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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online
* Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars
* Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing
* New Royalty Rates Could Kill Internet Radio
* Download And Burn Movies Available Soon
* Schools Banning Homework?
* Mass Market DS Homebrew Cart Released
* Hacker Defeats Hardware-based Rootkit Detection
* When a CGI Script is the Most Elegant Solution
* Objections Over Antibiotic Approved for Use in Cattle
* Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop?
* Ocean Floor Crust Wound to Be Explored
* Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity?
* The Assassination of Wi-Fi
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| RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online |
| from the hole-in-the-argument dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday March 03, @20:30 (Software) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/03/237211 |
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The online community now has an
opportunity to see the fruits of its labor. Back in December, the
[1]Slashdot ('What Questions Would You Ask an RIAA Expert?') and
[2]Groklaw ('Another Lawyer Would Like to Pick Your Brain, Please')
communities were asked for their input on possible questions to pose to
the RIAA's 'expert'. Dr. Doug Jacobson of Iowa State University, was
scheduled to be deposed in February in [3]UMG v. Lindor, for the first
time in any RIAA case. Ms. Lindor's lawyers were flooded with about 1400
responses. The deposition of Dr. Jacobson [4]went forward on February 23,
2007, and the transcript is now [5]available online (pdf) ([6]ascii). Ray
Beckerman, one of Ms. Lindor's attorneys, had this comment: 'We are
deeply grateful to the community for reviewing our request, for giving us
thoughts and ideas, and for reviewing other readers' responses. Now I ask
the tech community to review this all-important transcript, and bear
witness to the shoddy investigation and junk science upon which the RIAA
has based its litigation war against the people. The computer scientists
among you will be astounded that the RIAA has been permitted to burden
our court system with cases based upon such arrant and careless
nonsense.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/03/237211
Links:
0. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
1. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/28/0141221&tid=141
2. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061229171726760
3. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/#UMG_v_Lindor
4. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/03/deposition-of-riaas-expert-available.html
5. http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=umg_lindor_070223JacobsonDepositionTranscript
6. http://info.riaalawsuits.us/umg_lindor_070223JacobsonDepositionTranscript.txt
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| Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars |
| from the dang-mars-suvs dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday March 03, @22:31 (Mars) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/03/2310250 |
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[0]MCraigW writes "[1]Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests
that our p***t's recent climate changes might have a natural ?€? and not a
human-induced ?€? cause. Mars, it appears, has also been experiencing
milder temperatures in recent years. In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global
Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide 'ice caps'
near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical
Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current
global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/03/2310250
Links:
0. mailto:craigNO@SPAMmcraigweaver.com
1. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
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| Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing |
| from the online-is-the-best-line dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, @02:17 (The Internet) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/0635202 |
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[0]eldavojohn writes "Random House & HarperCollins have agreed to
[1]allow book browsing and searching on all their books. According to the
article, 'Book publishers are to trying to update their businesses as
more young readers consume media via the Web, a trend that already has
affected the music, movie and newspaper industries.' I am definitely
looking forward to more publishers following suit. It's not that far of a
stretch to imagine a person searching for a book, finding something else
and then buying both books."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/0635202
Links:
0. http://www.mwardmusic.com/
1. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/28/book.browsing.reut/index.html
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| New Royalty Rates Could Kill Internet Radio |
| from the one-of-my-favorite-things-about-the-internet dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, @04:45 (Music) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/0930245 |
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FlatCatInASlatVat writes "Kurt Hanson's Radio Internet Newsletter has an
analysis of the new royalty rates for Internet Radio announced by the US
Copyright Office. The decision is likely to [0]put most internet radio
stations out of business by making the cost of broadcasting much higher
than revenues. From the article: 'The Copyright Royalty Board is
rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting
the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music
fee collection body created by the RIAA)...[The] math suggests that the
royalty rate decision ?€? for the performance alone, not even including
composers' royalties! ?€? is in the in the ballpark of 100% or more of
total revenues.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/0930245
Links:
0. http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/030207/index.shtml
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| Download And Burn Movies Available Soon |
| from the oh-css-is-there-nothing-you-can't-do dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, @06:15 (Encryption) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/0935224 |
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An anonymous reader writes "According to an article from PC World, a
source close to the CSS Managed Recording forum said that technology
which allows [0]movies to be downloaded and burned to blank DVDs, using
the same content-protection system as commercial discs, received official
approval on Thursday. 'The technology will require discs that are
slightly different from the conventional DVD-Rs found in shops today. The
burned discs will be compatible with the vast majority of consumer DVD
players ... Despite Thursday's approval, services that allow consumers to
legally download and burn movies in their own homes are unlikely to
appear quickly. The DVD CCA said it will be initially restricted to
professional uses. These might include kiosks in retail stores where
consumers can purchase and burn discs in a controlled environment.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/0935224
Links:
0. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070302/tc_pcworld/129537;_ylt=AuzNiyfxhM4R9pIWn5XFSZEjtBAF
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| Schools Banning Homework? |
| from the also-thinking-is-hard dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 04, @08:58 (Education) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/139245 |
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[0]theodp writes "Alarmed by indicators of student stress like cheating
and substance abuse, some SF Bay Area schools are reducing an education
staple: homework. [1]Homework is mostly banned at Menlo Park's Oak Knoll
School, but some teachers apparently have higher '[2]expections' [sic]."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/139245
Links:
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1. http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/topstories_story_058220730.html
2. http://menlo.ca.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=175&sc_id=1172725169
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| Mass Market DS Homebrew Cart Released |
| from the well-isn't-that-special dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 04, @09:53 (Portables (Games))|
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/1325216 |
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Croakyvoice writes "Datel has finally released the [0]Games n Music
Homebrew cart for the Nintendo DS, this mass market entry level cart
features a 128mb Micro SD card and comes with a 25 game CD of the best of
DS homebrew games." Games 'n' Music contains everything you need straight
out of the box. It even comes bundled with a 25-game CD, offering some of
the best games the DS home brew scene has to offer, as well as a video
conversion program."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/1325216
Links:
0. http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/games-n-music-new-mass-market-homebrew-device-for-nintendo-ds-54840.html
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| Hacker Defeats Hardware-based Rootkit Detection |
| from the immovable-object-vs-unstoppable-force dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 04, @11:00 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/1511210 |
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[0]Manequintet writes "Joanna Rutkowska's latest bit of rootkit-related
research shatters the myth that hardware-based (PCI cards or FireWire
bus) RAM acquisition is the most reliable and secure way to do forensics.
At this year's Black Hat Federal conference, she [1]demonstrated three
different attacks against AMD64 based systems, showing how the image of
volatile memory (RAM) can be made different from the real contents of the
physical memory as seen by the CPU. The overall problem, Rutkowska
explained, is the design of the system that makes it impossible to
reliably read memory from computers. "Maybe we should rethink the design
of our computer systems so they they are somehow verifiable," she said."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/1511210
Links:
0. mailto:manequintet@gmail.com
1. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=109
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| When a CGI Script is the Most Elegant Solution |
| from the the-answers-is-always dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 04, @11:52 (Programming) |
| http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/1555258 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Writing local Web applications can be quick,
easy, and efficient for solving specific Intranet problems. Learn why a
Web browser is sometimes a better interface than a GUI application and
why experienced Web developers find themselves struggling to learn a GUI
toolkit, and descover that [0]a simple CGI script would serve their needs
perfectly well, if not better."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/1555258
Links:
0. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-localwebsrv.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01CGI-Best
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| Objections Over Antibiotic Approved for Use in Cattle |
| from the that's-a-human-drug-right-there dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, @13:40 (Politics) |
| http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/1836223 |
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An anonymous reader writes "The Washington post reports that the FDA is
expected to approve the marketing of the new antibiotic called Cefquinome
for use in cattle. This is over objections of the American medical
association, the FDA advisory board and the World Health Organization.
Cefquinome is from a class of highly potent 'last line of defense'
antibiotics for several serious human infections. It is feared that large
scale use in cattle [0]will allow bacteria to develop a resistance to
these drugs. This news follows complaints from the FDA that it is no
longer getting the funds needed to do the research required for the
desired level of food safety."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/1836223
Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/03/AR2007030301311.html
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| Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop? |
| from the put-em-up-put-em-up dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, @14:32 (Businesses) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/194245 |
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An anonymous reader writes "RDM asks [0]Can Apple Take Microsoft on the
Desktop?, a comparison of recent sales and profits and the future outlook
for Macs and PCs. It's the opinion of the article's author that Apple
doesn't have to take a majority share of the desktop market to win. The
key is to take the most valuable segments of the market. They show via a
few quick financial numbers that even though Apple is selling fewer
machines, they're making more money per machine than your Dells or your
Gateways. Not being beholden to Microsoft gives them a big advantage when
competing with traditional PC sellers. Once Apple is positioned,
Microsoft will be forced to choose whether it wants to battle Mac OS X
for control of the slick consumer desktop, or repurpose Windows as a
cheaper, mass market alternative to Linux in corporate sales. If it
doesn't make a choice, the company will face difficult battles on two
fronts.""
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/194245
Links:
0. http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/9EF16A95-278E-40ED-9E00-FBEBD75207FB.html
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| Ocean Floor Crust Wound to Be Explored |
| from the journey-to-the-top-of-the-earth dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, @15:40 (Education) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/1916240 |
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[0]eldavojohn writes "A group of scientists are [1]disembarking right now
to study an open gash in the ocean floor where earth's mantle lays
exposed without any crust covering it. The scientists describe this as
the result of the mantle moving too quickly for the crust to keep up.
Either that, or the mantle was never covered by the crust and just has
always been like this. From the article, 'Regardless of how they formed,
the exposed mantle provides scientists with a rare opportunity to study
the Earth's rocky innards. Many attempts to drill deep into the p***t
barely get past the crust.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/1916240
Links:
0. http://www.spoontheband.com/site.html
1. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17407745/
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| Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? |
| from the my-genes-rebel dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, @16:31 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/1925246 |
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dohcrx writes "According to a Sunday New York Times article, 6 in 10
Americans believe in the devil and hell, 7 in 10 believe in angels,
heaven and the existence of miracles and life after death, while 92%
believe in a personal God. The article explores the possibility that this
belief structure may be [0]ingrained into our genetic makeup. 'When a
trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic
explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or
reproductive success ... Which is the better biological explanation for a
belief in God ?€? evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident? Is
there something about the cognitive functioning of humans that makes us
receptive to belief in a supernatural deity?'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/1925246
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=a43cfb7b24423cc6&ex=1330664400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| The Assassination of Wi-Fi |
| from the sniper-has-range-on-the-target dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, @18:38 (Wireless Networking) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/2313213 |
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[0]justelite writes "John C. Dvorak from PC Magazine has up an article
looking at [1]the new strategy of American cell-phone-service companies.
>From article: 'There is mounting evidence that the cellular service
companies are going to do whatever they can to kill Wi-Fi. After all, it
is a huge long-term threat to them. We've seen that the route to success
in America today is via public gullibility and general ignorance. And
these cell-phone-service companies are no dummies.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/03/04/2313213
Links:
0. http://blog.pcnews.ro/
1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2098483,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000585
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