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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Carnegie Mellon Wins Urban Challenge
* Google's Young Brainiacs Go Globe-Trotting
* Study Suggests Genome Instability Hotspots
* Move to a Mainframe, Earn Carbon Credits
* Australian Researcher Boosts ADSL Speeds
* US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping
* Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone [Updated]
* Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial
* Bot-avatar Pesters Second Life Users (For Science!)
* The $500 Gaming PC Upgrade
* Bypass Windows With Fast-Boot Technology
* Paying People to Argue With You
* The Spy in Your Server Room
* Deconstructing the PC Revolution
* Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail?
* Phantom Hourglass Review
* Dell Buys IPO-Bound EqualLogic for $1.4 Billion
* Linux-Powered Lego-Like Devices Target Developers
* Former Intel CEO Rips Medical Research
* MIT Offers City Car for the Masses
* Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard
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| Carnegie Mellon Wins Urban Challenge |
| from the go-nerd-racers-gooo dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @21:37 (Robotics) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/1950204
|
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[0]ThinkingInBinary writes "The [1]results from the Urban Challenge are
in! Carnegie Mellon's [2]Tartan Racing team came in first (earning a $2
million prize), followed by Stanford's [3]Stanford Racing team in second
(earning $1 mil) and Virginia Tech's [4]Victor Tango in third (earning
$500k). Cornell's [5]Team Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh
University's [6]Ben Franklin Racing Team, and [7]MIT, also finished the
race in that order."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/1950204
Links:
0. http://www.ttuttle.net/
1. http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/
2. http://www.tartanracing.org/
3. http://cs.stanford.edu/group/roadrunner/
4. http://www.victortango.org/
5. http://www.cornellracing.com/
6. http://www.benfranklinracingteam.org/
7. http://grandchallenge.mit.edu/
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| Google's Young Brainiacs Go Globe-Trotting |
| from the nice-gig-if-you-can-get-it dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, @23:25 (Google) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/04/233223
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[0]theodp writes "To train a new generation of leaders, [1]Google sends
its young associate product managers on a worldwide mission. Newsweek's
Steven Levy tagged along and reports on the APMs' activities, which
included passing out candy, notebooks and pencils to poor Raagihalli
children, a 'Rubber Ducky' group sing-along at 2 a.m., and competitions
to find the weirdest-gadget-under-$100 in Tokyo. The [2]APM program,
which seeks brilliant kids and slots them directly into important jobs
with no experience necessary, was formed after Google's attempts to hire
veterans from firms like Microsoft had awful results. 'Google is so
different that it was almost [3]impossible to reprogram them into this
culture,' says Google CEO Eric Schmidt of the experienced hires."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/04/233223
Links:
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1. http://www.newsweek.com/id/67919
2. http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=73989
3. http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/old-fuddyduddy-fights-back/2007/10/09/1191695903315.html
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| Study Suggests Genome Instability Hotspots |
| from the perfect-place-to-splice dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 05, @01:26 (Biotech) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/0320227
|
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Dr. Eggman writes "Ars Technica reports on a new study that suggests not
only that certain areas of the mouse genome undergo more changes, but
that [0]changes to those areas are more tolerable by the organism than
changes in other areas. Recently published in [1]Nature Genetics, the
study examined the certain copy number variations of the C57Bl/6 strain
in mice that have been diverging for less than 1,000 generations. The
results were a surprising number of variations. While the study does not
address it, Ars Technica goes on to recount suggestions that genomes
evolved to the point where they work well with evolution."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/0320227
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| Move to a Mainframe, Earn Carbon Credits |
| from the trade-and-process-process-and-trade dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 05, @03:35 (Power) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/0325243
|
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BBCWatcher writes "As [0]Slashdot reported previously, Congress is
pushing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop energy
efficiency measures for data centers, especially servers. But IBM is
impatient: Computerworld notes IBM has signed up Neuwing Energy Ventures,
a company trading in energy efficiency certificates, in a first for
"green" computing. Now if your company consolidates, say, X86 servers
onto an IBM mainframe on top of slashing about 85% off your electric bill
[1]each megawatt-hour saved earns one certificate. Then you can sell the
certificates in emerging carbon trading markets. IBM's own consolidation
project (collapsing 3,900 distributed servers onto 30 mainframes) will
net certificates worth between $300K and $1M, depending on carbon's
market price. Will ubiquitous carbon trading discourage
energy-inefficient, distributed-style infrastructure in favor of highly
virtualized and I/O-savvy environments, particularly mainframes?"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/0325243
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/12/1531216&tid=232
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| Australian Researcher Boosts ADSL Speeds |
| from the pouring-go-faster-juice-down-the-tubes dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 05, @05:26 (Networking) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/0353206
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[0]sea_stuart writes "Like your ADSL connection to go 100 times faster?
Despite the [1]grim state of Australian mathematics and science, there is
still exciting original work being done Down Under. John Papandriopoulos,
a Research Fellow with the ARC Special Research Centre for
Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN) has developed a method to
[2]reduce crosstalk interference in ADSL technologies to bring speeds up
the theoretical maxima possible. With an Australian Federal election due
in a few weeks, and both parties promising improved broadband speeds and
access, this is a welcome development, hopefully enabling higher speeds
without huge expenses."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/0353206
Links:
0. http://www.squaring.net/
2. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/05/1194117915862.html
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| US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping |
| from the hope-they-enjoyed-my-firefly-related-diatribes dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 05, @07:11 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/0747209
|
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Erris writes "The Register is reporting that the US government is seeking
[0]unprecedented access to private communications between citizens. 'On
October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
in Cincinnati granted the government's request for a full-panel hearing
in United States v. Warshak case centering on the right of privacy for
stored electronic communications. ... the position that the United States
government is taking if accepted, may mean that the government can read
anybody's email at any time without a warrant. The most distressing
argument the government makes in the Warshak case is that the government
need not follow the Fourth Amendment in reading emails sent by or through
most commercial ISPs. The terms of service (TOS) of many ISPs permit
those ISPs to monitor user activities to prevent fraud, enforce the TOS,
or protect the ISP or others, or to comply with legal process. If you use
an ISP and the ISP may monitor what you do, then you have waived any and
all constitutional privacy rights in any communications or other use of
the ISP.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/0747209
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/04/4th-amendment_email_privacy/
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| Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone [Updated] |
| from the well-isn't-that-special dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 05, @09:28 (Communications)|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/139210
|
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[0]Ponca City, We Love You writes "USA Today has an [1]advance story on
Google's plans to announce a new operating system, geared specifically
for cellphones with partners that include Sprint, Motorola, Samsung and
Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo. Although details won't be released
until later today the new G-system will be based on Linux overlaid with
Java and Google hopes to have a branded device ready for worldwide
shipment by spring. Mobile Web browsing is notoriously slow and Google
plans to change that by providing easy access to the Internet at PC-type
speeds. Google plans to basically give away the software developer tools,
used by programmers to write new applications. "If you're a developer,
you'll be able to develop (applications) for the new Google Phone very
quickly," said Morgan Gillis of the LiMo Foundation. AT&T and Verizon
Wireless are noticeably absent from the coalition not wanting to support
a device that favors Google over other providers. Sprint, the No. 3
carrier, supports the coalition, but it hasn't formally agreed to make
the Google Phone available to its 54 million subscribers." Update 1727
GMT by SM: [2]It's official, Google is releasing the mobile "Android" OS
in place of the Google branded mobile phone that many expected.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/139210
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/phones/2007-11-04-google-phone_N.htm
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| Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial |
| from the rat-a-tat-tat dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 05, @10:10 (Google) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1356249
|
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jg21 writes "It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial
from well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each
in their own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare
Osabanjo because [0]in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized
widget platform for the Web, actually isn't. And Don Dodge because [1]his
claim is that fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what
OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care.""
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1356249
Links:
0. http://googledeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454940_p.htm
1. http://googledeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454909_p.htm
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| Bot-avatar Pesters Second Life Users (For Science!) |
| from the yeah-sure-it-is dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 05, @10:51 (The Internet) |
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/142210
|
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holy_calamity writes "A bot-controlled avatar that [0]tracks down lone
avatars in Second Life and purposely invades their personal space has
been created by UK researchers. The idea was to see if users value their
virtual personal space. Bots avatars are not encouraged by Linden Labs ���
although this one is being deployed by academics, presumably spam-avatars
(spavatars?) won't be far behind."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/142210
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| The $500 Gaming PC Upgrade |
| from the more-fps-equals-more-frags dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 05, @11:39 (PC Games (Games|
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1530211
|
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[0]sand writes "Building a powerful PC for gaming doesn't have to be
expensive. In this article, FiringSquad spends [1]$500 on a gaming
upgrade, and compares its performance to that of a high-end Core 2
Extreme PC. The Core 2 Extreme rig is faster, but you may be surprised by
how well the $500 PC is able to hang with it in Crysis, Call of Duty 4,
and Unreal Tournament 3."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1530211
Links:
0. http://sand99tx2000atyahooodotcom/
1. http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/$500_gaming_pc_upgrade/
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| Bypass Windows With Fast-Boot Technology |
| from the what-the-hell-does-this-even-mean dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 05, @12:21 (Operating Syste|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1533209
|
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thatnerdguy writes "[0]Phoenix Technologies, a developer of BIOS
software, is working on a new technology called Hyperspace that will
allow you to [1]instantly load certain applications like email, web
browser and media player, without loading windows. It could even lead to
tailoring of computers to even more specific demographics, like a student
laptop preloaded with word processor, email and an IM all available at
the press of a button." Why is this story setting off alarms in my brain?
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1533209
Links:
0. http://www.phoenix.com/en/Home/default.htm
1. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/11/phoenix#
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| Paying People to Argue With You |
| from the comon-bennett-fists-at-dawn dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 05, @13:00 (The Internet) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1353215
|
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[0]Bennett Haselton has written in with an essay on a strange experiment
on-line. He starts When you first hear about Amazon.com's [1]"Mechanical
Turk" service, which allows "requesters" to pay "Turk workers" a few
pennies to complete some task which is hard to automate but easy for
humans, what's the first application that comes to your mind? The system
has been [2]discussed previously on Slashdot, but I'll bet a week's wages
for a Mechanical Turk worker ([3]$1.45, according to one of them) that I
was the first person who used it to pay people to write rebuttals to one
of my arguments. Keep reading unless you want to fight about it.
This story continues at:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1353215
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1353215
Links:
0. mailto:bennett@peacefire.org
1. http://www.mturk.com/
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/04/1336240&tid=95
3. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/07/24/turks/
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| The Spy in Your Server Room |
| from the social-engineering-for-fun-and-profit dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 05, @13:41 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1628223
|
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[0]CorinneI writes "Your business's private information may not be as
safe as you think ��� especially when you take into account how many people
pass through your office's revolving door on a daily basis. That's why
many companies hire TraceSecurity employees to test the security of their
systems ��� operations that usually involve TraceSecurity personnel talking
their way into offices in order to gain access to server rooms and
sensitive customer information. PC Magazine was invited along to [1]cover
a recent TraceSecurity operation."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1628223
Links:
0. http://www.pcmag.com/
1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2210515,00.asp
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| Deconstructing the PC Revolution |
| from the looking-back dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 05, @14:24 (Technology|
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1718221
|
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[0]coondoggie writes to mention that room-sized computers and other
recollections were shared over the weekend at the [1]Vintage Computer
Festival in Silicon Valley. "About 200 people, many of them of the
gray-haired pony tail, bifocals and middle-age paunch variety, attended
the event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1718221
Links:
0. http://networkworld.com/
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/110507-deconstructing-pc-revolution.html
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| Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail? |
| from the pushment-fitting-the-crime dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 05, @15:06 (Education)|
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1754229
|
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While there have been many students who decided they would rather change
their grades than come by them the usual way, the punishments for the
most part have been pretty reasonable. However, the latest chapter in
this type of behavior finds two culprits facing a [0]$250,000 fine and 20
years in jail based on the number of charges leveled against them. "The
guys have been charged with "unauthorized computer access, identity
theft, conspiracy, and wire fraud." Obviously, these guys did a bad
thing, but it's hard to see how the possible sentence matches with the
crime. Of course, it seems unlikely that any judge would give them the
maximum sentence, but even hearing that it's possible just for changing
your grades seems ridiculous."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1754229
Links:
0. http://techdirt.com/articles/20071105/021045.shtml
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| Phantom Hourglass Review |
| from the always-dig-that-crazy-hat dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday November 05, @15:41 (Nintendo) |
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1753209
|
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Of all the titles in the Legend of Zelda series, some of the
most-respected have been for handheld consoles. Link's Awakening, the
Oracle duo, and Minish Cap all manage to combine on-the-road gaming with
a certain purity of Zelda-ness. Link's most recent adventure on the small
screen, Phantom Hourglass, generally continues this tradition and
introduces a number of new elements to the property. Unique controls, a
true sequel, and cel-shaded graphics all make Hourglass stand out from
'traditional' Zelda games, and together the whole hangs together fairly
well. Read on for my impressions of this pint-sized return to Hyrule.
This story continues at:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1753209
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1753209
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| Dell Buys IPO-Bound EqualLogic for $1.4 Billion |
| from the money-flying-making-a-new-bubble dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 05, @16:30 (Networking|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/189222
|
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alphadogg writes "Dell is stretching further behind PCs and servers and
boosting its storage business with a [0]$1.4 billion buyout of EqualLogic,
a storage company that filed to go public in August. CEO Michael Dell had
hinted just last week that Dell could be on the prowl for some big game."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/189222
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/110507-dell-acquires-equallogic.html
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| Linux-Powered Lego-Like Devices Target Developers |
| from the plug-and-play dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 05, @17:12 (Hardware H|
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1813213
|
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An anonymous reader writes "A six-person startup is readying a product
resembling nothing so much as a set of [0]electronic Legos for device
designers. The idea is to provide a set of snap-together components from
which engineers can build 'anything,' the company claims, without having
to learn solid state electronics. Both hardware and software (Linux/Java
phoneME/OSGi) are open source, so that over time, the Lego box will grow,
the company hopes. Initially, there's an ARM11-powered base with built-in
wifi, and modules for camera, GPS, motion detector, LCD display,
keyboard, touchscreen, and stereo speakers. Ooh, and a mysterious
'teleporter,' too."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1813213
Links:
0. http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3871478989.html
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| Former Intel CEO Rips Medical Research |
| from the git-r-done dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 05, @18:00 (Biotech) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/1855207
|
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Himuanam writes "Former Intel CEO Grove rips on the medical research
community, contrasting their [0]lack of progress with the tech industry's
juggernaut of breakthroughs over the past half-century or so. 'On Sunday
afternoon, Grove is unleashing a scathing critique of the nation's
biomedical establishment. In a speech at the annual meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience, he challenges big pharma companies, many of
which haven't had an important new compound approved in ages, and
academic researchers who are content with getting NIH grants and
publishing research papers with little regard to whether their work leads
to something that can alleviate disease, to change their ways.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/1855207
Links:
0. http://www.newsweek.com/id/68221
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| MIT Offers City Car for the Masses |
| from the popeil-pocket-car dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 05, @18:43 (Technology|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/2055234
|
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MIT's [0]stackable electric car, a project to improve urban
transportation will make its debut this week in Milan. "The City Car, a
design project under way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is
envisioned as a two-seater electric vehicle powered by lithium-ion
batteries. It would weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds and could
collapse, then stack like a shopping cart with six to eight fitting into
a typical parking space. It isn't just a car, but is designed as a system
of shared cars with kiosks at locations around a city or small
community."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/2055234
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| Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard |
| from the first-do-no-harm dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday November 05, @19:33 (Bug) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/2328259
|
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An anonymous reader writes "Leopard's Finder has a glaring bug in its
directory-moving code, leading to horrendous [0] data loss if a
destination volume disappears while a move operation is in progress. This
author first came across it when Samba crashed while he was moving a
directory from his desktop over to a Samba mount on his FreeBSD server."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/05/2328259
Links:
0. http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/
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