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Submission + - Assange Denied Residency in Sweden (newsdaily.com)

Submitted by Flea of Pain
Flea of Pain writes: Sweden denied a work and residency permit Monday for Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks website that angered the United States by releasing classified U.S. military documents about the Afghan war.Assange has been establishing a base in Sweden in order to benefit from the Nordic country's strict journalist protection laws. He is also being investigated over rape allegations in Sweden, which he has denied, calling them baseless.

"The board today rejected Assange's application for a work and residency permit," said Hakan Gestrin, a spokesman at the Swedish Migration Board. He gave no reason for the rejection of the permit, citing confidentiality rules.

Assange, an Australian citizen, can appeal the decision within three weeks.

The Pentagon said Sunday it had a 120-member team ready to review an expected leak this month by the whistle-blowing Wikileaks of as many as 500,000 Iraq war documents. Wikileaks released some 70,000 U.S. military files on Afghanistan in July.
Biotech

Submission + - Worlds First Cyborg rodent (youtube.com)

Submitted by Cussin_IT
Cussin_IT writes: Scientests in Britin have created the Worlds first Cyborg rodent by using nurons from the brian of a rat and meshing them into a small wheeled robot.
Sounds creapy, but could be the answer amputees have been waiting for.
Also: I for one welcome our new cyborg rodent overloards
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Spending $500 Million on Kinect Ads (industrygamers.com)

Submitted by donniebaseball23
donniebaseball23 writes: Microsoft's motion camera gaming platform, Kinect, is just a few weeks away and the Redmond giant is spending big to ensure its success. Microsoft is shelling out half a billion dollars writes IndustryGamers, and the company is clearly going after the casual, mainstream Wii audience with important appearances on Oprah and Ellen DeGeneres. Microsoft also revealed its 17 games planned for the launch window, and it's clear that Kinect is not being pushed with the core gamer in mind, at least not from the outset.
Idle

Submission + - 2012 Mayan Calendar 'Doomsday' Date Might Be Wrong (discovery.com) 1

Submitted by
astroengine
astroengine writes: "A UC Santa Barbara associate professor is disputing the accuracy of the mesoamerican "Long Count" calendar after highlighting several astronomical flaws in a correlation factor used to synchronize the ancient Mayan calendar with our modern Gregorian calendar. If proven to be correct, Gerardo Aldana may have nudged the infamous December 21, 2012 "End of the World" date out by at least 60 days. Unfortunately, even if the apocalypse is rescheduled, doomsday theorists will unlikely take note."

Submission + - Wikileaks Reveals Illegal Black Ops by Italy (youtube.com)

Submitted by commodore64_love
commodore64_love writes: Officially the Italian government is engaged in a peace-keeping and rebuilding mission for Afghanistan. But recent documents released by Wikileaks show the Italian government is engaged in black operations, despite having told the public no such actions were taking place. Source: Russia Today video
Encryption

Submission + - NSA Pissed Off At France Over 3 Strikes (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Politics makes strange bedfellows, as the saying goes. And, would you believe that in this case it could be gov't spooks siding with the internet civil libertarians? Apparently the NSA and other US intelligence agencies are so upset about the three strikes law put in place in France, that it yelled at Hadopi officials at a recent cryptography symposium, telling them that the whole 3 strikes thing was only going to serve to popularize encryption technology that would make their jobs (i.e., snooping on everyone's communications) a lot harder.

Submission + - Virus for Teaching 1

Submitted by ed1023
ed1023 writes: Currently I am teaching a 101 class on computers. It is more of a demystifying the black box type of class. The current topic is computer virus. I am looking for a virus that i can infect the lab computers (only connected to local network no outside network connection) with that would be easy for the students to remove by hand. Can the Slashdot community point me any directions, is there an executable out there what would work ( this scares me), or do I try to write one my self, or is there one that is written that i can compile my self?

Submission + - Secret Drama Behind the Double Helix Revealed (pbs.org)

Submitted by tcd004
tcd004 writes: Dozens of letters written by Nobel prize winner Frances Crick have just been released. The letters, which even Crick thought had been destoryed, reveal the intense, and sometimes playful competition among researchers to decode DNA in the 1960's. At one point, Watson and Crick were pulled off of DNA research because they incorporated works from a competing team at Kings College. Crick's letter to his rival (and friend) Maurice Wilkins read "Cheer up and take it from us that even if we kicked you in the pants it was between friends," he wrote. "We hope our burglary will at least produce a united front in your group!"

Submission + - Canadian-Iranian Blogger Sentenced to 19.5 Years (cnn.com)

Submitted by alexo
alexo writes: CNN reports that an Iranian court has sentenced Hossein Derakhshan, the so-called "blogfather" of Iran, to 19.5 years in prison.

Derakhshan, a 35-year-old Canadian-Iranian blogger and activist, was "convicted of cooperating with enemy states, making propaganda against the Islamic system of government, promoting small anti-revolutionary groups, managing obscene web sites and insulting Islamic sanctities".

Slashdot mentioned Derakhshan in an article about Iranian bloggers back in 2006.

Submission + - ACS:Law Email Database Leaked onto The Pirate Bay

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems that 4chan's "Operation Payback" has hit ACS:Law again — this time taking advantage. of a security flaw on their website that allowed a backup file of the website to be downloaded and analyzed — yielding a treasure trove of information to be exposed. The information was then posted on The Pirate Bay.

Submission + - Legalities of trying to remain Anonymous? 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I am wondering if the Slashdot community has any suggestions about remaining anonymous when a website starts requesting documents to "prove proof of id" that are really none of their business. The website in question is a well known social networking site that requires real names and real birthdays, etc., for use of their site. I use the site rarely and only to keep in touch with a few people who don't use email. I signed up with a pseudonym and they have just requested proof that this is indeed my name. I would be happy to forge a scan of a document (let's say it's a passport) to regain access to said website. But I'm wondering if this is itself illegal or if I'm somehow breaking the law by showing a document that's been altered as "proof" of my identity. Of course the upload link that is the only way to provide the document is not encrypted, so who knows where this info will be.

I'm not using this social networking site for any illegal purposes and wouldn't use this modified scan for anything other than giving this website, a civil entity which has no legal authority to request a real document and which I wouldn't give it anyway, reason to reinstate my account. There's a few friends there I want to keep in touch with, but I could alternatively make a new account and just invite them there — losing the history and the messages we've sent.

Have others followed this dark, downward path? Will this land me in the slammer? Or am I right that thinking this site has as much right to request a genuine ID as they do a colonoscopy.

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