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YokimaSun writes "Sony may have dealt a major blow to the PSjailbreak sellers, but the release last week of PSGroove, an open source version of the hack, has now opened the floodgates of ports to mobile phones such as the Nokia N900 and Palm Pre. The final kick in the teeth is that a port of the exploit has been released by Waninkoko of Wii custom firmware fame for the Dingoo Handheld, which is a homebrew console that is very popular amongst emulation fans. It makes you smile that you can use one homebrew console to hack another to get homebrew on that console. Awesome." pudge notes that you can apparently do the same with a TI-84 Plus graphing calculator (YouTube video).pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F202201%2FSony-Has-Lost-the-PS3-Hacking-War" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Sony+Has+Lost+the+PS3+Hacking+War%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9Ppjjy" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/202201/Sony-Has-Lost-the-PS3-Hacking-War?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778764amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7cdf46/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DR0BeQz6O0vS-BlYZhg8unla76A/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DR0BeQz6O0vS-BlYZhg8unla76A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DR0BeQz6O0vS-BlYZhg8unla76A/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DR0BeQz6O0vS-BlYZhg8unla76A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NZn5ZqLSORw" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "The Royal Mail on Friday issued what it called the world's first 'intelligent stamps,' designed to interact with smartphones using image-recognition technology. The Royal Mail's latest special-issue stamps, devoted to historic British railways, are designed to launch specially developed online content when a user snaps them using an image-recognition application available on iPhone or Android handsets. 'This is the first time a national postal service has used this kind of technology on their stamps and we're very excited to be bringing intelligent stamps to the nation's post,' a Royal Mail spokesman said in a statement. 'Intelligent stamps mark the next step in the evolution of our stamps, bringing them firmly into the 21st century.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F1832207%2FUKs-Royal-Mail-Launches-First-Intelligent-Stamps" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=UK's+Royal+Mail+Launches+First+Intelligent+Stamps%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9Clkph" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/1832207/UKs-Royal-Mail-Launches-First-Intelligent-Stamps?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778698amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7ca351/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/n256YtMeujbQ_5c6WtYBrBD9rq0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/n256YtMeujbQ_5c6WtYBrBD9rq0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/n256YtMeujbQ_5c6WtYBrBD9rq0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/n256YtMeujbQ_5c6WtYBrBD9rq0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/X0-1Dxex24s" height="1" width="1"/

Stoobalou writes "A member of Iceland's parliament and prominent organizer for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has turned on the site's spokesman, Julian Assange, urging him to step down over rape allegations made against him in Sweden. Birgitta Jonsdottir told news site The Daily Beast that she did not believe Assange's repeated assertion that the allegations of rape and molestation made against him were part of a US-backed smear campaign to distract attention from documents posted on the site laying bare US involvement in the war in Afghanistan and further promised revelations."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F1827240%2FWikiLeaks-Calls-For-Assange-To-Step-Down" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=WikiLeaks+Calls+For+Assange+To+Step+Down%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fdz0cPS" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/1827240/WikiLeaks-Calls-For-Assange-To-Step-Down?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778692amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7c5828/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dsrg6lhiiTD5SR56WgBluQenXhw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dsrg6lhiiTD5SR56WgBluQenXhw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dsrg6lhiiTD5SR56WgBluQenXhw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dsrg6lhiiTD5SR56WgBluQenXhw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/J_CC6hRqO5Q" height="1" width="1"/

theodp writes "Raw intellect ain't always all it's cracked up to be, advises Ted Dziuba in his introduction to Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier, so don't be too stubborn to learn the things that can save you from the headaches of over-engineering. Here's some sample how-to-avoid-over-complicating-things advice: 'If Linux can do it, you shouldn't. Don't use Hadoop MapReduce until you have a solid reason why xargs won't solve your problem. Don't implement your own lockservice when Linux's advisory file locking works just fine. Don't do image processing work with PIL unless you have proven that command-line ImageMagick won't do the job. Modern Linux distributions are capable of a lot, and most hard problems are already solved for you. You just need to know where to look.' Any cautionary tips you'd like to share from your own experience?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F1745236%2FProgramming-Things-I-Wish-I-Knew-Earlier" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Programming+Things+I+Wish+I+Knew+Earlier%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FalsHyc" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/1745236/Programming-Things-I-Wish-I-Knew-Earlier?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778676amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7c0890/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ntVTSrdFfFglmKHt9IfBhBj68Ck/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ntVTSrdFfFglmKHt9IfBhBj68Ck/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ntVTSrdFfFglmKHt9IfBhBj68Ck/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ntVTSrdFfFglmKHt9IfBhBj68Ck/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/OTIf6Glv_nc" height="1" width="1"/

postbigbang writes "Ryanair's miser-in-chief Michael O'Leary now suggests eliminating co-pilots as a way to save money. Will airliners be powered by drones, or is it actually viable to have just a single pilot on passenger planes?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F1716245%2FRyanairs-CEO-Suggests-Eliminating-Co-Pilots" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ryanair's+CEO+Suggests+Eliminating+Co-Pilots%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9vT87H" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/1716245/Ryanairs-CEO-Suggests-Eliminating-Co-Pilots?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778662amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7bae21/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mAWP8uHxW7-MNT37oLhAB_A_YzE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mAWP8uHxW7-MNT37oLhAB_A_YzE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mAWP8uHxW7-MNT37oLhAB_A_YzE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mAWP8uHxW7-MNT37oLhAB_A_YzE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/yerMe6fDimQ" height="1" width="1"/

bossanovalithium writes that an umbrella group including Japanese heavyweights like Panasonic and Toyota is working on bringing the price of self powered parts down to levels where they can be mass produced: "The idea is that the parts will make external power sources redundant mdash; because they can convert energy from body heat, light and vibrations straight into electricity. Self powered electronics have already sporadically been used in technology like wall-mount remote control units for air conditioners, says Nikkei, but existing parts are bulky and cost a couple thousand yen a piece. 3,000 yen is about $35 mdash; which means they're not the best bet, financially, yet."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F1620255%2FSelf-Powered-Parts-Are-the-Future" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Self-Powered+Parts+Are+the+Future%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdntOF1" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/1620255/Self-Powered-Parts-Are-the-Future?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778632amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7b59be/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QOD5AKg_IX0vsBPzwC60U6ME-2o/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QOD5AKg_IX0vsBPzwC60U6ME-2o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QOD5AKg_IX0vsBPzwC60U6ME-2o/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QOD5AKg_IX0vsBPzwC60U6ME-2o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/rk_VjYz74gk" height="1" width="1"/

mspohr writes with a sad excerpt from Fast Company: "Despite a seemingly stout business plan, and all the financial, social, and educational benefits it would bring, the FCC's just turned down M2Z's application for a coast-to-coast free wireless broadband system. ... The FCC is known to have heard complaints about M2Z's plan from existing wireless carriers. Though M2Z's network would've operated at under 1 Mbps peak speeds mdash; meaning it was very slow by today's standards, and probably snail-like by tomorrow's mdash; its free pricing may well have tempted many folks away from spending cash with an established ISP. Those carriers are now reported to be pleased with the FCC's decision, though they argue it's in line with the greater National Broadband Plan. Whenever that actually gets off the ground."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F1227249%2FM2Zs-Free-Wireless-Broadband-Killed-In-Advance" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=M2Z's+Free%2C+Wireless+Broadband+Killed+In+Advance%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaTwXhC" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/1227249/M2Zs-Free-Wireless-Broadband-Killed-In-Advance?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778472amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d794ef4/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/H9H_N0YeHmmqVU7Yko1u7kHn5CI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/H9H_N0YeHmmqVU7Yko1u7kHn5CI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/H9H_N0YeHmmqVU7Yko1u7kHn5CI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/H9H_N0YeHmmqVU7Yko1u7kHn5CI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NYBLbzitl_g" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "I have kept every email I have ever sent or received since 1990, with the exception of junk mail (though I kept a lot of that as well). I have migrated my emails faithfully from Unix mail, to Eudora, to Outlook, to Thunderbird and Entourage, though I have left much of the older stuff in Outlook PST files. To make my life easier I would now like to merge all the emails back into a single searchable archive mdash; just because I can. But there are a few problems: a) Moving them between email systems is SLOW; while the data is only a few GB, it is hundred of thousands of emails and all of the email systems I have tried take forever to process the data. b) Some email systems (i.e. Outlook) become very sluggish when their database goes over a certain size. c) I don't want to leave them in a proprietary database, as within a few years the format becomes unsupported by the current generation of the software. d) I would like to be able to search the full text, keep the attachments, view HTML emails correctly and follow email chains. e) Because I use multiple operating systems, I would prefer platform independence. f) Since I hope to maintain and add emails for the foreseeable future, I would like to use some form of open standard. So, what would you recommend?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F1533203%2FBest-Way-To-Archive-Emails-For-Later-Searching" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Best+Way+To+Archive+Emails+For+Later+Searching%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fbe1F7W" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/1533203/Best-Way-To-Archive-Emails-For-Later-Searching?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778598amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7adc24/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Xc6zKt1HJ3HmL1k55OygsU5BTgM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Xc6zKt1HJ3HmL1k55OygsU5BTgM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Xc6zKt1HJ3HmL1k55OygsU5BTgM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Xc6zKt1HJ3HmL1k55OygsU5BTgM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/vEuWHHHhyT0" height="1" width="1"/

MojoKid writes "Remote-controlled helicopters are not new, but Parrot's AR.Drone Quadricopter is set to make a splash when it goes on sale on Sept. 9th. It will use an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as a controller, and give a live video feed from two different cameras to the pilot. Each model comes with two hulls, one of them for indoor use, with protective loops around the rotors. The device creates its own Wi-Fi network, which the iOS device connects to in order to control the Quadricopter."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F1441240%2FParrot-iPod-Controlled-Quadricopter-Launches-This-Week" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=+Parrot+iPod-Controlled+Quadricopter+Launches+This+Week%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcJOmXv" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/1441240/-Parrot-iPod-Controlled-Quadricopter-Launches-This-Week?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778566amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7a8cb4/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uHsY_we5ostXGhtnV5RqjoaZ6LM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uHsY_we5ostXGhtnV5RqjoaZ6LM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uHsY_we5ostXGhtnV5RqjoaZ6LM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uHsY_we5ostXGhtnV5RqjoaZ6LM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/vDmGSmH9kEI" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals mdash; such as amino acids and nucleotides mdash; have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? In a paper appearing in the current issue of The Biological Bulletin, scientists propose that a third type of catalyst could have jumpstarted metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F2118241%2FTransition-Metal-Catalysts-Could-Be-Key-To-Origin-of-Life" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Transition+Metal+Catalysts+Could+Be+Key+To+Origin+of+Life%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fd5c2OY" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/2118241/Transition-Metal-Catalysts-Could-Be-Key-To-Origin-of-Life?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777902amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7b317b/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rzvI0nlboENzVh5aI_2GI-tZhzE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rzvI0nlboENzVh5aI_2GI-tZhzE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rzvI0nlboENzVh5aI_2GI-tZhzE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rzvI0nlboENzVh5aI_2GI-tZhzE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Ik-NlEWfOgE" height="1" width="1"/

eldavojohn writes "MSNBC spoke with the senior producer of a new stereoscopic 3D game called Killzone 3 and highlighted problems they are trying to solve with being one of the first FPS 3D games for the PS3. The team ran into serious design problems, like where to put the crosshairs for the players (do they constantly hover in front of your vision?) and what to do with any of the heads-up display components. Aside from the obvious marketing thrown in at the end of the article (in a very familiar way), there is an interesting point raised concerning normalized conventions in all video games and how one ports that to the new stereoscopic 3D model mdash; the same way directors continue to grapple with getting 3D right. Will 3D games be just as gimmicky as most 3D movies? If they are, at least Guerrilla Games is at least making it possible for the player to easily and quickly switch in and out of stereoscopic 3D while playing."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F0027236%2FThe-New-Difficulties-In-Making-a-3D-Game" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+New+Difficulties+In+Making+a+3D+Game%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FddhwoQ" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/0027236/The-New-Difficulties-In-Making-a-3D-Game?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777962amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d74ab4f/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u7ZcJZcLfY0GGobkVhut4yETQYs/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u7ZcJZcLfY0GGobkVhut4yETQYs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u7ZcJZcLfY0GGobkVhut4yETQYs/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/u7ZcJZcLfY0GGobkVhut4yETQYs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Z0m57-c-rpo" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "Given the history of ACTA leaks, to no one's surprise, the latest version of the draft agreement (PDF) was leaked last night on KEI's website. The new version mdash; which reflects changes made during an intense week of negotiations last month in Washington mdash; shows a draft agreement that is much closer to becoming reality. Perhaps the most important story of the latest draft is how the countries are close to agreement on the Internet enforcement chapter. In the face of opposition, the US has dropped its demands on secondary liability for ISPs but is still holding out hope of establishing a super-DMCA with digital lock rules that go beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and were even rejected by US courts."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F148212%2FACTA-Text-Leaks-US-Caves-On-ISPs-Seeks-Super-DMCA" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=ACTA+Text+Leaks%3B+US+Caves+On+ISPs%2C+Seeks+Super-DMCA%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9h9xA7" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/148212/ACTA-Text-Leaks-US-Caves-On-ISPs-Seeks-Super-DMCA?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778542amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7a359a/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zFlSU2cF0vAjM2SFJ258IGt1Xvc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zFlSU2cF0vAjM2SFJ258IGt1Xvc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zFlSU2cF0vAjM2SFJ258IGt1Xvc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zFlSU2cF0vAjM2SFJ258IGt1Xvc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Z2khmhQDlck" height="1" width="1"/

Barence writes "This week's IFA show has seen a flurry of Android-based alternatives to the iPad emerge from leading manufacturers. The Samsung Galaxy Tab made a strong first impression on PC Pro's reviewer. The 7-inch tablet's TFT screen 'beams forth with rich, saturated colours and wide, wide viewing angles,' the device is capable of Full HD playback and the TouchWiz UI is 'clearly intended to draw customers away from the iFamily.' Elsewhere, ViewSonic has launched a pair of 7-inch and 10-inch tablets, the larger of which dual boots into either Android or Windows 7. 'Our first moments with Windows 7 were surprisingly painless, too: we expected the Atom processor and 1GB of memory to be horrendously sluggish, but it wasn't the case,' PC Pro reports. Finally, Toshiba's 10.1in Folio 100 marries Android 2.2 with Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform to deliver 'mighty graphics crunching power.' The build quality left a little to desire, though. 'The 14mm thick chassis feels lightweight, and even relatively gentle twisting motions left the Folio's plastic body creaking under the stress.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F1239232%2FHands-on-With-the-iPad-Alternatives-On-Display-at-IFA" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Hands-on+With+the+iPad+Alternatives+On+Display+at+IFA%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F94I6Y1" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/1239232/Hands-on-With-the-iPad-Alternatives-On-Display-at-IFA?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778480amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d79c59a/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HJEaLOZi_1WfzVEkS354uFK5Nwo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HJEaLOZi_1WfzVEkS354uFK5Nwo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HJEaLOZi_1WfzVEkS354uFK5Nwo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HJEaLOZi_1WfzVEkS354uFK5Nwo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/QrQcB2Uvmlk" height="1" width="1"/

Kilrah_il writes "The fine-structure constant, a coupling constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction, has been measured lately by scientists from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and has been found to change slightly in light sent from quasars in galaxies as far back as 12 billion years ago. Although the results look promising, caution is advised: 'This would be sensational if it were real, but I'm still not completely convinced that it's not simply systematic errors' in the data, comments cosmologist Max Tegmark of MIT. Craig Hogan of the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., acknowledges that 'it's a competent team and a thorough analysis.' But because the work has such profound implications for physics and requires such a high level of precision measurements, 'it needs more proof before we'll believe it.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F212252%2FFine-Structure-Constant-Maybe-Not-So-Constant" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Fine-Structure+Constant+Maybe+Not+So+Constant%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9rLTRs" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/212252/Fine-Structure-Constant-Maybe-Not-So-Constant?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777892amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d741503/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ziu2GyweAso19wYJY18aNtFr0eQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ziu2GyweAso19wYJY18aNtFr0eQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ziu2GyweAso19wYJY18aNtFr0eQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ziu2GyweAso19wYJY18aNtFr0eQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7Um7CTrM4SQ" height="1" width="1"/

If Nevada gubernatorial candidate Eugene "Gino" DiSimone gets his way, $25 will buy you the right to drive up to 90mph for a day. DiSimone estimates his "free limit plan" will raise $1 billion a year for Nevada. From the article: "First, vehicles would have to pass a safety inspection. Then vehicle information would be loaded into a database, and motorists would purchase a transponder. After setting up an account, anyone in a hurry could dial in, and for $25 charged to a credit card, be free to speed for 24 hours."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F1823204%2FGubernatorial-Candidate-Wants-to-Sell-Speeding-Passes-for-25" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Gubernatorial+Candidate+Wants+to+Sell+Speeding+Passes+for+%2425%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9NFZVK" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1823204/Gubernatorial-Candidate-Wants-to-Sell-Speeding-Passes-for-25?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777842amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d73551e/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibAGU9OYNsrLxP-y5m3cDPiaspc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/JX-umwxsgM4" height="1" width="1"/

pickens writes "The LA Times reports that 84-year-old Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro consumes 200 to 300 news items a day on the World Wide Web. In a recent interview he called Web communication 'the most powerful weapon that has existed' and extolled its power to break a stranglehold on the media by 'the empire' and 'ambitious private groups that have abused it' adding that the Internet 'has put an end to secrets.... We are seeing a high level of investigative journalism, as the New York Times calls it, that is within reach of the whole world.' Well, not the whole world. Cuba has the lowest level of Internet penetration in the Western Hemisphere (lower than Haiti), plus severe government restrictions and censorship affecting those who do have access. In addition Cuban law bans using the Internet to spread information that is against what the government considers to be the social interest, norms of good behavior, the integrity of the people or national security."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F1841240%2FFidel-Castro-Internet-News-Junkie" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Fidel+Castro%2C+Internet+News+Junkie%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcmMq7T" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1841240/Fidel-Castro-Internet-News-Junkie?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777848amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d793a29/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kMaYD7_CcbTTP1TsXsIHTz7YNYo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/osn4lfHtWl0" height="1" width="1"/

angry tapir writes "A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages last week. Facebook confirmed the bug Friday, after notifying affected users of the issue. Most of the messages promised 'Free iPhones,' a common spam message on Facebook these days. Facebook says that the spammer hit thousands of profiles before the company removed the spammy photos and notified affected users. No accounts were compromised as a result of the bug."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F033258%2FFacebook-Glitch-Let-Spammer-Post-To-Walls" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Facebook+Glitch+Let+Spammer+Post+To+Walls%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdfiZUO" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/033258/Facebook-Glitch-Let-Spammer-Post-To-Walls?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778050amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d78cff2/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MkELS1XYVFRdILdDZ6cFL15EXAA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MkELS1XYVFRdILdDZ6cFL15EXAA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MkELS1XYVFRdILdDZ6cFL15EXAA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MkELS1XYVFRdILdDZ6cFL15EXAA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/RFdR4qOkUm0" height="1" width="1"/

paulelaguna writes "The dream of owning a household robot is starting to become reality, particularly for people in Japan. There are robots to help you do the dishes, move furniture, and even robotic wheelchairs to help you get around. Really, the only question that remains for us is when do we move?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F0259225%2FThe-State-of-Household-Robots" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+State+of+Household+Robots%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9tpofL" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/0259225/The-State-of-Household-Robots?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778044amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d77181f/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BDWHCV3Wj-A6DzvYKi7zPgzOwjc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BDWHCV3Wj-A6DzvYKi7zPgzOwjc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BDWHCV3Wj-A6DzvYKi7zPgzOwjc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BDWHCV3Wj-A6DzvYKi7zPgzOwjc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/2sRq1KxwVwg" height="1" width="1"/

The Iso writes "Las Vegas based company Righthaven found two articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle reprinted on her web site without permission, so it did what it always does: bought the rights to the articles from the Review-Journal and sued the alleged infringer, seeking unspecified damages."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F0241203%2FSenate-Candidate-Sued-By-Copyright-Troll" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Senate+Candidate+Sued+By+Copyright+Troll%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaXGtM7" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/0241203/Senate-Candidate-Sued-By-Copyright-Troll?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1778024amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d7616ed/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DaRwzye1TmUDrdpxcjJr-LGLq8M/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DaRwzye1TmUDrdpxcjJr-LGLq8M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DaRwzye1TmUDrdpxcjJr-LGLq8M/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DaRwzye1TmUDrdpxcjJr-LGLq8M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/WdtZpE_liwg" height="1" width="1"/

Stoobalou writes "The British music industry has called for a truce with the technology firms with whom it has till now fought a bitter battle over rights, royalties and file sharing. Feargal Sharkey, CEO of lobby group UK Music, told a conference in London this week that it was time for the music and technology industries to set aside their differences and strive instead toward a common goal: nothing less than the total global domination of British music."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F0030238%2FUK-Music-Industry-Calls-For-Truce-With-Technology" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=UK+Music+Industry+Calls+For+Truce+With+Technology%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F96BCol" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/0030238/UK-Music-Industry-Calls-For-Truce-With-Technology?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777964amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d755550/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lSs91ChavZbYYPJmBf5LWt8m_4E/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lSs91ChavZbYYPJmBf5LWt8m_4E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lSs91ChavZbYYPJmBf5LWt8m_4E/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lSs91ChavZbYYPJmBf5LWt8m_4E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ELcvperQvNY" height="1" width="1"/