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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Wal-Mart's Terrible Nintendo Wii Knock-Offs
* The Man Behind the Google Phone
* EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday
* NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam
* Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark?
* 3 Bots Win Pentagon's Robotic Rally
* The Dying PC Market
* Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20
* Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise
* Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat?
* Graffiti as Password - Secure and Memorable
* DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix
* Recreating Cities Using Online Photos
* Ultracapacitors Soon to Replace Many Batteries?
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| Wal-Mart's Terrible Nintendo Wii Knock-Offs |
| from the anything-for-a-buck dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday November 03, @22:36 (Wii (Games)) |
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/0238218
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MaryAlan writes "Wal-Mart is now selling an electronic LCD game in the
kid's section that resembles a Wiimote so closely that even Wal-Mart
employees can't tell them apart in a picture. But the games ��� made by
ToyQuest out of L.A. ��� are complete and utter crap, to the point of being
unplayable. Their only redeeming feature is that they look like the
Nintendo Wii, which means Wal-Mart is relying on brand confusion to sell
any of these things to unsuspecting customers. There is a gallery of
photos online, so you can take a look at [0]side-by-side pictures with a
true Wiimote, down to the fake speaker on the front. "
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/0238218
Links:
0. http://nintendo.about.com/od/industrynews/ig/Nintendo-Wiimote-Knockoff/?once=true&
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| The Man Behind the Google Phone |
| from the and-his-wonderful-toys dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @01:34 (Google) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/0536228
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The New York Times is running a story about Andy
Rubin, Google's resident gadget guru, and [1]one of the primary
architects of the gPhone. You won't find any new technical details about
the gPhone in the story, (Google is [2]planning an announcement on Monday
about its future mobile plans.) but the story about Rubin gives some
clues that indicate that Google plans to do more than merely develop an
operating system for cellular phones. One clue to the gPhone is that
after Rubin left Apple he joined General Magic, the company co-founded
with Mac pioneers Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld that developed
[3]Magic Cap in the 1990s, a PDA precursor years ahead of its time that
included a cell phone and email. The Times speculates that Google may
also be planning to replay the strategy that Microsoft used to bulldoze
Netscape in the mid-1990s by 'cutting off' Microsoft's air supply by
giving the gPhone away to handset makers and to put Microsoft Windows
Mobile out of business. If the strategy works, it will be because Rubin
and his team have successfully developed a vision of the smartphone of
the future and a strategy for getting it accepted by the public and by
the carriers."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/0536228
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
2. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/googles_mobile.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cap
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| EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday |
| from the mmogtastic dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @02:33 (Role Playing (Games|
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/0543230
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The official EVE Online site has details of upcoming patch 'Revelations
2.3'. Along with [0]a number of bug-fixes to the PvP-focused Massively
Multiplayer Online Game, this game fix will offer up [1] compatibility
with Mac OS X and Linux. Though the Mac client is a native port, Linux
will require the used of Cedega. The post suggests that if you'd like a
preview of what the game will be like on your rig, you can download the
client and tool around the test server. System requirements are also
listed, as are the distributions of Linux they are specifically
supporting: Ubuntu 7+, Suse 10+, and Linspire 6. Update: 11/04 14:32 GMT
by [2]Z : Fixed implication of native Linux client.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/0543230
Links:
0. http://myeve.eve-online.com/updates/patchnotes.asp?patchlogID=154
1. http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=628520&
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| NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam |
| from the blind-justice-sometimes-strikes-true dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @04:26 (America Online) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/0547213
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[0]Tech.Luver writes "A man from New Jersey has been [1]sentenced to more
than two years in prison for sending more than a million spam messages to
AOL users. 'Todd Moeller was sentenced ... after he was caught making a
deal with a government informant to send junk e-mails advertising a
computer security program in return for 50 percent of the profits ...
Moeller told the informant via instant messaging he could conceal the
source of the e-mails through his access to 40 different servers and had
profited $40,000 a month from other spam e-mail scams that promoted
stocks, prosecutors said.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/0547213
Links:
0. http://techluver.com/
1. http://techluver.com/2007/11/03/nj-spammer-gets-two-years-jail-for-aol-spam-scam/
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| Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark? |
| from the oh-the-fun-of-squatters dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @06:26 (Businesses) |
|
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/0239245
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[0]TheWorkingStiff writes "I registered a descriptive domain name
(something like "thesimpledog.com") and started a blog on it. About a
month later I get a threatening letter from a link farmer who owns
"simpledog.com" The owner of simpledog.com is claiming that he owns the
trademark to the words simpledog even though he has no real business or
rights by that name other than a static page with some text and Adsense
slapped on it. There is no product, service or brand whatsoever. Does
simply registering a two or three word domain give you instant trademark
rights to those words even though you've never done anything with them?
Should I give up my domain to a link farmer who is trying to bully me, or
does he have a valid right to any phrase he registers that isn't already
trademarked?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/0239245
Links:
0. mailto:theworkingstiff@gmail.com
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| 3 Bots Win Pentagon's Robotic Rally |
| from the soon-they'll-be-everywhere-we're-doomed dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @07:09 (Robotics) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/0315214
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An anonymous reader writes "We've got a winner in the Pentagon's $3.5
million all-robot street rally, the [0]Urban Challenge. [1]Three,
actually. Wired reports that 'bots from Stanford, Virginia Tech, and
Carnegie Mellon all completed the course within the six-hour time limit.
The robo-cars had to complete different missions taking varying times, so
the flesh-and-blood judges will take a day to figure out who takes home
first prize."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/0315214
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/238255&tid=216
1. http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/3-bots-in-the-w.html
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| The Dying PC Market |
| from the netcraft-confirms-nothing dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 04, @10:06 (Portables) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/1317226
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An anonymous reader writes "The [0]PC's role in Japanese homes is
diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly on processing power is
encroached by gadgets such as smart phones that act like pocket-size
computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles, digital video
recorders with terabytes of memory NEC's annual PC shipments in Japan
shrank 6.2 percent to 2.72 million units in 2006, and the trend is
continuing into the first quarter of fiscal 2007 with a 14 percent
decline from a year earlier. Sony's PC shipments for Japan shrank 10
percent in 2006 from a year earlier. "The household PC market is losing
momentum to other electronics like flat-panel TVs and mobile phones,"
said Masahiro Katayama, research group head at market survey firm IDC.
"Consumers aren't impressed anymore with bigger hard drives or faster
processors. That's not as exciting as a bigger TV," Katayama said. "And
in Japan, kids now grow up using mobile phones, not PCs. The future of
PCs isn't bright.""
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/1317226
Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_pcs;_ylt=AiTQLUatXatjEqSwFD9YrSis0NUE
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| Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20 |
| from the murder-makes-linux-mainstream dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 04, @11:17 (The Courts) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/1329240
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baegucb_18706 noted that ABCs 20/20 has a lengthy article on the saga of
the [0]Hans Reiser murder trial. I'm not sure if this article provided
any information that you might not have known if you read the earlier
wired interview, but it's still a really strange story.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/1329240
Links:
0. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3807336&page=1
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| Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise |
| from the jerks-ruin-it-for-everyone dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 04, @12:18 (Communications)|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/1450259
|
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[0]netbuzz writes "It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone either, as
the number of inconsiderate dolts who yammer away oblivious to the
disruptions their yapping is causing those around them continues to rise.
Pocket-sized [1]cell jammers are becoming a hot item, while proprietors
of restaurants and the like look to defend themselves as well. Yes it's
illegal, but given that the rudeness is pretty close to criminal as well,
it's unlikely to stop any time soon."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/1450259
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=buzzblog
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21513
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| Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat? |
| from the can't-imagine-it-would dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 04, @13:20 (Red Hat Softwar|
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/1331247
|
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[0]AlexGr writes "Jeff Gould raises an interesting question in Interop
News: [1]Why does Red Hat tolerate CentOS? The [2]Community ENTerprise
Operating System is an identical binary clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(minus the trademarks), compiled from the source code RPMs that Red Hat
conveniently provides on its FTP site. It is also completely free, as in
beer. CentOS provides no paid support, but it does track Red Hat updates
and patches closely, and usually makes them available within a few hours
or at most a few days of the upstream provider, which it refers to for
legal reasons as "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor."
Free support for CentOS can be found in numerous places around the web,
and a few third parties offer modestly priced paid support for those who
want it."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/1331247
Links:
0. mailto:alexgr@verizon.net
1. http://www.interopnews.com/news/how-badly-is-centos-hurting-red-hat.html
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| Graffiti as Password - Secure and Memorable |
| from the crouching-tiger-hidding-content dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @14:31 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/179236
|
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Al writes "A group from Newcastle University has released work that
[0]significantly improves the Draw-A-Secret method of creating passwords.
The basic concept behind Draw-a-Secret is that humans excel at image
recognition and memory, so 'passwords' should be designed to leverage
that ability. The people behind the new work have [1]refined the
technique by parsing the shapes with a flexible grid and using existing
images as a background to reinforce memory of the password. Imagine
having your password be a graffiti-laden alteration of your favorite
politicians campaign photo..."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/179236
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071103-graffiti-as-password-secure-and-memorable.html
1. http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/research/pubs/inproceedings/papers/998.pdf
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| DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix |
| from the homebrew-is-darn-tasty dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @15:30 (Unix) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/192214
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DeviceGuru writes "Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of
the [0]open-source Minix OS ��� a cousin of Linux ��� [1]running on his
homebrew minicomputer, the Magic-1, at the [2]Vintage Computer Festival
in Mountain View, Calif. The Magic-1 minicomputer is built with 74-series
TTL ICs using wire-wrap construction, and implements a homebrew,
8086-like ISA. Rather than using a commercial microprocessor, Buzbee
[3]created his own microcoded CPU that runs at 4.09 MHz, and is in the
same ballpark as an old 8086 in performance and capabilities. The CPU has
a 22-bit physical address bus and an 8-bit data bus."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/192214
Links:
0. http://www.minix3.org/
1. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5804062141.html
2. http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/
3. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/06/1118242&tid=222
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| Recreating Cities Using Online Photos |
| from the taking-a-walkabout dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @17:33 (Graphics) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/1945213
|
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[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "The billion of images available from a site
like Flickr has stimulated the imagination of many researchers. After
designing tools [1]using Flickr to edit your photos, another team at the
University of Washington (UW) is using [2]our vacation photos to create
3D models of world landmarks. But recreating original scenes is
challenging because all the photos we put on Flickr and similar sites
don't exhibit the same quality. With such a large number of pictures
available, the researchers have been able to reconstruct with great
accuracy virtual 3D model of landmarks, including Notre Dame Cathedral in
Paris and the Statue of Liberty in New York City."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/1945213
Links:
0. http://www.primidi.com/2007/11/04.html
1. http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=629
2. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=37724
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| Ultracapacitors Soon to Replace Many Batteries? |
| from the zap-zap-zazp dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @19:46 (Power) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/2259232
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[0]einhverfr writes "According to an article in the IEEE Spectrun, the
synergy between batteries and capacitors ��� two of the sturdiest and
oldest components of electrical engineering ��� has been growing, to the
point where ultracapacitors may soon be almost [1]as indispensable to
portable electricity as batteries are now. Some researchers expect to
soon create capacitors capable of storing 50% as much energy as a lithium
ion battery of the same size. Such capacitors could revolutionize many
areas possibly from mobile computing (no worries about battery memory),
electricity-powered vehicles, and more."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/2259232
Links:
0. http://einhverframphotmailcom/
1. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov07/5636
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