Comment Re:I didn't RTFA (Score 1) 523
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D235406,00.asp
There's your readable version. Seriously, why don't the editors or even the submitters do this?
Comment Re:Rail industry can handle itself (Score 1) 897
See, but Amtrak won't make a profit until they can run on time, and get to their destination in a reasonable amount of time. This requires high-speed tracks, and separate passenger/rail trackway.
Besides - public transit doesn't exist in order to make a profit. Government isn't about making money. It's about the boring stuff - sewers and roads and social services - that everyone needs but aren't any fun to do.
Submission + - Evaluation of Fortinet Filtering in Bradburn Legal (filteringfacts.org)
David Burt writes: "Bennett Haselton, a long time filtering critic and the proprietor of the PeaceFire website has submitted an evaluation of the filtering product Fortinet in the ongoing library filtering case Bradburn v. North Central Regional Library District. Haselton reports he drew random samples from domain registration lists of 100,000 .com and 100,000 .org sites and ran them against the FortiGuard filter, which the library uses. He finds that 1,366 .com and 207.org were blocked, and of these sites 64 or 11.9 % of the .com sites were blocked in error, and 49 or 23.6% of the .org sites were blocked in error. 11.9% and 23.6% may sound like a lot, but out of the whole sample that's 200,000, that's 113/200,000 = .0565 % of all the sites he tested. A caveat I'd put on this report is that it doesn't represent "real world" traffic in a library. This is a random sample, and doesn't take into account frequency, which is huge. The majority of Internet traffic in a public library is probably going to be less than 10,000 sites, and a random sample of all websites doesn't reflect that. So why didn't the ACLU ask for the library's log files and test them? That's what the DOJ did in the CIPA case, where DOJ expert Cory Finnell test filtered logs from libraries running CyberPatrol, Websense, and Bess, finding that:
Other studies of library filtering logs, including my own I conducted in 2000 for Dangerous Access 2000 found similar results. I've added Bennett's study to my table of filtering effectiveness tests A copy of Haseton's report is here. My Bradburn case page is here."
Submission + - Football field-sized kite powers latest freighter (networkworld.com) 2
coondoggie writes: "A kite the size of a football field will provide most of the power for a German heavy freight ship set to launch in December. The Beluga shipping company that owns the 460-foot Beluga said it expects the kites to decrease fuel consumption by up to 50% in optimal cases as well as a cutback of the emission of greenhouse gases on sea by 10 to 20%. Interestingly, the ship will be hauling windmills from Esbjerg, Denmark to Houston, Texas. The company that makes the kite for the German transport, SkySails, has made kites for large yachts but is targeting commercial ships with new, larger kites. And it has the ambitious goal of equipping 1,500 ships with kites by 2015.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22225"
Submission + - Send that dang photon back in time for 20K
QuantumCrypto writes: "Or at least try sending it. Dr. John Cramer of University of Washington has been working on a project to demonstrate time travel using the principle of quantum entanglement. However unfortunately his funding has run out, and he will lose his lab space if he doesn't find $20,000 fast. I suggest that slashdotters should setup and PayPal account to collect donations for this experiment. Even if the experiment doesn't succeed we will learn from it."
Submission + - New Replacements For Diesel and Gasoline
An anonymous reader writes: A chemical engineering research team from Purdue University has put forth a process to make liquid fuels similar to diesel and gasoline. The process is claimed to be fully renewable, more energy efficient than current oil refining processes and carbon-free in production and distribution. What do Slashdotters think?
Submission + - Intel releases 2.93GHz quad-core QX6800
AnInkle writes: Intel's new QX6800 debuts, and The Tech Report runs the gamut of multi-threaded 64-bit benchmarks, to find out what $1199 can get in a CPU, or if you should get by on the cheap and stick with the $999 QX6700. With popular games, Folding@Home in Linux, real-world scientific applications, and detailed power consumption, the 2.93GHz quad-core QX6800 is compared to over a dozen competitors from both Intel and AMD. The results aren't surprising, but the commentary sure is fun.
Debian 4.0 'Etch' Released 245
An anonymous reader writes "Earlier today we discussed the possibility that Debian Etch might be released soon. Well, according to debian.org, it has already happened. Etch has been released: 'The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB.'"
Submission + - Web art turned to plagiaristized gold.
Moraiat writes: Plagiarism on the internet is tricky business. For some, it's quite profitable. Todd Goliath (Goldman) of David and Goliath Tees has had much of his art discovered to be copied, derived, or blatantly traced(SomethingAwful.com). Shmorky's (Dave Kelly) art was recognized as duplicated by Goliath and the outcry from the online community has been rapidly intensifying over the course of a day. The main story can be found on SomethingAwful's forum, progress is added as the story develops. The artwork in question, the original, and the overlay of it being visibly "traced" (Image) can be found, posted by the real artist, can be found on his forum post.
Other artists are joining Kelly in his plight, Goldman's been copying others' work for many years, only now someone is standing up to him. Goldman's art is self-proclaimed to be random, zany, stupid, and in your face. His self-biography can be seen here.
Other artists are joining Kelly in his plight, Goldman's been copying others' work for many years, only now someone is standing up to him. Goldman's art is self-proclaimed to be random, zany, stupid, and in your face. His self-biography can be seen here.
Submission + - Zell Buys Tribune Co., Accuses Google of Stealing
NewsCloud writes: "After buying Tribune Co. last week, Sam Zell told The Stanford Daily:
None of this makes sense to me:"If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content for nothing, what would Google do?" he asked. "We have a situation today where effectively the content is being paid for by the newspapers and stolen by Google, etcetera. That can last for a short time, but it can't last forever. I think Google and the boys understand that. We're going to see new deals and new formulas in the media space that reflect the reality of cost benefit."
"If newspapers don't want to share their headlines and abstracts, stop publishing RSS feeds. Furthermore, if you don't want Google News to crawl your content, exclude them in your robots.txt file. Google News has no ads. It's just using freely available material to drive traffic and potential revenue to newspaper Web sites. This represents a business opportunity. Perhaps not seeing this is why the newspapers are failing. Republishing 80 pixel square photos with material from public RSS feeds is not the same thing as hosting episodes of TV shows on YouTube.
Submission + - Linux based OpenGL development system without X
zelko writes: "myOS — Linux based OpenGL development system without X
Minimalistic GNU/Linux system, stripped down of everything, but core necessary files to compile and run OpenGL/C code. It has simplified directory structure and cleaned up internal cross referencing. Programs compiled in myOS will run on any Linux with or without X.
Copy of the OpenGL Red Book is included, together with 45 examples from the book. Examples are organized by chapters, each in separate folder, ready to compile, run and play with. Source code is modified to use Scitech drivers and is very similar to GLUT version in the Red Book. This little collection is really all one needs to learn OpenGL. In fact the whole system being very simple to use or analyze and understand, can be a tool to teach Linux basics and C/OpenGL programming.
http://one.xthost.info/zelko/opengl.html"
Submission + - SSH Security Primer: Client Security
nitsudima writes: John Tränkenschuh provides a quick survey of SSH client security issues and suggested configurations for the reference SSH distribution, OpenSSH.
Journal Journal: What's the deal with phone unlockers? 1
I renewed my phone contract today; I finally have one with a camera. It also has a USB port for syncing with computers... which is disabled by Verizon (but of course they will transfer our files over their network for a low low fee).
Submission + - Can I sell my used mp3s?
An anonymous reader writes: Can I sell my used digital music that I purchased online?
Submission + - Pre-Installed Linux tops Dell customer requests
dhart writes: "Within only a few days of opening a new customer feedback website, Dell has discovered the feature most requested (by a wide margin!) as an option on all new Dell PCs: Pre-installed Linux. I believe they'll have a harder time now with the tired old mantra "there's no customer demand for Linux"."
