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Submission + - Debian 7.6 released (themukt.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Neil McGovern has announced the release of Debian 7.6, the sixth maintenance release of 7.x branch. This is a maintenance release which, as Neil explains, “ mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.”

Submission + - Climate Change Skeptic Group Must Pay Damages to UVA, Michael Mann (southernstudies.org)

Submitted by ideonexus
ideonexus writes: In January of 2014, the American Traditions Institute (ATI) sought Climate Scientist Micheal Mann's emails from his time at the University of Virginia (UVA), a request that was denied in the courts. Now the Virginia Supreme court has upheld a lower court ruling that ATI must pay damages for filing a frivolous lawsuit.

Submission + - TEPCO planning to use Windows XP up to 2019

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: TEPCO, operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, plans to continue using 48,000 copies of Windows XP until 2018-19, when they will be replaced. The Japanese government has urged companies in charge of critical infrastructure to upgrade from XP due to the risk of cyberattack. When asked about potential problems TEPCO said that it has "taken technical measures of various kinds", but declined to detail them "for security reasons."

Submission + - Straight-up operant conditioning (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: When the University of Victoria in Canada opened a new campus bike centre in the parkade located under the University Centre last November, motion-activated doors were installed to discourage swallows from nesting in the new facility. But when the swallows returned to their familiar nest sites a few weeks ago, they were undeterred by this peculiar impediment: they quickly learned how to open the doors by flying in front of the infrared motion detector, as you see in this video:

Submission + - UK told to charge electronic devices for screening. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by gridl0ck
gridl0ck writes: UK has been advised that certain flights out of UK require your electronic device to be charged in order for it to be screened. US has been identified as one of the paths which now require devices such as tablets and phones to be charged in order for them to be vetted. What happens if you don't? You either rebook your flight for a later date or leave your device which may be expensive at the airport. You can then collect it on return or have it posted to another address. Wonder if they provide insurance in case the device is stolen or damaged.

Submission + - How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Wired reports, "Beneath its slick interface and crystal clear GPS-enabled vision of the world, Google Maps roils with local rivalries, score-settling, and deception. Maps are dotted with thousands of spam business listings for nonexistent locksmiths and plumbers. Legitimate businesses sometimes see their listings hijacked by competitors or cloned into a duplicate with a different phone number or website. In January, someone bulk-modified the Google Maps presence of thousands of hotels around the country, changing the website URLs to a commercial third-party booking site ... Small businesses are the usual targets. .... These attacks happen because Google Maps is, at its heart, a massive crowdsourcing project, a shared conception of the world that skilled practitioners can bend and reshape in small ways using tools like Google’s Mapmaker or Google Places for Business. .... Google has gotten much better at policing malicious edits, to the point where they’re rare today. ... The system has loopholes though, and troves of money-hungry spammers looking for weaknesses. In February, an SEO consultant-turned-whistleblower named Bryan Seely demonstrated the risk dramatically when he set up doppelganger Google Maps listings for the offices of the FBI and Secret Service. Seely channeled the incoming phone calls through to the real agencies while recording them. The stunt got a lot of attention. The Secret Service told Seely he was “a hero” for showing them the vulnerability."

Submission + - 3D Printed PiGRRL - Raspberry Pi Gameboy

Submitted by coop0030
coop0030 writes: Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the classic gaming device, Game Boy, by building your own with 3d printing and DIY electronics. This project uses a Raspberry Pi and TFT touch screen to make an epic DIY Game Girl. The 3d printed enclosure houses all of the components and can be printed in your favorite color. It's controlled with SNES gaming controller components, reusing the printed circuit board, buttons and elastomers. The 3D files can be found on Thingiverse, and a video of the finished product is provided as well.

Submission + - KDE's Krita gets 100% funding through Kickstarter (themukt.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: It's an interesting day for the KDE community. At one hand they announced the death of two projects — Vivaldi tablet and Improv board, on the other hand Krita (a KDE software) has reached its goal of raising Euro 15,00 on Kickstrater, which means they can now hire the developer, designer they needed to further improve the image editing software. The campaign is not over yet and there are eight more days left so the project will continue to get more money.

Submission + - DARPA demos lightweight, 94GHz silicon system on a chip (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: Looking to bring lighter, more powerful and less expensive systems for various applications such as communications, radar or guidance systems, DARPA said this week it had recently demonstrated an all-silicon, microchip-sized system on a chip that runs at 94 GHz. DARPA claims that this chip is the first time a silicon-only package has achieved such a high frequency, which falls in the millimeter-wave range.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot - Replacing Paper with Tablets and Running an Effective Meeting

Submitted by faderrider
faderrider writes: I work in the healthcare design industry and our firm is looking to get away from using paper during our design meetings. My first thought was to load our reports and plans on a tablet, bring a half dozen or so tablets for attendees and somehow create a local adhoc network that would allow them to view my desktop. A little more thinking brought me to consider the value of attendees being able to mark up documents on their own, or take control of what is being viewed to talk through ideas. Is anyone else out there doing something like this and if so what are you implementing? Specifically the challenges i see are creating the local network, establishing share/control relationships between tablets and managing any documentation markups attendees may make during the meeting. I am also looking at the Samsung 10.1 as the hardware but would be interested in any recommendations. I can also provide, most of the time, web access via my phone but would prefer not to rely on a service like WebEx or JoinMe.

Submission + - Googl Dart Officially Approved As Ecma Standard

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google Dart is officially standard http://sdt.bz/71451. At the Ecma general assembly, the first edition of the Dart Programming Language Specification http://www.ecma-international.... was officially approved. Ecma first commissioned a technical committee to publish the standard last December http://sdt.bz/67481. Since its 1.0 release in November, the Dart team has released new versions at a fast clip, with Dart 1.5 http://sdt.bz/71436 dropping last week. Standardization is a double-edged sword http://sdt.bz/68715 that may slow down development pace, but Google is finally getting what it wanted for Dart: an official stamp of approval.

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