lessig Bets On the Net To Clean Up Government
* In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU
* Array-Based Memory May Put a Terabyte On a Chip
* Wireless Auction Ends With Mixed Feelings
* Astronomers Discover New Class of Pulsating Star
* Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold
* HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook?
* What Happens To Bounced @Donotreply.com E-Mails
* Sony Offers Bloatware Removal Service — For a Fee [Updated]
* From GNOME to KDE and Back Again
* Web 2.0, Meet JavaScript 2.0
* DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone
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| Cassini Finds Evidence For Ocean Inside Titan |
| from the so-that's-where-it-was-hiding dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 20, @20:28 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/20/2222209
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[0]Riding with Robots writes "NASA reports that by using data from the
Cassini probe's radar, scientists established the locations of 50 unique
landmarks on the surface of Saturn's planet-size moon Titan. They then
searched for these same lakes, canyons and mountains in the data after
subsequent Titan flybys. They found that the features had [1]shifted from
their expected positions by up to 30 kilometers. NASA says a systematic
displacement of surface features would be difficult to explain unless the
moon's icy crust was decoupled from its core by an internal ocean, making
it easier for the crust to move. If confirmed, this discovery would add
to the growing list of moons in the solar system that are icy on the
outside and warm and liquid inside, providing potential habitats. We've
previously discussed Titan's [2]hydrocarbon lakes and [3]potential
cryovolcano."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/20/2222209
Links:
0. http://www.ridingwithrobots.org/
1. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-048
2. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/03/2353255&tid=160
3. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/10/0843214&tid=160
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| FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn |
| from the if-you-thought-getting-a-shock-site-link-was-bad dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 20, @21:59 (The Courts) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/20/2323247
|
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[0]mytrip brings us a story from news.com about an FBI operation in which
agents posted hyperlinks which advertised child pornography, recorded the
IP addresses of people who clicked the links, and then tracked them down
and raided their homes. The article contains a fairly detailed
description of how the operation progressed, and it raises questions
about the legality and reliability of [1]getting people to click
"unlawful" hyperlinks. Quoting: "With the logs revealing those allegedly
incriminating IP addresses in hand, the FBI sent administrative subpoenas
to the relevant Internet service provider to learn the identity of the
person whose name was on the account--and then obtained search warrants
for dawn raids. The search warrants authorized FBI agents to seize and
remove any "computer-related" equipment, utility bills, telephone bills,
any "addressed correspondence" sent through the U.S. mail, video gear,
camera equipment, checkbooks, bank statements, and credit card
statements. While it might seem that merely clicking on a link wouldn't
be enough to justify a search warrant, courts have ruled otherwise. On
March 6, U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt in Nevada agreed with a
magistrate judge that the hyperlink-sting operation constituted
sufficient probable cause to justify giving the FBI its search warrant."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/20/2323247
Links:
0. http://www.mytrip.com/
1. http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html?tag=nefd.pop
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| Game Developers Should Ignore Software Pirates |
| from the please-insert-the-play-disc-to-continue-reading dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 21, @00:11 (PC Games (Games))|
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/20/2351201
|
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wraith808 points out a story about remarks made by the CEO of software
and game development company Stardock about sales in the PC game
industry. His suggestion to other developers is simple: [0]ignore the
software pirates. From Ars Technica: "'So here is the deal: When you
develop for a market, you don't go by the user base. You go by the
potential customer base. That's what most software companies do. They
base what they want to create on the size of the market they're
developing for,' Wardell writes on his blog. 'But not PC game
developers.' Don't let people who aren't your audience control the titles
you make, and ignore piracy. This is much like Trent Reznor's strategy,
although the execution is different. Instead of worrying about pirates,
just leave the content out in the open. The market Reznor plays to will
still buy the music; he's simply stopped worrying about the pirates. He
came to the same conclusion: they weren't customers, they might never be
customers, so spending money to try to stop them serves no purpose."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/20/2351201
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| "Manhattan Project" For Prosthetic Arms |
| from the kinder-gentler-arms-race dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 21, @02:14 (Medicine) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/0158246
|
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[0]cortex tips us to a story about a nationwide effort to incorporate
advanced technology into the [1]next generation of prosthetic arms.
Researchers for the DARPA-funded project are developing feedback
techniques that range from sensors on the surface of the user's skin to
electrodes implanted on the inside of the user's skull that intercept and
interpret signals from the motor cortex. Quoting: "'Think about taking a
sip from a can of soda,' Harshbarger says. The complex neural feedback
system connecting a native limb to its user lets that user ignore an
entire series of complicated steps. The nervous system makes constant
automatic adjustments to ensure, for example, that the tilt of the wrist
adjusts to compensate for the changing fluid level inside the can. The
action requires little to no attention. Not so for the wearer of current
prosthetic arms, for whom the act of taking a sip of soda precludes any
other activity. The wearer must first consciously direct the arm to
extend it to the correct point in space, then switch modes to rotate the
wrist into proper position. Then he must open the hand, close it to grasp
the soda can (not so weakly as to drop it but not so hard as to crush
it), switch modes to bend the elbow to correctly place the can in front
of his mouth, rotate the wrist into position, and then concentrate on
drinking from the can of soda without spilling it."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/0158246
Links:
0. mailto:neuralsci@netscape.net
1. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6069
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| Inside The Twisted Mind of Bruce Schneier |
| from the it's-dark-in-here dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 21, @05:15 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/0233228
|
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[0]I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Bruce Schneier has an
[1]essay on the mind of security professionals like himself, and why it's
something that can't easily be taught. Many people simply don't see
security threats or the potential ways in which things can be abused
because they don't intend to abuse them. But security pros, even those
who don't abuse what they find, have a different way of looking at
things. They always try to figure out all the angles or how someone could
beat the system. In one of his examples, Bruce talks about how, after
buying one of Uncle Milton's Ant Farms, he was enamored with the idea
that they would mail a tube of live ants to anyone you asked them to.
Schneier's article was inspired by a University of Washington course in
which the professor is attempting to teach the 'security mindset.'
Students taking the course have been encouraged to post [2]security
reviews on a class blog."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/0233228
Links:
0. http://endsoftpatents.org/
1. http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/03/securitymatters_0320
2. http://cubist.cs.washington.edu/Security/category/security-reviews/
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| Buckyballs Can Store Concentrated Hydrogen |
| from the brought-to-you-by-the-letter-H dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Friday March 21, @08:18 (Power) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/0838259
|
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[0]Pickens brings news that researchers from Rice University have
discovered that it's possible to [1]store hydrogen inside buckyballs.
Hydrogen can be an excellent power source, but it is notoriously
difficult to store. The [2]buckyballs can contain up to 8% of their
weight in hydrogen, and they are strong enough to hold it at a density
that rivals the center of Jupiter. "Using a computer model, Yakobson's
research team has tracked the strength of each atomic bond in a buckyball
and simulated what happened to the bonds as more hydrogen atoms were
packed inside. Yakobson said the model promises to be particularly useful
because it is scalable, that is it can calculate exactly how much
hydrogen a buckyball of any given size can hold, and it can also tell
scientists how overstuffed buckyballs burst open and release their
cargo."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/0838259
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=10750&SnID=986985334
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckyball
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| Blu-ray BD+ Cracked |
| from the bigger-they-come dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday March 21, @08:55 (Media) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1241234
|
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An anonymous reader writes "In July 2007, Richard Doherty of the
Envisioneering Group (BD+ Standards Board) [0]declared: 'BD+, unlike AACS
which suffered a partial hack last year, won't likely be breached for 10
years.' Only eight months have passed since that bold statement, and
[1]Slysoft has done it again. According to the press release, the latest
version of their flagship product AnyDVD HD can automatically remove BD+
protection and allows you to back-up any Blu-ray title on the market."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1241234
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/09/2333207&tid=188
1. http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=14786
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| Road Coloring Problem Solved |
| from the hard-but-not-complicated dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday March 21, @09:35 (Math) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1319250
|
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ArieKremen writes "Israeli Avraham Trakhtman, a Russian immigrant
mathematician who had been employed as a night watchman, has [0]solved
the Road Coloring problem. First posed in 1970 by Benjamin Weiss and Roy
Adler, the problem posits that given a finite number of roads, one should
be able to draw a map, coded in various colors, that leads to a certain
destination regardless of the point of origin. The 63-year-old Trakhtman
jotted down the solution in pencil in 8 pages. The problem has real-world
implementation in message and traffic routing."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1319250
Links:
0. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g2lh1_jNDbrmhNoMlwkZTfLeCw8gD8VHBPIO0
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| Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Released |
| from the heron-your-chest dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday March 21, @10:14 (Software) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1336240
|
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[0]markybob writes "[1]Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 beta has been released. It
features GNOME 2.22 and uses Linux kernel 2.6.24. Furthermore, it uses
Firefox 3 beta 4, and PulseAudio is enabled by default. To ease the
transition of Windows users, it includes Wubi, which allows users to
install and uninstall Ubuntu like any other Windows application. It does
not require a dedicated partition, nor does it affect the existing
bootloader, yet users can experience a dual-boot setup almost identical
to a full installation."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1336240
Links:
0. mailto:markybob@gmail.com
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta
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| Sony Blu-ray Under Patent Infringement Probe |
| from the not-your-usual-patent-troll dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday March 21, @10:51 (Patents) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1352246
|
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[0]Lucas123 writes "The US International Trade Commission said it will
[1]launch an investigation into possible patent infringements involving
Sony's Blu-ray players and other technologies using laser and
light-emitting diodes, such as Motorola's Razr phone and Hitachi
camcorders. The [2]investigation was prompted by a complaint filed in
February by a Columbia University professor emerita who says she invented
a method of using gallium nitride-based semiconductor material for
producing wide band-gap semiconductors for LEDs and laser diodes in the
blue/ultraviolet end of the light spectrum. Her complaint asks the ITC to
block imports of LED and laser diode technology from Asia and Europe. The
total market for all types of gallium nitride devices has been forecast
at $7.2 billion for 2009 alone."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1352246
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
2. http://www.usitc.gov/ext_relations/news_release/2008/er0320ff2.htm
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| Lessig Bets On the Net To Clean Up Government |
| from the change-congress dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday March 21, @11:30 (Social Networks) |
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1419200
|
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[0]christian.einfeldt writes "Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig really
'gets it' when it comes to the efficacy of distributed open source code
production. Now he is attempting to use distributed production methods to
[1]expose corruption in the US Congress with the launch of another 'CC'
organization ��� this time it's called '[2]Change Congress'. CC (as opposed
to cc for Creative Commons) would invite users to track whether US
legislators are willing to commit to Change Congress' four pledges. CC
will rely on users to record and map the positions of candidates who are
running for open seats in the US House and Senate. Change Congress will
use a Google mash-up to create a map depicting which legislators have
taken the CC pledge, which have declined, and which have signaled support
for planks in the Change-Congress platform. The four pledges (which are
not numbered 0 through 3) call for greater transparency in government,
and less influence of private money in shaping legislation."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1419200
Links:
0. http://einfeldtampdigitaltippingpointcom/
1. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/stanford-law-pr.html
2. http://change-congress.org/
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| In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU |
| from the you-have-none-get-over-it dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday March 21, @12:09 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1511240
|
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cayenne8 sends us to Newteevee.com for a blog posting reporting from the
Digital Living Room conference earlier this week. Gerard Kunkel,
Comcast's senior VP of user experience, stated that the cable company is
experimenting with different camera technologies built into its devices
so it can [0]know who's in your living room. Cameras in the set-top
boxes, while apparently not using facial recognition software, can still
somehow figure out who is in the room, and customize user preferences for
cable (favorite channels, etc.). While this sounds 'handy,' it also
sounds a bit like the TV sets in 1984. I am sure, of course, that Comcast
wouldn't tap into this for any reason, nor let the authorities tap into
this to watch inside your home in real time without a warrant or
anything."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1511240
Links:
0. http://newteevee.com/2008/03/18/comcast-cameras-to-start-watching-you/
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| Array-Based Memory May Put a Terabyte On a Chip |
| from the need-ramback-now dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday March 21, @12:48 (Data Storage) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1618253
|
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[0]Lucas123 writes "A new type of flash memory, called array-based
memory, could offer [1]a terabyte of data on a single chip within the
next decade by bypassing current NAND memory technology, which is limited
by the miniaturization capability of lithography. According to the
Computerworld story, start-up Nanochip Inc. is being backed by Intel and
others, and over 11 years has made research breakthroughs that will
enable it to deliver working prototypes to potential manufacturing
partners next year. And by 2010, the first chips are expected to reach
100GB capacity."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1618253
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
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| Wireless Auction Ends With Mixed Feelings |
| from the endless-positioning dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, @13:32 (Communication|
|
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/169257
|
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Macworld is reporting that the conclusion of the wireless auction has
ended with many participants having [0]mixed feelings. While bigger
companies hailed it as a success, including Google who didn't actually
bid to win but was able to get open access rules introduced, many smaller
companies were left feeling that they were doomed from the start. "A
former mail carrier, McBride has been trying his luck at FCC auctions
since 1996. He said new rules for the auction favored large companies
with deep pockets. For example, the FCC shortened the amount of time that
the winners would have to build their networks. "All that did was prevent
small businesses from coming in. They were scared of the build-out
requirements," he said."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/169257
Links:
0. http://www.macworld.com/article/132631/2008/03/auction.html
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| Astronomers Discover New Class of Pulsating Star |
| from the shiny-new-toys dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, @14:17 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1639238
|
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[0]KentuckyFC writes "It doesn't happen very often but astronomers have
discovered a [1]new class of pulsating white dwarf. The work began last
year when the Sloan Digital Sky Survey found a few exotic white dwarf
stars with carbon atmospheres. A mathematical model of these stars showed
that in some circumstances the dwarfs could pulsate as the carbon was
cycled through the atmosphere by convection. Now a few days observation
of one of these stars has shown that it does actually pulsate as
predicted."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1639238
Links:
0. http://www.arxivblog.com/
1. http://arxivblog.com/?p=320
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| Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold |
| from the some-things-never-change dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, @15:06 (Microsoft) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1712211
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[0]whitehartstag writes to mention that Microsoft has announced their new
Hyper-V as feature-complete. Unfortunately the [1]list of supported
systems is disappointingly short. "No offense to SUSE Enterprise Server
crowd, but only providing SUSE support in Hyper-V is a huge mistake. By
not supporting Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and BSD, Microsoft is telling us
Hyper-V is a Microsoft only technology. More Mt. Redmond, Microsoft
center of the universe thinking. That's disappointing. Sure, if you are a
Microsoft only shop, Hyper-V will be an option for virtualization. But so
will VMware and XenServer. But if you run a mixed shop, Hyper-V won't
solve your problems alone ��� you'll have to also add VMware or Xen to your
virtualized data center portfolio. Or just go with VMware and Xen and
forego Hyper-V."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1712211
Links:
0. mailto:lleung@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26165
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| HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + MacBook Air = Perfect Noteb|
| from the pipe-dreams dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, @15:49 (Portables) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1721234
|
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Tom's Hardware has an interesting look at the [0]HTC Shift, the newest
contender in the ultralight portable arena, with a strong compare and
contrast to the other two heavyweights, the ThinkPad X300 and the Macbook
Air. "As some of you know, I actually like the Macbook Air but found the
Lenovo ThinkPad X300 to be a vastly more useful product in the class. I'm
one of the few folks that have been using an early version of the HTC
Shift , a smaller screened ultra light tablet with a keyboard and a touch
screen which is superior to both offerings in some ways and just released
on Amazon.com for $1500 (someone screwed up, this wasn't supposed to
happen until next week). This got me thinking: The perfect next
generation ultra-sexy notebook should be a blend of all three products."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1721234
Links:
0. http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/03/21/the_htc_shift_thinkpad_x300_the_macbook_air_perfect_notebook/
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| What Happens To Bounced @Donotreply.com E-Mails |
| from the lazy-people-who-can't-configure-mail-servers-to-do-their|
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, @16:30 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1737248
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An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post's Security Fix blog today
features a funny but scary interview with a guy in Seattle who [0]owns
the domain name donotreply.com. Apparently, everyone from major US banks
to the Transportation Security Administration to contractors in Iraq use
some variation on the address in the "From:" field of all e-mails sent
out, with the result that bounced e-mails go to the owner of
donotreply.com.'With the exception of extreme cases like those mentioned
above, Faliszek says he long ago stopped trying to alert companies about
the e-mails he was receiving. It's just not worth it: Faliszek said he is
constantly threatened with lawsuits from companies who for one reason or
another have a difficult time grasping why he is in possession of their
internal documents and e-mails.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1737248
Links:
0. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/03/they_told_you_not_to_reply.html
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| Sony Offers Bloatware Removal Service — For a Fee [Updated] |
| from the scams-and-other-marketing-ideas dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, @17:11 (Sony) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1749252
|
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linuxwrangler writes "First Sony packed its laptops with Microsoft Works,
Microsoft Office trial version, Corel Paint Shop Pro trial version,
WinDVD and more. Now it is [0]offering to remove the bloatware. Of course
marketing changed the name from 'removing the crap we stuck you with' to
'Fresh Start' software optimization. And they want you to pay $149.99 to
clean up their mess ��� $49.99 for 'Fresh Start' on top of the required
$100.00 Vista Business upgrade. You can get about $25.00 of that cost
back if you select all available 'no-software' options which are only
available after selecting the $149.99 'upgrade'. Wonder what they would
charge to remove Windows completely." Update 11:57 GMT by SM: It seems
that massive outrage at Sony's "Fresh Start" program has encouraged them
to [1]drop the fee for scrubbing your laptop of bloatware before shipping
it your way.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1749252
Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/21/Sony-charges-to-remove-laptop-bloatware_1.html
1. http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/03/sony-pay-an-ext.html
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| From GNOME to KDE and Back Again |
| from the old-habits-are-hard-to-break dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, @17:54 (KDE) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1939249
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Slashdot's own Roblimo has an interesting introspective on what makes us
so prone to liking [0]one window manager over another. More than likely
it's just the inherent laziness of most users that precludes change. "I
used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I installed
the GNOME version of Ubuntu and found that I liked it better than the KDE
desktop I'd faced every morning for so many years. Last January, I got a
new Dell Latitude D630 laptop and decided to install Kubuntu on it, but
within a few weeks, I went back to GNOME. Does this mean GNOME is now a
better desktop than KDE, or just that I have become so accustomed to
GNOME that it's hard for me to give it up?"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1939249
Links:
0. http://www.linux.com/feature/129757
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| Web 2.0, Meet JavaScript 2.0 |
| from the just-plain-geeked dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, @18:37 (Programming) |
|
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/2025237
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[0]Jeremy Martin writes "Well I suppose it's an undeniable fact about us
programmer-types ��� every now and then we just can't help but get excited
about something really nerdy. For me right now, that is definitely
[1]JavaScript 2.0. I was just taking a look at the proposed
specifications and I am really, truly excited about what we have coming."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/2025237
Links:
0. http://blog.jeremymartin.name/
1. http://blog.jeremymartin.name/2008/03/web-20-meet-javascript-20.html
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| DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone |
| from the something-about-a-nomad dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, @19:24 (Games) |
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/2134239
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[0]ThinSkin writes "DirectX architect Alex St. John swims against the
current and predicts the demise not of PC gaming, but of game consoles,
in an exclusive two-part interview at ExtremeTech. In part one, Alex
[1]blasts Intel for pushing its inferior onboard graphics technology to
OEMs, insists that fighting piracy is the main reason for the existence
of gaming consoles, and explains how the convergence of the GPU and the
CPU is the next big thing in gaming. Alex continues in part two with more
thoughts on retail and 3D games, and discusses in detail why he feels '[2]Vista
blows' and what's to become of DirectX 10."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/2134239
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/
1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2277507,00.asp
2. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2277868,00.asp
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