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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* New Robots Hunt Pirates by Sea
* Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set
* US Voting Machines Standards Open To Public
* Brains Hard-Wired for Math
* Australian Army Invests in Electrical Shirts
* FTC Seeks Anti-Spyware Authority
* Schneier On the War On the Unexpected
* BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates"
* Mandriva's Open Letter To Steve Ballmer
* $200 Linux PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart
* Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses
* Building a "Reference" Home Theater
* 22 Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents
* Single Nanotube Becomes World's Smallest Radio
* Transform Cellphones Into a CCTV Swarm
* What's New in OpenBSD 4.2?
* Patterns in Lottery Numbers
* Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan
* FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking
* Colbert Ballot Bid Shot Down
* EMI Caught Offering Illegal Downloads
* Open-Source 3D Printer Lets Users Make Anything
* Nanotech To Replace Disk Drives Within Ten Years?
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| New Robots Hunt Pirates by Sea |
| from the long-john-silicon dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 31, @20:45 (Robotics) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/2241252
|
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mattnyc99 writes "PopularMechanics.com takes a peek into the [0]growing
world of high-tech piracy on the open seas, which the U.S. Navy and Coast
Guard are looking to cut off by investing in a new fleet of superfast,
gun-mounted unmanned surface vessels (USVs). From the article: "The
Interceptor is available now. But the USV market is just getting started:
Two months ago, British defense firm Qinetiq debuted its own robotic
vessel, the jetski-size Sentry. Among its potential duties is intruder
investigation, which could include scouting out unidentified boats, along
the lines of the raft that detonated alongside the USS Cole in Yemen, as
well as offering a first look at a possible pirate-controlled vessel.""
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/31/2241252
Links:
0. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/robotics/4229443.html
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| Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set |
| from the the-dark-side-of-phenolphthalein dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 31, @22:06 (Education) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/2256206
|
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An anonymous reader writes "A recent unfortunate casualty of
anti-terrorism laws is the [0]home chemistry set. Once deemed the [1]gift
that saved Christmas, most Slashdotters probably remember early childhood
experimentation with one of the many pre-packaged chemistry sets that
were on the market. Unfortunately the FBI has decided that home chemistry
sets are a threat to national security and they are rapidly disappearing
from the market entirely. Those that remain are shallow boring versions
of the old kits."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/31/2256206
Links:
0. http://12angrymen.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/endangered-species-the-chemistry-set/
1. http://www.discoverthis.com/article-ac-gilbert.html
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| US Voting Machines Standards Open To Public |
| from the now-you-can-see-it-coming dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 31, @23:29 (United State|
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/2332216
|
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[0]Online Voting writes "The [1]U.S. Election Assistance Commission has
published new voting systems [2]testing and certification standards for
190 days of public comment. For all the critics of electronic voting,
this is your opportunity to improve the process. This will be the second
version of the federal voting system standards (the first version is the
[3]VVSG 05). To learn more about these Voluntary Voting System Standards
see this [4]FAQ."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/31/2332216
Links:
0. http://www.electiontechnology.com/
3. http://www.eac.gov/voting%20systems/voting-system-certification/2005-vvsg
4. http://www.eac.gov/voting%20systems/document.2007-10-31.4029248664
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| Brains Hard-Wired for Math |
| from the easy-as-1-2-3 dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 01, @01:21 (Math) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/0316215
|
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[0]mcgrew writes "New Scientist is reporting that "non-human primates
really can [1]understand the meaning of numerals." The small study of two
rhesus monkeys reveals that cells in their brains respond selectively to
specific number values ��� regardless of whether the amount is represented
by dots on a screen or an Arabic numeral. For example, a given brain cell
in the monkey will respond to the number three, but not the number one.
The results suggest that individual cells in human brains might also have
a fine-tuned preference for specific numerical values." The report itself
is online at PLoS Biology, [2]Semantic Associations between Signs and
Numerical Categories in the Prefrontal Cortex."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/0316215
Links:
0. http://www.mcgrew.info/
1. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12849-monkeys-reveal-brain-is-hardwired-for-counting.html
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| Australian Army Invests in Electrical Shirts |
| from the shocking-sleeves dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 01, @04:57 (The Military|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/0310208
|
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Stony Stevenson writes "The Australian Defence Department has injected
$4.4 million worth of funding to further Australia's national science
agency's (the CSIRO) research into designing [0]clothing which can be
used as a self-recharging electrical source on the battlefield. The
Defence Department is hoping the technology can be used to replace
cumbersome disposable batteries that soldiers must carry on the
battlefield. The Flexible Integrated Energy Device (FIED) will be used to
store and provide energy over a continuous period of time. It can be
charged by either vibration energy harvesting or through plugging into an
electrical power point."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/0310208
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| FTC Seeks Anti-Spyware Authority |
| from the that-should-fix-things dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 01, @07:55 (The Internet|
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/036236
|
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Zyxwvut writes "The [0]FTC is seeking more legal authority to go after
spyware vendors, and Congress has passed a few bills to support them, but
the Senate is ignoring them. While the FTC has prosecuted a few of the
largest spyware makers, most of them fly under the radar because the FTC
has to meet very stringent legal standards before they can do anything."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/036236
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| Schneier On the War On the Unexpected |
| from the security-theater-on-an-escalator dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @08:36 (Security) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1221220
|
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jamie found this essay by Bruce Schneier, [0]The War on the Unexpected.
(It originally appeared in Wired but this version has all the links.)
"We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the
unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you
act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even
arrested ��� even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing
anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a
CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of
reported threats... After someone reports a 'terrorist threat,' the whole
system is biased towards escalation and CYA instead of a more realistic
threat assessment... If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security
personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1221220
Links:
0. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_the.html
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| BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates" |
| from the nobody-uses-linux-anyway dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @09:17 (Media) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/133259
|
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whoever57 writes "The BBC's head of technology denied rumors that a
secret deal with Microsoft was behind the XP-only launch of the BBC's
iPlayer. According to Ashley Highfield, the reason that the player only
supports Windows XP is that [0]only a small number of Linux visitors have
come to the BBC's website. Why he would expect a large number of
Linux-based visitors to the site when the media downloads are Windows XP
only is not clear. He also thinks that 'Launching a software service to
every platform simultaneously would have been launch suicide,' despite
the example of many major sites that support Linux (even if this is
through the closed-source flash player)."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/133259
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| Mandriva's Open Letter To Steve Ballmer |
| from the should-have-denied-bill's-visa dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @09:58 (Mandriva) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1331202
|
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An anonymous reader writes "An entry on the Mandriva Blog, written by
Mandriva CEO Fran��ois Bancilhon, says that the Nigerian government, after
ordering [0]thousands of Classmate PCs with Mandriva Linux installed, has
suddenly [1]decided that they will instead install Windows. They will pay
for the pre-loaded Mandriva Linux on the low-cost computing devices
intended for children in the developing world, but immmediately replace
the OS. The blog doesn't quite use the 'B' word but does suggest that
this was not a decision that the Nigerian government made on its own."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1331202
Links:
0. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/1939229&tid=146
1. http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
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| $200 Linux PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart |
| from the testing-the-holiday-waters dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @10:37 (Linux Business|
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1421218
|
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[0]Placid sends in a Wired blog entry on [1]Wal-Mart's new sub-$200
Linux-based PC. Wired calls it "a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux,"
and the AP [2]identifies the distro as gOS, made by a small company in
Los Angeles. Wal-Mart began selling Linux PCs in 2002 but they have been
out of stock for a while. From the Wired blog: "It has a 1.5 Ghz VIA C7
CPU embedded in a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard
drive. Normally, this would simply mark it as unacceptably low-end for
use with modern software. By using the fast Enlightenment desktop manager
(instead of heavier-duty alternatives like Gnome or KDE), the makers say
it's more responsive than Vista is, even on more powerful computers."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1421218
Links:
0. http://beplacid.net/
1. http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/200-everex-gree.html
2. http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/10/31/money/doc4728dc207fe0d896357480.txt
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| Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses |
| from the like-a-soprano-with-crystal dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @11:18 (Biotech) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1448257
|
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wattrlz writes "In a development reminiscent of nineteenth century
pseudo-science, the father-son team of Kong Thon and Shaw Wei Tsen
recently demonstrated that the tobacco mosaic [0]virus can be destroyed
in vitro by nano-scale mechanical resonant vibrations induced by repeated
ultra-short pulses from a laser. The total energy required is reportedly
far below the threshold for human tissue damage and the technique should
generalize to human pathogens. Cleaning stored blood is one obvious
application."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1448257
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/11/laser_virus
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| Building a "Reference" Home Theater |
| from the must-have-citizen-kane-in-1080p24 dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @11:55 (Movies) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1534234
|
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An anonymous reader writes "FiringSquad has recently written a 14-page
article on [0]building a 'reference' home theater. They go through
step-by-step and define all of the issues you need to think about when
going with a new home theater setup. Exceptionally detailed but also easy
to read."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1534234
Links:
0. http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/designing_firingsquad_reference_home_theater/
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| 22 Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents |
| from the all-my-trolls-live-in-texas dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @12:36 (Patents) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1548248
|
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Newer Guy writes "Wi-LAN, another patent holding company, has [0]sued 22
companies that make or sell wireless routers. Defendants include Apple.
Atheros, Belkin, Best Buy, Buffalo, Dell, HP, Intel, and Lenovo. Wi-LAN
has a portfolio of more than 280 issued or pending patents. " Of course
the two patent suits were filed in Marshall, Texas.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1548248
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| Single Nanotube Becomes World's Smallest Radio |
| from the play-misty-for-me dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @13:13 (Toys) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1614200
|
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[0]Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "Researchers at the National Science
Foundation have utilized a [1]single carbon nanotube to perform all the
functions of a standard radio, acting as an antenna, tunable filter,
amplifier, and demodulator. They were then able to tune in a radio signal
generated in the room and play it back through an attached speaker. The
device is functional across a bandwidth widely used for commercial radio.
From the NSF: 'The source content for the first laboratory test of the
radio was "Layla," by Derek and the Dominos, followed soon after by "Good
Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1614200
Links:
0. http://filer.case.edu/~bct4
1. http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110566
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| Transform Cellphones Into a CCTV Swarm |
| from the now-how-to-interface-your-brain dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, @13:55 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1657259
|
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holy_calamity writes "Swiss researchers have developed java software that
has [0]bluetooth-capable camera phones form a distributed camera network.
Each phone shares information on visual events with its neighbours and
can [1]work out the spatial position of phones around it (pdf). The
software will become open source sometime next year, and the creators say
it could be used to make a quick and dirty surveillance system. 'The
phones currently use the average speed people walk to guess the distances
between themselves, based on how long people take to move from one
phone's view to another's. In testing, the system determined the
distances between each phone with about 95% accuracy. They were placed 4
metres apart, making it accurate to about 20 centimetres. In future,
recording the speed at which objects pass by would make more accurate
judgments possible.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1657259
1. http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/bolligph-facet2007.pdf
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| What's New in OpenBSD 4.2? |
| from the new-footloose-and-fancy-free dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, @14:32 (Unix) |
|
http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1815248
|
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[0]blackbearnh writes "[1]OpenBSD 4.2 was released today, and has a host
of new features. O'Reilly's ONLamp site has a pretty thorough [2]overview
of the release. 'Even though security is still there, this release comes
with some amazing performance improvements: basic benchmarks showed PF
being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB shootdown code for i386 and
amd64 cut the time to do a full package build by 20 percent (mostly
because all the forks in configure scripts have become much cheaper), and
the improved frequency scaling on MP systems can help save nearly 20
percent of battery power. And then the new features: FFS2, support for
the Advanced Host Controller Interface, IP balancing in CARP, layer 7
manipulation with hoststated, Xenocara, and more!'"
Discuss this story at:
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1815248
Links:
0. mailto:turner@blackbear.biz
1. http://kerneltrap.org/OpenBSD/OpenBSD_4.2_Released
2. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/11/01/whats-new-in-bsd-42.html
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| Patterns in Lottery Numbers |
| from the you're-still-advised-against-playing dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, @15:12 (Math) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/198205
|
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[0]markmcb writes "Most everyone is familiar with the concept of the
lottery, i.e., random numbers are selected and people guess what they
will be for a cash prize. But how random are the numbers? Matt Vea has
conducted a [1]pattern analysis of the MegaMillions lottery, which
recently offered a sum of $370M (USD) to the winner. Matt shows that the
lottery isn't as random as it may seem and that there are 'better'
choices than others to be made when selecting numbers. From the article,
'A single dollar in MegaMillions purchases a 1 in 175,711,536 chance of
landing the jackpot ... a player stands a mildly better chance of winning
a partial prize through the selection of weighted numbers.'" Includes
some excellent charts of his analysis.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/198205
Links:
0. http://www.markmcb.com/
1. http://www.omninerd.com/articles/Pattern_Analysis_of_MegaMillions_Lottery_Numbers
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| Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan |
| from the search-safely dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, @15:54 (Security) |
|
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1855259
|
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[0]Kenny A. writes "Multiple news organisations are reporting on an
[1]in-the-wild Mac OS X malware attack that uses porn [2]lures to plant
phishing Trojans on Mac machines. The attack site attempts to trick users
into download a disk image (.dmg) file disguised as a codec that's
required for viewing the video. If the Mac machine's browser is set to to
open 'Safe' files after downloading, the .dmg gets mounted and the
Installer is launched. The target must click through a series of screens
to become infected but once the Trojan is installed, it has full control
of the machine."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1855259
Links:
0. http://isc.sans.org/
1. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=629
2. http://www.scmagazineus.com/Trojan-targets-Mac-users/article/58290/
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| FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking |
| from the hard-to-keep-up-with-the-annoyance-factor dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, @16:32 (The Internet) |
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1910235
|
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Enter Sandvine writes "A handful of consumer groups have [0]filed a
complaint with the FCC over Comcast's [1]"delaying" some BitTorrent
traffic. The complaint seeks fines of $195,000 for each Comcast
subscriber affected by the traffic blocking as well as a permanent
injunction barring the ISP from blocking P2P traffic. '"Comcast's defense
is bogus," said Free Press policy director Ben Scott. "The FCC needs to
take immediate action to put an end to this harmful practice. Comcast's
blatant and deceptive BitTorrent blocking is exactly the type of problem
advocates warned would occur without Net Neutrality laws.""
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/1910235
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/23/1238201&tid=95
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| Colbert Ballot Bid Shot Down |
| from the can't-make-a-dishonest-living-no-more dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, @17:10 (Television) |
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/2044240
|
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wizzard2k writes "Some of you may have seen [0]Stephen Colbert's bid for
the South Carolina Presidential Primary, however it seems his hopes to
appear on the ballot as a candidate for the Democratic Party [1]have been
shot down. From the report: 'Stephen Colbert's bid to get on the ballot
for the upcoming Democratic primary in his home state was shot down on
Thursday (November 1) by the executive committee of the South Carolina
Democratic Party. Colbert's bid was voted down 13-3 ... Using criteria
such as whether the candidate was recognized in the national news media
as a legitimate candidate and whether they'd actively campaigned in the
state, the committee put the kibosh on the Colbert bid.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/2044240
Links:
0. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/27/163258&tid=133
1. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1573288/20071101/id_0.jhtml
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| EMI Caught Offering Illegal Downloads |
| from the dirty-dealings dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, @17:52 (Music) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/2046251
|
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[0]Hypocricy, LLC writes "While the RIAA is swift to punish any person
caught offering illegal downloads, they're not very swift with outrage
when a member company like [1]EMI offers illegal downloads. Not only did
the band King Crimson's contract never allow digital distribution to
begin with, but band member Robert Fripp claims that EMI offered their
music for sale even after their contract ended entirely."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/2046251
Links:
0. http://www.mediadefender-defenders.com/
1. http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/30/fripp-lays-music-industry-rip
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| Open-Source 3D Printer Lets Users Make Anything |
| from the printer-for-the-people dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, @18:33 (Printers) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/2048205
|
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An anonymous reader writes "Picture a 3D inkjet printer that [0]deposits
droplets of plastic, layer by layer, gradually building up an object of
any shape. Fabbers have been around for two decades, but they've always
been the pricey playthings of high-tech labs ��� and could only use a
single material. A [1]Fab at Home kit costs around $2400 and allows users
to print anything from [2]Hors d'Oeuvres to [3]flashlights."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/2048205
Links:
0. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224759.html
2. http://fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab%40Home:Gallery#Hors_d.27Oeuvres
3. http://fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab%40Home:Gallery#Flashlight
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| Nanotech To Replace Disk Drives Within Ten Years? |
| from the along-with-my-hip dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, @19:33 (Data Storage) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/2128209
|
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[0]Ian Lamont writes "An Arizona State University researcher named
Michael Kozicki claims that [1]nanotechnology will replace disk drives in
ten years. The article mentions three approaches: Nanowires (which
replace electrons/capacitors), multiple memory layers on silicon (instead
of a single layer), and a method that stores multiple pieces of
information in the same space: 'Traditionally, each cell holds one bit of
information. However, instead of storing simply a 0 or a 1, that cell
could hold a 00 or a 01. Kozicki said the ability to double capacity that
way ��� without increasing the number of cells ��� has already been proven.
Now researchers are working to see how many pieces of data can be held by
a single cell.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/01/2128209
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/blog/19
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9045078
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