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European Parliament Presses For Final Vote on ACTA->

Submitted by CrystalFalcon
CrystalFalcon writes "The European Parliament has decided to not wait for a legal opinion on ACTA from the European Court of Justice, but presses for a final vote for or against it, possibly in as little as ten weeks. There is no more years-long delay: if we want to kill ACTA, the last chance is right just now.

If ACTA passes, the copyright and patent monopolies will be set in stone for the coming decades, just like happened with TRIPS. We need reform in these areas, badly, and therefore, ACTA needs to die."
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Linux

Linux-3.3: Making a dent in bufferbloat?->

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mtaht
mtaht writes "Has anyone, besides those that worked on byte queue limits, and sfqred, had a chance to benchmark networking using these tools on the linux 3.3 kernel... in the real world? A dent, at least theoretically, seems to be have made in bufferbloat, and now that the new kernel and new iproute2 are out, should be easy to apply in general (e.g. server/desktop) situations..."
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Andrea Rossi Says His Group is Preparing for Legal Action Against Libelers->

Submitted by jasonbuechler
jasonbuechler writes "Andrea Rossi today posted on his blog his most detailed comment yet about the legal strategies he is preparing to deal with those who he calls puppets, snakes and clowns.

From what he says here, not only is Rossi’s group preparing to defend its intellectual property it feels has been violated (something he has often talked about), they plan to sue for libel against those he considers to be publishing falsehoods. With all negative the stuff that has been posted all over the web about Rossi, they could be very busy if they are going to carry out this action to the maximum extent."
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Comment: Re:Susan Greenfield - seriously? (Score 1) 108

by Gorshkov (#38033308) Attached to: How Is Technology Changing the Brain?

So basically, you left 8 out of 9 pages of well researched views from multiple experts with opposing views because the first page had the opinion of a person whose views are not scientific.

How very scientific of you to throw out the entire data because 11 percent of it was suspect.

The rest of it came from different experiments and you lost it.

You have thus provied a live example of how the internet shapes thinking - impatience and conditioning to trolling - and you have proved the point the article was trying to make!

No, what it proves is that I have no desire to waste my time reading an article written by somebody who considers somebody like Greenfield an expert. If it was the alternative - that they were looking at Greenfield's claims and then debunking them - well, there's still no need to waste my time, because I already know she's full of it.

Comment: Susan Greenfield - seriously? (Score 5, Informative) 108

by Gorshkov (#38024476) Attached to: How Is Technology Changing the Brain?
I was going to read TFA - believe it or not, I usually do. But after seeing Susan Greenfield's name in the summary, I decided to skip it. Anybody here who's familiar with Ben Goldachre's site, badscience.net, is certainly familiar enough with her antics that they'd know anything that comes out of her mouth is, at best, fiction.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Humble Voxatron Debut (Bundle)->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "The latest Humble Indie Bundle is upon us, though in this occassion it isn't officially a bundle, since it consists of a single game (Voxatron), which is still in alpha status.

... or at least that's how it started. In true Humble Indie Bundle fashion, bonus games have been piling up; the current going is seven games: Gish and a trio of minigames by Voxatron developer Lexaloffle are available to everybody, and The Binding of Isaac and Blocks That Matter to those who pay more than the current average.

The offering ends this weekend and, as usual, you get to pay what you want and help the Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation charities."
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West African Black Rhinos extinct->

Submitted by identity0
identity0 writes "The BBC reports that the Western Black Rhino subspecies in West Africa (Diceros bicornis longipes) was declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Other populations of rhinos remain, although another species is listed as close to extinction. The main culprit appears to be poaching, to quote from the article Simon Stuart, chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission: "They had the misfortune of occurring in places where we simply weren't able to get the necessary security in place. You've got to imagine an animal walking around with a gold horn; that's what you're looking at, that's the value". A sad day for all of us."
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Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange-> 3

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LeDopore
LeDopore writes "Quantum computers might be coming. I'd estimate that there's a 10% chance RSA will be useless within 20 years. Whatever the odds, some of the data we send over ssh and ssl today should remain private for a century, and we simply can't guarantee secrecy anymore using the algorithms with which we have become complacent. Are there any alternatives to RSA and ECC that are trustworthy and properly implemented? Why is everyone still happy with SSH and RSA with the specter of a quantum menace lurking just around the corner?"
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Adobe stopping support for Flash mobile->

Submitted by intiha
intiha writes "Even Adobe now thinks HTML5 is the technology going forward. What does it mean for Flash in general now? From the article "Adobe says it now believes the alternative HTML 5 technology offers the "best solution" because it is "universally supported"."
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The Internet

Senate set to vote on the repeal of Net Neutrality->

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An anonymous reader writes "From the Article: "
The United States Senate set a date today on when they will bring up the bill that would repeal the net neutrality laws that the FCC has put into place. They will vote on the bill tomorrow sometime. This bill has already passed the US House back in April, so it only has to be approved by the Senate before it is sent to President Obama's desk. President Obama, today, announced that if the bill does reach his desk, that he will veto the bill, and not put it into place. The debate over net neutrality has largely been split on party lines, with the Democratic party mostly being for keeping net neutrality laws in place, and the GOP looking to avoid them. ""
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Transportation

World's Smallest Electric Vehicle Made From a Sing->

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An anonymous reader writes "Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have created the world’s smallest electric vehicle, which takes the form of a molecule with four motors. To power the car, the motors acted as pedal wheels that when “excited electrically”push the EV over a copper surface. Each motor can also be controlled individually, so the micro-EV can also be steered."
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Comment: Re:What was the point of this exercise? (Score 3, Insightful) 943

by Gorshkov (#37917760) Attached to: Theologian Attempts Censorship After Losing Public Debate

"God made the world in 7 days" sounds far simpler than anything science has come up with.

Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation that fits all known facts is the one most likely to be correct.

All those niggly details about things like fossils and evolution and stuff can be soooooo inconvenient ........

Comment: snow? what a concept (Score 1) 292

by Gorshkov (#37917698) Attached to: The recent snow on the U.S. east coast ...
I live in Kingston, Ontario, and grew up in Labrador. I've been all over the Canadian arctic over the years. I find it hard to get excited over a news report of a snowstorm - to me, that's about as newsworthy as a report that the sun came up in the morning. Even if it was reported (I don't remember), I sure as hell wouldn't have paid any attention to it.

Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it.