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NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8VpGeUJ137Y/NASA-Releases-Restored-Apollo-11-Video-But-Originals-Lost
leetrout writes "I attended a media briefing held by NASA at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. this morning where they released restored video of the Apollo 11 mission. The clips released are about 40% of the total footage to be restored by September by Lowry Digital in Burbank, CA. Wired has all the clips. A couple remarkable comments made during the briefing included the opinion from the original footage search committee that the original slow scan footage (stored as a single track on telemetry tapes) has been lost forever as the tapes were likely recycled by the mid '80s (apparently common NASA practice). Also, that someone from the applied physics laboratory was in Australia converting the slow scan directly to video. This differs from NASA's goal of merely broadcasting the event, at which it was successful. Unfortunately, no one knows where those tapes of approximately two hours of footage are located."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/206229/NASA-Releases-Restored-Apollo-11-Video-But-Originals-Lost?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/206229"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/206229/NASA-Releases-Restored-Apollo-11-Video-But-Originals-Lost?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/S8QCN7xPZwc/Three-Arrested-For-Conspiring-To-Violate-the-DMCA
jtcm writes "Three men have been charged with conspiring to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act after federal investigators found that they allegedly offered a cracker more than $250,000 to assist with breaking Dish Network's satellite TV encryption scheme: '[Jung] Kwak had two co-conspirators secure the services of a cracker and allegedly reimbursed the unidentified person about $8,500 to buy a specialized and expensive microscope used for reverse engineering smart cards. He also allegedly offered the cracker more than $250,000 if he successfully secured a Nagra card's EPROM (eraseable programmable read-only memory), the guts of the chip that is needed to reverse-engineer Dish Network's encryption.' Kwak owns a company known as Viewtech, which imports and sells Viewsat satellite receiver boxes. Dish Network's latest encryption scheme, dubbed Nagra 3, has not yet been cracked by satellite TV pirates."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1913227/Three-Arrested-For-Conspiring-To-Violate-the-DMCA?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1913227"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1913227/Three-Arrested-For-Conspiring-To-Violate-the-DMCA?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0c7fQxBmaeQ/RIAA-Loses-Bid-To-Keep-Revenues-Secret
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's motion to keep secret the record companies' 1999-to-date revenues for the copyrighted song files at the heart of the case has been denied, in the Boston case scheduled for trial July 27th, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum. The Judge had previously ordered the plaintiff record companies to produce a summary of the 1999-to-date revenues for the recordings, broken down into physical and digital sales. On the day the summary was due to be produced, instead of producing it, they produced a 'protective order motion' asking the Judge to rule that the information would have to be kept secret. The Judge rejected that motion: 'the Court does not comprehend how disclosure would impair the Plaintiffs' competitive business prospects when three of the four biggest record labels in the world — Warner Bros. Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and UMG Recording, Inc. — are participating jointly in this lawsuit and, presumably, would have joint access to this information.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1748235/RIAA-Loses-Bid-To-Keep-Revenues-Secret?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1748235"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1748235/RIAA-Loses-Bid-To-Keep-Revenues-Secret?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nK7dB4KNaw4/Why-Game-Developers-Should-Shut-Up-About-Used-Games
Ssquared22 writes "It may feel like a rip-off to some, but you've got to admit that paying $30 for Gears of War 2 sure beats paying $60! Game publishers and developers may not like it, but people are going to trade in used games for new games and those old games will be sold back to other people. There's nothing game developers can do to stop them, and companies like Gamestop continue to laugh all the way to the bank. In an article at Crispy Gamer, David Thomas dissects one of the most critical issues in gaming today: used games and merchants (online and brick-and-mortar) who specialize in this 'sleight of hand.'"<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1721215/Why-Game-Developers-Should-Shut-Up-About-Used-Games?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1721215"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1721215/Why-Game-Developers-Should-Shut-Up-About-Used-Games?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y7rBHqB2Xjo/New-Binary-Diffing-Algorithm-Announced-By-Google
bheer writes "Google's Open-Source Chromium project announced a new compression technique called Courgette geared towards distributing really small updates today. Courgette achieves smaller diffs (about 9x in one example) than standard binary-diffing algorithms like bsdiff by disassembling the code and sending the assembler diffs over the wire. This, the Chromium devs say, will allow them to send smaller, more frequent updates, making users more secure. Since this will be released as open source, it should make distributing updates a lot easier for the open-source community."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1712250/New-Binary-Diffing-Algorithm-Announced-By-Google?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1712250"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1712250/New-Binary-Diffing-Algorithm-Announced-By-Google?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0cQ0qdVRaM8/What-If-the-Apollo-Program-Had-Continued
proslack writes "The die had been cast years before Apollo 11 had even reached the moon. In the late 1960s, the Vietnam war was straining US finances. A fatal fire on the Apollo launch pad in January 1967 had blotted NASA's copybook. The Soviet moon effort seemed to be going nowhere. In the budget debates during the summer of 1967, Congress refused NASA's request to fund an extended moon programme. What if things had been different that summer? Suppose Congress had granted NASA's wish, then fast-forward 40-odd years..." A nice little what-if sort of story that makes sorta nostalgic for a non-existent present.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1448231/What-If-the-Apollo-Program-Had-Continued?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1448231"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1448231/What-If-the-Apollo-Program-Had-Continued?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/m4q2Vgm1d3A/LoTR-Lawsuit-Threatens-Hobbit-Production
eyrieowl writes "J.R.R.'s heirs are suing for royalties on the LoTR films. Apparently they haven't gotten any money due to some creative accounting. Peter Jackson ought to understand...he had to sue the studio for much the same reason. As for The Hobbit? FTFA: 'Tolkien's family and a British charity they head, the Tolkien Trust, seek more than $220 million in compensation...[and]...the option to terminate further rights to the author's work.'"<p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1430249/LoTR-Lawsuit-Threatens-Hobbit-Production?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1430249"></a></p><p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1430249/LoTR-Lawsuit-Threatens-Hobbit-Production?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Iya37gjuZs8/Huge-Unidentified-Organic-Blob-Floating-Around-Alaska
Z80xxc! writes "The Anchorage Daily News reports that a 15 mile-long blob of unknown, 'gooey,' probably organic material is floating past communities on Alaska's North Slope. The US Coast Guard sent pollution experts to investigate, who determined that it was not an oil spill or other type of pollution, but were unable to determine what it is. A sample is currently being analyzed by experts in Anchorage, while the blob is following the current northwards."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1421255/Huge-Unidentified-Organic-Blob-Floating-Around-Alaska?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1421255"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1421255/Huge-Unidentified-Organic-Blob-Floating-Around-Alaska?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CudlnAMxMdA/Firefox-35s-First-Vulnerability-Self-Inflicted
CWmike writes "Mozilla has confirmed the first security vulnerability in Firefox 3.5, saying that the bug could be used to hijack a machine running the company's newest browser. A noted Firefox contributor called the situation 'self-inflicted' and said it was likely that the hacker who posted public exploit code Monday became aware of the flaw by rooting through Bugzilla, Mozilla's bug- and change-tracking database. The vulnerability is in the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine that debuted with Firefox 3.5, said Mozilla. '[It] can be exploited by an attacker who tricks a victim into viewing a malicious Web page containing the exploit code,' Mozilla's security blog reported Tuesday."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1346243/Firefox-35s-First-Vulnerability-Self-Inflicted?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1346243"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1346243/Firefox-35s-First-Vulnerability-Self-Inflicted?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iGCfPsbQJFk/Typography-On-the-Web-Gets-Different
bstender writes "Most major browsers — including the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera — recognize a CSS rule known as @font-face. What that means, in brief, is that Web developers can now easily embed downloadable fonts in their pages. To see an example, load up Firefox 3.5 or Safari 4 and learn more. You'll see three new typefaces — Liza, Auto, and Dolly — used in the body text and headlines." No doubt the licensing issues are just as complex as the font nerd potential.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1335256/Typography-On-the-Web-Gets-Different?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1335256"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1335256/Typography-On-the-Web-Gets-Different?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dBSbo5VYS9k/Space-Shuttle-Endeavour-Heads-To-Space-Station
RobGoldsmith writes "The STS-127 crew began its journey to the International Space Station at 6:03 p.m. EDT Wednesday when space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The shuttle crew will complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and deliver a new crew member, astronaut Tim Kopra, to the orbital outpost."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1245221/Space-Shuttle-Endeavour-Heads-To-Space-Station?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/1245221"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/1245221/Space-Shuttle-Endeavour-Heads-To-Space-Station?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uxaHgMV4Zjs/Navy-Spends-33-Million-For-Hybrid-of-the-High-Sea
coondoggie writes "Some might call it an enormous floating Prius, but others will call it a step in the right direction: A new hybrid electric engine for US Navy ships that promises to save up to 12,000 barrels of oil a year per ship. The folks who brought you the Predator unmanned flying aircraft, General Atomics, this week got $32.7 million to develop a proof-of-concept Hybrid Electric Drive (HED) system for a full-scale demonstration on board the Navy's DDG 51 Class destroyers. DDG 51 destroyers are powered by General Electric gas turbines capable of moving the ships along at over 30 knots or about 35 mph. The General Atomics system would meld into this system and let the ship use electric power for slow-speed maneuvers. The engines would provide more power as the ship needed to go faster."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/035245/Navy-Spends-33-Million-For-Hybrid-of-the-High-Sea?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/16/035245"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/035245/Navy-Spends-33-Million-For-Hybrid-of-the-High-Sea?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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An anonymous reader writes "I work for a large company taking a preliminary look at developing an honest-to-goodness wiki. We have tried to launch a company-wide wiki before, but with little success. The technical domains of each part of the company are different, thus each article needs a good deal of background to be useful. Of course, due the proprietary nature of our work we cannot share our articles outside of the intranet. What we would like to do is leverage existing wikis by augmenting our internal wiki with an external wiki. When a user accesses Wikipedia from inside our intranet, they receive the wikipedia content, plus the local domain specific information. For example, links to company-specific wiki pages would be available in Wikipedia pages. Has anyone else tried to do something like this? I know it sounds like a logistical nightmare; are there any thoughts on how to make this successful?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2252249/Integrating-Wikipedia-With-a-Local-Intranet-Wiki?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/15/2252249"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2252249/Integrating-Wikipedia-With-a-Local-Intranet-Wiki?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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jbeale53 writes "It seems that to install Windows 7 in Europe, you'll have to wipe the system and start over. There will be no ability to upgrade. From the article, 'The unfortunate side effect has been caused by Microsoft's decision to avoid any further EU censure on Windows 7 by removing Internet Explorer 8 from the OS. Because Internet Explorer is so deeply integrated within Vista, it's not currently possible to perform an upgrade that removes IE.' Why would Microsoft cripple it this way? Just to try and point fingers at the European Union? Because the EU didn't tell them to remove IE, they only told them to offer other browsers to be installed during setup."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2244200/Windows-7-Clean-Install-Only-In-Europe?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/15/2244200"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2244200/Windows-7-Clean-Install-Only-In-Europe?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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coondoggie writes "Some work has begun on tracking and detecting the overabundance of space junk which has become a growing priority as all manner of satellites, rockets and possible commercial space shots are promised in the coming few years. Today Northrop Grumman said it grabbed $30 million from the US Air Force to start developing the first phase of a global space surveillance ground radar system. The new S-Band Space Fence is part of the Department of Defense's effort to detect and track what are known as resident space objects (RSO), consisting of thousands of pieces of space debris as well as commercial and military satellites. The new Space Fence will replace the current VHF Air Force Space Surveillance System built in 1961."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2234253/Shiny-New-Space-Fence-To-Monitor-Orbiting-Junk?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/15/2234253"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/2234253/Shiny-New-Space-Fence-To-Monitor-Orbiting-Junk?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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