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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy
* Creditor Objects To SCO's Plans
* Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software
* New Wave of Fusion and Robot Innovation at MIT
* DARPA Funds Development on Modular Satellite Network
* University of San Francisco Law Clinic Joins Fight Against RIAA
* Time To Abolish Software Patents?
* US Virtual Border Fence Doesn't Work
* Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries
* Microsoft Cuts Vista Price In 70 Countries
* More Spacecraft Velocity Anomalies
* Sony Says Eee PC Signals "Race To the Bottom"
* Feds Seize $78M of Bogus Chinese Cisco Gear
* How Open Source Has Influenced Windows Server 2008
* Ask the Air Force Cyber Command General About War in Cyberspace
* Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI
* A Good Style Guide Under the Creative Commons?
* Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case
* Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & More
* New Radar Maps of Moon
* Family Guy Spins off Cleveland
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| Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy |
| from the the-riaa's-problems-are-everyone's-problems dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 28, @19:01 (The Internet|
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/2323257 |
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An anonymous reader brings us an Ars Technica report about a proposed
bill in Tennessee which would require state-funded universities to
enforce anti-piracy standards. The universities would be forced to "[0]track
down and stop infringing activity" or risk losing their funding. The U.S.
Congress [1]requested last year that certain universities do this
voluntarily. Quoting: "Efforts taken by universities thus far to deter
and prevent piracy have had mixed results. The University of Utah, for
instance, claims that it has reduced MPAA and RIAA complaints by 90
percent and saved $1.2 million in bandwidth costs by instituting
anti-piracy filtering mechanisms. However, the school revealed that their
filtering system hasn't been able to stop encrypted P2P traffic and noted
that students will find ways to circumvent any system. The end result,
some say, will be a costly arms race as students perpetually work to
circumvent anti-piracy systems put in place by universities."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/28/2323257
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080225-tennessee-legislation-would-turn-schools-into-copyright-cops.html
1. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/04/1639234&tid=98
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| Creditor Objects To SCO's Plans |
| from the dance-in-the-old-dame-yet dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday February 28, @20:12 (Caldera) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/1737230 |
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[0]I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "It seems that SCO is
never without a trick up its sleeve. In the new '$100 million'
reorganization plan, $5 million of which is cash and $95 million credit,
one of the creditors is protesting because [1]SCO is hiding the
Definitive Documents until there's no time to object. In their own words,
'The debtors are proposing to file the Disclosure Statement 33 days
before the hearing, in compliance with the requirement that it be filed
at least 25 days before the hearing (F. R. Bankr. P. 3017). However, it
is clear that this Disclosure Statement will be inadequate for evaluating
the Plan, because it will not include any of the Definitive Documents.
The Debtors are proposing to file the Definitive Documents separately,
and to do so a mere five business days before the hearing, which is zero
days before objections are due.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/28/1737230
Links:
0. http://www.eff.org/support
1. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080227135244345
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| Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software |
| from the hand-in-the-cookie-jar dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 28, @21:17 (OS X) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/2339246 |
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spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team [0]stumbled
upon some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the
performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs
that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other browsers.
Of course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and
reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of performance.
You really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of
retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices.
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/28/2339246
Links:
0. http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/02/28/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button/
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| New Wave of Fusion and Robot Innovation at MIT |
| from the not-cold-fusion-the-real-kind dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 28, @23:19 (Robotics) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/0020229 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Popular Mechanics has been getting some great
access inside the labs at MIT all week, and they've gotten some
interesting looks at developing technologies. [0]Robot-assisted rehab
with gaming-style controllers comes out of the biomechanics lab, [1]blind
and crash-proof UAV testing with F/X cameras is being done at the
aerospace controls lab, and work on [2]electric scooters with super-cheap
assembly is proceeding at the Media Lab. Perhaps most exciting is a fight
for funding while the [3]holy grail of clean fusion power in reach at the
plasma center. The article on fusion predicts, "We'd see economically
feasible fusion power by 2035, at the earliest, and increasingly
efficient commercial reactors somewhere in the middle of the century."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/0020229
Links:
0. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4252136.html
1. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4252468.html
2. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4252300.html
3. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4251982.html
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| DARPA Funds Development on Modular Satellite Network |
| from the we-need-more-of-a-challenge-when-shooting-them-down dept|
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 29, @02:21 (The Military) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/044245 |
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[0]coondoggie points out a Networkworld story about [1]plans for modular
satellite technology which is intended to replace modern, "monolithic"
devices. The project hopes to solve issues of scalability and reliability
by separating the typical satellite systems and allowing the different
modules to change function when necessary. Quoting: "According to DARPA
such a virtual satellite effectively constitutes a "bus in the sky" -
wherein customers need only provide and deploy a payload module suited to
their immediate mission need, with the supporting features supplied by a
global network of infrastructure modules already resident on-orbit and at
critical ground locations. In addition, there can be sharing of resources
between various "spacecraft" that are within sufficient range for
communication. DARPA said ... within the F6 network all subsystems and
payloads can be treated like a uniquely addressable computing peripheral
or network device. Such an approach can provide a long sought after
"plug-n-play" capability, according to the agency."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/044245
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25502
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| University of San Francisco Law Clinic Joins Fight Against RIAA |
| from the bay-area-reinforcements dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 29, @05:22 (The Courts) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/0120224 |
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's litigation campaign has met
resistance from the academic community before, but now it's been taken to
a whole new level: the [1]defense of RIAA victims who are not part of the
college community. First the [2]University of Oregon lashed out on behalf
of its students, then it was the [3]University of Maine's Cumberland
Legal Aid Clinic on behalf of its undergrads. Now, the University of San
Francisco School of Law has taken the fight a giant step further. Its
Intellectual Property Law Clinic's attorneys-in-training, working under
the supervision of law professors, are [4]going to bat against the RIAA
by helping outside lawyers to defend their clients, pro bono. They
reached out 3000 miles to get involved in Elektra v. Torres and Maverick
v. Chowdhury, two cases going on in Brooklyn, NY, against non-college
defendants. Two of the law students in the USF's legal program assisted
in the [5]research and preparation of briefs in these cases, opposing the
RIAA's motion to dismiss the defendants' counterclaims. Thousands of
honor students throughout United States law schools, most of them digital
natives who actually understand the legal fallacies and technological
missteps the RIAA is taking, and who can't wait to expose them, make a
pretty good resource for the poor and middle class people trying to
defend these cases."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/0120224
Links:
0. http://www.vanfeliu.com/attorneyProfile-Beckerman.
1. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/02/university-of-san-francisco-school-of.html
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/02/1317240&tid=123
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/1928246&tid=123
4. http://www.usfca.edu/law/news/stories/riaa.html
5. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/02/defendants-file-opposition-to-riaa.html
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| Time To Abolish Software Patents? |
| from the reply-hazy-try-again dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Friday February 29, @08:15 (Patents) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/0344258 |
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gnujoshua writes "Has the time come to abolish software patents? Fortune
columnist Roger Parloff reports on [0]a new campaign called End Software
Patents, which he views as 'attempting to ride a wave of corporate and
judicial disenchantment with aspects of the current patent system.' Ryan
Paul of Ars Technica writes that the purpose of the campaign is to '[1]educate
the public and encourage grass-roots patent reform activism in order to
promote effective legislative solutions to the software patent problem.'
The [2]campaign site is informative and targets many types of readers,
and it includes a scholarship contest with a top prize of $10,000.00.
We've recently discussed the potential [3]legal re-examination of
software patents."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/0344258
Links:
0. http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/02/28/ending-software-patents-has-the-time-come/
1. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080228-patent-reform-coalition-aims-to-abolish-software-patents.html
2. http://endsoftpatents.org/
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/18/1356257&tid=155
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| US Virtual Border Fence Doesn't Work |
| from the time-to-try-pair-programming dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday February 29, @08:54 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1321243 |
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lelitsch writes "The Washington Post reports that the initial pilot of
the Virtual Border Fence planned by the DHS and subcontracted to Boeing
has been [0]a miserable failure. A lot of the points in the report have
the hallmark of death-march software development projects. Some choice
quotes include 'did not work as planned or meet the needs of the U.S.
Border Patrol,' 'DHS officials do not yet know the type of terrain where
the fencing is to be constructed,' and 'the design will not be used as
the basis for future... development.' The article notes that Boeing was
forced to deliver 'something' early as President Bush pushed for
immigration reform in Congress in 2006. That reform effort died last year
in the Senate."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1321243
Links:
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703747.html
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| Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries |
| from the power-vampire dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday February 29, @09:35 (Portables) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1359207 |
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damienhunter notes a Wired story on the power-hungry ways of the first
generation of Blu-ray players coming soon to a laptop near you. "With the
Sony-backed HD format emerging victorious from a two-year showdown with
Toshiba's HD DVD, many laptop manufacturers are now scrambling to add
Blu-ray drives in their desktop and notebook lineups. Next month, Dell
will even introduce a sub-$1,000 Blu-ray notebook... But the promise of
viewing an increasing variety of HD movies on your laptop may be
overshadowed by ongoing concerns over [0]the technology's vampiric effect
on battery life. Indeed, if the first generation of Blu-ray equipped
laptops are any indication, you might not get more than halfway through
that movie before running out of juice completely, analysts say."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1359207
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/gadgets/pcs/news/2008/02/bluray_power
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| Microsoft Cuts Vista Price In 70 Countries |
| from the defibrillation-paddles dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday February 29, @10:16 (Windows) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1425250 |
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[0]dforristall alerts us to an odd move by Microsoft: [1]cutting the
price of retail boxes of Vista in many markets. Analysts didn't see this
one coming, and they are scratching their heads a bit over it; one called
it "very unheard of." The price cuts vary by country ?€? they're largest in
the developing world where piracy levels are high ?€? and they don't apply
to OEM copies of Vista, which account for 90% of sales. "Gartner analyst
Michael Silver said the move... is puzzling... [He] noted that the market
for such upgrades is fairly limited. Those who bought XP in the fourth
quarter of 2006 got a coupon for a free Vista upgrade, while most of
those who have bought systems since then have gotten Vista. Machines
purchased prior to 2006 probably aren't all that attractive as candidates
for a Vista upgrade... 'The whole notion of upgrading PCs has sort of
fallen by the wayside.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1425250
Links:
0. mailto:dforristall@gmail.com
1. http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9882510-56.html
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| More Spacecraft Velocity Anomalies |
| from the dark-matter-cleared-of-suspicion dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday February 29, @10:57 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1443248 |
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ZonkerWilliam recommends a bulletin from the American Institute of
Physics, which discusses a study noting that recent spacecraft, such as
NEAR, appear to display [0]velocity anomalies much like those seen in
[1]Pioneer 10 (which were observed beginning ten years ago). The
anomalies amount to up to 13 mm/sec., with a measurement accuracy of 0.1
mm/sec. Quoting: "A new look at the trajectories for various spacecraft
as they fly past the Earth finds in each case a tiny amount of surplus
velocity. For craft that pursue a path mostly symmetrical with respect to
the equator, the effect is minimal. For craft that pursue a more
unsymmetrical path, the effect is larger."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1443248
Links:
0. http://www.aip.org/pnu/2008/split/857-2.html
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/09/28/2037206&tid=14
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| Sony Says Eee PC Signals "Race To the Bottom" |
| from the what-you-mean-we dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday February 29, @11:38 (Portables) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1626209 |
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[0]Alex Dekker writes "Sony's Mike Abary says in an interview, 'If
[Asus's Eee PC] starts to do well, [1]we are all in trouble.' Presumably
by 'we' he means all the hardware manufacturers who sell over-priced,
full-fat laptops. And he's not going to be too pleased when he sees the
Linux-powered, sub-$200 [2]Elonex [3]One. Looks like what's bad for Sony
may be good for the consumer." The CNet article mentions that a
[4]version of the Eee running XP is available in Japan now and will be
coming to the US within weeks.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1626209
Links:
0. http://openip.co.uk/
1. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9879798-7.html
2. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/28/elonex_launches_one/
3. http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/20/elonex-100-laptop-specs-leaked
4. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9857407-7.html
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| Feds Seize $78M of Bogus Chinese Cisco Gear |
| from the perfect-for-man-in-the-middle dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday February 29, @12:17 (Networking) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1642221 |
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[0]Ian Lamont writes "The IDG News Service is reporting that US and
Canadian authorities have made more than 400 seizures of [1]counterfeit
Cisco hardware from China in an ongoing investigation that started in
2005. The most recent seizure was last Friday in Toronto, where the RCMP
charged two people and a company with distributing large quantities of
counterfeit network components to companies in the US through the
Internet. The RCMP seized approximately 1,600 pieces of counterfeit
network hardware with an estimated value of $2 million, says the report.
[2]According to another source, bogus Cisco gear from China typically
includes network modules, WAN interface cards, gigabit interface
converters, and less expensive routers."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1642221
Links:
0. http://www.thestandard.com/people/i-lamont550036
1. http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/29/us-canadian-agencies-seize-counterfeit-cisco-gear
2. http://www.coastnetwork.com/counterfeitcisco.html
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| How Open Source Has Influenced Windows Server 2008 |
| from the everyone-learning-from-everyone-else dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 29, @13:02 (Microsoft)|
| http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1631244 |
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[0]willdavid writes to tell us that Sam Ramji over at Port25 has a nice
succinct list of the major [1]open source principles that have been used
while developing Windows Server 2008. "Overall, we've learned and
continue to learn from open source development principles. These are
making their way into the mindset, development practices, and ultimately
into the products we bring to market. I've focused here on 'what
Microsoft has learned from Open Source' - and ironically, I've agreed to
do a panel at OSBC on 3/25 with Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation on '[2]what
Open Source can learn from Microsoft'. As all of the different
organizations in IT continue to evolve, we'll learn from each others'
best practices and make increasingly better software. As in science, this
incremental improvement will move all of us forward."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1631244
Links:
0. mailto:willdavid@comcast.net
1. http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/02/27/opening-windows-server-2008.aspx
2. http://www.infoworld.com/event/osbc/08/osbc_sessions.html
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| Ask the Air Force Cyber Command General About War in Cyberspace |
| from the play-the-ultimate-MMORPG dept. |
| posted by Roblimo on Friday February 29, @13:44 (The Military) |
| http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1733222 |
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We ran an [0]article about the new Air Force [1]Cyber Command and its
recruiting efforts on February 13, 2008. Now [2]Major General William
Lord, who is in charge of this effort, has agreed to answer Slashdot
users' questions. If you're thinking about joining up -- or just curious
-- this is a golden opportunity to learn how our military is changing its
command structure and recruiting efforts to deal with "[3]cyberspace as a
warfighting domain." Usual [4]Slashdot interview rules apply.
Discuss this story at:
http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1733222
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/12/2217201&tid=265
1. http://www.afcyber.af.mil/
2. http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=6233
3. http://www.afcyber.af.mil/units/
4. http://slashdot.org/faq/interviews.shtml
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| Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI |
| from the asking-for-trouble-and-giving-the-rest-of-us-a-bad-name |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 29, @14:27 (Communicat|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1656235 |
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Wired has an interesting editorial on the latest resurgence of the old
days of phone phreaking and the latest phreak that is [0]rising into the
FBI crosshairs. The most recent hoax, "swatting", involves malicious
pranksters calling police with reports of fake murders, hostage crises,
or the like and spoofing the call to appear as though it was from another
location. "Now the FBI thinks it has identified the culprit in the
Colorado swatting as a 17-year-old East Boston phone phreak known as
"Li'l Hacker." Because he's underage, Wired.com is not reporting Li'l
Hacker's last name. His first name is Matthew, and he poses a unique
challenge to the federal justice system, because he is blind from birth.
If he's guilty, the attack is at once the least sophisticated and most
malicious of a string of capers linked to Matt, who stumbled into the
lingering remains of the decades-old subculture of phone phreaking when
he was 14, and quickly rose to become one of the most skilled active
phreakers alive."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1656235
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/02/blind_hacker
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| A Good Style Guide Under the Creative Commons? |
| from the build-something-that-doesn't-suck dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 29, @15:12 (Software) |
| http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1745230 |
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[0]eldavojohn writes "I've been charged with making a specific user
interface style guide for a suite of software by my employer. I'm not
quite sure where to start. So I turned to my favorite search engine only
to be brutally disappointed with what is out there to help me. I'm a
software developer but have not had any formal training in UI design or
look and feel. I'm looking for something more than just "keep it simple,
stupid." I'm looking more for something that is specific but not
technologically dependent. This doesn't have to be a global standard,
merely a document that illustrates how one would effectively describe
look and feel. Does anyone know of such a guide either created by an
organization, government or company for their own uses ?€? possibly one
even released under the creative common license?" In addition to just
documentation, what other UI advice can Slashdot readers offer in order
to ensure quality development?
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1745230
Links:
0. http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/skinnylove.mp3
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| Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case |
| from the moves-of-desperation dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 29, @15:54 (The Courts|
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1837207 |
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[0]netbuzz writes "Lawyers for the Swiss bank that got the plug pulled on
Wikileaks.org have dragged a Stanford grad student/human rights activist
into the case because he [1]moderated a discussion group about Wikileaks
on Facebook. He has no relation to Wikileaks or the case, other than that
he helped authenticate documents ?€? completely unrelated to the bank
matter ?€? that were posted on Wikileaks. The guy and his lawyer have done
a nice job of making lemonade out of this lemon, though."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1837207
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=buzzblog
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25540
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| Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & More |
| from the embrace-extend-extiguish dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 29, @16:36 (Microsoft)|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/1858211 |
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yorugua writes "Furniture trembled as [0]Steve Ballmer was to be
interviewed by InformationWeek. He then went on to talk about Linux: 'How
does Microsoft beat Linux? The same way "you beat any other competitor:
You offer good value, which in this case means good total cost of
ownership," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says.',
Embrace-Extend-Extinguish: 'We say when we embrace standards, we'll be
transparent about how we're embracing standards. [...] If we have
deviations, we'll be transparent about the deviations.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/29/1858211
Links:
0. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206900810&pgno=1&queryText=
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| New Radar Maps of Moon |
| from the stay-on-target dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 29, @17:19 (Moon) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/2016200 |
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[0]SpaceAdmiral writes to mention that NASA has some new
[1]high-resolution radar maps of the Moon obtained by the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. The new images have also been used to create a simulation of
the Moon's day and a movie of a Moon landing from the point of view of
the astronaut. "NASA is eying the Moon's south polar region as a possible
site for future outposts. The location has many advantages; for one
thing, there is evidence of water frozen in deep dark south polar
craters. Water can be split into oxygen to breathe and hydrogen to burn
as rocket fuel--or astronauts could simply drink it. Planners are also
looking for 'peaks of eternal light.' Tall polar mountains where the sun
never sets might be a good place for a solar power station."
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0. http://www.fanehenderson.com/
1. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29feb_radarmoon.htm?list832167
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| Family Guy Spins off Cleveland |
| from the whens-it-gonna-be-my-turn dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 29, @18:06 (Television|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/29/2026256 |
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E Online is reporting that a new spinoff is currently in the works to
[0]feature Cleveland, the soft-spoken neighbor in popular animated sitcom
Family Guy. "Not much is known about Cleveland other than the fact it
will revolve around the Brown clan. It's unclear whether the series will
remain set in the town of Quahog or whether Cleveland, along with his
wife and son, will continue to appear on Family Guy, though as both
series are animated, the double-billing won't so much be a logistical
problem as a creative decision."
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Links:
0. http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=808922cb-a1fd-4b5e-8eb0-5769932f7912&entry=index&sid=rss_topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories
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