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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Stem Cell Research Paper Recalled
* Groklaw No Front for IBM
* Camera Phones Read Hidden Messages in Print
* Teacher Avoids Getting Sent to Siberia For Piracy
* Water Logic Gates Built at MIT
* Google Launches Summer of Code 2007
* Earth's Constant Hum Explained
* Microsoft Blasts IBM Over XML Standards
* Over 27% of Firefox Patches Come from Volunteers
* Drive-By Pharming Attack Could Hit Home Networks
* Kansas Adopts New Science Standards
* Apple May Be Re-Entering the Sub-Notebook Market
* 'Daylight Savings Bugs' Loom
* Vista Sales Expectations Too High, Office Doing Well
* Silicon Valley - Still Important To Tech Advances
* Apple TV to be a Centrally Controlled P2P Network?
* Consumer Vista Upgrades Moving at Snail's Pace
* PMD Applied
* Server Power Consumption Doubled Over Past 5 years
* Congress Tackles Patent Reform
* Scientists Dubious of Quantum Computing Claims
* Bionic Eye Could Restore Vision
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| Stem Cell Research Paper Recalled |
| from the making-the-grade dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 15, @19:21 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/2316214 |
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[0]MattSparkes writes "One of the best-known stem cell papers describes
adult cells that seemed to hold the same promise as embryonic stem cells.
Now some of the data contained within the paper is being questioned,
after [1]staff at a consumer science magazine noticed errors. It shows
how even peer-reviewed papers can sometimes 'slip through the net' and
get to publication with inaccurate data."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/15/2316214
Links:
0. http://www.thebikeblog.co.uk/
1. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325915.200?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=stem-cell
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| Groklaw No Front for IBM |
| from the killing-the-messenger dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 15, @20:31 (The Courts)|
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/2343245 |
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A Groklaw Reader writes "After all the [0]wild speculation SCO put forth
about Pamela Jones, her alleged subpoena by SCO, and her recent vacation
due to illness, we now have [1]Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols writing to say
'Yes, there is a PJ.' In his own words, he says, 'Let me address this
directly. Yes, Pamela Jones is a real person. I've met her several times
[...] I consider her a friend. She is not a front for anyone.' Hopefully,
this statement will be enough to put those SCO-induced conspiracy
theories to rest."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/15/2343245
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/14/020204&tid=123
1. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7673520174.html
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| Camera Phones Read Hidden Messages in Print |
| from the go-go-gadget-decoder dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 15, @21:57 (Handhelds) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/2351255 |
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pikine writes "As reported by BBC News, Fujitsu has developed a
technology that [0]encodes 12-bytes of information in a printed picture
by skewing yellow hue, which is difficult to discern by human eye but
fairly easy for camera phones to decode using software written in Java."
The first target uses are promotional contests and competitions, not
entirely unlike those game pieces that need to be viewed through a
colored filter.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/15/2351255
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6361891.stm
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| Teacher Avoids Getting Sent to Siberia For Piracy |
| from the off-the-hook dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 15, @23:29 (Microsoft) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/002215 |
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[0]Piracy Support Line writes "Russian principal Alexander Ponosov
[1]will not be visiting Siberia any time soon, at least not for the
allegedly illegal Microsoft software that were preloaded on the computers
they bought and Microsoft supported the reseller's story. Although Bill
Gates rejected Mikhail Gorbachev's personal appeal for mercy on behalf of
the teacher, the judge was kinder. Judge Elvira Mosheva decided to
dismiss the case because 'Microsoft's financial damage is too
insignificant for a criminal investigation.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/002215
Links:
0. mailto:legal+piracy@microsoft.com
1. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/russian_principal_case_dismissed.html
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| Water Logic Gates Built at MIT |
| from the flood-gates-opened dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 16, @00:54 (Hardware Hack|
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/046253 |
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[0]ndogg writes "This story is all wet. Paulo Blikstein at MIT has
created a [1]water computer. The one boolean logic gate he created
functions as a half-adder (i.e. both XOR and AND). He then proceeded to
create a four bit adder."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/046253
Links:
0. mailto:the.rhorn@gm%5B%5D.com%5B'ail'ingap%5D
1. http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~paulo/courses/howmake/mlfabfinalproject.htm
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| Google Launches Summer of Code 2007 |
| from the back-once-again dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 16, @04:05 (Google) |
| http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/0419246 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Google has announced that [0]it
will be doing Summer of Code again this year. The program [1]looks pretty
much the same this year but they have built time into the program
schedule for students to get up to speed before they start coding. Nice
job, Google."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/0419246
Links:
0. http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/02/speaking-of-summer.html
1. http://code.google.com/soc/
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| Earth's Constant Hum Explained |
| from the global-tinnitus dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 16, @06:29 (News) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/0414204 |
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[0]MattSparkes writes "It has been known for some time that there is a
constant hum that emanates from the Earth, which can be heard near 10
millihertz on a seismometer. The problem was that nobody knew what caused
it. It has now been shown that it is [1]caused by waves on the bottom of
the sea, and more specifically 'by the combination of two waves of the
same frequency travelling in opposite directions.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/0414204
Links:
0. http://www.thebikeblog.co.uk/
1. http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11190?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=earth-hum
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| Microsoft Blasts IBM Over XML Standards |
| from the dude-i-am-so-telling-mom dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @08:49 (Microsoft) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1334234 |
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carlmenezes writes "Ars Technica has up an article [0]discussing
Microsoft's latest salvo against IBM. [1]Microsoft's open letter to IBM
adds fresh ammunition to the battle of words between those who support
Microsoft's Open XML and OpenOffice.org's OpenDocument file formats.
Microsoft has strong words for IBM, which it accuses of deliberately
trying to sabotage Microsoft's attempt to get Open XML certified as a
standard by the ECMA. In the letter, general managers Tom Robertson and
Jean Paol write: 'When ODF was under consideration, Microsoft made no
effort to slow down the process because we recognized customers' interest
in the standardization of document formats.' In contrast, the authors
charge that IBM 'led a global campaign' urging that governments and other
organizations demand that International Standards Organization (ISO)
reject Open XML outright."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1334234
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070215-8851.html
1. http://www.microsoft.com/interop/letters/choice.mspx
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| Over 27% of Firefox Patches Come from Volunteers |
| from the those-who-make-our-browswer-awesome-be-saluted dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @09:23 (Mozilla) |
| http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1358255 |
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[0]dolphinling writes "Everyone is aware that the Mozilla Corporation
makes some money, and employs some people now. Google has full-time
employees working on Firefox too, as do a number of other places. Yet
despite that, in the six months up to Firefox 2 some 27% of the patches
to Firefox [1]were submitted by key volunteers, and those patches
represent 24% of changes made to the source code. What's more, those
numbers only counted contributers with 50 patches or more, so the actual
numbers are probably quite a bit higher. It's good to see that even as
Mozilla does so well in the business world, it can still keep its ties to
the community so strong." They were running these number to find out who
they need to start offering support to. So: contribute to Firefox, and
you know you'll get a hand up. Nice work, folks.
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1358255
Links:
0. http://dolphinling.net/
1. http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2007/02/13/community-participation-stats/
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| Drive-By Pharming Attack Could Hit Home Networks |
| from the dive-behind-the-router dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @10:03 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1421238 |
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Rob wrote in with a link to a CBR Online article discussing [0]drive-by
pharming, a new exploitation technique developed by Indiana University
and Symantec Corporation. While it's not known if the technique is in use
'in the wild', the exploit could easily co-opt the web-browsing habits of
a user that had not properly configured their router. "The attack works
because most of the popular home routers ship with default passwords,
default internal IP address ranges, and web-based configuration
interfaces. The exploit is a single line of JavaScript loaded with a
default router IP address, a default password, and an HTTP query designed
to reconfigure the router to use the attacker's DNS servers." The article
goes on to discuss several related and more advanced techniques related
to this one, which security companies will have to keep in mind to guard
against future attacks.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1421238
Links:
0. http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B2D823D1-D77D-471F-96B2-0DED432A0CA2
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| Kansas Adopts New Science Standards |
| from the in-line-with-the-rest-of-us dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @10:42 (Education) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1435235 |
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porcupine8 writes "The Kansas State Board of Education has [0]changed the
state science standards once again, this time to take out language
questioning evolution. This turnaround comes [1]fast on the heels of the
ouster given this past election to the ultra-conservative Board members
who [2]originally introduced the language. 'Science' has also been
re-redefined as 'a human activity of systematically seeking natural
explanations' (the word 'natural' had been previously stricken from the
definition). If you'd like to see the new standards, a version showing
all additions and deletions is available [3]from the KS DOE's website
(PDF)."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1435235
Links:
0. http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/02/14/evolution.debate.ap/index.html
1. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/nov/22/no_rush_new_science_standards/
2. http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/11/08/evolution.debate.ap/index.html
3. http://www.ksde.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=dIfXiULIdS4%3D&tabid=144
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| Apple May Be Re-Entering the Sub-Notebook Market |
| from the time-to-upgrade dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @11:33 (Portables (Apple)) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/158212 |
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An anonymous reader writes "AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has
[0]plans to reenter the sub-notebook market this year. The project, the
article states, should be unveiled around the time of WWDC (summer).
Drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400, the sub-notebook will
offer some of the best elements of old and new. With a small footprint,
light weight, and manageable screen it will fill a niche not currently
occupied by any Apple hardware. At the same time, it will offer some new
technologies that the current crop of computers do not: 'The new MacBook
model is expected to introduce some features not yet available with
Apple's existing notebook offerings, such as onboard NAND flash. Plans
reportedly call for the notebook to be the first of the company's MacBook
offerings to utilize the solid-state memory in order to improve power
efficiency and facilitate near instantaneous boot times. This feature,
however, had not been frozen upon last check.' Apple hopes this
micro-notebook will capture interest both here in the states and in
Japan, where the appeal of small consumer electronics may offset the
current weak computer market."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/158212
Links:
0. http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2500
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| 'Daylight Savings Bugs' Loom |
| from the crush-those-critters dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @12:07 (Programming) |
| http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1646244 |
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An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has front page coverage of [0]the
looming daylight savings changeover, and the bugs that may crop up this
year. With the extension of daylight savings time by four weeks, some
engineers and programmers are warning that unprepared companies will
experience serious problems in March. While companies like Microsoft have
already patched their software, Gartner is warning that bugs in the
travel and banking sectors could have unforeseen consequences in the
coming months. ' In addition, trading applications might execute
purchases and sales at the wrong time, and cell phone-billing software
could charge peak rates at off-peak hours. On top of that, the effect is
expected to be felt around the world: Canada and Bermuda are conforming
to the U.S.-mandated change, and time zone shifts have happened in other
locales as well.'" Is this just more Y2K doomsaying, or do you think
there's a serious problem here?
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1646244
Links:
0. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6159840.html
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| Vista Sales Expectations Too High, Office Doing Well |
| from the business-of-windowing dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @12:43 (Microsoft) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1654202 |
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[0]PetManimal writes "A comparison of first-week retail sales of Vista
compared to first-week sales of XP back in 2001 [1]found that Vista sales
were 60% lower. Steve Ballmer [2]has admitted that earlier sales
forecasts were 'overly aggressive,' but at least there is some good news
for Microsoft: [3]early Office 2007 sales were very strong compared to
the early sales of Office 2003, despite almost no advertising or
marketing until the retail launch at the end of January."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1654202
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/blog/19
1. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011360&intsrc=hm_list
2. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011405&intsrc=hm_list
3. http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197006187
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| Silicon Valley - Still Important To Tech Advances |
| from the its-not-a-carbon-based-valley dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @13:16 (Software) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1659250 |
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[0]mrspin writes "This week the The New York Times sparked a lively
debate by publishing an article which argued that, when it comes to
creating innovative technology, geography still matters ?€? and that
[1]Silicon Valley is the place to be. It's certainly true that Silicon
Valley, compared with other innovation hot-spots, has the much needed
Venture Capital and the connections that enable money to flow from one
new company to another. Want proof? [2]ZDNet takes a look at LinkSViewer,
a new web-based visual networking tool for exploring capital
relationships in Silicon Valley." Is the success of Valley-area projects
the result of a more creative environment, or is the cachet of the area
(and the resulting money) the reason behind their success?
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1659250
Links:
0. http://www.insearchofthevalley.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/business/yourmoney/11ping.html?ex=1328850000&en=fe4d19c92748b279&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
2. http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=93
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| Apple TV to be a Centrally Controlled P2P Network? |
| from the lean-on-your-neighbors dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @14:04 (Apple) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1835246 |
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Rolgar writes "PBS' Bob Cringely theorizes that since the Apple TV will
be an always-on device with a 40GB hard drive, Apple may move to
[0]content distribution via a P2P network. The ISPs will incur higher
bandwidth locally, possibly lose some subscribers to cable TV, but have
fewer costs through the Tier II Internet backbone providers. Bob also
expects that Google will be involved with their fiber network and
advertising expertise, and my hope is that they'll bundle in YouTube
content as well. The article suspects that they won't get around to
announcing the full details of this plan until they hit a half million
units or more, and that this Apple and Google pairing will become the
equivalent of a cable TV provider with almost none of the infrastructure
costs. Eventually, he hopes, we'll see a real HD revolution from Apple
and Google for this service." If Apple rolled something like this out to
the service, would you bite on it? What would it take you to move to this
over Tivo or MythTV?
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1835246
Links:
0. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070216_001673.html
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| Consumer Vista Upgrades Moving at Snail's Pace |
| from the playing-the-waiting-game dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @14:44 (Windows) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1848236 |
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Chester Freeze writes "During the holiday season, many shoppers bought
PCs with the promise of quick, free Vista upgrades. [0]The reality has
been something else entirely: many Dell and HP customers are being told
that they won't receive their copies of Vista before April. 'One source
at a major OEM who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the real
issue is that OEMs are still not sure which PCs are really ready to
support Vista, and which PCs aren't... Customers who qualify for an
Express Upgrade also qualify for OEM support for Windows Vista, even if
their machines came with Windows XP. The last thing a Dell, Gateway, or
HP wants to do is start sending out upgrades to customers who might have
video cards that do not have particularly stable drivers yet (or sound
cards, or RAID controllers, etc.). This could be a support disaster.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1848236
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070216-8861.html
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| PMD Applied |
| from the reduce-the-redundancy dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Friday February 16, @15:23 (Book Reviews) |
| http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1515230 |
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[0]Simon P. Chappell writes "It's a fundamentally agreed fact within our
industry that code reviews are good. Really good. Sliced bread good. But
have you actually tried organizing one? If you can get everyone together
that needs to be there at the same time in the same meeting room, then
you still have the challenge of trying to keep a roomful of geeks from
getting trapped in minutiae and squabbling over details like formatting
conventions. Well, what if I told you that you could get your code
reviews done in less than five minutes and that there would be no
arguing? Enter PMD, an open-source Java static analyzer. Think of it as a
code review in a box. As if that weren't wonderful enough, there's even a
book, PMD Applied, written by Tom Copeland, the author of PMD." Read on
for the rest of Simon's review.
This story continues at:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1515230
Discuss this story at:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/1515230
Links:
0. http://techbook.info/
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| Server Power Consumption Doubled Over Past 5 years |
| from the lets-get-that-fusion-thing-going-huh dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @16:05 (Power) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/196235 |
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Watt's up writes "A new study shows [0]an alarming increase in server
power consumption over the past five years. In the US, servers (including
cooling equipment) consumes 1.2% of all the electricity in 2005, up from
0.6% in 2000. The trend is similar worldwide. 'If current trends
continue, server electricity usage will jump 40 percent by 2010, driven
in part by the rise of cheap blade servers, which increase overall power
use faster than larger ones. Virtualization and consolidation of servers
will work against this trend, though, and it's difficult to predict what
will happen as data centers increasingly standardize on power-efficient
chips." We also had a recent discussion of [1]power consumption in
consumer PCs that you might find interesting.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/196235
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070215-8854.html
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/1620252&tid=232
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| Congress Tackles Patent Reform |
| from the new-employer-similar-to-the-previous-one dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @16:57 (Patents) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/2112209 |
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nadamsieee writes "Wired's Luke O'Brian recently reported about
[0]Congress' latest attempt to reform the patent system. In the article
O'Brian tells of how 'witnesses at Thursday's hearing painted a bleak
picture of that system. Adam Jaffe, a Brandeis University professor and
author of a book on the subject, described the system as 'out of whack.'
Instead of 'the engine of innovation,' the patent has become 'the sand in
the gears,' he said, citing widespread fears of litigation. The [1]House
Oversight Committee website has more details. How would you fix the
patent system?"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/2112209
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72743-0.html
1. http://judiciary.house.gov/oversight.aspx?ID=271
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| Scientists Dubious of Quantum Computing Claims |
| from the little-salt-with-your-quantum dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @17:35 (Science) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/2128215 |
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Dollaz wrote with a link to the International Business Times, which
[0]questions the authenticity of D-Wave's Quantum computing. We discussed
the [1]'Sudoku playing' computer yesterday, but scientists in the field
have expressed a lot of distrust of the company's findings. The machine
was not available for inspection during or after the demo, and even if
the technology was working as intended there is some doubt that it can be
scaled. The article points out that "notwithstanding lofty claims in the
company's press release about creating the world's first commercial
quantum computer, D-Wave Chief Executive Herb Martin emphasized that the
machine is not a true quantum computer and is instead a kind of
special-purpose machine that uses some quantum mechanics to solve
problems." Good to see people in the field questioning 'breakthroughs'.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/2128215
Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070214/techbit-quantum-quandary.htm
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/1417236&tid=231
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| Bionic Eye Could Restore Vision |
| from the we-have-the-technology dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, @18:15 (Biotech) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/2158258 |
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[0]MattSparkes writes "A new bionic eye could [1]restore vision to the
profoundly blind. A prototype was tested on six patients and 'within a
few weeks all could detect light, identify objects and even perceive
motion again. For one patient, this was the first time he had seen
anything in half a century.' The user wears a pair of glasses that
contain a miniature camera and that wirelessly transmits video to a
cellphone-sized computer in the wearer's pocket. This computer processes
the image information and wirelessly transmits it to a tiny electronic
receiver implanted in the wearer's head."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/16/2158258
Links:
0. http://uea.facebook.com/profile.php?id=285401088
1. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11200?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=bionic-eye
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