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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* 50 Years of the Multiverse Interpretation
* iPhone Researchers Gain a Shell
* RIAA Forces YouTube to Remove Free Guitar Lessons
* Sprint Drops Customers Over Excessive Inquiries
* DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript
* Swedish Police to Block Pirate Bay
* The Next-Gen iMac with Brushed Aluminum in August?
* Sun Releases ODF Plugin for MS Office
* 35 Different Ways of Looking at Social Networks
* Matt Groening to be Final Boss in New Simpsons Game
* DoD Offers $1 Million for Wearable Power Supply
* Robert A. Heinlein’s 100th Birthday
* Ancient Robot Was Programmed with Rope
* Thieves Using Stolen Credit Cards to Make Donations
* Are 80 Columns Enough?
* NH Signs Bill That Rejects Federal Real ID
* MediaDefender Denies Entrapment Accusations
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| 50 Years of the Multiverse Interpretation |
| from the one-of-my-favorite-verses dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday July 06, @21:16 (Sci-Fi) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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[0]chinmay7 writes “There is an excellent selection of articles (and
quite a few related scientific papers) in [1]a special edition of Nature
magazine on interpretations of the multiverse theory. ‘Fifty years ago
this month Hugh Everett III published his paper proposing a
“relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics” — the idea subsequently
described as the ‘many worlds’ or ‘multiverse’ interpretation. Its impact
on science and culture continues. In celebration, a science fiction
special edition of Nature on 5 July 2007 explores the symbiosis of
science and sf, as exemplified by Everett’s hypothesis, its birth,
evolution, champions and opponents, in biology, physics, literature and
beyond.’
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://people.vanderbilt.edu/
1. http://www.nature.com/nature
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| iPhone Researchers Gain a Shell |
| from the just-don’t-play-three-card dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday July 06, @23:19 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]SkiifGeek writes “A team of researchers dedicated to finding means to
fully control and interact with the new Apple iPhone claim to have
successfully [1]gained an interactive shell on the device. In order to
achieve this feat physical access to the phone is required, as it relies
on some minor electronics to be created and connected to the phone’s
serial port. It is believed that general control over the iPhone will be
available to the enterprising researchers within a week (after all, it
has only just been a week since the iPhone was released), with the
promise of enough control to allow for self-propagating code not very far
away.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. mailto:infoNO [Email address: infoNO #AT# SPAMbeskerming.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://hackint0sh.org/forum
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| RIAA Forces YouTube to Remove Free Guitar Lessons |
| from the quit-trying-to-learn-things
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @01:21 (Music) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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Bushido Hacks write “Is it so wrong to learn how to play the guitar?
According to NPR, a record company ordered YouTube to [0]remove videos of
a man who offered to show people how to play the guitar for free. One of
the songs that he taught was copyrighted, and as a result over 100 of his
videos were removed from the internet. ‘Since he put his Web site up last
year, he has developed a long waiting list for the lessons he teaches in
person. And both he and Taub say that’s still the best way to learn. If
someone tells Sandercoe to take down his song lessons, he says he will.
But his most valuable videos are the ones that teach guitar basics –
things like strumming, scales and finger-picking. And even in the digital
age, no one holds a copyright on those things.’ How could this constitute
as infringement if most musicians usually experiment to find something
that sounds familiar?”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.npr.org/templates
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| Sprint Drops Customers Over Excessive Inquiries |
| from the just-a-bit-harsh dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @03:14 (The Almighty Buck) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]theodp writes “The WSJ confirms [1]earlier reports that Sprint Nextel
is terminating the contracts of [2]subscribers who call customer service
too much (registration required). The 1,000 or so terminated subscribers
called an average of 25 times a month — 40x times higher than average —
according to a company spokeswoman, who also noted that a large number of
calls from these customers were related to billing issues.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. mailto:theodp [Email address: theodp #AT# aol.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://consumerist.com/consume
2. http://online.wsj.com/article
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| DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript |
| from the terry-gilliam-to-make-the
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @07:05 (United States) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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good soldier svejk writes “‘It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil.
Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally
gives you a copy of a document marked “top secret.” And it contains a log
of some of your private phone calls. You read it and ponder it and wonder
what it all means. Then, two months later, the FBI shows up at your door,
demands the document back and orders you to forget you ever saw it.’ That
is [0]what happened to Washington D.C. attorney Wendell Belew. His
lawsuit takes on special significance given [1]today’s Sixth Circuit
Court ruling that surveillance victims can only sue the DOJ if they can
prove they were affected.”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/science
1. http://yro.slashdot.org
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| Swedish Police to Block Pirate Bay |
| from the guilty-until-proven-innocent dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 07, @08:23 (Censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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An anonymous reader writes “The Swedish Police just can’t seem to leave
The Pirate Bay at bay. It’s been a year and two months since the worlds
largest torrent tracker, [0]The Pirate Bay, was originally raided and
shut down by police, and now [1]they’re at it again, but with claims of
child pornography. [2]Brokep, over at The Pirate Bay (TPB), got a ‘heads
up’ from a friend that the Swedish Police are going to put the site on
its porn filter blacklist; this means anyone who tries to access the site
from Sweden will get redirected to another site with a [3]message
explaining that they are not allowed to visit child pornography sites.”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://thepiratebay.org/
1. http://tech.blorge.com/Structu
2. http://blog.brokep.com/2007/07
3. http://child-abuse-trap.telia
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| The Next-Gen iMac with Brushed Aluminum in August? |
| from the new-and-improved dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 07, @09:30 (Desktops (Apple|
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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Alfaresy writes “As previously reported by Degadget back on June 19th,
the iMac update due this summer and is expected to be available in 20-
and 24-inch versions, while the 17-inch version set to be discontinued.
Apple’s next iMac revision is [0]currently tracking for release in August,
and will have a brushed aluminum enclosure with measure just 2-inch
thick, according to ThinkSecret’s sources. Furthermore, ThinkSecret’s
sources says, “The elegant new enclosure will somewhat resemble the
current white iMac but is said to feature a shorter space below the
actual display, where most of the internals are housed.” The upcoming
iMacs are expected to be based on Intel’s Santa Rosa platform with speeds
will reach the highest point at 2.4GHz.”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.degadget.com
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| Sun Releases ODF Plugin for MS Office |
| from the as-good-as-the-real-thing dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 07, @10:21 (Sun Microsystem|
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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extra88 writes “Heise online is reporting that [0]Sun has released their
[1]OpenDocument Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office 2000, XP and
2003. The plug-in allows Microsoft Office (for Windows) users to open ODF
files and save their work in ODF formats used by OpenOffice, StarOffice,
and other programs. According to the ReadMe, the plug-in adds “ODF Text
Document (*.odt)” as a format to Word’s Open and Save dialogs and adds
Import and Export options to Excel and PowerPoint.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://www.heise.de/english
1. http://www.sun.com/software
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| 35 Different Ways of Looking at Social Networks |
| from the one-internet-several-reasons dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 07, @11:27 (The Internet) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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jg21 writes “Social Computing Magazine has just published a list of
[0]thirty-five perspectives on online social networking reflecting how
protean and difficult to pin down the phenomenon is. It was compiled by
Malene Charlotte Larsen, a PhD student at Aalborg University in Denmark,
who has been doing research on Danish youngsters and online social
networking. She ends with an open request for further perspectives.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://www.socialcomputingmaga
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| Matt Groening to be Final Boss in New Simpsons Game |
| from the princess-still-in-another
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 07, @12:34 (Television) |
| http://games.slashdot.org
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[0]eldavojohn writes “Announced at E3, [1]Mr. Groening will be the final
boss in the Simpsons game. Mr. Groening commented on the game: ‘They did
a send-up of videogames. It’s a videogame about videogames; and I’m in
the videogame. I’m a boss that you have to fight at the end of the game.
It was really fun recording a million ways of dying, going “UGGH, ARGGH,
EUURGH!”‘”
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:my/.username@ [Email address: my/.username #AT# - replace #AT# with @ ]@@gmail.com
1. http://news.filefront.com/want
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| DoD Offers $1 Million for Wearable Power Supply |
| from the will-also-go-well-with-the
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @13:57 (Power) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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[0]coondoggie writes with a link to a NetworkWorld article about an
[1]ongoing prize offered by the Department of Defense. The DoD is looking
for very special battery, and they’re willing to pay up to a million
dollars for it. The battery in question is a ‘wearable battery pack’, one
that will be powerful enough to fuel the soldier of the future but light
enough not to burden him. “The DoD says typical soldier going out for a
four-day mission carries as much as 40 pounds of batteries and rechargers
in his pack and it wants to fix that. The goal is to reduce the weight
for the power system that drives radios, night-vision devices, global
positioning systems and other combat gear, including a recharging system,
to about 2 pounds per day. The DoD is looking to mimic the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency which has experienced successes using
contests to attract competitors to develop innovative unmanned vehicles
and other objects. Now the Defense Research and Engineering Office is
hoping to tap into that same competitive spirit to develop
longer-duration, lighter-weight power supplies. Three prizes will be
awarded in November 2008: $1 million, $500,000 and $250,000.”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://networkworld.com/
1. http://www.networkworld.com
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| Robert A. Heinlein’s 100th Birthday |
| from the somewhere-on-the-tramp-royale dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @14:42 (Sci-Fi) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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sasdrtx writes “Today is [0]Robert A. Heinlein’s 100th birthday. Regarded
as one of the most influential hard Sci-Fi authors of the 20th century,
it’s definitely worth looking back at his influence on not only science
fiction, but the space program, the english language, counter-culture,
and political discourse. The Space Review has a piece entitled [1]Ride
the Lightning, which discusses Heinlein’s history with the space program
and (sometimes incorrect) assertions about the future of space flight.
For a look at the official celebration, the [2]Heinlein Centennial
website has numerous resources available. The [3]program for the event
(pdf) makes it sound like they’re having a great time in Kansas City.”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
1. http://www.thespacereview.com
2. http://www.heinleincentennial
3. http://www.heinleincentennial
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| Ancient Robot Was Programmed with Rope |
| from the would-you-like-any-more-mead
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @15:42 (Robotics) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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Pingu93 writes “New Scientist has a [0]feature about the ‘worlds first’
programmable robot, dating from 60AD. It was designed by a Greek inventor
who was, appropriately enough, called [1]Hero. He designed his rolling
machine so that it could be programmed using rope and pegs in different
configurations. Some of the writers at New Scientist went so far as to
[2]build their own version of the robot and the technology blog has some
video of it in action.”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.newscientisttech
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
2. http://www.newscientist.com
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| Thieves Using Stolen Credit Cards to Make Donations |
| from the how-nice-of-them dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @16:43 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]JagsLive writes with a link to a Newsday.com article about
‘philanthropist identity thieves’. Credit card thieves appear to be
[1]donating to charity with their stolen goods. While it may sound like a
strange form of generosity, it’s really a method to determine whether a
stolen card is valid. “The verification method has become popular because
the monitoring software at credit-card companies may not question
donations to charities, according the Symantec blog. Santoyo said the
schemers usually donate less than $10. American Red Cross spokeswoman
Carrie Martin said, ‘This happens all the time. We have people at the Red
Cross who deal with this type of activity.’ Last month alone, the Red
Cross refunded 700 fraudulent credit-card transactions, Martin said. That
figure doesn’t include the transactions the charity blocked because they
appeared fraudulent.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. mailto:jaglive [Email address: jaglive #AT# gmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.newsday.com/busines
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| Are 80 Columns Enough? |
| from the good-enough-for-government
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @17:34 (Programming) |
| http://ask.slashdot.org
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ThinkGeek writes “Dating back to the venerable [0]DEC VT100, the 80
column terminal has served us well for over 25 years. Even now, many open
source projects and [1]common conventions require lines of code and
documentation to fit on that terminal. I am not alone, judging by code
I’ve seen in and out of the open source world, in finding that number
insufficient for coding, much less more verbose writing. Given that
modern graphical displays (and all popular editors) are capable of far
more, is it time we came up with a new standard-sized terminal? If so,
what should the new standard be?”
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
1. http://java.sun.com/docs
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| NH Signs Bill That Rejects Federal Real ID |
| from the i’m-thinking-we-scrap-the
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @18:32 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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jcatcw writes “New Hampshire is part of a trend to [0]oppose the federal
Real ID act. The governor this week signed a bill that forbids state
agencies from complying with the controversial federal regulation. The
Real ID law, first passed by Congress in 2005, currently requires that
all state driver’s licenses and other identification cards include a
digital photograph and a bar code that can be scanned by electronic
readers. Such a federally approved ID card or document would be required
for people entering a federal building, nuclear power plant and
commercial airplane. The New Hampshire bill, which labeled the Real ID
Act as [1]“contrary and repugnant” to the New Hampshire and U.S.
Constitutions, was passed in the state Senate by a 24-0 vote in late
May.”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com
1. http://www.computerworld.com
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| MediaDefender Denies Entrapment Accusations |
| from the all-above-board-of-course dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 07, @19:24 (The Courts) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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Ortega-Starfire writes “We’ve previously discussed the subject of
[0]MediaDefender setting up a site to catch movie pirates. Ars Technica
covers [1]the response from MediaDefender, which basically states the
entire thing was a mistake and was only an internal site they forgot to
password protect, and that they were not using this with the MPAA. The
article asks: ‘If this is true, why did MediaDefender immediately remove
all contact information from the whois registry for the domain? Saaf said
that after everything hit the fan, the company decided to take everything
on the site down because it was afraid of a hacker attack or “people
sending us spam.” Yes, spam. The MPAA’s Elizabeth Kaltman also chimed in
to say that they had no involvement with MiiVi: “The MediaDefender story
is false. We have no relationship with that company at all,” she told
Ars.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl
1. http://arstechnica.com/news
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