Via Sarah Kliff, a pair of researchers have taken a look at per-capita Medicare spending and concluded that it\'s on a long-term downward path which is likely to continue into the future. Their claim is pretty simple: Although Medicare\'s sustainable growth rate formula has been overridden year after year (this is the infamous annual "doc fix"), they say that other attempts to rein in spending have actually been pretty effective. This suggests that the cost controls in Obamacare have a pretty good chance of being effective too. Their basic chart is below, and since we\'re all about the value-added around here I\'ve added a colorful red arrow to indicate the trajectory.
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(Note that their calculations are based on potential GDP, not raw GPD. I\'m not sure why, but I assume it\'s to control for the effects of recessions and boom years.)
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Now, this calculation is per beneficiary, which means that overall Medicare costs will still go up if the number of beneficiaries goes up — which it will for the next few decades as the baby boomer generation ages. There\'s really nothing to be done about that, though. Demographic bills just have to be paid. Nonetheless, if we can manage to keep benefits per beneficiary stable compared to GDP we\'ll be in pretty good shape.
Via Sarah Kliff, a pair of researchers have taken a look at per-capita Medicare spending and concluded that it\'s on a long-term downward path which is likely to continue into the future. Their claim is pretty simple: Although Medicare\'s sustainable growth rate formula has been overridden year after year (this is the infamous annual "doc fix"), they say that other attempts to rein in spending have actually been pretty effective. This suggests that the cost controls in Obamacare have a pretty good chance of being effective too. Their basic chart is below, and since we\'re all about the value-added around here I\'ve added a colorful red arrow to indicate the trajectory.
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(Note that their calculations are based on potential GDP, not raw GPD. I\'m not sure why, but I assume it\'s to control for the effects of recessions and boom years.)
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Now, this calculation is per beneficiary, which means that overall Medicare costs will still go up if the number of beneficiaries goes up — which it will for the next few decades as the baby boomer generation ages. There\'s really nothing to be done about that, though. Demographic bills just have to be paid. Nonetheless, if we can manage to keep benefits per beneficiary stable compared to GDP we\'ll be in pretty good shape.
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A monster EF4 tornado with winds of 180 mp/h (290 km/h) that caused extreme damage in Harrisburg, Illinois, on leap day happened to travel across an array of seismographs recently deployed for studying earthquakes.
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The scientists working with the OIINK array (named for its coverage of parts of the Ozarks, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky) thought their instruments had been destroyed by the twister. Instead, the seismographs recordedthe tornado.
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Or rather not the tornado itself, as their preliminary investigation suggests, but the passage of the large atmospheric pressure transient pushing ahead of the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado... one of an anomalous number of tornadoes so far this winter. Some of which may add up 2012\'s first billion-dollar disaster in the US .
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Location of seismographs in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois and the path of the tornado that struck Harrisburg IL on 29 Feb 2012: Courtesy of Indiana University University
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In the image above you can see the seismic stations sets against the ground path of the 29 Feb Harrisburg tornado. These stations are part of the NSF\'s EarthScope program planned to cover the entire US with a grid for detecting and better understanding and eventually maybe predicting earthquakes. Seems they might come in handy for tornadoes too.
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I wrote about the EarthScope program here after Japan\'s 9.0 quake last year.
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This animation shows EarthScope stations lighting up in response to ground shaking following a 21 February 2008 earthquake in Wells, NV. From the video\'s YouTube page:
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Each circle represents a seismometer and the colors change to reflect variations in the signal amplitude crossing the array. The ground motion begins near the source and then expands outward like a the waves from a pebble dropped in a pond. The circular wavefronts are distorted by the simple map projection used in the animation. The initial waves travel at about 8km/s, the larger amplitude waves that follow are moving at about 2.5km/s.
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The amazing EarthScope array has been dubbed the upside-down telescope for its view into the dynamics of interior Earth.
A monster EF4 tornado with winds of 180 mp/h (290 km/h) that caused extreme damage in Harrisburg, Illinois, on leap day happened to travel across an array of seismographs recently deployed for studying earthquakes.
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The scientists working with the OIINK array (named for its coverage of parts of the Ozarks, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky) thought their instruments had been destroyed by the twister. Instead, the seismographs recordedthe tornado.
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Or rather not the tornado itself, as their preliminary investigation suggests, but the passage of the large atmospheric pressure transient pushing ahead of the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado... one of an anomalous number of tornadoes so far this winter. Some of which may add up 2012\'s first billion-dollar disaster in the US .
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Location of seismographs in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois and the path of the tornado that struck Harrisburg IL on 29 Feb 2012: Courtesy of Indiana University University
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In the image above you can see the seismic stations sets against the ground path of the 29 Feb Harrisburg tornado. These stations are part of the NSF\'s EarthScope program planned to cover the entire US with a grid for detecting and better understanding and eventually maybe predicting earthquakes. Seems they might come in handy for tornadoes too.
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I wrote about the EarthScope program here after Japan\'s 9.0 quake last year.
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This animation shows EarthScope stations lighting up in response to ground shaking following a 21 February 2008 earthquake in Wells, NV. From the video\'s YouTube page:
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Each circle represents a seismometer and the colors change to reflect variations in the signal amplitude crossing the array. The ground motion begins near the source and then expands outward like a the waves from a pebble dropped in a pond. The circular wavefronts are distorted by the simple map projection used in the animation. The initial waves travel at about 8km/s, the larger amplitude waves that follow are moving at about 2.5km/s.
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The amazing EarthScope array has been dubbed the upside-down telescope for its view into the dynamics of interior Earth.
Rick Perlstein writes today that Rick Santorum was right when he said "Not all folks are gifted in the same way. Some people have incredible gifts with their hands ... and want to work out there making things":
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Santorum’s claim that Obama wants everyone to go to college to become Marxist deconstructionists was wrong. In fact, it was so wrong that it didn\'t even survive Fox News, where, presented with evidence that Obama, like him, favored all kinds of educational opportunities, including but not limited to college, Santorum replied, sheepishly, "Maybe I was reading some things" that gave him the wrong impression, and "if it was an error, then I agree with the president."
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But wait. Stick to your guns, Rick! The thing is, you exposed a poetic truth: While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it, and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.
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...."The administration has done a good job of talking about, and even funding, career training for high-school graduates," says education expert Dana Goldstein of the New America Foundation. "What they will not do very much is talk about or fund career training for teens, even though there is good evidence that if you don\'t offer career and technical training via the public schools, you may lose people forever." A democracy of the heart that acknowledges there are simply some people who will never step into an academic classroom post-high school, and that this is alright, seems a bridge-to-the-twentieth-century too far for our schooling-mad politicians these days.
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None of this is an accident, of course. American high schools used to be big suppliers of vocational education. But in the 70s and 80s, the practice of "tracking" — placing the smart kids in chemistry classes and the not-so-smart kids in shop classes — came under withering assault. There was pretty good reason for it, too, since tracking really did have some pernicious effects. Tom Loveless glosses some of the arguments of the critics here, including that in Jeanne Oakes’s influential 1985 book, Keeping Track:
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They pointed out that poor, non-English speaking, and minority youngsters were disproportionately assigned to low tracks and wealthier, white students to high tracks—and concluded that this was not a coincidence. Oakes\'s book helped ignite a firestorm of anti-tracking activity. Tracking was blamed for unfairly categorizing students, stigmatizing struggling learners, and consigning them to a fate over which neither they nor their parents had control. The indictment spread from scholarly journals to the popular press. A 1988 article in Better Homes and Gardens asked, "Is Your Child Being Tracked for Failure?" In 1989, Psychology Today ran "Tracked to Fail" and U.S News and World Report published "The Label That Sticks." Although the anti-tracking movement’s left-leaning political base conflicted with that of the movement for rigorous academic standards, parental choice, and other grassroots proposals that gained popularity in the late 1980s, it managed to hitch its wagon to growing public demand for excellence in the public schools.
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The detracking movement did a lot to undermine vocational education, and people like Bill Gates and others have since been influential boosters of the idea that everyone should go to college. But I\'m with Dana and the Ricks: not everyone either can or wants to go to college. We never needed to destroy the village in order to save it, and there are ways of addressing the ills of tracking without losing its benefits at the same time. American high schools ought to be as good at turning out plumbers as they are at turning out future English majors.
Rick Perlstein writes today that Rick Santorum was right when he said "Not all folks are gifted in the same way. Some people have incredible gifts with their hands ... and want to work out there making things":
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Santorum’s claim that Obama wants everyone to go to college to become Marxist deconstructionists was wrong. In fact, it was so wrong that it didn\'t even survive Fox News, where, presented with evidence that Obama, like him, favored all kinds of educational opportunities, including but not limited to college, Santorum replied, sheepishly, "Maybe I was reading some things" that gave him the wrong impression, and "if it was an error, then I agree with the president."
\n
But wait. Stick to your guns, Rick! The thing is, you exposed a poetic truth: While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it, and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.
\n
...."The administration has done a good job of talking about, and even funding, career training for high-school graduates," says education expert Dana Goldstein of the New America Foundation. "What they will not do very much is talk about or fund career training for teens, even though there is good evidence that if you don\'t offer career and technical training via the public schools, you may lose people forever." A democracy of the heart that acknowledges there are simply some people who will never step into an academic classroom post-high school, and that this is alright, seems a bridge-to-the-twentieth-century too far for our schooling-mad politicians these days.
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None of this is an accident, of course. American high schools used to be big suppliers of vocational education. But in the 70s and 80s, the practice of "tracking" — placing the smart kids in chemistry classes and the not-so-smart kids in shop classes — came under withering assault. There was pretty good reason for it, too, since tracking really did have some pernicious effects. Tom Loveless glosses some of the arguments of the critics here, including that in Jeanne Oakes’s influential 1985 book, Keeping Track:
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They pointed out that poor, non-English speaking, and minority youngsters were disproportionately assigned to low tracks and wealthier, white students to high tracks—and concluded that this was not a coincidence. Oakes\'s book helped ignite a firestorm of anti-tracking activity. Tracking was blamed for unfairly categorizing students, stigmatizing struggling learners, and consigning them to a fate over which neither they nor their parents had control. The indictment spread from scholarly journals to the popular press. A 1988 article in Better Homes and Gardens asked, "Is Your Child Being Tracked for Failure?" In 1989, Psychology Today ran "Tracked to Fail" and U.S News and World Report published "The Label That Sticks." Although the anti-tracking movement’s left-leaning political base conflicted with that of the movement for rigorous academic standards, parental choice, and other grassroots proposals that gained popularity in the late 1980s, it managed to hitch its wagon to growing public demand for excellence in the public schools.
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The detracking movement did a lot to undermine vocational education, and people like Bill Gates and others have since been influential boosters of the idea that everyone should go to college. But I\'m with Dana and the Ricks: not everyone either can or wants to go to college. We never needed to destroy the village in order to save it, and there are ways of addressing the ills of tracking without losing its benefits at the same time. American high schools ought to be as good at turning out plumbers as they are at turning out future English majors.
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They don’t make national policy anymore. They can’t earmark money for communities back home. The public hates them. And perks little and big, from private jet travel to a little free nosh now and then, have been locked down by ethics rules.
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I wouldn\'t have expected this, but I actually do feel a little sorry for them. Just a little, mind you, but still. I\'ll bet it does kind of suck these days for a lot of people. If you\'re a true believer, then you love being in the fight regardless of anything else. But if you\'re someone who actually wants to get things done, there\'s not much left. Just an endless grind of fundraising and nothing much to make it all worthwhile.
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This is also why, within reason, I actually support earmarks. Members of Congress should be important people in their districts. They should be able to get things done for their constituents. They should have some say — based on their ideology and their local knowledge — over what kinds of projects get built and which ones don\'t. That\'s what they were elected for. If their constituents don\'t like the way they handle this, they can vote \'em out.
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Earmarks should be transparent, and they should be limited. But they shouldn\'t have been banned. They\'re part of the job, and they\'re part of the culture of dealmaking that helps get things done. There\'s really nothing wrong with them in limited quantities.
They don’t make national policy anymore. They can’t earmark money for communities back home. The public hates them. And perks little and big, from private jet travel to a little free nosh now and then, have been locked down by ethics rules.
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I wouldn\'t have expected this, but I actually do feel a little sorry for them. Just a little, mind you, but still. I\'ll bet it does kind of suck these days for a lot of people. If you\'re a true believer, then you love being in the fight regardless of anything else. But if you\'re someone who actually wants to get things done, there\'s not much left. Just an endless grind of fundraising and nothing much to make it all worthwhile.
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This is also why, within reason, I actually support earmarks. Members of Congress should be important people in their districts. They should be able to get things done for their constituents. They should have some say — based on their ideology and their local knowledge — over what kinds of projects get built and which ones don\'t. That\'s what they were elected for. If their constituents don\'t like the way they handle this, they can vote \'em out.
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Earmarks should be transparent, and they should be limited. But they shouldn\'t have been banned. They\'re part of the job, and they\'re part of the culture of dealmaking that helps get things done. There\'s really nothing wrong with them in limited quantities.
Regular readers know that I\'m not a fan of the proposed LA-San Francisco high-speed rail project, and as the projected costs have ballooned I\'ve become even less of a fan. But lord almighty, stuff like this could change my mind:
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The fast trains connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco would create new communities of high-density apartments and small homes around stations, reducing the suburbanization of California, rail advocates say. That new lifestyle would mean fewer cars and less gasoline consumption, lowering California\'s contribution to global warming.
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....Opponents, most of whom are political conservatives, regard the ambitious project as a classic government overreach that will require taxpayer subsidies. But they also see something more sinister: an agenda to push people into European or Asian models of dense cities, tight apartments and reliance on state-provided transportation.
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...."It is a real movement in California of controlling the masses, controlling land use, deciding where people should live," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare). "I oppose that absolutely, because it is a form of left-wing social engineering."
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...."It has nothing to do with transportation. This is entirely social policy," said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Granite Bay). "It is all about the far left\'s fever dream to get mother Earth back to a pristine condition by elbowing us into these dense urban cores."
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So who spilled the beans, anyway? Now the whole world knows that we lefties are drooling over the prospect of taking away everyone\'s homes and engineering a forced march into modern-day high-rise concentration camps where the cable companies don\'t offer Fox News. All the better to control you with, my sweeties.
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Yeesh. But that\'s the mindset we\'re up against. Not we\'re giving people more lifestyle choices but your lifestyle choice is inherently insulting to the one I prefer. And sweet reason will do little to change this. As Matt Yglesias, one of our most vocal proponents of denser lifestyles, says, "A lot of the time there\'s genuinely no substitute for changing people\'s minds."
Regular readers know that I\'m not a fan of the proposed LA-San Francisco high-speed rail project, and as the projected costs have ballooned I\'ve become even less of a fan. But lord almighty, stuff like this could change my mind:
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The fast trains connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco would create new communities of high-density apartments and small homes around stations, reducing the suburbanization of California, rail advocates say. That new lifestyle would mean fewer cars and less gasoline consumption, lowering California\'s contribution to global warming.
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....Opponents, most of whom are political conservatives, regard the ambitious project as a classic government overreach that will require taxpayer subsidies. But they also see something more sinister: an agenda to push people into European or Asian models of dense cities, tight apartments and reliance on state-provided transportation.
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...."It is a real movement in California of controlling the masses, controlling land use, deciding where people should live," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare). "I oppose that absolutely, because it is a form of left-wing social engineering."
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...."It has nothing to do with transportation. This is entirely social policy," said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Granite Bay). "It is all about the far left\'s fever dream to get mother Earth back to a pristine condition by elbowing us into these dense urban cores."
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So who spilled the beans, anyway? Now the whole world knows that we lefties are drooling over the prospect of taking away everyone\'s homes and engineering a forced march into modern-day high-rise concentration camps where the cable companies don\'t offer Fox News. All the better to control you with, my sweeties.
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Yeesh. But that\'s the mindset we\'re up against. Not we\'re giving people more lifestyle choices but your lifestyle choice is inherently insulting to the one I prefer. And sweet reason will do little to change this. As Matt Yglesias, one of our most vocal proponents of denser lifestyles, says, "A lot of the time there\'s genuinely no substitute for changing people\'s minds."
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A true-sounding aside from Alex Pareene: "Rick Santorum is the 2016 GOP nomination frontrunner." It\'s true because the runner-up of the last Republican primary always starts off with an advantage. McCain 2008. Dole 1996. Bush 1988. Reagan 1976. Romney looked like the candidate most likely to break the trend, but no longer.
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Maybe! This is why I sort-of-but-not-really-but-then-again-maybe-seriously want Rick Santorum to win the nomination this year. The only hope for the future of the Republican Party is to finally nominate the conservative of their dreams and then go down to an epic, ego-shattering defeat. It would, perhaps, pound some sense into them and finally give the party\'s moderates the backbone they need to wrest control away from the Limbaugh/Fox/Dobson/Norquist brigade. But if they nominate Romney and lose? Then, once again, it will be because they denied the one true faith. And that could, I suppose, make Santorum the frontrunner for 2016. Buckle up.
A true-sounding aside from Alex Pareene: "Rick Santorum is the 2016 GOP nomination frontrunner." It\'s true because the runner-up of the last Republican primary always starts off with an advantage. McCain 2008. Dole 1996. Bush 1988. Reagan 1976. Romney looked like the candidate most likely to break the trend, but no longer.
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Maybe! This is why I sort-of-but-not-really-but-then-again-maybe-seriously want Rick Santorum to win the nomination this year. The only hope for the future of the Republican Party is to finally nominate the conservative of their dreams and then go down to an epic, ego-shattering defeat. It would, perhaps, pound some sense into them and finally give the party\'s moderates the backbone they need to wrest control away from the Limbaugh/Fox/Dobson/Norquist brigade. But if they nominate Romney and lose? Then, once again, it will be because they denied the one true faith. And that could, I suppose, make Santorum the frontrunner for 2016. Buckle up.
Senior Airman Daniel Stehley, of the 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron munitions flight, spray paints build codes on inert guided bomb units after helping assemble each weapon at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., February 27, 2012. The weapons were assembled in preparation for an upcoming Operational Readiness Exercise. (US Air Force photo/Senior Airman Kenny Holston)
Senior Airman Daniel Stehley, of the 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron munitions flight, spray paints build codes on inert guided bomb units after helping assemble each weapon at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., February 27, 2012. The weapons were assembled in preparation for an upcoming Operational Readiness Exercise. (US Air Force photo/Senior Airman Kenny Holston)
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Katherine Mangu-Ward thinks people are freaking out way too much over Google\'s plan to aggregate personal information about its users across all its platforms:
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As it happens, we know how much people value their privacy: They\'ll sell information about every prescription they fill at CVS — or every pint of Haagen Dazs at Safeway — in exchange for a steady infusion of $1 coupons. They\'ll hand off information about the timing of their daily commute in exchange for a couple of minutes saved at a toll booth every day. They\'ll let Amazon track their diaper and book purchases because they would rather not re-enter their credit card number every time they want to buy something.
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This is totally true. I happen to think that most people don\'t take this seriously enough, but who cares what I think? If you\'re willing to sell information about your buying habits to the highest bidder, there\'s no reason I should be able to stop you. She\'s also right about this:
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But if you\'re more skeeved than pleased, consider letting your brain overpower your gut here. This is a fact you cannot change: All the free stuff on the Internet is possible because you slap your eyeballs on some ads from time to time. If Google and other retailers can\'t scrape and sort your data to offer a few well targeted ads, there are two other viable choices: 1) Less of the free stuff you like. Like this blog. It might stop being free. For instance. 2) More ads in the throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks school. Think: those annoying dancing silhouette gals selling cheap mortgages.
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In fact, because of the fundamental failure of the online advertising model, more and more of the web is inaccessible all the time. Archives are unavailable, news sites are behind paywalls, etc. That\'s a pain in the ass for someone like me.
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So, yeah, maybe some targeted ads are a small price to pay for all this stuff being collected. And if targeted ads were the only thing to be worried about, I wouldn\'t be worried. But I don\'t think you need to have a very active imagination to figure out that both the public and private sectors can eventually do a whole lot more with this stuff than learn what brand of ice cream you like. Just as they can use it to offer you services, they can also use it to deny you services. They can use it to discriminate in subtle ways that are putatively based on data mining, not race/sex/ethnicity. They can use it to make decisions about who should and shouldn\'t be allowed to fly on airplanes. They can sell it to marketers somewhat less scrupulous than Procter & Gamble. They can subpoena it in divorce cases. They can make it a part of massive NSA-run surveillance programs.
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It\'s not the targeted ads I mind. It\'s everything that comes after targeted ads that I mind. I\'d suggest that the rest of us ought to mind it a little more too.
Katherine Mangu-Ward thinks people are freaking out way too much over Google\'s plan to aggregate personal information about its users across all its platforms:
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As it happens, we know how much people value their privacy: They\'ll sell information about every prescription they fill at CVS — or every pint of Haagen Dazs at Safeway — in exchange for a steady infusion of $1 coupons. They\'ll hand off information about the timing of their daily commute in exchange for a couple of minutes saved at a toll booth every day. They\'ll let Amazon track their diaper and book purchases because they would rather not re-enter their credit card number every time they want to buy something.
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This is totally true. I happen to think that most people don\'t take this seriously enough, but who cares what I think? If you\'re willing to sell information about your buying habits to the highest bidder, there\'s no reason I should be able to stop you. She\'s also right about this:
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But if you\'re more skeeved than pleased, consider letting your brain overpower your gut here. This is a fact you cannot change: All the free stuff on the Internet is possible because you slap your eyeballs on some ads from time to time. If Google and other retailers can\'t scrape and sort your data to offer a few well targeted ads, there are two other viable choices: 1) Less of the free stuff you like. Like this blog. It might stop being free. For instance. 2) More ads in the throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks school. Think: those annoying dancing silhouette gals selling cheap mortgages.
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In fact, because of the fundamental failure of the online advertising model, more and more of the web is inaccessible all the time. Archives are unavailable, news sites are behind paywalls, etc. That\'s a pain in the ass for someone like me.
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So, yeah, maybe some targeted ads are a small price to pay for all this stuff being collected. And if targeted ads were the only thing to be worried about, I wouldn\'t be worried. But I don\'t think you need to have a very active imagination to figure out that both the public and private sectors can eventually do a whole lot more with this stuff than learn what brand of ice cream you like. Just as they can use it to offer you services, they can also use it to deny you services. They can use it to discriminate in subtle ways that are putatively based on data mining, not race/sex/ethnicity. They can use it to make decisions about who should and shouldn\'t be allowed to fly on airplanes. They can sell it to marketers somewhat less scrupulous than Procter & Gamble. They can subpoena it in divorce cases. They can make it a part of massive NSA-run surveillance programs.
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In his New York Times dispatches from across the Middle East, Anthony Shadid—a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner—cuts a swashbuckling figure. In the last year alone, he braved tear gas and live fire in Egypt, was kidnapped by Qaddafi\'s thugs in Libya, and secretly traversed Syria\'s killing fields by motorcycle. House of Stone casts the correspondent in a softer light, recalling his 2007 return to his ancestral village in southern Lebanon to rebuild his great-grandfather\'s abandoned home—and perhaps piece together his own wayward life in the process. At once outsider and native son, Shadid elegantly reflects on the violent splintering of the once-vibrant Levant and its uphill struggle to reclaim its dwindling notions of regional identity.
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In his New York Times dispatches from across the Middle East, Anthony Shadid—a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner—cuts a swashbuckling figure. In the last year alone, he braved tear gas and live fire in Egypt, was kidnapped by Qaddafi\'s thugs in Libya, and secretly traversed Syria\'s killing fields by motorcycle. House of Stone casts the correspondent in a softer light, recalling his 2007 return to his ancestral village in southern Lebanon to rebuild his great-grandfather\'s abandoned home—and perhaps piece together his own wayward life in the process. At once outsider and native son, Shadid elegantly reflects on the violent splintering of the once-vibrant Levant and its uphill struggle to reclaim its dwindling notions of regional identity.
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Editor\'s Note: Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack in February while reporting for the New York Times inside Syria. Shortly before his death, he spoke with Mother Jones about House of Stone, Syria\'s future, and the high cost of getting the story in a war zone. You can read Shadid\'s interview with Mother Jones here.
As Republican lawmakers have pushed ever more intrusive and expansive uterus-related legislation, some of their colleagues across the aisle have fired back with intentionally and equally ridiculous counterproposals. From mandatory rectal exams for guys seeking Viagra to prohibitions on sperm-stifling vasectomies, most of these male-only provisions have, unsurprisingly, flopped. But they\'ve scored big as symbolic gestures, spotlighting the inherent sexism of laws that regulate only lady parts.
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Some of the tongue-in-cheek ideas introduced across the country:
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Delaware: By an 8 to 4 vote, the Wilmington, Delaware, city council recognized the personhood of semen because "each \'egg person\' and each \'sperm person\' should be deemed equal in the eyes of the government."
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Virginia: As the state Senate debated requiring transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions, Sen. Janet Howell proposed mandating rectal exams and cardiac stress tests for men seeking erectile dysfunction meds. Her amendment failed by just two votes.
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Georgia: Responding to a Georgiahouse bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Rep. Yasmin Neal wrote a bill outlawing most vasectomies because they leave "thousands of children…deprived of birth."
Ohio: A bill introduced by state Sen. Nina Turner would compel men to get psychological screenings before getting prescriptions for impotence meds. "We must advocate for the traditional family," Turner said, "and ensure that all men using PDE-5 inhibitors are healthy, stable, and educated about their options—including celibacy as a viable life choice."
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Illinois: State Rep. Kelly Cassidy proposed requiring men seeking Viagra to watch a video showing the treatment for persistent erections, an occasional side effect of the little blue pill. As she explained, "It\'s not a pretty procedure to watch."
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Missouri: Protesting the legislature\'s vote to reject Obama\'s contraception coverage mandate, nine female lawmakers cosponsored a bill restricting access to vasectomies except for men risking death or serious bodily harm. "In determining whether a vasectomy is necessary," the bill reads, "no regard shall be made to the desire of a man to father children, his economic situation, his age, the number of children he is currently responsible for, or any danger to his wife or partner in the event a child is conceived."
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Oklahoma: When a zygote-personhood bill came before the state Senate, Sen. Constance Johnson penned an amendmentdeclaring that ejaculating anywhere outside a woman\'s vagina constitutes "an action against an unborn child." Bonus: Johnson also suggested that any man who impregnates a woman without her permission should pay a $25,000 fine, support the child until age 21, and get a vasectomy, "in the spirit of shared responsibility." In response to the same bill, state Sen. Jim Wilson proposed an amendment requiring the father of an unborn child to be financially responsible for its mother\'s health care, housing, transportation, and nourishment during pregnancy.
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Texas: Contesting a bill mandating sonograms before abortions, Rep. Harold Dutton unsuccessfully offeredthree amendments in a row. The first would have required the state to pay the college tuition of children born to women who decide against an abortion after seeing a required ultrasound image. The second would have subsidized the children\'s health care costs until age 18. When that failed, he lowered the age to 6. That didn\'t fly, either.
As Republican lawmakers have pushed ever more intrusive and expansive uterus-related legislation, some of their colleagues across the aisle have fired back with intentionally and equally ridiculous counterproposals. From mandatory rectal exams for guys seeking Viagra to prohibitions on sperm-stifling vasectomies, most of these male-only provisions have, unsurprisingly, flopped. But they\'ve scored big as symbolic gestures, spotlighting the inherent sexism of laws that regulate only lady parts.
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Some of the tongue-in-cheek ideas introduced across the country:
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Delaware: By an 8 to 4 vote, the Wilmington, Delaware, city council recognized the personhood of semen because "each \'egg person\' and each \'sperm person\' should be deemed equal in the eyes of the government."
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Virginia: As the state Senate debated requiring transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions, Sen. Janet Howell proposed mandating rectal exams and cardiac stress tests for men seeking erectile dysfunction meds. Her amendment failed by just two votes.
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Georgia: Responding to a Georgiahouse bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Rep. Yasmin Neal wrote a bill outlawing most vasectomies because they leave "thousands of children…deprived of birth."
Ohio: A bill introduced by state Sen. Nina Turner would compel men to get psychological screenings before getting prescriptions for impotence meds. "We must advocate for the traditional family," Turner said, "and ensure that all men using PDE-5 inhibitors are healthy, stable, and educated about their options—including celibacy as a viable life choice."
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Illinois: State Rep. Kelly Cassidy proposed requiring men seeking Viagra to watch a video showing the treatment for persistent erections, an occasional side effect of the little blue pill. As she explained, "It\'s not a pretty procedure to watch."
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Missouri: Protesting the legislature\'s vote to reject Obama\'s contraception coverage mandate, nine female lawmakers cosponsored a bill restricting access to vasectomies except for men risking death or serious bodily harm. "In determining whether a vasectomy is necessary," the bill reads, "no regard shall be made to the desire of a man to father children, his economic situation, his age, the number of children he is currently responsible for, or any danger to his wife or partner in the event a child is conceived."
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Oklahoma: When a zygote-personhood bill came before the state Senate, Sen. Constance Johnson penned an amendmentdeclaring that ejaculating anywhere outside a woman\'s vagina constitutes "an action against an unborn child." Bonus: Johnson also suggested that any man who impregnates a woman without her permission should pay a $25,000 fine, support the child until age 21, and get a vasectomy, "in the spirit of shared responsibility." In response to the same bill, state Sen. Jim Wilson proposed an amendment requiring the father of an unborn child to be financially responsible for its mother\'s health care, housing, transportation, and nourishment during pregnancy.
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Texas: Contesting a bill mandating sonograms before abortions, Rep. Harold Dutton unsuccessfully offeredthree amendments in a row. The first would have required the state to pay the college tuition of children born to women who decide against an abortion after seeing a required ultrasound image. The second would have subsidized the children\'s health care costs until age 18. When that failed, he lowered the age to 6. That didn\'t fly, either.
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+ HSR Opponents Working Hard to Turn Me Into a Supporter
+ http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/hsr-opponents-working-hard-turn-me-supporter
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+<p><img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/Blog_HSR_California.jpg">Regular readers know that I'm not a fan of the proposed LA-San Francisco high-speed rail project, and as the projected costs have ballooned I've become even less of a fan. But lord almighty, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bullet-vision-20120308,0,3644887,full.story">stuff like this could change my mind:</a></p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>The fast trains connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco would create new communities of high-density apartments and small homes around stations, reducing the suburbanization of California, rail advocates say. That new lifestyle would mean fewer cars and less gasoline consumption, lowering California's contribution to global warming.</p>
+
+<p>....Opponents, most of whom are political conservatives, regard the ambitious project as a classic government overreach that will require taxpayer subsidies. <strong>But they also see something more sinister: an agenda to push people into European or Asian models of dense cities, tight apartments and reliance on state-provided transportation.</strong></p>
+<p>...."It is a real movement in California of controlling the masses, controlling land use, deciding where people should live," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare). "I oppose that absolutely, because it is a form of left-wing social engineering."</p>
+<p>...."It has nothing to do with transportation. This is entirely social policy," said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Granite Bay). "It is all about the far left's fever dream to get mother Earth back to a pristine condition by elbowing us into these dense urban cores."</p>
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+
+<p>So who spilled the beans, anyway? Now the whole world knows that we lefties are drooling over the prospect of taking away everyone's homes and engineering a forced march into modern-day high-rise concentration camps where the cable companies don't offer Fox News. All the better to control you with, my sweeties.</p>
+<p>Yeesh. But that's the mindset we're up against. Not <em>we're giving people <u>more</u> lifestyle choices</em> but <em>your lifestyle choice is inherently insulting to the one I prefer</em>. And sweet reason will do little to change this. As Matt Yglesias, one of our most vocal proponents of denser lifestyles, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/03/08/the_elusive_quest_for_solutions.html">says,</a> "A lot of the time there's genuinely no substitute for changing people's minds."</p>
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+ Looking Ahead to 2016
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+ http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/looking-ahead-2016
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+<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/03/07/santorum_2016.html">Can this possibly be for real?</a></p>
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+
+<p>A true-sounding aside from Alex Pareene: "Rick Santorum is the 2016 GOP nomination frontrunner." It's true because the runner-up of the last Republican primary always starts off with an advantage. McCain 2008. Dole 1996. Bush 1988. Reagan 1976. Romney looked like the candidate most likely to break the trend, but no longer.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Maybe! This is why I sort-of-but-not-really-but-then-again-maybe-seriously want Rick Santorum to win the nomination this year. The only hope for the future of the Republican Party is to finally nominate the conservative of their dreams and then go down to an epic, ego-shattering defeat. It would, perhaps, pound some sense into them and finally give the party's moderates the backbone they need to wrest control away from the Limbaugh/Fox/Dobson/Norquist brigade. But if they nominate Romney and lose? Then, once again, it will be because they denied the one true faith. And that could, I suppose, make Santorum the frontrunner for 2016. Buckle up.</p>
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+ Kevin Drum
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+ We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for March 8, 2012
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+ http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/were-still-war-photo-day-march-8-2012
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+<html><body><p class="rtecenter"><span class="inline inline-center"><img width="626" height="418" class="image image-preview " title="" alt="" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/weapons-make.jpg"></span><em>Senior Airman Daniel Stehley, of the <a href="http://www.shaw.af.mil/units/index.asp" target="_blank">20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron</a> munitions flight, spray paints build codes on inert guided bomb units after helping assemble each weapon at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., February 27, 2012. The weapons were assembled in preparation for an upcoming Operational Readiness Exercise. (US Air Force <a href="http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/120227-F-CJ989-906.jpg" target="_blank">photo</a>/Senior Airman Kenny Holston)</em></p></body></html>
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+
+ MoJo
+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:21:34 +0000
+
+ 166806 at http://motherjones.com
+
+
+ Targeted Ads Are the Least of Our Online Worries
+
+ http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/targeted-ads-are-least-our-online-worries
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+<p>Katherine Mangu-Ward thinks people are freaking out way too much over Google's plan to aggregate personal information about its users <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/take-my-privacy-please-a-defense-of-google/254159/">across all its platforms:</a></p>
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>As it happens, we know how much people value their privacy: They'll sell information about every prescription they fill at CVS — or every pint of Haagen Dazs at Safeway — in exchange for a steady infusion of $1 coupons. They'll hand <img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 20px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_surveillance_0.jpg">off information about the timing of their daily commute in exchange for a couple of minutes saved at a toll booth every day. They'll let Amazon track their diaper and book purchases because they would rather not re-enter their credit card number every time they want to buy something.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>This is totally true. I happen to think that most people don't take this seriously enough, but who cares what I think? If you're willing to sell information about your buying habits to the highest bidder, there's no reason I should be able to stop you. She's also right about this:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>But if you're more skeeved than pleased, consider letting your brain overpower your gut here. This is a fact you cannot change: All the free stuff on the Internet is possible because you slap your eyeballs on some ads from time to time. If Google and other retailers can't scrape and sort your data to offer a few well targeted ads, there are two other viable choices: 1) Less of the free stuff you like. Like this blog. It might stop being free. For instance. 2) More ads in the throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks school. Think: those annoying dancing silhouette gals selling cheap mortgages.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+<p>In fact, because of the fundamental failure of the online advertising model, more and more of the web is inaccessible all the time. Archives are unavailable, news sites are behind paywalls, etc. That's a pain in the ass for someone like me.</p>
+<p>So, yeah, maybe some targeted ads are a small price to pay for all this stuff being collected. And if targeted ads were the only thing to be worried about, I wouldn't be worried. But I don't think you need to have a very active imagination to figure out that both the public and private sectors can eventually do a whole lot more with this stuff than learn what brand of ice cream you like. Just as they can use it to offer you services, they can also use it to deny you services. They can use it to discriminate in subtle ways that are putatively based on data mining, not race/sex/ethnicity. They can use it to make decisions about who should and shouldn't be allowed to fly on airplanes. They can sell it to marketers <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/why-i-dont-want-target-know-quite-so-much-about-me">somewhat less scrupulous</a> than Procter & Gamble. They can subpoena it in divorce cases. They can make it a part of massive NSA-run surveillance programs.</p>
+
+<p>It's not the targeted ads I mind. It's everything that comes <em>after</em> targeted ads that I mind. I'd suggest that the rest of us ought to mind it a little more too.</p>
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+
+ Kevin Drum
+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:19:03 +0000
+ Kevin Drum
+ 166801 at http://motherjones.com
+
+
+ Book Review: House of Stone
+
+ http://motherjones.com/mixed-media/2012/03/review-anthony-shadid-house-stone-memoir
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+<h3><a target="_blank" href="http://anthonyshadid.com/house-of-stone-a-memoir-of-home-family-and-a-lost-middle-east/"><span class="inline inline-left"><img width="200" height="305" class="image image-preview " title="" alt="" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/house_stone.jpg"></span>House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East</a></h3>
+
+<p>By Anthony Shadid</p>
+<p>HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT</p>
+<p>In his <em>New York Times</em> dispatches from across the Middle East, Anthony Shadid—a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner—cuts a swashbuckling figure. In the last year alone, he braved tear gas and live fire in <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/whats-happening-egypt-explained">Egypt</a>, was <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/whats-happening-libya-explained">kidnapped by Qaddafi's thugs in Libya</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/magazine/syrias-sons-of-no-one.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">secretly traversed Syria's killing fields</a> by motorcycle. <em>House of Stone</em> casts the correspondent in a softer light, recalling his 2007 return to his ancestral village in southern Lebanon to rebuild his great-grandfather's abandoned home—and perhaps piece together his own wayward life in the process. At once outsider and native son, Shadid elegantly reflects on the violent splintering of the once-vibrant Levant and its uphill struggle to reclaim its dwindling notions of regional identity.</p>
+
+<p><strong><em>Editor's Note</em></strong><em>: </em>Anthony Shadid <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html">died of an asthma attack</a> in February while reporting for the <em>New York Times </em>inside Syria. Shortly before his death, he spoke with <em>Mother Jones</em> about <em>House of Stone</em>, Syria's future, and the high cost of getting the story in a war zone. <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/anthony-shadid-libya-syria-house-of-stone">You can read Shadid's interview with <em>Mother Jones</em> here</a>.</p>
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+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:00:00 +0000
+ Aaron Ross
+ 160041 at http://motherjones.com
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+
+ Insane Sex Laws Inspired by Republicans
+
+ http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/birth-control-viagra-vasectomy-laws
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+<p>As Republican lawmakers have pushed ever <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/transvaginal-ultrasounds-coming-soon-state-near-you">more intrusive</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/republican-war-birth-control-contraception">expansive</a> uterus-related legislation, some of their colleagues across the aisle have fired back with intentionally and equally ridiculous counterproposals. From mandatory rectal exams for guys seeking Viagra to prohibitions on sperm-stifling vasectomies, most of these male-only provisions have, unsurprisingly, flopped. But they've scored big as symbolic gestures, spotlighting the inherent sexism of laws that only regulate lady parts.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the tongue-in-cheek ideas introduced across the country:</p>
+<p><strong>Delaware:</strong> By an 8 to 4 vote, the Wilmington, Delaware, city council <a target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/wilmington-city-council-sperm-egg-personhood_n_1316924.html%20">recognized the personhood of semen</a> because "each 'egg person' and each 'sperm person' should be deemed equal in the eyes of the government."</p>
+
+<p><b>Virginia:</b> As the state Senate debated <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/why-virginias-new-mandatory-ultrasound-law-still-sucks">requiring transvaginal ultrasounds</a> for women seeking abortions, Sen. Janet Howell proposed mandating rectal exams and cardiac stress tests for men seeking erectile dysfunction meds. Her amendment failed by just two votes.</p>
+<p><strong>Georgia:</strong> Responding to a Georgia<b> </b>house bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Rep. Yasmin Neal wrote a bill <span>outlawing most vasectomies because they leave "<a target="_blank" href="http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/versions/hb1116_LC_21_1703_a_2.htm%20">thousands of children…deprived of birth.</a>"</span></p>
+
+<div class="sidebar-small-right"><em><strong>Does Limbaugh think <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-does-not-understand-how-birth-control-works" target="_blank">birth control pills work like Viagra?</a> Plus: <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/calculator-birth-control-expensive-really-cost" target="_blank">our handy calculator</a> shows how much you'll spend on birth control over a lifetime.</strong></em></div>
+
+<p><strong><span>Ohio: </span></strong><span>A bill introduced by state Sen. Nina Turner would compel men to get psychological screenings before getting prescriptions for impotence meds. </span><span>"</span>We must advocate for the traditional family," Turner <a target="_blank" href="http://www.progressohio.org/blog/2012/03/senator-turner-introduces-legislation-to-protect-mens-health.html">said</a>, "and ensure that all men using PDE-5 inhibitors are healthy, stable, and educated about their options—including celibacy as a viable life choice.<span>"</span></p>
+
+<p><strong>Illinois</strong><strong>:</strong> State <span>Rep. Kelly Cassidy proposed requiring men seeking Viagra to watch a video showing <a target="_blank" href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/02/lawmaker-men-who-want-viagra-should-have-to-watch-graphic-side-effects-video/">the treatment for persistent erections</a>, an occasional side effect of the little blue pill. As she explained, "</span>It's not a pretty procedure to watch."</p>
+
+<p><strong>Missouri: </strong>Protesting the legislature's vote to reject <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/obama-birth-control-rule-change-why-its-not-cave">Obama's contraception coverage mandate</a>, nine female lawmakers cosponsored a bill <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/02/3465617/female-legislators-introduce-cheeky.html">restricting access to vasectomies</a> except for men risking death or serious bodily harm. "In determining whether a vasectomy is necessary," the bill reads, "no regard shall be made to the desire of a man to father children, his economic situation, his age, the number of children he is currently responsible for, or any danger to his wife or partner in the event a child is conceived."</p>
+
+<p><strong>Oklahoma:</strong> When a zygote-personhood bill came before the state Senate, Sen. Constance Johnson penned an amendment<strong> </strong>declaring that <a target="_blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/08/421018/oklahoma-democrat-adds-every-sperm-is-sacred-amendment-to-personhood-bill/">ejaculating anywhere outside a woman's vagina</a> constitutes "an action against an unborn child." Bonus: Johnson <a href="http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb1433%20" target="_blank">also suggested</a> that any man who impregnates a woman without her permission should pay a $25,000 fine, support the child until age 21, and get a vasectomy, "in the spirit of shared responsibility." <span>In response to the same bill, state Sen. Jim Wilson <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20120207_16_A5_OKLAHO862914&r=7811" target="_blank">proposed</a> an amendment requiring the father of an unborn child to be financially responsible for its mother's health care, housing, transportation, and nourishment during pregnancy.</span><strong><br></strong></p>
+
+<p><strong>Texas: </strong>Contesting a bill mandating sonograms before abortions, Rep. Harold Dutton unsuccessfully offered<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>three amendments in a row. The first would have required the state to pay the college tuition of children born to women who decide against an abortion after seeing a required ultrasound image. The second would have subsidized the children's health care costs until age 18. When that failed, he lowered the age to 6. <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/2011-abortion-sonogram-bill/democrats-attack-abortion-sonogram-bill/" target="_blank">That didn't fly, either</a>.<strong><br></strong></p>
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+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:00:00 +0000
+ Hannah Levintova
+ 166741 at http://motherjones.com
+
+
+ "Game Change": A Remake of Frankenstein, Featuring Sarah Palin
+ http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/game-change-frankenstein-remake-sarah-palin
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+<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.metacritic.com/tv/game-change/season-1"><em><strong>Game Change</strong></em><strong><br></strong></a><strong>HBO Films<br>
+
+115 minutes</strong></p>
+<p>At its core,<em> Game Change </em>is a Gothic fable in the most classic and traditional sense: A well-intentioned (<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/steve-schmidt/" target="_blank">political</a>) scientist sets out to perform a feat of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/11/05/back-from-the-dead.html" target="_blank">tremendous galvanism</a>. In his pursuit of this <a href="http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/dreams-of-a-mccain-presidency/" target="_blank">big dream</a>, he inadvertently creates a monster—one he comes to disown. In a flash, the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2Zc3AAAAYAAJ&q=daemon#v=onepage&q=the%20beauty%20of%20the%20dream%20vanished%2C%20and%20breathless%20horror%20and%20disgust%20filled%20my%20heart&f=false" target="_blank">beauty of the dream vanishes, and breathless horror and disgust fills the creator's heart</a>. But too late! The monster is unleashed on the world, leaving a trail of chaos, defeat, and bewilderment in its wake. The scientist later <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31335.html" target="_blank">confesses</a> at length his confounding regret.</p>
+
+<p>In this version, campaign strategist Steve Schmidt is Dr. Victor Frankenstein, John McCain is the corporation that he works for, all of America is the unsuspecting village people, and Sarah Palin is [<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZftK2kO6U">cue the music</a>....] the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#Name_origins">Adam</a> of Schmidt's labors.</p>
+<p><em>Game Change</em>, which premieres on HBO on Saturday March 10 at 9 p.m. EST to a flurry of Beltway <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73591.html" target="_blank">anticipation</a>, zeros in on the more depressing chapters of the 2008 presidential campaign, namely the <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/joe-mcginniss-sarah-palin-the-rogue" target="_blank">former governor of Alaska and mayor of Wasilla</a>. In adapting the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/books/11book.html" target="_blank">bestseller</a> by <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#!/jheil">John Heilemann</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://thepage.time.com/">Mark Halperin</a>, the filmmakers jettison much of the 2010 book's inside scoopage—on the Obama camp, Rudy Giuliani, the Clintons, John Edwards <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=T2Mp9EEd3ncC&q=john+edwards#v=snippet&q=john%20edwards%20affair&f=false" target="_blank">messin' 'round</a>—to focus exclusively on the fumbling, dysfunctional McCain campaign.</p>
+
+<p>Senior adviser Steve Schmidt (played by a feisty, riveting <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/woody-harrelson-ama-ask-me-anything-goes-disastrously-wrong-on-reddit/">Woody Harrelson</a>) is the story's reluctant protagonist. He's brought aboard the McCain Train to tighten up messaging and restore a sense of discipline. His signature master stroke comes just days before the nominating convention, in which he leads the push to scrap McCain's original <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/us/politics/31reconstruct.html" target="_blank">post-partisan plan</a> to tap Joe Lieberman as his running mate. McCain's one-sentence directive for locking down an emergency replacement?</p>
+<p>"Find me a woman."</p>
+
+<p>And thus enters "game-changer" Palin—in top hockey-momming form—with her poise and social-conservative street cred. McCain gets a bump in the polls, the Republican base gets a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/barack-obama-democratic-c_n_122224.html" target="_blank">much-needed</a> shot of energy.</p>
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+<p>If you're a deep-pocketed political donor, contributing vast sums of money to advance your own ideology is just what you do. Pouring money into TV ads and get-out-the-vote efforts on behalf of politicians you thoroughly and completely disagree with? Not so much.</p>
+<p>But the Campaign for Primary Accountability isn't your typical super-PAC, and its top donor, Houston construction magnate Leo Linbeck III, isn't your typical conservative sugar daddy. While groups like American Crossroads and Priorities USA have sprouted up in the last two years to boost specific values and candidates, the CFPA has a different goal entirely: Electoral mayhem.</p>
+<p>Led by Linbeck, the group's aim is to use the power of the purse to do what political parties and state redistricting panels won't—make congressional races competitive again. CFPA, which has raised $1.8 million to date, is targeting at least 10 Republican and Democratic incumbents in half a dozen states, with plans to increase that number over the next few months. And it's starting to work. The group has taken credit for the Super Tuesday defeat of Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) and the retirement of another Republican, Dan Burton of Indiana.</p>
+<p>"It's not just a matter of 'Hey, they've been there a long time, let's get rid of them,'" Linbeck says. "It's more like they've been there a long time and they’re disconnected from the voters in their district, and they would win without some other force coming in. Well, we're that other force."</p>
+
+<p>Their criteria is straightforward. For CFPA to take action they look at four factors: The district must be solidly red or blue ("we're not looking to swing power from one party to the other," Linbeck says); the challenger must be credible and capable of standing on his own; the current incumbent must be entrenched—no freshmen; and their own private polling has to show that there's actually a chance their candidate could win.</p>
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+<p>The lobbyist who helped kill California's Proposition 19, the 2010 ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana, has constructed an entire business model around keeping pot illegal. While fighting against the proposed law, lobbyist John Lovell accepted nearly $400,000 from a wide array of police unions, some of which he also represented in attempting to steer millions of federal dollars toward California's marijuana suppression programs.</p>
+
+<p>The revelation, reported yesterday by the <a href="http://www.republicreport.org/2012/exclusive-why-cant-you-smoke-pot-because-lobbyists-are-getting-rich-off-of-the-war-on-drugs/" target="_blank"><em>Republic Report</em>'s Lee Fang</a>, illustrates how Proposition 19 threatened the paychecks of some of its biggest foes. Police departments stood to lose lucrative federal grants like a $550,000 payment in 2010 to police departments in three Northern California counties that covered 666 hours of police overtime spent eradicating marijuana. And Lovell would have presumably lost a job as a guy who helped land those kinds of grants. Here's a copy of a notice sent to a police department in Lassen County, California:</p>
+<p><span class="inline inline-center"><img width="630" height="94" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/lovell.png" class="image image-_original " title="" alt=""></span>Police unions and their lobbyists weren't the only economic interests with a stake in Prop. 19. The alcohol industry and prison guards also contributed money to fight the measure. And on the other side, the passage of Prop. 19 would have given thousands of "<a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/wegrow-dhar-mann-derek-peterson" target="_blank">hempreneurs</a>" behind the state's $1.3 billion medical marijuana industry a stimulus stronger than a vaporized bowl of Hindu Kush. The likely side effects—a decline in budget-busting law-enforcement costs and millions of dollars in tax revenue for the state of California—don't seem all that bad compared to what we got stuck with: a war on drugs that makes people like John Lovell even richer.</p>
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+<p><strong>Also read: Tony D'Souza's "</strong><a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/tony-dsouza-marijuana-growers" target="_blank"><strong>The New Dealers</strong></a><strong>," a tale of recession-strapped Americans who turned to dope dealing to make ends meet.</strong></p>
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+ Bachmann: Obama Could Mandate One-Child Policy
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+<p>Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, she said that it's important that we have contraceptives because that prevents pregnancy, and pregnancy is more expensive to the federal government. Going with that logic, according to our own Health and Human Services secretary, it isn't farfetched to think that the president of the United States could say, <strong>we need to save healthcare expenses, the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family, or two babies to be born per family. That could happen. You think it couldn't?</strong></p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>This was in an interview over at The Blaze, Glenn Beck's website, and even the Blaze folks were sort of aghast that Bachmann could suggest something like this. But it's comforting in a way. This is old school Bachmann.</p>
+<p>But as long as we're on the subject, here's a wee bit of factmongering for you. Did you know that lots of women have no health insurance, and the only reason they have any maternity coverage at all is because of federal programs like Medicaid and CHIP? It's true! It turns out that about 40% of all births in the United States are paid for by these programs.</p>
+
+<p>And even women who <em>are</em> insured don't always have maternity coverage. Lots of them do, thanks to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978, which conservatives and the business community hated at the time. But there are still gaps: small businesses are exempt, and most individual insurance plans don't cover maternity expenses. Obamacare will take care of that shortly, but of course, conservatives and the business community consider that an act of unprecedented tyranny.</p>
+<p>Your garden variety hospital delivery — not counting prenatal and postnatal care — will set you back about ten grand or so these days. Most people would have a hard time affording that, but thanks to Medicaid, CHIP, the PDA, and Obamacare, most women are either covered or soon will be. In other words, the only reason most women can afford modern childbirth in modern hospitals <em>at all</em> is because of various federal laws that either mandate it in the private sector or pay for it out of public funds. If it weren't for that, most families couldn't even have one baby born in the hospital, let alone two. That's some pretty pro-family policy from us liberals, no?</p>
+
+<p>(<a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_03/from_50000_feetor_mars035911.php" target="_blank">Via an equally dumbfounded Ed Kilgore.</a>)</p>
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+<p>A monster EF4 tornado with winds of 180 mp/h (290 km/h) that caused extreme damage in Harrisburg, Illinois, on leap day happened to travel across an array of seismographs recently deployed for studying earthquakes.</p>
+<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://geology.indiana.edu/hamburger/">scientists</a> working with the OIINK array (named for its coverage of parts of the Ozarks, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky) thought their instruments had been destroyed by the twister. Instead, the seismographs recorded<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; text-align: left; "> </span>the tornado.</p>
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+<p>Or rather not the tornado itself,<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "> as their preliminary investigation suggests, but the</span> passage of the large atmospheric pressure transient pushing ahead of the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado... one of an anomalous number of tornadoes so far this winter. Some of which may<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "> add up 2012's first billion-dollar disaster in the US </span>.</p>
+<p><span class="inline inline-center"><span class="caption"> <a href="http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/21533.html"><img alt="Location of seismographs in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois and the path of the tornado that struck Harrisburg IL on 29 Feb 2012: Courtesy of Indiana University" title="Location of seismographs in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois and the path of the tornado that struck Harrisburg IL on 29 Feb 2012: Courtesy of Indiana University" class="image image-preview " width="640" height="414" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/tornado_seismic_track_sm.preview.jpg"><br></a><strong>Location of seismographs in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois and the path of the tornado that struck Harrisburg IL on 29 Feb 2012: </strong>Courtesy of Indiana University University</span></span></p>
+
+<p>In the image above you can see the seismic stations sets against the ground path of the 29 Feb Harrisburg tornado. These stations are part of the NSF's <a target="_blank" href="http://www.earthscope.org/">EarthScope</a> program planned to cover the entire US with a grid for detecting and better understanding and eventually maybe predicting earthquakes. Seems they might come in handy for tornadoes too.</p>
+<p>I wrote about the EarthScope program <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/03/science-quake-dissenters-arrive">here</a> after Japan's 9.0 quake last year.</p>
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+<p>This animation shows <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "> EarthScope stations lighting up in response to ground shaking following </span>a 21 February 2008 earthquake in Wells, NV. From the video's YouTube <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzphPZakPaA">page</a>:</p>
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+<p>Each circle represents a seismometer and the colors change to reflect variations in the signal amplitude crossing the array. The ground motion begins near the source and then expands outward like a the waves from a pebble dropped in a pond. The circular wavefronts are distorted by the simple map projection used in the animation. The initial waves travel at about 8km/s, the larger amplitude waves that follow are moving at about 2.5km/s.</p>
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+<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/obama-and-the-cult-of-college-why-rick-santorum-had-a-point-20120307">Rick Perlstein writes today</a> that Rick Santorum was right when he said "Not all folks are gifted in the same way. Some people have incredible gifts with their hands ... and want to work out there making things":</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>Santorum’s claim that Obama wants everyone to go to college to become Marxist deconstructionists was wrong. In fact, it was so wrong that it didn't even survive Fox News, where, presented with evidence that Obama, like him, favored all kinds of educational opportunities, including but not limited to college, Santorum replied, sheepishly, "Maybe I was reading some things" that gave him the wrong impression, and "if it was an error, then I agree with the president."</p>
+<p>But wait. Stick to your guns, Rick! The thing is, you exposed a poetic truth: While Obama might not push college education <em>exclusively</em>, like most Democrats he <em>does</em> oversell it, and <em>does</em> shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.</p>
+
+<p>...."The administration has done a good job of talking about, and even funding, career training for high-school graduates," says education expert Dana Goldstein of the New America Foundation. "What they will not do very much is talk about or fund career training for teens, even though there is good evidence that if you don't offer career and technical training via the public schools, you may lose people forever." A democracy of the heart that acknowledges there are simply some <img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 20px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/Blog_High_School.jpg">people who will never step into an academic classroom post-high school, and that this is alright, seems a bridge-to-the-twentieth-century too far for our schooling-mad politicians these days.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>None of this is an accident, of course. American high schools used to be big suppliers of vocational education. But in the 70s and 80s, the practice of "tracking" — placing the smart kids in chemistry classes and the not-so-smart kids in shop classes — came under withering assault. There was pretty good reason for it, too, since tracking really did have some pernicious effects. <a target="_blank" href="http://challengebychoice.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/the-history-of-tracking.pdf">Tom Loveless glosses some of the arguments of the critics here,</a> including that in Jeanne Oakes’s influential 1985 book, <em>Keeping Track</em>:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>They pointed out that poor, non-English speaking, and minority youngsters were disproportionately assigned to low tracks and wealthier, white students to high tracks—and concluded that this was not a coincidence. Oakes's book helped ignite a firestorm of anti-tracking activity. Tracking was blamed for unfairly categorizing students, stigmatizing struggling learners, and consigning them to a fate over which neither they nor their parents had control. The indictment spread from scholarly journals to the popular press. A 1988 article in <em>Better Homes and Gardens</em> asked, "Is Your Child Being Tracked for Failure?" In 1989, <em>Psychology Today</em> ran "Tracked to Fail" and <em>U.S News and World Report</em> published "The Label That Sticks." Although the anti-tracking movement’s left-leaning political base conflicted with that of the movement for rigorous academic standards, parental choice, and other grassroots proposals that gained popularity in the late 1980s, it managed to hitch its wagon to growing public demand for excellence in the public schools.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+<p>The detracking movement did a lot to undermine vocational education, and people like Bill Gates and others have since been influential boosters of the idea that everyone should go to college. But I'm with Dana and the Ricks: not everyone either can or wants to go to college. We never needed to destroy the village in order to save it, and there are ways of addressing the ills of tracking without losing its benefits at the same time. American high schools ought to be as good at turning out plumbers as they are at turning out future English majors.</p>
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+
+ Kevin Drum
+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:16:11 +0000
+ Kevin Drum
+ 166831 at http://motherjones.com
+
+
+ Being in Congress Sucks These Days
+
+ http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/being-congress-sucks-these-days
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+<p><a target="_blank" href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=7CB893FB-C29C-444C-93E7-E7103D9B7686">From <em>Politico</em>:</a></p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>For members of Congress, the thrill is gone.</p>
+<p>They don’t make national policy anymore. They can’t earmark money for communities back home. The public hates them. And perks little and big, from private jet travel to a little free nosh now and then, have been locked down by ethics rules.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>I wouldn't have expected this, but I actually do feel a little sorry for them. Just a little, mind you, but still. I'll bet it does kind of suck these days for a lot of people. If you're a true believer, then you love being in the fight regardless of anything else. But if you're someone who actually wants to get things done, there's not much left. Just an endless grind of fundraising and nothing much to make it all worthwhile.</p>
+
+<p>This is also why, within reason, I actually support earmarks. Members of Congress <em>should</em> be important people in their districts. They <em>should</em> be able to get things done for their constituents. They <em>should</em> have some say — based on their ideology and their local knowledge — over what kinds of projects get built and which ones don't. That's what they were elected for. If their constituents don't like the way they handle this, they can vote 'em out.</p>
+
+<p>Earmarks should be transparent, and they should be limited. But they shouldn't have been banned. They're part of the job, and they're part of the culture of dealmaking that helps get things done. There's really nothing wrong with them in limited quantities.</p>
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+
+ Kevin Drum
+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:19:14 +0000
+ Kevin Drum
+ 166826 at http://motherjones.com
+
+
+ HSR Opponents Working Hard to Turn Me Into a Supporter
+
+ http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/hsr-opponents-working-hard-turn-me-supporter
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+<p><img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/Blog_HSR_California.jpg">Regular readers know that I'm not a fan of the proposed LA-San Francisco high-speed rail project, and as the projected costs have ballooned I've become even less of a fan. But lord almighty, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bullet-vision-20120308,0,3644887,full.story">stuff like this could change my mind:</a></p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>The fast trains connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco would create new communities of high-density apartments and small homes around stations, reducing the suburbanization of California, rail advocates say. That new lifestyle would mean fewer cars and less gasoline consumption, lowering California's contribution to global warming.</p>
+<p>....Opponents, most of whom are political conservatives, regard the ambitious project as a classic government overreach that will require taxpayer subsidies. <strong>But they also see something more sinister: an agenda to push people into European or Asian models of dense cities, tight apartments and reliance on state-provided transportation.</strong></p>
+<p>...."It is a real movement in California of controlling the masses, controlling land use, deciding where people should live," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare). "I oppose that absolutely, because it is a form of left-wing social engineering."</p>
+
+<p>...."It has nothing to do with transportation. This is entirely social policy," said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Granite Bay). "It is all about the far left's fever dream to get mother Earth back to a pristine condition by elbowing us into these dense urban cores."</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>So who spilled the beans, anyway? Now the whole world knows that we lefties are drooling over the prospect of taking away everyone's homes and engineering a forced march into modern-day high-rise concentration camps where the cable companies don't offer Fox News. All the better to control you with, my sweeties.</p>
+<p>Yeesh. But that's the mindset we're up against. Not <em>we're giving people <u>more</u> lifestyle choices</em> but <em>your lifestyle choice is inherently insulting to the one I prefer</em>. And sweet reason will do little to change this. As Matt Yglesias, one of our most vocal proponents of denser lifestyles, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/03/08/the_elusive_quest_for_solutions.html">says,</a> "A lot of the time there's genuinely no substitute for changing people's minds."</p>
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+
+ Kevin Drum
+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:07:40 +0000
+ Kevin Drum
+ 166821 at http://motherjones.com
+
+
+ Looking Ahead to 2016
+
+ http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/looking-ahead-2016
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+<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/03/07/santorum_2016.html">Can this possibly be for real?</a></p>
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>A true-sounding aside from Alex Pareene: "Rick Santorum is the 2016 GOP nomination frontrunner." It's true because the runner-up of the last Republican primary always starts off with an advantage. McCain 2008. Dole 1996. Bush 1988. Reagan 1976. Romney looked like the candidate most likely to break the trend, but no longer.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Maybe! This is why I sort-of-but-not-really-but-then-again-maybe-seriously want Rick Santorum to win the nomination this year. The only hope for the future of the Republican Party is to finally nominate the conservative of their dreams and then go down to an epic, ego-shattering defeat. It would, perhaps, pound some sense into them and finally give the party's moderates the backbone they need to wrest control away from the Limbaugh/Fox/Dobson/Norquist brigade. But if they nominate Romney and lose? Then, once again, it will be because they denied the one true faith. And that could, I suppose, make Santorum the frontrunner for 2016. Buckle up.</p>
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+
+ Kevin Drum
+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:43:02 +0000
+ Kevin Drum
+ 166811 at http://motherjones.com
+
+
+ We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for March 8, 2012
+
+ http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/were-still-war-photo-day-march-8-2012
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+<html><body><p class="rtecenter"><span class="inline inline-center"><img width="626" height="418" class="image image-preview " title="" alt="" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/weapons-make.jpg"></span><em>Senior Airman Daniel Stehley, of the <a href="http://www.shaw.af.mil/units/index.asp" target="_blank">20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron</a> munitions flight, spray paints build codes on inert guided bomb units after helping assemble each weapon at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., February 27, 2012. The weapons were assembled in preparation for an upcoming Operational Readiness Exercise. (US Air Force <a href="http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/120227-F-CJ989-906.jpg" target="_blank">photo</a>/Senior Airman Kenny Holston)</em></p></body></html>
+
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+
+ MoJo
+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:21:34 +0000
+
+ 166806 at http://motherjones.com
+
+
+ Targeted Ads Are the Least of Our Online Worries
+
+ http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/targeted-ads-are-least-our-online-worries
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+<p>Katherine Mangu-Ward thinks people are freaking out way too much over Google's plan to aggregate personal information about its users <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/take-my-privacy-please-a-defense-of-google/254159/">across all its platforms:</a></p>
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>As it happens, we know how much people value their privacy: They'll sell information about every prescription they fill at CVS — or every pint of Haagen Dazs at Safeway — in exchange for a steady infusion of $1 coupons. They'll hand <img align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 20px 20px 15px 30px;" class="image image-_original" alt="" src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_surveillance_0.jpg">off information about the timing of their daily commute in exchange for a couple of minutes saved at a toll booth every day. They'll let Amazon track their diaper and book purchases because they would rather not re-enter their credit card number every time they want to buy something.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>This is totally true. I happen to think that most people don't take this seriously enough, but who cares what I think? If you're willing to sell information about your buying habits to the highest bidder, there's no reason I should be able to stop you. She's also right about this:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>But if you're more skeeved than pleased, consider letting your brain overpower your gut here. This is a fact you cannot change: All the free stuff on the Internet is possible because you slap your eyeballs on some ads from time to time. If Google and other retailers can't scrape and sort your data to offer a few well targeted ads, there are two other viable choices: 1) Less of the free stuff you like. Like this blog. It might stop being free. For instance. 2) More ads in the throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks school. Think: those annoying dancing silhouette gals selling cheap mortgages.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+<p>In fact, because of the fundamental failure of the online advertising model, more and more of the web is inaccessible all the time. Archives are unavailable, news sites are behind paywalls, etc. That's a pain in the ass for someone like me.</p>
+<p>So, yeah, maybe some targeted ads are a small price to pay for all this stuff being collected. And if targeted ads were the only thing to be worried about, I wouldn't be worried. But I don't think you need to have a very active imagination to figure out that both the public and private sectors can eventually do a whole lot more with this stuff than learn what brand of ice cream you like. Just as they can use it to offer you services, they can also use it to deny you services. They can use it to discriminate in subtle ways that are putatively based on data mining, not race/sex/ethnicity. They can use it to make decisions about who should and shouldn't be allowed to fly on airplanes. They can sell it to marketers <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/why-i-dont-want-target-know-quite-so-much-about-me">somewhat less scrupulous</a> than Procter & Gamble. They can subpoena it in divorce cases. They can make it a part of massive NSA-run surveillance programs.</p>
+
+<p>It's not the targeted ads I mind. It's everything that comes <em>after</em> targeted ads that I mind. I'd suggest that the rest of us ought to mind it a little more too.</p>
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+ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:19:03 +0000
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+ Book Review: House of Stone
+
+ http://motherjones.com/mixed-media/2012/03/review-anthony-shadid-house-stone-memoir
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+<h3><a target="_blank" href="http://anthonyshadid.com/house-of-stone-a-memoir-of-home-family-and-a-lost-middle-east/"><span class="inline inline-left"><img width="200" height="305" class="image image-preview " title="" alt="" src="https://motherjones.com/files/images/house_stone.jpg"></span>House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East</a></h3>
+
+<p>By Anthony Shadid</p>
+<p>HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT</p>
+<p>In his <em>New York Times</em> dispatches from across the Middle East, Anthony Shadid—a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner—cuts a swashbuckling figure. In the last year alone, he braved tear gas and live fire in <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/whats-happening-egypt-explained">Egypt</a>, was <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/whats-happening-libya-explained">kidnapped by Qaddafi's thugs in Libya</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/magazine/syrias-sons-of-no-one.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">secretly traversed Syria's killing fields</a> by motorcycle. <em>House of Stone</em> casts the correspondent in a softer light, recalling his 2007 return to his ancestral village in southern Lebanon to rebuild his great-grandfather's abandoned home—and perhaps piece together his own wayward life in the process. At once outsider and native son, Shadid elegantly reflects on the violent splintering of the once-vibrant Levant and its uphill struggle to reclaim its dwindling notions of regional identity.</p>
+
+<p><strong><em>Editor's Note</em></strong><em>: </em>Anthony Shadid <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html">died of an asthma attack</a> in February while reporting for the <em>New York Times </em>inside Syria. Shortly before his death, he spoke with <em>Mother Jones</em> about <em>House of Stone</em>, Syria's future, and the high cost of getting the story in a war zone. <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/anthony-shadid-libya-syria-house-of-stone">You can read Shadid's interview with <em>Mother Jones</em> here</a>.</p>
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+ Insane Sex Laws Inspired by Republicans
+
+ http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/birth-control-viagra-vasectomy-laws
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+<p>As Republican lawmakers have pushed ever <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/transvaginal-ultrasounds-coming-soon-state-near-you">more intrusive</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/republican-war-birth-control-contraception">expansive</a> uterus-related legislation, some of their colleagues across the aisle have fired back with intentionally and equally ridiculous counterproposals. From mandatory rectal exams for guys seeking Viagra to prohibitions on sperm-stifling vasectomies, most of these male-only provisions have, unsurprisingly, flopped. But they've scored big as symbolic gestures, spotlighting the inherent sexism of laws that only regulate lady parts.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the tongue-in-cheek ideas introduced across the country:</p>
+<p><strong>Delaware:</strong> By an 8 to 4 vote, the Wilmington, Delaware, city council <a target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/wilmington-city-council-sperm-egg-personhood_n_1316924.html%20">recognized the personhood of semen</a> because "each 'egg person' and each 'sperm person' should be deemed equal in the eyes of the government."</p>
+
+<p><b>Virginia:</b> As the state Senate debated <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/why-virginias-new-mandatory-ultrasound-law-still-sucks">requiring transvaginal ultrasounds</a> for women seeking abortions, Sen. Janet Howell proposed mandating rectal exams and cardiac stress tests for men seeking erectile dysfunction meds. Her amendment failed by just two votes.</p>
+<p><strong>Georgia:</strong> Responding to a Georgia<b> </b>house bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Rep. Yasmin Neal wrote a bill <span>outlawing most vasectomies because they leave "<a target="_blank" href="http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/versions/hb1116_LC_21_1703_a_2.htm%20">thousands of children…deprived of birth.</a>"</span></p>
+
+<div class="sidebar-small-right"><em><strong>Does Limbaugh think <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/03/rush-limbaugh-does-not-understand-how-birth-control-works" target="_blank">birth control pills work like Viagra?</a> Plus: <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/calculator-birth-control-expensive-really-cost" target="_blank">our handy calculator</a> shows how much you'll spend on birth control over a lifetime.</strong></em></div>
+
+<p><strong><span>Ohio: </span></strong><span>A bill introduced by state Sen. Nina Turner would compel men to get psychological screenings before getting prescriptions for impotence meds. </span><span>"</span>We must advocate for the traditional family," Turner <a target="_blank" href="http://www.progressohio.org/blog/2012/03/senator-turner-introduces-legislation-to-protect-mens-health.html">said</a>, "and ensure that all men using PDE-5 inhibitors are healthy, stable, and educated about their options—including celibacy as a viable life choice.<span>"</span></p>
+
+<p><strong>Illinois</strong><strong>:</strong> State <span>Rep. Kelly Cassidy proposed requiring men seeking Viagra to watch a video showing <a target="_blank" href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/02/lawmaker-men-who-want-viagra-should-have-to-watch-graphic-side-effects-video/">the treatment for persistent erections</a>, an occasional side effect of the little blue pill. As she explained, "</span>It's not a pretty procedure to watch."</p>
+
+<p><strong>Missouri: </strong>Protesting the legislature's vote to reject <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/obama-birth-control-rule-change-why-its-not-cave">Obama's contraception coverage mandate</a>, nine female lawmakers cosponsored a bill <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/02/3465617/female-legislators-introduce-cheeky.html">restricting access to vasectomies</a> except for men risking death or serious bodily harm. "In determining whether a vasectomy is necessary," the bill reads, "no regard shall be made to the desire of a man to father children, his economic situation, his age, the number of children he is currently responsible for, or any danger to his wife or partner in the event a child is conceived."</p>
+
+<p><strong>Oklahoma:</strong> When a zygote-personhood bill came before the state Senate, Sen. Constance Johnson penned an amendment<strong> </strong>declaring that <a target="_blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/08/421018/oklahoma-democrat-adds-every-sperm-is-sacred-amendment-to-personhood-bill/">ejaculating anywhere outside a woman's vagina</a> constitutes "an action against an unborn child." Bonus: Johnson <a href="http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb1433%20" target="_blank">also suggested</a> that any man who impregnates a woman without her permission should pay a $25,000 fine, support the child until age 21, and get a vasectomy, "in the spirit of shared responsibility." <span>In response to the same bill, state Sen. Jim Wilson <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20120207_16_A5_OKLAHO862914&r=7811" target="_blank">proposed</a> an amendment requiring the father of an unborn child to be financially responsible for its mother's health care, housing, transportation, and nourishment during pregnancy.</span><strong><br></strong></p>
+
+<p><strong>Texas: </strong>Contesting a bill mandating sonograms before abortions, Rep. Harold Dutton unsuccessfully offered<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>three amendments in a row. The first would have required the state to pay the college tuition of children born to women who decide against an abortion after seeing a required ultrasound image. The second would have subsidized the children's health care costs until age 18. When that failed, he lowered the age to 6. <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/2011-abortion-sonogram-bill/democrats-attack-abortion-sonogram-bill/" target="_blank">That didn't fly, either</a>.<strong><br></strong></p>
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+ Hannah Levintova
+ 166741 at http://motherjones.com
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+
+ "Game Change": A Remake of Frankenstein, Featuring Sarah Palin
+ http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/game-change-frankenstein-remake-sarah-palin
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+<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.metacritic.com/tv/game-change/season-1"><em><strong>Game Change</strong></em><strong><br></strong></a><strong>HBO Films<br>
+
+115 minutes</strong></p>
+<p>At its core,<em> Game Change </em>is a Gothic fable in the most classic and traditional sense: A well-intentioned (<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/steve-schmidt/" target="_blank">political</a>) scientist sets out to perform a feat of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/11/05/back-from-the-dead.html" target="_blank">tremendous galvanism</a>. In his pursuit of this <a href="http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/dreams-of-a-mccain-presidency/" target="_blank">big dream</a>, he inadvertently creates a monster—one he comes to disown. In a flash, the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2Zc3AAAAYAAJ&q=daemon#v=onepage&q=the%20beauty%20of%20the%20dream%20vanished%2C%20and%20breathless%20horror%20and%20disgust%20filled%20my%20heart&f=false" target="_blank">beauty of the dream vanishes, and breathless horror and disgust fills the creator's heart</a>. But too late! The monster is unleashed on the world, leaving a trail of chaos, defeat, and bewilderment in its wake. The scientist later <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31335.html" target="_blank">confesses</a> at length his confounding regret.</p>
+
+<p>In this version, campaign strategist Steve Schmidt is Dr. Victor Frankenstein, John McCain is the corporation that he works for, all of America is the unsuspecting village people, and Sarah Palin is [<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZftK2kO6U">cue the music</a>....] the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#Name_origins">Adam</a> of Schmidt's labors.</p>
+<p><em>Game Change</em>, which premieres on HBO on Saturday March 10 at 9 p.m. EST to a flurry of Beltway <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73591.html" target="_blank">anticipation</a>, zeros in on the more depressing chapters of the 2008 presidential campaign, namely the <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/joe-mcginniss-sarah-palin-the-rogue" target="_blank">former governor of Alaska and mayor of Wasilla</a>. In adapting the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/books/11book.html" target="_blank">bestseller</a> by <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#!/jheil">John Heilemann</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://thepage.time.com/">Mark Halperin</a>, the filmmakers jettison much of the 2010 book's inside scoopage—on the Obama camp, Rudy Giuliani, the Clintons, John Edwards <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=T2Mp9EEd3ncC&q=john+edwards#v=snippet&q=john%20edwards%20affair&f=false" target="_blank">messin' 'round</a>—to focus exclusively on the fumbling, dysfunctional McCain campaign.</p>
+
+<p>Senior adviser Steve Schmidt (played by a feisty, riveting <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/woody-harrelson-ama-ask-me-anything-goes-disastrously-wrong-on-reddit/">Woody Harrelson</a>) is the story's reluctant protagonist. He's brought aboard the McCain Train to tighten up messaging and restore a sense of discipline. His signature master stroke comes just days before the nominating convention, in which he leads the push to scrap McCain's original <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/us/politics/31reconstruct.html" target="_blank">post-partisan plan</a> to tap Joe Lieberman as his running mate. McCain's one-sentence directive for locking down an emergency replacement?</p>
+<p>"Find me a woman."</p>
+
+<p>And thus enters "game-changer" Palin—in top hockey-momming form—with her poise and social-conservative street cred. McCain gets a bump in the polls, the Republican base gets a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/barack-obama-democratic-c_n_122224.html" target="_blank">much-needed</a> shot of energy.</p>
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-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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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 "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.'"<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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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 "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 'order of magnitude faster' 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."<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&op=image&style=h0&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 "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 '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 'calculated,' with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and extreme scalability within normal load levels.'"<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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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'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&op=image&style=h0&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'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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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'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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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. 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The Radio 4 show named More or Less examined the government'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'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% 'to reflect the assumption that fewer people admit to file sharing than actually do it.' The 6.7m figure was then calculated based on an estimated number of internet users that disagreed with the government's own estimate. The wholly unsubstantiated 7m figure was then released as an official statistic."<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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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. 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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&op=image&style=h0&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&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. 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'"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. 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'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.<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&op=image&style=h0&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 "House Party 7"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&op=image&style=h0&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
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+ Dan 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!"
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-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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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 "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.'"<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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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. 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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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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 "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 'order of magnitude faster' 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."<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&op=image&style=h0&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 "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 '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 'calculated,' with rigid fairness, nice priority distribution and extreme scalability within normal load levels.'"<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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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'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&op=image&style=h0&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'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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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'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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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 "The British government'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'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'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% 'to reflect the assumption that fewer people admit to file sharing than actually do it.' The 6.7m figure was then calculated based on an estimated number of internet users that disagreed with the government's own estimate. The wholly unsubstantiated 7m figure was then released as an official statistic."<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&op=image&style=h0&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&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&op=image&style=h0&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&op=image&style=h0&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&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. 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+ Joshua 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."
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+ imamac 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.'"
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+ DigDuality 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."
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+ Dan 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!"
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+ Slightly different: lousyd 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.'"
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+ An 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."
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+ 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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people who will never step into an academic classroom post-high school, and that this is alright, seems a bridge-to-the-twentieth-century too far for our schooling-mad politicians these days.
Regular readers know that I\'m not a fan of the proposed LA-San Francisco high-speed rail project, and as the projected costs have ballooned I\'ve become even less of a fan. But lord almighty, stuff like this could change my mind:
Senior Airman Daniel Stehley, of the 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron munitions flight, spray paints build codes on inert guided bomb units after helping assemble each weapon at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., February 27, 2012. The weapons were assembled in preparation for an upcoming Operational Readiness Exercise. (US Air Force photo/Senior Airman Kenny Holston)off information about the timing of their daily commute in exchange for a couple of minutes saved at a toll booth every day. They\'ll let Amazon track their diaper and book purchases because they would rather not re-enter their credit card number every time they want to buy something.
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
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