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Submission + - Unpublished manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham are avai (ulcc.ac.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: University College London has made available images of the unpublished manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, and is crowdsourcing their transcription. Anyone can read and transcribe them, which will help scholars at UCL, and create a more valuable resource for those interested in the collection. The transcription tool is pretty neat too.

(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/)
Google

Submission + - Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label on Blogs (itworld.com)

Submitted by
itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "Terrorist suspect Jose Pimentel had a blog on Google-owned Blogger. And so it follows that Senator Joe Lieberman sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page taking him to task because 'Blogger's Content Policy does not expressly ban terrorist content.' Lieberman also pointed out that YouTube does ban terrorist content and added that 'Google's inconsistent standards are adversely affecting our ability to counter violent Islamist extremism online.'"
NASA

Submission + - NASA's Next Mission: Deep Space (informationweek.com)

Submitted by
gManZboy
gManZboy writes: "NASA's Mars Science Lab and Curiosity rover are the next steps in a long-term plan to travel farther and faster into space. Check out the future spacecrafts and tools that will get them there--including NASA's big bet, a spacecraft that combines the Orion multipurpose crew vehicle with the Space Launch System, designed to take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit for the first time since the Apollo 17 Moon mission in 1972. NASA will need 10 years to prepare astronauts to take Orion and SLS for a test flight."

Submission + - Suggestions for online and ePub textbook 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I'm a professor and next semester, I'll be writing a college textbook which will be free (as in beer). What I'd like is both a web version and an ePub version, with the latter being generated from the former. That is, when I update the web version, I'd like to be able to produce a new ePub version with no additional changes. I'd like help in two areas: (1) Suggested work flow: I currently hand code all web/CSS code, but as I envision updates, I wonder if there's a more efficient way of going from text to web to ePub. (2) Suggested templates or examples that show a good HTML5/CSS3 web and ePub format for a textbook. I don't want/need comments, discussions, etc, as that happens in the University's CMS system.
Hardware

Submission + - Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc w/ Home Electronics (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: About 200 customers of the Central Maine Power Company recently noticed something odd after the utility installed smart meters in their homes: household electronics including wireless devices stopped working, or behaved erratically.

Many Smart Meters broadcast in the 2.4GHz frequency range. Unfortunately, so do many of the consumer gadgets we take for granted these days including routers, electric garage doors, fire alarms, clocks, electric pet fences, answering machines, and baby monitors--even medial devices.

The electromagnetic congestion in the home is in some ways similar to the growing electronic congestion in hospitals as they acquire more and more electronic monitors all operating within a few feet of each other. Medical equipment has been known to shut down or give erroneous results when positioned close to another piece of equipment. Such interference is not new, just getting worse--rapidly....
Censorship

Submission + - Americancensorship.org Being Censored 1

Submitted by
Alunral
Alunral writes: "Early tonight, multiple ISPs like Comcast, Optimum, Time Warner, and more have started to deny and block access to americancensorship.org. This comes as a bit of a shock, as blocking it will only seem to bring more attention to the entire problem."
Education

Submission + - New Stanford online courses starting in early 2012 (ml-class.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: More Stanford online courses starting in January and February 2012 have been announced. Most of the 11 coursesare on computer science and software engineering topics. There is one about Game Theory (http://www.game-theory-class.org/) and two about Entrepeneurship (http://www.launchpad-class.org/ http://www.venture-class.org/).

There's also a "CS101" course which might be useful if you haven't managed to get your relatives to learn programming yet (http://www.cs101-class.org/).

The courses have been announced over the last few days, so it's possible that more will appear until 2012.
Education

Submission + - How to get your kid into an elite comp-sci program (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: With early applications to elite colleges at an all-time high, the nation's highest-rated undergraduate computer science programs are bracing for an uptick in applications between now and January. High school seniors are facing stiffer-than-ever competition when applying to the nation's top computer science programs this fall. But admissions officers and professors at elite tech schools can offer tips aimed at helping your child get accepted come spring.
Encryption

Submission + - Full disk encryption is too good, says US intellig (extremetech.com) 4

Submitted by
MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "A new research paper, titled "The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics," illustrates the difficulty that CSI teams have in obtaining enough digital data to build a solid case against criminals. According to the researchers, one of which is a member of US-CERT — the US government's primary defense against internet and digital threats — there are three main problems with full disk encryption (FDE): First, evidence-gathering goons can turn off the computer (for transportation) without realizing it's encrypted, and thus can't get back at the data (unless the arrestee gives up his password, which he doesn't have to do); second, if the analysis team doesn't know that the disk is encrypted, it can waste hours trying to read something that's ultimately unreadable; and finally, in the case of hardware-level disk encryption, tampering with the device can trigger self-destruction of the data. The paper does go on to suggest some ways to ameliorate these issues, but ultimately the researchers aren't hopeful: "Research is needed to develop new techniques and technology for breaking or bypassing full disk encryption.""

Submission + - Who smashed the laptops at Occupy Wall Street? (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by HansonMB
HansonMB writes: Worse, it was as if someone along the way purposefully destroyed all confiscated electronics, a strategic smashing of at least part of the digital record logged by full-on occupiers. “Dude, all the laptops are in a row," he tells us, baffled and raking his shock of brown hair. "They’ve all been smashed with bats.” When asked about the mangled property, LiPani admits that, inevitably, certain items could’ve been damaged in the shuffle: “I’m not surprised,” he says, to hear of damaged laptops. He adds that the DSNY is providing clearance forms to those occupiers concerned their property may’ve been mishandled or misplaced.
Android

Submission + - Dual-Core Android PC now comes on a USB Stick (fxitech.com)

Submitted by absolut.evil
absolut.evil writes: FXI has taken a dual core smartphone-esque computer and put it into a little USB stick.. neat. So now you can literally plug into anything with a screen and play angry birds. There's a cloud-sharing component as well so It's not all just for games.. interesting!

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