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Slashdot http://slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-11-08T12:30:11+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 Slashdot http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://slashdot.org/ Turning a Cell Phone Into a Microscope http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xx5YPZkXmQI/Turning-a-Cell-Phone-Into-a-Microscope stupendou writes with this excerpt from the New York Times: "Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive. Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes." But not based on optical magnification: the article explains that Aydogan Ozcan, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical engineering, has combined the wireless transmission abilities and imaging sensors now typical in wireless phones to make the phones capable of detecting cell abnormalities and more by capturing wave interference patterns from body fluids — like blood — and sending them on for analysis.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0829202/Turning-a-Cell-Phone-Into-a-Microscope?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/08/0829202"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0829202/Turning-a-Cell-Phone-Into-a-Microscope?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RS-b-N-48cpCbI-EWthB-XN19dk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RS-b-N-48cpCbI-EWthB-XN19dk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RS-b-N-48cpCbI-EWthB-XN19dk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RS-b-N-48cpCbI-EWthB-XN19dk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/xx5YPZkXmQI" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T09:49:00+00:00 medicine in-line-for-a-macarthur-grant science 24 24,24,18,12,5,2,2 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0829202/Turning-a-Cell-Phone-Into-a-Microscope?from=rss Lulu Introduces DRM http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uv7zh2ribH0/Lulu-Introduces-DRM An anonymous reader writes "Print-on-demand publisher Lulu recently announced that they're offering 'eBooks.' Since they've always offered downloadable books as PDFs, that takes some decoding to figure out what part is new: it turns out that it means now they're handling more formats, they've significantly increased the share they take out of the purchase price ... and for an additional fee, they now offer DRM. I have a few items published through Lulu myself; nothing forces me to buy the DRM, but I'm considering taking my business elsewhere on principle. This isn't what I expected from the people who, when I first signed up with them, were solidly endorsing Creative Commons."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0552209/Lulu-Introduces-DRM?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/08/0552209"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0552209/Lulu-Introduces-DRM?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a-1oz4Wmv6G7rSsaVW7QIJsZXIE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a-1oz4Wmv6G7rSsaVW7QIJsZXIE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a-1oz4Wmv6G7rSsaVW7QIJsZXIE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a-1oz4Wmv6G7rSsaVW7QIJsZXIE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/uv7zh2ribH0" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T06:37:00+00:00 books damn-ridiculous-meddling news 81 81,79,64,54,20,8,3 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0552209/Lulu-Introduces-DRM?from=rss Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good" http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/T7NyF84Ir88/Test-of-16-Anti-Virus-Products-Says-None-Rates-Very-Good An anonymous reader writes "AV-Comparative recently released the results of a malware removal test in which they evaluated 16 anti-virus software solutions. The test focused only on the malware removal/cleaning capabilities, therefore all the samples used were ones that the tested anti-virus products were able to detect. The main question was if the products were able to successfully remove malware from an already infected/compromised system. None of the products performed at a level of 'very good' in malware removal or removal of leftovers, based on those 10 samples."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0233248/Test-of-16-Anti-Virus-Products-Says-None-Rates-Very-Good?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/08/0233248"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0233248/Test-of-16-Anti-Virus-Products-Says-None-Rates-Very-Good?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QkJd2LigX_EG8ASVtJnXVVQd3O8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QkJd2LigX_EG8ASVtJnXVVQd3O8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QkJd2LigX_EG8ASVtJnXVVQd3O8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QkJd2LigX_EG8ASVtJnXVVQd3O8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/T7NyF84Ir88" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T03:20:00+00:00 security keeps-the-av-people-in-business-though technology 200 200,198,151,115,35,14,7 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0233248/Test-of-16-Anti-Virus-Products-Says-None-Rates-Very-Good?from=rss WIPO Committee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/F5G53ZPO9H8/WIPO-Committee-Presentations-Show-Nuanced-View-of-Copyright AtomicJake writes "As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is known for a very rigid course combating counterfeiting and piracy in general, it comes as a surprise that during a meeting of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement, several presenters have shown nuanced views on the economics of enforcing intellectual property rights. Combating clothing piracy might not be beneficial for the welfare of a developing country. Most surprising is the presentation of WIPO Chief Economist (PDF) Carsten Fink, which says that illegal copies of software may actually be beneficial even for consumers of the original goods. Also the piracy of audio-visual goods creates not only losses but also benefits for e.g. hardware manufacturers. Maybe this is because Mr. Fink wrote the presentation before joining WIPO?"<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0010243/WIPO-Committee-Presentations-Show-Nuanced-View-of-Copyright?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/08/0010243"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0010243/WIPO-Committee-Presentations-Show-Nuanced-View-of-Copyright?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cfnZQhRblC9L8jX_0vdPMZiyJak/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cfnZQhRblC9L8jX_0vdPMZiyJak/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cfnZQhRblC9L8jX_0vdPMZiyJak/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cfnZQhRblC9L8jX_0vdPMZiyJak/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/F5G53ZPO9H8" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T00:14:00+00:00 court at-least-given-the-context yro 64 64,63,54,49,15,10,8 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0010243/WIPO-Committee-Presentations-Show-Nuanced-View-of-Copyright?from=rss Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio? http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6v-j4z13j8Q/Simple-Cost-Effective-Multiroom-Audio jimicus writes "I'd like a multiroom audio system but I'm thoroughly confused by the options available — and the difference in prices is huge. For instance, Philips have a wireless system which starts at around £280 — and Russound have a product which comes in around £1,000. I've already got all my music as MP3s and it lives on a NAS box — I don't really want to repeat that process. I also have a perfectly capable amp and speakers in my living room, so I don't really need anything else there. Whatever I go for has to pass the wife test — so something which requires a separate amp, speakers and PC in each room and requires a keyboard to control is right out. I don't mind spending a little money but I don't really want to find that every little extra thing adds up to £thousands. Has anyone else dealt with a similar problem? How did you solve it?"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2256218/Simple-Cost-Effective-Multiroom-Audio?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/2256218"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2256218/Simple-Cost-Effective-Multiroom-Audio?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/i-95hKiJ0mg-Gvvt22RFCkAckmw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/i-95hKiJ0mg-Gvvt22RFCkAckmw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/i-95hKiJ0mg-Gvvt22RFCkAckmw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/i-95hKiJ0mg-Gvvt22RFCkAckmw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/6v-j4z13j8Q" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-07T23:00:00+00:00 music powered-monitors-and-long-cables hardware 264 264,262,193,127,42,21,12 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2256218/Simple-Cost-Effective-Multiroom-Audio?from=rss Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N-w3O-DaOFI/Comic-Books-Improve-Early-Childhood-Literacy Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that Professor Carol Tilley, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, says that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of reading, children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other kinds of books, and that there is evidence that comics increase children's vocabulary and instill a love of reading. 'A lot of the criticism of comics and comic books come from people who think that kids are just looking at the pictures and not putting them together with the words,' says Tilley. 'But you could easily make some of the same criticisms of picture books – that kids are just looking at pictures, and not at the words.' Tilley says that some of the condescension toward comics as a medium may come from the connotations that the name itself evokes but that the distinct comic book aesthetic — frames, thought and speech bubbles, motion lines, to name a few — has been co-opted by children's books, creating a hybrid format."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2145215/Comic-Books-Improve-Early-Childhood-Literacy?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/2145215"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2145215/Comic-Books-Improve-Early-Childhood-Literacy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0aYCiK5XSPNiu1hjdL1XGU0uaS4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0aYCiK5XSPNiu1hjdL1XGU0uaS4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0aYCiK5XSPNiu1hjdL1XGU0uaS4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0aYCiK5XSPNiu1hjdL1XGU0uaS4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/N-w3O-DaOFI" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-07T21:47:00+00:00 books shore-helped-mee news 91 91,89,73,59,17,10,5 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2145215/Comic-Books-Improve-Early-Childhood-Literacy?from=rss How Google Uses Linux http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eqZ7U1Ftct0/How-Google-Uses-Linux postfail writes 'lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers on how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel every 17 months, presently carrying 1208 patches to 2.6.26 and inserting almost 300,000 lines of code; roughly 25% of those patches are backports of newer features.'<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2013246/How-Google-Uses-Linux?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/2013246"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2013246/How-Google-Uses-Linux?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PFX_YKduhKZ0-5zdYUtYowntcOo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PFX_YKduhKZ0-5zdYUtYowntcOo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PFX_YKduhKZ0-5zdYUtYowntcOo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PFX_YKduhKZ0-5zdYUtYowntcOo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/eqZ7U1Ftct0" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-07T20:39:00+00:00 google rebasing-not-freebasing linux 118 118,109,87,70,30,20,12 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2013246/How-Google-Uses-Linux?from=rss Paul Vixie On What DNS Is Not http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CcU-I_ygIBM/Paul-Vixie-On-What-DNS-Is-Not CowboyRobot writes "Paul Vixie (AboveNet, ARIN, ISC, MAPS, PAIX) has a fresh rant titled What DNS Is Not about the abuses of the Domain Name Server system. 'What DNS is not is a mapping service or a mechanism for delivering policy-based information. DNS was designed to express facts, not policies. Because it works so well and is ubiquitous, however, it's all too common for entrepreneurs to see it as a greenfield opportunity ... a few years ago VeriSign, which operates the .COM domain under contract to ICANN, added a "wild card" to the top of the .COM zone (*.COM) so that its authoritative name servers would no longer generate NXDOMAIN responses. Instead they generated responses containing the address of SiteFinder's Web site — an advertising server.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/199256/Paul-Vixie-On-What-DNS-Is-Not?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/199256"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/199256/Paul-Vixie-On-What-DNS-Is-Not?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/39stD4q_-WfWqLYELqkAQ4gf9Es/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/39stD4q_-WfWqLYELqkAQ4gf9Es/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/39stD4q_-WfWqLYELqkAQ4gf9Es/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/39stD4q_-WfWqLYELqkAQ4gf9Es/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CcU-I_ygIBM" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-07T19:30:00+00:00 internet this-could-be-a-long-book technology 125 125,122,95,70,17,8,5 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/199256/Paul-Vixie-On-What-DNS-Is-Not?from=rss Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Nqi3e2ZH6go/Babies-Begin-Learning-Language-In-the-Womb Hugh Pickens writes "Science Daily reports findings from a new study which suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, long before their first babble or coo, and are able to memorize sounds from the external world by the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour in both music and language. Newborns prefer their mother's voice over other voices and perceive the emotional content of messages conveyed via intonation contours in maternal speech (a.k.a. 'motherese'). 'The dramatic finding of this study is that not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to produce those melody patterns that are typical for the ambient language they have heard during their fetal life, within the last trimester of gestation,' said Kathleen Wermke of the University of Würzburg in Germany. Wermke's team recorded and analyzed the cries of 60 healthy newborns, 30 born into French-speaking families and 30 born into German-speaking families, when they were three to five days old. The recordings of 2,500 cries as mothers changed babies' diapers, readied babies for feeding or otherwise interacted with the youngsters show an extremely early impact of native language, with analysis revealing clear differences in the shape of the newborns' cry melodies, based on their mother tongue."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1727256/Babies-Begin-Learning-Language-In-the-Womb?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/1727256"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1727256/Babies-Begin-Learning-Language-In-the-Womb?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BoxHMd3W_7KTIwJYQjTE8YlgybQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BoxHMd3W_7KTIwJYQjTE8YlgybQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BoxHMd3W_7KTIwJYQjTE8YlgybQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BoxHMd3W_7KTIwJYQjTE8YlgybQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Nqi3e2ZH6go" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T18:24:00+00:00 biotech no-time-like-the-present science 209 209,203,163,125,24,11,7 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1727256/Babies-Begin-Learning-Language-In-the-Womb?from=rss Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wU-39RMnAQM/Visually-Impaired-Gamer-Sues-Sony An anonymous reader writes "A visually impaired gamer has sued Sony because game products allegedly violate the Americans With Disabilities Act. 'According to the suit, Sony ignored repeated requests through postal mail and e-mail to come up with reasonable modifications to its games to make them more accessible.' This suit seems to be a combination of National Federation of the Blind v. Target, which complained of inaccessibility to the visually disabled (which settled for $6 million) and Martin v. PGA Tour, Inc., where the US Supreme Court ruled a disabled golfer was entitled to a golf cart where one was not already allowed as a reasonable accommodation. If the plaintiff wins, Sony will have to make 'reasonable accommodations' which are not an 'undue financial burden.' In my humble opinion, providing access for the disabled is not only the right thing to do but it will generate more profit for Sony."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1622230/Visually-Impaired-Gamer-Sues-Sony?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/1622230"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1622230/Visually-Impaired-Gamer-Sues-Sony?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EKjy9ZWMlELcCgWsnFqJEMVHp8Q/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EKjy9ZWMlELcCgWsnFqJEMVHp8Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EKjy9ZWMlELcCgWsnFqJEMVHp8Q/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EKjy9ZWMlELcCgWsnFqJEMVHp8Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/wU-39RMnAQM" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T17:21:00+00:00 sony blind-suing-the-blind games 472 472,467,336,254,48,29,19 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1622230/Visually-Impaired-Gamer-Sues-Sony?from=rss Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2YaZRuKjxx0/Did-Microsoft-Borrow-GPL-Code-For-a-Windows-7-Utility Goatbert writes "Rafael Rivera over at WithinWindows.com has found evidence that Microsoft has potentially stolen code from an open source/GPL'd project (ImageMaster) for a utility made available on the Microsoft Store to allow download customers to copy the Windows 7 setup files to a DVD or USB Flash Drive. If Rivera's evidence holds up, this could be some serious egg in the face for Microsoft at a time when they're getting mostly good press from the tech media."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1547214/Did-Microsoft-Borrow-GPL-Code-For-a-Windows-7-Utility?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/1547214"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1547214/Did-Microsoft-Borrow-GPL-Code-For-a-Windows-7-Utility?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xotUWwbqx39qV-cuE8ikIeboQdc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xotUWwbqx39qV-cuE8ikIeboQdc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xotUWwbqx39qV-cuE8ikIeboQdc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xotUWwbqx39qV-cuE8ikIeboQdc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/2YaZRuKjxx0" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T16:22:00+00:00 windows free-as-in-gimme technology 391 391,378,303,254,72,36,21 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1547214/Did-Microsoft-Borrow-GPL-Code-For-a-Windows-7-Utility?from=rss Cisco Security System Shuts Out Third-Party Tools http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8LUlWCa2kGk/Cisco-Security-System-Shuts-Out-Third-Party-Tools alphadogg writes "Cisco has finally publicly acknowledged it won't add support for new third-party devices to its security information and event monitoring appliance, ending months of speculation about the future of its Monitoring, Analysis and Response System. Some claim it's the beginning of the end for MARS as a multi-vendor SIEM device. 'MARS customers can expect non-Cisco network device data and signature updates to continue for currently supported third-party systems, but no new third-party devices will be added,' Cisco declared in a statement, noting that 'Cisco MARS continues to focus on supporting Cisco devices for threat identification and mitigation.' Cisco's SIEM competitors this week have eagerly grabbed at the topic of Cisco MARS freezing third-party support because of a Gartner research memo published Oct. 29 in which analyst Mark Nicolett stated, 'Cisco has quietly begun informing its customers of a decision to freeze support for most non-Cisco event sources with its [MARS].'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/144225/Cisco-Security-System-Shuts-Out-Third-Party-Tools?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/144225"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/144225/Cisco-Security-System-Shuts-Out-Third-Party-Tools?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4e-8tqolh018bh6D-mUhcwalt3k/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4e-8tqolh018bh6D-mUhcwalt3k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4e-8tqolh018bh6D-mUhcwalt3k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4e-8tqolh018bh6D-mUhcwalt3k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/8LUlWCa2kGk" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T15:19:00+00:00 networking trouble-versus-worth technology 33 33,32,30,24,8,2,1 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/144225/Cisco-Security-System-Shuts-Out-Third-Party-Tools?from=rss NH Supreme Court Hears Case On Protections For Anonymous Sources Online http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-O5AJiI8uOM/NH-Supreme-Court-Hears-Case-On-Protections-For-Anonymous-Sources-Online fulldecent writes "The New Hampshire Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that calls into question the legal protections available to independent Web sites that cover news. The case involves mortgage lender Implode-Explode, a Las Vegas-based site launched in 2007 that publishes stories about the meltdown of the mortgage industry. Associate Justice Carol Ann Conboy pressed the point with [defense lawyer Jeremy Eggleton], questioning, 'Can anyone who posts a blog be considered a reporter,' for the purposes of claiming protection of anonymous sources? Eggleton answered yes, within limits: 'The test is whether the person has an intention to gather, analyze and disseminate.'"<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1345211/NH-Supreme-Court-Hears-Case-On-Protections-For-Anonymous-Sources-Online?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/1345211"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1345211/NH-Supreme-Court-Hears-Case-On-Protections-For-Anonymous-Sources-Online?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZKyiBOByAxwwlCRr4Fhs9iG6umQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZKyiBOByAxwwlCRr4Fhs9iG6umQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZKyiBOByAxwwlCRr4Fhs9iG6umQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZKyiBOByAxwwlCRr4Fhs9iG6umQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-O5AJiI8uOM" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T14:16:00+00:00 privacy in-a-statement-provided-by-xsephirothx yro 40 40,39,33,30,7,4,3 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1345211/NH-Supreme-Court-Hears-Case-On-Protections-For-Anonymous-Sources-Online?from=rss Antimatter In Lightning http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/K3TdWhI3VHI/Antimatter-In-Lightning AMESN writes "The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched last year, detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the gamma rays is specific to the decay of positrons, which are the antimatter flavor of electrons. Finding antimatter in lightning surprised researchers and suggests the electric field of the lightning somehow got reversed."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/047249/Antimatter-In-Lightning?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/047249"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/047249/Antimatter-In-Lightning?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N3yCn3I0B68QtYwcfW-TQa25kGo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N3yCn3I0B68QtYwcfW-TQa25kGo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N3yCn3I0B68QtYwcfW-TQa25kGo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N3yCn3I0B68QtYwcfW-TQa25kGo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/K3TdWhI3VHI" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T13:15:00+00:00 earth doc-brown-can-now-power-his-warp-drive science 157 157,153,111,89,29,20,14 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/047249/Antimatter-In-Lightning?from=rss Radar Beats GPS In Court — Or Does It? http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZV6bRBOloBM/Radar-Beats-GPS-In-Court-mdash-Or-Does-It TechnologyResource writes "More than two years ago in California, a police officer wrote Shaun Malone a ticket for going 62mph in a 45-mph zone. Malone was ordered to pay a $190 fine, but his parents appealed the decision, saying data from a GPS tracking system they installed in his car to monitor his driving proved he was not speeding. What ensued was the longest court battle over a speeding ticket in Sonoma county history. The case also represented the first time anyone locally had tried to beat a ticket using GPS. The teen's GPS pegged the car at 45 mph in virtually the same location. At issue was the distance from the stoplight — site of the first GPS 'ping' that showed Malone stopped — to the second ping 30 seconds later, when he was going 45 mph. Last week, Commissioner Carla Bonilla ruled the GPS data confirmed the prosecution's contention that Malone had to have exceeded the speed limit and would have to pay the $190 fine. 'This case ensures that other law enforcement agencies throughout the state aren't going to have to fight a case like this where GPS is used to cast doubt on radar,' said Sgt. Ken Savano, who oversees the traffic division. However, Commissioner Bonilla noted the accuracy of the GPS system was not challenged by either side in the dispute, but rather they had different interpretations of the data. Bonilla ruled the GPS data confirmed the prosecution's contention that Malone had to have exceeded the speed limit."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/037216/Radar-Beats-GPS-In-Court-mdash-Or-Does-It?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/07/037216"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/037216/Radar-Beats-GPS-In-Court-mdash-Or-Does-It?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZoWFxISmtcNEfFdPqB8B6XFq34/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZoWFxISmtcNEfFdPqB8B6XFq34/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZoWFxISmtcNEfFdPqB8B6XFq34/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZoWFxISmtcNEfFdPqB8B6XFq34/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ZV6bRBOloBM" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T10:14:00+00:00 transportation technology-deathmatch technology 344 344,342,280,208,50,27,17 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/037216/Radar-Beats-GPS-In-Court-mdash-Or-Does-It?from=rss Search Slashdot Search Slashdot stories query http://slashdot.org/search.pl