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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* NTP Pool Reaches 1000 Servers, Needs More
* Toshiba Boosts Hard Drive Density By 50%
* Forensic Computer Targets Digital Crime
* Bringing Science and Math Into Writing?
* Libraries Defend Open Access
* New Legislation Proposed For Nuclear Safety
* Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor
* Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire
* Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit
* AMD NDA Scandal
* Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car
* Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies
* Underground Mac Community Foils a Coup
* HD VMD Shows Up Late For the Format War
* No More TV Listings For MythTV Users
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| NTP Pool Reaches 1000 Servers, Needs More |
| from the if-you-got-the-money-honey-i-got-the-time dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday September 08, @20:12 (The Internet)|
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/08/1840255
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[0]hgerstung writes "This weekend the [1]NTP Pool Project reached the
milestone of 1000 servers in the pool. That means that in less than two
years the [2]number of servers has doubled. This is happy news, but the
'time backbone' of the Internet, provided for free by volunteers
operating NTP servers, requires still more servers in order to cope with
the demand. Millions of users are synchronizing their PC's system clock
from the pool and a number of popular Linux distributions are using the
NTP pool servers as a time source in their default ntp configuration. If
you have a static IP address and your PC is always connected to the
Internet, please consider [3]joining the pool. Bandwidth is not an issue
and you will barely notice the extra load on your machine."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/08/1840255
Links:
0. mailto:heiko@am-anger-1.de
1. http://www.pool.ntp.org/
2. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/14/1550221&tid=95
3. http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html
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| Toshiba Boosts Hard Drive Density By 50% |
| from the now-how-we-gonna-back-that-sucker-up dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Saturday September 08, @22:09 (Data Storage)|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/08/1938203
|
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An anonymous reader writes "Toshiba has unveiled a ground-breaking
technology that [0]boosts recording density by 50% on an 80-GB, 1.8",
single-platter drive. Using what it calls Discrete Track Recording
technology, Toshiba was able to pack 120 GB storage on a single 1.8"
platter. The new development will hugely benefit media player, UMPC, and
ultra-portable laptop segments where 1.8" drives with maximum possible
capacity are in great demand."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/08/1938203
Links:
0. http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2007/06/c5819.html
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| Forensic Computer Targets Digital Crime |
| from the taking-a-byte-out-of-it dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @00:07 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/08/1956226
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[0]coondoggie writes "A European consortium has come up with a
[1]high-speed digital forensic computer dedicated to the task of quickly
offloading and analyzing computer records. The TreCorder is a rugged
forensic PC able to copy or clone up to three hard disks simultaneously,
at a speed of up to 2 Gb/min., far faster than alternative equipment. The
PC not only provides a complete mirror image of the hard disk and system
memory ��� including deleted and reformatted data ��� but also eliminates any
possibility of falsification in the process, meaning that the evidence it
collects will stand up in court."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/08/1956226
Links:
0. http://networkworld.com/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19197
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| Bringing Science and Math Into Writing? |
| from the lighting-the-fire dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @03:08 (Education) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/08/194205
|
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I am an eighth grade English teacher. As much as I love my subject and
believe in the value of skillful writing, I also believe that there is a
terrible lack of interest in the sciences and maths among students in
general. In some sense, I believe English to be a support subject for the
others classes at this grade level. At my school, the average science
classroom has time for labs and note taking, but reading and writing on
the subject (beside textbooks) is usually limited. Math is in a similar
situation: they have time to learn a concept and practice, but not to
linger on possibilities. Therefore, I have two questions for the readers
of Slashdot: which books / shows / movies caused a curiosity towards
these subjects when you were young, and what suggestions do you have for
incorporating these subjects into writing?
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/08/194205
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| Libraries Defend Open Access |
| from the we-already-paid-for-it-once dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @05:03 (Censorship) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/08/1739235
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aisaac writes "Earlier this year an article in Nature ([0]PDF,
subscription required) exposed publishers' plans to equate public access
to federally funded research with government censorship and the
destruction of peer review. In an [1]open letter last month, Rockefeller
University Press castigated the [2]publishers' sock-puppet outfit, PRISM,
for using distorting rhetoric in a coordinated PR attack on open access.
Now the Association of Research Libraries has released an [3]Issue Brief
addressing this PR campaign in more detail. The Issue Brief exposes some
of the distortions used to persuade key policy makers that recent gains
made by open access scientific publishing pose a danger to peer reviewed
scientific research, free markets, and possibly the future of western
civilization. As an example of what the publishers backing PRISM hate,
consider the wonderfully successful [4]grants policy of the National
Institutes of Health, which requires papers based on grant-funded
research to be published in [5]PubMed Central."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/08/1739235
Links:
0. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7126/pdf/445347a.pdf
1. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/3941.html
2. http://www.prismcoalition.org/
3. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/issue-brief-aap-pr-prism.pdf
4. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html
5. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
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| New Legislation Proposed For Nuclear Safety |
| from the did-you-say-springfield-vermont dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @08:02 (Power) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/08/2036240
|
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[0]mdsolar writes "Recent problems at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power
plant have spurred Congresspeople from Vermont, Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire to introduce legislation that would [1]allow State governors to
request independent safety reviews of nuclear power plants. The reviews
would exclude NRC employees who usually work on that plant and include
non-NRC reviewers. This review model is based on one that found problems
at Maine Yankee before it closed. Problems at Vermont Yankee have
included a [2]cooling tower collapse, a SCRAM caused by an [3]un-greased
valve, and failure of a [4]safety system during the SCRAM. The plant is
coming off of heightened review after shipping nuclear material with
[5]insufficient shielding. The plant's application for a 20 year license
extension is also currently under review."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/08/2036240
Links:
0. http://www.jointhesolution.com/mdsolar
1. http://www.reformer.com/headlines/ci_6824322
2. http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=2881
3. http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view.bg?articleid=1029079
4. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/31/ap4073821.html
5. http://www.reformer.com/headlines/ci_6824321
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| Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor |
| from the guess-who's-back dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 09, @09:24 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/1256210
|
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An anonymous reader writes "Seems like the Storm botnet that was behind
[0]the last two waves of attacks is also responsible for this new kind of
social-engineering based attacks, using spam to try and convince users of
the necessity of using Tor for there communications. They 'kindly'
provide a link to download a trojaned version of Tor. This [1]blog entry
has a link to the original post on or-talk mailing list which has some
samples of the messages."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/09/1256210
Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1558245&tid=172
1. http://www.hermetix.org/?q=node/33
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| Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire |
| from the but-who-will-ruin-it-by-playing-minmay dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 09, @10:33 (Movies) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/1317235
|
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[0]dominique_cimafranca writes "Classic anime cult favorite "Robotech"
may be next for the [1]big screen live action treatment, if recent news
from SciFi.com's SCI FI Wire is to be believed. Tobey Maguire will
produce and may star in the film. The article says 'Warner Brothers
Pictures picked up the rights to Robotech, which features giant robots
known as mechas. Maguire is producing through his Maguire Entertainment
banner and is eyeing the lead role in what the studio plans as an SF
franchise a la Paramount's hit Transformers.'" I wonder if they'll go
back to the Macross source material when plotting the movie... there's a
lot more good substance there then in our version.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/09/1317235
Links:
0. http://scifi.kom.ph/
1. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=43915
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| Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit |
| from the something-to-think-about dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 09, @11:48 (Sci-Fi) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/1420225
|
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[0]runamock writes "Brilliant technologists like [1]Ray Kurzweil and
[2]Rodney Brooks are gathering in San Francisco for [3]The Singularity
Summit. [4]The Singularity refers to the creation of smarter-than-human
intelligence beyond which the future becomes unpredictable. The concept
of the Singularity sounds more daunting in the form described by
statistician I.J Good in 1965: 'Let an ultra-intelligent machine be
defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities
of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these
intellectual activities, an ultra-intelligent machine could design even
better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence
explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus
the first ultra-intelligent machine is the last invention that man need
ever make.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/09/1420225
Links:
0. http://waziwazi.com/
1. http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html
2. http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/
3. http://www.singinst.org/summit2007/index.html
4. http://www.singinst.org/overview/whatisthesingularity/
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| AMD NDA Scandal |
| from the all-your-words-are-belong dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @12:58 (AMD) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/0025220
|
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[0]crazyeyes writes "Just two weeks ago, a Thai journalist walked out of
the hush-hush AMD event in Singapore over a controversial NDA that
required him to '[1]send any stories to the vendor before his newspaper
can publish it.' AMD categorically denied it happened, but today, we not
only have proof that it happened, we also have [2]the sordid details of
the entire affair. Here's a quote from the editorial: 'First off, the
non-disclosure agreement covered everything confidential said or written
over the next two years on the product, and had a duration of five years,
during which anything published or used in marketing would have to
receive written approval from AMD before it could be used. Worse, at the
end of the five years, all copies of the information made would have to
be returned to the chipmaker.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/09/0025220
Links:
0. mailto:forbidden2k@yahoo.com
1. http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=432&pgno=0
2. http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=441&pgno=0
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| Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car |
| from the george-orwell-meets-the-keystone-kops dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @14:12 (It's funny. La|
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/187239
|
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uh oh notes a story from Down Under where a police investigation came to
a screeching halt as a man being investigated by the police found
[0]tracking devices in two of his cars, ripped them out, and listed them
on an auction site. "Ralph Williams, of Cromwell, said he found the
devices last week in his daughter's car, which he uses, and in his
flatmate's car after the cars were seized by police and taken away for
investigation."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/09/187239
Links:
0. http://www.stuff.co.nz/AAMB4/aamsz=300x44_MULTILINK/4192768a24035.html
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| Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies |
| from the teaching-us-how-to-communicate dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @15:16 (Education) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/1825206
|
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[0]grrlscientist writes "Yesterday, I received the devastating news that
[1]Alex the African Grey parrot, who was both a study subject and
colleague to Irene Pepperberg, died unexpectedly at 31 years of age.
'Even though Alex was a research animal, he was much more than that. This
species of parrot generally lives to be 50-60 years old, so Alex was only
middle-aged when he died. According to some reports I have read, it is
possible that Alex might have succumbed to Aspergillosis, a fungal
infection of the lungs that he has battled in the past. However, the
cause of death will not be known until after a necropsy has been
completed... Alex's veterinarian is returning from vacation to personally
conduct this necrospy.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/09/1825206
Links:
0. http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
1. http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/09/alex_the_grey_parrot_colleague.php
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| Underground Mac Community Foils a Coup |
| from the fortunately-bloodless dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @16:24 (Apple) |
|
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/1846216
|
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An anonymous reader writes "In an attempted palace coup that would not
have been out of place in a Shakespearian tragedy, a moderator faction at
Mac Serial Junkie, one of the largest underground Mac communities, was
shut out this weekend after it was discovered that many staff members
were plotting a coup. The plans included a surreptitious takeover of the
domain name macserialjunkie.com. In an [0]Open Letter to the Community,
the founders of MSJ explain how a number of people at the highest levels
of the underground planned their takeover activities for almost two
years, only to be foiled at the last minute."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/09/1846216
Links:
0. http://www.macserialjunkie.com/
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| HD VMD Shows Up Late For the Format War |
| from the other-guys-will-kill-each-other-off-see dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @17:37 (Media) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/1933223
|
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Fishead writes "As the fight heats up between HD DVD and Blu-ray, and as
consumers seem to care less and less, a [0]new contender has entered the
fray. Next month, New Medium Enterprises will be selling a 1080p player
through Amazon and stores such as Radio Shack and Costco for around $150
��� half what the cheapest HD DVD player costs, and a quarter the cost of a
low-end Blu-ray. The difference this new HD VMD (Versatile Multilayer
Disc) format brings is that the discs are created with the same (cheap)
red laser as DVDs. From the article: 'HD VMD discs, which hold up to 30GB
on a single side, are encoded with a maximum bit rate of 40 megabits per
second... between HD DVD's 36 Mpbs and Blu-ray's 48 Mbps. The format uses
MPEG-2 and VC1 video formats to encode at 1080p resolution for the time
being, and will possibly move to the H.264 format in the future.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/09/1933223
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136977-c,hometheatersystems/article.html
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| No More TV Listings For MythTV Users |
| from the elephino-what's-on dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09, @18:46 (Television) |
|
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/2039239
|
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[0]Ryan Brown writes "As of September 1, the free XML TV guide service at
zap2it labs has [1]shut its doors due to misuse issues, as well as
internal business issues. Now that Linux users, and most PVR users for
that matter, are nearing the end of their last fetched TV guide, what
free alternatives exist that can replace this much-needed service?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/09/2039239
Links:
0. mailto:ryanbrown@uiuc.edu
1. http://tvbb.zap2it.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=746743&an=0&page=0#Post746743
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