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Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs
* Teens Actually Do Protect Their Online Profiles
* MacBook Hacked In Contest Via Zero-Day Hole in Safari
* Text Messages Used To Monitor Elections
* Microsoft Is Sued For Patent Violation Over .NET
* Brown Dwarf Stars May Be Missing Cosmic Link
* The Gigahertz Race is Back On
* Digital Media Archiving Challenges Hollywood
* Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond
* Is Your Printer Ripping You Off?
* Mapping the Blogosphere
* The Hundred Million Mile Pipe Organ
* Global Positioning Without GPS
* Microsoft Finds a Home For Barcode
* RMS Protest Song On Gitmo
* Boston Bans Boing Boing From City Wi-Fi
* In Russia, 50% of News Must Be Happy

[0]Lucas123 writes “An alarming number of women [1]are currently
abandoning IT jobs that require workers to be on-call at all hours,
according to a story in Computerworld. [2]One study cited in the article
states that by 2012, 40% of women now working in IT will leave for
careers with more flexible hours. ‘I think women in that regard are at a
real disadvantage,’ said Dot Brunette, network and storage manager at
Meijer Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer and a 30-year IT
veteran. She noted that companies can fail to attract female workers, or
see them leave key IT jobs, because they fail to provide day care at
work, or work-at-home options for someone who leaves to have a child.’”

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/0022220

Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9017181&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top
2. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=498223

Thib writes “A study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project
reveals that the majority of teens [0]pay attention to what they are
revealing about themselves in their online social profiles. For instance,
while many routinely use their first name or include a picture, ‘fewer
than a third of teens with profiles use their last names, and a similar
number include their e-mail addresses. Only 2 percent list their cell
phone numbers.’ The study comes to light just as state legislatures once
again begin to mutter about the dangers of online predators. From the
article: ‘According to Pew, 45 percent of online teens do not have
profiles at all, a figure that contradicts widespread perceptions that
the nation’s youths are continually on MySpace.’”

Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/0331248

Links:
0. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/04/19/internet.youths.ap/index.html

EMB Numbers writes “Shane Macaulay just [0]won a MacBook as a prize for
successfully hacking OS X at CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, BC. The
hack was based on a Safari vulnerability found by Dai Zovi and written in
about 9 hours. CanSecWest organizers actually had to relax the contest
rules to make the hack possible, because initially nobody at the event
could breach the computers under the original restrictions. ‘Dai Zovi
plans to apply for a $10,000 bug bounty TippingPoint announced on
Thursday if a previously unknown Apple bug was used. “Shane can have the
laptop, I want the money,” Dai Zovi said in a telephone interview from
New York. TippingPoint runs the Zero Day Initiative bug bounty program.’”

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/0336255

Links:
0. http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6178131.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

[0]InternetVoting writes “The upcoming historic Nigerian elections are
going to be defended by an army of observers armed, not with guns, but
with text messages. Every one of the observers [1]will be outfitted with
a cell phone to report vote tampering. The volunteers are a part of the
Network of Mobile Election Monitors, and they use freeware to do what
they do. From the article: ‘NMEM is using a free system called
[2]Frontline SMS, developed by programmer Ken Banks, to keep track of all
of the texts. Originally developed for conservationists to keep in touch
with communities in National Parks in South Africa, the system allows
mass-messaging to mobile phones and crucially the ability to reply to a
central computer. It has already been used in countries such as Zimbabwe
as a way of bypassing broadcast restrictions and distributing information
to rural communities.’”

Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/0646229

Links:
0. http://www.electiontechnology.com/
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6570919.stm
2. http://www.frontlinesms.kiwanja.net/

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| Microsoft Is Sued For Patent Violation Over .NET |
| from the is-it-weird-to-root-for-the-megacorp-on-this-one dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday April 21, @05:12 (Microsoft) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/21/0654204 |
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[0]randomErr writes “As reported by Info World, Microsoft was issued a
cease and desist order on February 7 of this year by Vertical Computer
Systems. The order was for [1]patent infringement by the current
implementations of the .NET framework. Both the .NET framework and
Vertical Computer Systems’ SiteFlash use XML to create component-based
structures that are used to build and operate web sites. Vertical
Computer Systems is requesting a full jury trial. If VCS prevails, .NET
technology implementations as we know them may completely change and
Microsoft would probably have to pay out a hefty sum.”

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/0654204

Links:
0. mailto://tekratNO [Email address: //tekratNO #AT# spam2d.com/ - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/20/HNmsdotnetpatentsuit_1.html

An anonymous reader writes “It may be that [0]brown dwarfs are the
‘missing step’ between the radio emissions we see generated by the planet
Jupiter and what are received from pulsars. Brown dwarfs are, of course,
‘failed’ stars. They emit extremely strong beams of radiation, like a
standard star, but are behaving on the whole more like a pulsar. ‘Greg
Hallinan from the National University of Ireland in Galway and his
colleagues used the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico to
observe a very cool, rapidly rotating brown dwarf called TVLM 513-46546.
A bright flash from the brown dwarf was observed roughly every two hours,
and are very similar to those observed from pulsars. But this whole
system is on a much slower and smaller scale, so it is easier for
astronomers to decipher what is going on. For some time, scientists have
wondered if there were similarities between this type of emission and the
periodic radio beams from pulsars. Observations of TVLM 513-46546 could
provide the first direct evidence for such a link.”

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/073222

Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6574433.stm

An anonymous reader writes “When CPU manufacturers ran up against the
power wall in their designs, they announced that ‘the Gigahertz race is
over; future products will run at slower clock speeds and gain
performance through the use of multiple cores and other techniques that
won’t improve single-threaded application performance.’ Well, it seems
that the gigahertz race is back on — a CNET story talks about how [0]AMD
has boosted the speed of their new Opterons to 3GHz. Of course, the new
chips also consume better than 20% more power than their last batch. ‘The
2222 SE, for dual-processor systems, costs $873 in quantities of 1,000,
according to the Web site, and the 8222 SE, for systems with four or
eight processors costs $2,149 for quantities of 1,000. For comparison,
the 2.8GHz 2220 SE and 8220 SE cost $698 and $1,514 in that quantity. AMD
spokesman Phil Hughes confirmed that the company has begun shipping the
new chips. The company will officially launch the products Monday, he
said.’”

Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/0648258

Links:
0. http://news.com.com/AMD+gooses+Opteron+to+3+gigahertz/2100-1006_3-6178158.html?tag=nefd.top

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| Digital Media Archiving Challenges Hollywood |
| from the taping-over-m*a*s*h-reruns dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday April 21, @09:14 (Movies) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/21/1257249 |
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HarryCaul writes “Movies are moving to digital, but what about long-term
archiving of the master source materials? Turns out it’s harder for
digital media than for contemporary analog. [0]Data is being lost, and
studios have to learn to cope. Phil Feiner of the AMPAS sci-tech division
says when he worked on studio feature films he ‘found missing frames or
corrupted data on 40% of the data tapes that came in from digital
intermediate houses’ How to deal with it? Regular migration from old
media to new media. Grover Crisp, says Sony has put in a program of
migrating every two to three years. Other studios are following suit, but
what about indie features? Will we lose films like we [1]lost the
originals of the 20s?”

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/1257249

Links:
0. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963533.html?categoryid=1019&cs=1
1. http://www.silentera.com/lost/

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| Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond |
| from the mohs-hardness-scale-so-hosed dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday April 21, @10:20 (Announcements)|
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/21/1315207 |
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holy_calamity writes “[0]A material tough enough to scratch diamond that
can be made without resorting to massive pressure has been developed at
UCLA. A regular furnace and a zap of current is enough to meld boron with
the metal rhenium.” [1]Sound familiar? This is the other new material
tougher than diamond, but no word yet on how they rate against each
other.

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/1315207

Links:
0. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11670-supertough-material-mimics-metal-and-crystal.html
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/04/0310234&tid=14

An anonymous reader writes “Are original inkjet cartridges really worth
the high cost? Do third party refill inks do as good a job? This article
looks at printers from Epson, HP, Canon and Lexmark, with a combination
of original inks and the top selling third-party options, using a whole
host of different papers. A panel of printer users [0]judged the output
in a blind test — the printer manufacturers may not be happy with the
results!”

Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/1331248

Links:
0. http://www.trustedreviews.com/printers/review/2007/04/21/The-Inkjet-Investigation/p1

[0]dominique_cimafranca writes “Discover Magazine has an interesting
article on [1]mapping the blogosphere, reporting on the work of
[2]Matthew Hurst. Hurst put together a 3D map of the blogosphere, with
bright spots represent sites with the highest number of links and
isolated islands represent closed communities like LiveJournal. The study
also identifies other islands like sociopolitical commentary, gadget
hounds, sports fans, and, um, porn blogs.”

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/1341252

Links:
0. http://ubuntuliving.blogspot.com/
1. http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/map-welcome-to-the-blogosphere
2. http://www.nielsenbuzzmetrics.com/mgmnt_matthewhurst.asp

[0]jd writes “Scientists have announced that the gigantic coils of plasma
in the solar atmosphere, known as coronal loops, actually carry sound
waves [1]much like a pipe organ. Micro-flares on the surface of the sun
create powerful blasts of charged particles, which are then guided
through the coronal loops, creating the standing waves. Sheffield
University is hosting [2]movies and audio recordings of the sun’s
performance.”

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/1649206

Links:
0. mailto://imipak [Email address: //imipak #AT# nospam.yahoo.com/ - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6574059.stm
2. http://www.robertus.staff.shef.ac.uk/movies/uksp-nam2007/

[0]GadgetMike sends word of an award to Boeing for work on a [1]Robust
Positioning System that could make use of cell signals, television
transmissions, and other clues to provide position information when GPS
is unavailable. (Wonder if they’ve heard about [2]Skyhook Wireless, which
does a similar job based on Wi-Fi hotspots, for 2500 US cities and
towns.) The work is being sponsored by the US military, so it’s not
surprising that they don’t want to rely on upcoming GPS enhancers or
replacements from France, China, and Russia. Here is the [3]Boeing press
release.

Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/180237

Links:
0. http://www.gadgetroad.com/
1. http://www.gizmag.com/go/7140/
2. http://www.skyhookwireless.com/
3. http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2007/q2/070418c_nr.html

MicroBarcode writes in about the [0]color barcode technology that
Microsoft developed but shelved two years back because nobody adopted it.
The technology promised a way to link packaging to Web sites — and once
cell phone cameras get good enough, Microsoft hoped lots of people would
use it. It seems the technology has finally found a home: the ISAN
International Agency has inked a deal with Microsoft. The color barcodes,
consisting of red, green, yellow, and black triangles, will appear on
XBox 360 games and other products beginning later this year.

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/1936206

Links:
0. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_TechBit_Microsoft_Barcodes_CORRECTIVE.html

An anonymous reader tipped us to a [0]protest song RMS has written and
recorded (while [1]visiting Cuba) and is hosting on stallman.org. It’s a
sort of parody, although it’s too serious really to be called that, in
Spanish of the song “Guantanamera,” in which a Gitmo prisoner talks about
his experiences and mourns his fate. RMS wrote the lyrics in 2006 after
learning what “Guantanamera” actually means. The lyrics are moving, and
the recording, in Ogg, is competent — RMS sings well and he’s got some
amateur musicians from Cuba backing him up. Here are the [2]lyrics and an
English translation.

Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/2025226

Links:
0. http://www.stallman.org/guantanamero.ogg
1. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/17/1337233&tid=117
2. http://www.stallman.org/doggerel.html#Guantanamero

[0]DrFlounder writes “The city of Boston has apparently [1]blocked access
to Boing Boing on the municipal Wi-Fi. This is possibly due to the
popular blog’s known [2]Mooninite sympathies.”

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/2035230

Links:
0. mailto://flounder [Email address: //flounder #AT# drflounder.com/ - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/21/mayor_of_boston_bans.html
2. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/31/boston_mooninite_ins.html

Several readers sent us to the New York Times for disturbing news on
[0]Russia’s vanishing press freedoms. The story tells of how one of the
few remaining relatively independent radio outlets in Russia recently
acquired new managers, reportedly loyal to Vladimir Putin. Quoting: “At
their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia’s largest
independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their
own: from now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about
Russia must be ‘positive.’ In addition, opposition leaders could not be
mentioned on the air and the United States was to be portrayed as an
enemy, journalists employed by the network, Russian News Service, say
they were told by the new managers, who are allies of the Kremlin.”

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/04/21/2212255

Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/world/europe/22russia.html/partner/rssnyt?pagewanted=print

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