http://slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-11-09T14:10:14+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gAFqaxtnw1M/Vermont-City-Almost-Encased-In-a-1-mile-Dome destinyland writes "A Vermont city once proposed a one-mile dome over its 7,000 residents. (They paid $4 million a year in heating bills, and HUD seriously considered funding their proposal.) The city's architectural concept included supporting the Dome with air pressure slightly above atmospheric pressure. (Buckminster Fuller warned their biggest challenge would be keeping it from floating away...) There would be no more heating bills, fly-fishing all year, and no more snow shoveling. And to this day, the former city planner insists that 'Economically it's a slam dunk.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1317223/Vermont-City-Almost-Encased-In-a-1-mile-Dome?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/1317223"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1317223/Vermont-City-Almost-Encased-In-a-1-mile-Dome?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8CwMbNg9sOW4GRxBA8dRV7C-nGY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8CwMbNg9sOW4GRxBA8dRV7C-nGY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8CwMbNg9sOW4GRxBA8dRV7C-nGY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8CwMbNg9sOW4GRxBA8dRV7C-nGY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/gAFqaxtnw1M" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2009-11-09T13:45:00+00:00 news yeah-it-could-happen news 18 18,18,16,12,5,1,0 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1317223/Vermont-City-Almost-Encased-In-a-1-mile-Dome?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MI4qCxmF6W0/Verizon-Droid-Tethering-Comes-At-a-Hefty-Price Pickens writes "Tom Bradley reports in PC World that the new Motorola Droid smartphone will cost users $199.99 with a 2-year contract, with an additional $30 per month for the mandatory 'unlimited' data plan that has a monthly cap of 5Gb. Verizon will charge $50 for each additional gigabyte over the 5Gb limit on the unlimited data plan. Verizon has confirmed that tethering will cost another $30 per month for an additional unlimited data plan that is also limited to 5Gb. If you want tethering you will pay $60 above and beyond the monthly contract for service for an 'unlimited' 10Gb of data per month, and if you plan on connecting with an Microsoft Exchange email account you have to pay another $15 a month. 'Verizon seems to be doing everything it can to make the Droid as unappealing as possible by nickel and diming customers so that actually using it is not cost-effective,' writes Bradley. 'After all of the hype around Verizon's marketing efforts, and generally favorable reviews of the Motorola Droid, users that rush out to get the new device may be in for a shock.' Droid users will have to wait until sometime in 2010 for tethering. 'That service is on our schedule for next year,' says Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney. The delay is because 'the service has to be tested on the phone so until we know it works, we don't offer the service. It is not uncommon for us to introduce the phone and continue to test the service and offer it later.'"<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/068255/Verizon-Droid-Tethering-Comes-At-a-Hefty-Price?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/068255"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/068255/Verizon-Droid-Tethering-Comes-At-a-Hefty-Price?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vG-7b8IqquT2V0ETKwP2LubqzfU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vG-7b8IqquT2V0ETKwP2LubqzfU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vG-7b8IqquT2V0ETKwP2LubqzfU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vG-7b8IqquT2V0ETKwP2LubqzfU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/MI4qCxmF6W0" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-09T12:55:00+00:00 cellphones unlimited-and-5GB-are-not-the-same mobile 115 115,111,81,66,24,10,6 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/068255/Verizon-Droid-Tethering-Comes-At-a-Hefty-Price?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4lxWUJ2eDD0/UKs-Channel-4-To-Broadcast-In-3D fatnickc writes "The UK's Channel 4, from the 16th of September, will be broadcasting a few programmes in 3D, the full list of which can be found here. While the likes of a 3D Miley Cyrus concert aren't exactly groundbreaking, this will give 3D viewing at home much more publicity, paving the way for even more interesting projects in the future. In partnership with retailer Sainsbury's, Channel 4 are producing free 3D glasses so that as many people as possible can watch them, although it's unclear which of the various types they'll be. "<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0431232/UKs-Channel-4-To-Broadcast-In-3D?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/0431232"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0431232/UKs-Channel-4-To-Broadcast-In-3D?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/USklbCmRrYQYkS7HPqN-k3KfEZw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/USklbCmRrYQYkS7HPqN-k3KfEZw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/USklbCmRrYQYkS7HPqN-k3KfEZw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/USklbCmRrYQYkS7HPqN-k3KfEZw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/4lxWUJ2eDD0" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-09T09:42:00+00:00 displays out-of-thin-air hardware 77 77,73,62,49,15,10,6 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0431232/UKs-Channel-4-To-Broadcast-In-3D?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UGUgUGsCYKw/Why-Doesnt-Exercise-Lead-To-Weight-Loss antdude writes "The New York Times' Well blog reports that 'for some time, researchers have been finding that people who exercise don't necessarily lose weight.' A study published online in September 2009 in The British Journal of Sports Medicine was the latest to report apparently disappointing slimming results. In the study, 58 obese people completed 12 weeks of supervised aerobic training without changing their diets. The group lost an average of a little more than seven pounds, and many lost barely half that. How can that be?"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0556210/Why-Doesnt-Exercise-Lead-To-Weight-Loss?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/0556210"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0556210/Why-Doesnt-Exercise-Lead-To-Weight-Loss?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/B7cBYFfCxmTBhbEV2Mr5MTHq_ZY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/B7cBYFfCxmTBhbEV2Mr5MTHq_ZY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/B7cBYFfCxmTBhbEV2Mr5MTHq_ZY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/B7cBYFfCxmTBhbEV2Mr5MTHq_ZY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/UGUgUGsCYKw" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-09T06:40:00+00:00 medicine that-would-be-too-easy science 425 425,423,354,256,51,31,15 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0556210/Why-Doesnt-Exercise-Lead-To-Weight-Loss?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9eSDM16ymq8/MythTV-022-Released uyguremre writes "After a little over a year and a half in the making, the developers of MythTV announced that MythTV 0.22 is now available. There have been a lot of large changes since 0.21, including a port from Qt v3 to Qt v4 and a major UI rewrite to convert to MythTV's new MythUI user interface libary. As always, this release adds support for some new hardware, in this case VDPAU video acceleration, DVB-S2, and the Hauppauge HD-PVR. The MythUI toolkit allows themes much greater control over the user interface and today we're announcing a competition to design new themes for MythTV. With the new release comes a theming competition too. For a more complete list of changes and new features, read the Release Notes on the wiki."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/035228/MythTV-022-Released?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/035228"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/035228/MythTV-022-Released?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dqXgHXel6c-E9GuYU4krETTEKRw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dqXgHXel6c-E9GuYU4krETTEKRw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dqXgHXel6c-E9GuYU4krETTEKRw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dqXgHXel6c-E9GuYU4krETTEKRw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/9eSDM16ymq8" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-09T03:33:00+00:00 media excess-of-caution news 171 171,165,116,91,30,14,7 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/035228/MythTV-022-Released?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wi_T-0ljnAw/Massive-Power-Outages-In-Brazil-Caused-By-Hackers Hugh Pickens writes "CBS reports on 60 minutes that a massive two-day power outage in Brazil's Espirito Santo State affecting more than three million people in 2007, and another, smaller event in three cities north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005, were perpetrated by hackers manipulating control systems. Former Chief of US National Intelligence Retired Adm. Mike McConnell says that the 'United States is not prepared for such an attack' and believes it could happen in America. 'If I were an attacker and wanted to do strategic damage to the United States, I would either take the cold of winter or the heat of summer,' says McConnell, 'I would probably sack electric power on the US East Coast, maybe the West Coast and attempt to cause a cascading effect.' Congressman Jim Langevin says that US power companies need to be forced to deal with the issue after they told Congress they would take steps to defend their operations but did not follow up. 'They admit that they misled Congress. The private sector has different priorities than we do in providing security. Their bottom line is about profits,' says Langevin. 'We need to change their motivation so that when see vulnerability like this, we can require them to fix it.' McConnell adds that a similar attack to the one in Brazil is poised to take place on US soil and that it may take some horrific event to get the country focused on shoring up cyber security. 'If the power grid was taken off line in the middle of winter and it caused people to suffer and die, that would galvanize the nation. I hope we don't get there.'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0012226/Massive-Power-Outages-In-Brazil-Caused-By-Hackers?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/0012226"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0012226/Massive-Power-Outages-In-Brazil-Caused-By-Hackers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZTSp5rweQdGtiF09SGf9hJEagWM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZTSp5rweQdGtiF09SGf9hJEagWM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZTSp5rweQdGtiF09SGf9hJEagWM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZTSp5rweQdGtiF09SGf9hJEagWM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/wi_T-0ljnAw" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-09T00:17:00+00:00 security mongering-engine-warming-up it 351 351,344,251,206,63,30,23 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/0012226/Massive-Power-Outages-In-Brazil-Caused-By-Hackers?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZJ7nmM8o138/Startup-Claims-Google-Copied-Web-Annotation-Product An anonymous reader writes "Web annotation startup ReframeIt claim Google copied their web annotation product when releasing Google Sidewiki. At first glance, the products do look quite similar, and this eWeek article has some interesting evidence, including suspicious user registrations by Google employees and an attempt by Google to hire off ReframeIt's lead engineer."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/2257245/Startup-Claims-Google-Copied-Web-Annotation-Product?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/2257245"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/2257245/Startup-Claims-Google-Copied-Web-Annotation-Product?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZLFacvWT7fdkcX8yhJuhsGDHF0Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZLFacvWT7fdkcX8yhJuhsGDHF0Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZLFacvWT7fdkcX8yhJuhsGDHF0Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZLFacvWT7fdkcX8yhJuhsGDHF0Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ZJ7nmM8o138" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T23:02:00+00:00 google evil-or-coincidence technology 126 126,122,100,82,21,11,8 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/2257245/Startup-Claims-Google-Copied-Web-Annotation-Product?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-mxWjyMKBXA/Malware-Can-Download-Child-Porn-To-Your-Computer 2muchcoffeeman writes "The Associated Press tells the story of Michael Fiola, a former Massachusetts government employee who was arrested in 2007 after child porn was found on his state-issued laptop computer. He was eventually cleared of all charges after some digging by the defense found that the laptop was infected with malware that was 'programmed to visit as many as 40 child porn sites per minute &mdash; an inhuman feat. While Fiola and his wife were out to dinner one night, someone logged on to the computer and porn flowed in for an hour and a half. Prosecutors performed another test and confirmed the defense findings. The charge was dropped &mdash; 11 months after it was filed.' The article also discusses the technical aspects of how it could happen and about similar cases in the United Kingdom in 2003."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/2135245/Malware-Can-Download-Child-Porn-To-Your-Computer?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/2135245"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/2135245/Malware-Can-Download-Child-Porn-To-Your-Computer?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/q7FWjhqDVvnBwfmp5IzqmBwgHds/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/q7FWjhqDVvnBwfmp5IzqmBwgHds/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/q7FWjhqDVvnBwfmp5IzqmBwgHds/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/q7FWjhqDVvnBwfmp5IzqmBwgHds/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-mxWjyMKBXA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T21:47:00+00:00 security where's-dexter-when-needed? it 433 433,417,311,241,74,37,30 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/2135245/Malware-Can-Download-Child-Porn-To-Your-Computer?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VLX93Ved-3Y/Tech-Allows-Stable-Integration-of-Wind-In-the-Power-Grid diegocgteleline.es writes "One of the most frequently raised arguments against renewable power sources is that they can only supply a low percentage of the total power because their unpredictability can destabilize the grid. Spain seems to have disproved this assertion. In the last three days, the wind power generation records with respect to the total demand were beaten twice (in special conditions: a very windy weekend, at night): 45% on November 5 and almost 54% last night (Google translation; Spanish original). There was no instability. These milestones were accomplished with the help of a control center that processes meteorologic data from the whole country and predicts, with high certainty, the wind and solar power that will be generated, allowing a stable integration of all the renewable power. You can see a graphic of the record here."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1911234/Tech-Allows-Stable-Integration-of-Wind-In-the-Power-Grid?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1911234"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1911234/Tech-Allows-Stable-Integration-of-Wind-In-the-Power-Grid?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lCGeYi1PLcuW75VYk4J1oJ26VwI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lCGeYi1PLcuW75VYk4J1oJ26VwI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lCGeYi1PLcuW75VYk4J1oJ26VwI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lCGeYi1PLcuW75VYk4J1oJ26VwI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/VLX93Ved-3Y" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T20:36:00+00:00 earth giant-whooshing-sound news 193 193,187,149,111,33,20,12 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1911234/Tech-Allows-Stable-Integration-of-Wind-In-the-Power-Grid?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0s5zDQY2uPA/Tired-of-Flash-HTML5-Viewer-For-YouTube An anonymous reader writes "Instead of spending the next 10 years trying to find a Flash implementation for Linux or OS X that doesn't drain CPU cycles like there's no tomorrow, NeoSmart Technologies has made an HTML5 viewer for YouTube videos. It loads YouTube videos in an HTML5 video container and streams (with skip/skim/pause/resume) against an MP4 resource, and an (optional) userscript file can update YouTube pages with the HTML5 viewer. The latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are supported. Personally, I can't wait until the major video sites default to HTML5 and we can finally say goodbye to Flash."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/193209/Tired-of-Flash-HTML5-Viewer-For-YouTube?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/193209"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/193209/Tired-of-Flash-HTML5-Viewer-For-YouTube?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EvDdSCtmRiGA0xsJGIPflL7o9tA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EvDdSCtmRiGA0xsJGIPflL7o9tA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EvDdSCtmRiGA0xsJGIPflL7o9tA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EvDdSCtmRiGA0xsJGIPflL7o9tA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/0s5zDQY2uPA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T19:32:00+00:00 media that-taste-great-together news 306 306,304,239,179,44,23,14 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/193209/Tired-of-Flash-HTML5-Viewer-For-YouTube?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dnWeFiVGVgw/Lawsuit-Claims-Top-iPhone-Games-Stole-User-Data pdclarry writes "Storm8, a maker of some top iPhone games, allegedly stole users' mobile phone numbers, according to a lawsuit filed on November 4. The suit claims that best-selling games made by Storm8 contained secret code that bypassed safeguards built into the iPhone to prevent the unauthorized snooping of user information. There have been other reports of applications copying personally identifiable customer information in the past. The complaint seeks class-action status."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1352249/Lawsuit-Claims-Top-iPhone-Games-Stole-User-Data?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1352249"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1352249/Lawsuit-Claims-Top-iPhone-Games-Stole-User-Data?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ihfo8bsMaAh2_3QebVYXOzvTdm8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ihfo8bsMaAh2_3QebVYXOzvTdm8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ihfo8bsMaAh2_3QebVYXOzvTdm8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ihfo8bsMaAh2_3QebVYXOzvTdm8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/dnWeFiVGVgw" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-08T18:20:00+00:00 cellphones shake-up-and-down-to-send-credit-card-details games 121 121,120,95,78,29,17,12 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1352249/Lawsuit-Claims-Top-iPhone-Games-Stole-User-Data?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fmlHrEPIDXU/Reusing-Old-TiVo-Hardware buss_error writes "I have old TiVo hardware that I'd like to reuse &mdash; however, I find in searching that the most frequent reply is: 'Don't cheat TiVo!' I don't want to cheat TiVo &mdash; in fact, I'd like to nuke the drive with a completely open-source distro with no TiVo drivers at all. Some uses I think would be interesting: recording video for security cameras or a drive cam; a unit for weather reporting; fax/telephone; a power monitor for the home; or other home automation. I would prefer a completely TiVo-free install &mdash; this is because I have major issues with TiVo and don't want the slightest taint of their intellectual property. But, since I paid for the hardware, I'd like to wring some use out of it rather than simply putting it in the landfill."<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1659227/Reusing-Old-TiVo-Hardware?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1659227"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1659227/Reusing-Old-TiVo-Hardware?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Vgs58VoUVqu2WhDnIiW5vhZ5Lw0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Vgs58VoUVqu2WhDnIiW5vhZ5Lw0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Vgs58VoUVqu2WhDnIiW5vhZ5Lw0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Vgs58VoUVqu2WhDnIiW5vhZ5Lw0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/fmlHrEPIDXU" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-08T17:17:00+00:00 hardhack self-warming-feline-nap-station askslashdot 140 140,134,105,85,37,26,21 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1659227/Reusing-Old-TiVo-Hardware?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6uft__bWt5A/Swarm-of-Giant-Jellyfish-Capsize-10-Ton-Trawler Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that the Japanese trawler Diasan Shinsho-maru has capsized off the coast of China, as its three-man crew dragged their net through a swarm of giant jellyfish (which can grow up to six feet in diameter and travel in packs) and tried to haul up a net that was too heavy. The crew was thrown into the sea when the vessel capsized, but the three men were rescued by another trawler. Relatively little is known about Nomura's jellyfish, such as why some years see thousands of the creatures floating across the Sea of Japan on the Tsushima Current, but last year there were virtually no sightings. In 2007, there were 15,500 reports of damage to fishing equipment caused by the creatures. Experts believe that one contributing factor to the jellyfish becoming more frequent visitors to Japanese waters may be a decline in the number of predators, which include sea turtles and certain species of fish. 'Jellies have likely swum and swarmed in our seas for over 600 million years,' says scientist Monty Graham of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama. 'When conditions are right, jelly swarms can form quickly. They appear to do this for sexual reproduction.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1548211/Swarm-of-Giant-Jellyfish-Capsize-10-Ton-Trawler?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1548211"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1548211/Swarm-of-Giant-Jellyfish-Capsize-10-Ton-Trawler?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fqvPY8dnvdMrdtGPkeCXmA83qG4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fqvPY8dnvdMrdtGPkeCXmA83qG4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fqvPY8dnvdMrdtGPkeCXmA83qG4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fqvPY8dnvdMrdtGPkeCXmA83qG4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/6uft__bWt5A" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-08T16:13:00+00:00 earth we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat science 191 191,190,149,108,44,29,22 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1548211/Swarm-of-Giant-Jellyfish-Capsize-10-Ton-Trawler?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Zk3O3lh2r0U/First-iPhone-Worm-Discovered-Rickrolls-Jailbroken-Phones Unexpof writes "Users of jailbroken iPhones in Australia are reporting that their wallpapers have been changed by a worm to an image of '80s pop icon Rick Astley. This is the first time a worm has been reported in the wild for the Apple iPhone. According to a report by Sophos, the worm, which exploits users who have installed SSH and not changed the default password, hunts for other vulnerable iPhones and infects them. Users are advised to properly secure their jailbroken iPhones with a non-default password, and Sophos says the worm is not harmless, despite its graffiti-like payload: 'Accessing someone else's computing device and changing their data without permission is an offense in many countries &mdash; and just as with graffiti there is a cost involved in cleaning-up affected iPhones. ... Other inquisitive hackers may also be tempted to experiment once they read about the world's first iPhone worm. Furthermore, a more malicious hacker could take the code written by ikee and adapt it to have a more sinister payload.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1411259/First-iPhone-Worm-Discovered-Rickrolls-Jailbroken-Phones?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1411259"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1411259/First-iPhone-Worm-Discovered-Rickrolls-Jailbroken-Phones?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-wqwnYWhp71gPsOxb5Bkiq2uQNs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-wqwnYWhp71gPsOxb5Bkiq2uQNs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-wqwnYWhp71gPsOxb5Bkiq2uQNs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-wqwnYWhp71gPsOxb5Bkiq2uQNs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Zk3O3lh2r0U" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-08T15:08:00+00:00 worms maximum-threat apple 168 168,160,123,103,47,24,13 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1411259/First-iPhone-Worm-Discovered-Rickrolls-Jailbroken-Phones?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qRWiqJZDhgA/Microsoft-COFEE-Leaked 54mc writes "Crunchgear reports that Microsoft's long-searched-for forensics tool, COFEE, has been leaked. The tool started on a small, private tracker, but has since worked its way to The Pirate Bay. Not all those who have gotten hold of it are enthused, and reviews have ranged from 'disappointing' to 'useless.' From the article: 'You have absolutely no use for the program. It's not something like Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, an expensive application that you download for the hell of it on the off-chance you need to put Dave Meltzer's face on Brett Hart's body as part of a message board thread. No, COFEE is 100 percent useless to you.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1340208/Microsoft-COFEE-Leaked?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1340208"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1340208/Microsoft-COFEE-Leaked?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rfzMZf4i4m1JZrFbw0-Y0A7TzPc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rfzMZf4i4m1JZrFbw0-Y0A7TzPc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rfzMZf4i4m1JZrFbw0-Y0A7TzPc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rfzMZf4i4m1JZrFbw0-Y0A7TzPc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/qRWiqJZDhgA" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-08T14:05:00+00:00 software not-so-hot-cofee-incident technology 157 157,152,111,77,32,21,18 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1340208/Microsoft-COFEE-Leaked?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://slashdot.org/search.pl