http://linux2.ohwada.net/ linux, open source, xoops 2012-02-04T14:41:32+09:00 en http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OwB6I9P4r1U/firefoxs-web-push-notification-system-announced eldavojohn writes "Describing Notifications as 'somewhere between email and IM,' Mozilla has announced this push technology as a way to receive notifications from websites without having to keep them open in your browser — as well as receiving them on your mobile device. A java_script API reveals early interface ideas by the team. This core concept is not new — both Google and Apple have their own push notification systems for Android and iOS respectively. However, 'It's important t ... 2012-02-04T05:07:00+09:00 Soulskill firefox http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SYXS8XxNBlk/did-north-korea-conduct-secret-nuclear-tests gbrumfiel writes "In May of 2010, North Korea made the bizarre claim that it had achieved nuclear fusion. Many, many commentators (including faithful Slashdot readers) mocked the dear leader for his outlandish boast, but could there have been a kernel of truth in the claim? Apparently some odd radioactivity was spotted by detectors surrounding the North just days after the announcement. Now, a new analysis by a Swedish scientist suggests that the radiation may have leaked from covert experiment ... 2012-02-04T04:25:00+09:00 Soulskill news http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/A2f1ErTCH04/windows-phone-8-detailed-uses-windows-8-kernel MrSeb writes "Thanks to a leaked video — a video that Microsoft made for Nokia — we now have lots of details about Windows Phone 8 (WP8). From deep Windows 8, Skype, and SkyDrive integration, through to the addition of NFC 'wallet' payments and BitLocker encryption, it sounds like Windows Phone 8 will be close to iOS and Android in terms of features. The interesting stuff is under the hood, though: WP8 will have the Windows 8 kernel instead of the Windows CE kernel of its predecesso ... 2012-02-04T03:42:00+09:00 Soulskill windows http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZlWGUhXn8Tw/riaa-wants-to-scrap-anti-piracy-open-act silentbrad writes with these selections from an article at Ars Technica: "The Recording Industry Association of America found itself in an unusual position this week: opposing an anti-piracy bill that's gaining momentum in Congress ... the RIAA argues the bill won't be effective at shutting down rogue sites. The trade group warns of 'indefinite delays' as claims of infringement are investigated. And it complains that the process envisioned by OPEN would allow for 'endless submissions by parties ... 2012-02-04T03:00:00+09:00 timothy piracy http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WhQ7naZAtd8/whats-the-damage-measuring-fsck-under-xfs-and-ext4-on-big-storage An anonymous reader writes "Enterprise Storage Forum's long-awaited Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Find out just how bad the Linux file system scaling problem really is." Read more of this story at Slashdot. 2012-02-04T02:40:00+09:00 timothy storage http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/04wH_l84P2U/anonymous-posts-audio-of-intercepted-fbi-conference-call DrDevil writes "A member of the computer hacking group Anonymous has hacked into a telephone conference between the FBI and Scotland Yard (London Police) and posted it on the internet. The Daily Telegraph has a comprehensive article on the hack. The audio of the call can be heard here." Reader eldavojohn snips as well from the AP's story as carried by Google: "Those on the call talk about what legal strategy to pursue in the cases of Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis — two British suspects linke ... 2012-02-04T02:19:00+09:00 timothy communications http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nE29NZj4Q9M/chinese-boy-claims-to-have-cat-like-night-vision Oswald McWeany writes "Reports swirling around the Internet are that a boy in China may have cat-like night vision. The boy with eerie blue-eyes was able to fill out a questionnaire in the dark and his eyes reflect like a cat's when a light is shined on them. No reports yet if he marks his territory or is litter box trained." Read more of this story at Slashdot. 2012-02-04T02:02:00+09:00 samzenpus china http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MmSq6iXNh2Q/thanks-to-drm-some-ubisoft-games-wont-work-next-week hypnosec writes "Several of Ubisoft's biggest titles won't be playable as of next week thanks to a server move by the publisher and the restrictive DRM that was used in their development. This isn't just multiplayer either. Because Ubisoft thought it would be a smart plan to use always on DRM for even the single player portion of games like Assassin's Creed, even the single player portion of that title won't be playable during the server move. Some of the other games affected by this move will ... 2012-02-04T01:37:00+09:00 timothy drm http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9RmbWUenl1E/alzheimers-transmission-pathway-discovered smitty777 writes "Two separate studies by the Taub Institute and Harvard have discovered the pathway used by Alzheimer's Disease to spread through the brain. The studies indicate it's not a virus, but a distorted protein called Tau which moves from cell to cell. Further, the discovery 'may now offer scientists a way to move forward and develop a way to block tau's spread in Alzheimer's patients, said Karen Duff, a researcher at Columbia's Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's disease and c ... 2012-02-04T00:54:00+09:00 timothy medicine http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EGnJmHjCts4/credit-suisse-traders-manipulated-it-systems-to-hide-500m-losses New submitter Qedward writes with a snippet from ComputerWorld UK: "Two traders at Credit Suisse have pleaded guilty to wire fraud and falsifying data after authorities said they had manipulated the bank's record systems, as the credit crunch approached, in order to help conceal over half a billion dollars' worth of losses. The traders admitted to circumventing a mandatory real time reporting system introduced by Credit Suisse, manually entering false profit and loss (P&L) figures as the pr ... 2012-02-04T00:12:00+09:00 timothy crime http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/A0E0s4aB3Ko/google-starts-scanning-android-apps eldavojohn writes "A recent blog post has Android developers talking about Google finally scanning third party applications for malware. Oddly enough, Google claims this service (codenamed 'Bouncer') has been active for some time: 'The service has been looking for malicious apps in Market for a while now, and between the first and second halves of 2011, we saw a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market. This drop occurred at the same time that companies ... 2012-02-03T23:31:00+09:00 timothy android http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sO_SxPSmP98/researchers-create-glass-just-3-atoms-thick sciencehabit writes "Researchers have created the world's thinnest pane of glass. The glass, made of silicon and oxygen, formed accidentally when the scientists were making graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon, on copper-covered quartz. They believe an air leak caused the copper to react with the quartz, which is also made of silicon and oxygen, producing a glass layer with the graphene. The glass is a mere three atoms thick — the minimum thickness of silica glass—which makes it ... 2012-02-03T23:10:00+09:00 timothy science http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JZEmvQ628jY/how-the-gop-and-the-tea-party-helped-kill-sopa Hugh Pickens writes "Strengthening intellectual property enforcement has been a bipartisan issue for the past 25 years, but Stewart Baker writes in the Hollywood Reporter that when the fight went from the committees to the floor and Wikipedia went down, the Democratic and Republican parties reacted very differently to SOPA. 'Despite widespread opposition to SOPA from bloggers on the left, Democrats in Congress (and the administration) were reluctant to oppose the bill outright,' writes Baker. ' ... 2012-02-03T22:50:00+09:00 timothy republicans http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1t-U96SGn_w/craigslist-donates-100000-to-the-perl-foundation mikejuk writes "The craigslist Charitable Fund has donated $100,000 to the Perl community for Perl5 maintenance and general use by the Perl Foundation. Craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month and it is mostly written in Perl. The entire architecture of the system is open source — a proxy array based on Perl and memcache and a backend provided by Apache, memcache, MySQL and, of course, Perl. This is a successful enterprise giving something back to open source — which is ... 2012-02-03T22:08:00+09:00 samzenpus perl http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BvHm2FMGWrc/apple-loses-german-court-bid-to-ban-samsung-galaxy-tab-101n-nexus-phone chrb writes "Apple has failed to get a patent ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N and the Nexus phone in Germany. Presiding Judge Andreas Mueller stated, 'Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent will be revoked because of a technology that was already on the market before the intellectual property had been filed for protection.' The patent in question covered list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display. This news follows the r ... 2012-02-03T19:33:00+09:00 samzenpus patents http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RGEVht_N8us/is-the-earth-gaining-or-losing-mass Hugh Pickens writes writes "BBC recently asked physicist and Cambridge University professor Dave Ansell to draw up a balance sheet of the mass that's coming in to the earth, and the mass going out to find out if the earth is gaining or losing mass. By far the biggest contributor to the world's mass is the 40,000 tonnes of dust that is falling from space to Earth every year. 'The Earth is acting like a giant vacuum cleaner powered by gravity in space, pulling in particles of dust,' says Dr. Chri ... 2012-02-03T05:06:00+09:00 timothy earth http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4b5ury6GUN0/oklahoma-politician-wants-to-tax-violent-video-games dotarray writes "According to an Oklahoma politician, video games help cause many problems affecting the youth of today, but they can also help solve those same problems. Representative William Fourkiller, a Democrat, has proposed a 1% tax on every video game sold which has a Teen, Mature or Adults Only rating. He explains that half of the money would go towards helping to get kids playing outside, while the other half would be placed into a bullying prevention fund." Read more of this story at ... 2012-02-03T04:25:00+09:00 timothy democrats http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AvUgLyI75Fk/in-xhengzhou-thousands-vie-for-foxconn-jobs hypnosec writes "Foxconn is supposedly looking to enhance its workforce in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou and despite the less-than-satisfactory working conditions in the company, thousands of aspirants are lining up for jobs in its factories. Not caring about the harsh working conditions at Foxconn, thousands of people congregated outside a labor office in Zhengzhou, the largest city of Henan province in North central China, impatiently waiting for a chance to work at Foxconn. Foxconn, which is ... 2012-02-03T03:44:00+09:00 timothy business http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/J6lFpYGLbaQ/spacex-tries-out-its-new-superdraco-rocket-engine cylonlover writes "SpaceX, the California company that is developing the reusable Dragon spacecraft, recently test-fired its new SuperDraco engine. Presently, the Dragon capsule is equipped with less-advanced Draco engines, which are designed for maneuvering the spacecraft while in orbit and during reentry. The SuperDraco, however, is intended to allow the astronauts to escape if an emergency occurs during the launch." Read more of this story at Slashdot. 2012-02-03T03:22:00+09:00 timothy space http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1pk4V_q4MhM/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist schwit1 passes on this snippet from Public Intelligence: "A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. The document, part of a program called 'Communities Against Terrorism,' lists the use of 'anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address' as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of en ... 2012-02-03T03:03:00+09:00 timothy privacy