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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Linux-Based Phone System Phones Home
* Yahoo Becomes Apache Platinum Sponsor
* A Legal Analysis of the Sony BMG Rootkit Debacle
* Startrek.com Shutting Down
* BBC iPlayer Welcomes Linux (and Macs)
* Electricity Over Glass
* Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate Today
* Tech Gifts for the Holidays
* How Feds are Dropping the Ball on IPv6
* Xbox 360's Jamming Wireless Signals?
* Wii Shortages Costing Nintendo 'A Billion' In Sales
* Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust
* Political Expert Garrett M. Graff Answers Your Questions
* Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED]
* A Law to Spy Back on Government Surveillance Cameras?
* Bees Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks
* New Vista Random Numbers to Include NSA Backdoor?
* REEM-B, New Humanoid Robot Announced
* Open Source Telephony Gives Customers Control
* Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet
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| Linux-Based Phone System Phones Home |
| from the hard-to-keep-secrets-when-they-can-read-the-code dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday December 16, @20:20 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/16/222243 |
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An anonymous reader writes to let us know that users of Trixbox, a PBX
based on Asterisk, recently discovered that the software has been
[0]phoning home with statistics about their installations. It's easy
enough to disable, and not particularly steathy (beyond encrypting the
data sent back), but customers in the forum are annoyed at not having
been informed of the reporting. Trixbox is [1]owned by Fonality, which
makes customized PBXs (again based on Asterisk) for paying customers.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/16/222243
Links:
0. http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/trixbox-phones-home
1. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/04/2128219&tid=215
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| Yahoo Becomes Apache Platinum Sponsor |
| from the confluence-of-interests dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday December 16, @22:08 (Yahoo!) |
| http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/0255251 |
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jschauma writes "Yahoo published a press release announcing that it has
[0]become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. In their
[1]company blog, Yahoo points out their particular interest in the Apache
projects Lucene and Hadoop, and that they have hired [2]Doug Cutting,
creator of both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on
Wikipedia; Yahoo also [3]provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)"
Discuss this story at:
http://apache.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/0255251
Links:
0. http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=281676
1. http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/12/13/putting-open-source-where-our-mouth-is/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Cutting
3. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_hosting
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| A Legal Analysis of the Sony BMG Rootkit Debacle |
| from the bad-ideas-just-keep-on-coming dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday December 17, @01:21 (Security) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/0314218 |
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[0]YIAAL writes "Two lawyers from the Berkeley Center for Law and
Technology look at the [1]Sony BMG Rootkit debacle: 'The Article first
addresses the market-based rationales that likely influenced Sony BMG's
deployment of these DRM systems and reveals that even the most charitable
interpretation of Sony BMG's internal strategizing demonstrates a failure
to adequately value security and privacy. After taking stock of the
then-existing technological environment that both encouraged and enabled
the distribution of these protection measures, the Article examines law,
the third vector of influence on Sony BMG's decision to release flawed
protection measures into the wild, and argues that existing doctrine in
the fields of contract, intellectual property, and consumer protection
law fails to adequately counter the technological and market forces that
allowed a self-interested actor to inflict these harms on the public.'
Yes, under 'even the most charitable interpretation' it was a lousy idea.
The article also suggests some changes to the DMCA to protect consumers
from this sort of intrusive, and security-undermining, technique in the
future."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/0314218
Links:
0. http://instapundit.com/
1. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1072229
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| Startrek.com Shutting Down |
| from the could-have-offered-it-to-fandom dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday December 17, @04:36 (Sci-Fi) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/16/229238 |
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Curlsman writes to let us know that the fan site startrek.com, operated
for 13 years by CBS, is [0]being shut down and its staff laid off. Is
this site worth a write-in campaign? From the (perhaps final) post:
"Goodbye from the STARTREK.COM Team. Sadly, we must report that CBS
Interactive organization is being restructured, and the production team
that brings you the STARTREK.COM site has been eliminated. Effective
immediately. We don't know the ultimate fate of this site, which has
served millions of Star Trek fans for the last thirteen years. If you
have comments, please send them to editor @ startrek.com ?€? we hope
someone at CBS will read them."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/16/229238
Links:
0. http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/2316633.html
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| BBC iPlayer Welcomes Linux (and Macs) |
| from the audi-vox-populi dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday December 17, @07:51 (Television) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/0323202 |
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[0]h4rm0ny writes "After previously limiting their iPlayer to only the
Windows platform (as we discussed earlier [1]here and [2]here), the BBC's
content is [3]now available to UK-based users of Linux and Mac OS X. From
their site: 'From today we are pleased to announce that streaming is now
available on BBC iPlayer. This means that Windows, Mac and Linux users
can stream programs on iPlayer as long as their computer has the latest
version of Flash. Another change is that you do not have to register or
sign in any more to download programs ...' It seems that the BBC have
listened to people who petitioned them for broader support and an open
format. Well, Flash isn't exactly open, but its a lot more ubiquitous
than Windows Media and Real Player formats."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/0323202
Links:
0. http://.h4rm0ny..at..tarddell.net./
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/23/1610233&tid=129
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/1958217&tid=129
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbiplayer/
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| Electricity Over Glass |
| from the still-no-sandwiches-over-plastic dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 17, @08:41 (Power) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1313240 |
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[0]guddan writes "Running a live wire into a passenger jet's fuel tank
seems like a bad idea on the face of it. Still, sensors that monitor the
fuel tank have to run on electricity, so aircraft makers previously had
little choice. But what if [1]power could be delivered over optical fiber
instead of copper wire, without fear of short circuits and sparks? In
late May, the big laser and optics company JDS Uniphase Corp., in San
Jose, Calif., bought a small Silicon Valley firm with the technology to
do just that."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1313240
Links:
0. mailto:suryas862006@yahoo.com
1. http://spectrum.ieee.org/oct05/1863
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| Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate Today |
| from the come-and-see-the-hypocricy-in-the-system dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 17, @09:20 (United States) |
| http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1342251 |
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[0]CPeanutG writes "A make-or-break moment for telecom immunity has
arrived ?€? after months of back-room committee-meetings, the [1]FISA bill
will finally reach the Senate floor on Monday! Unfortunately, a
previously-reported version of the bill that grants telecom immunity will
be presented to the Senate on Monday morning. The clock is ticking. Write
your Senators now."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1342251
Links:
0. http://www.peany.net/
1. http://www.eff.org/showdown
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| Tech Gifts for the Holidays |
| from the tis-the-season-to-blah-blah-blah dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 17, @10:19 (Christmas Cheer|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1356227 |
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[0]MrCopilot pointed out that every year there are a slew of gadgets
geeks desire for Christmas, and approximately 7 million web pages
dedicated to compiling lists of them. So why shouldn't we join in the
fun. Here are stories from [1]Dallas News, [2]CBS News, [3]Seattle Times,
[4]E Media Wire, [5]Detroit News and [6]MSNBC. So lets take a crack at
your own list. There's still another day or two where things could
conceivably be shipped on time for the holidays. I highly recommend Rock
Band, although my aching hands might disagree.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1356227
Links:
0. http://www.mrcopilot.com/
1. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-p2techreview_14bus.ART.State.Edition1.2a4af56.html
2. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/10/earlyshow/main3597365.shtml
3. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/2004074483_ptreviews15.html
4. http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/12/emw575469.htm
5. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/BIZ04/712120415
6. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22042424/
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| How Feds are Dropping the Ball on IPv6 |
| from the go-long-go-long dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 17, @11:20 (The Internet) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1451230 |
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BobB-NW writes "U.S. federal agencies have [0]six months to meet a
deadline to support IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main
communications protocol known as IPv4. But most agencies are not grabbing
hold of the new technology and running with it, industry observers say.
Instead, most federal CIOs are doing the bare minimum required by law to
meet the IPv6 mandate, and they aren't planning to use the new network
protocol for the foreseeable future."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1451230
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/121707-how-feds-are-dropping-the-ball.html
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| Xbox 360's Jamming Wireless Signals? |
| from the raspberry-i-hate-raspberry dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 17, @12:01 (Wireless Networ|
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1514217 |
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[0]WirePosted writes "A report has emerged suggesting the Xbox 360's
inbuilt wireless system for communication with wireless controllers and
headsets is [1]transmitting over a wide area of the 2.4Ghz spectrum,
causing interference to WLAN's and other 2.4Ghz devices."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1514217
Links:
0. mailto:hound-dog@itwire.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/home/httpd/htdocs/news/2007/121307-microsoft-xbox-jams-wireless-lans.html&pagename=/news/2007/121307-microsoft-xbox-jams-wireless-lans.html&pageurl=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/121307-microsoft-xbox-jams-wireless-lans.html&site=wirelessmobile
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| Wii Shortages Costing Nintendo 'A Billion' In Sales |
| from the less-than-a-hojillion-but-still-frustrating dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Monday December 17, @12:11 (Nintendo) |
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/178206 |
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A New York Times article from this past Friday highlights the 'problem'
that Nintendo is facing: more people want to give them money than they
can handle. Analysts quoted in the story discussing Nintendo's unique Wii
shortage problem indicate that the company could be selling twice the 1.8
million consoles a month it ships. All told, these same individuals
believe the company could be [0]leaving as much as $1 billion on the
table this holiday season. "'We don't feel like we've made any mistakes,'
said George Harrison, senior vice president for marketing at Nintendo of
America. He said there was a shortage because the company must plan its
production schedule five months ahead, and projecting future demand is
difficult. He added that there had been a worldwide shortage of disk
drives that had hurt Nintendo as well as makers of many other devices.
'It's a good problem to have,' Mr. Harrison said of the demand, but he
acknowledged that there could be a downside. 'We do worry about not
satisfying consumers and that they will drift to a competitor's system.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/178206
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/technology/14wii.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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| Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust |
| from the or-maybe-they've-already-wrapped-around-to-zero dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 17, @12:42 (Programming) |
| http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1635200 |
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mlimber writes "The New York Times is running a story about multicore
computing and the efforts of Microsoft et al. to [0]try to switch to the
new paradigm: "The challenges [of parallel programming] have not dented
the enthusiasm for the potential of the new parallel chips at Microsoft,
where executives are betting that the arrival of manycore chips ?€?
processors with more than eight cores, possible as soon as 2010 ?€? will
transform the world of personal computing.... Engineers and computer
scientists acknowledge that despite advances in recent decades, the
computer industry is still lagging in its ability to write parallel
programs." It mirrors what C++ guru and now Microsoft architect Herb
Sutter has been saying in articles such as his "[1]The Free Lunch Is
Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software." Sutter is part
of the C++ standards committee that is [2]working [3]hard to make
multithreading standard in C++."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1635200
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/technology/17chip.html
1. http://gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
2. http://www.artima.com/cppsource/threads_meeting.html
3. http://herbsutter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2D4327CC297151BB!330.entry
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| Political Expert Garrett M. Graff Answers Your Questions |
| from the how-to-win-friends-on-the-internet-and-get-elected-to-hi|
| posted by Roblimo on Monday December 17, @13:24 (Politics) |
| http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1648224 |
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[0]Garrett M. Graff agreed to be a Slashdot interview victim... err...
guest not just because he's promoting his book, [1]The First Campaign,
but because he's a long-time Slashdot reader. In fact, an inside source
tells us he called his girlfriend to boast about this soon after we set
up the interview -- and that she was no more impressed than most wives or
girlfriends would be. But he gave us some fine answers to [2]your
questions anyway, and we hope he can grab a little time to jump into the
discussion about his answers (hint, hint) with a follow-up or two.
This story continues at:
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1648224
Discuss this story at:
http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1648224
Links:
0. http://www.thefirstcampaign.com/author.html
1. http://www.thefirstcampaign.com/book.html
2. http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/10/1537233&tid=219
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| Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] |
| from the teacher-actually-an-opera-fanatic dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, @14:07 (It's funny|
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1721232 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Several sites are reporting that a student
has been given [0]detention for using Firefox to do his classwork. No,
really. The student was in class, working on an assignment that
necessitated using a browser. The teacher instructed him to stop using
Firefox and to do his classwork, to which the student responded that he
was doing his classwork using a 'better' browser (it is unclear whether
the computer was the student's own computer or not). The clueless teacher
(who called the rogue program 'Firefox.exe') ordered him to detention."
Update: 12/17 20:09 by SM One of the school officials was nice enough to
contact us and let us know [1]this is a hoax. If you are planning on
calling the school please refrain from doing so, I'm sure they have had
enough excitement for one day.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1721232
Links:
0. http://dissfunktional.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/high-school-student-in-detention-for-using-firefox/
1. http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2130
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| A Law to Spy Back on Government Surveillance Cameras? |
| from the who's-gonna-monitor-the-monitors-of-the-monitors. dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, @14:51 (Privacy) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1730253 |
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mattnyc99 writes "As the Senate [0]begins debate today on wider new
surveillance legislation, Instapundit blogger and University of Tennessee
law professor Glenn Reynolds has an interesting op-ed as part of Popular
Mechanics' cover story on the [1]looming power of spy cameras in America.
He cites numerous court cases to argue that [2]our privacy concerns may
be backwards, and that there should be a new law for citizen rights ?€?
that if Big Brother can keep an eye on us in public spaces, we ought to
be able to look back. From [3]the accompanying podcast: 'Realistically I
don't think we're going to get much in the way of limits on government
and business surveillance. So I think we should be focusing more on
making it safe, on making it a double-edged sword.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1730253
Links:
0. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/12/warrantless-spy.html
1. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4236865.html
2. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4237005.html
3. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4236136.html
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| Bees Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks |
| from the bee-all-that-you-can-bee dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, @15:33 (The Intern|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1926232 |
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[0]prostoalex writes "Georgia Tech and University of Oxford scientists
claim [1]bees can help up develop a better Internet traffic algorithms.
By observing bees, the researchers noticed that bees pass back
information on route quality. 'On a basic level, the honeybee's dilemma
is a tale of two flower patches. If one patch is yielding better nectar
than the other, how can the hive use its workforce most efficiently to
retrieve the best supply at the moment? The solution, which earned
Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch a Nobel Prize, is a communication
system called the waggle dance.' Any practical applications of that?
Well, apparently ad servers, serving banners across a variety of servers,
can report back on the time it took to generate the page."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1926232
Links:
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog
1. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22266034
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| New Vista Random Numbers to Include NSA Backdoor? |
| from the advice-is-to-never-enable-it.-Ever. dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, @16:15 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/1754257 |
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Schneier is [0]reporting that Microsoft has added the new [1]Dual_EC-DRBG
random-number generator to [2]Vista SP1. This random-number generator is
the same one discussed earlier that may have a [3]secret NSA backdoor
built into it.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/1754257
Links:
0. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/dual_ec_drbg_ad.html
1. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa375534.aspx
2. http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/417467e7-7845-46d4-85f1-dd471fbc0de91033.mspx?mfr=true
3. http://www.schneier.com/essay-198.html
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| REEM-B, New Humanoid Robot Announced |
| from the reem-b-hoping-he-doesn't-get-reem-d dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, @16:57 (Robotics) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/2051231 |
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[0]Davide writes "There is a quite an interesting human size robot that
comes from UAE, [1]REEM-A. It has some interesting skills as dynamic
walking (of course), object recognition, voice recognition, self
localization and mapping, long battery life and face recognition.
Recently, the development team announced that the second prototype,
[2]REEM-B, will be presented in February 2008. The second prototype has
many improvements: a fingered hand with 12 motors, the ability to go up
and down stairs, additional force sensors on the arms, ultrasonic range
finders to avoid obstacles and a completely new look." Or, if you prefer
something a bit cheaper, you could go with the [3]$30 DIY Android.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/2051231
Links:
0. mailto:davide.faconti@gmail.com
1. http://www.pal-robotics.com/
2. http://www.pal-robotics.com/reemb/
3. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/981306/diy_30_android/
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| Open Source Telephony Gives Customers Control |
| from the fast-hacks-and-slow-biz dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, @17:39 (Software) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/2142249 |
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Linux.com's Tina Gasperson recently had the chance to sit down and talk
with Thomas Howe, a small shop owner working to help implement [0]open
source telephony solutions. "Howe says open code is the key to highly
customizable phone systems that truly meet the needs of individual
companies. 'The telecom world has typically been a very closed
environment. In terms of technology and deployment, they control every
aspect of the experience. The idea of being open and allowing customers
to have control is a radical thought.' But that is just what Howe is
doing. Howe bases his custom communications solutions on Asterisk, the
popular full-featured open source telephony engine that many companies
are adopting as they move away from legacy phone systems in an effort to
save money and gain more control over their infrastructure."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/2142249
Links:
0. http://www.linux.com/feature/122472
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| Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet |
| from the no-star-system-will-dare-oppose-the-emperor-now dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, @18:22 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/2149239 |
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[0]butterwise writes to mention that astronomers have, for the first
time, witnessed a super-massive black hole hitting a nearby galaxy with a
"death-star-like" [1]beam of energy. The story also has a video with
simulations, pictures, and explanations. "The 'death star galaxy,' as
NASA astronomers called it, could obliterate the atmospheres of p***ts
but also trigger the birth of stars in the wake of its destructive beam.
Fortunately, the cosmic violence is a safe distance from our own neck of
the cosmos."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/17/2149239
Links:
0. http://butterwiseatgmail/
1. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071217-death-star-galaxy.html
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