http://alterslash.org the unofficial SlashDot digest This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/461034578/ I wonder how many times has this been pointed out that someone should roll up a RICO class action suit against RIAA? Great that it is finally coming to life :) Real life imitating slashdot :) http://alterslash.org/#RICO_Class_Action_Against_RIAA_In_Missouri http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460977263/ I’ve gone through and I haven’t seen how one keeps anyone with the url from participating. If there is no mechanism to do this, how long before someone has a script out there that generates random urls and looks for matching documents? http://alterslash.org/#A_Web_App_For_Real_Time_Collaborative_Writing http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460955825/ as if the woman is prosecuted for saying she doesn’t like gw bush onlineno folks, this is way beyond simple thought crimecontext is everything:1. the woman knew the girl was emotionally unstable 2. http://alterslash.org/#Lori_Drew_Cyber_Bullying_Trial_Begins http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460955826/ The article at theage.com gives a completely bogus interpretation, which is repeated in the slashdot article. The New Scientist article is much better.It’s taken more than a century, but Einstein’s celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, http://alterslash.org/#E_mc_2_Verified_In_Quantum_Chromodynamic_Calculation http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460872155/ That a small start up could take on Intel in a serious way? Well, that wasn’t what killed them. http://alterslash.org/#Torvalds_s_Former_Company_Transmeta_Acquired_and_Gone http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460835750/ Lets see if they get the same slap on the wrist that government employees got for accessing Joe the Plumber’s tax records, DMV records, medical records, and other supposedly private information. http://alterslash.org/#Obama_s_Mobile_Phone_Records_Compromised_Shared http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460797885/ In response, the military has issued a new, official photo of Gen. Dunwoody. But again, it looks like they may have photoshopped it. http://alterslash.org/#AP_Suspends_DoD_Over_Altered_US_Army_Photo http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460715055/ major league baseball dumps silverlight to go to Adobe flash for showing online game video content… why didn’t this make it onto slashdot then???ADOBE MAX 2008, SAN FRANCISCO — Nov. 17, 2008 — MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a two-year agreement in which MLB.com has selected the Adobe® Flash® Platform to deliver all of its live and on-demand video offerings beginning in 2009. In addition, MLB.com will provide a downloadable rich Internet application (RIA) built using Adobe AIR(TM), so baseball fans can access additional features outside the Web browser. http://alterslash.org/#Silverlight_On_the_Way_To_Linux http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460665045/ I ponder if the haptic glove would help dyspraxic people like me play Guitar Hero. My hand-eye co-ordination leaves something to be desired; thusly Guitar Hero is impossible for me to play.What if there’s any other such devices to replace dual-stick console controlers. http://alterslash.org/#Hacks_Allowing_Disabled_Gamers_To_Play_em_Guitar_Hero_em http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460742929/ Actually, that idea first appeared in film in Johnny Mnemonic. Autodesk put considerable effort into virtual reality in the late 1980s and early 1990s. http://alterslash.org/#Oblong_s_g_speak_Brings_Minority_Report_Interface_To_Life http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460329315/ we can put mammoths there http://alterslash.org/#Massive_Martian_Glaciers_Found http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460228314/ Quite a few years ago I wrote a J2ME Bluetooth racing game (along with an artist friend). We secured a popular license and publisher for it, and the previews and reviews were good (in real printed magazines!). http://alterslash.org/#How_To_Find_a_Mobile_Games_Publisher http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460214260/ According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs there was an attempt to recreate the extinct species of cow called an Auroch. The idea was to identify currently existing cattle that had partial Auroch ancestry and breed them, selecting for Auroch characteristics. http://alterslash.org/#Resurrecting_the_Mighty_Mammoth_Cheaply http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460214261/ In the “Stupid QWERTY Tricks” section of his site, he lists all of the words that you can type on the left/right hand side of the keyboard…http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/stupid_qwerty_tricks.htmlHe published all of that online in 1998… (1998-09-21)In comparison, the longest Dvorak word, typed with only the left hand is: “upkeep” …not that that has anything to do with the efficiency of Dvorak…The other Dvorak word lists are far more interesting: http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/stupid_dvorak_tricks.html   — Dave http://alterslash.org/#Unix_Dict_grep_Solves_Left_Side_of_Keyboard_Puzzle http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460109815/ I was in the meeting. As I recall, one gentleman, I’ll repeat that, one gentleman from the audience of a few hundred got up and expressed the opinion that we should do nothing so as to spur DNSSEC deployment.There was rather more consensus for the view that we should avoid making quick hacks that might obstruct DNSSEC deployment since DNSSEC is currently the only approach on the table that we’re reasonably sure ends the problem. http://alterslash.org/#Kaminsky_Bug_Options_Include_Do_Nothing_Says_IETF http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460037650/ …his grave would be spinning about him. http://alterslash.org/#Search_For_the_Tomb_of_Copernicus_Reaches_an_End http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/460020590/ The DMCA explicitly prohibits the dissemination of information that can be used to circumvent such technology. Uh, no, actually it explicitly prohibits trafficking in “technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof,” not necessarily all information. http://alterslash.org/#Apple_DMCAs_iPodHash_Project