diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/fixtures/slashdot1.json b/apps/rss_feeds/fixtures/slashdot1.json index 88b9379ad..35a31ac86 100644 --- a/apps/rss_feeds/fixtures/slashdot1.json +++ b/apps/rss_feeds/fixtures/slashdot1.json @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ "days_to_trim": 90, "feed_link": "%(NEWSBLUR_DIR)s/apps/rss_feeds/fixtures/slashdot1.html", "feed_link_locked": true, + "fetched_once": true, "num_subscribers": 1, "active_subscribers": 1, "creation": "2009-01-12", diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/fixtures/slashdot1.xml b/apps/rss_feeds/fixtures/slashdot1.xml index b8b0f392d..b94d34439 100644 --- a/apps/rss_feeds/fixtures/slashdot1.xml +++ b/apps/rss_feeds/fixtures/slashdot1.xml @@ -1,4 +1,3321 @@ -Google Readertag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdotCI7YyIi-2JwC2009-09-06T20:27:44Ztag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d8a2e5bb80b764f7Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged?2009-09-06T20:00:00Z2009-09-06T20:00:00ZMarkWhittington writes "The Augustine Commission has not officially presented its findings to the White House, but already a push back is starting to occur over the possibility that the Ares 1 rocket will be canceled after three billion dollars and over four years of development. According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel contractors involved in the development of the Ares 1 have started a quiet but persistent public relations campaign to save the Ares 1, criticized in some quarters because of cost and technical problems."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1949247/Can-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1949247"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1949247/Can-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1949247%2FCan-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/5LbT3H6AaXY" height="1" width="1">timothy05001243267946183147tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/2fef84e3d695cb13Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged?2009-09-06T20:00:00Z2009-09-06T20:00:00ZMarkWhittington writes "The Augustine Commission has not officially presented its findings to the White House, but already a push back is starting to occur over the possibility that the Ares 1 rocket will be canceled after three billion dollars and over four years of development. According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel contractors involved in the development of the Ares 1 have started a quiet, but persistent public relations campaign to save the Ares 1, criticized in some quarters because of cost and technical problems."<p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1949247/Can-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1949247"></a></p><p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1949247/Can-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1949247%2FCan-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/WDLhRrW-Oqs" height="1" width="1">timothytag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/643ec196fed0398fHas the WebOS Finally Arrived?2009-09-06T18:54:00Z2009-09-06T18:54:00ZSphereOfInfluence writes "Dion Hinchcliffe over on ZDNet declared in a new post that the Web OS has finally arrived and that businesses and IT departments must adjust to the fact that everything's starting to move to the cloud. He cites John Hagel's so-called big business shifts of the 21st century and claims cloud computing, crowdsourcing, open APIs, Software-as-a-Service are the future of the workplace. He goes on to present a compelling visual model of the Web OS circa 2009 and examples to back up some of the statements."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1816203/Has-the-WebOS-Finally-Arrived?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1816203"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1816203/Has-the-WebOS-Finally-Arrived?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1816203%2FHas-the-WebOS-Finally-Arrived%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/_p9aDVEUKYg" height="1" width="1">timothy0955609908442136496413556484898698160140tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/50530663b3a1b371Measuring Input Latency In Console Games2009-09-06T17:43:00Z2009-09-06T17:43:00ZThe Digital Foundry blog has an article about measuring an important but often nebulous aspect of console gameplay: input lag. Using a video camera and a custom input monitor made by console modder Ben Heck, and after calibrating for display lag, they tested a variety of games to an accuracy of one video frame in order to determine the latency between pressing a button and seeing its effect on the screen. Quoting: "If a proven methodology can be put into place, games reviewers can better inform their readers, but more importantly developers can benefit in helping to eliminate unwanted lag from their code. ... It's fair to say that players today have become conditioned to what the truly hardcore PC gamers would consider to be almost unacceptably high levels of latency to the point where cloud gaming services such as OnLive and Gaikai rely heavily upon it. The average videogame runs at 30fps, and appears to have an average lag in the region of 133ms. On top of that is additional delay from the display itself, bringing the overall latency to around 166ms. Assuming that the most ultra-PC gaming set-up has a latency less than one third of that, this is good news for cloud gaming in that there's a good 80ms or so window for game video to be transmitted from client to server."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1640218/Measuring-Input-Latency-In-Console-Games?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1640218"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1640218/Measuring-Input-Latency-In-Console-Games?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1640218%2FMeasuring-Input-Latency-In-Console-Games%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/mBcpreqHZuI" height="1" width="1">Soulskill00319180390340199299033045215235011587151355648489869816014015954617168459236255134433067593762728850818797274100769123108050248119087477424tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/20e054af1006bc8aHas Texting Replaced Talking For Teens?2009-09-06T16:38:00Z2009-09-06T16:38:00ZHugh Pickens writes &quot;Sue Shellenbarger has an interesting essay in the WSJ where she talks about the 2,000 incoming text messages her son racks up every month — more than 60 two-way communications via text message every day — and her surprise that 2,000 monthly text messages is about average for today&#39;s teenagers. &#39;I have seen my son suffer no apparent ill effects (except a sore thumb now and then), and he reaps a big benefit, of easy, continuing contact with many friends,&#39; writes Shellenbarger. &#39;Also, the time he spends texting replaces the hours teens used to spend on the phone; both my kids dislike talking on the phone, and say they really don&#39;t need to do so to stay in touch with friends and family.&#39; But does texting make today&#39;s kids stupid, as Mark Bauerlein writes in his book &#39; The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future? &#39;I don&#39;t think so. It may make them annoying, when they try to text and talk to you at the same time,&#39; writes Shellenbarger, adding, &#39;I have found him more engaged and easier to communicate with from afar, because he is constantly available via text message and responds with a faithfulness and speed that any mother would find reassuring.&#39;&quot;<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/166202/Has-Texting-Replaced-Talking-For-Teens?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/166202"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/166202/Has-Texting-Replaced-Talking-For-Teens?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F166202%2FHas-Texting-Replaced-Talking-For-Teens%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/V05CVTd_vgA" height="1" width="1">Soulskill0650295242431992795409472086982291316052012322721003077891730345631294533003365803850496947340237631060009922562654386721397666196648083467004145746846501728558081879727410076912310600853300318443301510862715331183683564tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d0c17e5057c5b1eaRunning Old Desktops Headless?2009-09-06T15:36:00Z2009-09-06T15:36:00ZCajunArson writes "I recently dug up an old P4 that is in fine working order and did what any self-respecting Slashdotter would do: I slapped Linux on it to experiment with making an NFSv4 server. One other thing I did was to remove the old AGP video card to save on power, since this is a headless machine. Now, I removed the video card after the installation, and I'm doing just fine as long as the machine will boot to a state where networking works and I can SSH to it. My question: Is there a good solution to allow me to log into this box if it cannot get on the network? I'm looking for solutions other than slapping a video card back in. In my case, I will have physical access to the machine. A few caveats to make it interesting: This question is for plain old desktop/laptop systems, not network servers designed to run headless. Also, I am aware of the serial console, but even 'old' machines may only have USB, and I have not seen any good documentation on how and whether USB works as a substitute. Finally, if there is any way to access the BIOS settings without needing a video card, that would be an extra bonus, but I'm satisfied with just local OS access starting from the GRUB prompt."<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1425233/Running-Old-Desktops-Headless?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1425233"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1425233/Running-Old-Desktops-Headless?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1425233%2FRunning-Old-Desktops-Headless%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BzSOPNXFoMI" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1614166448589057329513124040838091572089tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/bc10e0d67c47a874How Snow Leopard Cut ObjC Launch Time In Half2009-09-06T14:33:00Z2009-09-06T14:33:00ZMBCook writes "Greg Parker has an excellent technical article on his blog about the changes to the dynamic linker (dyld) for Objective-C that Snow Leopard uses to cut launch time in half and cut about 1/2 MB of memory per application. 'In theory, a shared library could be different every time your program is run. In practice, you get the same version of the shared libraries almost every time you run, and so does every other process on the system. The system takes advantage of this by building the dyld shared cache. The shared cache contains a copy of many system libraries, with most of dyld's linking and loading work done in advance. Every process can then share that shared cache, saving memory and launch time.' He also has a post on the new thread-local garbage collection that Snow Leopard uses for Objective-C."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1343209/How-Snow-Leopard-Cut-ObjC-Launch-Time-In-Half?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1343209"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1343209/How-Snow-Leopard-Cut-ObjC-Launch-Time-In-Half?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1343209%2FHow-Snow-Leopard-Cut-ObjC-Launch-Time-In-Half%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/0THrGC7RGoM" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1431387053424967916002269656737792893975095560990844213649641133823573694327629818253107897565172623048712451127152617530542657045771079904010829828934389449148145432738320216104201244355179433742045616800395657135930123tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/735ea1d64ab08b5bCell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada2009-09-06T13:26:00Z2009-09-06T13:26:00Zinject_hotmail.com writes "Internet and law genius Michael Geist writes about some shenanigans by the cell phone carriers and the Canadian government in his column in The Star. Canadian taxpayers funded a 'Cell Phone Cost Calculator' so that the average person could theoretically wade through the disjointed and incongruent package offerings. The calculator wound up being yanked a couple weeks before launch. Geist suggests that the major cell carriers lobbied the appropriate public officials to have the program nixed because it would bite into their profit if the general public could make sense out of pricing and fees. Geist continues, 'Sensing that [Tony] Clement (Industry Minister) was facing pressure to block the calculator, Canadian consumer groups wrote to the minister, urging him to stick with it.' Moving forward, Michael makes a novel suggestion, one that would show an immense level of understanding by the government: 'With public dollars having funded the mothballed project, the government should now consider releasing the calculator's source code and enable other groups to pick up where the OCA (Office of Consumer Affairs) left off.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1155227/Cell-Phone-Cost-Calculator-Killed-In-Canada?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1155227"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1155227/Cell-Phone-Cost-Calculator-Killed-In-Canada?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1155227%2FCell-Phone-Cost-Calculator-Killed-In-Canada%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/6DLbYyixv5U" height="1" width="1">Soulskill0776649359885291066209556099084421364964130540291053111666480357728129076212286816448251421055736784148928284007857419371355648489869816014008405409681810397899109510250134602223710582450642740180314503194253477406437759104227334706563382290245105719454161904408187972741007691231098571695182694831810868571092772871180012443551794337420456tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/080a238df629be87US Supercomputer Uses Flash Storage Drives2009-09-06T12:21:00Z2009-09-06T12:21:00Zangry tapir writes &quot;The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a high-performance computer with solid-state drives, which the center says could help solve science problems faster than systems with traditional hard drives. The flash drives will provide faster data throughput, which should help the supercomputer analyze data an &#39;order of magnitude faster&#39; than hard drive-based supercomputers, according to Allan Snavely, associate director at SDSC. SDSC intends to use the HPC system — called Dash — to develop new cures for diseases and to understand the development of Earth.&quot;<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/052226/US-Supercomputer-Uses-Flash-Storage-Drives?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/052226"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/052226/US-Supercomputer-Uses-Flash-Storage-Drives?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F052226%2FUS-Supercomputer-Uses-Flash-Storage-Drives%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/aLVXc4O2qcA" height="1" width="1">timothy0824635730596584409318342175564602475838010136226157210504480554725921857687666606502952424319927954077668077515941269921355648489869816014003194253477406437759035652390824232437100985716951826948318106008533003184433015tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/33f7abd26c472220Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Scheduler2009-09-06T09:29:00Z2009-09-06T09:29:00Zmyvirtualid writes &quot;Con Kolivas has done what he swore never to do: returned to the Linux kernel and written a new — and, according to him — waaay better scheduler for the desktop environment. In fact, BFS appears to outperform existing schedulers right up until one hits a 16-CPU machine, at which point he guesses performance would degrade somewhat. According to Kolivas, BFS &#39;was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. i.e. [sic] it is a desktop orientated scheduler, with extremely low latencies for excellent interactivity by design rather than &#39;calculated,&#39; with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and extreme scalability within normal load levels.&#39;&quot;<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0433209/Con-Kolivas-Returns-With-a-Desktop-Oriented-Linux-Scheduler?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/0433209"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0433209/Con-Kolivas-Returns-With-a-Desktop-Oriented-Linux-Scheduler?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F0433209%2FCon-Kolivas-Returns-With-a-Desktop-Oriented-Linux-Scheduler%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ymbPHdHoQsw" height="1" width="1">timothy17552812221190038829057896055273149129931009553308950201062406502952424319927954147547985722766238770955609908442136496414424971984721062426144670226545428113941286358740618640668016530967493269276064104948915600316069421092042185602310984016781199987988677112033020278306456817180783936760674902442011170915477423719912122931174495126531711095102501346022237107976958519463434517031942534774064377590012319800797397309504191691854206497770003456927555814516990735472456879082079208187972741007691231098571695182694831810475376726894764289810202490990958320925008629694413644180591642458046867023153816006648827941639273tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/85227a5e9ad63b27Google Japan To Help Victims of Street View Abuse2009-09-06T06:18:00Z2009-09-06T06:18:00ZJoshua writes "After repeated concerns from Japanese citizens over privacy rights violations involving Street View and a probe by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Google Japan has announced that it will help victims of Street View photo abuse take action against offending sites. Google Japan said it would send requests to the sites for removal of maliciously used Street View images. It will also potentially block the site from Google's search engine and consider legal action for those sites which ignore or refuse the request. Action to this extent against secondary-use abusers is reportedly a first in relationship to Google's Street View worldwide."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0152201/Google-Japan-To-Help-Victims-of-Street-View-Abuse?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/0152201"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0152201/Google-Japan-To-Help-Victims-of-Street-View-Abuse?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F0152201%2FGoogle-Japan-To-Help-Victims-of-Street-View-Abuse%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/OOWaic_B9CA" height="1" width="1">timothy0153337972015055302217808231290259740644061486855984006689080955609908442136496401233439422309012922076701716957807438441355648489869816014015328643569094213556081879727410076912310435477807383933114506008533003184433015tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7d0ca683894a4f79Where&#39;s Waldo (the Submarine)?2009-09-06T03:03:00Z2009-09-06T03:03:00Zstoolpigeon writes "Scientists on Florida's Gulf Coast are trying to find an underwater robot that has mysteriously vanished. The robot from the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota has been missing since Monday. The robot, which cost about $100,000, was equipped with a detector to find red tide, a toxic algae bloom. The detector was valued at another $30,000. Scientists aren't sure what happened to the robot, which is nicknamed Waldo."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2348206/Wheres-Waldo-the-Submarine?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2348206"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2348206/Wheres-Waldo-the-Submarine?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2348206%2FWheres-Waldo-the-Submarine%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/yleA7KCpAqg" height="1" width="1">timothy1316799484909028836800328380374959473421015894951977250372560890673952524279253711450100156217667917167733392051826626291355648489869816014016065063252542076835038177643881274455351191769033191983079600699600177957851060tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/390b2ae5cdb2ed70A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard&#39;s Exchange Support2009-09-06T00:01:00Z2009-09-06T00:01:00Zimamac writes "Apple Insider has an interesting perspective on the MS Exchange support built into Mac OS X 10.6 and how it essentially frees Apple from all things Microsoft: 'Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependence upon Microsoft's client software, weakening Microsoft's ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at Apple's expense. More importantly, Apple is providing its users with additional options that benefit both Mac users and the open source community.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2344201/A-Different-Perspective-On-Snow-Leopards-Exchange-Support?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2344201"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2344201/A-Different-Perspective-On-Snow-Leopards-Exchange-Support?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2344201%2FA-Different-Perspective-On-Snow-Leopards-Exchange-Support%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/HxfznO9LmXk" height="1" width="1">timothy0955609908442136496413556484898698160140049983650730189267551337871375047829188108187972741007691231tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/81237fb2e53de88dWordpress.org Warns of Active Worm Hacking Blogs2009-09-05T22:53:00Z2009-09-05T22:53:00ZErik writes "Wordpress, the popular open-source Content Management System (CMS) for many thousands of bloggers worldwide, is under attack from a 'clever' worm that automatically compromises unpatched versions of the Wordpress system. The particularly nasty bug crawls the web for vulnerable Wordpress installations, installing malware, deleting content, and generally wreaking havoc wherever it can. Today, Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg eloquently implored Wordpress bloggers to update more frequently. Originally, updating the Wordpress system was a rather laborious process; however, newer versions offer fast and simple one-click upgrades. The two most recent versions of Wordpress (2.8.3 and 2.8.4) cannot be attacked by the worm discovered this week, and blogs hosted at Wordpress.com are also apparently immune."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2210237/Wordpressorg-Warns-of-Active-Worm-Hacking-Blogs?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2210237"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2210237/Wordpressorg-Warns-of-Active-Worm-Hacking-Blogs?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2210237%2FWordpressorg-Warns-of-Active-Worm-Hacking-Blogs%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/z-SarZ7xJFI" height="1" width="1">timothy065029524243199279541653096749326927606403329150345383886083135564848986981601400984272704544058925401564959425318552483tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d0a383fd21439b4eMeet Uzbl — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy2009-09-05T21:45:00Z2009-09-05T21:45:00ZDigDuality writes "Dieter@be over at Arch Linux forums, a release engineer for Arch Linux, got inspired by this post. The idea? To create a browser based on the Unix philosophy: 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well, programs that work well together, programs to handle text streams because that is a universal interface,' among other points. The result? A fast, low-resource browser named Uzbl, based on WebKit, which passes the Acid3 Test with a perfect score. The browser is controlled (by default) by vim-like keybindings, not too dissimilar to vimperator for Firefox. Things like URL changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, and downloads are handled through external scripts that you write (though the Uzbl software does come with some nice scripts for you to use). It fits great in a tiling window manager and plays extremely well with dmenu. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get used to it, it's smooth sailing. Not bad for alpha software. Though built for Arch, it has been reported to work on Ubuntu."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2142235/Meet-Uzbl-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2142235"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2142235/Meet-Uzbl-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2142235%2FMeet-Uzbl-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/DEqiwzNgccA" height="1" width="1">timothy0387809311996955094705614457940214209057083218157806980398910955609908442136496409861010378999536985155981150512337951490357728129076212286817404571228601669579164584950117715786620982769893714880981905020073376922810213062323670894881807571489282840078574193703957163745333672551135564848986981601400953512268582303113710883823245001959741074003703462045420511021794225202319431312686319179019511774128837278730328607000782479041203903100203194253477406437759048027526484942183820003652768021781486702355845463086232420139766619664808346700724854015229118337900345692755581451699081879727410076912310698097545257214322006573019274686803527008629694413644180591609304930694221217500121742517738674609tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/39c2338c592d6e10Meet UZBL — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy2009-09-05T21:45:00Z2009-09-05T21:45:00ZDigDuality writes "Dieter@be over at Arch Linux forums and a release engineer for Arch Linux got inspired by this post. The idea? To create a browser based on the Unix Philosophy: 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well, programs that work well together, programs to handle text streams because that is a universal interface,' among other points. The result? A low resource fast browser named Uzbl, based on WebKit and passes the Acid3 Test with a perfect score. The browser is controlled (by default) by vim-like keybindings, not too dissimilar from vimperator for Firefox. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, downloads, are handled through external scripts that you write (though the uzbl software does come with some nice scripts for you to use). It fits great in a tiling window manager and plays extremely well with dmenu. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get use it to, it's smooth sailing. Not bad for alpha software. Thought built for Arch it has been reporting to work on Ubuntu."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2142235/Meet-UZBL-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2142235"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2142235/Meet-UZBL-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2142235%2FMeet-UZBL-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/sShXjVf_zSY" height="1" width="1">timothy0241950517958524619506502952424319927954083218157806980398910716872906334267894209556099084421364964098610103789995369851740457122860166957902847300681564696992064914354258313580511644825142105573678410920421856023109840098427270454405892540375927446383770445700036527680217814867031117791594945691560501524149888430386516035476708569753200tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7e1f6abf93d2a2a5Recovery Tool Includes Leak of Palm&#39;s WebOS 1.22009-09-05T20:37:00Z2009-09-05T20:37:00ZEl Royo writes "Today, Palm leaked version 1.2 of the webOS operating system that powers the Palm Pre. According to PreCentral, the new version was inadvertently included in a recovery tool Palm makes available. New features include support for the forthcoming App Catalog changes, copy and paste from Web sites, improved e-mail search and faster boot times."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2037219/Recovery-Tool-Includes-Leak-of-Palms-WebOS-12?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2037219"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2037219/Recovery-Tool-Includes-Leak-of-Palms-WebOS-12?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2037219%2FRecovery-Tool-Includes-Leak-of-Palms-WebOS-12%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/u-bzW-i6eSY" height="1" width="1">timothy109204218560231098401349596732965075195912288452003087472662tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e9f2045849e4e2fbMicrosoft Attacks Linux With Retail-Training Talking Points2009-09-05T19:26:00Z2009-09-05T19:26:00ZDesiVideoGamer writes "Over at Overclock.net, a user has posted screen-shots from Microsoft's 'ExpertZone' training course entitled 'Linux vs. Windows 7.' This course is available to BestBuy employees and will make them eligible for a $10 copy of Windows 7 upon completion." The screenshots linked show at least some creative interpretations of the state of Linux vs. Windows on a wide range of things, from media playback and video conferencing to ease of updates to (of all things) keeping your PCs "safer." Most of the claims, though, aren't concrete enough to be perfectly refuted. Writes DesiVideoGamer, "I think I now know why, when I enter BestBuy, the employees say the odd lies that they do."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/195219/Microsoft-Attacks-Linux-With-Retail-Training-Talking-Points?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/195219"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/195219/Microsoft-Attacks-Linux-With-Retail-Training-Talking-Points?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F195219%2FMicrosoft-Attacks-Linux-With-Retail-Training-Talking-Points%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/u1Uok8j-KGI" height="1" width="1">timothy0995226705541715415006502952424319927954071204464561194931581006568925177183588606874177431196295481075106181769275985310256843811554489384113847499425844200263109204218560231098400840540968181039789913848034972594355536109510250134602223711233634377728216525311609537971225812221073547245687908207921116208821104857010208187972741007691231060085330031844330150320008647212035035208685710927728711800tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/00415ef9c929bd70ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms2009-09-05T18:27:00Z2009-09-05T18:27:00ZScentCone writes "The ELF (Earth Liberation Front) has claimed responsibility for destroying the primary AM towers used by radio station KRKO in Washington state. From their statement: 'AM radio waves cause adverse health effects including a higher rate of cancer, harm to wildlife, and that the signals have been interfering with home phone and intercom lines.' The poor intercom performance must have been the last straw."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1755238/ELF-Knocks-Down-AM-Towers-To-Save-Earth-Intercoms?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1755238"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1755238/ELF-Knocks-Down-AM-Towers-To-Save-Earth-Intercoms?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1755238%2FELF-Knocks-Down-AM-Towers-To-Save-Earth-Intercoms%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/SMwzoS8nF0c" height="1" width="1">timothy068364225281501264850817035510393317784408091422713605721532122931174495126531711004099584320390325412686319179019511774084950578868100715670818797274100769123111354487446316251441tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/a6c2cd47e08ced34Kernel 2.6.31 To Speed Up Linux Desktop2009-09-05T17:24:00Z2009-09-05T17:24:00ZDan Jones writes "As the Linux community looks forward to another kernel release, the kernel hackers have been working on improving the memory management so that the X desktop responsiveness is doubled under high memory pressure. The result is an improved desktop experience. Benchmarks on memory-tight desktops show clock time and major faults reduced by 50 per cent, and pswpin numbers (memory reads from disk) are reduced to about one-third. Another improvement coming with 2.6.31 is kernel mode-setting support for ATI Radeon graphics cards, enabling faster user switching and a more seamless startup experience. Peripheral developments that will also improve the Linux desktop experience include support for the new USB 3.0 specification and a new Firewire stack. Even minor Linux releases have heaps of new features these days!"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/161230/Kernel-2631-To-Speed-Up-Linux-Desktop?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/161230"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/161230/Kernel-2631-To-Speed-Up-Linux-Desktop?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F161230%2FKernel-2631-To-Speed-Up-Linux-Desktop%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ZXw5h5pxqzA" height="1" width="1">Soulskill09952267055417154150038780931199695509471364148138485798403005789605527314912993165806018464603116840492463655718818659318221100262363282033153553076586749375920852146417560459250313533103508979864409180756275259165189940955609908442136496411309665644424117823066625813019566392390467217512081400217410214212641925781418165309674932692760640751061817692759853110494891560031606942066476946549671298651771643727583614309910920421856023109840116831510971481995110572722904250417903704994518477366996775135564848986981601400797848168686314601810785650777318873358098427270454405892540381776438812744553513443306759376272885123961613429026306150500124326794618314711711797241584128937045561022930880434850684032643414530167007597748084895731079121918138957375625741160953797122581222107056878571024518131160477197754812496530554487038503746561502659583503508081870102928460435907389760985716951826948318115944559126790716368073514813059070523191263365735992157213302924857688350921221129263315521775504200682811961027992015618106462918743423667086857109277287118001332120129712402444901463997211539871712029238784166389029521060769948670054670904953666248810817736tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/de2791fde6202cbfMach 6 Test Aircraft Set For Trials2009-09-05T16:20:00Z2009-09-05T16:20:00Zcoondoggie writes "The aspiration that jets may someday fly at over six times the speed of sound took a very real step toward reality recently, as the US Air Force said it successfully married the test aircraft, known as the X-51A WaveRider, to a B-52 in preparation for a Dec. 2 flight test. The X-51A flight tests are intended to demonstrate that the engines can achieve their desired speed without disintegrating. While the X-51 looks like a large rocket now, its applications could change the way aircraft or spaceships are designed, fly into space, support reconnaissance missions and handle long-distance flight operations. At the heart of the test is the aircraft's air-breathing hypersonic scramjet system."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1517256/Mach-6-Test-Aircraft-Set-For-Trials?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1517256"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1517256/Mach-6-Test-Aircraft-Set-For-Trials?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1517256%2FMach-6-Test-Aircraft-Set-For-Trials%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/e6xzBt5ZfvE" height="1" width="1">Soulskill048807954317216902111315436856723688149509556099084421364964165309674932692760640193351275165657808908170355103933177844029566130312187638101420780656012905820403194253477406437759050012432679461831470818797274100769123116047719775481249653159445591267907163681840138356142652373305428171003655358352tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f998540aa124db8fAll-You-Can-Eat College For $99-a-Month2009-09-05T15:18:00Z2009-09-05T15:18:00Ztheodp writes "Writing in Washington Monthly, Kevin Carey has seen the future of college education. It costs $99-a-month, and there's no limit on the number of courses you can take. Tiny online education firm StraighterLine is out to challenge the seeming permanency of traditional colleges and universities. How? Like Craigslist, StraighterLine threatens the most profitable piece of its competitors' business: freshman lectures, higher education's equivalent of the classified section. It's no surprise, then, that as StraighterLine tried to buck the system, the system began to push back, challenging deals the company struck with accredited traditional and for-profit institutions to allow StraighterLine courses to be transferred for credit. But even if StraighterLine doesn't succeed in bringing extremely cheap college courses to the masses, it's likely that another player eventually will."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1431212/All-You-Can-Eat-College-For-99-a-Month?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1431212"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1431212/All-You-Can-Eat-College-For-99-a-Month?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1431212%2FAll-You-Can-Eat-College-For-99-a-Month%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CzXLPA5DJ_w" height="1" width="1">Soulskill06645840614643384268059291343268529582110650295242431992795412738908671252277287069311615363154768901753557578361972061417115983905222786014178082312902597406441242873571061336327914313870534249679160090188897761184515211006568925177183588609556099084421364964146966773332058704760861890399528446133017646331607086711302159244475442555015560374950652448691482013770446109997904773101373142279590681411355648489869816014012837138579596688203007984920639898264401462518050429125290803817764388127445535049983650730189267551655264098736953572607300287686062327659008265082744104581380441984580683528755408919112681890564920003456927555814516990818797274100769123104354778073839331145015051233448829723640792636573884048596715944559126790716368008677954451835507650064326386139135224110202490990958320925184013835614265237330784032416360510662308685710927728711800008629694413644180590425078439036160237910639334286590803122tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/b215d1095a0b7672Nokia Fears Carriers May Try To Undermine N9002009-09-05T14:15:00Z2009-09-05T14:15:00ZAn anonymous reader writes "Nokia is worried that networks may reject selling the N900 because it won't allow them to mess with the operating system. Nokia has previously showed the N900 running a root shell and it appears to use the same interface for IM and phone functions. Meanwhile, Verizon is claiming that 'exclusivity arrangements promote competition and innovation.' Is it too late to explain to people why $99+$60/month is not better than $600+$20/month?"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1330256/Nokia-Fears-Carriers-May-Try-To-Undermine-N900?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1330256"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1330256/Nokia-Fears-Carriers-May-Try-To-Undermine-N900?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1330256%2FNokia-Fears-Carriers-May-Try-To-Undermine-N900%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/diKe0ZC6bcM" height="1" width="1">Soulskill057896055273149129930650295242431992795404880795431721690211095560990844213649640986101037899953698503577281290762122868075106181769275985310439624359147187294902847300681564696992135564848986981601400403249055555090066602080444298194032710178351292991161174780311177915949456915607840324163605106623029238784166389029520666681239895013063009767985165396826483tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/89e88b87d77842f4Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users2009-09-05T13:17:00Z2009-09-05T13:17:00Zjuct writes "Beginning with versions 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 of Firefox, Mozilla is going to check the version of installed Adobe Flash plug-ins and warn users if it discovers an outdated version with potential security holes. Mozilla confirmed this new security feature and said that the Flash version check was part of a wider commitment to 'protect users from emerging threats online.' Just recently, a study confirmed that 80 per cent of users surf with a vulnerable version of Adobe's plug-in."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1157222/Mozilla-To-Protect-Adobe-Flash-Users?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1157222"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1157222/Mozilla-To-Protect-Adobe-Flash-Users?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1157222%2FMozilla-To-Protect-Adobe-Flash-Users%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/_faf_IlSZCE" height="1" width="1">Soulskill008709218682569729391658060184646031168406502952424319927954046436014799677673930708707073946872924509556099084421364964098610103789995369850277831826207061844805458573668346554143066625813019566392391731749456607787200116530967493269276064012322721003077891730524024141007399135303456312945330033658174855650918579487291355648489869816014013848034972594355536178001808548979326110381776438812744553504998365073018926755165526409873695357260557196829259386019914959160089903037613181199775766756492480818797274100769123101880089226219167710043547780738393311450735148130590705231906008533003184433015035138077213031630601840138356142652373308685710927728711800133212012971240244491174448646156699825818274829000417306234tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/296d03e9de80289fRe-Examining the Immersion Factor For First-Person Shooters2009-09-05T07:31:00Z2009-09-05T07:31:00ZAn opinion piece on Gamasutra looks into the common perception that a first-person view provides a much more immersive experience in shooters. The author argues that this concept needs to be reconsidered, as immersion nowadays is more dependent on what you see, rather than how you see it. The question is further complicated by ever-improving technology and new control schemes. "It's important to realize that making a first-person game almost necessarily means making a game for the dedicated gamer. Innovations on the interface side could help lower the casual block, perhaps through the Wii, Project Natal, or the PS3's new motion controller. Regardless, it will take a lot of work and concerted effort to penetrate the casual audience with a first-person camera. The question is whether we even need to, when there are so many camera systems that games have yet to fully explore."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0231205/Re-Examining-the-Immersion-Factor-For-First-Person-Shooters?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0231205"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0231205/Re-Examining-the-Immersion-Factor-For-First-Person-Shooters?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0231205%2FRe-Examining-the-Immersion-Factor-For-First-Person-Shooters%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NM3YeF3V9QA" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1006568925177183588609352580754367559094135564848986981601401344330675937627288501014446539998601099081879727410076912311594455912679071636807840324163605106623tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0e3e49056b2c532eFormer Intel CEO Andy Grove Wants Struggling Industries To Stop Slacking2009-09-05T12:16:00Z2009-09-05T12:16:00Zlousyd writes "Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel and current instructor at Stanford Business School, has a message for industry. He believes that health care and energy, especially, could learn a lesson from computing's innovative and relatively government-free history. He asks students to imagine if mainframe vendors had asked government to prop them up in the same way that General Motors recently was. On the issue of computer patents, he insists that firms must use their patents or lose them: 'You can't just sit on your a** and give everyone the finger.'"<p><a href="http://slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0242216/Former-Intel-CEO-Andy-Grove-Wants-Struggling-Industries-To-Stop-Slacking?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0242216"></a></p><p><a href="http://slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0242216/Former-Intel-CEO-Andy-Grove-Wants-Struggling-Industries-To-Stop-Slacking?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0242216%2FFormer-Intel-CEO-Andy-Grove-Wants-Struggling-Industries-To-Stop-Slacking%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/TggtllNQ6J8" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1755281222119003882908283901880316023109035120732810360514891658060184646031168406185021969703509949065029524243199279540987787207023405471205938589286092199593098610103789995369850254987824009224012514331792383181608999184444118272506745591330586129771068543905020073376922810213116830872045567180631341558389732098901514892828400785741937095351226858230311370602391977354765534209842727045440589254024064786786376548571655264098736953572614940874294927873248130389754387940468481527470801394435120003565239082423243710081879727410076912310435477807383933114506812601999936285605159445591267907163680959167975273470944606573019274686803527035138077213031630601020249099095832092518401383561426523733086857109277287118001827482900041730623404452999694308390650tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4528442633bc7b2bCourt Allows Microsoft To Sell Word During Appeal2009-09-05T09:14:00Z2009-09-05T09:14:00ZAn anonymous reader sends along this update to the ongoing patent battle between Microsoft and i4i involving XML formatting in Word. "Microsoft's motion to stay an injunction has been granted; the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has allowed the company to keep selling Word as it appeals a patent ruling from last month. The injunction had an effective date of October 10, but the motion to stay blocks the injunction until the appeal process is complete. If upheld, the injunction wouldn't stop existing users from using Word, but it could prevent the software giant from selling Word 2003 or Word 2007, the most common versions of Word currently on the market, and would require the company to significantly tweak Word 2010, which is slated for the first half of next year. The victory is a small one for Microsoft; the company still has the whole appeals process to go through. 'We are happy with the result and look forward to presenting our arguments on the main issues on September 23,' a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. 'Microsoft's scare tactics about the consequences of the injunction cannot shield it from the imminent review of the case by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal on the September 23 appeal,' said i4i chairman Loudon Owen in response to the court's decision."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0112254/Court-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0112254"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0112254/Court-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0112254%2FCourt-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/boPR-OOe_pA" height="1" width="1">Soulskill141909494182340242090955609908442136496414505367815875990951104502912459569403371355648489869816014013924756675591735321tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/6bd6315020d84c2fKepler Mission Could Detect Exomoons2009-09-05T06:11:00Z2009-09-05T06:11:00ZLord Northern writes "According to several news sources, NASA's Kepler mission is said to be able to detect habitable moons orbiting planets in other star systems. Kepler is a space telescope designed to detect exoplanets. Its mission will have it orbiting the Sun for 3.5 years, after which we'll be able to tell if any of our neighboring stars actually have planetary systems around them. However, apparently we will be able to detect not only exoplanets, but also exomoons orbiting those exoplanets. The Kepler team came to that conclusion after running a computer simulation which found that the telescope was sensitive enough to detect the gravitational pull of an orbiting moon (PDF). This means that the data expected by the end of the mission is going to be very rich, and it is said that moons as small as 0.2 times the mass of earth could be detected. Further details about the Kepler mission are available from NASA."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0048216/Kepler-Mission-Could-Detect-Exomoons?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0048216"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0048216/Kepler-Mission-Could-Detect-Exomoons?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0048216%2FKepler-Mission-Could-Detect-Exomoons%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/2z6en3WTwdU" height="1" width="1">Soulskill16580601846460311684092872461535129477201431387053424967916009556099084421364964165309674932692760640193351275165657808909401309724516848935025684381155448938410284730068156469699203029572971907063909034563129453300336581002084895183575016013556484898698160140098427270454405892540891911268189056492008187972741007691231159445591267907163681840138356142652373308815046739560468860tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/14687bc3a1445efcAmazon Offers To Return Pulled Orwell Ebooks2009-09-05T04:10:00Z2009-09-05T04:10:00ZBack in July, Amazon faced public outrage over their decision to delete ebook copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from the Kindles of customers who purchased them. Shortly thereafter, CEO Jeff Bezos offered an apology, acknowledging that Amazon handled the situation in a "stupid" and "thoughtless" manner. Now, they're offering something more substantial: anyone who had an ebook deleted can now have it restored, apparently with annotations intact. Any customer who isn't interested in a new copy can get either an Amazon gift certificate or a check for $30.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0037217/Amazon-Offers-To-Return-Pulled-Orwell-Ebooks?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0037217"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0037217/Amazon-Offers-To-Return-Pulled-Orwell-Ebooks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0037217%2FAmazon-Offers-To-Return-Pulled-Orwell-Ebooks%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/uzgRSC6sq7I" height="1" width="1">Soulskill08729413362266242937046436014799677673931431387053424967916010065689251771835886095560990844213649641089425145841550944415184147549209121417046273039833577211181341558389732098901514892828400785741937135564848986981601401274792296373114735215328643569094213556081879727410076912311693745653449872168810862715331183683564184013835614265237330822877555201885113908685710927728711800tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/791cff4f0c483945PageRank Algorithm Applied To the Food Web2009-09-05T02:05:00Z2009-09-05T02:05:00ZAn anonymous reader brings word of a new application for PageRank, Google's link analysis algorithm: monitoring the food web in an ecosystem. A team of researchers found that a modified version of PageRank can predict with great accuracy which species are vital to the existence of others. Quoting: "Every species is embedded in a complex network of relationships with others. A single extinction can cascade into the loss of seemingly unrelated species. Investigating when this might happen using more conventional methods is complicated, as even in simple ecosystems, the number of combinations exceeds the number of atoms in the universe. So, it would be impossible to try them all. Co-author Dr. Stefano Allesina realized he could apply PageRank to the problem when he stumbled across an article in a journal of applied mathematics describing the Google algorithm. 'First of all, we had to reverse the definition of the algorithm. In PageRank, a web page is important if important pages point to it. In our approach, a species is important if it points to important species.'"<p><a href="http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2251244/PageRank-Algorithm-Applied-To-the-Food-Web?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/2251244"></a></p><p><a href="http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2251244/PageRank-Algorithm-Applied-To-the-Food-Web?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F2251244%2FPageRank-Algorithm-Applied-To-the-Food-Web%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/quiKVoZKP7A" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1658060184646031168406502952424319927954003283803749594734210901888977611845152110065689251771835886095560990844213649640254987824009224012506662581301956639239165309674932692760640493917519435491191103386061809521879964167572043404081499480345631294533003365811800433428252104441167811999879886771121355648489869816014012747922963731147352163915799013303758320782479041203903100214940874294927873248tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8f73e9966cb462fbCode-Breaking Quantum Algorithm On a Silicon Chip2009-09-05T00:06:00Z2009-09-05T00:06:00ZUrchin writes "Shor's quantum algorithm, which offers a way to crack the commonly-used RSA encryption algorithm, has been demonstrated on a silicon chip for the first time. The algorithm was first demonstrated on large tabletop arrays 3 years ago, but the photonic quantum circuit can now be printed relatively easily onto a silicon chip just 26 mm long. You can see the abstract from the team's academic paper in the journal Science; the full text requires a subscription."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/229204/-Code-Breaking-Quantum-Algorithm-On-a-Silicon-Chip?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/229204"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/229204/-Code-Breaking-Quantum-Algorithm-On-a-Silicon-Chip?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F229204%2F-Code-Breaking-Quantum-Algorithm-On-a-Silicon-Chip%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/mxJ-3bglr14" height="1" width="1">Soulskill159639148731402132031655534720346475645716580601846460311684178082312902597406441006568925177183588609556099084421364964098610103789995369850861890399528446133016530967493269276064159244475442555015561384749942584420026313446718794644936826034563129453300336580985690864559271134205733448173911211458015577026466367351541355648489869816014004748023188992137885134433067593762728851494087429492787324816742510343864183601146420519852289736811160953797122581222111715273124072952202015649594253185524830022720703298527695115944559126790716368035138077213031630600601263692013241494018401383561426523733tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9ebf57490b8141a0How 136 People Became 7 Million Illegal File-Sharers2009-09-04T23:10:00Z2009-09-04T23:10:00ZBarence writes &quot;The British government&#39;s official figures on the level of illegal file sharing in the UK come from questionable research commissioned by the music industry. The Radio 4 show named More or Less examined the government&#39;s claim that 7m people in Britain are engaged in illegal file sharing. The 7m figure actually came from a report written about music industry losses for Forrester subsidiary Jupiter Research. The report was privately commissioned by none other than the UK&#39;s music trade body, the BPI. The 7m figure had been rounded up from an actual figure of 6.7m, gleaned from a 2008 survey of 1,176 net-connected households, 11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software — in other words, only 136 people. That 11.6% was adjusted upwards to 16.3% &#39;to reflect the assumption that fewer people admit to file sharing than actually do it.&#39; The 6.7m figure was then calculated based on an estimated number of internet users that disagreed with the government&#39;s own estimate. The wholly unsubstantiated 7m figure was then released as an official statistic.&quot;<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2148203/How-136-People-Became-7-Million-Illegal-File-Sharers?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/2148203"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2148203/How-136-People-Became-7-Million-Illegal-File-Sharers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F2148203%2FHow-136-People-Became-7-Million-Illegal-File-Sharers%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/8ceq4OyPdP0" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1417663966001011341512771210121660434469009212809659018831700351207328103605148903073544034534867372061850219697035099490650295242431992795416820007008568411625083218157806980398911465168879693133624417808231290259740644057597681457421976090116008567942802968004091288520666454667033045215235011587151627768111857773792610065689251771835886090058804611491070910328353715819214815509556099084421364964126605496975445425700986101037899953698503676399070155537502155981150512337951490894762614914991213703786072260535133023110732489210175578901518414754920912141703843579878467474083017518509488919081830940130972451684893503102957890764494868138474994258442002631377044610999790477303456312945330033658050200733769228102131013731422795906814118127807357255741911167811999879886771121489282840078574193712217371181550792701122191377433313584371355648489869816014016065063252542076835142794616747624658430538886400247317614613065896170939214901078247904120390310020499836507301892675506300323322621469299001988209540276440600167541540458095603717144294914099698280137781819622781828211532864356909421355613567518942858539729070688562275390472480386146146717128972105237855768771886916117152731240729522020818797274100769123104354778073839331145160753881603630643930735148130590705231914255980790782033429035138077213031630601086271533118368356405572201053770289442086857109277287118000847547113851169544408027043158454079493tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1ac9191661cefac8Appropriate Interviewing For a Worldwide Search?2009-09-04T22:17:00Z2009-09-04T22:17:00Zjellomizer writes 'I am a manager of a small Software Development department, looking to hire some more developers. By edict of the CEO, the search must be made globally, so we are dealing with different cultures and different ideas of truth and embellishment, etc. To try to counteract this, we give the potential employees tests where I watch what they do, to see if they actually know what they say they know. However, it seems a lot of applicants drop out when I mention that this test is mandatory. Is this a sign that we caught them in a lie, or are we weeding out good people where we shouldn't be? Would you be willing to take a test as part of an interview? If so, is there any type of heads up you would like to know beforehand to make the decision of whether to take the test easier?' What other difficulties have people seen while trying to hire from many different cultures?<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2015205/Appropriate-Interviewing-For-a-Worldwide-Search?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/2015205"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2015205/Appropriate-Interviewing-For-a-Worldwide-Search?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F2015205%2FAppropriate-Interviewing-For-a-Worldwide-Search%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/GMWYWZErGZs" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey08187972741007691231tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/dd7650c3f47439afNew England Prep School Library Goes Entirely Digital2009-09-04T21:21:00Z2009-09-04T21:21:00ZAn anonymous reader writes to mention that Cushing Academy has decided to leap into the future by getting rid of all the books in their library and going completely digital. Instead of dusty stacks, the library is spending close to half a million dollars to install all the hallmarks of a digital learning center. Flat screen TVs, "laptop friendly carrels," and a coffee shop are just the first step in building an area that allows students access to millions of books as opposed to several thousand. Of course, not everyone is completely sold on this move: "[Keith Michael Fiels, executive director of the American Library Association] said the move raises at least two concerns: Many of the books on electronic readers and the Internet aren't free and it may become more difficult for students to happen on books with the serendipity made possible by physical browsing. There's also the question of the durability of electronic readers. 'Unless every student has a Kindle and an unlimited budget, I don't see how that need is going to be met,' Fiels said. 'Books are not a waste of space, and they won't be until a digital book can tolerate as much sand, survive a coffee spill, and have unlimited power. When that happens, there will be next to no difference between that and a book.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/194253/New-England-Prep-School-Library-Goes-Entirely-Digital?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/194253"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/194253/New-England-Prep-School-Library-Goes-Entirely-Digital?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F194253%2FNew-England-Prep-School-Library-Goes-Entirely-Digital%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/N8CvMi0RGf8" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey13556484898698160140163915799013303758320818797274100769123113549555138947531350tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/904b015812cda796Mixing Coal and Solar To Produce Cheaper Energy2009-09-04T20:40:00Z2009-09-04T20:40:00ZAl writes "It might not please many environmentalists, but a major energy company is adding solar-thermal power to a coal plant and says this could be the cost-effective way to produce energy while lowering CO2 emissions. Abengoa Solar and Xcel Energy, Colorado's largest electrical utility, have begun modifying the coal plant, which is based near Grand Junction, Colorado. Under the design, parabolic troughs will be used to preheat water that will be fed into the coal plant's boilers, where coal is burned to turn the water into steam. Cost savings comes from using existing turbines and generators and from operating at higher efficiencies, since the turbines and generators in solar-thermal plants are normally optimized to run at the lower temperatures generated by parabolic mirrors."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1846216/Mixing-Coal-and-Solar-To-Produce-Cheaper-Energy?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/1846216"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1846216/Mixing-Coal-and-Solar-To-Produce-Cheaper-Energy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F1846216%2FMixing-Coal-and-Solar-To-Produce-Cheaper-Energy%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/EN9E6qyTVVs" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey0758699550726570320712453516974710401454165806018464603116841281111495420575230110604876277321675193031029578907644948681686986144636658720913556484898698160140081879727410076912310435477807383933114509131196823844581959tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/534d627405a0e73dSymantec Wants To Use Victims To Hunt Computer Criminals2009-09-04T19:48:00Z2009-09-04T19:48:00ZHugh Pickens writes "Business Week reports that security experts plan to recruit victims and other computer users to help them go on the offensive and hunt down hackers. '"It's time to stop building burglar alarms to keep people out and go after the bad guys," says Rowan Trollope, senior vice-president for consumer products at Symantec, the largest maker of antivirus software. Symantec will ask customers to opt in to a program that will collect data about attempted computer intrusions and then forward the information to authorities. Symantec will also begin posting the FBI's top 10 hackers and their schemes on its Web site, where customers go for software updates and next year the company will begin offering cash bounties for information leading to an arrest. The strategy has its risks as hackers who find novices on their trail may trash their computers or steal their identities as punishment. Citizen hunters could also become cybervigilantes and harm bystanders as they pursue criminals but Symantec is betting customers won't mind being disrupted if they can help snare the bad guys. "I'm convinced we can clean up the Internet in 10 years if we can peel away the dirt and show people the threats they're facing," says Trollope.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1648254/Symantec-Wants-To-Use-Victims-To-Hunt-Computer-Criminals?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/1648254"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1648254/Symantec-Wants-To-Use-Victims-To-Hunt-Computer-Criminals?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F1648254%2FSymantec-Wants-To-Use-Victims-To-Hunt-Computer-Criminals%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Z5moOf2c57o" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey132874568577054468090419024887316999228604966042062642941662130712902329429311961532864356909421355608187972741007691231tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f289554dbc5ba1f7New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative2009-09-04T19:00:00Z2009-09-04T19:00:00ZRainbowBrite writes &quot;The YikeBike is the invention of a New Zealander aiming to alleviate city congestion. &#39;It might look like a collision between a praying mantis and a child&#39;s scooter, but it&#39;s the result of five years of work to reinvent the wheel, with one important addition: an electric motor. It&#39;s a bicycle, but not as we have come to know it. For a start, you sit upright and steer with your hands at your side.&#39;&quot; The YikeBike weighs in at a measly 22 lbs but has a hefty price tag of almost $5,000 US (£3,000). The expected lifespan is only 1,000 charges but has a projected range of around six miles.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1532252/New-Zealander-Invents-Segway-Alternative?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/1532252"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1532252/New-Zealander-Invents-Segway-Alternative?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F1532252%2FNew-Zealander-Invents-Segway-Alternative%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/eW0oxgLNdMY" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey036945140703927238041006568925177183588609556099084421364964160202966649742879081585030137042896804413556484898698160140078247904120390310021777394497708284444602360032991218607928tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/bafb20f380706af4Steve Ballmer Directing &quot;House Party 7&quot;2009-09-04T18:09:00Z2009-09-04T18:09:00Ztheodp writes "What are you doing on Oct. 22? Microsoft is putting a Tupperware-style twist on the upcoming Windows 7 rollout, launching a new initiative to encourage thousands of employees, partners and technology enthusiasts to throw parties in their homes and communities to demonstrate and help spread the word about its new OS. People accepted as official launch party hosts will get their own copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, and a chance to win a computer. Host spaces are very limited, so apply now, kids. 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According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel contractors involved in the development of the Ares 1 have started a quiet but persistent public relations campaign to save the Ares 1, criticized in some quarters because of cost and technical problems."

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+ + + + timothy + + + + 09556099084421364964 + + + 13556484898698160140 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/50530663b3a1b371 + + + + + + + + Measuring Input Latency In Console Games + + + 2009-09-06T17:43:00Z + + + 2009-09-06T17:43:00Z + + + + The Digital Foundry blog has an article about measuring an important but often nebulous aspect of console gameplay: input lag. Using a video camera and a custom input monitor made by console modder Ben Heck, and after calibrating for display lag, they tested a variety of games to an accuracy of one video frame in order to determine the latency between pressing a button and seeing its effect on the screen. Quoting: "If a proven methodology can be put into place, games reviewers can better inform their readers, but more importantly developers can benefit in helping to eliminate unwanted lag from their code. ... It's fair to say that players today have become conditioned to what the truly hardcore PC gamers would consider to be almost unacceptably high levels of latency to the point where cloud gaming services such as OnLive and Gaikai rely heavily upon it. The average videogame runs at 30fps, and appears to have an average lag in the region of 133ms. On top of that is additional delay from the display itself, bringing the overall latency to around 166ms. Assuming that the most ultra-PC gaming set-up has a latency less than one third of that, this is good news for cloud gaming in that there's a good 80ms or so window for game video to be transmitted from client to server."

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+ + + + ScuttleMonkey + + + + 08187972741007691231 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/dd7650c3f47439af + + + + + + + + New England Prep School Library Goes Entirely Digital + + + 2009-09-04T21:21:00Z + + + 2009-09-04T21:21:00Z + + + + An anonymous reader writes to mention that Cushing Academy has decided to leap into the future by getting rid of all the books in their library and going completely digital. Instead of dusty stacks, the library is spending close to half a million dollars to install all the hallmarks of a digital learning center. Flat screen TVs, "laptop friendly carrels," and a coffee shop are just the first step in building an area that allows students access to millions of books as opposed to several thousand. Of course, not everyone is completely sold on this move: "[Keith Michael Fiels, executive director of the American Library Association] said the move raises at least two concerns: Many of the books on electronic readers and the Internet aren't free and it may become more difficult for students to happen on books with the serendipity made possible by physical browsing. There's also the question of the durability of electronic readers. 'Unless every student has a Kindle and an unlimited budget, I don't see how that need is going to be met,' Fiels said. 'Books are not a waste of space, and they won't be until a digital book can tolerate as much sand, survive a coffee spill, and have unlimited power. When that happens, there will be next to no difference between that and a book.'"

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According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel contractors involved in the development of the Ares 1 have started a quiet but persistent public relations campaign to save the Ares 1, criticized in some quarters because of cost and technical problems."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1949247/Can-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1949247"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1949247/Can-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1949247%2FCan-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/5LbT3H6AaXY" height="1" width="1">timothy05001243267946183147tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/2fef84e3d695cb13Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged?2009-09-06T20:00:00Z2009-09-06T20:00:00ZMarkWhittington writes "The Augustine Commission has not officially presented its findings to the White House, but already a push back is starting to occur over the possibility that the Ares 1 rocket will be canceled after three billion dollars and over four years of development. According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel contractors involved in the development of the Ares 1 have started a quiet, but persistent public relations campaign to save the Ares 1, criticized in some quarters because of cost and technical problems."<p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1949247/Can-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1949247"></a></p><p><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1949247/Can-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1949247%2FCan-the-Ares-Program-Be-Salvaged%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/WDLhRrW-Oqs" height="1" width="1">timothytag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/643ec196fed0398fHas the WebOS Finally Arrived?2009-09-06T18:54:00Z2009-09-06T18:54:00ZSphereOfInfluence writes "Dion Hinchcliffe over on ZDNet declared in a new post that the Web OS has finally arrived and that businesses and IT departments must adjust to the fact that everything's starting to move to the cloud. He cites John Hagel's so-called big business shifts of the 21st century and claims cloud computing, crowdsourcing, open APIs, Software-as-a-Service are the future of the workplace. He goes on to present a compelling visual model of the Web OS circa 2009 and examples to back up some of the statements."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1816203/Has-the-WebOS-Finally-Arrived?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1816203"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1816203/Has-the-WebOS-Finally-Arrived?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1816203%2FHas-the-WebOS-Finally-Arrived%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/_p9aDVEUKYg" height="1" width="1">timothy0955609908442136496413556484898698160140tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/50530663b3a1b371Measuring Input Latency In Console Games2009-09-06T17:43:00Z2009-09-06T17:43:00ZThe Digital Foundry blog has an article about measuring an important but often nebulous aspect of console gameplay: input lag. Using a video camera and a custom input monitor made by console modder Ben Heck, and after calibrating for display lag, they tested a variety of games to an accuracy of one video frame in order to determine the latency between pressing a button and seeing its effect on the screen. Quoting: "If a proven methodology can be put into place, games reviewers can better inform their readers, but more importantly developers can benefit in helping to eliminate unwanted lag from their code. ... It's fair to say that players today have become conditioned to what the truly hardcore PC gamers would consider to be almost unacceptably high levels of latency to the point where cloud gaming services such as OnLive and Gaikai rely heavily upon it. The average videogame runs at 30fps, and appears to have an average lag in the region of 133ms. On top of that is additional delay from the display itself, bringing the overall latency to around 166ms. Assuming that the most ultra-PC gaming set-up has a latency less than one third of that, this is good news for cloud gaming in that there's a good 80ms or so window for game video to be transmitted from client to server."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1640218/Measuring-Input-Latency-In-Console-Games?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1640218"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1640218/Measuring-Input-Latency-In-Console-Games?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1640218%2FMeasuring-Input-Latency-In-Console-Games%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/mBcpreqHZuI" height="1" width="1">Soulskill00319180390340199299033045215235011587151355648489869816014015954617168459236255134433067593762728850818797274100769123108050248119087477424tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/20e054af1006bc8aHas Texting Replaced Talking For Teens?2009-09-06T16:38:00Z2009-09-06T16:38:00ZHugh Pickens writes &quot;Sue Shellenbarger has an interesting essay in the WSJ where she talks about the 2,000 incoming text messages her son racks up every month — more than 60 two-way communications via text message every day — and her surprise that 2,000 monthly text messages is about average for today&#39;s teenagers. &#39;I have seen my son suffer no apparent ill effects (except a sore thumb now and then), and he reaps a big benefit, of easy, continuing contact with many friends,&#39; writes Shellenbarger. &#39;Also, the time he spends texting replaces the hours teens used to spend on the phone; both my kids dislike talking on the phone, and say they really don&#39;t need to do so to stay in touch with friends and family.&#39; But does texting make today&#39;s kids stupid, as Mark Bauerlein writes in his book &#39; The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future? &#39;I don&#39;t think so. It may make them annoying, when they try to text and talk to you at the same time,&#39; writes Shellenbarger, adding, &#39;I have found him more engaged and easier to communicate with from afar, because he is constantly available via text message and responds with a faithfulness and speed that any mother would find reassuring.&#39;&quot;<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/166202/Has-Texting-Replaced-Talking-For-Teens?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/166202"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/166202/Has-Texting-Replaced-Talking-For-Teens?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F166202%2FHas-Texting-Replaced-Talking-For-Teens%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/V05CVTd_vgA" height="1" width="1">Soulskill0650295242431992795409472086982291316052012322721003077891730345631294533003365803850496947340237631060009922562654386721397666196648083467004145746846501728558081879727410076912310600853300318443301510862715331183683564tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d0c17e5057c5b1eaRunning Old Desktops Headless?2009-09-06T15:36:00Z2009-09-06T15:36:00ZCajunArson writes "I recently dug up an old P4 that is in fine working order and did what any self-respecting Slashdotter would do: I slapped Linux on it to experiment with making an NFSv4 server. One other thing I did was to remove the old AGP video card to save on power, since this is a headless machine. Now, I removed the video card after the installation, and I'm doing just fine as long as the machine will boot to a state where networking works and I can SSH to it. My question: Is there a good solution to allow me to log into this box if it cannot get on the network? I'm looking for solutions other than slapping a video card back in. In my case, I will have physical access to the machine. A few caveats to make it interesting: This question is for plain old desktop/laptop systems, not network servers designed to run headless. Also, I am aware of the serial console, but even 'old' machines may only have USB, and I have not seen any good documentation on how and whether USB works as a substitute. Finally, if there is any way to access the BIOS settings without needing a video card, that would be an extra bonus, but I'm satisfied with just local OS access starting from the GRUB prompt."<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1425233/Running-Old-Desktops-Headless?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1425233"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1425233/Running-Old-Desktops-Headless?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1425233%2FRunning-Old-Desktops-Headless%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BzSOPNXFoMI" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1614166448589057329513124040838091572089tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/bc10e0d67c47a874How Snow Leopard Cut ObjC Launch Time In Half2009-09-06T14:33:00Z2009-09-06T14:33:00ZMBCook writes "Greg Parker has an excellent technical article on his blog about the changes to the dynamic linker (dyld) for Objective-C that Snow Leopard uses to cut launch time in half and cut about 1/2 MB of memory per application. 'In theory, a shared library could be different every time your program is run. In practice, you get the same version of the shared libraries almost every time you run, and so does every other process on the system. The system takes advantage of this by building the dyld shared cache. The shared cache contains a copy of many system libraries, with most of dyld's linking and loading work done in advance. Every process can then share that shared cache, saving memory and launch time.' He also has a post on the new thread-local garbage collection that Snow Leopard uses for Objective-C."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1343209/How-Snow-Leopard-Cut-ObjC-Launch-Time-In-Half?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1343209"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1343209/How-Snow-Leopard-Cut-ObjC-Launch-Time-In-Half?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1343209%2FHow-Snow-Leopard-Cut-ObjC-Launch-Time-In-Half%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/0THrGC7RGoM" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1431387053424967916002269656737792893975095560990844213649641133823573694327629818253107897565172623048712451127152617530542657045771079904010829828934389449148145432738320216104201244355179433742045616800395657135930123tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/735ea1d64ab08b5bCell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada2009-09-06T13:26:00Z2009-09-06T13:26:00Zinject_hotmail.com writes "Internet and law genius Michael Geist writes about some shenanigans by the cell phone carriers and the Canadian government in his column in The Star. Canadian taxpayers funded a 'Cell Phone Cost Calculator' so that the average person could theoretically wade through the disjointed and incongruent package offerings. The calculator wound up being yanked a couple weeks before launch. Geist suggests that the major cell carriers lobbied the appropriate public officials to have the program nixed because it would bite into their profit if the general public could make sense out of pricing and fees. Geist continues, 'Sensing that [Tony] Clement (Industry Minister) was facing pressure to block the calculator, Canadian consumer groups wrote to the minister, urging him to stick with it.' Moving forward, Michael makes a novel suggestion, one that would show an immense level of understanding by the government: 'With public dollars having funded the mothballed project, the government should now consider releasing the calculator's source code and enable other groups to pick up where the OCA (Office of Consumer Affairs) left off.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1155227/Cell-Phone-Cost-Calculator-Killed-In-Canada?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/1155227"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/1155227/Cell-Phone-Cost-Calculator-Killed-In-Canada?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F1155227%2FCell-Phone-Cost-Calculator-Killed-In-Canada%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/6DLbYyixv5U" height="1" width="1">Soulskill0776649359885291066209556099084421364964130540291053111666480357728129076212286816448251421055736784148928284007857419371355648489869816014008405409681810397899109510250134602223710582450642740180314503194253477406437759104227334706563382290245105719454161904408187972741007691231098571695182694831810868571092772871180012443551794337420456tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/080a238df629be87US Supercomputer Uses Flash Storage Drives2009-09-06T12:21:00Z2009-09-06T12:21:00Zangry tapir writes &quot;The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a high-performance computer with solid-state drives, which the center says could help solve science problems faster than systems with traditional hard drives. The flash drives will provide faster data throughput, which should help the supercomputer analyze data an &#39;order of magnitude faster&#39; than hard drive-based supercomputers, according to Allan Snavely, associate director at SDSC. SDSC intends to use the HPC system — called Dash — to develop new cures for diseases and to understand the development of Earth.&quot;<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/052226/US-Supercomputer-Uses-Flash-Storage-Drives?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/052226"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/052226/US-Supercomputer-Uses-Flash-Storage-Drives?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F052226%2FUS-Supercomputer-Uses-Flash-Storage-Drives%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/aLVXc4O2qcA" height="1" width="1">timothy0824635730596584409318342175564602475838010136226157210504480554725921857687666606502952424319927954077668077515941269921355648489869816014003194253477406437759035652390824232437100985716951826948318106008533003184433015tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/33f7abd26c472220Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Scheduler2009-09-06T09:29:00Z2009-09-06T09:29:00Zmyvirtualid writes &quot;Con Kolivas has done what he swore never to do: returned to the Linux kernel and written a new — and, according to him — waaay better scheduler for the desktop environment. In fact, BFS appears to outperform existing schedulers right up until one hits a 16-CPU machine, at which point he guesses performance would degrade somewhat. According to Kolivas, BFS &#39;was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. i.e. [sic] it is a desktop orientated scheduler, with extremely low latencies for excellent interactivity by design rather than &#39;calculated,&#39; with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and extreme scalability within normal load levels.&#39;&quot;<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0433209/Con-Kolivas-Returns-With-a-Desktop-Oriented-Linux-Scheduler?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/0433209"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0433209/Con-Kolivas-Returns-With-a-Desktop-Oriented-Linux-Scheduler?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F0433209%2FCon-Kolivas-Returns-With-a-Desktop-Oriented-Linux-Scheduler%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ymbPHdHoQsw" height="1" width="1">timothy17552812221190038829057896055273149129931009553308950201062406502952424319927954147547985722766238770955609908442136496414424971984721062426144670226545428113941286358740618640668016530967493269276064104948915600316069421092042185602310984016781199987988677112033020278306456817180783936760674902442011170915477423719912122931174495126531711095102501346022237107976958519463434517031942534774064377590012319800797397309504191691854206497770003456927555814516990735472456879082079208187972741007691231098571695182694831810475376726894764289810202490990958320925008629694413644180591642458046867023153816006648827941639273tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/85227a5e9ad63b27Google Japan To Help Victims of Street View Abuse2009-09-06T06:18:00Z2009-09-06T06:18:00ZJoshua writes "After repeated concerns from Japanese citizens over privacy rights violations involving Street View and a probe by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Google Japan has announced that it will help victims of Street View photo abuse take action against offending sites. Google Japan said it would send requests to the sites for removal of maliciously used Street View images. It will also potentially block the site from Google's search engine and consider legal action for those sites which ignore or refuse the request. Action to this extent against secondary-use abusers is reportedly a first in relationship to Google's Street View worldwide."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0152201/Google-Japan-To-Help-Victims-of-Street-View-Abuse?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/06/0152201"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0152201/Google-Japan-To-Help-Victims-of-Street-View-Abuse?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F06%2F0152201%2FGoogle-Japan-To-Help-Victims-of-Street-View-Abuse%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/OOWaic_B9CA" height="1" width="1">timothy0153337972015055302217808231290259740644061486855984006689080955609908442136496401233439422309012922076701716957807438441355648489869816014015328643569094213556081879727410076912310435477807383933114506008533003184433015tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7d0ca683894a4f79Where&#39;s Waldo (the Submarine)?2009-09-06T03:03:00Z2009-09-06T03:03:00Zstoolpigeon writes "Scientists on Florida's Gulf Coast are trying to find an underwater robot that has mysteriously vanished. The robot from the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota has been missing since Monday. The robot, which cost about $100,000, was equipped with a detector to find red tide, a toxic algae bloom. The detector was valued at another $30,000. Scientists aren't sure what happened to the robot, which is nicknamed Waldo."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2348206/Wheres-Waldo-the-Submarine?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2348206"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2348206/Wheres-Waldo-the-Submarine?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2348206%2FWheres-Waldo-the-Submarine%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/yleA7KCpAqg" height="1" width="1">timothy1316799484909028836800328380374959473421015894951977250372560890673952524279253711450100156217667917167733392051826626291355648489869816014016065063252542076835038177643881274455351191769033191983079600699600177957851060tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/390b2ae5cdb2ed70A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard&#39;s Exchange Support2009-09-06T00:01:00Z2009-09-06T00:01:00Zimamac writes "Apple Insider has an interesting perspective on the MS Exchange support built into Mac OS X 10.6 and how it essentially frees Apple from all things Microsoft: 'Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependence upon Microsoft's client software, weakening Microsoft's ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at Apple's expense. More importantly, Apple is providing its users with additional options that benefit both Mac users and the open source community.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2344201/A-Different-Perspective-On-Snow-Leopards-Exchange-Support?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2344201"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2344201/A-Different-Perspective-On-Snow-Leopards-Exchange-Support?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2344201%2FA-Different-Perspective-On-Snow-Leopards-Exchange-Support%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/HxfznO9LmXk" height="1" width="1">timothy0955609908442136496413556484898698160140049983650730189267551337871375047829188108187972741007691231tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/81237fb2e53de88dWordpress.org Warns of Active Worm Hacking Blogs2009-09-05T22:53:00Z2009-09-05T22:53:00ZErik writes "Wordpress, the popular open-source Content Management System (CMS) for many thousands of bloggers worldwide, is under attack from a 'clever' worm that automatically compromises unpatched versions of the Wordpress system. The particularly nasty bug crawls the web for vulnerable Wordpress installations, installing malware, deleting content, and generally wreaking havoc wherever it can. Today, Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg eloquently implored Wordpress bloggers to update more frequently. Originally, updating the Wordpress system was a rather laborious process; however, newer versions offer fast and simple one-click upgrades. The two most recent versions of Wordpress (2.8.3 and 2.8.4) cannot be attacked by the worm discovered this week, and blogs hosted at Wordpress.com are also apparently immune."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2210237/Wordpressorg-Warns-of-Active-Worm-Hacking-Blogs?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2210237"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2210237/Wordpressorg-Warns-of-Active-Worm-Hacking-Blogs?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2210237%2FWordpressorg-Warns-of-Active-Worm-Hacking-Blogs%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/z-SarZ7xJFI" height="1" width="1">timothy065029524243199279541653096749326927606403329150345383886083135564848986981601400984272704544058925401564959425318552483tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d0a383fd21439b4eMeet Uzbl — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy2009-09-05T21:45:00Z2009-09-05T21:45:00ZDigDuality writes "Dieter@be over at Arch Linux forums, a release engineer for Arch Linux, got inspired by this post. The idea? To create a browser based on the Unix philosophy: 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well, programs that work well together, programs to handle text streams because that is a universal interface,' among other points. The result? A fast, low-resource browser named Uzbl, based on WebKit, which passes the Acid3 Test with a perfect score. The browser is controlled (by default) by vim-like keybindings, not too dissimilar to vimperator for Firefox. Things like URL changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, and downloads are handled through external scripts that you write (though the Uzbl software does come with some nice scripts for you to use). It fits great in a tiling window manager and plays extremely well with dmenu. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get used to it, it's smooth sailing. Not bad for alpha software. Though built for Arch, it has been reported to work on Ubuntu."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2142235/Meet-Uzbl-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2142235"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2142235/Meet-Uzbl-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2142235%2FMeet-Uzbl-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/DEqiwzNgccA" height="1" width="1">timothy0387809311996955094705614457940214209057083218157806980398910955609908442136496409861010378999536985155981150512337951490357728129076212286817404571228601669579164584950117715786620982769893714880981905020073376922810213062323670894881807571489282840078574193703957163745333672551135564848986981601400953512268582303113710883823245001959741074003703462045420511021794225202319431312686319179019511774128837278730328607000782479041203903100203194253477406437759048027526484942183820003652768021781486702355845463086232420139766619664808346700724854015229118337900345692755581451699081879727410076912310698097545257214322006573019274686803527008629694413644180591609304930694221217500121742517738674609tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/39c2338c592d6e10Meet UZBL — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy2009-09-05T21:45:00Z2009-09-05T21:45:00ZDigDuality writes "Dieter@be over at Arch Linux forums and a release engineer for Arch Linux got inspired by this post. The idea? To create a browser based on the Unix Philosophy: 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well, programs that work well together, programs to handle text streams because that is a universal interface,' among other points. The result? A low resource fast browser named Uzbl, based on WebKit and passes the Acid3 Test with a perfect score. The browser is controlled (by default) by vim-like keybindings, not too dissimilar from vimperator for Firefox. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, downloads, are handled through external scripts that you write (though the uzbl software does come with some nice scripts for you to use). It fits great in a tiling window manager and plays extremely well with dmenu. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get use it to, it's smooth sailing. Not bad for alpha software. Thought built for Arch it has been reporting to work on Ubuntu."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2142235/Meet-UZBL-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2142235"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2142235/Meet-UZBL-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2142235%2FMeet-UZBL-mdash-a-Web-Browser-With-the-Unix-Philosophy%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/sShXjVf_zSY" height="1" width="1">timothy0241950517958524619506502952424319927954083218157806980398910716872906334267894209556099084421364964098610103789995369851740457122860166957902847300681564696992064914354258313580511644825142105573678410920421856023109840098427270454405892540375927446383770445700036527680217814867031117791594945691560501524149888430386516035476708569753200tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7e1f6abf93d2a2a5Recovery Tool Includes Leak of Palm&#39;s WebOS 1.22009-09-05T20:37:00Z2009-09-05T20:37:00ZEl Royo writes "Today, Palm leaked version 1.2 of the webOS operating system that powers the Palm Pre. According to PreCentral, the new version was inadvertently included in a recovery tool Palm makes available. New features include support for the forthcoming App Catalog changes, copy and paste from Web sites, improved e-mail search and faster boot times."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2037219/Recovery-Tool-Includes-Leak-of-Palms-WebOS-12?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/2037219"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/2037219/Recovery-Tool-Includes-Leak-of-Palms-WebOS-12?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F2037219%2FRecovery-Tool-Includes-Leak-of-Palms-WebOS-12%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/u-bzW-i6eSY" height="1" width="1">timothy109204218560231098401349596732965075195912288452003087472662tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e9f2045849e4e2fbMicrosoft Attacks Linux With Retail-Training Talking Points2009-09-05T19:26:00Z2009-09-05T19:26:00ZDesiVideoGamer writes "Over at Overclock.net, a user has posted screen-shots from Microsoft's 'ExpertZone' training course entitled 'Linux vs. Windows 7.' This course is available to BestBuy employees and will make them eligible for a $10 copy of Windows 7 upon completion." The screenshots linked show at least some creative interpretations of the state of Linux vs. Windows on a wide range of things, from media playback and video conferencing to ease of updates to (of all things) keeping your PCs "safer." Most of the claims, though, aren't concrete enough to be perfectly refuted. Writes DesiVideoGamer, "I think I now know why, when I enter BestBuy, the employees say the odd lies that they do."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/195219/Microsoft-Attacks-Linux-With-Retail-Training-Talking-Points?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/195219"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/195219/Microsoft-Attacks-Linux-With-Retail-Training-Talking-Points?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F195219%2FMicrosoft-Attacks-Linux-With-Retail-Training-Talking-Points%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/u1Uok8j-KGI" height="1" width="1">timothy0995226705541715415006502952424319927954071204464561194931581006568925177183588606874177431196295481075106181769275985310256843811554489384113847499425844200263109204218560231098400840540968181039789913848034972594355536109510250134602223711233634377728216525311609537971225812221073547245687908207921116208821104857010208187972741007691231060085330031844330150320008647212035035208685710927728711800tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/00415ef9c929bd70ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms2009-09-05T18:27:00Z2009-09-05T18:27:00ZScentCone writes "The ELF (Earth Liberation Front) has claimed responsibility for destroying the primary AM towers used by radio station KRKO in Washington state. From their statement: 'AM radio waves cause adverse health effects including a higher rate of cancer, harm to wildlife, and that the signals have been interfering with home phone and intercom lines.' The poor intercom performance must have been the last straw."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1755238/ELF-Knocks-Down-AM-Towers-To-Save-Earth-Intercoms?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1755238"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1755238/ELF-Knocks-Down-AM-Towers-To-Save-Earth-Intercoms?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1755238%2FELF-Knocks-Down-AM-Towers-To-Save-Earth-Intercoms%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/SMwzoS8nF0c" height="1" width="1">timothy068364225281501264850817035510393317784408091422713605721532122931174495126531711004099584320390325412686319179019511774084950578868100715670818797274100769123111354487446316251441tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/a6c2cd47e08ced34Kernel 2.6.31 To Speed Up Linux Desktop2009-09-05T17:24:00Z2009-09-05T17:24:00ZDan Jones writes "As the Linux community looks forward to another kernel release, the kernel hackers have been working on improving the memory management so that the X desktop responsiveness is doubled under high memory pressure. The result is an improved desktop experience. Benchmarks on memory-tight desktops show clock time and major faults reduced by 50 per cent, and pswpin numbers (memory reads from disk) are reduced to about one-third. Another improvement coming with 2.6.31 is kernel mode-setting support for ATI Radeon graphics cards, enabling faster user switching and a more seamless startup experience. Peripheral developments that will also improve the Linux desktop experience include support for the new USB 3.0 specification and a new Firewire stack. Even minor Linux releases have heaps of new features these days!"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/161230/Kernel-2631-To-Speed-Up-Linux-Desktop?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/161230"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/161230/Kernel-2631-To-Speed-Up-Linux-Desktop?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F161230%2FKernel-2631-To-Speed-Up-Linux-Desktop%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ZXw5h5pxqzA" height="1" width="1">Soulskill09952267055417154150038780931199695509471364148138485798403005789605527314912993165806018464603116840492463655718818659318221100262363282033153553076586749375920852146417560459250313533103508979864409180756275259165189940955609908442136496411309665644424117823066625813019566392390467217512081400217410214212641925781418165309674932692760640751061817692759853110494891560031606942066476946549671298651771643727583614309910920421856023109840116831510971481995110572722904250417903704994518477366996775135564848986981601400797848168686314601810785650777318873358098427270454405892540381776438812744553513443306759376272885123961613429026306150500124326794618314711711797241584128937045561022930880434850684032643414530167007597748084895731079121918138957375625741160953797122581222107056878571024518131160477197754812496530554487038503746561502659583503508081870102928460435907389760985716951826948318115944559126790716368073514813059070523191263365735992157213302924857688350921221129263315521775504200682811961027992015618106462918743423667086857109277287118001332120129712402444901463997211539871712029238784166389029521060769948670054670904953666248810817736tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/de2791fde6202cbfMach 6 Test Aircraft Set For Trials2009-09-05T16:20:00Z2009-09-05T16:20:00Zcoondoggie writes "The aspiration that jets may someday fly at over six times the speed of sound took a very real step toward reality recently, as the US Air Force said it successfully married the test aircraft, known as the X-51A WaveRider, to a B-52 in preparation for a Dec. 2 flight test. The X-51A flight tests are intended to demonstrate that the engines can achieve their desired speed without disintegrating. While the X-51 looks like a large rocket now, its applications could change the way aircraft or spaceships are designed, fly into space, support reconnaissance missions and handle long-distance flight operations. At the heart of the test is the aircraft's air-breathing hypersonic scramjet system."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1517256/Mach-6-Test-Aircraft-Set-For-Trials?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1517256"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1517256/Mach-6-Test-Aircraft-Set-For-Trials?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1517256%2FMach-6-Test-Aircraft-Set-For-Trials%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/e6xzBt5ZfvE" height="1" width="1">Soulskill048807954317216902111315436856723688149509556099084421364964165309674932692760640193351275165657808908170355103933177844029566130312187638101420780656012905820403194253477406437759050012432679461831470818797274100769123116047719775481249653159445591267907163681840138356142652373305428171003655358352tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f998540aa124db8fAll-You-Can-Eat College For $99-a-Month2009-09-05T15:18:00Z2009-09-05T15:18:00Ztheodp writes "Writing in Washington Monthly, Kevin Carey has seen the future of college education. It costs $99-a-month, and there's no limit on the number of courses you can take. Tiny online education firm StraighterLine is out to challenge the seeming permanency of traditional colleges and universities. How? Like Craigslist, StraighterLine threatens the most profitable piece of its competitors' business: freshman lectures, higher education's equivalent of the classified section. It's no surprise, then, that as StraighterLine tried to buck the system, the system began to push back, challenging deals the company struck with accredited traditional and for-profit institutions to allow StraighterLine courses to be transferred for credit. But even if StraighterLine doesn't succeed in bringing extremely cheap college courses to the masses, it's likely that another player eventually will."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1431212/All-You-Can-Eat-College-For-99-a-Month?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1431212"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1431212/All-You-Can-Eat-College-For-99-a-Month?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1431212%2FAll-You-Can-Eat-College-For-99-a-Month%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CzXLPA5DJ_w" height="1" width="1">Soulskill06645840614643384268059291343268529582110650295242431992795412738908671252277287069311615363154768901753557578361972061417115983905222786014178082312902597406441242873571061336327914313870534249679160090188897761184515211006568925177183588609556099084421364964146966773332058704760861890399528446133017646331607086711302159244475442555015560374950652448691482013770446109997904773101373142279590681411355648489869816014012837138579596688203007984920639898264401462518050429125290803817764388127445535049983650730189267551655264098736953572607300287686062327659008265082744104581380441984580683528755408919112681890564920003456927555814516990818797274100769123104354778073839331145015051233448829723640792636573884048596715944559126790716368008677954451835507650064326386139135224110202490990958320925184013835614265237330784032416360510662308685710927728711800008629694413644180590425078439036160237910639334286590803122tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/b215d1095a0b7672Nokia Fears Carriers May Try To Undermine N9002009-09-05T14:15:00Z2009-09-05T14:15:00ZAn anonymous reader writes "Nokia is worried that networks may reject selling the N900 because it won't allow them to mess with the operating system. Nokia has previously showed the N900 running a root shell and it appears to use the same interface for IM and phone functions. Meanwhile, Verizon is claiming that 'exclusivity arrangements promote competition and innovation.' Is it too late to explain to people why $99+$60/month is not better than $600+$20/month?"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1330256/Nokia-Fears-Carriers-May-Try-To-Undermine-N900?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1330256"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1330256/Nokia-Fears-Carriers-May-Try-To-Undermine-N900?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1330256%2FNokia-Fears-Carriers-May-Try-To-Undermine-N900%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/diKe0ZC6bcM" height="1" width="1">Soulskill057896055273149129930650295242431992795404880795431721690211095560990844213649640986101037899953698503577281290762122868075106181769275985310439624359147187294902847300681564696992135564848986981601400403249055555090066602080444298194032710178351292991161174780311177915949456915607840324163605106623029238784166389029520666681239895013063009767985165396826483tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/89e88b87d77842f4Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users2009-09-05T13:17:00Z2009-09-05T13:17:00Zjuct writes "Beginning with versions 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 of Firefox, Mozilla is going to check the version of installed Adobe Flash plug-ins and warn users if it discovers an outdated version with potential security holes. Mozilla confirmed this new security feature and said that the Flash version check was part of a wider commitment to 'protect users from emerging threats online.' Just recently, a study confirmed that 80 per cent of users surf with a vulnerable version of Adobe's plug-in."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1157222/Mozilla-To-Protect-Adobe-Flash-Users?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/1157222"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1157222/Mozilla-To-Protect-Adobe-Flash-Users?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F1157222%2FMozilla-To-Protect-Adobe-Flash-Users%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/_faf_IlSZCE" height="1" width="1">Soulskill008709218682569729391658060184646031168406502952424319927954046436014799677673930708707073946872924509556099084421364964098610103789995369850277831826207061844805458573668346554143066625813019566392391731749456607787200116530967493269276064012322721003077891730524024141007399135303456312945330033658174855650918579487291355648489869816014013848034972594355536178001808548979326110381776438812744553504998365073018926755165526409873695357260557196829259386019914959160089903037613181199775766756492480818797274100769123101880089226219167710043547780738393311450735148130590705231906008533003184433015035138077213031630601840138356142652373308685710927728711800133212012971240244491174448646156699825818274829000417306234tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/296d03e9de80289fRe-Examining the Immersion Factor For First-Person Shooters2009-09-05T07:31:00Z2009-09-05T07:31:00ZAn opinion piece on Gamasutra looks into the common perception that a first-person view provides a much more immersive experience in shooters. The author argues that this concept needs to be reconsidered, as immersion nowadays is more dependent on what you see, rather than how you see it. The question is further complicated by ever-improving technology and new control schemes. "It's important to realize that making a first-person game almost necessarily means making a game for the dedicated gamer. Innovations on the interface side could help lower the casual block, perhaps through the Wii, Project Natal, or the PS3's new motion controller. Regardless, it will take a lot of work and concerted effort to penetrate the casual audience with a first-person camera. The question is whether we even need to, when there are so many camera systems that games have yet to fully explore."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0231205/Re-Examining-the-Immersion-Factor-For-First-Person-Shooters?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0231205"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0231205/Re-Examining-the-Immersion-Factor-For-First-Person-Shooters?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0231205%2FRe-Examining-the-Immersion-Factor-For-First-Person-Shooters%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NM3YeF3V9QA" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1006568925177183588609352580754367559094135564848986981601401344330675937627288501014446539998601099081879727410076912311594455912679071636807840324163605106623tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0e3e49056b2c532e!!Former Intel CEO Andy Grove Wants Struggling Industries To Stop Slacking2009-09-05T12:16:00Z2009-09-05T12:16:00ZThis entry is deleted, to test different entries.'"<p><a href="http://slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0242216/Former-Intel-CEO-Andy-Grove-Wants-Struggling-Industries-To-Stop-Slacking?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0242216"></a></p><p><a href="http://slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0242216/Former-Intel-CEO-Andy-Grove-Wants-Struggling-Industries-To-Stop-Slacking?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0242216%2FFormer-Intel-CEO-Andy-Grove-Wants-Struggling-Industries-To-Stop-Slacking%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/TggtllNQ6J8" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1755281222119003882908283901880316023109035120732810360514891658060184646031168406185021969703509949065029524243199279540987787207023405471205938589286092199593098610103789995369850254987824009224012514331792383181608999184444118272506745591330586129771068543905020073376922810213116830872045567180631341558389732098901514892828400785741937095351226858230311370602391977354765534209842727045440589254024064786786376548571655264098736953572614940874294927873248130389754387940468481527470801394435120003565239082423243710081879727410076912310435477807383933114506812601999936285605159445591267907163680959167975273470944606573019274686803527035138077213031630601020249099095832092518401383561426523733086857109277287118001827482900041730623404452999694308390650tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4528442633bc7b2b!!Court Allows Microsoft To Sell Word During Appeal2009-09-05T09:14:00Z2009-09-05T09:14:00ZAn anonymous reader sends along this update to the ongoing patent battle between Microsoft and i4i involving XML formatting in Word. "Microsoft's motion to stay an injunction has been granted; the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has allowed the company to keep selling Word as it appeals a patent ruling from last month. The injunction had an effective date of October 10, but the motion to stay blocks the injunction until the appeal process is complete. If upheld, the injunction wouldn't stop existing users from using Word, but it could prevent the software giant from selling Word 2003 or Word 2007, the most common versions of Word currently on the market, and would require the company to significantly tweak Word 2010, which is slated for the first half of next year. The victory is a small one for Microsoft; the company still has the whole appeals process to go through. 'We are happy with the result and look forward to presenting our arguments on the main issues on September 23,' a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. 'Microsoft's scare tactics about the consequences of the injunction cannot shield it from the imminent review of the case by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal on the September 23 appeal,' said i4i chairman Loudon Owen in response to the court's decision."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0112254/Court-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0112254"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0112254/Court-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0112254%2FCourt-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/boPR-OOe_pA" height="1" width="1">Soulskill141909494182340242090955609908442136496414505367815875990951104502912459569403371355648489869816014013924756675591735321tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/6bd6315020d84c2fKepler Mission Could Detect Exomoons2009-09-05T06:11:00Z2009-09-05T06:11:00ZLord Northern writes "According to several news sources, NASA's Kepler mission is said to be able to detect habitable moons orbiting planets in other star systems. Kepler is a space telescope designed to detect exoplanets. Its mission will have it orbiting the Sun for 3.5 years, after which we'll be able to tell if any of our neighboring stars actually have planetary systems around them. However, apparently we will be able to detect not only exoplanets, but also exomoons orbiting those exoplanets. The Kepler team came to that conclusion after running a computer simulation which found that the telescope was sensitive enough to detect the gravitational pull of an orbiting moon (PDF). This means that the data expected by the end of the mission is going to be very rich, and it is said that moons as small as 0.2 times the mass of earth could be detected. Further details about the Kepler mission are available from NASA."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0048216/Kepler-Mission-Could-Detect-Exomoons?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0048216"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0048216/Kepler-Mission-Could-Detect-Exomoons?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0048216%2FKepler-Mission-Could-Detect-Exomoons%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/2z6en3WTwdU" height="1" width="1">Soulskill16580601846460311684092872461535129477201431387053424967916009556099084421364964165309674932692760640193351275165657808909401309724516848935025684381155448938410284730068156469699203029572971907063909034563129453300336581002084895183575016013556484898698160140098427270454405892540891911268189056492008187972741007691231159445591267907163681840138356142652373308815046739560468860tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/14687bc3a1445efcAmazon Offers To Return Pulled Orwell Ebooks2009-09-05T04:10:00Z2009-09-05T04:10:00ZBack in July, Amazon faced public outrage over their decision to delete ebook copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from the Kindles of customers who purchased them. Shortly thereafter, CEO Jeff Bezos offered an apology, acknowledging that Amazon handled the situation in a "stupid" and "thoughtless" manner. Now, they're offering something more substantial: anyone who had an ebook deleted can now have it restored, apparently with annotations intact. Any customer who isn't interested in a new copy can get either an Amazon gift certificate or a check for $30.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0037217/Amazon-Offers-To-Return-Pulled-Orwell-Ebooks?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/05/0037217"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0037217/Amazon-Offers-To-Return-Pulled-Orwell-Ebooks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F05%2F0037217%2FAmazon-Offers-To-Return-Pulled-Orwell-Ebooks%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/uzgRSC6sq7I" height="1" width="1">Soulskill08729413362266242937046436014799677673931431387053424967916010065689251771835886095560990844213649641089425145841550944415184147549209121417046273039833577211181341558389732098901514892828400785741937135564848986981601401274792296373114735215328643569094213556081879727410076912311693745653449872168810862715331183683564184013835614265237330822877555201885113908685710927728711800tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/791cff4f0c483945PageRank Algorithm Applied To the Food Web2009-09-05T02:05:00Z2009-09-05T02:05:00ZAn anonymous reader brings word of a new application for PageRank, Google's link analysis algorithm: monitoring the food web in an ecosystem. A team of researchers found that a modified version of PageRank can predict with great accuracy which species are vital to the existence of others. Quoting: "Every species is embedded in a complex network of relationships with others. A single extinction can cascade into the loss of seemingly unrelated species. Investigating when this might happen using more conventional methods is complicated, as even in simple ecosystems, the number of combinations exceeds the number of atoms in the universe. So, it would be impossible to try them all. Co-author Dr. Stefano Allesina realized he could apply PageRank to the problem when he stumbled across an article in a journal of applied mathematics describing the Google algorithm. 'First of all, we had to reverse the definition of the algorithm. In PageRank, a web page is important if important pages point to it. In our approach, a species is important if it points to important species.'"<p><a href="http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2251244/PageRank-Algorithm-Applied-To-the-Food-Web?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/2251244"></a></p><p><a href="http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2251244/PageRank-Algorithm-Applied-To-the-Food-Web?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F2251244%2FPageRank-Algorithm-Applied-To-the-Food-Web%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/quiKVoZKP7A" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1658060184646031168406502952424319927954003283803749594734210901888977611845152110065689251771835886095560990844213649640254987824009224012506662581301956639239165309674932692760640493917519435491191103386061809521879964167572043404081499480345631294533003365811800433428252104441167811999879886771121355648489869816014012747922963731147352163915799013303758320782479041203903100214940874294927873248tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8f73e9966cb462fbCode-Breaking Quantum Algorithm On a Silicon Chip2009-09-05T00:06:00Z2009-09-05T00:06:00ZUrchin writes "Shor's quantum algorithm, which offers a way to crack the commonly-used RSA encryption algorithm, has been demonstrated on a silicon chip for the first time. The algorithm was first demonstrated on large tabletop arrays 3 years ago, but the photonic quantum circuit can now be printed relatively easily onto a silicon chip just 26 mm long. You can see the abstract from the team's academic paper in the journal Science; the full text requires a subscription."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/229204/-Code-Breaking-Quantum-Algorithm-On-a-Silicon-Chip?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/229204"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/229204/-Code-Breaking-Quantum-Algorithm-On-a-Silicon-Chip?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F229204%2F-Code-Breaking-Quantum-Algorithm-On-a-Silicon-Chip%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/mxJ-3bglr14" height="1" width="1">Soulskill159639148731402132031655534720346475645716580601846460311684178082312902597406441006568925177183588609556099084421364964098610103789995369850861890399528446133016530967493269276064159244475442555015561384749942584420026313446718794644936826034563129453300336580985690864559271134205733448173911211458015577026466367351541355648489869816014004748023188992137885134433067593762728851494087429492787324816742510343864183601146420519852289736811160953797122581222111715273124072952202015649594253185524830022720703298527695115944559126790716368035138077213031630600601263692013241494018401383561426523733tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/9ebf57490b8141a0How 136 People Became 7 Million Illegal File-Sharers2009-09-04T23:10:00Z2009-09-04T23:10:00ZBarence writes &quot;The British government&#39;s official figures on the level of illegal file sharing in the UK come from questionable research commissioned by the music industry. The Radio 4 show named More or Less examined the government&#39;s claim that 7m people in Britain are engaged in illegal file sharing. The 7m figure actually came from a report written about music industry losses for Forrester subsidiary Jupiter Research. The report was privately commissioned by none other than the UK&#39;s music trade body, the BPI. The 7m figure had been rounded up from an actual figure of 6.7m, gleaned from a 2008 survey of 1,176 net-connected households, 11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software — in other words, only 136 people. That 11.6% was adjusted upwards to 16.3% &#39;to reflect the assumption that fewer people admit to file sharing than actually do it.&#39; The 6.7m figure was then calculated based on an estimated number of internet users that disagreed with the government&#39;s own estimate. The wholly unsubstantiated 7m figure was then released as an official statistic.&quot;<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2148203/How-136-People-Became-7-Million-Illegal-File-Sharers?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/2148203"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2148203/How-136-People-Became-7-Million-Illegal-File-Sharers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F2148203%2FHow-136-People-Became-7-Million-Illegal-File-Sharers%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/8ceq4OyPdP0" height="1" width="1">Soulskill1417663966001011341512771210121660434469009212809659018831700351207328103605148903073544034534867372061850219697035099490650295242431992795416820007008568411625083218157806980398911465168879693133624417808231290259740644057597681457421976090116008567942802968004091288520666454667033045215235011587151627768111857773792610065689251771835886090058804611491070910328353715819214815509556099084421364964126605496975445425700986101037899953698503676399070155537502155981150512337951490894762614914991213703786072260535133023110732489210175578901518414754920912141703843579878467474083017518509488919081830940130972451684893503102957890764494868138474994258442002631377044610999790477303456312945330033658050200733769228102131013731422795906814118127807357255741911167811999879886771121489282840078574193712217371181550792701122191377433313584371355648489869816014016065063252542076835142794616747624658430538886400247317614613065896170939214901078247904120390310020499836507301892675506300323322621469299001988209540276440600167541540458095603717144294914099698280137781819622781828211532864356909421355613567518942858539729070688562275390472480386146146717128972105237855768771886916117152731240729522020818797274100769123104354778073839331145160753881603630643930735148130590705231914255980790782033429035138077213031630601086271533118368356405572201053770289442086857109277287118000847547113851169544408027043158454079493tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1ac9191661cefac8Appropriate Interviewing For a Worldwide Search?2009-09-04T22:17:00Z2009-09-04T22:17:00Zjellomizer writes 'I am a manager of a small Software Development department, looking to hire some more developers. By edict of the CEO, the search must be made globally, so we are dealing with different cultures and different ideas of truth and embellishment, etc. To try to counteract this, we give the potential employees tests where I watch what they do, to see if they actually know what they say they know. However, it seems a lot of applicants drop out when I mention that this test is mandatory. Is this a sign that we caught them in a lie, or are we weeding out good people where we shouldn't be? Would you be willing to take a test as part of an interview? If so, is there any type of heads up you would like to know beforehand to make the decision of whether to take the test easier?' What other difficulties have people seen while trying to hire from many different cultures?<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2015205/Appropriate-Interviewing-For-a-Worldwide-Search?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/2015205"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/2015205/Appropriate-Interviewing-For-a-Worldwide-Search?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F2015205%2FAppropriate-Interviewing-For-a-Worldwide-Search%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/GMWYWZErGZs" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey08187972741007691231tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/dd7650c3f47439afNew England Prep School Library Goes Entirely Digital2009-09-04T21:21:00Z2009-09-04T21:21:00ZAn anonymous reader writes to mention that Cushing Academy has decided to leap into the future by getting rid of all the books in their library and going completely digital. Instead of dusty stacks, the library is spending close to half a million dollars to install all the hallmarks of a digital learning center. Flat screen TVs, "laptop friendly carrels," and a coffee shop are just the first step in building an area that allows students access to millions of books as opposed to several thousand. Of course, not everyone is completely sold on this move: "[Keith Michael Fiels, executive director of the American Library Association] said the move raises at least two concerns: Many of the books on electronic readers and the Internet aren't free and it may become more difficult for students to happen on books with the serendipity made possible by physical browsing. There's also the question of the durability of electronic readers. 'Unless every student has a Kindle and an unlimited budget, I don't see how that need is going to be met,' Fiels said. 'Books are not a waste of space, and they won't be until a digital book can tolerate as much sand, survive a coffee spill, and have unlimited power. When that happens, there will be next to no difference between that and a book.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/194253/New-England-Prep-School-Library-Goes-Entirely-Digital?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/194253"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/194253/New-England-Prep-School-Library-Goes-Entirely-Digital?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F194253%2FNew-England-Prep-School-Library-Goes-Entirely-Digital%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/N8CvMi0RGf8" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey13556484898698160140163915799013303758320818797274100769123113549555138947531350tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/904b015812cda796Mixing Coal and Solar To Produce Cheaper Energy2009-09-04T20:40:00Z2009-09-04T20:40:00ZAl writes "It might not please many environmentalists, but a major energy company is adding solar-thermal power to a coal plant and says this could be the cost-effective way to produce energy while lowering CO2 emissions. Abengoa Solar and Xcel Energy, Colorado's largest electrical utility, have begun modifying the coal plant, which is based near Grand Junction, Colorado. Under the design, parabolic troughs will be used to preheat water that will be fed into the coal plant's boilers, where coal is burned to turn the water into steam. Cost savings comes from using existing turbines and generators and from operating at higher efficiencies, since the turbines and generators in solar-thermal plants are normally optimized to run at the lower temperatures generated by parabolic mirrors."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1846216/Mixing-Coal-and-Solar-To-Produce-Cheaper-Energy?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/1846216"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1846216/Mixing-Coal-and-Solar-To-Produce-Cheaper-Energy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F1846216%2FMixing-Coal-and-Solar-To-Produce-Cheaper-Energy%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/EN9E6qyTVVs" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey0758699550726570320712453516974710401454165806018464603116841281111495420575230110604876277321675193031029578907644948681686986144636658720913556484898698160140081879727410076912310435477807383933114509131196823844581959tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/534d627405a0e73dSymantec Wants To Use Victims To Hunt Computer Criminals2009-09-04T19:48:00Z2009-09-04T19:48:00ZHugh Pickens writes "Business Week reports that security experts plan to recruit victims and other computer users to help them go on the offensive and hunt down hackers. '"It's time to stop building burglar alarms to keep people out and go after the bad guys," says Rowan Trollope, senior vice-president for consumer products at Symantec, the largest maker of antivirus software. Symantec will ask customers to opt in to a program that will collect data about attempted computer intrusions and then forward the information to authorities. Symantec will also begin posting the FBI's top 10 hackers and their schemes on its Web site, where customers go for software updates and next year the company will begin offering cash bounties for information leading to an arrest. The strategy has its risks as hackers who find novices on their trail may trash their computers or steal their identities as punishment. Citizen hunters could also become cybervigilantes and harm bystanders as they pursue criminals but Symantec is betting customers won't mind being disrupted if they can help snare the bad guys. "I'm convinced we can clean up the Internet in 10 years if we can peel away the dirt and show people the threats they're facing," says Trollope.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1648254/Symantec-Wants-To-Use-Victims-To-Hunt-Computer-Criminals?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/1648254"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1648254/Symantec-Wants-To-Use-Victims-To-Hunt-Computer-Criminals?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250?ca=1&amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F1648254%2FSymantec-Wants-To-Use-Victims-To-Hunt-Computer-Criminals%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Z5moOf2c57o" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey132874568577054468090419024887316999228604966042062642941662130712902329429311961532864356909421355608187972741007691231tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f289554dbc5ba1f7New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative2009-09-04T19:00:00Z2009-09-04T19:00:00ZRainbowBrite writes &quot;The YikeBike is the invention of a New Zealander aiming to alleviate city congestion. &#39;It might look like a collision between a praying mantis and a child&#39;s scooter, but it&#39;s the result of five years of work to reinvent the wheel, with one important addition: an electric motor. It&#39;s a bicycle, but not as we have come to know it. For a start, you sit upright and steer with your hands at your side.&#39;&quot; The YikeBike weighs in at a measly 22 lbs but has a hefty price tag of almost $5,000 US (£3,000). The expected lifespan is only 1,000 charges but has a projected range of around six miles.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1532252/New-Zealander-Invents-Segway-Alternative?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/1532252"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1532252/New-Zealander-Invents-Segway-Alternative?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F1532252%2FNew-Zealander-Invents-Segway-Alternative%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/eW0oxgLNdMY" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey036945140703927238041006568925177183588609556099084421364964160202966649742879081585030137042896804413556484898698160140078247904120390310021777394497708284444602360032991218607928tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdottag:google.com,2005:reader/item/bafb20f380706af4Steve Ballmer Directing &quot;House Party 7&quot;2009-09-04T18:09:00Z2009-09-04T18:09:00Ztheodp writes "What are you doing on Oct. 22? Microsoft is putting a Tupperware-style twist on the upcoming Windows 7 rollout, launching a new initiative to encourage thousands of employees, partners and technology enthusiasts to throw parties in their homes and communities to demonstrate and help spread the word about its new OS. People accepted as official launch party hosts will get their own copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, and a chance to win a computer. Host spaces are very limited, so apply now, kids. Hey, what could possibly go wrong?"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1516223/Steve-Ballmer-Directing-House-Party-7?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/09/04/1516223"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1516223/Steve-Ballmer-Directing-House-Party-7?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><p><iframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/lrqi37l1p7a6hqgtg7dfla1i4g/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F09%2F09%2F04%2F1516223%2FSteve-Ballmer-Directing-House-Party-7%3Ffrom%3Drss" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/0MnPxsjcb8c" height="1" width="1">ScuttleMonkey06399857261161633037095767784276644983840018118126891050080413568953289404423256135564848986981601401489073245035279281608027043158454079493tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSlashdot \ No newline at end of file + + + + + Google Reader + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + CI7YyIi-2JwC + + + + + 2009-09-06T20:27:44Z + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d8a2e5bb80b764f7 + + + + + + + Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged? + + + 2009-09-06T20:00:00Z + + + 2009-09-06T20:00:00Z + + + + MarkWhittington writes "The Augustine Commission has not officially presented its findings to the White House, but already a push back is starting to occur over the possibility that the Ares 1 rocket will be canceled after three billion dollars and over four years of development. According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel contractors involved in the development of the Ares 1 have started a quiet but persistent public relations campaign to save the Ares 1, criticized in some quarters because of cost and technical problems."

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+ + + + timothy + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/643ec196fed0398f + + + + + + + + Has the WebOS Finally Arrived? + + + 2009-09-06T18:54:00Z + + + 2009-09-06T18:54:00Z + + + + SphereOfInfluence writes "Dion Hinchcliffe over on ZDNet declared in a new post that the Web OS has finally arrived and that businesses and IT departments must adjust to the fact that everything's starting to move to the cloud. He cites John Hagel's so-called big business shifts of the 21st century and claims cloud computing, crowdsourcing, open APIs, Software-as-a-Service are the future of the workplace. He goes on to present a compelling visual model of the Web OS circa 2009 and examples to back up some of the statements."

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+ + + + timothy + + + + 09556099084421364964 + + + 13556484898698160140 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/50530663b3a1b371 + + + + + + + + Measuring Input Latency In Console Games + + + 2009-09-06T17:43:00Z + + + 2009-09-06T17:43:00Z + + + + The Digital Foundry blog has an article about measuring an important but often nebulous aspect of console gameplay: input lag. Using a video camera and a custom input monitor made by console modder Ben Heck, and after calibrating for display lag, they tested a variety of games to an accuracy of one video frame in order to determine the latency between pressing a button and seeing its effect on the screen. Quoting: "If a proven methodology can be put into place, games reviewers can better inform their readers, but more importantly developers can benefit in helping to eliminate unwanted lag from their code. ... It's fair to say that players today have become conditioned to what the truly hardcore PC gamers would consider to be almost unacceptably high levels of latency to the point where cloud gaming services such as OnLive and Gaikai rely heavily upon it. The average videogame runs at 30fps, and appears to have an average lag in the region of 133ms. On top of that is additional delay from the display itself, bringing the overall latency to around 166ms. Assuming that the most ultra-PC gaming set-up has a latency less than one third of that, this is good news for cloud gaming in that there's a good 80ms or so window for game video to be transmitted from client to server."

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+ + + + Soulskill + + + + 00319180390340199299 + + + 03304521523501158715 + + + 13556484898698160140 + + + 15954617168459236255 + + + 13443306759376272885 + + + 08187972741007691231 + + + 08050248119087477424 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/20e054af1006bc8a + + + + + + + + Has Texting Replaced Talking For Teens? + + + 2009-09-06T16:38:00Z + + + 2009-09-06T16:38:00Z + + + + Hugh Pickens writes "Sue Shellenbarger has an interesting essay in the WSJ where she talks about the 2,000 incoming text messages her son racks up every month — more than 60 two-way communications via text message every day — and her surprise that 2,000 monthly text messages is about average for today's teenagers. 'I have seen my son suffer no apparent ill effects (except a sore thumb now and then), and he reaps a big benefit, of easy, continuing contact with many friends,' writes Shellenbarger. 'Also, the time he spends texting replaces the hours teens used to spend on the phone; both my kids dislike talking on the phone, and say they really don't need to do so to stay in touch with friends and family.' But does texting make today's kids stupid, as Mark Bauerlein writes in his book ' The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future? 'I don't think so. It may make them annoying, when they try to text and talk to you at the same time,' writes Shellenbarger, adding, 'I have found him more engaged and easier to communicate with from afar, because he is constantly available via text message and responds with a faithfulness and speed that any mother would find reassuring.'"

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+ + + + ScuttleMonkey + + + + 08187972741007691231 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/dd7650c3f47439af + + + + + + + + New England Prep School Library Goes Entirely Digital + + + 2009-09-04T21:21:00Z + + + 2009-09-04T21:21:00Z + + + + An anonymous reader writes to mention that Cushing Academy has decided to leap into the future by getting rid of all the books in their library and going completely digital. Instead of dusty stacks, the library is spending close to half a million dollars to install all the hallmarks of a digital learning center. Flat screen TVs, "laptop friendly carrels," and a coffee shop are just the first step in building an area that allows students access to millions of books as opposed to several thousand. Of course, not everyone is completely sold on this move: "[Keith Michael Fiels, executive director of the American Library Association] said the move raises at least two concerns: Many of the books on electronic readers and the Internet aren't free and it may become more difficult for students to happen on books with the serendipity made possible by physical browsing. There's also the question of the durability of electronic readers. 'Unless every student has a Kindle and an unlimited budget, I don't see how that need is going to be met,' Fiels said. 'Books are not a waste of space, and they won't be until a digital book can tolerate as much sand, survive a coffee spill, and have unlimited power. When that happens, there will be next to no difference between that and a book.'"

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+ + + + ScuttleMonkey + + + + 13556484898698160140 + + + 16391579901330375832 + + + 08187972741007691231 + + + 13549555138947531350 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/904b015812cda796 + + + + + + + + Mixing Coal and Solar To Produce Cheaper Energy + + + 2009-09-04T20:40:00Z + + + 2009-09-04T20:40:00Z + + + + Al writes "It might not please many environmentalists, but a major energy company is adding solar-thermal power to a coal plant and says this could be the cost-effective way to produce energy while lowering CO2 emissions. Abengoa Solar and Xcel Energy, Colorado's largest electrical utility, have begun modifying the coal plant, which is based near Grand Junction, Colorado. Under the design, parabolic troughs will be used to preheat water that will be fed into the coal plant's boilers, where coal is burned to turn the water into steam. Cost savings comes from using existing turbines and generators and from operating at higher efficiencies, since the turbines and generators in solar-thermal plants are normally optimized to run at the lower temperatures generated by parabolic mirrors."

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+ + + + ScuttleMonkey + + + + 07586995507265703207 + + + 12453516974710401454 + + + 16580601846460311684 + + + 12811114954205752301 + + + 10604876277321675193 + + + 03102957890764494868 + + + 16869861446366587209 + + + 13556484898698160140 + + + 08187972741007691231 + + + 04354778073839331145 + + + 09131196823844581959 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/534d627405a0e73d + + + + + + + + Symantec Wants To Use Victims To Hunt Computer Criminals + + + 2009-09-04T19:48:00Z + + + 2009-09-04T19:48:00Z + + + + Hugh Pickens writes "Business Week reports that security experts plan to recruit victims and other computer users to help them go on the offensive and hunt down hackers. '"It's time to stop building burglar alarms to keep people out and go after the bad guys," says Rowan Trollope, senior vice-president for consumer products at Symantec, the largest maker of antivirus software. Symantec will ask customers to opt in to a program that will collect data about attempted computer intrusions and then forward the information to authorities. Symantec will also begin posting the FBI's top 10 hackers and their schemes on its Web site, where customers go for software updates and next year the company will begin offering cash bounties for information leading to an arrest. The strategy has its risks as hackers who find novices on their trail may trash their computers or steal their identities as punishment. Citizen hunters could also become cybervigilantes and harm bystanders as they pursue criminals but Symantec is betting customers won't mind being disrupted if they can help snare the bad guys. "I'm convinced we can clean up the Internet in 10 years if we can peel away the dirt and show people the threats they're facing," says Trollope.'"

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+ + + + ScuttleMonkey + + + + 13287456857705446809 + + + 04190248873169992286 + + + 04966042062642941662 + + + 13071290232942931196 + + + 15328643569094213556 + + + 08187972741007691231 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f289554dbc5ba1f7 + + + + + + + + New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative + + + 2009-09-04T19:00:00Z + + + 2009-09-04T19:00:00Z + + + + RainbowBrite writes "The YikeBike is the invention of a New Zealander aiming to alleviate city congestion. 'It might look like a collision between a praying mantis and a child's scooter, but it's the result of five years of work to reinvent the wheel, with one important addition: an electric motor. It's a bicycle, but not as we have come to know it. For a start, you sit upright and steer with your hands at your side.'" The YikeBike weighs in at a measly 22 lbs but has a hefty price tag of almost $5,000 US (£3,000). The expected lifespan is only 1,000 charges but has a projected range of around six miles.

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+ + + + ScuttleMonkey + + + + 03694514070392723804 + + + 10065689251771835886 + + + 09556099084421364964 + + + 16020296664974287908 + + + 15850301370428968044 + + + 13556484898698160140 + + + 07824790412039031002 + + + 17773944977082844446 + + + 02360032991218607928 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/bafb20f380706af4 + + + + + + + + Steve Ballmer Directing "House Party 7" + + + 2009-09-04T18:09:00Z + + + 2009-09-04T18:09:00Z + + + + theodp writes "What are you doing on Oct. 22? Microsoft is putting a Tupperware-style twist on the upcoming Windows 7 rollout, launching a new initiative to encourage thousands of employees, partners and technology enthusiasts to throw parties in their homes and communities to demonstrate and help spread the word about its new OS. People accepted as official launch party hosts will get their own copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, and a chance to win a computer. Host spaces are very limited, so apply now, kids. Hey, what could possibly go wrong?"

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+ + + + ScuttleMonkey + + + + 06399857261161633037 + + + 09576778427664498384 + + + 00181181268910500804 + + + 13568953289404423256 + + + 13556484898698160140 + + + 14890732450352792816 + + + 08027043158454079493 + + + + tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot + + + Slashdot + + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/models.py b/apps/rss_feeds/models.py index ebdd0f9b4..258606467 100644 --- a/apps/rss_feeds/models.py +++ b/apps/rss_feeds/models.py @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ class Feed(models.Model): from utils import feed_fetcher if not options: options = {} - if settings.DEBUG: + if getattr(settings, 'TEST_DEBUG', False): self.feed_address = self.feed_address % {'NEWSBLUR_DIR': settings.NEWSBLUR_DIR} self.feed_link = self.feed_link % {'NEWSBLUR_DIR': settings.NEWSBLUR_DIR} @@ -645,97 +645,99 @@ class Feed(models.Model): ENTRY_SAME:0, ENTRY_ERR:0 } - + for story in stories: story = pre_process_story(story) - if story.get('title'): - story_content = story.get('story_content') - story_tags = self.get_tags(story) - story_link = self.get_permalink(story) - - existing_story, story_has_changed = self._exists_story(story, story_content, existing_stories) - if existing_story is None: - s = MStory(story_feed_id = self.pk, - story_date = story.get('published'), - story_title = story.get('title'), - story_content = story_content, - story_author_name = story.get('author'), - story_permalink = story_link, - story_guid = story.get('guid'), - story_tags = story_tags - ) - try: - s.save() - ret_values[ENTRY_NEW] += 1 - except (IntegrityError, OperationError), e: - ret_values[ENTRY_ERR] += 1 - if verbose: - logging.info('Saving new story, IntegrityError: %s - %s: %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'), e)) - elif existing_story and story_has_changed: - # update story - # logging.debug('- Updated story in feed (%s - %s): %s / %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'), len(existing_story.story_content), len(story_content))) - - original_content = None - try: - if existing_story and existing_story.id: - try: - existing_story = MStory.objects.get(story_feed_id=existing_story.story_feed_id, - id=existing_story.id) - except ValidationError: - existing_story = MStory.objects.get(story_feed_id=existing_story.story_feed_id, - story_guid=existing_story.id) - elif existing_story and existing_story.story_guid: - existing_story = MStory.objects.get(story_feed_id=existing_story.story_feed_id, - story_guid=existing_story.story_guid) - else: - raise MStory.DoesNotExist - except (MStory.DoesNotExist, OperationError), e: - ret_values[ENTRY_ERR] += 1 - if verbose: - logging.info('Saving existing story, OperationError: %s - %s: %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'), e)) - continue - if existing_story.story_original_content_z: - original_content = zlib.decompress(existing_story.story_original_content_z) - elif existing_story.story_content_z: - original_content = zlib.decompress(existing_story.story_content_z) - # print 'Type: %s %s' % (type(original_content), type(story_content)) - if story_content and len(story_content) > 10: - diff = HTMLDiff(unicode(original_content), story_content) - story_content_diff = diff.getDiff() + if not story.get('title'): + continue + + story_content = story.get('story_content') + story_tags = self.get_tags(story) + story_link = self.get_permalink(story) + + existing_story, story_has_changed = self._exists_story(story, story_content, existing_stories) + if existing_story is None: + s = MStory(story_feed_id = self.pk, + story_date = story.get('published'), + story_title = story.get('title'), + story_content = story_content, + story_author_name = story.get('author'), + story_permalink = story_link, + story_guid = story.get('guid'), + story_tags = story_tags + ) + try: + s.save() + ret_values[ENTRY_NEW] += 1 + except (IntegrityError, OperationError), e: + ret_values[ENTRY_ERR] += 1 + if verbose: + logging.info('Saving new story, IntegrityError: %s - %s: %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'), e)) + elif existing_story and story_has_changed: + # update story + # logging.debug('- Updated story in feed (%s - %s): %s / %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'), len(existing_story.story_content), len(story_content))) + + original_content = None + try: + if existing_story and existing_story.id: + try: + existing_story = MStory.objects.get(story_feed_id=existing_story.story_feed_id, + id=existing_story.id) + except ValidationError: + existing_story = MStory.objects.get(story_feed_id=existing_story.story_feed_id, + story_guid=existing_story.id) + elif existing_story and existing_story.story_guid: + existing_story = MStory.objects.get(story_feed_id=existing_story.story_feed_id, + story_guid=existing_story.story_guid) else: - story_content_diff = original_content - # logging.debug("\t\tDiff: %s %s %s" % diff.getStats()) - # logging.debug("\t\tDiff content: %s" % diff.getDiff()) - # if existing_story.story_title != story.get('title'): - # logging.debug('\tExisting title / New: : \n\t\t- %s\n\t\t- %s' % (existing_story.story_title, story.get('title'))) - if existing_story.story_guid != story.get('guid'): - self.update_read_stories_with_new_guid(existing_story.story_guid, story.get('guid')) - - existing_story.story_feed = self.pk - existing_story.story_date = story.get('published') - existing_story.story_title = story.get('title') - existing_story.story_content = story_content_diff - existing_story.story_original_content = original_content - existing_story.story_author_name = story.get('author') - existing_story.story_permalink = story_link - existing_story.story_guid = story.get('guid') - existing_story.story_tags = story_tags - try: - existing_story.save() - ret_values[ENTRY_UPDATED] += 1 - except (IntegrityError, OperationError): - ret_values[ENTRY_ERR] += 1 - if verbose: - logging.info('Saving updated story, IntegrityError: %s - %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'))) - except ValidationError, e: - ret_values[ENTRY_ERR] += 1 - if verbose: - logging.info('Saving updated story, ValidationError: %s - %s: %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'), e)) + raise MStory.DoesNotExist + except (MStory.DoesNotExist, OperationError), e: + ret_values[ENTRY_ERR] += 1 + if verbose: + logging.info('Saving existing story, OperationError: %s - %s: %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'), e)) + continue + if existing_story.story_original_content_z: + original_content = zlib.decompress(existing_story.story_original_content_z) + elif existing_story.story_content_z: + original_content = zlib.decompress(existing_story.story_content_z) + # print 'Type: %s %s' % (type(original_content), type(story_content)) + if story_content and len(story_content) > 10: + diff = HTMLDiff(unicode(original_content), story_content) + story_content_diff = diff.getDiff() else: - ret_values[ENTRY_SAME] += 1 - # logging.debug("Unchanged story: %s " % story.get('title')) - + story_content_diff = original_content + # logging.debug("\t\tDiff: %s %s %s" % diff.getStats()) + # logging.debug("\t\tDiff content: %s" % diff.getDiff()) + # if existing_story.story_title != story.get('title'): + # logging.debug('\tExisting title / New: : \n\t\t- %s\n\t\t- %s' % (existing_story.story_title, story.get('title'))) + if existing_story.story_guid != story.get('guid'): + self.update_read_stories_with_new_guid(existing_story.story_guid, story.get('guid')) + + existing_story.story_feed = self.pk + existing_story.story_date = story.get('published') + existing_story.story_title = story.get('title') + existing_story.story_content = story_content_diff + existing_story.story_original_content = original_content + existing_story.story_author_name = story.get('author') + existing_story.story_permalink = story_link + existing_story.story_guid = story.get('guid') + existing_story.story_tags = story_tags + try: + existing_story.save() + ret_values[ENTRY_UPDATED] += 1 + except (IntegrityError, OperationError): + ret_values[ENTRY_ERR] += 1 + if verbose: + logging.info('Saving updated story, IntegrityError: %s - %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'))) + except ValidationError, e: + ret_values[ENTRY_ERR] += 1 + if verbose: + logging.info('Saving updated story, ValidationError: %s - %s: %s' % (self.feed_title, story.get('title'), e)) + else: + ret_values[ENTRY_SAME] += 1 + # logging.debug("Unchanged story: %s " % story.get('title')) + return ret_values def update_read_stories_with_new_guid(self, old_story_guid, new_story_guid): @@ -913,8 +915,9 @@ class Feed(models.Model): story_link = self.get_permalink(story) start_date = story_pub_date - datetime.timedelta(hours=8) end_date = story_pub_date + datetime.timedelta(hours=8) - + for existing_story in existing_stories: + content_ratio = 0 existing_story_pub_date = existing_story.story_date # print 'Story pub date: %s %s' % (story_published_now, story_pub_date) diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/tests.py b/apps/rss_feeds/tests.py index 1f7d4fb1b..e4051c6cc 100644 --- a/apps/rss_feeds/tests.py +++ b/apps/rss_feeds/tests.py @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class FeedTest(TestCase): url = reverse('load-single-feed', kwargs=dict(feed_id=1)) response = self.client.get(url) feed = json.decode(response.content) - self.assertEquals(len(feed['stories']), 12) + self.assertEquals(len(feed['stories']), 6) def test_load_feeds__gothamist(self): self.client.login(username='conesus', password='test') @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class FeedTest(TestCase): url = reverse('load-single-feed', kwargs=dict(feed_id=4)) response = self.client.get(url) content = json.decode(response.content) - self.assertEquals(len(content['stories']), 12) + self.assertEquals(len(content['stories']), 6) management.call_command('loaddata', 'gothamist_aug_2009_2.json', verbosity=0) management.call_command('refresh_feed', force=1, feed=4, single_threaded=True, daemonize=False) @@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ class FeedTest(TestCase): # print [c['story_title'] for c in json.decode(response.content)] content = json.decode(response.content) # Test: 1 changed char in title - self.assertEquals(len(content['stories']), 12) + self.assertEquals(len(content['stories']), 6) def test_load_feeds__slashdot(self): self.client.login(username='conesus', password='test') - old_story_guid = "{'original-id': u'http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0112254/Court-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal?from=rss', 'gr:original-id': u'http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0112254/Court-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal?from=rss'}" - new_story_guid = "{'original-id': u'http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0112254/Court-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal?from=rss!!', 'gr:original-id': u'http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/0112254/Court-Allows-Microsoft-To-Sell-Word-During-Appeal?from=rss!!'}" + old_story_guid = "tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4528442633bc7b2b" + new_story_guid = "tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4528442633bc7b2b!!'}" management.call_command('loaddata', 'slashdot1.json', verbosity=0) @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class FeedTest(TestCase): response = self.client.get(reverse('load-feeds')) content = json.decode(response.content) self.assertEquals(content['feeds']['5']['nt'], 38) - + self.client.post(reverse('mark-story-as-read'), {'story_id': old_story_guid, 'feed_id': 5}) response = self.client.get(reverse('refresh-feeds')) @@ -110,12 +110,12 @@ class FeedTest(TestCase): feed = json.decode(response.content) # Test: 1 changed char in title - self.assertEquals(len(feed['stories']), 12) + self.assertEquals(len(feed['stories']), 6) response = self.client.get(reverse('refresh-feeds')) content = json.decode(response.content) self.assertEquals(content['feeds']['5']['nt'], 37) - + def test_load_feeds__brokelyn__invalid_xml(self): self.client.login(username='conesus', password='test') @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class FeedTest(TestCase): feed = json.decode(response.content) # Test: 1 changed char in title - self.assertEquals(len(feed['stories']), 10) + self.assertEquals(len(feed['stories']), 6) def test_all_feeds(self): pass \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/utils/feed_fetcher.py b/utils/feed_fetcher.py index 5f015638f..ad44b676d 100644 --- a/utils/feed_fetcher.py +++ b/utils/feed_fetcher.py @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ class ProcessFeed: # if story.get('published') > end_date: # end_date = story.get('published') story_guids.append(story.get('guid') or story.get('link')) - + existing_stories = list(MStory.objects( # story_guid__in=story_guids, story_date__gte=start_date, diff --git a/utils/test-settings.py b/utils/test-settings.py index 159b9aeb6..79d0e0394 100644 --- a/utils/test-settings.py +++ b/utils/test-settings.py @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ MONGO_DB = { } TEST_DATABASE_NAME = ":memory:" - +DAYS_OF_UNREAD = 9999 TEST_DEBUG = True # from django.db import connection