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All Rights Reserved. 2012-05-25T21:28:10+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nXeu5hYsunA/curt-schilling-fires-entire-staff-at-38-studios <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HR6Q7vmGVNFPJg366X6jbFy0gGM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HR6Q7vmGVNFPJg366X6jbFy0gGM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HR6Q7vmGVNFPJg366X6jbFy0gGM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HR6Q7vmGVNFPJg366X6jbFy0gGM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>redletterdave writes "On Thursday, former Boston Red Sox pitcher and tech entrepreneur Curt Schilling fired his entire staff at 38 Studios, his Rhode Island-based video game company, leaving more than 300 employees without jobs because the company couldn't repay its debt to the state. 38 Studios failed to pay Rhode Island's economic development agency $1.1 million, which was due last week, and also failed to meet payroll for its staff in both its Providence office and its Maryland subsidiary, Big Huge Games." The company's recent action RPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, sold 1.2 million copies &mdash; which would have been great if they hadn't needed to sell 3 million to break even. An article at Massively goes through some of the lessons the video game industry needs to learn from this situation.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Curt+Schilling+Fires+Entire+Staff+At+38+Studios%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FKzwGJh"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F2041246%2Fcurt-schilling-fires-entire-staff-at-38-studios%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/2041246/curt-schilling-fires-entire-staff-at-38-studios?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/2041246/curt-schilling-fires-entire-staff-at-38-studios?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2875113&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/nXeu5hYsunA" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T20:54:00+00:00 business remembered-the-c-this-time games 23 23,22,12,8,4,3,1 http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/2041246/curt-schilling-fires-entire-staff-at-38-studios?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lQ8i2hE8huQ/bessel-beam-tractor-beam-concept-theoretically-demonstrated <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpt9KzqWyXWlGImTGLwu2FxG4KE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpt9KzqWyXWlGImTGLwu2FxG4KE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpt9KzqWyXWlGImTGLwu2FxG4KE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fpt9KzqWyXWlGImTGLwu2FxG4KE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>cylonlover writes "Last year, NASA revealed it was evaluating three potential 'tractor beam' technologies to deliver planetary or atmospheric particles to a robotic rover or orbiting spacecraft. At the time, the third of these, which involved the use of a Bessel beam, only existed on paper. Researchers at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have now proven the theory behind the concept, demonstrating how a tractor beam can be realized in the real world &ndash; albeit on a very small scale (abstract)."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Bessel+Beam+'Tractor+Beam'+Concept+Theoretically+Demonstrated%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FKnStm8"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F2021208%2Fbessel-beam-tractor-beam-concept-theoretically-demonstrated%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/2021208/bessel-beam-tractor-beam-concept-theoretically-demonstrated?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/2021208/bessel-beam-tractor-beam-concept-theoretically-demonstrated?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2875079&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/lQ8i2hE8huQ" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T20:32:00+00:00 technology finally-asked-wil-wheaton-for-help technology 20 20,19,15,9,3,1,0 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/2021208/bessel-beam-tractor-beam-concept-theoretically-demonstrated?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sKHO1VcchSY/are-porn-and-video-games-ruining-a-generation <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kHdNjjv1RZEhECRaNloWXsOQHC4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kHdNjjv1RZEhECRaNloWXsOQHC4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kHdNjjv1RZEhECRaNloWXsOQHC4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kHdNjjv1RZEhECRaNloWXsOQHC4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>silentbrad writes "An editorial published at CNN is titled 'The Demise of Guys: How Videogames and Porn are Ruining a Generation.' It makes the sensationalized case that not only do game addiction and porn addiction share similar characteristics, but they're also both damaging to young men, destroying their ability to connect with women, and therefore threatening the future of our entire species. A response by IGN dissects the idea that pornography and videogames are pretty much the same thing. 'The article, by psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan argues that young men are "hooked on arousal, sacrificing their schoolwork and relationships in the pursuit of getting a tech-based buzz."' Zimbardo, has danced this jig before. At the Long Beach TED conference last year he told a delighted audience that "guys are wiping out socially with girls and sexually with women." He added that young men have been so zombiefied by games and porn that they are unable to function in basic human interactions. "It's a social awkwardness like a stranger in a foreign land", he said. "They don't know what to say. They don't know what to do."'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Are+Porn+and+Video+Games+Ruining+a+Generation%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FMCJgHs"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F1835205%2Fare-porn-and-video-games-ruining-a-generation%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1835205/are-porn-and-video-games-ruining-a-generation?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1835205/are-porn-and-video-games-ruining-a-generation?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874927&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/sKHO1VcchSY" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T19:50:00+00:00 editorial won't-somebody-think-of-the-manchildren games 344 344,340,232,194,65,40,22 http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1835205/are-porn-and-video-games-ruining-a-generation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6l-zIFpZ2nY/court-ruling-shuts-down-australian-cloud-tv-recorders <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/357VO6RYRojF35RD_jH0isfNoHc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/357VO6RYRojF35RD_jH0isfNoHc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/357VO6RYRojF35RD_jH0isfNoHc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/357VO6RYRojF35RD_jH0isfNoHc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>joshgnosis writes "In the wake of an Australian Federal Court ruling last month that free-to-air TV recording app Optus TV Now was infringing on the copyright of some of the country's biggest sports broadcasts, two other services &mdash; Beem and MyTVR have also been forced to suspend their services. Beem lashed out at the ruling, telling customers that their rights had been 'diminished' by the judgment and rights owners were 'scared' of cloud-based TV recording services in the same way they once were of VCRs."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Court+Ruling+Shuts+Down+Australian+Cloud+TV+Recorders%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FLNsOaO"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F1848229%2Fcourt-ruling-shuts-down-australian-cloud-tv-recorders%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1848229/court-ruling-shuts-down-australian-cloud-tv-recorders?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1848229/court-ruling-shuts-down-australian-cloud-tv-recorders?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874939&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/6l-zIFpZ2nY" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T19:07:00+00:00 australia shut-down-down-under entertainment 31 31,31,24,19,5,1,1 http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1848229/court-ruling-shuts-down-australian-cloud-tv-recorders?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kOJDHp9StfQ/wheres-hal-9000 <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b7pLENNpVnwWL-AXac0WMJd0WrY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b7pLENNpVnwWL-AXac0WMJd0WrY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b7pLENNpVnwWL-AXac0WMJd0WrY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b7pLENNpVnwWL-AXac0WMJd0WrY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>An anonymous reader writes "With entrants to this year's Loebner Prize, the annual Turing Test designed to identify a thinking machine, demonstrating that chatbots are still a long way from passing as convincing humans, this article asks: what happened to the quest to develop a strong AI? 'The problem Loebner has is that computer scientists in universities and large tech firms, the people with the skills and resources best-suited to building a machine capable of acting like a human, are generally not focused on passing the Turing Test. ... And while passing the Turing Test would be a landmark achievement in the field of AI, the test&rsquo;s focus on having the computer have to fool a human is a distraction. Prominent AI researchers, like Google&rsquo;s head of R&amp;D Peter Norvig, have compared the Turing Test&rsquo;s requirement that a machine fools a judge into thinking they are talking to a human as akin to demanding an aircraft maker constructs a plane that is indistinguishable from a bird."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Where's+HAL+9000%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FJi6ejO"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F186257%2Fwheres-hal-9000%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/186257/wheres-hal-9000?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/186257/wheres-hal-9000?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874891&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/kOJDHp9StfQ" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T18:27:00+00:00 ai i'm-sorry-dave,-i'm-dolphin-grill-antifreeze technology 137 137,136,107,91,30,18,8 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/186257/wheres-hal-9000?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zPJIhXPtUzI/photographer-threatened-with-legal-action-after-asserting-his-copyright <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u4GOsCtdjxpXyI_xj71c9O0Buro/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u4GOsCtdjxpXyI_xj71c9O0Buro/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u4GOsCtdjxpXyI_xj71c9O0Buro/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u4GOsCtdjxpXyI_xj71c9O0Buro/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>New submitter JamieKitson writes "Photographer Jay Lee got more than he bargained for after sending some DMCA takedown notifications out to hosts of sites using one of his pictures. One Candice Shwagger accused him of everything from conspiracy over local sheriff elections to child abuse. Since Candice is now threatening legal action, Jay has said he'll take down the post, so here's a snap shot. After reading the story, I checked for use of my own pictures and found one of them being used on a review site without even a credit."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Photographer+Threatened+With+Legal+Action+After+Asserting+His+Copyright%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FJCeKjX"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F1744246%2Fphotographer-threatened-with-legal-action-after-asserting-his-copyright%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1744246/photographer-threatened-with-legal-action-after-asserting-his-copyright?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1744246/photographer-threatened-with-legal-action-after-asserting-his-copyright?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874859&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/zPJIhXPtUzI" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T17:45:00+00:00 yro picture-of-surprise yro 419 419,410,293,225,71,40,27 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1744246/photographer-threatened-with-legal-action-after-asserting-his-copyright?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tbJ_jn8PUWE/higher-hard-drive-prices-are-the-new-normal <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ItqiH8CUAckTaRjH0bLnqiH56kg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ItqiH8CUAckTaRjH0bLnqiH56kg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ItqiH8CUAckTaRjH0bLnqiH56kg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ItqiH8CUAckTaRjH0bLnqiH56kg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>An anonymous reader tips an article looking at the state of HDD pricing now that the market has had time to recover from the flooding in Thailand and a round of consolidation among manufacturers. Prices have certainly declined from the high they reached during the flooding, but they've stabilized a bit higher than they were beforehand. Quoting: "Are things going to change any time soon? We doubt it. WD and Seagate both reported record profits this past quarter. In Q1 2011, Western Digital reported net profit of $146M against sales of $2.3B while Seagate recorded $2.7B in revenue and $93 million in net income. That&rsquo;s a net profit margin of 6% and 3%, respectively. For this past quarter, Western Digital reported sales of $3B (thanks in part to its acquisition of Hitachi) and a net income of $483 million, while Seagate hit $4.4B in revenue and $1.1B in profits. Net margin was 16% and 37% respectively. With profit margins like this, the hard drive manufacturers are going to be loath to cut prices. After years of barely making profits, the Thailand floods are the best excuse ever to drive record income for a few quarters. All of this means that while we expect prices to gradually decline, holding off on a necessary purchase doesn&rsquo;t make much sense."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Higher+Hard+Drive+Prices+Are+the+New+Normal%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FKZUvb6"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F169203%2Fhigher-hard-drive-prices-are-the-new-normal%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/169203/higher-hard-drive-prices-are-the-new-normal?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/169203/higher-hard-drive-prices-are-the-new-normal?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874699&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/tbJ_jn8PUWE" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T17:01:00+00:00 storage sorry-about-your-luck hardware 199 199,197,149,130,37,19,13 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/169203/higher-hard-drive-prices-are-the-new-normal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7dSOmDQhrMI/ibms-ban-on-dropbox-and-icloud-highlights-cloud-security-issues <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FVi6yyGmsHrkyn0KFPMQT2gw_yw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FVi6yyGmsHrkyn0KFPMQT2gw_yw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FVi6yyGmsHrkyn0KFPMQT2gw_yw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FVi6yyGmsHrkyn0KFPMQT2gw_yw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>IBM has forbidden its employees from using cloud-based services such as Siri, Dropbox and iCloud, according to reports. These products (along with many others) are presenting a challenge to IT administrators who want to keep their organizations secure, as well as to consumer-software developers who suddenly need to build features with both consumers and businesses in mind.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=IBM's+Ban+on+Dropbox+and+iCloud+Highlights+Cloud+Security+Issues%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FJrSKHd"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F160200%2Fibms-ban-on-dropbox-and-icloud-highlights-cloud-security-issues%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/160200/ibms-ban-on-dropbox-and-icloud-highlights-cloud-security-issues?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/160200/ibms-ban-on-dropbox-and-icloud-highlights-cloud-security-issues?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874677&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7dSOmDQhrMI" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T16:39:00+00:00 ibm data-sovereignty it 94 94,90,66,58,19,13,8 http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/160200/ibms-ban-on-dropbox-and-icloud-highlights-cloud-security-issues?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/83Ft2z44rSM/fire-may-leave-us-nuclear-sub-damaged-beyond-repair <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QwPtAWx6qHJKN5-vkuDnNsa9dDo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QwPtAWx6qHJKN5-vkuDnNsa9dDo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QwPtAWx6qHJKN5-vkuDnNsa9dDo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QwPtAWx6qHJKN5-vkuDnNsa9dDo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>Hugh Pickens writes "AP reports that a fire that swept through a nuclear-powered submarine in dry dock at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has caused such extensive damage to its forward compartments that the 22-year-old Los Angeles-class attack submarine might have to be scrapped. 'These submarines were designed decades ago. So they're no longer state of the art,' says analyst Loren Thompson. 'If this vessel returns to service, I will be amazed.' The fire broke out while the Miami was on a 20-month stay at the shipyard for an overhaul, and it took firefighters from more than a dozen agencies twelve hours to put out the fire, described as intense, smoky, and a 'hot scary mess.' 'It takes a lot of guts to go into a burning building. But the idea of going into a submarine full of hot toxic smoke &mdash; that's real courage,' said U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree after meeting with the shipyard commander. Firefighters isolated the flames so they would not spread to nuclear propulsion spaces at the rear of the submarine. There was nuclear fuel on board the sub, but the reactor has been shut down for two months and was unaffected. Rear Admiral Rick Breckenridge says an investigation has been launched into what caused the fire, but he expects that investigation to take a long time to complete and wouldn't say if human error has been ruled out as a cause of the fire, or if the focus is on mechanical issues."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Fire+May+Leave+US+Nuclear+Sub+Damaged+Beyond+Repair%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FKoT3Ao"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F1547241%2Ffire-may-leave-us-nuclear-sub-damaged-beyond-repair%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1547241/fire-may-leave-us-nuclear-sub-damaged-beyond-repair?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1547241/fire-may-leave-us-nuclear-sub-damaged-beyond-repair?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874655&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/83Ft2z44rSM" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T16:17:00+00:00 military captain-won't-order-a-hot-sub-for-lunch-again technology 174 174,172,138,108,19,14,12 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1547241/fire-may-leave-us-nuclear-sub-damaged-beyond-repair?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FNSCCmK0qjA/hps-core-webos-enyo-team-going-to-google <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qnA-VMenXuQU9Ypdft55wrmZyBo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qnA-VMenXuQU9Ypdft55wrmZyBo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qnA-VMenXuQU9Ypdft55wrmZyBo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qnA-VMenXuQU9Ypdft55wrmZyBo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>benfrog writes "The core of HP's Enyo team (responsible for webOS's HTML5-based app framework) is heading to Google. What they will be doing at Google is unclear right now, but everyone is speculating that they might be active in developing something webOS-based for Android."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=HP's+Core+WebOS+Enyo+Team+Going+To+Google%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FLnfJyS"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F1430245%2Fhps-core-webos-enyo-team-going-to-google%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1430245/hps-core-webos-enyo-team-going-to-google?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1430245/hps-core-webos-enyo-team-going-to-google?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874507&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/FNSCCmK0qjA" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T15:36:00+00:00 google i'm-sure-a-beta-is-launching-soon technology 85 85,84,64,53,15,9,8 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1430245/hps-core-webos-enyo-team-going-to-google?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pZiwprg_vIE/iss-captures-spacex-dragon-capsule <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bDeSwcJp5fAiNZoDa00NhB1hVps/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bDeSwcJp5fAiNZoDa00NhB1hVps/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bDeSwcJp5fAiNZoDa00NhB1hVps/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bDeSwcJp5fAiNZoDa00NhB1hVps/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>Today at 9:56AM EDT (13:56 GMT) the robotic arm on the International Space Station successfully captured SpaceX's Dragon capsule. It's the first time a commercial craft has connected with the ISS, and the first time a spacecraft made in the U.S. has gone to the station since the retirement of the shuttle. The approach was delayed temporarily as engineers worked out bad sensor readings due to light reflected off the ISS's Kibo laboratory. "To work around the problem, SpaceX narrowed the field of view for the laser sensor so that it wouldn't pick up light from the offending reflector. Dragon then returned to the 30-meter checkpoint and moved in for the final approach." If all goes well today, the capsule will most likely be opened tomorrow. Video of the operation is being broadcast live on NASA TV.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=ISS+Captures+SpaceX+Dragon+Capsule%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FKg6WSF"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F1446206%2Fiss-captures-spacex-dragon-capsule%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1446206/iss-captures-spacex-dragon-capsule?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1446206/iss-captures-spacex-dragon-capsule?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874529&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/pZiwprg_vIE" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T14:54:00+00:00 iss congratulations-folks science 182 182,176,132,119,44,31,22 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1446206/iss-captures-spacex-dragon-capsule?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1coc9tTDQww/australia-and-south-africa-to-share-the-square-kilometer-array <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VjVIe3EmDweqKqaxTxQeyWPqWhA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VjVIe3EmDweqKqaxTxQeyWPqWhA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VjVIe3EmDweqKqaxTxQeyWPqWhA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VjVIe3EmDweqKqaxTxQeyWPqWhA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>ananyo writes "The battle for the world's largest radio telescope has ended in a draw. As an earlier Slashdot story suggested, South Africa and Australia are to split the Square Kilometre Array, a &euro;1.5 billion (US$1.9 billion) project made up of 3,000 15-meter-wide dishes and an even larger number of simple antennas. The decision was announced at a meeting outside of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, following a vote by SKA's international board."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Australia+and+South+Africa+To+Share+the+Square+Kilometer+Array%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FMAMECF"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F1314247%2Faustralia-and-south-africa-to-share-the-square-kilometer-array%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1314247/australia-and-south-africa-to-share-the-square-kilometer-array?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1314247/australia-and-south-africa-to-share-the-square-kilometer-array?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874369&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1coc9tTDQww" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T14:14:00+00:00 australia you-get-weekends-but-i-get-holidays science 56 56,53,34,28,12,7,4 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1314247/australia-and-south-africa-to-share-the-square-kilometer-array?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/71mb1OrjTOw/faculty-votes-for-open-access-policy-at-uc-san-francisco <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-UkeEYIqLPzofDNaH5G_3nyZaAg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-UkeEYIqLPzofDNaH5G_3nyZaAg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-UkeEYIqLPzofDNaH5G_3nyZaAg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-UkeEYIqLPzofDNaH5G_3nyZaAg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>Marian the Librarian writes "UCSF is among the first public institutions to adopt an open access policy, and is the largest scientific institution to have such a policy. The policy, voted unanimously by the faculty, will allow UCSF authors to put electronic versions of their published scientific articles on an open access repository making their research findings freely available to the public. Dr. Richard A. Schneider, who led the initiative, said, 'Our primary motivation is to make our research available to anyone who is interested in it, whether they are members of the general public or scientists without costly subscriptions to journals. The decision is a huge step forward in eliminating barriers to scientific research.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Faculty+Votes+For+Open+Access+Policy+At+UC+San+Francisco%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FLhuff6"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F1254250%2Ffaculty-votes-for-open-access-policy-at-uc-san-francisco%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1254250/faculty-votes-for-open-access-policy-at-uc-san-francisco?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1254250/faculty-votes-for-open-access-policy-at-uc-san-francisco?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874333&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/71mb1OrjTOw" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T13:32:00+00:00 education setting-an-example science 118 118,111,85,72,23,13,7 http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1254250/faculty-votes-for-open-access-policy-at-uc-san-francisco?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Uik4g_w0iSE/who-sends-google-the-most-takedown-notices-microsoft <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Emc5DmT7fhwOxpOw3t3DzGhhHZA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Emc5DmT7fhwOxpOw3t3DzGhhHZA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Emc5DmT7fhwOxpOw3t3DzGhhHZA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Emc5DmT7fhwOxpOw3t3DzGhhHZA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>nk497 writes "Google has released details on the copyright takedown notices it's received over the past year, and the most requests by far have been from Microsoft. Over the past year, Google has received DMCA takedown notices for 2,544,209 URLs over Microsoft-related piracy, with NBC and the RIAA ranking second and third. Many of the reports do not come directly from companies such as Microsoft, but via firms set up only to chase copyright issues. The most popular targets appear to be file-sharing sites. 'These days it's not unusual for us to receive more than 250,000 requests each week, which is more than what copyright owners asked us to remove in all of 2009,' said Fred von Lohmann, Google senior copyright counsel, adding it takes on average 11 hours for Google to take action."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Who+Sends+Google+the+Most+Takedown+Notices%3F+Microsoft%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FKmjLcC"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F1244224%2Fwho-sends-google-the-most-takedown-notices-microsoft%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1244224/who-sends-google-the-most-takedown-notices-microsoft?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1244224/who-sends-google-the-most-takedown-notices-microsoft?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2874307&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Uik4g_w0iSE" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2012-05-25T12:49:00+00:00 google going-for-the-high-score technology 131 131,124,94,81,34,23,14 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1244224/who-sends-google-the-most-takedown-notices-microsoft?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YAiCOB6cvsg/call-for-doj-to-reopen-google-wi-fi-spying-investigation <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_4JfRA3FmT3P-ZgNtX2XGOTBcHk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_4JfRA3FmT3P-ZgNtX2XGOTBcHk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_4JfRA3FmT3P-ZgNtX2XGOTBcHk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_4JfRA3FmT3P-ZgNtX2XGOTBcHk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>angry tapir writes "Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries. Representatives Frank Pallone Jr., a New Jersey Democrat, and John Barrow, a Georgia Democrat, called on the DOJ to fully investigate Google's actions for potential violations of federal wiretapping laws. In light of a recently released U.S. Federal Communications Commission report on Wi-Fi snooping by Google Street View cars, the DOJ should take a new look at the company's actions, wrote the lawmakers in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Call+For+DOJ+To+Reopen+Google+Wi-Fi+Spying+Investigation%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FJIHtgg"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F05%2F25%2F0412210%2Fcall-for-doj-to-reopen-google-wi-fi-spying-investigation%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/0412210/call-for-doj-to-reopen-google-wi-fi-spying-investigation?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/0412210/call-for-doj-to-reopen-google-wi-fi-spying-investigation?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2873193&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YAiCOB6cvsg" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2012-05-25T12:07:00+00:00 google we-were-just-in-the-neighborhood technology 68 68,63,43,36,9,7,6 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/0412210/call-for-doj-to-reopen-google-wi-fi-spying-investigation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Search Slashdot stories query http://slashdot.org/search.pl