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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* US Ignores Unwelcome WTO IP Rulings
* Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves
* Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban
* Researchers Create a Protein Map of Human Spit
* What Spooks Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor
* Safari 3.1 For Windows Violates Its Own EULA, Vulnerable To Hacks
* China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather
* Google Attempts to Allay US Privacy Fears
* SCO's "Least Supported Idea Yet"
* Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent
* The Next Leap In Space Exploration
* Amazon EC2 Now More Ready for Application Hosting
* Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison
* OpenOffice.org 2.4 Released
* South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal
* Space Tourism Industry Gains New Competitor
* China's Battle to Police the Web
* Microsoft or Apple - Who Is the Faster Patcher?
* Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online
* Peruvian Teachers Begin OLPC Training
* Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit
* Cassini 'Tastes' Organic Material at Enceladus
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| US Ignores Unwelcome WTO IP Rulings |
| from the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 26, @20:51 (United States)|
|
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/26/2224241
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Eye Log writes "The United States is a big fan of leaning on other
countries to tighten IP and copyright protection, [0]but has a tendency
to ignore its own obligations when it doesn't get its way. 'Two ongoing
cases illustrate the point. First, the European Union is pushing for the
US to change a pair of rules that it calls "long-standing trade
irritants." Despite World Trade Organization rulings against it, the US
has not yet corrected either case for a period of several years...
Apparently, it's easy to get hot and bothered when it's industries from
your country that claim to be badly affected by rules elsewhere. When it
comes to the claims of other countries, though, even claims that have
been validated by the WTO, it's much easier to see the complexity of the
situation, to spend years arguing those complexities before judges, and
to do nothing even when compelled by rulings.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/26/2224241
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| Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves |
| from the too-much-time-on-your-hands dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 26, @22:44 (Math) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/26/2237221
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[0]KentuckyFC writes "A scrambled Rubik's cube can be solved in just 25
moves, regardless of the starting configuration. Tomas Rokicki, a
Stanford-trained mathematician, has proven the new limit (down from 26
which was proved last year) [1] using a neat piece of computer science.
Rather than study individual moves, he's used the symmetry of the cube to
study its transformations in sets. This allows him to separate the 'cube
space' into 2 billion sets each containing 20 billion elements. He then
shows that a large number of these sets are essentially equivalent to
other sets and so can be ignored. Even then, to crunch through the
remaining sets, he needed a workstation with 8GB of memory and around
1500 hours of time on a Q6600 CPU running at 1.6GHz. Next up, 24 moves."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/26/2237221
Links:
0. http://www.arxivblog.com/
1. http://arxivblog.com/?p=332
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| Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban |
| from the there-are-no-guns-in-darkon dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 27, @00:34 (Games) |
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/26/2247224
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An anonymous reader writes "LARP fans at Bowling Green State University
may have to contend with a crippled game of [0]Humans vs. Zombies after
the University banned Nerf guns on campus. In the live-action game,
players are either humans or zombies. The goal of the game is to change
all the humans into zombies, or for the humans to evade capture by
zombies for a certain amount of time. To defend themselves against
zombies, humans may use Nerf guns. Players (most likely the human ones)
are [1]petitioning the University to lift the ban. The game had troubles
back in 2006, when [2]participating students were arrested. That issue
has since been cleared up."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/26/2247224
Links:
0. http://www.webfeatsdesign.com/hvz/
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| Researchers Create a Protein Map of Human Spit |
| from the doctor-saliva dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 27, @03:43 (Biotech) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/0257219
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[0]Ant writes "United States researchers have identified all [1]1,116
unique proteins found in human saliva glands. It was a discovery they
said on Tuesday that could usher in a wave of convenient, spit-based
diagnostic tests that could be done without the need for a single drop of
blood. As many as 20 percent of the proteins found in saliva are also
found in blood, said Fred Hagen, a researcher at the University of
Rochester Medical Center in New York who worked on the study."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/0257219
Links:
0. http://aqfl.net/
1. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=us-researchers-create-pro
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| What Spooks Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor |
| from the when-the-darkness-looks-back dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 27, @07:57 (Microsoft) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/0440256
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alphadogg writes "Microsoft's U.S. general manager/chief security advisor
for its National Security Team, Bret Arsenault, thinks like a true
security professional. In every bit of good news, he wonders [0]what bad
news could be coming. Application security, virtualization security and
the fact that over half of computer attacks seen by Microsoft come from
the .edu domain are just some of the things keeping him up at night."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/0440256
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-security-concerns.html?fsrc=netflash-rss
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| Safari 3.1 For Windows Violates Its Own EULA, Vulnerable To Hacks |
| from the you-have-chosen-poorly dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @08:45 (Security) |
|
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/129236
|
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recoiledsnake writes "The new Safari 3.1 for Windows has been hit with
two 'highly critical'(as rated by Secunia) vulnerabilities that can
[0]result in execution of arbitrary code. The first is due to an improper
handling of the buffer for long filenames of files being downloaded, and
the second can result in successful spoofing of websites and phishing.
This comes close on the heels of [1]criticism of Apple for offering
Safari as a update for approximately 500 million users of iTunes on
Windows by default, and [2]reports of crashes. There are currently no
patches or workarounds available except the advice to stay clear of
'untrusted' sites." Further, Wormfan writes "The latest version of Safari
for Windows [3]makes a mockery of end user licensing agreements by only
allowing the installation of Safari for Windows on Apple labeled
hardware, thereby excluding most Windows PCs." Update: 03/27 17:23 GMT by
[4]Z : Dave Schroeder writes with the note that [5]the license has been
updated to correct this mistake.
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/129236
Links:
0. http://secunia.com/advisories/29483/
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/22/1536250&tid=154
2. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206905382
3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/apple_safari_eula_paradox/
5. http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/27/safari.license.changed/
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| China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather |
| from the definitely-not-a-step-towards-a-weather-machine dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @09:21 (Earth) |
|
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/1217232
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[0]eldavojohn writes "While we [1]made light of it before, the MIT Review
is taking [2]a serious look at China's plans to prevent rain over their
open 91,000 seat arena for The Olympics. From the article: 'China's
national weather-engineering program is also the world's largest, with
approximately 1,500 weather modification professionals directing 30
aircraft and their crews, as well as 37,000 part-time workers ��� mostly
peasant farmers ��� who are on call to blast away at clouds with 7,113
anti-aircraft guns and 4,991 rocket launchers.' They plan on
demonstrating their ability to control the weather to the rest of the
world, and expanding on their abilities in the future."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/1217232
Links:
0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE
1. http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/31/1750228&tid=271
2. http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20463/
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| Google Attempts to Allay US Privacy Fears |
| from the hard-to-do-when-you're-everywhere dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @10:04 (United States) |
|
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/1346240
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[0]Ian Lamont writes "Google is in the midst of a [1]full-court privacy
effort in Washington that involves pushing consumer privacy legislation
in U.S. Congress, reaching out to privacy advocates in an effort to allay
concerns about its [2]acquisition of DoubleClick, and working with the
U.S. Federal Trade Commission to 'fine-tune online advertising
principles' that the agency proposed last year. Google has been under
fire in Washington in recent years ��� the FTC [3]investigated the
Google/DoubleClick deal and the EFF has issued warnings [4]over Google
services in the past. Is Google being sincere about these issues, or is
this effort mostly paying lip service to its 'do no evil' policy and an
attempt to head off future clashes with policy makers?"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/1346240
Links:
0. http://www.thestandard.com/people/i-lamont550036
1. http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/26/google-push-privacy-initiatives-u-s
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/13/2244251&tid=217
3. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/29/136200&tid=217
4. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/10/0114203&tid=158
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| SCO's "Least Supported Idea Yet" |
| from the another-shipment-from-crazy-town dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @10:43 (Caldera) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/143255
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[0]I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Unsurprisingly, all of
SCO's creditors have objected to the plan to [1]reimburse York for the
failed 'emergency' deal. [2]Novells tiny seven page objection (PDF) is
hilarious and very readable. They don't hold back at all, saying that
'all that happened is that the Debtors spent money needlessly on a
proceeding that was, to all intents and purposes, stillborn had it not
been for the stubbornness of the Debtors' management and the avarice of
York,' and that it was 'another really bad deal they have chased in
ceaseless pursuit of their dreams of a litigation bonanza.' They top it
off by concluding with the line, 'for the reasons explained above, the
Court should deny the Motion as the Debtors' worst and least supported
idea yet in these cases.' One can only wonder how SCO will respond to
this."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/143255
Links:
0. http://endsoftpatents.org/
1. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080326180944670
2. http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/SCOGBK-411.pdf
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| Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent |
| from the friendly-dogs-and-cats dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @11:24 (The Internet) |
|
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/149253
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An anonymous reader writes "In a dramatic turn-around of relations, cable
provider [0]Comcast and BitTorrent are now working together. The deal
comes as BitTorrent tries to put its reputation for illegal filesharing
behind it. The companies are in talks to collaborate on ways to run
BitTorrent's technology more smoothly on Comcast's broadband network.
Comcast is actually entertaining the idea of using BitTorrent to
transport video files more effectively over its own network in the
future, said Tony Warner, Comcast's chief technology officer. '"We are
thrilled with this," Ashwin Navin, cofounder and president of BitTorrent,
said of the agreement. BitTorrent traffic will be treated the same as
that from YouTube Inc., Google Inc. or other Internet companies, he said.
It was important that Comcast agreed to expand Internet capacity, because
broadband in the United States is falling behind other areas of the
world, Navin said. Referring to the clashes with Comcast, he said: "We
are not happy about the companies' being in the limelight."'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/149253
Links:
0. http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20080327_Comcast_agreement_in_dispute_with_BitTorrent.html
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| The Next Leap In Space Exploration |
| from the not-made-by-man dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @12:05 (NASA) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/1426236
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An anonymous reader writes "The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor
recently returned to Earth as ambassadors, harbingers of a new era of
space exploration. Scientists at NASA are saying that the recent assembly
of the Dextre bot is the first step in [0]a long-term space-based
man/machine partnership. '"The work we're doing now -- the robotics we're
doing -- is what we're going to need to do to build any work station or
habitat structure on the moon or Mars," said Allard Beutel, a spokesman
for NASA. "Yes, this is just the beginning." Further joint human-robot
projects will "be a symbiotic relationship. It's part of a long-term
effort for us to branch out into the solar system. We're going to need
this type of hand-in-robotic-hand [effort] to make this happen. We're in
the infancy of space exploration. We have to start somewhere and this is
as good a place as any."'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/1426236
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;2060265428;fp;18;fpid;1
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| Amazon EC2 Now More Ready for Application Hosting |
| from the in-my-humble-opinion dept. |
| posted by jamie on Thursday March 27, @12:44 (The Internet) |
|
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/1515241
|
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For months now, I've been geeked about [0]Amazon's EC2 as a web hosting
service. But until today, in my opinion, it wasn't ready for prime time.
Now it is, for two reasons. One, [1]you can get static IPs, so if an
outward-facing VM goes down you can quickly start another one and point
your site's traffic to it without waiting for DNS propagation. And two,
you can now separate your VMs into [2]"physically distinct, independent
infrastructure" zones, so you can plan to keep your site up if a tornado
takes out one NOC. If I were developing a new website I'd host it there;
buying or leasing real hardware for a startup seems silly. If you have
questions, or especially if you know something about other companies'
virtual hosting options, post comments -- let's compare notes.
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/1515241
Links:
0. http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=84
1. http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1346
2. http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1347
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| Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison |
| from the now-that-is-an-oldie dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @13:25 (Music) |
|
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/1657250
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Tree131 writes "The New York Times is reporting that sound recordings
pre-dating Edison's made by ��douard-L��on Scott de Martinville, a Parisian
typesetter and tinkerer, were discovered by American audio historians at
the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. [0]The archives are on paper and
were meant for recording but not playback. Researchers used a high
quality scan of the recording and an electronic needle to play back the
sounds recorded 150 years ago. 'For more than a century, since he
captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil,
Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But
researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made
by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison's invention of the
phonograph by nearly two decades.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/1657250
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| OpenOffice.org 2.4 Released |
| from the free-and-friendly dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @14:03 (Software) |
|
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/172206
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[0]ahziem writes "The multiplatform, multilingual office suite
OpenOffice.org has announced the release of version 2.4. [1]New features
include 5 PDF export enhancements, text to columns in Calc, rectangular
selection in Writer, bug fixes, [2]performance improvements, improvements
supporting the growing library of [3]extensions such as [4]3D OpenGL
transitions in Impress, and much more. [5]Downloads are available either
direct or [6]P2P. In September, [7]OpenOffice.org 3.0 will add PDF
import, Microsoft Office 2007 file format support, and ODF 1.2."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/172206
Links:
0. http://www.oooninja.com/
1. http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/new-features-openofficeorg-240.html
2. http://katana.oooninja.com/w/openoffice.org/performance_improvements
3. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/
4. http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/eye-candy-3d-opengl-transitions-impress.html
5. http://download.openoffice.org/
6. http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/
7. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/19/1352257&tid=185
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| South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal |
| from the i-like-the-crazy-future dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @14:41 (Television) |
|
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/175241 |
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[0]garnetlion writes "[1]South Park is coming online, free and legal. My
brief research has not indicated if it will use DRM, require some silly
Windows-only software or be otherwise substandard. According to a Wired
blog article, 'Parker and Stone said they were inspired to start the site
when they got '[2]really sick of having to download our own show
illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.'" In
this regard South Park joins fellow Comedy Central notable [3]The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart, whose archive was made freely available online
late last year.
Discuss this story at:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/175241
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/~garnetlion
1. http://www.southparkstudios.com/
2. http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/south-park-to-o.html
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/18/1951251&tid=188
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| Space Tourism Industry Gains New Competitor |
| from the going-on-up dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @15:25 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/1848240
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mattnyc99 writes "There's a new entry in the race for the first space
tourism jet: XCOR Aerospace, a California-based rocket builder. The
company says [0]its clean-burning, two-seat Lynx spacecraft will lift off
by 2010. After we only saw [1]a mockup of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo
a couple months back, you'd think this was serious competition in the
'New Space' race, but [2]these photos show that Burt Rutan's Scaled
Composites is well on its way with construction."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/1848240
Links:
0. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4255991.html
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/23/1639223&tid=160
2. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4256017.html
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| China's Battle to Police the Web |
| from the losing-battle dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @16:05 (Censorship) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/1957209
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[0]What_the_deuce writes "For the first time in years, internet browsers
are able to visit the BBC's website. In turn, [1]the BBC turns a lens on
the Chinese web-browsing experience, exploring one of the government's
strongest methods of controlling the communication and information
accessible to the public. 'China does not block content or web pages in
this way. Instead the technology deployed by the Chinese government,
called Golden Shield, scans data flowing across its section of the net
for banned words or web addresses. There are five gateways which connect
China to the internet and the filtering happens as data is passed through
those ports. When the filtering system spots a banned term it sends
instructions to the source server and destination PC to stop the flow of
data.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/1957209
Links:
0. mailto:ian_b@linuxmail.org
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7312746.stm
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| Microsoft or Apple - Who Is the Faster Patcher? |
| from the go-speed-patcher-gooo dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @16:42 (Microsoft) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/2011229
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[0]Amy Bennett writes "And the answer is... Microsoft. Researchers from
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology analyzed 658 high-risk and
medium-risk vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and 738
affecting Apple. They measured how many times over the past six years the
two vendors were able to have a patch available on the day a
[1]vulnerability became publicly known, which they call the 0-day patch
rate. What they found: 'Apple was below 20 [unpatched vulnerabilities at
disclosure] consistently before 2005,' said Stefan Frei, one of the
researchers involved in the study. 'Since then, they are very often
above. So if you have Apple and compare it to Microsoft, the number of
unpatched vulnerabilities are higher at Apple.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/2011229
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://security.itworld.com/4940/microsoft-patches-faster-than-apple-080327/page_1.html
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| Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online |
| from the actually-not-that-bad dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @17:22 (Software) |
|
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/2015220
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[0]Amit Agarwal writes "Adobe today launched a basic version of Adobe
Photoshop available for free online. [1]Photoshop Express will be
completely Web-based so consumers can use it with any type of computer,
operating system and browser. According to Yahoo! News, Adobe says
providing Photoshop Express for free is [2]part marketing and part a
strategy to [3]create up-sell opportunities. It hopes some customers will
move from it to boxed software like its $99 Photoshop Elements or to a
subscription-based version of Express that's in the works."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/2015220
Links:
0. http://www.labnol.org/
1. http://www.photoshop.com/express
2. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080327/ap_on_hi_te/adobe_photoshop
3. http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/03/adobe-photoshop.html
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| Peruvian Teachers Begin OLPC Training |
| from the tapping-into-something-bigger dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @18:02 (Education) |
|
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/2022242
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[0]eldavojohn writes "Today was the first day that Peruvian teachers from
remote villages began [1]training to use the OLPC in their day-to-day
activities. From the article: 'Success of OLPC now depends largely on
frontline teachers and, of course, parents and kids. Peru's effort, if
successful, would be a model for other nations. In the training now under
way, teachers must become versed not only in how to operate and maintain
the laptops, but also in how to do their jobs within a newly
laptop-centric educational model. The laptops will contain some 115
books, including textbooks, novels, and poetry, as well as art and music
programs, cameras, and other goodies. What many of these kids won't get
is Internet access: about 90 percent of the villages lack it, and may not
get it anytime soon.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/2022242
Links:
0. http://www.misrarecords.com/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22041/
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| Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit |
| from the this-looks-like-a-job-for-superman dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @18:38 (The Courts) |
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/2033218
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smooth wombat writes "In what can only be considered a bizarre court
case, a former nuclear safety officer and others are suing the U.S.
Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN
to [0]stop the use of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) until its safety is
reassessed. The plaintiffs cite three possible 'doomsday' scenarios which
might occur if the LHC becomes operational: the creation of microscopic
black holes which would grow and swallow matter, the creation of
strangelets which, if they touch other matter, would convert that matter
into strangelets or the creation of magnetic monopoles which could start
a chain reaction and convert atoms to other forms of matter. CERN will
hold a public open house meeting on April 6 with word having been spread
to some researchers to be prepared to answer questions on microscopic
black holes and strangelets if asked."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/2033218
Links:
0. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/823924.aspx
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| Cassini 'Tastes' Organic Material at Enceladus |
| from the why-does-saturn's-icy-moon-taste-like-ecto-cooler-hi-c d|
| posted by Zonk on Thursday March 27, @19:31 (Space) |
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/2039204
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[0]Riding with Robots writes "As previously reported, the robotic
spacecraft Cassini recently flew through the mysterious geyser plumes at
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Today, NASA [1]released the preliminary
results of the flyby, including some intriguing findings, such as organic
materials 20 times denser than expected and relatively high temperatures
along the fissures where the geysers emanate. 'These spectacular new data
will really help us understand what powers the geysers. The surprisingly
high temperatures make it more likely that there's liquid water not far
below the surface,' said one mission scientist."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/27/2039204
Links:
0. http://www.ridingwithrobots.org/
1. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-050
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