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Regulator Blocks BBC DRM Plans
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eiOVVE9fefA/Regulator-Blocks-BBC-DRM-Plans
TheRaven64 writes "The BBC's plans to introduce DRM for over-the-air digital broadcasts were today dealt a setback when the regulator, Ofcom, asked them the same question that has been asked of many DRM systems: 'How does this benefit the consumer?' The letter to the BBC is quoted in the article as saying that 'Ofcom received a large number of responses to this consultation, in particular from consumers and consumer groups, who raised a number of potentially significant consumer "fair use" and competition issues that were not addressed in our original consultation.' This does not end the chance of the BBC being allowed to introduce DRM in the future, but it at least delays their opportunity to do so."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/1413254/Regulator-Blocks-BBC-DRM-Plans?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/10/1413254"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/1413254/Regulator-Blocks-BBC-DRM-Plans?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BHVLv5UGVfsQxDX48tlLY6hkgcQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BHVLv5UGVfsQxDX48tlLY6hkgcQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/eiOVVE9fefA" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2009-11-10T14:33:00+00:00governmenthey-at-least-they-report-ityro0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/1413254/Regulator-Blocks-BBC-DRM-Plans?from=rssAttack of the PowerPoint-Wielding Professors
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mhZIuu8TKYc/Attack-of-the-PowerPoint-Wielding-Professors
theodp writes "A CS student blogger named Carolyn offers an interesting take on why learning from PowerPoint lectures is frustrating. Unlike an old-school chalk talk, professors who use PowerPoint tend to present topics very quickly, leaving little time to digest the visuals or to take learning-reinforcing notes. Also, profs who use the ready-made PowerPoint lectures that ship with many textbooks tend to come across as, shall we say, less than connected with their material. Then there are professors who just don't know how to use PowerPoint, a problem that is by no means limited to college classes."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2347215/Attack-of-the-PowerPoint-Wielding-Professors?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/2347215"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2347215/Attack-of-the-PowerPoint-Wielding-Professors?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hKE-aWOxYwz_r2Zi9bDs3RAFe2Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hKE-aWOxYwz_r2Zi9bDs3RAFe2Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/mhZIuu8TKYc" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2009-11-10T13:54:00+00:00educationall-power-corrupts-and-powerpoint-corrupts-absolutelynews7070,67,51,39,8,4,2http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2347215/Attack-of-the-PowerPoint-Wielding-Professors?from=rssUS Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rBtOA4UlMgA/US-Supreme-Court-Skeptical-of-Business-Method-Patents
Trepidity writes "The US Supreme Court held oral argument Monday in Bilski, a business-methods patent case that might also have important implications for software patents (We have previously discussed the case several times). The tone of the argument appears to be good news, as the justices were very skeptical of the broad patentability claims. They even brought up a parade of absurd hypothetical patents quite similar to the ones Slashdotters tend to mention in these kinds of debates. Roberts surmised that 'buy low, sell high' might be a patentable business method, Sotomayor wondered if speed-dating could be patentable, Breyer questioned whether a professor could patent a lesson plan that kept his students from falling asleep, and Scalia brought up the old-time radio soap opera Lorenzo Jones, featuring a hare-brained inventor with delusions of getting rich." Patently O has good blow-by-blow coverage of the day's proceedings. Official argument transcripts will be up soon, they say.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/0414226/US-Supreme-Court-Skeptical-of-Business-Method-Patents?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/10/0414226"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/0414226/US-Supreme-Court-Skeptical-of-Business-Method-Patents?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KOaSsQ54L7oEyN41WVEQUOjv91A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KOaSsQ54L7oEyN41WVEQUOjv91A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/rBtOA4UlMgA" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2009-11-10T13:09:00+00:00patentsfeeling-bilskiyro4040,37,33,27,12,4,4http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/0414226/US-Supreme-Court-Skeptical-of-Business-Method-Patents?from=rssIn the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Rhb88NAXekE/In-the-UK-Big-Brother-Recedes-and-Advances
PeterAitch writes "The UK government's Home Office has put a hold on their surveillance project to track details of everybody's email, mobile phone, text, and Web use after being warned of problems with privacy as well as technical feasibility and high costs." Four hours before the above Guardian story was filed, the BBC reported that the same Home Office insisted that it will push ahead with plans "to compel communication service providers to collect and retain records of communications from a wider range of internet sources, from social networks through to chatrooms and unorthodox methods, such as within online games."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2340212/In-the-UK-Big-Brother-Recedes-and-Advances?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/2340212"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2340212/In-the-UK-Big-Brother-Recedes-and-Advances?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T_ltAzfh_sr8n8GLhT1TT7T8rOM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T_ltAzfh_sr8n8GLhT1TT7T8rOM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Rhb88NAXekE" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2009-11-10T10:21:00+00:00privacynow-get-rid-of-the-damn-camerasyro104104,98,78,66,24,10,6http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2340212/In-the-UK-Big-Brother-Recedes-and-Advances?from=rssMicrosoft Tries To Censor Bing Vulnerability
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/abzz2zWy4ow/Microsoft-Tries-To-Censor-Bing-Vulnerability
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Bing search engine has a vulnerability with its cash-back promotion, which impacts both merchants and customers. In traditional Microsoft fashion, the company has responded to the author of the breaking Bing cash-back exploit with a cease & desist letter, rather than by fixing the underlying security problem. It is possible for a malicious user to create fake Bing cash-back requests, resulting in not only fake cash-back costs for the merchant, but also blocking legitimate customers from receiving their cash-back from Bing. The original post is currently available in Bing's cache, although perhaps not for long. But no worries, the author makes it clear that the exploit should be painfully obvious to anyone who reads the Bing cash-back SDK."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2319233/Microsoft-Tries-To-Censor-Bing-Vulnerability?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/2319233"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2319233/Microsoft-Tries-To-Censor-Bing-Vulnerability?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_oQ7taOOJ2I/The-NoSQL-Ecosystem
abartels writes 'Unprecedented data volumes are driving businesses to look at alternatives to the traditional relational database technology that has served us well for over thirty years. Collectively, these alternatives have become known as NoSQL databases. The fundamental problem is that relational databases cannot handle many modern workloads. There are three specific problem areas: scaling out to data sets like Digg's (3 TB for green badges) or Facebook's (50 TB for inbox search) or eBay's (2 PB overall); per-server performance; and rigid schema design.'<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2335214/The-NoSQL-Ecosystem?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/2335214"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2335214/The-NoSQL-Ecosystem?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TlMvynw4B4Y/US-Navy-Was-Ordered-To-Listen-For-Martian-Broadcast
MarkWhittington writes "It seems that a SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment happened decades before the Project Ozma occurred in 1960. The historians at the blog Letters of Note have uncovered a telegram sent in 1924 by then Chief of Naval Operations Edward W. Eberle instructing the United States Navy to listen for radio transmissions from the planet Mars."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1758233/US-Navy-Was-Ordered-To-Listen-For-Martian-Broadcast?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/1758233"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1758233/US-Navy-Was-Ordered-To-Listen-For-Martian-Broadcast?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/daErfouT9QA/Google-Voice-Controls-Giant-LED-Display
compumike writes "What geek among us has never thought about how cool it would be if you could call your computer and have it do stuff? Josh Davis put together a quick video demo and source code of his Voice Controlled LED Marquee, powered by Google Voice speech recognition and a DIY LED Array Kit. Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2331204/Google-Voice-Controls-Giant-LED-Display?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/2331204"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2331204/Google-Voice-Controls-Giant-LED-Display?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5ktqvxAHUMpcBR877D18GDjqdds/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5ktqvxAHUMpcBR877D18GDjqdds/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/daErfouT9QA" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2009-11-10T02:44:00+00:00hardhackcan-you-understand-me-nowhardware5151,49,41,29,5,4,1http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2331204/Google-Voice-Controls-Giant-LED-Display?from=rssEsquire Launches First Augmented Reality Magazine
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8OyeGECyS6I/Esquire-Launches-First-Augmented-Reality-Magazine
An anonymous reader writes "We've seen augmented reality applications for years (and seen the GE windmill replicated in PopSci), but now Esquire Magazine seems to be trying to show off the undying value of print by launching its 'AR issue' — which, from the demo video, looks pretty cool. Applications include a 3D cover with Robert Downey Jr., a weather-changing fashion portfolio with The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner, a time-sensitive Funny Joke from a Beautiful Woman with Community's Gillian Jacobs, plus a song, a photo slideshow, and a face-recognition ad from Lexus. From the behind-the-scenes geekery: 'Advancements to further involve the user were happening even as we produced this issue, and while motion-sensor recognition already exists, so-called "natural-feature tracking" technology could soon put you inside AR without any googly-looking [note: not in the Google sense] boxes at all.'" Enjoying Esquire's AR issue requires downloading software — Windows and Mac only.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2326215/Esquire-Launches-First-Augmented-Reality-Magazine?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/2326215"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2326215/Esquire-Launches-First-Augmented-Reality-Magazine?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jEoqnC4C-ew/NASA-Reproduces-a-Building-Block-of-Life-In-the-Lab
xp65 writes "NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life. 'We have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, a component of RNA, non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found in space,' said Michel Nuevo, research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 'We are showing that these laboratory processes, which simulate occurrences in outer space, can make a fundamental building block used by living organisms on Earth.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/232238/NASA-Reproduces-a-Building-Block-of-Life-In-the-Lab?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/232238"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/232238/NASA-Reproduces-a-Building-Block-of-Life-In-the-Lab?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NwPxp4fWk_E/Murdoch-To-Explore-Blocking-Google-Searches
In another move sure to continue the certain doom looming over classic publications, Rupert Murdoch has elaborated on the direction he would take in an effort to monetize the content that his websites deliver by attempting to block much of Google's ability to scan and index his news sites. "Murdoch believes that search engines cannot legally use headlines and paragraphs of news stories as search results. 'There's a doctrine called "fair use," which we believe to be challenged in the courts and would bar it altogether,' Mr Murdoch told the TV channel. 'But we'll take that slowly.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2121254/Murdoch-To-Explore-Blocking-Google-Searches?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/2121254"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2121254/Murdoch-To-Explore-Blocking-Google-Searches?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/obTXDVicwvA/What-Computer-Science-Can-Teach-Economics
eldavojohn writes "A new award-winning thesis from an MIT computer science assistant professor showed that the Nash equilibrium of complex games (like the economy or poker) belong to problems with non-deterministic polynomial (NP) complexity (more specifically PPAD complexity, a subset of TFNP problems which is a subset of FNP problems which is a subset of NP problems). More importantly there should be a single solution for one problem that can be adapted to fit all the other problems. Meaning if you can generalize the solution to poker, you have the ability to discover the Nash equilibrium of the economy. Some computer scientists are calling this the biggest development in game theory in a decade."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2024229/What-Computer-Science-Can-Teach-Economics?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/2024229"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/2024229/What-Computer-Science-Can-Teach-Economics?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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mpapet writes to ask about the ins and outs of datacenter evaluation. Beyond the simpler questions of physical access control, connectivity, and power redundancy/capacity and SLA review, what other questions are important to ask when evaluating a data center? What data centers have people been happy with? What horror stories have people lived through with those that didn't make the cut?<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1953241/How-Do-You-Evaluate-a-Data-Center?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/1953241"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1953241/How-Do-You-Evaluate-a-Data-Center?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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An anonymous reader writes to tell us that a recent FAQ released by Oracle outlines the plans for many of Sun's popular products like GlassFish, MySQL, and NetBeans. Many are worried at some of the possible avenues the decisions outlined could lead to, especially with respect to NetBeans. "What should have happened, Oracle should not have missed a beat and should have announced work on Oracle plugins for NetBeans and active Oracle support of NetBeans. This type of announcement would have brought a large and some-what skeptical NetBeans community much closer to Oracle. It would have been a big win for Oracle. NetBeans will continue to grow either way - but Oracle has missed a big chance to really change perceptions and at the same time move their tools to another level. What JDeveloper lacks is buzz, a wealth of community developed plugins, a wealth of support for other languages and a very, very large community. And of course it does not offer a platform in the NetBeans and Eclipse sense of the word. This is a huge missed opportunity for Oracle."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1845250/Oracle-Outlines-Plans-for-Sun-Products-Casts-Doubt-on-NetBeans?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/1845250"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1845250/Oracle-Outlines-Plans-for-Sun-Products-Casts-Doubt-on-NetBeans?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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futurity.org writes with news that Iowa State researchers have made a breakthrough that could eventually lead to a cure for Parkinson's. Identifying the protein that kills the dopamine-producing cells in the brain has allowed the researchers to disable it and could be the first step in the development of new treatments. "Now, Kanthasamy’s group is looking for additional compounds that also can serve to neutralize protein kinase-C. By identifying more compounds that perform the function of neutralizing kinase-C, researchers are more likely to locate one that works well and has few side effects. This discovery is expected to provide new treatment options to stop the progression of the disease or even cure it. 'Once we find the compound, we need to make sure it’s safe. If everything goes well, it could take about 10 years, and then we might be able to see something that will truly make a difference in the lives of people with this disorder,' says Kanthasamy."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1824234/Researchers-Neutralize-Parkinsons-Dopamine-Killers?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/1824234"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1824234/Researchers-Neutralize-Parkinsons-Dopamine-Killers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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