http://slashdot.org/News for nerds, stuff that mattersen-usCopyright 1997-2013, Dice. All Rights Reserved. Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. serviceTue, 21 May 2013 22:43:08 GMTTue, 21 May 2013 22:43:08 GMT2hourly11970-01-01T00:00:00Zhelp@slashdot.orgTechnologyDice2013-05-21T22:43:08Zen-usCopyright 1997-2013, Dice. All Rights Reserved. Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. servicehttp://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gifhttp://slashdot.org/http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4nsOrtHP8Ek/story01.htmNew submitter QuantumPion writes "The Environmental Protection Agency released draft guidelines last month that could significantly relax radiation hazard standards in the case of a radiological event in the United States by using risk-based decisions. The goal is to have limits that make sense in an emergency that are different from the limits in day-to-day life. From the article: 'Currently, the only guidance are the extremely strict standards that apply for EPA Superfund sites and nuclear plant decommissioning, which are as low as 0.010&ndash;0.025 rem/year, far below the natural background levels in the U.S. of 0.300 rem/year, and even well below the average amount of radioactive materials that Americans eat each year. And these guidelines aren&rsquo;t really different from the 1992 PAG, except in the area of long-term cleanup standards and, perhaps, standards for resettlement. What&rsquo;s the big deal here? As radworkers, we&rsquo;re allowed to get 5 rem/year. 2 rem/year doesn&rsquo;t rate a second thought. ... No one has ever been harmed by 5 rem/year, so setting emergency levels at 2 rem/year is pretty mild and more than reasonable. ... Think of it this way. The situations covered by these new guidelines are similar to someone dying of thirst who has the chance to drink fresh water having 2,000 pCi per gallon of radium in it. While the safe drinking water levels are 20 pCi/gal for Ra, 2,000 pCi/gal is of no threat, especially if you&rsquo;re going to die from imminent dehydration. Of course, a bag of potato chips has 3,500 picocuries, so go figure.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=EPA+Makes+a+Rad+Decision%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F180ttiN"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F211256%2Fepa-makes-a-rad-decision%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/13/05/21/211256/epa-makes-a-rad-decision?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/13/05/21/211256/epa-makes-a-rad-decision?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=3771729&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c39d59b/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665263025/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39d59b/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665263025/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39d59b/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665263025/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39d59b/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/4nsOrtHP8Ek" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:36:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c39d59b/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C2112560Cepa0Emakes0Ea0Erad0Edecision0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillgovernment2013-05-21T22:36:00Z4appropriate-dose-of-overreactionscience4,4,2,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c39d59b/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C2112560Cepa0Emakes0Ea0Erad0Edecision0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/svgXCF2Z53s/story01.htmNerval's Lobster writes "Fresh off purchasing Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Yahoo has moved to the next stage of what's becoming a company-wide reboot: fixing Flickr, the photo-sharing service that it acquired in 2005 and subsequently allowed to languish. Yahoo boosted Flickr accounts' individual storage capacity to one free terabyte, revamped the Website's overall look, and launched a new Flickr app for Google Android, among other tweaks. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer clearly wants her company to fight toe-to-toe on features with Google and Facebook, but she faces a long road ahead of her: not only does she need to streamline Yahoo's cumbersome corporate structure and product portfolio into something that resembles fighting shape, but she needs to reverse the general perception that Yahoo is teetering on the edge of history's trash-bin, with an aging customer base and unexciting features. The question is, could anyone actually pull it off? Is Yahoo capable of an Apple-style turnaround, or are its current actions merely delaying the inevitable?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+Can+Yahoo+Actually+Stage+a+Comeback%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16Las4b"><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%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F2031247%2Fask-slashdot-can-yahoo-actually-stage-a-comeback%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://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2031247/ask-slashdot-can-yahoo-actually-stage-a-comeback?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://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2031247/ask-slashdot-can-yahoo-actually-stage-a-comeback?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=3771659&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3951d1/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664288714/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3951d1/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664288714/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3951d1/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664288714/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3951d1/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/svgXCF2Z53s" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:54:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3951d1/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C20A312470Cask0Eslashdot0Ecan0Eyahoo0Eactually0Estage0Ea0Ecomeback0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillbusiness2013-05-21T21:54:00Ztitans-versus-dinosaursaskslashdot0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3951d1/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C20A312470Cask0Eslashdot0Ecan0Eyahoo0Eactually0Estage0Ea0Ecomeback0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wNxshKZb4iI/story01.htmcervesaebraciator writes "According to Quartz, '[Anjan Contractor's] Systems &amp; Materials Research Corporation just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer. But Contractor, a mechanical engineer with a background in 3-D printing, envisions a much more mundane &mdash; and ultimately more important &mdash; use for the technology. He sees a day when every kitchen has a 3-D printer, and the earth's 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store. Contractor's vision would mean the end of food waste, because the powder his system will use is shelf-stable for up to 30 years, so that each cartridge, whether it contains sugars, complex carbohydrates, protein or some other basic building block, would be fully exhausted before being returned to the store.' No word yet on whether anyone other than the guy trying to sell the technology thinks it'll make palatable food."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=3-D+Printable+Food+Gets+Funding+From+NASA%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12K6Drc"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1958237%2F3-d-printable-food-gets-funding-from-nasa%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/13/05/21/1958237/3-d-printable-food-gets-funding-from-nasa?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/13/05/21/1958237/3-d-printable-food-gets-funding-from-nasa?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=3771595&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c390a76/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664709980/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c390a76/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664709980/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c390a76/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664709980/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c390a76/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/wNxshKZb4iI" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:12:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c390a76/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C19582370C30Ed0Eprintable0Efood0Egets0Efunding0Efrom0Enasa0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillnasa2013-05-21T21:12:00Z11enjoy-a-tasty-extrudelscience11,11,8,8,2,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c390a76/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C19582370C30Ed0Eprintable0Efood0Egets0Efunding0Efrom0Enasa0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/b3n5FkiGrRY/story01.htmnecro81 writes "Although its Tevatron particle accelerator has gone dark, Fermi Laboratory outside Chicago is still doing physics. A new experiment, called muon g-2 will investigate quantum mechanical behavior of the electron's heavier sibling: the muon. Fermi needs a large ring chamber to store the muons it produces and investigates, and it just so happens that Brookhaven National Laboratory outside NYC has one to spare. But how do you transport a delicate, 15-m diameter, 600-ton superconducting magnet halfway across the country? Very carefully."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Transporting+a+15-Meter-Wide%2C+600-Ton+Magnet+Cross+Country%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10jqN8z"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1842247%2Ftransporting-a-15-meter-wide-600-ton-magnet-cross-country%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/13/05/21/1842247/transporting-a-15-meter-wide-600-ton-magnet-cross-country?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/13/05/21/1842247/transporting-a-15-meter-wide-600-ton-magnet-cross-country?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=3771429&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c388535/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664193689/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c388535/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664193689/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c388535/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664193689/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c388535/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/b3n5FkiGrRY" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:29:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c388535/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C18422470Ctransporting0Ea0E150Emeter0Ewide0E60A0A0Eton0Emagnet0Ecross0Ecountry0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillscience2013-05-21T20:29:00Z2will-take-a-lot-of-stampsscience2,2,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c388535/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C18422470Ctransporting0Ea0E150Emeter0Ewide0E60A0A0Eton0Emagnet0Ecross0Ecountry0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zdZqtS53DzI/story01.htmLucas123 writes "U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include 'personalization technology' in their weapons. Tierney said he got the idea for The Personalized Handgun Safety Act of 2013 from the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. In it Bond escapes death when his handgun, which is equipped with technology that recognizes his fingerprints, becomes inoperable when a bad guy picks it up. 'This technology, however, isn't just for the movies &mdash; it's a reality,' Tierney said. Tierney pointed to a myriad of cases where the smart gun tech could prevent children from being harmed or killed in firearms accidents. Jim Wallace, executive director of the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League, the official state association of the NRA, said he knows of no gun owners who would want smart gun technology on their weapons. Wallace said any technology that may impede the proper function of a weapon is a problem. He pointed to the fact that any integrated processor technology would also require a battery of some kind, which could pose a system failure if it lost power."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=House+Bill+Would+Mandate+Smart+Gun+Tech+By+U.S.+Manufacturers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13IPCiq"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1845232%2Fhouse-bill-would-mandate-smart-gun-tech-by-us-manufacturers%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/13/05/21/1845232/house-bill-would-mandate-smart-gun-tech-by-us-manufacturers?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/13/05/21/1845232/house-bill-would-mandate-smart-gun-tech-by-us-manufacturers?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=3771435&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c384a7c/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664380191/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c384a7c/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664380191/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c384a7c/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664380191/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c384a7c/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/zdZqtS53DzI" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:46:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c384a7c/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C18452320Chouse0Ebill0Ewould0Emandate0Esmart0Egun0Etech0Eby0Eus0Emanufacturers0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillgovernment2013-05-21T19:46:00Zpowered-by-the-cloudtechnology0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c384a7c/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C18452320Chouse0Ebill0Ewould0Emandate0Esmart0Egun0Etech0Eby0Eus0Emanufacturers0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3FFZE8nZwTY/story01.htmjammag writes "Free sodas, candy and energy bars can be surprisingly important to developers, says longtime coder Eric Spiegel. They need the perks, not to mention the caffeine boost. More important, free sodas from management are like the canary in the coal mine. If they get cut, then layoffs might be next. 'The sodas are just the wake-up call. If the culture changes to be focused more on cost-cutting than on innovation and creativity, then would you still want to work here? I wouldn't.' Are free perks really that important?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Do+Developers+Need+Free+Perks+To+Thrive%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16KeVEs"><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%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F161204%2Fdo-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive%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://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/161204/do-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive?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://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/161204/do-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive?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=3771057&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c37fbd0/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665258620/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c37fbd0/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665258620/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c37fbd0/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665258620/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c37fbd0/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/3FFZE8nZwTY" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:04:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c37fbd0/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C16120A40Cdo0Edevelopers0Eneed0Efree0Eperks0Eto0Ethrive0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothybusiness2013-05-21T19:04:00Zman-does-not-live-by-free-bread-alonedevelopers0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c37fbd0/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C16120A40Cdo0Edevelopers0Eneed0Efree0Eperks0Eto0Ethrive0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/j6INrTqIMHI/story01.htmWhat little boy or girl never wanted a hovercraft? Something loud that could travel over water, pavement, maybe even over a plowed field or through a swamp? Ben King obviously wanted one, so after he grew up and got his PhD in physics and found a good job, he founded Lone Star Hovercraft. Timothy Lord interviewed Ben at the Austin Mini Maker Faire, and we also found some video of Ben flying (is that the right word?) one of his hovercraft on a lake that we spliced into the interview to liven it up a little. Vroom!<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=So+You've+Always+Wanted+a+Hovercraft...+(Video)%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12s3GtG"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1626206%2Fso-youve-always-wanted-a-hovercraft-video%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/13/05/21/1626206/so-youve-always-wanted-a-hovercraft-video?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/13/05/21/1626206/so-youve-always-wanted-a-hovercraft-video?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=3771101&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3805a3/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664284770/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3805a3/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664284770/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3805a3/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664284770/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3805a3/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/j6INrTqIMHI" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:22:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3805a3/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C162620A60Cso0Eyouve0Ealways0Ewanted0Ea0Ehovercraft0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmRoblimotransportation2013-05-21T18:22:00Z4it's-all-about-the-air-cushiontechnology4,4,2,2,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3805a3/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C162620A60Cso0Eyouve0Ealways0Ewanted0Ea0Ehovercraft0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YXM9nh3MOx4/story01.htmToday at a press conference leading up to E3, Microsoft unveiled its next-gen games/entertainment console, the Xbox One. Their stated goal for the Xbox One is to have a single device provide "all of your entertainment." One of the big changes is increased support for voice and and gesture input. You can turn the console on by voice, and it will recognize you and automatically login. Swiping to the side with your hand will browse through menu pages, and saying "Watch TV" will bring up the TV app very quickly. The same with music, internet, and movies. The new console also supports multitasking &mdash; for example, while watching a movie, you can bring up your web browser in a side panel and surf the web at the same time. There is also a built-in TV listings app that responds to channel names &mdash; saying "Watch CBS" will switch to CBS without giving it an actual channel number. By this point, you're probably asking: does it play games? Yes. Hardware specs: 8-core CPU/GPU, 8GB RAM, a Blu-ray drive, a 500GB HDD, USB 3.0, and Wi-fi Direct. (They didn't provide the CPU frequency, instead saying it had 5 billion transistors.) The Kinect sensor got an upgrade: 2Gbps of data capture has finer skeletal visibility, can detect minor orientation changes in hands and fingers, and can even calculate your balance and weight distribution. The new controller looks slightly bigger, and is designed to play well with Kinect. They've also updated Smartglass, the remote control software that runs on mobile devices, but they didn't explain much about it. The new Xbox Live will have 300,000 servers powering it, up from 15,000 this year &mdash; though, of course, no details were provided about server specs. The console will have native game capture and editing tools &mdash; essentially, a game DVR. Saved games will be stored in the cloud, and they have new matchmaking capabilities that operate in the background. Update: 05/21 17:50 GMT by S : Halo is getting its own live-action TV show, for some reason. They'll be collaborating with Steven Spielberg. Microsoft is also partnering with the NFL for live broadcasts and interactive experiences, such as split-screen Skype chats and fantasy league updates. Xbox One will be out "later this year." No price information. it will not be backward-compatible with Xbox 360 games.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Microsoft+Unveils+Xbox+One%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10ji61t"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1739209%2Fmicrosoft-unveils-xbox-one%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/13/05/21/1739209/microsoft-unveils-xbox-one?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/13/05/21/1739209/microsoft-unveils-xbox-one?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=3771309&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c37a186/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664704801/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c37a186/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664704801/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c37a186/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664704801/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c37a186/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YXM9nh3MOx4" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:41:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c37a186/l/0Lgames0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C173920A90Cmicrosoft0Eunveils0Exbox0Eone0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillxbox2013-05-21T17:41:00Z297solid-color-rectangles-claim-another-victimgames297,292,201,168,41,14,6http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c37a186/l/0Lgames0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C173920A90Cmicrosoft0Eunveils0Exbox0Eone0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cFHCIqBX5qI/story01.htmWriter and novelist Neil Gaiman and Amber Benson of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame have teamed up to star in a new vampire movie called, Blood Kiss. Kickstarted by ST:TNG and Emmy-winning writer Michael Reaves, Blood Kiss is a film noir vampire movie set in Golden Age Hollywood. Of his acting debut Gaiman says, "I'm willing to pretend that the prospect of acting doesn't terrify me in order to help Michael Reaves make his film." The trio have agreed to take a break from the blood and answer any questions you have about the new project or their past work. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Neil+Gaiman+and+Amber+Benson+About+Their+Kickstarter+Vampire+Movie%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F118UEFp"><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%2Ffeatures.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1457218%2Fask-neil-gaiman-and-amber-benson-about-their-kickstarter-vampire-movie%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://features.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1457218/ask-neil-gaiman-and-amber-benson-about-their-kickstarter-vampire-movie?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://features.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1457218/ask-neil-gaiman-and-amber-benson-about-their-kickstarter-vampire-movie?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=3770935&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c36f77f/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664703265/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c36f77f/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664703265/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c36f77f/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664703265/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c36f77f/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/cFHCIqBX5qI" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:57:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c36f77f/l/0Lfeatures0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C14572180Cask0Eneil0Egaiman0Eand0Eamber0Ebenson0Eabout0Etheir0Ekickstarter0Evampire0Emovie0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusmovies2013-05-21T16:57:00Zask-what-you-willfeatures0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c36f77f/l/0Lfeatures0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C14572180Cask0Eneil0Egaiman0Eand0Eamber0Ebenson0Eabout0Etheir0Ekickstarter0Evampire0Emovie0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Sl-Vkr3VZ6E/story01.htmdcblogs writes "The Senate's immigration bill may force the large offshore outsourcing firms to reduce their use of H-1B visa-holding staff, forcing them to hire more local workers and raising their costs. But one large Indian firm, Infosys, will try to offset cost increases with software robotics. Infosys recently announced a partnership with IPsoft, a New York-based provider of autonomic IT services. With IPsoft's tools, work that is now done by human beings, mostly Level 1 support, could be done by a software machine. Infosys says that IPsoft tools can 'reduce human intervention.' More colorfully, Chandrashekar Kakal, global head of Infosys's business IT services, told the Times of India, that 'what robotics did for the auto assembly line, we are now doing for the IT engineering line.' James Slaby, a research director of HFS Research who has been following the use of autonomics closely, wrote in a recent report that the IPsoft partnership may help Infosys 'reap fatter margins by augmenting and replacing expensive, human IT support engineers with cheaper, more accurate, efficient automated processes,' and by improving service delivery."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Immigration+Reform+May+Spur+Software+Robotics%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12JnI4v"><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%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1440234%2Fimmigration-reform-may-spur-software-robotics%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://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1440234/immigration-reform-may-spur-software-robotics?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://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1440234/immigration-reform-may-spur-software-robotics?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=3770907&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3695eb/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664186950/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3695eb/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664186950/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3695eb/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664186950/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3695eb/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Sl-Vkr3VZ6E" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:12:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3695eb/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C1440A2340Cimmigration0Ereform0Emay0Espur0Esoftware0Erobotics0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyai2013-05-21T16:12:00Zway-of-all-fleshdevelopers0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3695eb/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C1440A2340Cimmigration0Ereform0Emay0Espur0Esoftware0Erobotics0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HbW93b1dChw/story01.htmFirst time accepted submitter Aaron B Lingwood writes "As reported by TorrentFreak, Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate have all asked Google to take down links pointing to the Pirate Bay documentary 'TPB-AFK.' The film, created by Simon Klose, is available for no cost and has already been watched by millions of people. The public response to this free release model has been overwhelmingly positive, but it's now meeting resistance from Hollywood, TPB's arch rival. Pirate Party Australia opines 'Hollywood is using takedown notices to censor Pirate Bay doco, is it incompetence or malice? Always hard to tell.' Whichever the answer, the system is definitely broken."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Hollywood+Studios+Use+DMCA+To+Censor+Pirate+Bay+Documentary%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F118Z7Sq"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F143204%2Fhollywood-studios-use-dmca-to-censor-pirate-bay-documentary%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/13/05/21/143204/hollywood-studios-use-dmca-to-censor-pirate-bay-documentary?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/13/05/21/143204/hollywood-studios-use-dmca-to-censor-pirate-bay-documentary?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=3770815&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3657bc/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664700899/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3657bc/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664700899/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3657bc/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664700899/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3657bc/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/HbW93b1dChw" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:33:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3657bc/l/0Lentertainment0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C14320A40Chollywood0Estudios0Euse0Edmca0Eto0Ecensor0Epirate0Ebay0Edocumentary0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothymovies2013-05-21T15:33:00Zwe-don't-like-your-bitsentertainment0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3657bc/l/0Lentertainment0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C14320A40Chollywood0Estudios0Euse0Edmca0Eto0Ecensor0Epirate0Ebay0Edocumentary0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2HnwQkNo7xw/story01.htmTrailrunner7 writes "The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been spearheading botnet takedowns and other anti-cybercrime operations for many years, and it has had remarkable success. But the cybercrime problem isn't going away anytime soon, so the DCU is in the process of building a new cybercrime center here, and soon will roll out a new threat intelligence service to help ISPs and CERT teams get better data about ongoing attacks. Dennis Fisher sat down with TJ Campana, director of security at the DCU, to discuss the unit's work and what threats could be next on the target list."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Inside+the+Microsoft+Digital+Crimes+Unit%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F165gwVg"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1354208%2Finside-the-microsoft-digital-crimes-unit%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/13/05/21/1354208/inside-the-microsoft-digital-crimes-unit?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/13/05/21/1354208/inside-the-microsoft-digital-crimes-unit?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=3770799&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3599bc/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664699441/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3599bc/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664699441/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3599bc/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664699441/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3599bc/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/2HnwQkNo7xw" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:51:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3599bc/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C135420A80Cinside0Ethe0Emicrosoft0Edigital0Ecrimes0Eunit0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothycrime2013-05-21T14:51:00Z1private-justiceyro1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3599bc/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C135420A80Cinside0Ethe0Emicrosoft0Edigital0Ecrimes0Eunit0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cZlOXiS1bBU/story01.htmJust a few weeks after Cody Wilson and friends successfully fired an instance of their own 3-D printed handgun design, Sparrowvsrevolution writes, "a couple of Wisconsin hobbyist gunsmiths have already managed to adapt Defense Distributed's so-called Liberator firearm and print it on a $1,725 Lulzbot 3D printer, a consumer grade machine that's far cheaper than the industrial quality Stratasys machine Defense Distributed used. They then proceeded to record their cheaper gun (dubbed the 'Lulz Liberator') firing nine .380 rounds without any signs of cracking or melting. Eight of the rounds were fired from a single plastic barrel. (Defense Distributed only fired one through its prototype.) In total, the Lulz Liberator's materials cost around $25 and were printed over just 48 hours."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Working+Handgun+Printed+On+a+Sub-%242%2C000+3D+Printer%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11UUEdN"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1328248%2Fworking-handgun-printed-on-a-sub-2000-3d-printer%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/13/05/21/1328248/working-handgun-printed-on-a-sub-2000-3d-printer?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/13/05/21/1328248/working-handgun-printed-on-a-sub-2000-3d-printer?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=3770741&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c358ee8/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664698220/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c358ee8/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664698220/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c358ee8/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664698220/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c358ee8/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/cZlOXiS1bBU" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:12:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c358ee8/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C13282480Cworking0Ehandgun0Eprinted0Eon0Ea0Esub0E20A0A0A0E3d0Eprinter0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyhardware2013-05-21T14:12:00Z10liberator-litehardware10,9,6,5,1,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c358ee8/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C13282480Cworking0Ehandgun0Eprinted0Eon0Ea0Esub0E20A0A0A0E3d0Eprinter0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YKNhyAFPJbA/story01.htmwalterbyrd writes "In 2012, IBM started retiring the Lotus brand. Now 1-2-3, the core product that brought Lotus its fame, takes its turn on the chopping block. IBM stated, 'Effective on the dates listed below, [June 11, 2013] IBM will withdraw from marketing part numbers from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:' IBM Lotus 123 Millennium Edition V9.x, IBM Lotus SmartSuite 9.x V9.8.0, and Organizer V6.1.0. Further, IBM stated, 'Customers will no longer be able to receive support for these offerings after September 30, 2014. No service extensions will be offered. There will be no replacement programs.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Goodbye%2C+Lotus+1-2-3%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14sITZl"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1240247%2Fgoodbye-lotus-1-2-3%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/13/05/21/1240247/goodbye-lotus-1-2-3?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/13/05/21/1240247/goodbye-lotus-1-2-3?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=3770599&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c352b50/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665248468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c352b50/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665248468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c352b50/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665248468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c352b50/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YKNhyAFPJbA" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c352b50/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C1240A2470Cgoodbye0Elotus0E10E20E30Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyibm2013-05-21T13:31:00Z53-2-1-zerotechnology5,5,4,4,1,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c352b50/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C1240A2470Cgoodbye0Elotus0E10E20E30Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5IPCbYyOv-I/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "The Australian government came a step closer to formalising its plans to make Asian language study compulsory for schools this week. It has released a draft curriculum for public consultation which reveals plans to include Indonesian, Korean and french language in the curriculum. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard publicly stated in September 2012 that in response to the "staggering growth" in the region, the government would be instigating 25 key measures to strengthen and exploit links with Asia. The plan includes the requirement that one third of civil servants and company directors have a "deep knowledge," thousands of scholarships for Asian students, and the opportunity for every schoolchild to learn one of four "priority" languages- Chinese, Hindi, Japanese or Indonesian."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Australia+Makes+Asian+Language+Learning+a+Priority%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16J7cq4"><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%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1235237%2Faustralia-makes-asian-language-learning-a-priority%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://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1235237/australia-makes-asian-language-learning-a-priority?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://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1235237/australia-makes-asian-language-learning-a-priority?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=3770585&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c342208/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664694843/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c342208/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664694843/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c342208/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664694843/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c342208/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/5IPCbYyOv-I" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:50:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c342208/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C12352370Caustralia0Emakes0Easian0Elanguage0Elearning0Ea0Epriority0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyaustralia2013-05-21T12:50:00Zbut-latin-builds-characternews0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c342208/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C12352370Caustralia0Emakes0Easian0Elanguage0Elearning0Ea0Epriority0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5VKbWvIVEAw/story01.htmmspohr writes with news that Apple might be in a bit of hot water over its policy of offshoring revenues to favorable tax jurisdictions. Only they take it a step further, from the article: "Apple relied on a 'complex web of offshore entities' and U.S. tax loopholes to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on $44 billion in offshore income over the past four years ... The maker of iPhones and iPads used at least three foreign subsidiaries that it claims are not 'tax resident in any nation' to help it avoid paying billions in 'otherwise taxable offshore income,' the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said in a statement yesterday."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Web+of+Tax+Shelters+Saved+Apple+Billions%2C+Inquiry+Finds%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13HKzyv"><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%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F0222210%2Fweb-of-tax-shelters-saved-apple-billions-inquiry-finds%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://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/0222210/web-of-tax-shelters-saved-apple-billions-inquiry-finds?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://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/0222210/web-of-tax-shelters-saved-apple-billions-inquiry-finds?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=3768637&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c338b84/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664178909/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c338b84/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664178909/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c338b84/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664178909/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c338b84/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/5VKbWvIVEAw" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:06:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c338b84/l/0Lapple0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A222210A0Cweb0Eof0Etax0Eshelters0Esaved0Eapple0Ebillions0Einquiry0Efinds0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerbusiness2013-05-21T12:06:00Z5where-else-would-you-put-itapple5,5,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c338b84/l/0Lapple0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A222210A0Cweb0Eof0Etax0Eshelters0Esaved0Eapple0Ebillions0Einquiry0Efinds0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2SdD1wE3n3U/story01.htmjudgecorp writes "German researchers from the Fraunhover and Karlsruhe institutes have achieved 40Gbps transfers over 1km using a wireless link. The new record raises the hope that point-to-point wireless could be used instead of expensive fibers in some rural broadband applications." Partially thanks to transmitting between 200GHz and 280GHz.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=German+Researchers+Hit+40+Gbps+On+Wireless+Link%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10L8prW"><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%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F0231238%2Fgerman-researchers-hit-40-gbps-on-wireless-link%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://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/0231238/german-researchers-hit-40-gbps-on-wireless-link?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://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/0231238/german-researchers-hit-40-gbps-on-wireless-link?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=3768647&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c315275/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664172302/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c315275/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664172302/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c315275/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664172302/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c315275/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/2SdD1wE3n3U" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:04:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c315275/l/0Lmobile0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A2312380Cgerman0Eresearchers0Ehit0E40A0Egbps0Eon0Ewireless0Elink0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerwireless2013-05-21T09:04:00Zdon't-stand-in-front-of-itmobile0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c315275/l/0Lmobile0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A2312380Cgerman0Eresearchers0Ehit0E40A0Egbps0Eon0Ewireless0Elink0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1_VMQyMDs7s/story01.htmDavidGilbert99 writes "LulzSec's star burnt brightly in the short period it was active, but things quickly turned sour when its core members began getting arrested. Last week three of the six core members were sentenced in the UK, but this only served to highlight the fact that one member of the group, known as Avunit, has been able to remain unidentified despite the FBI having turned the group's leader Sabu into an informant. Who is Avunit? And does he hold the purse strings of the group's Bitcoin wallet which could have up to $180,000 in it?" As usual, be warned of the horrendous autoplaying video ads surrounding good content at the primary link.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Hunt+For+LulzSec's+Missing+Sixth+Member%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F117ajVL"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F0225215%2Fthe-hunt-for-lulzsecs-missing-sixth-member%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/13/05/21/0225215/the-hunt-for-lulzsecs-missing-sixth-member?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/13/05/21/0225215/the-hunt-for-lulzsecs-missing-sixth-member?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=3768641&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c303c6a/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664355978/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c303c6a/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664355978/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c303c6a/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664355978/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c303c6a/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1_VMQyMDs7s" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:13:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c303c6a/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A2252150Cthe0Ehunt0Efor0Elulzsecs0Emissing0Esixth0Emember0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamersecurity2013-05-21T07:13:00Zimaginary-hackersit0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c303c6a/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A2252150Cthe0Ehunt0Efor0Elulzsecs0Emissing0Esixth0Emember0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4LM2ts2J7SE/story01.htmrichlv writes "Latvian police recently raided the home of a history teacher and confiscated his computer. The crime? Scanning a history book and making it available on his website covering various topics on history. The raid was based on a complaint from the publisher (Google Translate to English), which has a near-monopoly on educational materials in Latvia, often linked with shady connections in the Ministry of Education."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Latvian+Police+Raid+Teacher's+Home+for+Uploading+%244.00+Textbook%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10gHmSr"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F0040248%2Flatvian-police-raid-teachers-home-for-uploading-400-textbook%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/13/05/21/0040248/latvian-police-raid-teachers-home-for-uploading-400-textbook?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/13/05/21/0040248/latvian-police-raid-teachers-home-for-uploading-400-textbook?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=3768489&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2e5e40/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665229161/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2e5e40/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665229161/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2e5e40/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665229161/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2e5e40/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/4LM2ts2J7SE" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 04:06:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2e5e40/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A0A40A2480Clatvian0Epolice0Eraid0Eteachers0Ehome0Efor0Euploading0E40A0A0Etextbook0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerpiracy2013-05-21T04:06:00Zone-officer-per-dollaryro0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2e5e40/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A0A40A2480Clatvian0Epolice0Eraid0Eteachers0Ehome0Efor0Euploading0E40A0A0Etextbook0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LojvfWL19Q4/story01.htmhypnosec writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has started accepting donations in the form of Bitcoins again after a two year hiatus, stating that the legal uncertainty hovering over the digital currency has all but disappeared. On their blog the EFF noted that a report from U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in addition to their own findings, 'have confirmed that, as a user of Bitcoin or any virtual currency, EFF itself is likely not subject to regulation.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=EFF+Resumes+Accepting+Bitcoin+Donations+After+Two+Year+Hiatus%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13GGD0U"><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%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F009252%2Feff-resumes-accepting-bitcoin-donations-after-two-year-hiatus%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/13/05/21/009252/eff-resumes-accepting-bitcoin-donations-after-two-year-hiatus?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/13/05/21/009252/eff-resumes-accepting-bitcoin-donations-after-two-year-hiatus?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=3768455&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2d99f0/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664348565/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2d99f0/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664348565/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2d99f0/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664348565/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2d99f0/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/LojvfWL19Q4" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:56:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2d99f0/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A0A92520Ceff0Eresumes0Eaccepting0Ebitcoin0Edonations0Eafter0Etwo0Eyear0Ehiatus0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerbitcoin2013-05-21T01:56:00Z2coal-into-digital-plowsharesyro2,2,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2d99f0/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C0A0A92520Ceff0Eresumes0Eaccepting0Ebitcoin0Edonations0Eafter0Etwo0Eyear0Ehiatus0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OL76s580KQw/story01.htmCbs228 writes "During last week's Google I/O conference, the company announced a replacement for its aging Talk instant messenger: Google Hangouts. Hangouts, which is only available for Android, iOS, and Chrome, offers closer integration with Google+. Unfortunately, the new product drops support for the XMPP instant messaging protocol, which has been an integral part of Talk for over ten years. XMPP delivers instant messages to desktop clients, like Pidgin, and enables communication between users on different instant messaging networks. Hangouts users attempting to communicate with contacts on non-Google servers, such as jabber.org, have found that all communications have been suddenly and inexplicably severed. A Google account is now required to communicate with Hangouts users. Google Hangouts joins the ranks of an already-crowded ecosystem of closed, incompatible chat products like Skype." Interesting, because Google Wave was based on XMPP and Google was integral to the creation of the Jingle extension that enabled video chatting over XMPP. Note that no end date has been set for Talk yet, but the end must surely be nigh given Google's recent history of axing products like Reader and CalDAV support from their calendar app without much notice.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Drops+XMPP+Support%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13CWU3J"><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%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F2315216%2Fgoogle-drops-xmpp-support%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/13/05/20/2315216/google-drops-xmpp-support?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/13/05/20/2315216/google-drops-xmpp-support?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=3768401&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2d7694/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664158057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2d7694/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664158057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2d7694/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664158057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2d7694/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/OL76s580KQw" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:18:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2d7694/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C23152160Cgoogle0Edrops0Exmpp0Esupport0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamercommunications2013-05-21T00:18:00Z42do-not-evil-yeah-righttechnology42,42,31,27,5,1,1http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2d7694/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C23152160Cgoogle0Edrops0Exmpp0Esupport0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kfqjjYTd0Uk/story01.htmrudy_wayne writes with news that the Prenda lawyers recently sanctioned by a federal judge are starting to face consequences. From the article: "On Friday, Paul Hansmeier, a Minnesota attorney who has been pointed to as one of the masterminds of the Prenda copyright-trolling scheme, filed an emergency motion to stay the $81,000 sanctions order while he and his colleagues could mount an appeal. Today the appeals court flatly denied his motion. Two appellate judges signed this order, and it gives Hansmeier the option to make a plea for delay with the district court judge. That would be U.S. District Judge Otis Wright, the judge who sanctioned Hansmeier in the first place. Hansmeier is also getting kicked off a case he was working on that was totally unrelated to Prenda's scheme of making copyright accusations over alleged pornography downloads. On Friday, the 9th Circuit Commissioner ordered Hansmeier, in no uncertain terms, to withdraw from a case involving Groupon since he has been referred to the Minnesota State Bar for investigation. The commissioner has delayed Hansmeier's admission to the 9th Circuit because of Wright's order, which refers to Wright's finding of 'moral turpitude.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Motion+To+Delay+Sanctions+Against+Prenda+Lawyers+Denied%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16GsqVG"><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%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F2243230%2Fmotion-to-delay-sanctions-against-prenda-lawyers-denied%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/13/05/20/2243230/motion-to-delay-sanctions-against-prenda-lawyers-denied?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/13/05/20/2243230/motion-to-delay-sanctions-against-prenda-lawyers-denied?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=3768345&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2d1eee/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664345808/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2d1eee/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664345808/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2d1eee/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664345808/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2d1eee/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/kfqjjYTd0Uk" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:40:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2d1eee/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C2243230A0Cmotion0Eto0Edelay0Esanctions0Eagainst0Eprenda0Elawyers0Edenied0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamercourt2013-05-20T23:40:00Z55this-is-the-endyro55,54,38,33,13,8,5http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2d1eee/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C2243230A0Cmotion0Eto0Edelay0Esanctions0Eagainst0Eprenda0Elawyers0Edenied0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YOVhxr42t6Y/story01.htmNerval's Lobster writes "Location is everything when choosing the site of a data center. Firms such as Microsoft and Google and Facebook spend a lot of time looking into the costs of land, power, regulation and taxes before placing their respective data centers in a particular place. Sometimes, that local tax bill comes into play in a big way. Just ask the National Security Agency which learned it faces a multimillion-dollar annual state tax on the power consumed by its new data center in Camp Williams, south of Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune obtained a series of email exchanges between the feds and the state, with the NSA protesting a $2.4 million tax on its annual power expenditure, pegged at about $40 million. Harvey Davis, director of installations and logistics for the NSA, sent a letter (subsequently quoted by the newspaper) to state officials that made the logistics argument: 'Long-term stability in the utility rates was a major factor in Utah being selected as our site for our $1.5bn construction at Camp Williams. HP325 [the new law] runs counter to what we expected.'" This would be the data center William Binney et al claim is logging almost all domestic communication.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=NSA+Data+Center+the+Focus+of+Tax+Controversy%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZ8Vzpf"><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%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F2213205%2Fnsa-data-center-the-focus-of-tax-controversy%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/13/05/20/2213205/nsa-data-center-the-focus-of-tax-controversy?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/13/05/20/2213205/nsa-data-center-the-focus-of-tax-controversy?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=3768301&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2cbbc7/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664251693/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2cbbc7/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664251693/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2cbbc7/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664251693/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2cbbc7/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YOVhxr42t6Y" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:59:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2cbbc7/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C221320A50Cnsa0Edata0Ecenter0Ethe0Efocus0Eof0Etax0Econtroversy0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamergovernment2013-05-20T22:59:00Zsilly-mormons-taxes-are-for-little-peopleyro0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2cbbc7/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C221320A50Cnsa0Edata0Ecenter0Ethe0Efocus0Eof0Etax0Econtroversy0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EN5TMjdpoUg/story01.htmananyo writes "Researchers have discovered that animal mucus &mdash; ' whether from humans, fish or corals' &mdash; is loaded with bacteria-killing viruses called phages. These protect their hosts from infection by destroying incoming bacteria. In return, the phages are exposed to a steady torrent of microbes in which to reproduce. Mucus mainly consists of huge molecular complexes called mucins, which are made up of thousands of glycan sugars attached to a central protein backbone. The team showed that phages stick to these sugars, reducing the number of bacteria that can attach to mucus by more than 10,000 times."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Viruses+In+Mucus+Protect+From+Infection%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F18deeAO"><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%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F2152213%2Fviruses-in-mucus-protect-from-infection%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/13/05/20/2152213/viruses-in-mucus-protect-from-infection?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/13/05/20/2152213/viruses-in-mucus-protect-from-infection?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=3768267&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2cdbed/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664156300/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2cdbed/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664156300/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2cdbed/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664156300/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2cdbed/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/EN5TMjdpoUg" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:18:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2cdbed/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C21522130Cviruses0Ein0Emucus0Eprotect0Efrom0Einfection0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerscience2013-05-20T22:18:00Z3just-using-youscience3,3,2,2,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2cdbed/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C21522130Cviruses0Ein0Emucus0Eprotect0Efrom0Einfection0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_l1Q4cpAHWE/story01.htmcolinneagle writes "Scripps News reporters discovered 170,000 records online of customers of Lifeline, a government program offering affordable phone service for low-income citizens, that contained everything needed for identity theft . Last year, the FCC 'tightened' the rules for the program by requiring Lifeline phone carriers to document applicants' eligibility, which led to collecting more sensitive information from citizens. A Scripps News investigative team claims it 'Googled' the phone companies TerraCom Inc. and YourTel America Inc. to discover all of the files. A Scripps reporter asked for an on-camera interview with the COO of TerraCom and YourTel after explaining the files were freely available online. That did not happen, but shortly thereafter the customer records disappeared from the internet. Then, the blame-the-messenger hacker accusations and mudslinging began. Although the Scripps reporters videotaped the process showing how they found the documents, attorney Jonathon Lee for both telecoms threatened the 'Scripps Hackers' with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reporters+Threatened%2C+Labeled+Hackers+For+Finding+Security+Hole%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1638UCA"><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%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F201227%2Freporters-threatened-labeled-hackers-for-finding-security-hole%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/13/05/20/201227/reporters-threatened-labeled-hackers-for-finding-security-hole?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/13/05/20/201227/reporters-threatened-labeled-hackers-for-finding-security-hole?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=3768053&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2c8fd7/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665221375/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2c8fd7/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665221375/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2c8fd7/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665221375/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2c8fd7/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/_l1Q4cpAHWE" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:35:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2c8fd7/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C20A12270Creporters0Ethreatened0Elabeled0Ehackers0Efor0Efinding0Esecurity0Ehole0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpussecurity2013-05-20T21:35:00Z5keep-your-mouth-shutyro5,5,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2c8fd7/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C20A12270Creporters0Ethreatened0Elabeled0Ehackers0Efor0Efinding0Esecurity0Ehole0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm