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Comments: 53 +-   Politics: Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown on Thursday September 10, @07:20PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @07:20PM
from the mitigation-is-tricky-50-years-later dept.
encryption
99luftballon writes "The British government has officially apologised for the treatment of Alan Turing in the post war era. An online petition got more than enough signatures to force an official statement and Prime Minister Gordon Brown has issued a lengthy apology. 'Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved so much better.'"
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Comments: 65 +-   Linux: Greg Kroah-Hartman Gripes About Microsoft's Linux Contribution; MS Renews Effort on Thursday September 10, @06:33PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @06:33PM
from the public-growing-pains dept.
microsoft
dp619 writes "Microsoft's developers were missing in action after the company donated GPL-licensed drivers to the Linux kernel community in July, leaving significant work to the Linux community, according to Linux driver project lead and Novell fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman. The company rekindled its involvement after Kroah-Hartman published a status report this week. Kroah-Hartman said that other companies were also laggards in Linux development, and that Microsoft's lack of involvement was nothing out of the ordinary."
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Comments: 195 +-   Ask Slashdot: Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? on Thursday September 10, @05:47PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @05:47PM
from the hell-is-other-people's-file-permissions dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Most people use MS filesystems on Disk-On-Keys, and portable hard drives, as these are readable from most machines. But this way you lose the files' permission information, which many times is very inconvenient (you must agree that having Ubuntu asking you whether to execute or display every text file or image you open from a DOK is annoying). Using 'regular' Linux filesystems like ext keeps the permissions, but may require using the superuser when switching machines (as the UIDs are different). So do any of you have a creative solution for this problem?"
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Comments: 89 +-   News: Google Offers Scanned Books To Rival Stores on Thursday September 10, @04:59PM

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 10, @04:59PM
from the take-two-they're-small dept.
books
eldavojohn writes "Yesterday we covered Microsoft's jabs at the Google book deal, but today Reuters is reporting that the scanned books will be available to Google's rivals. Google said in a surprising statement, 'Google will host the digital (out-of-print) books online, and retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore will be able to sell access to users on any Internet-connected device they choose.' They made this statement today at the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee that had been called to discuss criticism of a 2008 settlement between the Authors Guild and Google. Well, I would bet this has caught more than a few people by surprise. The Authors Guild offers a history and the fine print of the agreement."
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Comments: 285 +-   Technology: AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30" Displays on Thursday September 10, @03:40PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @03:40PM
from the can't-wait-'til-it's-commonplace dept.
J. Dzhugashvili writes "Whereas most current graphics cards can only drive a pair of displays, AMD has put some special sauce in its next-generation DirectX 11 GPUs to enable support for a whopping six monitors. There's no catch about supported resolutions, either. At an event yesterday, AMD demonstrated a single next-gen Radeon driving six 30" Dell monitors, each with a resolution of 2560x1600, hooked up via DisplayPort. Total resolution: 7680x3200 (or 24.6 megapixels). AMD's drivers present this setup as a single monitor to Windows, so in theory, games don't need to be updated to support it. AMD showed off Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, World of Warcraft, and DiRT 2 running at playable frame rates on the six displays."
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Comments: 156 +-   Your Rights Online: How Much Is Your Online Identity Worth? on Thursday September 10, @02:49PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @02:49PM
from the probably-worth-more-as-meat dept.
itwbennett writes "Answer a few questions about your personal Internet use, and a new tool from Symantec will calculate your net worth on the black market. You'll get three results: how much your online assets are worth, how much your online identity would sell for on the black market, and your risk of becoming a victim of identity theft. The tool is intended to raise consumer awareness about cybercrime, said Marian Merritt, Internet security advocate for Symantec. It's unlikely the average consumer would read an Internet Security Threat Report, she added, but a simply illustrated example might get the same point across. 'It's shocking how little value criminals place on your credit card,' she said."
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Comments: 255 +-   Developers: Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation on Thursday September 10, @01:58PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 10, @01:58PM
from the said-the-spider-to-the-fly dept.
darthcamaro writes "Microsoft already had its own open source (OSI-approved) licenses, its own open source project hosting site and now it's adding its own non-profit open source foundation. That's right, the company that is still banging the patent drum against open source now has its own 501(c)(6) open source foundation. Officially called the CodePlex Foundation, it's a separate effort from the CodePlex site and is aimed at helping to get more commercial developers involved in open source. Considering how they continue to attack Linux and open source, will anyone take them seriously?"
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Comments: 183 +-   Science: Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert on Thursday September 10, @01:12PM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @01:12PM
from the a-million-and-one-uses dept.
biotech
Serenissima writes "Researcher Judy Wall is experimenting with bacteria that can cleanse the radioactivity from toxic areas by rendering the heavy metals into non-toxic, inert versions. The technology is not without its flaws (the bacteria can't exist in an oxygenated environment yet), but it does have the potential to cleanse some of the world's hazardous sites. From the article: 'The bacteria Wall is studying are bio-corrosives and can change the solubility of heavy metals. They can take uranium and convert it to uraninite, a nearly insoluble substance.'"
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Comments: 78 +-   Science: New Unmanned Japanese Re-Supply Vessel For the ISS on Thursday September 10, @12:13PM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @12:13PM
from the lookit-all-them-wires-up-there dept.
space
Joshua writes "JAXA, Japan's version of NASA, has scheduled the launch of its new rocket, the H-IIB, for September 11th, 2009. The rocket will be carrying up the first in a series of unmanned supply vessels for the ISS called the HTV. The new Japanese addition to the international space fleet comes as a huge welcome sign to NASA, who has scheduled the space shuttle to retire in 2010. The HTV will be able to transport vital supplies, equipment, and experiments to the ISS, a job that the US space shuttle has been doing largely up until now. Yearly launches for the H-II2 and HTV are scheduled between now and 2015. Until NASA can finish the next generation Ares I rocket, which isn't likely to be finished before 2017, taking astronauts into space and to the ISS will likely become the job of Russia."
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Comments: 92 +-   Mobile: Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1? on Thursday September 10, @11:27AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, @11:27AM
from the i-feel-better-already dept.
cellphones
CrazyCanucklehead writes "Security Researcher Michael Sutton discusses his findings when looking at the advertised anti-phishing features in the recently released iPhone OS 3.1. It turns out that the protection is far less than what is provided in OS X and the feature may not provide any protection at all."
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