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Submission + - Dancing Flash Mob Arrested at Jefferson Memorial (dcist.com)

Submitted by el_tedward
el_tedward writes: "According to several reports across the internet, five protesters were arrested by U.S. Park Police at around 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon in the Jefferson Memorial for dancing in silence. Touted as "civil danceobedience," the dancers were there protesting a recent court decision earlier this month that upheld a ban on dancing within the memorial. Among those arrested were Adam Kokesh, the man forcefully arrested in the video, and Edward Dickey, the event organizer."
The Media

Submission + - is Wired Hiding Key Evidence on Bradley Manning? 2

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon that for more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed but refuses to publish the key evidence in the arrest of US Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source. "In late May, Adrian Lamo — at the same time he was working with the FBI as a government informant against Manning — gave Poulsen what he purported to be the full chat logs between Manning and Lamo in which the Army Private allegedly confessed to having been the source for the various cables, documents and video which WikiLeaks released throughout this year," writes Greenwald. Wired has only published about 25% of the logs writes Greenwald and Poulsen's concealment of the chat logs is actively blinding journalists who have been attempting to learn what Manning did and did not do. "Whether by design or effect, Kevin Poulsen and Wired have played a critical role in concealing the truth from the public about the Manning arrest," concludes Greenwald. "This has long ago left the realm of mere journalistic failure and stands as one of the most egregious examples of active truth-hiding by a 'journalist' I've ever seen.""
Businesses

Submission + - Undercover Boss role opens Airline CEO's eyes (usatoday.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Undercover Boss' role opens Republic Airways CEO's eyes:

He went from head honcho of an airline company to the guy dumping the lavatory waste from the aircraft. It all happened when Republic Airways Holdings' Chairman, President and CEO Bryan Bedford disguised himself to work undercover on the front lines with employees at his Indianapolis-based company. He did it for an episode of the TV series "Undercover Boss" that will air at 9 p.m. Sunday on CBS.

He said he learned all sorts of things but perhaps most important, he learned what he was doing wrong as a boss. "What was eye-opening, the most noticeable thing was just the disconnect and (poor) communication between the management team and front-line employees," Bedford said.

While working in different roles for the company — including cleaning aircraft, checking baggage, dumping aircraft toilets and standing at the ticket counter — he asked fellow employees why they didn't take their complaints to management to implore change. The same response came time and time again: "No, I've talked to management about this stuff, and they never listen," Bedford said.

USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-10-16-undercover-boss_N.htm

Submission + - So, who built the Stuxnet worm? (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Insecurity firms are agreed that the Stuxnet worm is a crafty piece of work, built by well-resourced people who knew their onions.

The worm has reportedly attacked thousands of computers in Iran and was crafted to specifically attack software built by Siemens that just happens to be installed in Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant, whose systems are said to be riddled with the infection.

So, who crafted the worm?
Image

Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag Screenshot-sm 246

Posted by samzenpus from the keeping-baby-fresh dept.
Born 14 weeks early, Lexi Lacey owes her life to some MacGyver inspired doctors and a sandwich bag. Lexi was so small at birth that even the tiniest insulating jacket was too big, but she fit into a plastic sandwich bag nicely. ''The doctors told us they had never known a baby born as prematurely as Lexi survive. She was so tiny the only thing they had to keep her body temperature warm was a sandwich bag from the hospital canteen — it's incredible to think that saved her life," says her mom.
Idle

Submission + - Computer Model Explains Moses' Red Sea Parting

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Ponca City, We love you
Ponca City, We love you writes: "Scientists and others have tried for decades to recreate the mystery of the Israelites' escape from the advancing cavalry of the Pharaohs. Now the Guardian reports that researchers at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) claim to have used computer modelling to reconstruct the various wind and wave combinations that could have produced the dry land bridge described in Exodus and found that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have driven back the waters on a coastal lagoon in northern Egypt long enough for the Israelites to walk across the exposed mud flats before the waters rushed back in, engulfing the Pharaoh's cavalry. "The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus," says Carl Drews, the study's lead author. "The parting of the waters can be understood through fluid dynamics. The wind moves the water in a way that's in accordance with physical laws, creating a safe passage with water on two sides and then abruptly allowing the water to rush back in." A steady 63 mph wind from the east over a digitally reconstructed lake along the Mediterranean near today's Port Said could have swept the waters back to the western shores exposing wide mud flats and creating a land bridge that would remain high and dry for four hours. "If you are going to match the biblical account, you need the wind from the east," adds Drews."
Open Source

Submission + - Stallman crashes World Computer Congress session (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz
schliz writes: Software freedom activist Richard Stallman briefly interrupted a European Patent Office presentation at the World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia today, with a placard that said: "Don't get caught in software patent thickets". He told journalists that the Patent Office was "here to campaign in favor of software patents in Australia", arguging that "there's no problem that requires a solution with anything like software patents". Stallman was accompanied by another protestor and distributed printouts of his article about intellectual property being a "seductive mirage".
Google

Submission + - Google Promises Docs Editing for iPad (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Google said on Monday that Apple iPad owners would soon be able to edit Google Docs files on their tablets. The announcement was made the same day as the company added two-factor authentication to its enterprise-oriented Google Apps suite. Currently, Google Docs users can view, but not edit files with the Apple tablet. iPad owners already have Google Docs access-and-edit options via the $17 apps sold by Quickoffice and DataViz. Google has not created its own app, but instead supports Google Docs viewing through the iPad's browser.

Submission + - Universal Video Player VLC OK’d for iPad (cultofmac.com)

Submitted by L4wNd4rt
L4wNd4rt writes: Popular open-source media player VLC is now available for iPad, thanks to developer Applidium.

Offered gratis, VLC faces some competition from other universal media-playing apps already available for the iPad including paid apps OPlayer ($2.99) and CineXPlayer ($3.99).

VLC has long been my go-to app for video viewing (can’t remember the last time I even bothered to update Quicktime), nice to know it’s available now for the iPad, too.
Censorship

Submission + - MPAA Asks If ACTA Can Be Used To Block Wikileaks (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With the entertainment industry already getting laws to block certain sites, it appears they're interested in expanding that even further. The latest is that at a meeting with ACTA negotiators in Mexico, an MPAA representative apparently asked if ACTA rules could be used to force ISPs to block "dangerous sites" like Wikileaks. It makes you wonder why the MPAA wants to censor Wikileaks (and why it wants to use ACTA to do so). But, the guess is that if it can use Wikileaks as a proxy for including rules to block websites, how long will it be until other "dangerous" sites, such as Torrent search engines are included...
Firefox

Submission + - Mozilla Unleashes the Kraken (mozilla.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has released the first version a new browser benchmark called Kraken. Mozilla's Robert Sayre writes on his blog, 'More than Sunspider, V8, and Dromaeo, Kraken focuses on realistic workloads and forward-looking applications. We believe that the benchmarks used in Kraken are better in terms of reflecting realistic workloads for pushing the edge of browser performance forward. These are the things that people are saying are too slow to do with open web technologies today, and we want to have benchmarks that reflect progress against making these near-future apps universally available.' On my somewhat elderly x86_64 Linux system Google Chrome 6.0.472.55 beta completes the Kraken benchmark in 28638.1 milliseconds, Opera 10.62 completes it in 23612.4 milliseconds, and the current Firefox 4 nightly build completes it in 19897.5 milliseconds.

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