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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Company Demos Personal Aircraft, Future Jetpack
* Google Quietly Closes AdSense API to Small Sites
* OLPC Cost Rises To $188 Per Laptop
* Virtually Non-Stick Gum Created
* iPhone Likely Set to Launch in the UK Next Week
* CRIA Admits P2P Downloading Legal in Canada
* How to Stop Commerial Use of Copyleft Materials?
* Jeremy Allison On Microsoft, OOXML and Standards
* The GIMP UI Redesign
* Social Networks At A Crossroads
* Cisco Confirms Regex Flaw in IOS
* Boot Sector Virus Shipped on German Laptops
* Owning a Wireless Camera, Its User and Its Network
* Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA
* Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked
* Google Calls for International Privacy Standards
* Stealthy Windows Update Raises Serious Concerns
* Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History
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| Company Demos Personal Aircraft, Future Jetpack |
| from the biggest-toybox-ever dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday September 14, @21:04 (Toys) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/2134217
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[0]coondoggie writes "Earlier this week researchers with the company ESG
Elektroniksystem in Germany [1]demonstrated a form of 'strap-on jet wing'
that lets a user truly fly through the air. The system, called Gryphon,
consists of a six-foot wing and hand-held rotary controls for the rudder.
The pilot has several different instruments available to him, including
onboard oxygen and helmet that features a heads-up display. 'Researchers
say the final version of the flying wing will contain an electronic
system that will take care of some of the steering for the pilot which
today can be a little tricky, researchers say. The company also plans to
add small jets to the wing making it a true jetpack in the future.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/14/2134217
Links:
0. http://networkworld/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19485
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| Google Quietly Closes AdSense API to Small Sites |
| from the raising-the-bar dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday September 14, @23:33 (Google) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/0328245
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[0]NewsCloud writes "[1]Google has raised the required minimum traffic
limit for publishers who wish to use its AdSense API to 100,000 page
views per day. The [2]AdSense API was introduced in March as a way for
sites with user generated content to share advertising revenue with their
members. [3]Says Google, "This policy change will probably result in
fewer developers going live and give us a chance to enhance our support
resources and processes to more easily support a greater number of
developers in the future...we hope to be able to lower it in the future
as we become more efficient at supporting our developers!" Meanwhile,
[4]some publishers report waiting a month for their API usage to be
approved. I take Google at its word for now but worry that small
developers could be increasingly squeezed out of the mashup space if this
were to become a trend."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/0328245
Links:
0. http://www.newscloud.com/
1. http://www.idealog.us/2007/09/google-adsense-.html
2. http://code.google.com/apis/adsense/
4. http://groups.google.com/group/AdSense-API/browse_thread/thread/f7b326a21ea6475d
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| OLPC Cost Rises To $188 Per Laptop |
| from the still-not-a-ton-of-money dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @01:11 (Portables) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/0332225
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[0]Arathon writes "The amazing '$100 laptop' designed by the 'One Laptop
Per Child' program isn't going to make it out the door for that price.
CNN reports that [1]the laptops are now expected to cost $188 apiece when
they come out later this fall. This is expected to make the program's
appeal potentially much smaller, since the developers were relying on the
mind-bogglingly low-price to hook governments into the concept of buying
laptops for their people. OLPC's spokesman guarantees that the price
won't rise further, to 'above $190'. The price differential is being
blamed on raw materials costs and currency fluctuation. Is this the end
of the OLPC's newsworthiness, or should we continue to hope that it will
make the difference that so many have said it will?"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/0332225
Links:
0. http://blog.petergaultney.com/
1. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/09/14/hundred.dollar.laptop.ap/index.html
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| Virtually Non-Stick Gum Created |
| from the does-it-taste-any-good dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @03:34 (Science) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/062209
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An anonymous reader writes "A new polymer has been developed by Professor
Terence Cosgrove that [0]allows for a non-sticky gum. In testing the gum
was removed by weather while the competitor's gum was not removed 4 out
of 5 times. The BBC reports: 'The company now needs to get its polymer
accepted as a food product by passing EU health and safety tests. It can
then go on sale. Professor Cosgrove says he is hopeful that the gum will
pass them, and says the product could be on the market as early as next
year, either as a Revolymer product or through a partnership with one of
the major chewing gum manufacturers.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/062209
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6993719.stm
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| iPhone Likely Set to Launch in the UK Next Week |
| from the leaving-the-brits-in-the-cold dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @05:29 (Communications) |
|
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/066221
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An anonymous reader writes "According to CNet, [0]the iPhone is likely to
be launched in the UK next Tuesday. 'Yesterday we were invited to an
Apple press conference to take place next Tuesday ��� and we think it's
most likely going to be the UK iPhone launch. Apple, as always, is
keeping tight-lipped but there are several clues that point in the
iPhone's direction'. No word yet on a UK operator, pricing or whether or
not it will have 3G."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/066221
Links:
0. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39029453,49292782,00.htm
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| CRIA Admits P2P Downloading Legal in Canada |
| from the maybe-they-fell-asleep-at-the-wheel dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @06:39 (Music) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/066200
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An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist is reporting that the Canadian
Recording Industry Association ��� the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA ���
this week filed documents in Canadian court that [0]seeks to kill the
expansion of the levy on blank media to iPods since it fears that the
system now legalizes peer-to-peer downloading of music in Canada. CRIA's
President Graham Henderson argued in his affidavit that a recent decision
from the Copyright Board of Canada 'broadens the scope of the private
copying exception to avoid making illegal file sharers liable for
infringement.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/066200
Links:
0. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2238/125/
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| How to Stop Commerial Use of Copyleft Materials? |
| from the i-suggest-a-sheild-bash dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @07:29 (The Internet) |
|
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/0327236
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An anonymous reader writes "[0]The Guild Wiki, an extremely popular
fan-made wiki for documenting the Masssively Multiplayer game Guild Wars,
was originally supported by donations, then later advertisements ���
supposedly just enough to break even. Just the past week, the owner of
the domain name surprised this wiki community by revealing that [1]he had
sold the domain name, the database, and his services to Wikia, a
commercial entity that intends to profit from Guild Wiki's content. The
catch? Much of Guild Wiki's content falls under [2]Creative Commons
by-nc-sa license, which denies the commercial use of licensed material.
Arena.net created their own [3]community run wiki to serve as the in-game
help system, because they didn't think they could use the material on
Guild Wiki commercially. If Wikia continues to serve ads over Guild
Wiki's content, how can the thousands of contributors to the site stop
them without going to the expense/trouble of hiring attorneys (or the
crude path of mass vandalism)? If it turns out the site owner has been
making a profit all along from ads, what's the remedy?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/0327236
Links:
0. http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/
1. http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Wikia_Move
2. http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/GuildWiki:Copyrights
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| Jeremy Allison On Microsoft, OOXML and Standards |
| from the weighing-in dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 15, @09:03 (Software) |
|
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/1035225
|
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An anonymous reader writes "OOXML is already Microsoft's "de facto"
standard as implemented in Office 2007, so when would any changes arising
from the Comments Resolution meeting in February 2008 be put in place?
According to Jeremy Allison's latest column, when last minute changes
were suggested for the CIFS standard, which Samba exists to disentangle,
"the response came back from Microsoft that although the fixes were
valid, unfortunately [0]the code was already written and was going to be
shipped in the next service pack. End of discussion. It wasn't even in a
shipping product yet, but the specification was determined to be
unchangeable as they didn't want to change their existing code.""
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/1035225
Links:
0. http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/255
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| The GIMP UI Redesign |
| from the new-coat-of-wax dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 15, @10:08 (The Gimp) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/1040253
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sekra writes "The [0]GIMP UI Redesign Team has created a [1]blog to
collect ideas for a new design of the most popular image manipulation
program. Everyone is free to submit suggestions to be published in the
blog. Will a new GUI finally get more users to choose The GIMP as their
program of choice?"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/1040253
Links:
0. http://gui.gimp.org/
1. http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/
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| Social Networks At A Crossroads |
| from the start-of-something-new dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 15, @11:04 (The Intern|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/1047220
|
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[0]mateuscb writes "A few years ago, social networking Web sites were
just some newfangled technology that college students loved. But over
time, [1]they have metamorphosed into an unavoidable Internet phenomenon
that is changing the way people of all ages keep in touch with friends,
find long-lost acquaintances, explore new hobbies and even look for
employment."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/1047220
Links:
0. http://www.yuniti.com/mateus
1. http://www.snl.com/InteractiveX/article.aspx?CDID=A-6510105-12907&KPLT=2
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| Cisco Confirms Regex Flaw in IOS |
| from the does-not-compute dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 15, @12:01 (Networking|
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/119227
|
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[0]gattaca writes "Cisco has announced a [1]confirmation of an unpatched
denial of service vulnerability in Cisco IOS. From the NetPro Forum post:
'I have just discovered a regular expression that [2]crashes the router.
I suspect the error is because of division by zero. Since I work for the
Enterprise, I do not have direct access to TAC. Please somebody report
this to Cisco. I have tested it on ranges of routers (2611, 2821, 2851,
7206) and IOSes (12.0-12.4). All routers crashed with some type of BUS
ERROR. Command can be issued in user mode, therefore I think it can be
considered as vulnerability to potentially cause DOS.'" Of course, the
command has to be entered in user mode, so while potentially a
vulnerability, chances are your local IOS-based router won't be DoSed via
the bug any time soon.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/119227
Links:
0. http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/
1. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_response09186a00808bb91c.html
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| Boot Sector Virus Shipped on German Laptops |
| from the extra-value-for-your-deutschmark dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @13:16 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/1623230
|
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[0]Juha-Matti Laurio writes "A consignment of laptops from German
manufacturer Medion, sold through German and Danish branches of giant
retail chain Aldi, have been [1]found to be infected with the boot sector
virus 'Stoned.Angelina', first seen as long ago as 1994. [2]The affected
notebook models (German language) Medion MD 96290 have been pre-installed
with Windows Vista Home Premium and Bullguard anti-virus, which
reportedly is unable to remove it. A special removal tool was released to
clean the laptops. Aldi [3]has shared the same warning as well. Two years
ago several thousands of Creative Zen Neeon MP3 players were shipped
[4]with a Windows worm Wullik.B."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/1623230
Links:
0. mailto:juha-matti.laurio@netti.fi
1. http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2007/09_14.xml
2. http://www.medion.de/popup_md96290.htm
3. http://aldi.dk/COMP_DK/index.htm
4. http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-082005.html#00000642
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| Owning a Wireless Camera, Its User and Its Network |
| from the is-that-owning-or-pwning dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @14:16 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/1626243
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twistedmoney99 writes "InformIT has posted a two part article by Seth
Fogie that describes how a wireless IP camera can be owned and abused.
The first part describes how the cameras feed can be [0]sniffed,
replaced, or even DoSed off the air by a PDA. The second part then takes
a look at the web application interface of the camera (an Axis207W) and
exposes numerous vulnerabilities that lead to exposed passwords, a
software based DoS, global XSS ��� and the kicker ��� a CRSF attack that
through which an attacker can [1]remotely penetrate the network it is
installed on."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/1626243
Links:
0. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1016099
1. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1016102
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| Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA |
| from the they-need-dirty-tricks dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @15:19 (The Internet) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/1838232
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Gothmog of A writes "As Richard Dawkins' offcial site reports, an
organization called Creation Science Evangelism Ministries [0]has been
submitting DMCA copyright requests to YouTube. This has resulted in the
Rational Response Squad (RRS) being banned after they protested against
videos being taken down and accounts being closed. The RRS videoes attack
creationism (AKA intelligent design) and promote the atheist viewpoint.
According to the RRS, the copyright requests are without merit since the
material in question is covered by fair use or has been declared to be in
the public domain. Behind Creation Science Evangelism Ministries is the
infamous Kent Hovind (AKA Dr. Dino) who is currently serving jail time
for tax evasion."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/1838232
Links:
0. http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,1640,Open-letter-to-YouTube-video,Rational-Response-Squad
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| Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked |
| from the i-believe-this-is-called-comeuppance dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @16:24 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/1843234
|
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qubezz writes "The company MediaDefender works with the RIAA and MPAA
against piracy, setting up fake torrents and trackers and disrupting p2p
traffic. Previously, the TorrentFreak site accused them of setting up a
fake internet video download site designed to catch and bust users.
MediaDefender denied the entrapment charges. Now [0]700MB of
MediaDefender's internal emails from the last 6 months have been leaked
onto BitTorrent trackers. The emails detail their entire plan, including
how they intended to distance themselves from the fake company they set
up and future strategies. Other pieces of company information were
included in the emails such as logins and passwords, wage negotiations,
and numerous other aspect of their internal business."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/1843234
Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-emails-leaked-070915/
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| Google Calls for International Privacy Standards |
| from the equal-opportunity-datamining dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @17:18 (Google) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/2014253
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[0]HairyNevus writes "The Washington Post has an article detailing
[1]Google's request for international privacy standards. Google is taking
this matter all the way to the U.N., arguing that a hodge-podge of
privacy law unnecessarily burdens Internet-based companies while also
failing to protect consumers. Although Google is currently under
investigation by the EU for its privacy practices, the company claims it
has been a crusader for protecting consumer privacy. Google's privacy
counsel Peter Fleischer called America's privacy laws 'too complex and
too much of a patchwork,' and the European Union's laws 'too bureaucratic
and inflexible.' The alternative? Something closer to the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation's framework which 'balances very carefully
information privacy with business needs and commercial interests',
according to Fleischer."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/2014253
Links:
0. mailto:hairynevus@gmail.com
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/13/AR2007091302248.html?hpid=topnews
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| Stealthy Windows Update Raises Serious Concerns |
| from the for-your-own-good dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @18:26 (Windows) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/2040259
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UniversalVM writes "What is the single biggest issue that bothers open
source advocates about proprietary software? It is probably the ability
of the vendor to pull stunts like Microsoft's recent stealth software
update and subsequent [0]downplaying of any concerns. Their weak
explanation seems to be a great exercise in circular logic: 'Had we
failed to update the service automatically, users would not have been
able to successfully check for updates and, in turn, users would not have
had updates installed automatically or received expected notifications.'
News.com is reporting that all of the updated files on both XP and Vista
[1]appears to be in windows update itself. This is information that was
independently uncovered by users and still not released by Microsoft."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/2040259
1. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9778152-7.html
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| Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History |
| from the is-it-warm-in-here-or-is-it-just-me dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday September 15, @19:05 (Science) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/2023212
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An anonymous reader writes "The Northwest Passage, a normally ice-locked
shortcut between Europe and Asia, [0]is now passable for the first time
in recorded history reports the European Space Agency. Leif Toudal
Pedersen from the Danish National Space Centre said in the article: 'We
have seen the ice-covered area drop to just around 3 million sq km which
is about 1 million sq km less than the previous minima of 2005 and 2006.
There has been a reduction of the ice cover over the last 10 years of
about 100 000 sq km per year on average, so a drop of 1 million sq km in
just one year is extreme.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/15/2023212
Links:
0. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMYTC13J6F_index_0.html
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