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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Facebook Acquires Parakey’s Web OS Platform
* Storing CERN’s Search for God (Particles)
* Your Own Mini-Stalker
* University of Kansas Adopts ‘One Strike’ Copyright Infringement Policy
* Microsoft Sees Stronger XP Sales in FY08
* Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone
* Linux Gains Two New Virtualization Solutions
* AMD Beats Intel in Power-Efficiency Study
* OLPC Used to Browse Porn
* Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash
* EU Google Competitor Project Gets Aid Worth $166 Million
* Next Version of Windows? Call it ‘7′
* Potentially Huge Legal Boost for EU File Traders
* Will MySpace Disrupt Television?
* Northrop Grumman to own Scaled Composites
* Africa - Offline And Waiting for the Web
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| Facebook Acquires Parakey’s Web OS Platform |
| from the iface dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday July 20, @22:30 (Software) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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NaijaGuy writes “[0]Facebook has purchased Parakey for an undisclosed
sum. We have [1]previously discussed how Facebook recently opened up
development opportunities for third-party developers. With this
acquisition some observers have noted that Facebook [2]might be trying to
become a Google alternative, by providing an application development
platform based on Parakey’s technology. Facebook’s ‘Web OS’ has [3]also
been discussed, and the company has made headlines partly because of the
fame of one of its founders. Blake Ross helped launch Firefox, and it was
enthusiasm for helping less geeky users like his mom to thrive on the web
that got him through the doors of Netscape at the age of 15. [4]A recent
interview charts how that same enthusiasm led him to start Parakey, ‘a
Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article
1. http://it.slashdot.org/article
2. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl
4. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org
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| Storing CERN’s Search for God (Particles) |
| from the she-is-in-the-details-or-so-i
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @00:19 (Data Storage) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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[0]Chris Lindquist writes “Think your storage headaches are big? When it
goes live in 2008, CERN’s ALICE experiment [1]will use 500 optical fiber
links to feed particle collision data to hundreds of PCs at a rate of
1GB/second, every second, for a month. ‘During this one month, we need a
huge disk buffer,’ says Pierre Vande Vyvre, CERN’s project leader for
data acquisition. One might call that an understatement. CIO.com’s story
has more details about the project and the SAN tasked with catching the
flood of data.”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:clindquist [Email address: clindquist #AT# cxo.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.cio.com/article
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| Your Own Mini-Stalker |
| from the keep-it-in-your-pants dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @02:20 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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[0]kashif.ahsan writes “A ComputerWorld article discusses the inherent
privacy dangers of carrying around our ubiquitous technological
assistants. [1]They’re like miniature stalkers, right there in your
pocket. ‘Camera phones contain all the necessary ingredients for
completely invasive stalking: a microphone, camera, personal data on the
user, location information, a chat and call history — you name it. And
victims carry them everywhere they go. All that’s missing is the software
that lets stalkers take control … new software, called snoopware, does
just that.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:kahsan [Email address: kahsan #AT# gmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.computerworld.com
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| University of Kansas Adopts ‘One Strike’ Copyright Infringement Pol|
| from the hope-you-really-liked-that
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @04:51 (Education) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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[0]NewmanKU writes “Eric Bangeman at Ars Technica writes that the
University of Kansas has adopted a new, and very strict, copyright
infringement policy for the students on the residential network. The
university’s ResNet website states that, ‘Violation of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act is against the law. If you are caught
downloading copyrighted material, [1]you will lose your ResNet privileges
forever. No second notices, no excuses, no refunds. One violation and
your ResNet internet access is gone for as long as you reside on campus.’
According to a KU spokesperson, KU has received 345 notices in the past
year from organizations and businesses regarding complaints about
copyrighted material downloading.”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:newman [Email address: newman #AT# ittc.ku.edu - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://arstechnica.com/news
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| Microsoft Sees Stronger XP Sales in FY08 |
| from the everyone-is-a-winner dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @06:58 (Microsoft) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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Rude Awakening wrote with a PC World article, saying that [0]XP sales
will actually be higher next year than they were in 2007. Despite Vista’s
release, Microsoft admitted this week that it expects the previous
version of its operating system to make up a larger percentage of its OS
sales in 2008. “According to Liddell, Microsoft will generate the same
revenue, more or less, under the new Vista vs. XP numbers, although there
might be some slight differences because Vista sales have tended to
involve more of the higher-priced versions, dubbed premium by the
company, than has XP. The financial forecast didn’t spell out that
directly, however. The only clue was a US$120 million difference in what
Microsoft pegged as the ‘undelivered elements’ it assigned to unearned
income for the coming year.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/article
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| Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone |
| from the egg-on-someone’s-face dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday July 21, @09:00 (Wireless Networki|
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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jpallas writes “Following up to [0]a previous Slashdot story, it now
turns out that the widely reported problems with Duke University’s
wireless network were not caused by Apple’s iPhone. The [1]problem was
actually with their Cisco network. Duke’s Chief Information Officer
praises the work of their technical staff. Does that include the
assistant director for communications infrastructure who was quoted as
saying, “I don’t believe it’s a Cisco problem in any way, shape, or
form?”"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org
1. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu
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| Linux Gains Two New Virtualization Solutions |
| from the almost-as-good-as-the-real
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 21, @09:51 (Operating Syste|
| http://linux.slashdot.org
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An anonymous reader writes “The upcoming 2.6.23 kernel has gained two new
virtualization solutions. According to KernelTrap, both [0]Xen and
[1]lguest have been merged into the mainline kernel. These two
virtualization solutions join the [2]already merged KVM, offering Linux
multiple ways to run multiple virtual machines each running their own
OS.”
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://kerneltrap.org/node
1. http://kerneltrap.org/node
2. http://kerneltrap.org/taxonomy
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| AMD Beats Intel in Power-Efficiency Study |
| from the bang-for-the-buck dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 21, @10:46 (Power) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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Ted Samson writes “AMD Opteron servers proved [0]up to 15.2 percent more
energy-efficient than those running Intel Xeon in a
server-power-efficiency test performed by Neal Nelson and Associates,
InfoWorld reports. That translates to annual electricity savings between
$20.29 per server and $36.04 per server, depending on the workload, the
study concluded. The benchmark tests were conducted on similarly
configured 3GHz systems running Novell SUSE Linux, Apache2, and MySQL.”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://weblog.infoworld.com
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| OLPC Used to Browse Porn |
| from the extracurricular-activities dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 21, @11:38 (Portables) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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youthoftoday writes “The OLPC project to bring the internet to third
world has worked well — too well, it seems. Yahoo reports that Nigerian
Children are already [0]using the OLPC to browse for porn.” This is why
as kids we couldn’t look at National Geographic issues without being
supervised. A rep from OLPC said, understandably, that the laptops would
now be fitted with filters.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm
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| Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash |
| from the law-of-averages dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 21, @12:34 (Hardware Hackin|
| http://science.slashdot.org
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[0]Ant writes “Popular Mechanics shares a short article on an exclusive
look at 36 years’ worth of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
reports and seating charts to determine [1]the best way to live through a
disaster in the sky. Move to the back of the Airbus.”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://aqfl.net/
1. http://www.popularmechanics
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| EU Google Competitor Project Gets Aid Worth $166 Million |
| from the euoogle-maybe-or-goorope dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @13:44 (The Internet) |
| http://politics.slashdot.org
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[0]mernil wrote with the news that the EU Commission has given the
go-ahead to [1]provide funding for Germany’s search engine project,
called [2]Theseus. Early this year we [3]discussed Germany’s withdrawal
from the French project Quaero. From the outside, it looks like the EU
Commission is unwilling to put all its eggs in one basket, funding the
German project to the tune of 120 million euro, or $US 166 million. Dow
Jones reports: “The aim is to develop new search technologies for the
next generation Internet, including ’semantic technologies which try to
recognize the meaning of content and place it in its proper context.’ The
semantic Web has been considered the next evolution of the Internet at
least since Tim Berners-Lee, widely considered a creator of the current
version of the Internet, published an article describing it in 2001. In
theory, a semantic Web could receive a user request for information about
fishing, for example, and automatically narrow the results according to
the user’s individual needs rather than blanket the user with pages
related to numerous aspects of fishing. The Commission’s funding approval
Thursday immediately sparked talk of building a potential European
challenger to Web search leader Google Inc.”
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://mernil.wordpress.com/
1. http://money.cnn.com/news
2. http://theseus-programm.de/
3. http://politics.slashdot.org
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| Next Version of Windows? Call it ‘7′ |
| from the didn’t-we-just-get-a-new-one dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @14:38 (Microsoft) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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CNet has the news that Microsoft is currently aiming to release [0]the
next version of the Windows operating system in about three years.
Previously known as Vienna, the OS is now simply known internally as ‘7′.
After achieving a quality product, the article states, Microsoft’s big
goal with 7 is to recapture a regular release schedule for their
operating system product. From the article: “Like Vista, Windows 7 will
ship in consumer and business versions, and in 32-bit and 64-bit
versions. The company also confirmed that it is considering a
subscription model to complement Windows, but did not provide specifics
or a time frame. Next up on Microsoft’s agenda is Service Pack 1 for
Windows Vista, which is expected before year’s end. The discussion of
Windows’ future isn’t surprising, given that Microsoft has been
criticized by business customers for delays related to Vista. Many
business customers pay for Microsoft’s software under a license agreement
called Software Assurance.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://news.com.com/Next
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| Potentially Huge Legal Boost for EU File Traders |
| from the now-we-need-some-of-that-here dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @15:34 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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Mishtara2001 writes “BusinessWeek reports that a high court adviser in
the EU has decided that [0]ISPs are not required to reveal information to
authorities, when users are suspected of music piracy. If this is adopted
across the EU then it can potentially spell doom for the IFPI’s (the
global RIAA) efforts to litigate against European P2P users. From the
article: ‘Promusicae wanted the personal data so that it could start
taking legal action against the file sharers, but Telefonica claimed that
it could only turn over such information as part of a criminal
prosecution or in matters of public security and national defense. A
Spanish court hearing the case referred the issue to the ECJ for guidance
on how to interpret EU law on the subject and Ms Kokott’s legal opinion
is the advice for the ECJ judges who will eventually rule on a
recommendation for the Spanish court to take. The final court decision is
expected later this year. Once it comes out, it could form the basis for
similar decisions throughout the 27-member EU bloc.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
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| Will MySpace Disrupt Television? |
| from the my-aye-aye dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @16:43 (Television) |
| http://ask.slashdot.org
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[0]newsblaze writes “In the Media space, the internet has been
threatening to be a highly disruptive technology for some time now. So
far it has done quite a number on newspapers, who still don’t understand
the internet. There are a lot of people who like to have the paper in
their hands, though, so newspapers are holding on. Television has no such
ties to a physical medium. When Murdoch bought Myspace, I wondered how
long it would be before he either found something to do with it — or gave
up. Now it seems Murdoch has [1]found a way to leverage his position, and
put a massive squeeze on television. How far can he take this — and what
will be the result?”
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:support@news [Email address: support #AT# news - replace #AT# with @ ]%5B%5Dze.com%5B’bla’ingap%5D
1. http://newsblaze.com/story
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| Northrop Grumman to own Scaled Composites |
| from the going-up-in-the-world dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @17:48 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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Dolphinzilla writes “According to Space.com, Northrop Grumman Corporation
agreed on July 5 to increase its stake in Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites
(designers of Space Ship One, Proteus) from 40 percent to 100 percent.
They [0]have purchased the company outright, marking a new future for the
space pioneering firm. ‘Scaled Composites currently is working with Sir
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic venture on a vehicle designated for now
as SpaceShipTwo, which would carry two pilots and six paying passengers
into suborbital space for a few minutes of weightlessness. The company
also is building a new carrier aircraft, dubbed WhiteKnight2, that will
carry SpaceShipTwo to an altitude of 15 kilometers before releasing it to
soar to suborbital space. The two companies last year formed a joint
venture called the Spaceship Company to build the new vehicles.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.space.com/news
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| Africa - Offline And Waiting for the Web |
| from the can-i-borrow-a-cup-of-internet dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday July 21, @19:33 (The Internet) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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The nytfeed provides us with an article about the [0]current state of
internet connectivity on the African continent. Only 4 percent of
Africa’s population has regular access to the internet, with most of
those people living in North African countries, or the country of South
Africa. This might seem like a market ripe for development, but the
article explains that there are numerous difficulties involved getting an
infrastructure project off the ground. “Africa’s only connection to the
network of computers and fiber optic cables that are the Internet’s
backbone is a $600 million undersea cable running from Portugal down the
west coast of Africa. Built in 2002, the cable was supposed to provide
cheaper and faster Web access, but so far that has not happened. Prices
remain high because the national telecommunications linked to the cable
maintain a monopoly over access, squeezing out potential competitors. And
plans for a fiber optic cable along the East African coast have stalled
over similar access issues. Most countries in Eastern Africa, like
Rwanda, depend on slower satellite technology for Internet service.” The
good news is that, of course, progress is being made. Just … slowly.
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