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 16:58:13 GMTTue, 21 May 2013 16:58:13 GMT2hourly11970-01-01T00:00:00Zhelp@slashdot.orgTechnologyDice2013-05-21T16:58:13Zen-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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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/eqWf/~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"/>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.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/wa153phUfik/story01.htmFirst time accepted submitter ectoman writes "A third party steps into a financial transaction to make sure all parties exchange funds at the same time and as expected. Can you patent this process? What if the third party is a computer? Rob Tiller, vice president and general counsel for Red Hat, details a recent court ruling on this very matter&mdash;one that has critical implications for the future of software patents, and one that divided the judges involved. Tiller writes that: 'The judges mostly agreed that the idea of managing settlement risk with a third party was abstract such that by itself it could not be patented. They differed, though, on whether using a general purpose computer for managing settlement risk meant that the patents avoided invalidity based on abstraction.' Interestingly, some judges suggested that a computer becomes a 'new machine' every time it loads different software."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Judges+Debate+Patents+and+If+New+Software+Makes+a+Computer+a+%22New+Machine%22+%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14K8qwr"><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%2F1948209%2Fjudges-debate-patents-and-if-new-software-makes-a-computer-a-new-machine%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/13/05/20/1948209/judges-debate-patents-and-if-new-software-makes-a-computer-a-new-machine?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/13/05/20/1948209/judges-debate-patents-and-if-new-software-makes-a-computer-a-new-machine?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=3768021&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/2c2bffab/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665220551/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2bffab/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665220551/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2bffab/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665220551/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2bffab/a2t.img" border="0"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:52:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2bffab/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C194820A90Cjudges0Edebate0Epatents0Eand0Eif0Enew0Esoftware0Emakes0Ea0Ecomputer0Ea0Enew0Emachine0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpuscourt2013-05-20T20:52:00Z2computer-transubstantiationyro2,2,2,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2bffab/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C194820A90Cjudges0Edebate0Epatents0Eand0Eif0Enew0Esoftware0Emakes0Ea0Ecomputer0Ea0Enew0Emachine0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/EJeui62GmrY/story01.htmImagine game designer Steve Jackson and a bunch of friends building Lego trains and tracks and scenery, including buildings and other props. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? The group calls itself the Texas Brick Railroad. A lot of members have children, so their meetings tend to be family affairs. Plus, as they're doing here, they often display their train sets at public events where -- yes -- their trains attract children like crazy. This video shows off both current Lego trains and some of the classic, no-longer-sold Lego trains that members have collected over the years, including the highly-prized monorails. There's a transcript, but face it: This is basically visual material, and worth checking out on a computer or handheld that runs Flash if your normal one doesn't. (We've requested an upgrade from Flash-only video, but don't hold your breath. It might be a good while before we get it.)<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Steve+Jackson+Shows+Off+the+Texas+Brick+Railroad+(Video)%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10Jt67R"><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%2F20%2F1732255%2Fsteve-jackson-shows-off-the-texas-brick-railroad-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://games.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1732255/steve-jackson-shows-off-the-texas-brick-railroad-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://games.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1732255/steve-jackson-shows-off-the-texas-brick-railroad-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=3767729&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/2c2bf6f5/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665219740/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2bf6f5/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665219740/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2bf6f5/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665219740/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2bf6f5/a2t.img" border="0"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:10:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2bf6f5/l/0Lgames0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C17322550Csteve0Ejackson0Eshows0Eoff0Ethe0Etexas0Ebrick0Erailroad0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmRoblimogames2013-05-20T20:10:00Zchoo-choo-chug-chug-and-the-quiet-whir-of-a-monorailgames0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2bf6f5/l/0Lgames0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C17322550Csteve0Ejackson0Eshows0Eoff0Ethe0Etexas0Ebrick0Erailroad0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/fR_ioDv9TW0/story01.htmbenrothke writes "Had Locked Down: Information Security for Lawyers not been published by the American Bar Association (ABA) and 2 of its 3 authors not been attorneys; one would have thought the book is a reproach against attorneys for their obliviousness towards information security and privacy. In numerous places, the book notes that lawyers are often clueless when it comes to digital security. With that, the book is a long-overdue and valuable information security reference for anyone, not just lawyers." Read below for the rest of Ben's review.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Book+Review%3A+Locked+Down%3A+Information+Security+For+Lawyers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F18cKtQx"><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%2Fbooks.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F1313205%2Fbook-review-locked-down-information-security-for-lawyers%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://books.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1313205/book-review-locked-down-information-security-for-lawyers?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://books.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1313205/book-review-locked-down-information-security-for-lawyers?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=3767109&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/2c2b96fe/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664152965/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b96fe/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664152965/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b96fe/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664152965/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b96fe/a2t.img" border="0"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:24:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2b96fe/l/0Lbooks0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C131320A50Cbook0Ereview0Elocked0Edown0Einformation0Esecurity0Efor0Elawyers0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusbooks2013-05-20T19:24:00Zread-all-about-itbookreview0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2b96fe/l/0Lbooks0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C131320A50Cbook0Ereview0Elocked0Edown0Einformation0Esecurity0Efor0Elawyers0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/18t347E6jIQ/story01.htmitwbennett writes "Last week, Dell said that it would be 'refining' its OpenStack plans. Now we know that 'refining' means 'backing away from'. Although the company wouldn't answer direct questions on the subject, a press release spells it out like this: 'Sales of Dell's current in-house multi-tenant public cloud IaaS will be discontinued in the U.S. in favor of best-in-class partner offerings.' Interestingly, none of Dell's initial partners, including Joyent, ScaleMatrix and ZeroLag, have platforms built on OpenStack."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Dell+Dumps+Its+Public+Cloud+Offerings%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16Fpokz"><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%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F1810246%2Fdell-dumps-its-public-cloud-offerings%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://slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1810246/dell-dumps-its-public-cloud-offerings?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://slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1810246/dell-dumps-its-public-cloud-offerings?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=3767817&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/2c2b819f/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664247604/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b819f/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664247604/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b819f/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664247604/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b819f/a2t.img" border="0"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:03:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2b819f/l/0Lslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C1810A2460Cdell0Edumps0Eits0Epublic0Ecloud0Eofferings0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpuscloud2013-05-20T19:03:00Zon-second-thoughtslashdot0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2b819f/l/0Lslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C1810A2460Cdell0Edumps0Eits0Epublic0Ecloud0Eofferings0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/TOgxFzQtKBA/story01.htmsciencehabit writes "Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone-tipped spears and darts at large prey. By throwing a spear, instead of thrusting it, humans could hunt buffalo and other dangerous game from a safe distance, with less risk of a goring or mauling. But direct evidence of this hunting technique in early sites has been lacking. A new study of impact marks on the bones of ancient prey shows that such sophisticated killing techniques go back at least 90,000 years ago in Africa and offers a new method of determining how prehistoric hunters made their kills."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Narrowing+Down+When+Humans+Began+Hurling+Spears%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16FjRu8"><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%2F1140246%2Fnarrowing-down-when-humans-began-hurling-spears%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/13/05/20/1140246/narrowing-down-when-humans-began-hurling-spears?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/13/05/20/1140246/narrowing-down-when-humans-began-hurling-spears?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=3766823&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/2c2b7eb3/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664247323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b7eb3/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664247323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b7eb3/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664247323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b7eb3/a2t.img" border="0"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:42:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2b7eb3/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C1140A2460Cnarrowing0Edown0Ewhen0Ehumans0Ebegan0Ehurling0Espears0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusscience2013-05-20T18:42:00Z3give-it-a-throwscience3,3,3,3,1,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2b7eb3/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C1140A2460Cnarrowing0Edown0Ewhen0Ehumans0Ebegan0Ehurling0Espears0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/dtTtqqe3ps8/story01.htmjyosim writes "Hundreds of people are spending 20 or 30 hours a week just taking free Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. They're not looking for credit, just the challenge of learning. This Chronicle of Higher Ed story looks at whether these MOOC addicts think they're learning as much as they would in a traditional college course. From the article: 'Consider Anna Nachesa, a 42-year-old single mother in a village near Amsterdam who logs on to MOOCs for several hours each night after dinner with her teenage kids. She has always found TV boring, she says, and for her, MOOCs replace reading books. She is a physicist by training, with a degree from Moscow State University, and she works as a software developer. "This stuff is actually addictive," she says. In some ways the lure is like Everest: Some want to climb it to see if they can. "The Dutch have the proverb 'If you never shoot, you already missed,'" she says.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=What+Professors+Can+Learn+From+%22Hard+Core%22+MOOC+Students%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11S7Znd"><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%2F20%2F1544253%2Fwhat-professors-can-learn-from-hard-core-mooc-students%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/13/05/20/1544253/what-professors-can-learn-from-hard-core-mooc-students?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/13/05/20/1544253/what-professors-can-learn-from-hard-core-mooc-students?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=3767467&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/2c2b415c/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665217178/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b415c/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665217178/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b415c/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665217178/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2b415c/a2t.img" border="0"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2b415c/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C15442530Cwhat0Eprofessors0Ecan0Elearn0Efrom0Ehard0Ecore0Emooc0Estudents0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpuseducation2013-05-20T18:00:00Z1get-your-learn-onnews1,1,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2b415c/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C15442530Cwhat0Eprofessors0Ecan0Elearn0Efrom0Ehard0Ecore0Emooc0Estudents0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/WM29UJQ-OQg/story01.htmkkleiner writes "The FDA is finalizing its review of the antibacterial agent triclosan common to many soaps and other health/household products after four decades of use. Recent studies suggest the chemical may be harmful to animals and could interfere with the human immune system along with increasing the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The agency has been slow to cast a verdict, to much criticism considering its widespread use."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=FDA+To+Decide+Fate+of+Triclosan%2C+Commonly+Used+In+Antibacterial+Soaps%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14oH4MW"><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%2F1727208%2Ffda-to-decide-fate-of-triclosan-commonly-used-in-antibacterial-soaps%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/13/05/20/1727208/fda-to-decide-fate-of-triclosan-commonly-used-in-antibacterial-soaps?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/13/05/20/1727208/fda-to-decide-fate-of-triclosan-commonly-used-in-antibacterial-soaps?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=3767705&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/2c2af9ce/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664665917/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2af9ce/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664665917/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2af9ce/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664665917/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2af9ce/a2t.img" border="0"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:40:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2af9ce/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C172720A80Cfda0Eto0Edecide0Efate0Eof0Etriclosan0Ecommonly0Eused0Ein0Eantibacterial0Esoaps0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusgovernment2013-05-20T17:40:00Z7washing-their-hands-of-itscience7,7,6,5,3,1,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2af9ce/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C172720A80Cfda0Eto0Edecide0Efate0Eof0Etriclosan0Ecommonly0Eused0Ein0Eantibacterial0Esoaps0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/PymjDBET4yI/story01.htmjudgecorp writes "Government institutions are among the targets of an attack on Pakistani bodies, which originates in India, according to reports. The campaign is using vulnerabilities in Microsoft software to install the HangOver malware, according to Norwegian security firm Norman Shark (PDF). From the article: 'In the attacks on Pakistani organizations, spear phishing emails were sent out purporting to contain information on "ongoing conflicts in the region, regional culture and religious matters," according to Norman. Norman could not provide direct attribution to the attacks, but its report did note the following: "The continued targeting of Pakistani interests and origins suggested that the attacker was of Indian origin." Snorre Fagerland, principal security researcher in the Malware Detection Team at Norman, told TechWeekEurope it appeared Pakistani government bodies had been attacked.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cyber+Attack+From+Inside+India+Hits+Pakistan+Government%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10IZzet"><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%2F20%2F1351233%2Fcyber-attack-from-inside-india-hits-pakistan-government%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/13/05/20/1351233/cyber-attack-from-inside-india-hits-pakistan-government?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/13/05/20/1351233/cyber-attack-from-inside-india-hits-pakistan-government?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=3767207&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/2c2ae085/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664150343/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2ae085/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664150343/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2ae085/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664150343/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2ae085/a2t.img" border="0"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:14:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2ae085/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C13512330Ccyber0Eattack0Efrom0Einside0Eindia0Ehits0Epakistan0Egovernment0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpussecurity2013-05-20T17:14:00Zlets-get-ready-to-rumbleit0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2ae085/l/0Lit0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C13512330Ccyber0Eattack0Efrom0Einside0Eindia0Ehits0Epakistan0Egovernment0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm