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Submission + - Cox Comm. injects code into customers' web traffic to announce email outage (twitter.com) 2

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An anonymous reader writes: Cox Communications appears to be injecting JavaScript and HTML into subscriber's traffic, as part of their effort to announce an email service outage. Pictures showing the popup: http://pics.lockerz.com/s/269216895 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a160036xd1ww4gs/Nbkd3O9aLj https://twitter.com/anthonykava/status/280004999419944960/photo/1

Feed Engadget: Solidoodle 3 is an $800 3D printer that you can stand on, we go hands (and feet) (engadget.com)

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Companies will go to fascinating lengths to demonstrate their belief in a product, but there was still something refreshing in watching Solidoodle founder Sam Cervantes climbed atop his company's latest creation, beaming. After all, the announcement of a $500 printer back in April left us wondering what sorts of corners the company would have to cut to offer a product at a fraction the cost of what Cervantes' former employer, MakerBot, has brought to the market. Asked whether Solidoodle had to make any compromises to hit such an impressive price point, the one-time aerospace engineer stood by his product's build quality. And then he stood on it.

Announced in November and due out next month, the company's latest product doesn't quite hit that price point. Solidoodle had to drive cost up a fair amount to double the last generation's build platform to 512 cubic inches. Still, $799 seems like chump change for entrance into the nascent world of home 3D printing, particularly for a device that is built as solidly as Cervantes claims. The team popped by our New York offices to drop off and stand on the Solidoodle 3. Cervantes was quick to point out that the printer is still firmly in prototype mode (in fact, it's the first prototype to leave the confines of the company's headquarters), with his team doing its damnedest to get the product in the hands of customers by early next month. A quick glance at the rear of the printer confirms this -- there's a fair amount of exposed wiring back there and the spool of plastic hangs on an exposed PVC pipe.

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Japan

Submission + - Identified Fukushima Workers Pelted "With Bottles"

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Readycharged
Readycharged writes: "The BBC reports that not only are the "Fukushima 50" considered anti heros in their locale, they also face aggressive hostility when identified.

Dr Jun Shigemura, psychiatrist from Japan's National Defense University, states, "The workers have been through multiple stresses."

"They experienced the plant explosions, the tsunami...(and) radiation exposure. They are also victims of the disaster because they live in the area and have lost homes and family members. And the last thing is the discrimination."

"Yes, discrimination.....the workers (are) not being celebrated....(they) have tried to rent apartments (but) landlords turn them down...some have had plastic bottles thrown at them....some have had papers pinned on their apartment door saying 'Get out, Tepco'."

Reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, corrects the myth that a mere 50 tackled the devastation, stating that there were hundreds working around the clock in shifts.

Whilst the Japanese government seem to want to bury the human drama surrounding the catastrophic event, Nuclear News cites a new book which reports on acts of sacrificial heroism whilst mentioning many of the clear up workers by name."
Iphone

Submission + - The Lovitivity 100,000,000 Compliment Challenge (lovitivity.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I am writing to inform you about a recently developed social media application called Lovitivity which, from the feedback we’ve had so far, is looking likely to become exceedingly popular. The application is designed to encourage a positive frame-of-mind, improved self-esteem and renewed self-confidence. Essentially, users compliment each other’s pictures; however for the amount of compliments the user sends, they also receive the relative amount of compliments in return (on their picture). As a community, we have set the goal of sending 100,000,000 compliments by the end of 2013, which sounds daunting however the application is both free in price and free from advertising, users can send and receive as many compliments as they want at any time of the day. We released the application to the public last night (12/12/2012) and nearly recorded 1000 compliments in the first four hours. Please find the attached video trailer which explains the Lovitivity concept in more detail — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTETSoTxWGY.
Math

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 with software on a Linux box?

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yanom
yanom writes: "I'm currently a high school student using my TI-84 for mathematics courses. It has all the functionality I need (except CAS), but saying that the hardware is dated is putting it nicely. Waiting 4-5 seconds for a simple function to be graphed on it's 96x64 screen just makes me want to hurl it at the wall. Recently, I've begun to notice the absurdity of doing my math homework on a 70's era microchip when I have an i7 machine with Linux within arm's reach. I've begun looking for software packages that could supposedly replace the graphing calculator's functionality, including Xcas and Maxima, but both lack what I consider basic calculator functionality — xcas can't create a table of values for a function, and maxima can't use degrees, only radians. So, does anyone know of a good software package to replace my graphing calculator (and maybe provide CAS to boot)?"
Linux

Submission + - What a Year for Linux (linux.com)

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JClo
JClo writes: "The Linux Foundation releases year in review video today. Highlights include Torvalds' Millennium Tech Prize, Raspberry Pi, Android, Red Hat $1B, and more. Missing: Linus flipping the bird."
Government

Submission + - And the Noose Tightens (dropbox.com)

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interval1066
interval1066 writes: "In a breathtaking new move by (another) little-known national security agency, the personal information of all US citizens will be available for casual perusal. The "National Counterterrorism Center" (I've never heard of this org) may now "examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them." This is different from past bureaucratic practice (never mind due process) in that a government agency not in the list of agencies approved to to certain things without due process may completely bypass due process and STORE (for up to 5 years) these records, the org doesn't need a warrant, or have any kind of over-site of any kind. They will be sifting through these records looking for "counter-insurgency activity", supposedly with an eye to prevention. If this doesn't wake you up and chill you to your very bone, not too sure there is anything that will anyway.
The story is behind a pay wall that I have access too so I copied the web page from the WSJ and put it in my public drop box folder."
The Matrix

Submission + - Is the Universe a Simulation? (phys.org) 2

Submitted by olsmeister
olsmeister writes: Ever wonder if the universe is really a simulation? Well, physicists do too. Recently, a group of physicists have devised a way that could conceivably prove one way or the other whether that is the case. There is a paper describing their work on arXiv. Some other physicists propose that the universe is actually a giant hologram with all the action actually occurring on a two-dimensional boundary region.

Submission + - Accelerometer for Physics Experiments. (instructables.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Hi Slashdot,
    I am in a high school Physics class and for a recent experiment to measure the acceleration due to gravity our teacher had us drop NXT bricks with accelerometers off of balconies to be caught by someone below. The problem was as you might guess and fortunately never happened was that if the NXT was missed $200 of NXT and sensors would be destroyed. As we were preforming the experiment I thought of a way to replicate the experiment with an Arduino and accelerometer for $50. Hope you like it!
Ben

http://www.instructables.com/id/Accelerometer-Shield-for-Physics-Class-and-beyond/
Math

Submission + - SmoothLife - A Continuous Conway's Life (i-programmer.info) 2

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: Conway's Game of Life is well known, but what about a version that works not on a discrete grid but in the continuum? It has all of the features of Life, including gliders, and it really looks alive.
A paper published at the end of last year by Stephan Rafler described a generalization of Life to a continuous domain. He called it SmoothLife. Now we have a new video by Tim Hutton of SmoothLifeL (a particular version of the rule) in action complete with gliders — see the video.
Does it have a purpose? Does it have to?
Privacy

Submission + - Stallman on Unity: Canonical will have to hand over users' data to governments (benjaminkerensa.com)

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Giorgio Maone
Giorgio Maone writes: "Ubuntu developer and fellow mozillian Benjamin Kerensa chatted with various people about the new Amazon Product Results in the Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash. Among them, Richard Stallman told him that this feature is bad because: 1. "If Canonical gets this data, it will be forced to hand it over to various governments."; 2. Amazon is bad. Concerned people can disable remote data retrieval for any lens and scopes or, more surgically, use sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping."
Hardware

Submission + - Inside the Ultrabook factory (pcpro.co.uk)

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Barence
Barence writes: "PC Pro has been given rare access to Samsung’s Korean HQ to find out what challenges were faced in making the slimmest laptop in the world.

The feature reveals the processes Samsung's designers went through to create the Series 9 laptop in only 9,000 man hours, such as how every laptop case starts life as a brick of aluminium, and how CNC machining hollows out the laptop’s body to within an accuracy of one-thousandth of a millimetre.

The feature also reveals the battery of stress tests each laptop design is put through. "To our right, a laptop is clamped tight to a metal plate, while a metal arm tirelessly thrusts a dummy D-SUB socket in and out of its right-hand edge. That metal arm repeats the process 4,500 times before the laptop moves to the next test bench, and the process starts again. Every port on the laptop undergoes the same process before it’s declared fit for purpose.""
Canada

Submission + - The city of Edmonton invite hackers to crack their voting system (edmonton.ca) 6

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AchilleTalon
AchilleTalon writes: "2012 Jellybean Internet Voting Election

Offering Edmonton electors an Internet voting option will depend on the results of the 2012 Jellybean Internet Voting Election (Jellybean Election), a mock election being conducted by the City this fall. The purpose of the Jellybean Election is two-fold:

1 To gauge the readiness of Edmontonians to use internet voting as a valid alternative in the 2013 General Election
2 To test the technology and ensure the internet voting system meets the City’s expectations for voter privacy, security, auditability and usability."

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