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Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "When it comes to military tech, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) usually makes the headlines with its gadgets, gizmos, and kickass robots. It's a prolific supporter of robo-defence projects, from Boston Dynamics' Cheetah and its cousin Big Dog to autonomous hands and unsteady humanoids. But the latest piece of military robot news comes from across the Atlantic at the UK's Ministry of Defence, which has unveiled an animatronic man to test suits and equipment for the British armed forces. 'Porton Man' looks pretty impressively modern and human-like until you realise he's stuck to a clunky external frame that moves his limbs like a puppet. But hey, at least he's not stumbling through steps at a snail's pace before inevitably crashing to the ground, like DARPA's cyborg hopefuls. The frame lets Porton Man run, walk (sorry, 'march'), sit, and kneel in mid-air, to mimic the common movements of a human soldier. He can also hold his arms up as if sighting a weapon."
JoeyRox (2711699) writes "The city of San Francisco is aggressively enforcing its ban on short-term rentals. SF resident Jeffrey Katz recently came home to an eviction notice posted on his door that read 'You are illegally using the premises as a tourist or transient unit.' According to Edward Singer, an attorney with Zacks & Freedman who filed the notice against Katz, 'Using an apartment for short-term rentals is a crime in San Francisco.' Apparently Airbnb isn't being very helpful to residents facing eviction. 'Unfortunately, we can't provide individual legal assistance or review lease agreements for our 500,000 hosts, but we do try to help inform people about these issues,' according to David Hantman, Airbnb head of global public policy. SF and Airbnb are working on a framework which might make Airbnb rentals legal, an effort helped by Airbnb's decision last week to start collecting the city's 14% hotel tax by summer."
v3rgEz (125380) writes "A new service, Airpooler, matches pilots with passengers looking to head the same way. Since it's not an officially licensed charter service, prices are limited to roughly the passengers' share of the gas, giving pilots a way to share the expense of enjoying the open blue and flyers a taste of their personal pilot."
A while ago you had a chance to ask John McAfee about his past, politics, and what he has planned for the future. As usual, John answered with extreme frankness, with some interesting advice for anyone stuck at a checkpoint in the third world. Below you can read all his answers to your questions.
Bennett Haselton writes "What advice would you give someone who just bought a new laptop? What would you tell someone about how to secure their webserver against attacks? For that matter, how would you tell someone to prepare for their first year at Burning Man? I submit that the metric by which we usually judge tech advice, and advice in general, is fundamentally flawed, and has bred much of the unhelpful tech advice out there." Read below to see what Bennett has to say.
theodp (442580) writes "Over at Microsoft on the Issues, Microsoft continues to lament the computer programming skills gap of American kids, while simultaneously lobbying for more H-1B visas to fill that gap. Saying that states must do more to 'help students gain critical 21st century skills,' Microsoft credits itself and partner Code.org for getting 30,606,732 students to experience coding through the Hour of Code, claiming that K-12 kids have 'written 1,332,784,839 lines of code' (i.e., dragged-and-dropped puzzle pieces), So, if it's concerned about helping students gain programming skills, shouldn't Microsoft be donating fully-functional desktop versions of MS-Office to schools, which would allow kids to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)? While Microsoft's pledge to give 12 million copies of its Office software to schools was heralded by the White House and the press, a review of the 'fine print' at Microsoft suggests it's actually the online VBA-free version of Office 365 Education that the kids will be getting, unless their schools qualify for the Student Advantage program by purchasing Office for the faculty and staff. Since Microsoft supported President Obama's call for kids to 'Don't Just Play on Your Phone, Program It', shouldn't it give kids the chance to program MS-Office, too?"
angry tapir (1463043) writes "The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), a government financial watchdog, is reportedly contemplating the idea of implementing a 500 millisecond delay on trades in an effort to put the brakes on high-frequency trading. ASIC last year knocked back the idea and stated that fears about HFT were overblown. However, in a government inquiry today representatives of the organization said the idea of a 'pause' is still on the table."
rjmarvin (3001897) writes "Researchers at the U.K.'s Lancaster University have reimagined the fundamental logic behind encryption, stumbling across a radically new way to encrypt data while creating software models to simulate how the human heart and lungs coordinate rhythms. The encryption method published in the American Physical Society journal and filed as a patent entitled 'Encoding Data Using Dynamic System Coupling,' transmits and receive multiple encrypted signals simultaneously, creating an unlimited number of possibilities for the shared encryption key and making it virtually impossible to decrypt using traditional methods. One of the researchers, Peter McClintock, called the encryption scheme 'nearly unbreakable.'
According to an article at Ars Technica, a major security bug faces Linux users, akin to the one recently found in Apple's iOS (and which Apple has since fixed). Says the article:"The bug is the result of commands in a section of the GnuTLS code that verify the authenticity of TLS certificates, which are often known simply as X509 certificates. The coding error, which may have been present in the code since 2005, causes critical verification checks to be terminated, drawing ironic parallels to the extremely critical 'goto fail' flaw that for months put users of Apple's iOS and OS X operating systems at risk of surreptitious eavesdropping attacks. Apple developers have since patched the bug." And while Apple can readily fix a bug in its own software, at least for users who keep up on patches, "Linux" refers to a broad range of systems and vendors, rather than a single company, and the affected systems include some of the biggest names in the Linux world, like Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu.
theodp (442580) writes "As Facebook and Google battle to bring the Internet to remote locations, Alicia Levine takes an interesting look at the dual strategy of Zero Rating and Consolidated Use employed by Google's FreeZone and Facebook's 0.facebook.com, websites which offer free access to certain Google and Facebook services via partnerships with mobile operators around the world. By reducing the cost to the user to zero, Levine explains, the tech giants not only get the chance to capture billions of new eyeballs to view ads in emerging markets, they also get the chance to effectively become "The Internet" in those markets. "If I told you that Facebook's strategy was to become the next Prodigy or AOL, you'd take me for crazy," writes Levine. "But, to a certain degree, that's exactly what they're trying to do. In places where zero-rating for Facebook or Google is the key to accessing the Internet, they are the Internet. And people have started to do every normal activity we would do on the Internet through those two portals because it costs them zero. This is consolidated use. If Facebook is my free pass to the Internet, I'm going to try to do every activity possible via Facebook so that it's free." The race to zero presents more than just a business opportunity, adds Levine — it also presents a chance for tech companies to improve lives. And if Google and Facebook fall short on that count, well, at least there's still Wikipedia Zero."
An anonymous reader writes "As if the automated take downs on Youtube weren't already bad enough, today fans of the popular open source 3D software Blender were greeted by a copyright take down notice for their third open movie, Sintel, despite it being released under a Creative Commons license: 'This video contains content from Sony Pictures Movies & Shows, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.' It is believed that the takedown was a result of Sony Electronics adding Sintel to their official 4k demo pool."
A few months back, we posted a video interview with some of the folks behind the Linux-friendly, x86-based MinnowBoard. TechCrunch reports the release of a more powerful version of the same all-in-one computer, now with a 1.91GHz Atom E3845 processor. According to the linked article, "The board's schematics are also available for download and the Intel graphics chipset has open-source drivers so hackers can have their way with the board. While it doesn't compete directly with the Raspberry Pi – the Pi is more an educational tool and already has a robust ecosystem – it is a way for DIYers to mess around in x86 architected systems as well as save a bit of cash. The system uses break-out boards called Lures to expand functionality."
We mentioned a few days ago the USAID-funded SMS social network that was connecting Cubans against the wishes of the Cuban government. Now Glen Greenwald's The Intercept has more on this kind of back-channel government intervention via what he characterizes as "the Internet propaganda bucket." Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes with an excerpt: "These ideas–discussions of how to exploit the internet, specifically social media, to surreptitiously disseminate viewpoints friendly to western interests and spread false or damaging information about targets–appear repeatedly throughout the archive of materials provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Documents prepared by NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ–and previously published by The Intercept as well as some by NBC News–detailed several of those programs, including a unit devoted in part to "discrediting" the agency's enemies with false information spread online.
The documents in the archive show that the British are particularly aggressive and eager in this regard, and formally shared their methods with their U.S. counterparts. One previously undisclosed top-secret document–prepared by GCHQ for the 2010 annual "SIGDEV" gathering of the "Five Eyes" surveillance alliance comprising the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S.–explicitly discusses ways to exploit Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media as secret platforms for propaganda."
redletterdave (2493036) writes "Facebook owns virtually all the aspects of the social experience—photos (Instagram), status updates (Facebook), location services (Places)—but now, Facebook is transitioning from a simple social network to a full-fledged technology company that rivals Google, moonshot for moonshot. Yet, it's Facebook's corporate control of traffic that leads many to distrust the company. In a sense, people are stuck. When the time comes for someone to abandon Facebook, whether over privacy concerns or frustration with the company, Facebook intentionally makes it hard to leave. Even if you delete your account, your ghost remains—even when you die, Facebook can still make money off you. And that's not behavior fit for a company that's poised to take over the future."
An anonymous reader writes "I am a new Linux user; I'm on 2nd day now. Currently I am trying out Ubuntu, but that could change. I am looking for a user friendly firewall that I can set up that lets me do these things:1) set up a default deny rule 2) carve out exceptions for these programs: browser, email client, chat client, yum and/or apt. 3) carve out exceptions to the exceptions in requirement 2 — i.e. I want to be able to then block off IPs and IP ranges known to be used by malware, marketers, etc., and all protocols which aren't needed for requirement 2. It also needs to have good enough documentation that a beginner like me can figure it out. Previously, I had done all of the above in AVG Firewall on Windows, and it was very easy to do. So far, I have tried these things:1) IPTABLES — it looked really easy to screw it up and then not notice that it's screwed up and/or not be able to fix it even if I did notice, so I tried other things at that point... 2) searched the internet and found various free firewalls such as Firestarter, GUFW, etc., which I weren't able to make meet my requirements. Can someone either point me to a firewall that meets my needs or else give me some hints on how to make firestarter or GUFW do what I need?"
First time accepted submitter RealSurreal (620564) writes "British web host 123-reg, which previously advertised 'no hidden transfer fees' has angered customers by introducing a £12 fee per domain for transfers out. Best of all, they didn't bother to tell anyone they were doing it relying instead on terms and conditions which say : '123-reg reserves the right to change, add, subtract or in way alter these Conditions without the prior consent of the Client.'"
theodp (442580) writes "Over the years, Mozilla's reliance on Google has continued to grow. Indeed, in its report on Brendan Eich's promotion to CEO of Mozilla, the WSJ noted that "Google accounted for nearly 90% of Mozilla's $311 million in revenue." So, with its Sugar Daddy having also gone on record as being virulently opposed to Proposition 8, to think that that Google's support didn't enter into discussions of whether Prop 8 backer Eich should stay or go seems, well, pretty much unthinkable. "It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8," explained Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2008. "We should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love." Interestingly, breaking the news of Eich's resignation was journalist Kara Swisher, whose right to marry a top Google exec in 2008 was nearly eliminated by Prop 8. "In an interview this morning," wrote Swisher, "Mozilla Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker said that Eich's ability to lead the company that makes the Firefox Web browser had been badly damaged by the continued scrutiny over the hot-button issue, which had actually been known since 2012 inside the Mozilla community." Swisher, whose article was cited by the NY Times in The Campaign Against Mozilla's Brendan Eich, added that "it was not hard to get the sense that Eich really wanted to stick strongly by his views about gay marriage, which run counter to much of the tech industry and, increasingly, the general population in the U.S. For example, he repeatedly declined to answer when asked if he would donate to a similar initiative today." So, was keeping Eich aboard viewed by Mozilla — perhaps even by Eich himself — as a possible threat to the reported $1 billion minimum revenue guarantee the organization enjoys for delivering search queries for Google?"
jones_supa (887896) writes "Japan has ordered a destroyer in the Sea of Japan to strike any ballistic missiles that may be launched by North Korea in the coming weeks after Pyongyang fired a Rodong medium-range missile over the sea. Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera issued the order on Thursday, but did not make it public in order to avoid putting a chill on renewed talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang. The Rodong missile fell into the sea after flying 650 km, short of a maximum range thought to be some 1,300 km, which means it could reach Japan. Japanese Aegis destroyers in the Sea of Japan are equipped with advanced radar equipment able to track multiple targets and carry missiles designed to take out targets at the edge of space."
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "'Roughly one in three American adults believes in telepathy, ghosts, and extrasensory perception,' wrote a trio of scientists in a 2012 issue of the Astronomy Education Review. 'Roughly one in five believes in witches, astrology, clairvoyance, and communication with the dead (PDF). Three quarters hold at least one of these beliefs, and a third has four distinct pseudoscientific beliefs.' Now Steven Ross Pomeroy writes in Forbes Magazine that it's time to bring pseudoscience into public schools and universities. 'By incorporating examples of pseudoscience into lectures, instructors can provide students with the tools needed to understand the difference between scientific and pseudoscientific or paranormal claims,' say Rodney Schmaltz and Scott Lilienfeld." (Read more, below.)
whoever57 (658626) writes "The UK Government has signed a contract worth £5.5M (almost $9M) for extended support and security updates for Windows XP for 12 months after April 8. The deal covers XP, Exchange 2003 and Office 2003 for users in central and local government, schools and the National Health Service. The NHS is in need of this deal because it was estimated last September that 85% of the NHS's 800,000 computers were running XP."
mdsolar (1045926) writes "The search and investigation into missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is already the most expensive in aviation history, figures released to Fairfax Media suggest. The snippets of costings provide only a small snapshot but the $US50 million ($54 million) spent on the two-year probe into Air France Flight 447 — the previous record — appears to have been easily surpassed after just four weeks.... The biggest expense in the search has involved ships, satellites, planes and submarines deployed first in the South China Sea and the Malacca Straits, and then in the remote reaches of the southern Indian Ocean."
An anonymous reader writes: "Android has a huge market share advantage over iOS these days, but it hasn't had as much success at following the money. iOS continues to win over many app developers and businesses who want to maximize their earnings. Now, an article at Slate goes over some of the statistics demonstrating this trend. A map of geo-located Tweets show that in Manhattan, a generally affluent area, most of the Tweets come from iPhones. Meanwhile, in nearby Newark, which is a poorer area, most Tweets come from Android devices. In other tests, traffic data shows 87% of visits to e-commerce websites from tablets come from iPads, and the average value of an order from an iPad is $155, compared to $110 from Android tablets. (Android fairs a bit better on phones). Android shows a huge market share advantage in poorer countries, as well. Not all devs and business are just chasing the money, though. Twitter developer Cennydd Bowles said, 'I do hope, given tech's rhetoric about changing the world and disrupting outdated hierarchies, that we don't really think only those with revenue potential are worth our attention. A designer has a duty to be empathetic; to understand and embrace people not like him/herself. A group owning different devices to the design elite is not a valid reason to neglect their needs.'"
xyourfacekillerx writes "Not long ago, Slashdot readers answered a question for someone seeking to finish a BS in CS online. I am in a similar situation with a different question. I have spent five years frivolously studying philosophy at a very expensive university, and now I want to start towards an Associate's in CS, and then perhaps a Bachelor's (I want to program for a living; I write code daily anyways). After four hours of combing through Google results, I still don't have much useful information. Problem 1: I am out of money and I have an 8 to 5 job, so on-campus enrollment is not an option. Problem 2: and I have very little to transfer due to the specificity of my prior studies: I don't even have my core English/Language or even math cores to transfer. My questions are: 1) Just where are the open CS courses? Who offers it in a way that's more than just lecture notes posts online? 2) Can any of it help or hinder me getting a degree (i.e. does any of it transfer, potentially? Is it a waste of time? Additionally, any tips about accredited online universities (preferably self-paced) where I can start to get my associates and/or bachelor's in CS at low cost would be useful. I intend to be enrolled online somewhere by Fall, and I am starting my own search among local (Colorado) junior colleges who don't demand on-campus presence like most four-years schools do."
An anonymous reader writes "The F# programming language team has been providing source code releases for years, but all contributions to the core implementation were internal. Microsoft is now changing that. They've announced that they'll be accepting code contributions from the community for the core F# language, the compiler, library, and Visual F# tools. They praised the quality of work currently being done by the F# community: 'The F# community is already doing high-quality, cross-platform open engineering using modern tools, testing methodology and build processes. Some particularly active projects include the Visual F# Power Tools, FSharp.Data, F# Editing Support for Open Editors, the Deedle DataFrame library and a host of testing tools, web tools, templates, type providers and other tools.' Microsoft is actively solicited bug fixes, optimizations, and library improvements."
alphadogg writes: "An argument between developers of some of the most basic parts of Linux turned heated this week, resulting in a prominent Red Hat employee and code contributor being banned from working on the Linux kernel. Kay Sievers, a well-known open-source software engineer, is a key developer of systemd, a system management framework for Linux-based operating systems. Systemd is currently used by several prominent Linux distributions, including two of the most prominent enterprise distros, Red Hat and SUSE. It was recently announced that Ubuntu would adopt systemd in future versions as well. Sievers was banned by kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds on Wednesday for failing to address an issue that caused systemd to interact with the Linux kernel in negative ways."
Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes: "A year ago, getting ready for Burning Man, I read that the cars in the exit line sometimes have to wait in the sun for hours to get out. I came up with an algorithm that I thought would alleviate the problem. Do you think it would work? If not, why not? Or can you think of a better one?" Read on for the rest of Bennett's thoughts.
An anonymous reader writes "By the end of next week, NASA will release a master catalog of over 1,000 software projects it has conducted over the years and will provide instructions on how the public can obtain copies of the source code. NASA's goal is to eventually 'host the actual software code in its own online repository, a kind of GitHub for astronauts.' This follows NASA's release of the code running the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer a few years back. Scientists not affiliated with NASA have already adapted some of NASA's software. 'In 2005, marine biologists adapted the Hubble Space Telescope's star-mapping algorithm to track and identify endangered whale sharks. That software has now been adapted to track polar bears in the arctic and sunfish in the Galapagos Islands.' The Hubble Space Telescope's scheduling software has reportedly also been used to schedule MRIs at hospitals and as control algorithms for online dating services. The possibilities could be endless."
First time accepted submitter Jahta (1141213) writes "The Oxford Internet Institute has created a schematic of the world's international fiber-optic links in the style of the famous London Tube map. The schematic also highlights nodes where censorship and surveillance are known to be in operation. The map uses data sourced from cablemap.info. Each node has been assigned to a country, and all nodes located in the same country have been collapsed into a single node. The resulting network has been then abstracted."
Lasrick (2629253) writes "Brian Merchant at Motherboard examines the March 26th House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's 2015 budget request hearing. White House adviser Dr. John Holdren addressed the committee to defend funding for science programs. Video clips show comments that are difficult to believe, when you hear them. From the article: '"So, when you guys do your research, you start with a scientific—what do they call it—postulate or theory, and you work from that direction forward, is that right?" Representative Randy Weber (R-TX) said. "So, I'm just wondering how that related, for example, to global warming and eventual global cooling." He paused to make a joke about getting the scientists' cell phone number so he could call to ask when to buy a coat, before concluding that science just isn't up to the task.'"
jfruh (300774) writes "Bitcoin has made many governments and regulators uncomfortable, and the Chinese government is responding to the challenge it poses with its usual lack of subtlety. Two Chinese bitcoin exchanges have found themselves cut off from the money economy, as Chinese banks, under pressure from the government, refuse to do business with them."
curtwoodward (2147628) writes "In January, Boston University settled lawsuits against two dozen big technology companies for allegedly using its patented blue LED technology without permission. But apparently, the school's lawyers were a little too forthcoming for everyone's tastes — they recently asked a federal judge to delete a court filing that spelled out all of the companies who settled. Luckily, we still had the unredacted version, which shows that Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Motorola and many more are on the list, even if they don't want you to know it."
Bruce Perens is a computer programmer and one of the most important advocates for the open source community. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative with ESR and has worked towards reforms of national and international technology policies. He is an amateur radio enthusiast, and has pushed for open radio communication standards. He is also our interview guest today. As usual, ask as many questions as you'd like, but please, one per post.
cartechboy (2660665) writes "Did you watch the Tesla 60 Minutes segment the other night? If you did, you might have ended up on the floor rolling around laughing like I did. Since when does the Tesla Model S electric car make audible engine noises? Or downshift? Turns out, 60 Minutes dubbed engine noises and a downshift over the Model S running footage. The show claims it was an editing error. Call it what you want, it was absolutely hilarious. A little note to TV producers assigned to cover Tesla Motors in the future: Electric cars don't upshift or downshift." At least they didn't fraudulently blow it up!
barlevg (2111272) writes "In a country where the government severely limits access to the world wide web, ZunZeneo, an anonymous SMS-based social network, drew more than 40,000 Cuban users at its peak, the Associated Press reports. On it, people shared news and opinions about music and culture. But what none of its subscribers knew was that the project was secretly funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), though a series of shell corporations and foreign bank accounts, and that its stated goal was 'renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society' in the Communist stronghold, hopefully leading to a 'Cuban Spring.'"
chicksdaddy (814965) writes "The Internet of Things has tremendous potential but also poses a tremendous risk if the underlying security of Internet of Things devices is not taken into account, according to Vint Cerf, Google's Internet Evangelist. Cerf, speaking in a public Google Hangout (video) on Wednesday, said that he's tremendously excited about the possibilities of an Internet of billions of connected objects. But Cerf warned that it necessitates big changes in the way that software is written. Securing the data stored on those devices and exchanged between them represents a challenge to the field of computer science – one that the nation's universities need to start addressing. Internet of Things products need to do a better job managing access control and use strong authentication to secure communications between devices."
girlmad writes: "Google has scored a major win on the back of Microsoft's Windows XP support cut-off. The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has begun moving all its employees over to Samsung Chromebooks and Chromeboxes ahead of the 8 April deadline. The council was previously running 3,500 Windows XP desktops and 800 XP laptops, and is currently in the process of retiring these in favour of around 2,000 Chromebooks and 300 Chromeboxes. It estimates the savings at around £400,000 compared to upgrading to newer Windows machines — no small change."
An anonymous reader writes "The Verge reports on an internal memo from NASA indicating that they've suspended all contracts and activities with Russia that aren't involved with operating the International Space Station. Quoting: 'Given Russia's ongoing violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, until further notice, the U.S. Government has determined that all NASA contacts with Russian Government representatives are suspended, unless the activity has been specifically excepted. This suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian Government representatives to NASA facilities, bilateral meetings, email, and teleconferences or videoconferences. At the present time, only operational International Space Station activities have been excepted.' NASA Administrator Charles Bolden argued recently that our dependence on Russia for putting astronauts into space needs to end."
Today Amazon launched 'Fire TV,' a new video streaming box designed to compete with devices like the Roku and Apple TV. The Fire TV runs Android on a quad-core Qualcomm 1.7 GHz processor with 8GB of internal storage and 2GB of RAM. It supports 1080p video output at 60fps and measures 4.5" x 4.5" x 0.7". The Fire TV is also explicitly designed to support gaming, and Amazon has concurrently launched their own game controller. The Fire TV's remote control includes a microphone and a button that lets you search TV show and movies by voice.
jones_supa (887896) writes "Wanting to focus their efforts on their most important strategic initiatives and ensuring that the company is not spread too thin, Canonical is shutting down Ubuntu One file services. With other services now regularly offering from 25 GB to 50 GB of free storage, the personal cloud storage space wasn't a sustainable place for Canonical. As of today, it will no longer be possible to purchase storage or music from the Ubuntu One store. The Ubuntu One software will not be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, and the Ubuntu One apps in older versions of Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores will be updated appropriately.
The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted. For a spark of solace, the company promises to open source the backend code."
mdsolar (1045926) writes with this bit of news about the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant shutdown. From the article: "On Friday, the Vermont Public Service Board voted to authorize Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., the operators of the Vermont Yankee electricity generating station ..., to close down their nuclear power plant by the end of this year. Because Entergy planned to shut the Vermont nuclear plant down prior to its licensed end-term, the board was required to approve the shutdown....
Entergy has reserved just over $600 million to date for decommissioning the Vermont nuclear plant, according to the Department of Public Service. This amount will not be adequate to meet the costs of full deconstruction, estimated at more than $1 billion according to the company's 2012 Decommissioning Cost Analysis report."
An 8.2-magnitude earthquake has struck roughly 60km off the cost of Chile. Its depth was approximately 20.1km. A tsunami has been generated, and evacuations have been ordered along the coast near the strike. Tsunami warnings were also issued for Peru and Ecuador. According to the Associated Press, "Coastal residents of northern Chile evacuated calmly as waves measuring almost 2 meters (6 1/2 feet) struck ahead of a tsunami that was expected to come ashore later. ... Chile's emergency service reported some roads blocked by landslides caused by the quake, but said no injuries had been reported so far."
mrspoonsi sends this news from the Washington Post: "A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques. The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed the document. ... At the secret prison, Baluchi endured a regime that included being dunked in a tub filled with ice water. CIA interrogators forcibly kept his head under the water while he struggled to breathe and beat him repeatedly, hitting him with a truncheon-like object and smashing his head against a wall, officials said. As with Abu Zubaida and even Nashiri, officials said, CIA interrogators continued the harsh treatment even after it appeared that Baluchi was cooperating."
Charliemopps writes: "According to Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, 'There have been queries, using U.S. person identifiers, of communications lawfully acquired to obtain foreign intelligence targeting non-U.S. persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States. These queries were performed pursuant to minimization procedures approved by the Fisa court and consistent with the statute and the fourth amendment.' Basically, if you communicated with someone that is 'reasonably believed' to be a terrorist, you've lost constitutional protection against searches without a warrant, according to the NSA."
New submitter brondsem writes: "Today the Apache Software Foundation announced the Allura project for hosting software development projects. Think GitHub or SourceForge on your own servers — Allura has git, svn, hg, wiki, tickets, forums, news, etc. It's written in python and has a modular and extensible platform so you can write your own tools and extensions. It's already used by SourceForge, DARPA, German Aerospace Center, and Open Source Projects Europe. Allura is open source; available under the Apache License v2.0. When you don't want all your project resources in the cloud on somebody else's walled garden, you can run Allura on your own servers and have full control and full data access." (SourceForge shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot).
Daniel_Stuckey writes "The United States is currently gripped in a bout of earthquake mania, following a series of significant tremors in the West. And any time Yellowstone, LA, or San Francisco shakes, people start to wonder if it's a sign of The Big One to come. Yet even after decades of research, earthquake prediction remains notoriously hard, and not every building in quake-prone areas has an earthquake-resistant design. What if, instead of quaking in our boots, we could stop quakes in their tracks? Theoretically, it's not a crazy idea. Earthquakes propagate in waves, and if noise-canceling headphones have taught us anything, it's that waves can be absorbed, reflected, or canceled out. Today, a paper published in Physical Review Letters suggests how that might be done. It's the result of French research into the use of metamaterials—broadly, materials with properties not found in nature—to modify seismic waves, like a seismic cloaking device."
PortWineBoy writes: "The Beeb is reporting that OkCupid is prompting Mozilla Firefox users to switch browsers over Brendan Eich's support of Prop 8 in California in 2008. Users are met with a message stating that OKCupid would prefer no one access their site with Mozilla software. Eich is the new CEO of Mozilla."
jfruh (300774) writes "PayScale has recently released a survey of various U.S. colleges and majors, and determined, perhaps unsurprisingly, that computer science graduates of elite colleges make the most money in post-graduate life. However, blogger Phil Johnson approached the problem in a different way, taking into account the amount students and their families need to pay in tuition, [and found] that the best return on investment in comp sci degrees often comes from top-tier public universities, which cost significantly less for in-state students but still offer great rewards in terms of salaries for grads."
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With the harvest getting underway, I finally got my summer kitchen cleaned up.
When we bought the place, this building was a mess. Half had been used as a chicken coop and not cleaned in years, and the other half as a work shop and then junk storage - also had not been cleaned out in years. This will be my third season having a summer kitchen, and I love it! The door, double window and windows on the green house were removed from the house during assorted remodeling projects. Inside I have a nice double utility sink and a hose sprayer. It's got the full power you expect from a garden hose too. The longer hose lets me fill pots on the cooktop. The countertop has a slight slope to it so things drain into the sink. The unit on the wall is an on demand hot water heater. The cabinets are from the house. Good use of my old, worn towels too. This use to be a display case - got cheap when they remodeled the office I work in. We put in heavy shelves to hold my pots and stuff. A few of the pots were purchased at garage sales, but the bulk came from the house when I had to replace them because I switched to induction. This small rolling metal table was purchased for $5. Gives me some extra room for things like setting up my mixer when I need to use the attachments. The white cabinets use to be in the bathroom. The chunk of wood next to the table is the cover for the cooktop. And the heart - the cooktop. I got the desk from a place I use to work years ago. It lost a few feet of length to make it fit. Having the cooktop at the low level is really nice. I can fit both my canners on this at the same time, and it's got plenty of power. This is the water source. The outlet for the cooktop is behind it in the corner - the breaker box for the building is on the other side of the wall. I keep the breakers for the cooktop and waterheater off when not in use. The waterheater comes in the house for the winter too. The door on the left goes to the coop (use to be a closet door in the house) and the door on the right goes to the greenhouse (use to be an upstairs bedroom door). This picture showing the cooktop with the cover in place. |
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- Posted by girlgroupgirl 8 ATL (My Page) on Sat, Aug 6, 11 at 0:01
That's a fantastic place! Really great re-use of items you no longer enjoyed in your home but needed elsewhere. I am assuming you live in a climate where it has not been at least 95 for 4 straight months? I can't imagine only opening the windows to can right now unless it was at midnight (even then, some days....) |
I'm in South Dakota - we only had about three weeks of hotter weather and it's starting to get a bit back to normal. Been a strange year weather wise for sure. This is what the place looks like from about December through March. |
This last picture sure shows why you can't wait to do your canning in the winter! :-) Really great set-up Marcy. I envy your convenience and your top-notch organization. Dave |
- Posted by Charcuterie none (My Page) on Sat, Aug 6, 11 at 12:28
Very cool set up. It seems like a perfect place to do some beer and wine making as well. |
Ok, this is my new dream! Awesome! |
Macy - how do you transport all your finished canned goods back to the house? A conveyor belt set-up would be handy. :) Dave |
Awesome, love it. (I live in Utah now, but grew up in SD, and I am now and always will be a South Dakotan.) |
- Posted by lpinkmountain 5b/6a border PA (My Page) on Wed, Oct 5, 11 at 16:19
Ingenious! Looks like a fun place to hang out too! |
Well, since this got dragged back up - DH and I decided to insulate the bulding so we could use it in the colder months for meat processing. That meant taking everyting out and off the walls, putting in foam insulation (so it can't get water damamge) and putting up water resistant sheething on the walls and regular sheeting on the ceiling - then re-runing some of the elctrical (it's all in conduit on top of the sheething. We also put in a bathroom type exhaust fan right over the cooktop - that will be handy. And when it's all done, I'm going to paint it bright yellow - Menards had a five gallon bucket of mis-mixed exterior paint for $15, and at that price I can live with yellow. I wanted exterior paint because it's subject to much harsher use than typical indoor paint is meant for - including subzero temps. I am alos raising the sink so I can reach the bottom without bending over - about 3". We also talked about putting a cutting board instead of laminate near the sink, but we are workign to keep the cost down so that might not happen until next year. We tore it up last weekend, and I miss it already - still have apples to deal with! |
Macy I appreciate your separate canning space but I have a question/concern. Do you have a lead free garden hose? You would have to buy it special, it would have been labeled "drink safe". Otherwise hoses are made of PVC and they use lead as a stabilizer. http://containergardening.about.com/od/greencontainergardening/a/Gardenhose.htm |
I have major concerns about sanitation issues related to the proximity to your chicken coop. You mentioned one of the doors goes directly to the coop. Histoplasmosis is a very serious infectious lung disease. It is caused by a fungus found in bird droppings (including chickens), and is spread by inhaling the airborne spores. Chicken feed attracts rodents and roaches, which would also affect your adjoining kitchen. I don't know what other infections are spread to humans via chickens or chicken droppings, but I think you need to have your canning kitchen completely separate from the chicken coop and much further away. Are you selling any of your canned goods? |
No, I would never even consider selling any of what I can, mostly becuase I have no need of making money like that. If I wanted to, I'd have an approved kitchen, which this was never intended to be. But I appreciate your concerns. I don't know if the histoplasmosis would be a problem with properly processed foods, as the processing kills what ever might have gotten in there. Though I'm way more concerned on possibly breathing it if there is an issue - not eating it. BTW - I do wear a resporator when I'm cleaning the coop. We only have a very small flock (8 hens)and they free range, so the coop gets little use during the warmer months and stays relativly clean. I'm also not worried about salmonila in my eggs, and that can also be a concern. Nearest neighbor is over a mile away so not that much chance for contamination - though West Nile in wild birds is also a potential threat. Cross contamination is one reason I keep my domestic rabbits where they can never come in contact with wild cottontails. Tuleramia is also not fun. All the edible stuff is secure in metal containers, roaches and rodents are not something I've had a problem with. It is one reason the cats have access to the buidling also. I've actually had more problems with bugs in my house than out here , but I store way more food in the house. |
Macy, it looks charming. While maybe a little more broken up (meaning steps apart), I'm not sure you don't have about as much flat surface prep space in that canning kitchen as I have in my everyday only kitchen! I do have three very strong pull out breadboards - believe me, when canning they get used. |
- Posted by gardnpondr Zone 8 (My Page) on Fri, Oct 7, 11 at 21:06
WOW that is soooo nice! I bet it's REALLY nice when you need to can and put up your veggies and stuff. You did good with your organizing it to. |
- Posted by gardengalrn 5KS (My Page) on Sun, Oct 9, 11 at 0:25
Macy, I'm in love with your canning kitchen and perhaps a bit envious. I don't think I have issue with your coop proximity, either. I bring in pails of eggs every day and have so many different critters that you can't tell me that I don't leave a germ trail despite taking off boots, etc. Of course I sanitize the kitchen any time I can and assume you do the same. I have cats inside, too. So I don't suppose that your outside kitchen is much dirtier than my inside kitchen, LOL. I think it is brilliant how you have made great use of cast away items such as doors and cabinets. I sure wish I had a spot to get away to or to heat up during the hot months if need be and spare the house. Way to go. Lori |
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When we built our house 6 years ago a large, steep hillside was cleared by necessity. Since then we've had to stringtrim it--a big cost in man-hours as well as gasoline.
I want to convert this hillside into a low maintenance permaculture with native plants, including edibles, if possible, but I don't know how to begin. Over the 6 years I have planted some fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs to reduce the stringtrimming but installing over an acre of groundcover has daunted me. I don't have lots of money for a landscape architect nor lots of time to study (though right now I am reading through Edible Forest Gardens, only have on loan til 5/31). Most of the "advice" I'll get from local nurseries and the extension service is likely to be conventional--"put in carpet junipers" (actual quote!) What is the best and easiest/quickest way for me to make a positive change on this hillside? Who locally may be able to advise me inexpensively? thanks for any advice! |
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- Posted by belgianpup Wa/Zone 8 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 1, 08 at 22:48
The only place I could find online was the Blue Ridge Permaculture Network [http://www.blueridgepermaculture.net/resources.html]. Another avenue might be your local Cooperative Extension Service. If the word 'permaculture' throws them, immediately go back to basics and give them the bare bones of what you want: one acre of steep hillside that you want to plant in weed-resisting (possibly native) plants, preferably at least some that produce food. Other useful info would be degree of slope, type and pH of soil, orientation to sun, temp. min/max, exposure to wind, etc. The first thing that comes to my mind is berries like blueberries, lingonberries, mulberries (trees, I don't know how large they get), etc. Googling 'small fruits' may produce more info. But the Co-op Ext. should know what will grow there. Books: The backyard orchardist : a complete guide to growing fruit trees in the home garden by Stella Otto Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden by Lee Reich You might also investigate cover crops, as both a weed control (perennial or self-seeding) and as a source of nutrition for the plants. Sue |
Have you looked into a garden coach? I've found that some of my clients who can't swing a full master plan still get some benefit from coaching. There may be someone in your area. |
- Posted by gardengrrrl 8 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 19, 08 at 22:42
I would check with native plant societies in your area or talk to people about doing "restoration" on the slope. A steep slope isn't a great place to have a food garden, unless you terrace it. Plant natives that will help with erosion control. Start working on raised beds/terraces for the area right next to the house. That will be the easiest for you to take care of. The right garden coach would be a great help. |
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The next morning, Daehyun woke up feeling cold. He clutched his eyes tightly, refusing to open it even a single lash thanks to Youngjae whimpered loudly last night. The nightmare had strike him again, and Daehyun, as the only one who was there – and also the only one knowing this, had woken all night just to watch out if his brother start to mutter something incoherent between his sleep again.
He was sure he heard Youngjae whispering 'don't go' before sobbing lightly. He didn't know what was that supposed to mean, but at least he tried to reduce the sob into just a small hiccup after dropping his pride and soothe his little brother down. It didn't matter how much he hated Youngjae, and how much the younger seemed to hated him in equal measure, it was just he couldn't stand seeing his brother cry. And that, he realized, was yet again something he still couldn't explain.
They finally really drifted off for the second time when the digital clock had shown 03.27 am in red glow. Really, if it wasn't the weekend, Daehyun would throw his tantrum for losing his precious sleep time. He didn't really remember that he had pulled Youngjae so close to the point that his bigger figure enveloped the smaller boy. But it was warm and the blonde brat had felt so fluffy, should be the stubborn baby-fat on those sinfully delicious-looking cheeks, and Daehyun was sleepy, so all deal.
The digital clock was beeping on his ears, and after searching blindly for a trace of any blonde boy around him yet found nothing, he groaned and woke up.
9.48 am.
Great. Just great. Just how long he was already late for his skateboarding practice? Two hours?
Sprung out to his bathroom, his mind tried to arrange a quick plan of what should he do. Call it childish, or weird, or… stupid, well, whatever. But Daehyun always has this habit to forget about what things he need to do when he was in panic state.
"So, take a bath," he started, messily pulled off his shirt and boxers down as he stepped into the bathtub, immediately reached out for the shampoo though he hadn't turn on the shower yet. "Oh. Yeah, the water," he breathed, suddenly feeling embarrassed. He rubbed his hair between the gels and proceeded to wash his body. Right after all the bubble and soap washed away, he stood up to dry his hair. Before stop in the middle of his track. "Oh, right. Haven't brush my teeth…"
Five minutes and a set of clean teeth later, he was scrambling down to match his outfits. He grabbed a pair of grey tank-top and faint-blue buttoned-up shirt with matching grey jeans.
10.12 am.
"!" running hurriedly, he practically slammed open his bedroom door and went downstairs. Out of his knowledge, the whole house was quiet. It was normal since their parents weren't there, but Youngjae was also out of sight. Even there was no sound of evidence he was there the whole time. Weird, he thought. Usually the boy would stay at the house till noon; reading, shooting the aliens on his screen, budging Daehyun, or simply curling up on his bed. But today, he was off.
Well, maybe he was hanging out with his friends. After all, Youngjae was surely popular for his brain and look. But he hardly ever saw his brother having fun with anyone. The blonde was an easy-going and follow-the-flow type of a person. He got along well with everyone, except Daehyun that is. Yet it didn't mean that he was everyone's . To think about it, the tall kid with blue hair he saw yesterday was quite close to Youngjae.
Maybe Youngjae was with him? But the tall kid was kinda new in their school. Then how could they be that close? Were they dating? If yes, since when? Why didn't Youngjae tell him?
But then again, why did he fuss about it? It wasn't like his brother gonna tell, anyway.
Shaking his head, he continued stepping down on the stairs, before stopped altogether.
There was a paper plane on the floor in front of him. From the paper, it was Youngjae's. And it was only him who'd communicate with Daehyun trough this way. Picking up the small paper plane, he unfolded it and read through neat and small handwriting of his brother.
"I knew you'd be late. Didn't wake you up 'cause you looked so much like . Pancakes and milk are on kitchen table. I'm off for a while, gonna catch you up later. Thanks for last night."
He walked slowly to the kitchen with the paper still on his hand, for a while forgetting that he was late. So he was indeed hanging out, Daehyun thought while munching on a plate of pancakes Youngjae had prepared. Ever since their parents started this leaving-thing, the younger learned to feed both of them. The taste was not as good as those they have on upper-scale restaurant, but it was good enough, and fluffy. He didn't know why, but almost everything about Youngjae was fluffy. Finishing his milk, he noticed that the last sentence in the message was written in thinner ink. Seemed like his brother had contemplated whether to say it or no.
He smiled a bit. So it wasn't a complete turn back after all. And they still have a chance to fix this 'I-will-kill-you-in-your-sleep' relationship. It was safe to say the least, that even just in thin and wavered line of words; Youngjae thanked him, for real.
He raked over the cabinet to find a ballpoint and wrote a reply behind the paper before folding it into a paper plane resembled to Youngjae's. It was tiring and he was reluctant, but he climbed upstairs to put the paper plane on Youngjae's bedside table. Only when he saw the clock showing 10.36 am, he scrambled downstairs to grab his skateboard and leave.
If he missed the practice, he might as well back to his brother's room and add that he'd choke Youngjae to death later.
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As we bemoan the fourth Ben Stiller film in seven months, consider an era when comic actors routinely cranked out a half-dozen pictures a year...and we liked it! The Slapstick Symposium series has three sets of silents from the not-so-roaring '20s: Most crucial is the Harold Lloyd Collection, since ol' four eyes has heretofore been virtually unrepresented on disc, what with his estate holding out for the right DVD deal. This one contains some primo public-domain stuff, including Lloyd's first feature, ''Grandma's Boy,'' which locked in his burned-milquetoast, wimp-to-winner persona. Less essential is the Charley Chase Collection, which makes the case for a star who may have faded just because his straight-man looks were an odd fit with his comic chops. A goofier mug powers the Stan Laurel Collection, featuring 16 ''solo'' shorts that'll be revelatory for fans who know him only as Hardy's sad-sack foil; here, he takes on such un-Stan-dard roles as a Russian count and a Dr. Jekyll wannabe. Quality varies, but accept the For Your Collection promise that any of these are funnier than Dodgeball.
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Before Leopard came out Apple was making some noise about providing a similar feature in Mobile Me, but it never appeared, and in the messy launch of Mobile Me I think it was forgotten.
Recently, Yellow Mug added an iPhone and iPod touch version of the application, and it can see your files stored on the web server of your choice, and initiate a file transfer just as if you were sitting at your desktop or laptop mac. It's free for FileChute owners.
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A former member of the hockey club has been killed whilst serving in Afghanistan.
Corporal Brent John McCarthy, of the Royal Air Force, was killed alongside Lance Corporal Lee Thomas Davies, 27, from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards at a patrol base in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province.
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