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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq
* Mac Users’ Internet Experience to Retain Same Fonts
* Old School Linux Remembered, Parts 0.02 & 0.03
* The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org
* Sun To Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor
* Open Standards Initiative Fails in Massachusetts
* FCC to Develop ‘Super V Chip’ To Screen All Content
* Forensic Analysis Reveals Al-Qaeda’s Image Doctoring
* Point-and-Click Gmail Hacking Shown at Black Hat
* In Australia, An Ebay Sale is a Sale
* Lenovo Aims $199 PC At China’s Rural Population
* Worm Threat Forces Apple to Disable Software?
* Winnie Wrote a Math Book
* Microsoft Cuts Vista Price to $66 in China
* Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared at Home
* World of Warcraft – Wrath of the Lich King Officially Announced
* Stem Cell Fraudster May Have Actually Made Breakthrough
* FCC Commish – US Playing ‘Russian Roulette’ with Broadband
* First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released
* Newfound Planet Has Earth-Like Orbit
* Dateline NBC Mole Outed at DefCon
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| First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq |
| from the number-johnny-five dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 02, @20:18 (Robotics) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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An anonymous reader writes “Robots have been [0]roaming Iraq, since
shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in
any war zone — the [1]‘bots are carrying guns. The SWORDS robots, armed
with M249 machine guns, “haven’t fired their weapons yet,” an Army
official says. “But that’ll be happening soon.” The machines have
actually been ready for a while, but safety concerns kept them off the
battlefield. Now, the robots have kill switches, so “now we can kill the
unit if it goes crazy,” according to the Army. I feel safer already.”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/wired
1. http://blog.wired.com/defense
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| Mac Users’ Internet Experience to Retain Same Fonts |
| from the keep-on-truckin’ dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 02, @21:48 (The Internet)|
| http://apple.slashdot.org
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thefickler sent in this article that opens, “Mac users will continue to
see the Internet as it was intended, thanks to the [0]renewal of a font
licensing agreement between Microsoft and Apple. At TypeCon2007 Microsoft
and Apple announced they have renewed their font licensing agreement,
giving Apple users ongoing use of the latest versions of Microsoft
Windows core fonts. Back in 1996 Microsoft started the “Core fonts for
the Web” initiative. The idea of this initiative was to create a a
standard pack of fonts that would be present on all or most computers,
allowing web pages to be displayed consistently on different computers.
While the project was terminated in 2002, some of the fonts defined as
core fonts for the web have gone on to become known as “web safe fonts,”
and are therefore widely used by Internet developers.”
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org
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| Old School Linux Remembered, Parts 0.02 & 0.03 |
| from the turn-back-the-clock dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 02, @23:14 (Operating Sys|
| http://linux.slashdot.org
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[0]eldavojohn writes “Following our [1]last history lesson of Linux 0.01,
the Kernel Trap is [2]talking about the following announcements that
would lead to one of the greatest operating systems today. A great Linus
quote on release 0.02 (just 19 days after 0.01): ‘I can (well, almost)
hear you asking yourselves “why?”. Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or
next month, who knows), and I’ve already got minix. This is a program for
hackers by a hacker. I’ve enjoyed [sic] doing it, and somebody might
enjoy looking at it and even modifying it for their own needs. It is
still small enough to understand, use and modify, and I’m looking forward
to any comments you might have.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:my/.username@ [Email address: my/.username #AT# - replace #AT# with @ ]@@gmail.com
1. http://linux.slashdot.org
2. http://kerneltrap.org/node
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| The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org |
| from the but-for-how-long dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 03, @00:58 (The Internet) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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kungfujesus writes “The Pirate Bay crew has been working on this secret
project for quite some time now. Back in April they wrote a cryptic post
on their blog announcing that something was coming. In a response to this
announcement TPB admin Brokep told TorrentFreak: “The past, the present
and the future. It’s all the same, but one thing’s for sure, we will
radiate for weeks”, today it became clear that he was referring to [0]the
resurrection of Suprnova.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://torrentfreak.com/the
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| Sun To Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor |
| from the screw-everything-we’re-going
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 03, @04:11 (Sun Microsystem|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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An anonymous reader writes “Sun Microsystems is set to announce its
[0]eight-core Niagara 2 processor next week. Each core supports eight
threads, so the chip handles 64 simultaneous threads, making it the
centerpiece of Sun’s “Throughput Computing” effort. Along with having
more cores than the [1]quads from Intel and AMD, the Niagara 2 have dual,
on-chip 10G Ethernet ports with cryptographic capability. Sun doesn’t get
much processor press, because the chips are used only in its own
[2]CoolThreads servers, but Niagara 2 will probably be the fastest
processor out there when it’s released, other than perhaps the also
little-known 4-GHz [3]IBM Power 6.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com
1. http://www.informationweek.com
2. http://www.sun.com/processors
3. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us
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| Open Standards Initiative Fails in Massachusetts |
| from the after-much-ado dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 03, @07:18 (Microsoft) |
| http://politics.slashdot.org
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[0]walterbyrd writes “[1]Massachusetts has decided to use Microsoft’s
Open-XML standard. This decison: ’stands in sharp contrast to the
positions taken by predecessor CIOs Peter Quinn and Louis Gutierrez,
backed by then governor (and now-presidential hopeful) Mitt Romney. Both
Quinn and Gutierrez insisted on including only “open standards” in the
ETRM, and withstood significant pressure from Microsoft to give ground
and accept OOXML…’”
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:walterbyrd [Email address: walterbyrd #AT# yahoo.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.consortiuminfo.org
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| FCC to Develop ‘Super V Chip’ To Screen All Content |
| from the any-chance-we-could-stop
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @08:49 (Censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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An anonymous reader writes “The Senate Commerce Committee has stepped in
and approved a legislation asking the Federal Communications Commission
to ‘oversee [0]the development of a super V-chip that could screen
content on everything from cell phones to the Internet.’ Since the
content viewed by children is no longer restricted to TV or radio Sen.
Mark Pryor, D-Ark., the sponsor of the Child Safe Viewing Act, feels that
the new law is necessary. ‘The bill requires the FCC to review, within
one year of enactment, technology that can help parents manage the vast
volume of video and other content on television or the Internet. Under
the 1996 Telecommunications Act, TV makers are required to embed the
V-chip within televisions to allow parents to block content according to
a rating system.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article
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| Forensic Analysis Reveals Al-Qaeda’s Image Doctoring |
| from the they-really-like-their-macs
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @09:31 (Media) |
| http://politics.slashdot.org
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WerewolfOfVulcan writes “Wired reports that researcher Neal Krawetz
revealed some very interesting things about the Al-Qaeda images broadcast
in the mass media. Analysis shows that [0]they’re heavily manipulated, a
discussion meant to illustrate a new technique that can spot forgery in
digital media. ‘Krawetz was … able to determine that the writing on the
banner behind al-Zawahiri’s head was added to the image afterward. In the
second picture above showing the results of the error level analysis, the
light clusters on the image indicate areas of the image that were added
or changed. The subtitles and logos in the upper right and lower left
corners … were all added at the same time, while the banner writing was
added at a different time, likely around the same time that al-Zawahiri
was added, Krawetz says.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://blog.wired.com/27bstrok
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| Point-and-Click Gmail Hacking Shown at Black Hat |
| from the man-they-get-all-the-fun-demos dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @10:12 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]not5150 writes “Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an
unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat
Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to [1]capture and clone
session cookies very quickly over connections without encryption. He even
hijacked a shocked attendee’s Gmail account in the middle of his
presentation. ‘While Ou was typing, Graham was running Ferret and
sniffing all the cookies that were being sent from Ou’s laptop and
Google. Graham then clicked on Ou’s IP address and Gmail page, complete
with Ou’s recently sent message on the screen. We photographed both
Graham’s and Ou’s laptop at that time and posted it to the picture
gallery. You’ll see that the contents are exactly the same.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. mailto:humphrey [Email address: humphrey #AT# tomshardware.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.tgdaily.com/content
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| In Australia, An Ebay Sale is a Sale |
| from the almost-by-definition dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @10:53 (Businesses) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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syousef writes “[0]An eBay sale is a sale says an Australian New South
Wales State Judge in a case where a man tried to reneg on the Ebay sale
of a 1946 World War II Wirraway aircraft. The seller tried to weasel out
of the deal because he’d received a separate offer $100,000 greater than
the Ebay sale price. The buyer who had bid the reserve price of $150,000
at the last minute took him to court. ‘It follows that, in my view, a
binding contract was formed between the plaintiff and the defendant and
that it should be specifically enforced,’ Justice Rein said in his
decision.” I haven’t found anything like this in previous discussions;
have there been similar decisions like this handed down in the US,
Canada, or Europe?
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.smh.com.au/news/web
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| Lenovo Aims $199 PC At China’s Rural Population |
| from the there-might-be-a-sale-or-two
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @11:31 (The Almighty Buck) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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[0]athloi writes “Lenovo has announced they are gearing up to [1]sell a
basic personal computer for ‘China’s vast but poor rural market’. The
pricetag could be as low as $199. ‘The new Lenovo unit will include a
processor and a keyboard and will use a buyer’s television set as a
monitor, Chen said. He said he had no details on the processor size or
other features. The new PC goes on sale later this year at prices of
1,499 to 2,999 yuan ($199-$399), Chen said. Lenovo is the world’s
third-largest PC manufacturer, behind U.S.-based Hewlett Packard Inc. and
No. 2 Dell.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://technical-writing
1. http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin
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| Worm Threat Forces Apple to Disable Software? |
| from the batten-down-the-hatches dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @12:15 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]SkiifGeek writes “After the debacle that surrounded the
[1]announcement and non-disclosure of a worm that targets OS X, the
vulnerability in mDNSResponder may have forced Apple to [2]remove support
for certain mDNSResponder capabilities with the recently released
[3]Security Update 2007-007. ‘Seeming to closely follow the information
disclosed by InfoSec Sellout, Apple’s mDNSResponder update addresses a
vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker on the local network
to gain a denial of service or arbitrary code execution condition. Apple
go on to identify that the vulnerability that they are addressing exists
within the support for UPnP IGD … and that an attacker can exploit the
vulnerability through simply sending a crafted network packet across the
network. With the crafted network packet triggering a buffer overflow, it
passes control of the vulnerable system to the attacker. Rather than
patching the vulnerability and retaining the capability, Apple have
completely disabled support for UPnP IGD (though there is no information
about whether it is only a temporary disablement until vulnerabilities
can be addressed).’”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://www.beskerming.com/
1. http://www.beskerming.com
2. http://www.beskerming.com
3. http://docs.info.apple.com
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| Winnie Wrote a Math Book |
| from the why-isn’t-that-a-textbook dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @12:56 (Math) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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SoyChemist writes “Hollywood is not known for providing a wealth of
positive female role models. Danica McKellar, the actress that played
Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing, has
[0]written a math book for teenage girls. ‘Math Doesn’t Suck’ is done in
the style of a teen magazine. It even includes a horoscope, cute doodles
of shoes and jewelry, and testimonials from attractive young career women
that use math at work. It focuses on fractions and pre-algebra and uses
mnemonics like calling a reciprocal a ‘refliprocal’, because you just
take the fraction and flip it upside down. Wired interviewed McKellar
about the new book and her crusade to eliminate the achievement gap
between boys and girls in math courses. McKellar graduated Summa Cum
Laude from UCLA. While studying there, she co-authored a proof and
presented it at a conference. After she and Mayim Bialik — star of
Blossom and a PhD in neuroscience — appeared in a 20/20 episode about
intellectual actresses, several literary agents came knocking on her
door.”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/culture
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| Microsoft Cuts Vista Price to $66 in China |
| from the everybody-wants-a-piece dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @13:37 (Microsoft) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]narramissic writes “Microsoft this week [1]cut the retail price of
Windows Vista Home Basic in China by 67% — from 1,521 renminbi to 499
renminbi ($65.80). This is a steep discount compared to what users in the
U.S. and elsewhere are charged for the software. The reason for the price
reduction? Battling piracy, of course. The new pricing ‘narrows the price
gap between original versions of Microsoft’s software and pirated
copies,’ making it that much easier for consumers to ‘do the right
thing’.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/Comp
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| Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared at Home |
| from the gotta-get-it-where-you-can dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @14:30 (Media) |
| http://politics.slashdot.org
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[0]marcellizot writes “What would you say if told you that there are
people out there that want to make [1]sharing your media between devices
over a home network illegal? According to Jim Burger, a Washington, D.C
attorney who deals with piracy in the broadcasting industry, certain
broadcasters want to do just that. Speaking in a recent podcast, Burger
remarked that the broadcasting industry is keen to [2]put controls on
sharing media between devices even if those devices are on a home network
and even if the sharing is strictly for personal use. When pressed as to
why broadcasters would want to do this, Burger replied simply ‘because
they want you to pay for that right’.”
Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://webtvwire.com/
1. http://www.webtvwire.com/more
2. http://insidedigitalmedia.com
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| World of Warcraft – Wrath of the Lich King Officially Announced |
| from the you-gotta-love-the-death
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @15:22 (Role Playing (Games))|
| http://games.slashdot.org
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An anonymous reader writes “[0]Wrath of the Lich King is official!
BlizzCon is in full swing, and celebrants there are already enjoying the
Northrend-themed imagery. For a look at what’s going on, Joystiq has [1]a
liveblog of the opening ceremony up. Games For Windows magazine,
meanwhile, will feature WLK its next cover. The post on the 1up site has
[2]a number of details on the next expansion, including the introduction
of the Death Knight, the first new class since WOW’s launch ‘World of
WarCraft’s first Hero Class is a plate-wearing tank/DPS hybrid that works
a little something like this: When players hit level 80, they’ll be able
to embark on a quest (similar in difficulty to the Warlock’s epic mount
quest, back before the level cap was raised to 70) that unlocks the
ability to create a Death Knight character. The Death Knight starts at a
high level (somewhere around 60 or 70, though Blizzard isn’t certain
yet), so you won’t have to grind your way back up all over again. It’s
intended as an alternative, advanced class for end-game use only.’.”
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http://games.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com
1. http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08
2. http://www.1up.com/do/newsStor
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| Stem Cell Fraudster May Have Actually Made Breakthrough |
| from the a-little-comeuppance dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @16:12 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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Otter writes “Woo Suk Hwang’s career swung from fame over his lab’s claim
of the first stem cells from a cloned human embryo to humiliation when
the results were found to be fake. Research at Harvard on Hwang’s cells
has found that [0]they are actually parthenogenic lines derived from eggs
– perhaps a more important and difficult achievement than what he had
been claiming! ‘Researchers said that the distinct “genetic fingerprint”
of the stem cells means they may be the first in the world to be
extracted from embryos produced by the so-called “virgin birth” method,
or parthenogenesis. This happens when eggs are stimulated into becoming
embryos without ever being fertilised by sperm, and has been achieved in
animals. However, before Hwang, no one had managed to produce a human
embryo using parthenogenesis which lived long enough to allow the
extraction of viable stem cells.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi
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| FCC Commish – US Playing ‘Russian Roulette’ with Broadband |
| from the with-more-than-one-bullet dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @17:01 (The Internet) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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LarryBoy writes “In a speech given at the [0]YearlyKos Convention in
Chicago, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps [1]lambasted US broadband policy,
saying that the US is ‘playing “Russian roulette with broadband and
Internet and more traditional media.”‘ Copps also took issue with an
[2]op-ed piece (‘Broadband Baloney’) by fellow commissioner Robert
McDowell last week. ‘In his speech, Copps didn’t mention McDowell by
name, but he did claim that broadband in the US is “so poor that every
citizen in the country ought to be outraged.” Back when then OECD said
that we were number four in the world, he said, no one objected to its
methodology. Copps also had fighting words for those who blame the US
broadband problems on our less-dense population; Canada, Norway, and
Sweden are ranked above us, but all are less dense than the US. Besides,
this argument implies that broadband is absolutely super within American
urban areas. Copps noted, though, that his own broadband connection in
Washington, DC was “nothing compared to Seoul.”‘”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://www.yearlykosconvention
1. http://arstechnica.com/news
2. http://online.wsj.com/article
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| First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released |
| from the first-or-third dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @17:51 (Software) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org
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An anonymous reader writes “A [0]third-party native application for the
iPhone is now available. Gizmodo discusses the real full-fledged iPhone
application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone
home screen. It is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing. What is it?
Ironically enough, MobileTerminal, ‘a terminal emulator application for
the iPhone. MobileTerminal.app is NOT an SSH client, nor Telnet for that
matter. It can however be used to execute a console ssh-client
application.’ The iPhone dev revolution has just started.”
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http://apple.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets
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| Newfound Planet Has Earth-Like Orbit |
| from the hooray-for-earth dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @18:44 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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[0]Raver32 writes with a link to the Space.com site, and an article
discussing [1]an extra-solar planet that looks a lot like ours from a
distance. At least, its orbit does. The planet is located about 300 light
years away, in the constellation Perseus. It circles its giant red star
every 360 days and was discovered by ‘looking for wobble’, the shift in a
star’s movement that hints at orbiting planets. “The discovery could help
astronomers understand what will happen to our sun’s brood of planets
when it exhausts its store of hydrogen fuel and its outer envelope begins
to swell. When that happens in an estimated 5 billion years, our sun will
be so big that it will engulf the inner planets and most likely Earth.
But long before that happens, life on our planet will have perished and
its seas will have boiled away.”
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http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto:rob.dack [Email address: rob.dack #AT# gmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.space.com/scienceas
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| Dateline NBC Mole Outed at DefCon |
| from the bunch-of-cranky-hackers dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, @19:37 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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An anonymous reader writes “Dateline NBC allegedly attempted to
infiltrate the DefCon hackerfest with a producer using a hidden camera.
The show [0]hoped to tape hackers admitting to illegal activities, but
DefCon got wind of the plot and displayed the would-be-mole’s photo
before every presentation. Dateline refused to deny the planned
infiltration. ‘ All journalists covering DefCon sign an agreement upon
registering for the conference that outlines the rules, but the DefCon
organizers say the mole apparently registered as a regular attendee,
thereby bypassing the legal agreement. Dateline NBC is best known for its
controversial To Catch A Predator series, which uses hidden cameras to
tape men who are allegedly seeking to have sex with minors they met
online.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://blog.wired.com/27bstrok
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