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Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs
    * Gaping Holes In Fully Patched IE7, Firefox 2
    * Tech Review Sites and Payola
    * Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite?
    * Review of Windows Mobile 6-Based "Wing"
    * Computex 2007 Previews New Hardware
    * OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Alpha Released!
    * RIAA Drops Tanya Andersen Case
    * FCC Indecency Ruling Struck Down
    * Dell Thinks Ubuntu Makes Hardware More Fragile?
    * HardOCP Spends 30 Days With MacOSX
    * Windows-Based iPhone Rival for Business Users
    * Terminator Gene Ban Suggested in Canada
    * The 10 "Inconvienient Truths" of File Sharing
    * Search for Higgs "God Particle" Gets Interesing
    * Intel Updates Compilers For Multicore CPUs
    * Controlling Computers With the Brain
    * iPhone To Allow 3rd-Party Development
    * Watching My Neighbors Watch On-Demand TV
    * RIAA Accused of Extortion & Conspiracy

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| RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs                                    |
|   from the media-center-storage dept.                              |
|   posted by kdawson on Monday June 04, @20:21 (Data Storage)       |
|   http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/2239250     |
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Ravengbc writes "I am in the process of planning and buying some hardware
to build a media center/media server. While there are still quite a few
things on it that I haven't decided on, such as motherboard/processor,
and windows XP vs. Linux, right now my debate is about storage. I'm
wanting to have as much storage as possible, but redundancy seems to be
important too." Read on for this reader's questions about the tradeoffs
among straight HDDs, RAID 5, and JBOD.

This story continues at:
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/2239250

Discuss this story at:
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/04/2239250


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| Gaping Holes In Fully Patched IE7, Firefox 2                       |
|   from the just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe dept.                 |
|   posted by kdawson on Monday June 04, @21:34 (Security)           |
|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/0046258           |
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Continent1106 writes "Hacker Michal Zalewski has ratcheted up his ongoing
assault on Web browser security models, releasing details on [0]serious
flaws in fully patched versions of IE6, IE7 and Firefox 2.0. The
vulnerabilities could cause cookie stealing, page hijacking, memory
corruption, code execution, and URL bar spoofing attacks." Here is
[1]Zalewski's post to Full Disclosure.

Discuss this story at:
    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/0046258

Links:
    0. http://reseller.co.nz/reseller.nsf/news/26C939EDD5BCE60BCC2572F000834E7F
    1. http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jun/0026.html


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| Tech Review Sites and Payola                                       |
|   from the fish-in-a-barrel dept.                                  |
|   posted by kdawson on Monday June 04, @22:47 (The Media)          |
|   http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/0128249     |
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cheesecake23 writes "How often have you read a hardware review and
thought: 'No way was that an honest opinion, the reviewer was [0]bought'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½?
The Daily Tech has gone undercover to find out [1]whether or not payola
is accepted among the 35 largest online English-language hardware review
sites. Questions asked and answered ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Q: How many sites would take money
(or sell ads) in exchange for a product review? A: 20 percent. Q: How
many sites would additionally consider selling an Editor's Choice award?
A: None. Q: Were any regions of the world more corrupt than others? A:
No, it was 20-25% almost everywhere. Q: Does it depend on the size or age
of the site? A: RTFA. Although no bad actors were explicitly unmasked,
the article contains enough information to make a whitelist of quite a
few good guys."

Discuss this story at:
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/0128249

Links:
    0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
    1. http://dailytech.com/Pay+to+Play+Uncovering+Online+Payola/article7510.htm


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| Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite?                            |
|   from the sure-the-gimp-has-a-plugin dept.                        |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 05, @01:44 (Software)          |
|   http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/0136220          |
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[0]jsepeta writes "I've been using Adobe products for years, and own
several older versions of the products from their Creative Suite:
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat Pro, and Dreamweaver. I'd like
to teach some graphic design and web production skills to my coworkers in
the marketing department, and realize that most of them can't afford
$2500 to buy Adobe's premium suite and, frankly, shouldn't need to
because there should be competitive products on the market. But I can't
seem to locate software for graphic design and printing that outputs CMYK
files that printing companies will accept. And I'm not familiar with any
products that are better than FrontPage yet still easy to use for Web
design. Any suggestions? Our company is notoriously frugal and would
certainly entertain the idea of using open source products if we could
implement them in a way that doesn't infringe upon our Microsoft-centric
hegemony / daily work tasks in XP."

Discuss this story at:
    http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/0136220

Links:
    0. mailto:jsepeta@hotmail.com


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| Review of Windows Mobile 6-Based "Wing"                            |
|   from the waitin'-for-june-29 dept.                               |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 05, @04:52 (Communications)    |
|   http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/0058255     |
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[0]opeeeerah sends us to Gundeep Hora's review of the [1]Wing, the first
Windows Mobile 6 OS-based smartphone from T-Mobile. He concludes:
"Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 is a disappointment. Working with a number
of applications or 'heavy' documents was painful. The delay was too much,
especially in Word and PowerPoint... All in all, the T-Mobile Wing is...
a decent smartphone. If nothing else, it's an interesting gadget for the
young and hip crowd, though we wouldn't recommend it for productivity
hounds that are looking to do reports and presentations... Not to
mention, the sexy and strange appeal of the device can't be pleasing to
serious professionals. For $299.99 from T-Mobile, it's a worthy Sidekick
replacement."

Discuss this story at:
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/0058255

Links:
    0. http://www.slashdot.org/
    1. http://www.cooltechzone.com/Departments/Featured_Story/T-Mobile_Wing_Review_200706042861/


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| Computex 2007 Previews New Hardware                                |
|   from the do-you-know-the-way-to-taipei dept.                     |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 05, @08:04 (Upgrades)          |
|   http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/0155236     |
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MojoKid writes "The always humongous Computex show in Taipei is just
about to go full swing and [0]previews of some interesting new
technologies are already springing up. Intel's new generation of P35 and
X38 motherboard chipsets have spurred a bunch of new products, like this
new [1] SFF PC from Shuttle and the [2] IX38 QuadGT motherboard from Abit
that looks promising. Of course AMD has their new platform arsenal on
display as well, like these [3] 690G motherboards from Gigabyte. All
told, Computex looks to be a tidal wave of tech for PC geeks."

Discuss this story at:
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/0155236

Links:
    0. http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Computex_2007_Preview_Shuttle_Gigabyte_X38_Motherboards/
    1. http://www.hothardware.com/image_popup.aspx?image=big_sh32.jpg&articleid=976&t=a
    2. http://www.hothardware.com/image_popup.aspx?image=big_ab3.jpg&articleid=976&t=a
    3. http://www.hothardware.com/articles/Computex_2007_Preview_Shuttle_Gigabyte_X38_Motherboards/?page=2


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| OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Alpha Released!                        |
|   from the copy-and-paste-how-do-you-break-that dept.              |
|   posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, @08:41 (Software)             |
|   http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/1152256        |
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An anonymous reader writes "Nearly 6 years after announcing a Mac port,
[0]OpenOffice.org has released the first release of OpenOffice.org for
Mac OS X that can finally run without X11!! An alpha is [1]available for
download today, but a lot of help is still needed to make OpenOffice.org
available for Mac OS X. The site is very blunt: 'WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE
MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL
WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. This is an alpha test version so that
developers and users can find out what works and not, and make comments
on how to improve it.' Currently missing functionality includes printing,
pdf export, copy/pasting, and multiple monitors. That said, if you're
interested in participating you can [2]visit the Mac team to figure out
how you can help today."

Discuss this story at:
    http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/1152256

Links:
    0. http://www.openoffice.org/
    1. http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html
    2. http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/


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| RIAA Drops Tanya Andersen Case                                     |
|   from the pendulum-swings-both-ways dept.                         |
|   posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, @09:23 (The Courts)           |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/1233253          |
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "After 2 years, the RIAA has finally
[1]dropped its longstanding case against disabled single mother Tanya
Andersen in Oregon, [2]Atlantic v. Andersen. The [3]dismissal (pdf)
relates merely to the RIAA's claims against Ms. Andersen, and does not
relate to her (a) claim for attorneys fees or (b) counterclaims against
the RIAA, which are presently before the Court on a [4]motion to dismiss.
The counterclaims were first interposed in [5]December 2005. This is the
same case in which the RIAA [6]insisted on taking a face to face
deposition of a 10 year old girl. Prior to the case, neither the mother
nor the child had ever even heard of file sharing."

Discuss this story at:
    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/1233253

Links:
    0. mailto:rbeckerman@vanfeliu.com
    1. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/06/riaa-drops-its-case-against-tanya.html
    2. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/#Atlantic_v_Andersen
    3. http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=atlantic_andersen_070604StipDismissal
    4. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/26/1538211&tid=123
    5. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/02/1612238&tid=188
    6. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/24/2220222&tid=141


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| FCC Indecency Ruling Struck Down                                   |
|   from the mebbe-everybody-should-calm-down dept.                  |
|   posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, @10:04 (Television)           |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/1243226          |
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arbitraryaardvark writes "Reuters reports that the 2nd circuit has
[0]struck down the FCC's recent ruling on indecency, in a case brought by
Fox. The court said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was
'arbitrary and capricious' in setting a new standard for defining
indecency. 'Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin angrily retorted that he
found it "hard to believe that the New York court would tell American
families that 'sh*t' and 'f@ck' are fine to say on broadcast television
during the hours when children are most likely to be in the audience ...
If we can't restrict the use (of the two obscenities) during prime time,
Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want,"
Martin said in a statement.' No word yet on whether the agency will
appeal.

Discuss this story at:
    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/1243226

Links:
    0. http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070604/3/32w7k.html


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| Dell Thinks Ubuntu Makes Hardware More Fragile?                    |
|   from the well-known-disruptory-rays dept.                        |
|   posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, @10:41 (Businesses)           |
|   http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/145238         |
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[0]WolfWings writes "Apparently Dell has decided that Ubuntu-based
computers are [1]ineligible for their famed CompleteCare service, or any
form of hardware warranty what-so-ever. The news has only recently hit
Dell's own IdeaStorm website, via a forum post describing an interaction
with the company's customer service. Says the customer, 'I am looking for
protection from bricks. The laws of physics do not differ from one OS to
the other...do they?' After so recently decided to support Linux on their
machines, including limited technical support, Dell seems to be
squandering any possible good-will with this decision to leave purchasers
of these machines high and dry for hardware warranty coverage." Update:
06/05 23:40 GMT by [2]KD : many readers let us know that Dell has said
that the omission of extended warranty and CompleteCare options from the
configurator for Ubuntu systems was an "[3]ordering system glitch." It
should be fixed by now according to DesktopLinux.com.

Discuss this story at:
    http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/145238

Links:
    0. http://wolfwings.us/
    1. http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/67976
    2. http://slashdot.org/~kdawson/
    3. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3942058868.html


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| HardOCP Spends 30 Days With MacOSX                                 |
|   from the i'm-going-on-several-thousands-of-days-with-xp dept.    |
|   posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, @11:23 (OS X)                 |
|   http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/148259         |
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[0]boyko.at.netqos writes "Hardocp.com has published "[1]30 days with
MacOSX" ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ with the same author from "[2]30 days with Linux" and "[3]30
days with Vista" doing the evaluation. Ultimately he likes the stability
and security but other concerns keep him from recommending it. From the
article: 'The hardware lock-in and lack of quality freeware makes owning
and maintaining a Macintosh an expensive endeavor ... Mac OS X has some
amazing capabilities, but you spend a lot of money. Indeed, it seems the
preferred method for solving Mac computer problems is to buy your way out
of it. Slow computer? Buy a new one. Want to convert a file? Buy a
utility. Want to do simple tasks? Buy a commercial program. Peripherals
don't work? Buy replacements.'"

Discuss this story at:
    http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/148259

Links:
    0. mailto:brian.boyko@netqos.com
    1. http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM0OCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzd
    2. http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI5OCwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI=
    3. http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTMxOCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==


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| Windows-Based iPhone Rival for Business Users                      |
|   from the anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-too dept.                  |
|   posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, @12:07 (Handhelds)            |
|   http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/1439218     |
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MsManhattan writes "High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has unveiled a
[0]touch-screen mobile device that offers many of the same features as
the iPhone but with an emphasis on business applications vs.
entertainment value. The HTC Touch is based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile
6 Professional OS and features a 2.8-inch touch screen offering access to
emails, contacts and appointments. But unlike the iPhone, which will
feature large internal flash memory capacity for music and movie storage,
the HTC Touch offers a microSD drive, and a 1G-byte microSD card comes
with the handset."

Discuss this story at:
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/1439218

Links:
    0. http://wireless.itworld.com/5021/070605htc/page_1.html


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| Terminator Gene Ban Suggested in Canada                            |
|   from the watch-out-for-those-expirey-dates dept.                 |
|   posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, @12:43 (Biotech)              |
|   http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/162204       |
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innocent_white_lamb writes "A member of the Canadian Parliament has
proposed legislation to [0]outlaw the development and deployment of
'terminator genes' that would prevent seeds from germinating after a set
span of time. This practice would require farmers to re-purchase seed
every year instead of saving the seeds from last year's crop. The
legislation is not expected to pass due to opposition from the
Agriculture Minister. 'There is also an issue with the technology, which
is based on a complicated five-gene construct. It is "inevitable" it will
fail and could harm biodiversity, said Lucy Sharratt, co-ordinator of the
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, which backs the ban. CFIA argues
exactly the opposite, saying "the terminator approach provides an
excellent method to protect against transference of novel traits to other
crops and plant species."'"

Discuss this story at:
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/162204

Links:
    0. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/06/01/terminator-seeds.html


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| The 10 "Inconvienient Truths" of File Sharing                      |
|   from the how-the-burn-turns dept.                                |
|   posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, @13:26 (Businesses)           |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/1611215          |
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[0]54mc writes "The IFPI, an international recording industry
organization, has released a list of [1]Ten "Inconvenient Truths" of file
sharing. Though the group has a vested interest, it's still an
interesting read as it tears apart some of the most common arguments in
favor of file sharing. Ars Technica follows up with a more thorough
explanation of some of the points. 'Point five is an attempt to turn the
"innovation" argument on its head. For years, pundits outside the music
industry have accused labels of pandering to teens through boy bands and
"manufactured" celebrities instead of being concerned with finding,
producing, and releasing art. The IFPI suggests that the labels could
(and would) be doing exactly that if file-swapping went away. And then
there's point seven, which isn't an "inconvenient truth" at all but more
of a rant against those who prefer giving copyright holders less than
absolute control over reproduction rights. An "anti-copyright movement"
does exist, but most of the critical voices in the debate recognize the
value of copyright--and actually produce copyrighted works themselves
(Lawrence Lessig, etc.).'"

Discuss this story at:
    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/1611215

Links:
    0. mailto:thecravenone@gmail.com
    1. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070601-ifpi-ten-inconvenient-truths-about-file-swapping.html


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| Search for Higgs "God Particle" Gets Interesing                    |
|   from the putting-the-standard-model-to-bed dept.                 |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 05, @14:15 (Science)           |
|   http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/1748215      |
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holy_calamity writes "The [0]Large Hadron Collider is in trouble again.
It will start work [1]sometime in spring 2008, not November this year as
planned. The delay has been blamed on an 'accumulation of minor
setbacks,' and comes on top of a 'design fault' that saw breakdown of
magnets supplied by the competing Fermilab. Yesterday Slate nicely
rounded up [2]increasingly loud rumors among physicists that Fermilab may
already have seen the Higgs particle, the 'holy grail of particle
physics' the LHC was build to find."

Discuss this story at:
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/1748215

Links:
    0. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/15/1545220&tid=146
    1. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11994-worlds-biggest-particle-collider-is-delayed-again.html
    2. http://www.slate.com/id/2167563/


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| Intel Updates Compilers For Multicore CPUs                         |
|   from the what-about-gcc dept.                                    |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 05, @15:46 (Intel)             |
|   http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/1922250   |
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Threaded writes with news from Ars that [0]Intel has announced major
updates to its C++ and Fortran tools. The new compilers are Intel's first
that are capable of doing thread-level optimization and
auto-vectorization simultaneously in a single pass. "On the data
parallelism side, the Intel C++ Compiler and Fortran Professional
Editions both sport improved auto-vectorization features that can target
Intel's new SSE4 extensions. For thread-level parallelism, the compilers
support the use of Intel's Thread Building Blocks for automatic
thread-level optimization that takes place simultaneously with
auto-vectorization... Intel is encouraging the widespread use of its
Intel Threading Tools as an interface to its multicore processors. As the
company raises the core count with each generation of new products, it
will get harder and harder for programmers to manage the complexity
associated with all of that available parallelism. So the Thread Building
Blocks are Intel's attempt to insert a stable layer of abstraction
between the programmer and the processor so that code scales less
painfully with the number of cores."

Discuss this story at:
    http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/1922250

Links:
    0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070605-intel-updates-compilers-for-multicore-era.html


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| Controlling Computers With the Brain                               |
|   from the telepathic-smileys dept.                                |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 05, @16:34 (Biotech)           |
|   http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/182237       |
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[0]Killam0n takes note of a story in CNN Money on [1]progress in
controlling computers via brainwaves. From an aspirin-sized implant a
quadriplegic is now using to play computer games, the article
extrapolates out to a near future in which we will all be wearing
headband computers and IM'ing one another as if telepathically. "Two
years ago, a quadriplegic man started playing video games using his brain
as a controller. That may just sound like fun and games for the
unfortunate, but really, it spells the beginning of a radical change in
how we interact with computers ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ and business will never be the same.
Someday, keyboards and computer mice will be remembered only as
medieval-style torture devices for the wrists. All work ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ emails,
spreadsheets, and Google searches ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ will be performed by mind control."

Discuss this story at:
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/182237

Links:
    0. mailto:unit01@mail.com
    1. http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/21/technology/googlebrain0721.biz2/index.htm


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| iPhone To Allow 3rd-Party Development                              |
|   from the let-us-at-it dept.                                      |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 05, @17:23 (Communications)    |
|   http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/1936213        |
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[0]Anarchysoft writes "In an exciting shift from previous statements,
Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed at the D Conference that [1]3rd-party
development will be supported on the iPhone. Questions remain as to
whether the opening of the platform, slated for later this year, will be
through Dashboard-like widgets or a separate SDK."

Discuss this story at:
    http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/1936213

Links:
    0. http://www.anarchysoft.com/
    1. http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/06/04/iphoneapps/index.php


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| Watching My Neighbors Watch On-Demand TV                           |
|   from the video-voyeurs dept.                                     |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 05, @18:11 (Television)        |
|   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/1952251              |
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[0]Josh Levin, Slate Magazine writes "I have a magical box that allows me
to [1]watch other people watch TV ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ their movies, their sports, their
cartoons, and their hour-long procedural dramas. And sometimes, usually
around 11:30 on Friday nights, their soft-core pornography... I solved
the mystery by consulting online message boards. At techie sites like AVS
Forum, other voyeurs described their adventures in freeloading. I was
intercepting video-on-demand channels through the power of my Samsung's
QAM tuner."

Discuss this story at:
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/06/05/1952251

Links:
    0. mailto:sportsnut@slate.com
    1. http://www.slate.com/id/2167389/


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| RIAA Accused of Extortion & Conspiracy                         |
|   from the this-is-new-oh-in-court dept.                           |
|   posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, @19:31 (The Courts)           |
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The defendant in a Tampa, Florida, case,
UMG v. Del Cid, has filed counterclaims [1]accusing the RIAA record
labels of conspiracy and extortion. The [2]counterclaims (pdf) are for
Trespass, Computer Fraud and Abuse (18 USC 1030), Deceptive and Unfair
Trade Practices (Fla. Stat. 501.201), Civil Extortion (CA Penal Code 519
& 523), and Civil Conspiracy involving (a) use of private investigators
without license in violation of Fla. Stat. Chapter 493; (b) unauthorized
access to a protected computer system, in interstate commerce, for the
purpose of obtaining information in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1030
(a)(2)(C); (c) extortion in violation of Ca. Penal Code 519 and 523; and
(d) knowingly collecting an unlawful consumer debt, and using abus[ive]
means to do so, in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act,
15 U.S.C. 1692a et seq. and Fla. Stat. 559.72 et seq."

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Links:
    0. mailto:rbeckerman@vanfeliu.com
    1. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/06/riaa-accused-of-extortion-and.html
    2. http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=umg_delcid_070601AnswerCounterclaims



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