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Submit Your Comments About ACTA
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0GCD9LfjSY0/Submit-Your-Comments-About-ACTA
alex_guy_CA Notes that the US Trade Representative — who has been negotiating the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement without input from the American people or Congress — is seeking public submissions on how to conduct US foreign copyright policy. This means that Americans can file comments with the USTR asking for ACTA to be made public. Public Knowledge explains the process: "Under the Special 301 process the USTR seeks input from US copyright, trademark, and patent owners about whether policies and practices in foreign countries deny them adequate IP protection. The process has generally been used by IP holders to complain not only about lax enforcement in other countries, but also about limitations and exceptions in their laws that are beneficial to libraries, to education, to innovation, and to the public interest generally. The ability to comment in the Special 301 process is not limited to IP owners only. Any member of the public is free to file comments. If you believe in the importance of balanced copyright policies, file comments with the USTR and make your voice heard. Comments can be filed electronically via http://www.regulations.gov/ docket number USTR-2010-0003. You have to include the term '2010 Special 301 Review' in the 'Type Comment and Upload File' field. ... Deadline for filing is February 16 by 5 pm"<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2242230/Submit-Your-Comments-About-ACTA?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/2242230"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2242230/Submit-Your-Comments-About-ACTA?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wOFmzBTZAAYrc3eWzTasniH0AIg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wOFmzBTZAAYrc3eWzTasniH0AIg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/0GCD9LfjSY0" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2010-02-09T23:40:00+00:00governmentpiece-of-your-mindyro66,6,5,5,1,0,0http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2242230/Submit-Your-Comments-About-ACTA?from=rssSwiss Firm Claims Boost In Android App Performance
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Qre-q7hID2E/Swiss-Firm-Claims-Boost-In-Android-App-Performance
Precision writes to inform us about the Swiss firm Myriad, which claims a 3x boost in Android app performance and longer battery life with a new virtual machine. Myriad says that its technology is 100% compatible with existing Android apps. "The tool is a replacement for the Dalvik virtual machine, which ships as part of the Android platform, and retains full compatibility with existing software. Dalvik Turbo also supports a range of processors including those based on ARM, Intel Atom, and MIPS Architectures."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2020224/Swiss-Firm-Claims-Boost-In-Android-App-Performance?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/2020224"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2020224/Swiss-Firm-Claims-Boost-In-Android-App-Performance?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlBWSg40Wm1OMp3stC5Oh_nvK8A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlBWSg40Wm1OMp3stC5Oh_nvK8A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Qre-q7hID2E" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2010-02-09T22:53:00+00:00cellphonessixty-fps-here-we-comemobile4444,44,34,29,4,3,0http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2020224/Swiss-Firm-Claims-Boost-In-Android-App-Performance?from=rssXCore's EduBook, a Netbook That Runs on AA Batteries
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wMbapZD8dnM/XCores-EduBook-a-Netbook-That-Runs-on-AA-Batteries
I'm typing this on a netbook with no hard drive, not using a chip from Intel or AMD, and powered by AA batteries. Eight rechargeable AAs, to be precise, in a bank of cells right where a Li-Ion battery would sit in a conventional laptop. The batteries charge in place, too (regulation prevents overcharging) meaning that the power cord is a simple three-prong-to-cloverleaf cord, no wall-wart required. It's the EduBook from Xcore (see that page for some photos of the internals, too), and it's a cool concept. Despite some warts, it's one of the most interesting things I ran into on the CES show floor last month (Xcore's Michael Barnes kindly supplied the laptop, straight from the display case). Read on for my review.<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2138200/XCores-EduBook-a-Netbook-That-Runs-on-AA-Batteries?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/2138200"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2138200/XCores-EduBook-a-Netbook-That-Runs-on-AA-Batteries?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9y9_uFtS3zv6krzhhPoZax0RhTM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9y9_uFtS3zv6krzhhPoZax0RhTM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/wMbapZD8dnM" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2010-02-09T22:06:00+00:00portableswhen-simplicity-is-keymobile9090,88,60,51,20,11,4http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2138200/XCores-EduBook-a-Netbook-That-Runs-on-AA-Batteries?from=rssMicrosoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YlYo1LuKjrE/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries
VindictivePantz sends word that the Windows 7 team has posted a new blog entry discussing their conclusions about the reported Windows 7 battery failures. "To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries that are in fact failing and Windows 7 is neither incorrectly reporting on battery status nor in any way whatsoever causing batteries to reach this state. In every case we have been able to identify the battery being reported on was in fact in need of recommended replacement. ...every single indication we have regarding the reports we've seen are simply Windows 7 reporting the state of the battery using this new feature and we're simply seeing batteries that are not performing above the designated threshold. ... We are as certain as we can be that we have addressed the root cause and concerns of this report, but we will continue to monitor the situation."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/196235/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/196235"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/196235/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CCQ6thYaVyNiOMPygN0kwavEmrc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CCQ6thYaVyNiOMPygN0kwavEmrc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YlYo1LuKjrE" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2010-02-09T21:20:00+00:00bugepidemic-of-noticinghardware148148,141,124,93,36,19,12http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/196235/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries?from=rssRe-Engineering the Immune System
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ryii3Y_nVpI/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System
destinyland notes a microbiology professor describing "Immunity on Demand" (or "Immunity 2.0") and wonders whether we could genetically engineer all the antibodies we need. "...there's a good chance this system, or something like it, will actually be in place within decades. Caltech scientists have already engineered stem cells into B cells that produce HIV-fighting antibodies — and an NIH researcher engineered T cells that recognize tumors which has already had promising clinical trials again skin cancer. Our best hope may be to cut out the middleman. Rather than merely hoping that the vaccine will indirectly lead to the antibody an individual needs, imagine if we could genetically engineer these antibodies and make them available as needed?"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1833219/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1833219"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1833219/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wwIZzQq0a5ViNMuUOYkAPJ8gYyo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wwIZzQq0a5ViNMuUOYkAPJ8gYyo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Ryii3Y_nVpI" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2010-02-09T20:34:00+00:00biotechimmunity-two-point-ohscience115115,112,91,64,20,10,3http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1833219/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System?from=rssThe Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-UiycC407Es/The-Hidden-Treasures-of-Sysinternals
Barence writes "PC Pro contributing editor Jon Honeyball has written a nice feature on the latest treasures to be found on the Windows Sysinternals website. Among them are a tool for creating virtual hard disks from physical drives, a hard disk read-write monitoring tool, and a utility for putting ISO images onto flash drives. They're free, but they're effective."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1811250/The-Hidden-Treasures-of-Sysinternals?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1811250"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1811250/The-Hidden-Treasures-of-Sysinternals?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGFltnrDlnGWLuXA3rp3hXbo4pw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGFltnrDlnGWLuXA3rp3hXbo4pw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-UiycC407Es" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2010-02-09T19:48:00+00:00windowsright-tools-for-the-jobtechnology210210,204,154,109,36,22,12http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1811250/The-Hidden-Treasures-of-Sysinternals?from=rss<em>BioShock 2</em> Released
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/51GJRagcbxI/emBioShock-2em-Released
BioShock 2 launched today for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Windows, ending the wait for a sequel to the original 2007 blockbuster. The events in BioShock 2 take place 10 years after the story from the original game. This time around, players control a prototype Big Daddy in an attempt to overthrow the new leader of Rapture. Early reviews for the game are quite strong, though the developers were prepared for fan backlash over some of the changes they made. The Guardian's Nicky Woolf praises the new storyline, and adds that "there is a fundamentally excellent shooter here too, with some of the best combat dynamics in the business." Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Alec Meer also had good things to say about the combat: "I can't stress this enough – as a game about shooting people, it's very responsive and very rewarding." However, Meer expressed disappointment that some of the impressive new concept art didn't get used and that the story and environment couldn't match the novelty of the original game. "Part of Rapture's great wonder was that it was just believable enough, if you squinted your brain a bit (or a lot), but this lathers on so much wild sci-fi that it's much harder to connect to it. The Sisters are elevated from horrifying genetic/psychological experiment into all-powerful messiah figures capable of pulling any old deus ex machina out of the hat. Making them into so much reduces the power and the sadness of what they are. As a result, the concept feels too exhausted to ever be used again."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1734252/emBioShock-2em-Released?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1734252"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1734252/emBioShock-2em-Released?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fKVsl7f2BnQ/How-Do-You-Accurately-Estimate-Programming-Time
itwbennett writes "It can take a fairly stable team of programmers as long as six months to get to a point where they're estimating programming time fairly close to actuals, says Suvro Upadhyaya, a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle. Accurately estimating programming time is a process of defining limitations, he says. The programmers' experience, domain knowledge, and speed vs. quality all come into play, and it is highly dependent upon the culture of the team/organization. Upadhyaya uses Scrum to estimate programming time. How do you do it?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1654200/How-Do-You-Accurately-Estimate-Programming-Time?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1654200"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1654200/How-Do-You-Accurately-Estimate-Programming-Time?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/S5dTGj83x_E/NVIDIA-Shows-Off-Optimus-Switchable-Graphics-For-Notebooks
Vigile writes "Transformers jokes aside, NVIDIA's newest technology offering hopes to radically change the way notebook computers are built and how customers use them. The promise of both extended battery life and high performance mobile computing has seemed like a pipe dream, and even the most recent updates to 'switchable graphics' left much to be desired in terms of the user experience. Having both an integrated and discrete graphics chip in your notebook does little good if you never switch between the two. Optimus allows the system to seamlessly and instantly change between IGP and discrete NVIDIA GPUs based on the task being run, including games, GPU encoding or Flash video playback. Using new software and hardware technology, notebooks using Optimus can power on and pass control to the GPU in a matter of 300ms and power both the GPU and PCIe lanes completely off when not in use. This can be done without being forced to reboot or even close out your applications, making it a hands-free solution for the customer."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1627231/NVIDIA-Shows-Off-Optimus-Switchable-Graphics-For-Notebooks?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1627231"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1627231/NVIDIA-Shows-Off-Optimus-Switchable-Graphics-For-Notebooks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RkaLxVHUpYI/KDE-44-Released-Alongside-Website-Redesign
Cryophallion writes "KDE 4.4.0 has finally been released, along with a redesign of the KDE.org website. New features include tabbed windows, improved desktop search and social desktop features. 'Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented.' A feature guide is also available."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1617217/KDE-44-Released-Alongside-Website-Redesign?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1617217"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1617217/KDE-44-Released-Alongside-Website-Redesign?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CrqhohJrTIU/Hardware-TPM-Hacked
BiggerIsBetter writes "Christopher Tarnovsky has pulled off the 'near impossible' TPM hardware hack. We all knew it was only a matter of time; this is why you shouldn't entrust your data to proprietary solutions. From the article: 'The technique can also be used to tap text messages and email belonging to the user of a lost or stolen phone. Tarnovsky said he can't be sure, however, whether his attack would work on TPM chips made by companies other than Infineon. Infineon said it knew this type of attack was possible when it was testing its chips. But the company said independent tests determined that the hack would require such a high skill level that there was a limited chance of it affecting many users. ... The Trusted Computing Group, which sets standards on TPM chips, called the attack "exceedingly difficult to replicate in a real-world environment."'"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1557204/Hardware-TPM-Hacked?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1557204"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1557204/Hardware-TPM-Hacked?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mMNOCkRT8yg/Signs-of-Water-Found-On-Saturnian-Moon-Enceladus
Matt_dk writes "Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside the icy moon. The Cassini plasma spectrometer, used to gather this data, also found other species of negatively charged ions including hydrocarbons."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/155220/Signs-of-Water-Found-On-Saturnian-Moon-Enceladus?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/155220"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/155220/Signs-of-Water-Found-On-Saturnian-Moon-Enceladus?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4bpWhbdiO40/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix
viralMeme writes "Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release. According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bjørn Olstad, 'We’ve continued to sell, support, and update the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST ESP, and we’ve designed the next wave of FAST products (scheduled for release in the first half of calendar year 2010) to include a cross-platform search core that has been extended to take advantage of web services and support mixed-platform deployment models. With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, we’ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have decided that in order to deliver more innovation per release in the future, the 2010 products will be the last to include a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX. Many of our customers run FAST ESP on Linux and UNIX today, and we recognize that our future focus on Windows means change. To ease the transition, we’re investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future.'"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1452238/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1452238"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1452238/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lgHh86-2QNw/Space-Shuttle-Spy-Gets-15-Years
goG writes "A Chinese-born engineer was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for hoarding sensitive information about the US space shuttle with the intent of giving it to China. US District Judge Cormac Carney called Chung's crimes a matter of national security, saying he had committed a breach against the trust Boeing and the country had placed in him. Attorney Greg Staples said, 'The [People's Republic of China] is bent on stealing sensitive information from the United States and shows no sign of relenting. Only strong sentences offer any hope of dissuading others from helping the PRC get that technology.' Staples also 'noted in sentencing papers that Chung amassed a personal wealth of more than $3 million US while betraying his adopted country.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1435230/Space-Shuttle-Spy-Gets-15-Years?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1435230"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1435230/Space-Shuttle-Spy-Gets-15-Years?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vS0WCdPdTD4/Call-For-Scientific-Research-Code-To-Be-Released
Pentagram writes "Professor Ince, writing in the Guardian, has issued a call for scientists to make the code they use in the course of their research publicly available. He focuses specifically on the topical controversies in climate science, and concludes with the view that researchers who are able but unwilling to release programs they use should not be regarded as scientists. Quoting: 'There is enough evidence for us to regard a lot of scientific software with worry. For example Professor Les Hatton, an international expert in software testing resident in the Universities of Kent and Kingston, carried out an extensive analysis of several million lines of scientific code. He showed that the software had an unacceptably high level of detectable inconsistencies. For example, interface inconsistencies between software modules which pass data from one part of a program to another occurred at the rate of one in every seven interfaces on average in the programming language Fortran, and one in every 37 interfaces in the language C. This is hugely worrying when you realise that just one error — just one — will usually invalidate a computer program. What he also discovered, even more worryingly, is that the accuracy of results declined from six significant figures to one significant figure during the running of programs.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1336250/Call-For-Scientific-Research-Code-To-Be-Released?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=10/02/09/1336250"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1336250/Call-For-Scientific-Research-Code-To-Be-Released?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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