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An anonymous reader noted that the SCO Group is having a bankruptcy auction in October. The article says 'After bankruptcy in September 2007, SCO and an affiliate filed schedules listing combined assets of $14.2 million and debt totaling $5.2 million.' I wonder if we could all chip in and buy something as a sort of 'Thanks for being a pimple on the face of humanity' present.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F213213%2FSCO-Assets-Going-To-October-Auction" 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=SCO+Assets+Going+To+October+Auction%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcQKftt" 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/10/08/31/213213/SCO-Assets-Going-To-October-Auction?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772506amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4d01bc/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/En6EhIXHtei9nd4UZNu4eqMeGhw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/En6EhIXHtei9nd4UZNu4eqMeGhw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/En6EhIXHtei9nd4UZNu4eqMeGhw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/En6EhIXHtei9nd4UZNu4eqMeGhw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/AUX6uhSF8ko" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "Responses to a survey from attendees of the DEFCON 18 conference revealed that 73% came across a misconfigured network more than three quarters of the time ndash; which, according to 76% of the sample, was the easiest IT resource to exploit. Results revealed that 18% of professionals believe misconfigured networks are the result of insufficient time or money for audits. 14% felt that compliance audits that don't always capture security best practices are a factor and 11% felt that threat vectors that change faster than they can be addressed play a key role."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F2054225%2FMisconfigured-Networks-Main-Cause-of-Breaches" 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=Misconfigured+Networks+Main+Cause+of+Breaches%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa89PjG" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/2054225/Misconfigured-Networks-Main-Cause-of-Breaches?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772500amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4cfd6b/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xyqDbMLVvWU6ZouiY747AIGZs-0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xyqDbMLVvWU6ZouiY747AIGZs-0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xyqDbMLVvWU6ZouiY747AIGZs-0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xyqDbMLVvWU6ZouiY747AIGZs-0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/sLyAc1cs2uc" height="1" width="1"/

It's doubtful that any other distillery will come up with a whisky that tastes like Gilpin Family Whisky because of its secret ingredient: urine. Researcher and designer James Gilpin uses the sugar rich urine of elderly diabetics to make his high-end single malt whisky. From the article: "The source material is acquired from elderly volunteers, including Gilpin's own grandmother, Patricia. The urine is purified in the same way as mains water is purified, with the sugar molecules removed and added to the mash stock to accelerate the whisky's fermentation process. Traditionally, that sugar would be made from the starches in the mash."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F1713210%2FWhisky-Made-From-Diabetics-Urine" 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=Whisky+Made+From+Diabetics'+Urine%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa7jbtg" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/1713210/Whisky-Made-From-Diabetics-Urine?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772290amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4ceb92/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DiqRS4au6Ep877kAuBeTJAfUAb8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DiqRS4au6Ep877kAuBeTJAfUAb8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DiqRS4au6Ep877kAuBeTJAfUAb8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DiqRS4au6Ep877kAuBeTJAfUAb8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/v7avZSVnXeM" height="1" width="1"/

Ant writes "Next Media Animation (NWA) became popular due to its animated and sometimes humorous renderings for world news. Their official videos can be found on YouTube." They start by covering the Tiger Woods animation that made these guys known, and then talk about the process and the people behind it. I've attached an Apple video that you might have bumped into recently as well... it's worth the watch if you haven't seen it yet.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F2023243%2FTaiwan-Tabloid-Sensation-Next-Media-Recreate-News" 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=Taiwan+Tabloid+Sensation+Next+Media+Recreate+News%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbEj6Er" 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/10/08/31/2023243/Taiwan-Tabloid-Sensation-Next-Media-Recreate-News?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772470amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4ceb91/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ohn10I6z0Sbs45r32rr42NE7Om0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ohn10I6z0Sbs45r32rr42NE7Om0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ohn10I6z0Sbs45r32rr42NE7Om0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ohn10I6z0Sbs45r32rr42NE7Om0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NrMdlboZ7Zo" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the technology that allows Linux kernel updates without a reboot, is now free for users of the Fedora distribution. Using Ksplice is like 'replacing your car's engine while speeding down the highway,' and it can potentially save your Linux systems from a lot of downtime. Since Fedora users often live on the bleeding edge of Linux development, Ksplice makes it even easier to do so, and without reboots!"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F191228%2FNo-More-Need-To-Reboot-Fedora-w-Ksplice" 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=No+More+Need+To+Reboot+Fedora+w%2F+Ksplice%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9P78Vx" 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/10/08/31/191228/No-More-Need-To-Reboot-Fedora-w-Ksplice?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772404amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4c8e11/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WyIiwDRNvtBlE5cYa6SjsREEEqY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WyIiwDRNvtBlE5cYa6SjsREEEqY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WyIiwDRNvtBlE5cYa6SjsREEEqY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WyIiwDRNvtBlE5cYa6SjsREEEqY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/rU_xFSbqUqQ" height="1" width="1"/

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman reports on the future of mobile security mdash; one that will see a significant rise in exploits as valuable information increasingly migrates to mobile devices. To date, sandboxing and code-signing have helped make mobile OSes relatively secure, when compared with their desktop brethren. But as devices store more valuable information than email, they will become more enticing to hackers currently breaking into Windows PCs. And the biggest bulls-eye appears to be on Android, in large part because its architecture is most like that of the desktop PC but also because there are so many variants in use mdash; too many for Google or the carriers to patch securely. And as the PDF-jailbreak vulnerability showed, sandboxing has its limits when it comes to securing the browser mdash; the most likely point of entry for exploits not due to the rise of extensions, helper objects, and plug-ins on the mobile Web."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F1832217%2FYour-Smartphone-Is-Safer-Than-Your-PC----For-Now" 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=Your+Smartphone+Is+Safer+Than+Your+PC+--+For+Now%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F91v033" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/1832217/Your-Smartphone-Is-Safer-Than-Your-PC----For-Now?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772372amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4c6405/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CGF4jAFxiT7OaIpqd-wBfPXR7SE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CGF4jAFxiT7OaIpqd-wBfPXR7SE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CGF4jAFxiT7OaIpqd-wBfPXR7SE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CGF4jAFxiT7OaIpqd-wBfPXR7SE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/IE8-RTB1tCw" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "The space age has filled Earth's orbit with all manner of space junk, from spent rocket stages to frozen bags of astronaut urine, and the problem keeps getting worse. NASA's orbital debris experts estimate that there are currently about 19,000 pieces of space junk that are larger than 10 centimeters, and about 500,000 slightly smaller objects. Researchers and space companies are plotting ways to clean up the mess, and a new photo gallery from Discover Magazine highlights some of the proposals. They range from the cool amp; doable, like equipping every satellite with a high-tech kite tail for deployment once the satellite is defunct, to the cool amp; unlikely, like lasers in space."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F1645235%2F9-Ideas-For-Coping-With-Space-Junk" 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=9+Ideas+For+Coping+With+Space+Junk%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa9DFvi" 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/10/08/31/1645235/9-Ideas-For-Coping-With-Space-Junk?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772254amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4c13c6/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IH0SwHgBOPLQkAEAMr96a4xso2k/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IH0SwHgBOPLQkAEAMr96a4xso2k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IH0SwHgBOPLQkAEAMr96a4xso2k/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IH0SwHgBOPLQkAEAMr96a4xso2k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YymuXtOYavU" height="1" width="1"/

disco_tracy writes "Long a favorite of lovers and honeymooners, a Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in the wired age. A resort based on a game called 'Love Plus,' encourages players to develop long-term relationships with virtual women.From the article: 'Local souvenir shops in the resort town have caught on and capitalized on the love-struck new clientele, selling Love Plus-themed souvenirs, from good-luck charms to steamed buns and fish sausages. The local Ohnoya hotel even offers traditional rooms to the unusual couples, which feature two sets of futon beds and another barcode panel that allows the men to visualize their girlfriends in a flattering summer kimono.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F1613238%2FResort-Attracts-Men-With-Virtual-Girlfriends" 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=Resort+Attracts+Men+With+Virtual+Girlfriends%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fc1DMDX" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/1613238/Resort-Attracts-Men-With-Virtual-Girlfriends?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772214amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4bd21b/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fvlAJbaMO3ehHazgBtK07v2ysKY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fvlAJbaMO3ehHazgBtK07v2ysKY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fvlAJbaMO3ehHazgBtK07v2ysKY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fvlAJbaMO3ehHazgBtK07v2ysKY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/DL_T_bUjxGI" height="1" width="1"/

Nzimmer911 writes "Heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers according to a 20 years study following 1,824 people. From the article: 'But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F167202%2F3-Drinks-a-Day-Keeps-the-Doctor-Away" 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=3+Drinks+a+Day+Keeps+the+Doctor+Away%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fbs5nVk" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/31/167202/3-Drinks-a-Day-Keeps-the-Doctor-Away?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772206amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4b6691/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iqhQaTYZzl3wsAQEZDObRnTLZgA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iqhQaTYZzl3wsAQEZDObRnTLZgA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iqhQaTYZzl3wsAQEZDObRnTLZgA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iqhQaTYZzl3wsAQEZDObRnTLZgA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/e5cLnCcNp-A" height="1" width="1"/

egil writes "Chris Fenton built his own fully functional 1/10 scale Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of the power-hungry ECL technology, however, the scale model is built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F161207%2FHomebrew-Cray-1" 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=Homebrew+Cray-1%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdrzBDA" 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/10/08/31/161207/Homebrew-Cray-1?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772198amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4b668f/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dSaDZBHg9PNlnkT6N4Cgb6mx6mM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dSaDZBHg9PNlnkT6N4Cgb6mx6mM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dSaDZBHg9PNlnkT6N4Cgb6mx6mM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dSaDZBHg9PNlnkT6N4Cgb6mx6mM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/d1dKLVMOP2w" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "Engadget has photos of 'Pionen White Mountains, the nuclear bunker in which Wikileaks will locate some of its servers. It was excavated 98 feet underground, in a rock hill in the center of Stockholm, Sweden, during the Cold War.' It looks like they hired the same interior designer who decorated Batman's lair."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F1527215%2FThe-Nuclear-Bunker-Where-Wikileaks-Will-Be-Located" 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+Nuclear+Bunker+Where+Wikileaks+Will+Be+Located%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdjC03R" 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/10/08/31/1527215/The-Nuclear-Bunker-Where-Wikileaks-Will-Be-Located?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772154amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4b18ca/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bMBUS2NjNe1swkn2xxilybXIcsM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bMBUS2NjNe1swkn2xxilybXIcsM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bMBUS2NjNe1swkn2xxilybXIcsM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bMBUS2NjNe1swkn2xxilybXIcsM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/LL9X2t8tzvc" height="1" width="1"/

jason-za writes with this quote from a Google announcement: "People tell us all that time that they're getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean mdash; here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day mdash; mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that's often not important. It's time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we're happy to introduce Priority Inbox (in beta) mdash; an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F156240%2FGMail-Introduces-Priority-Inbox" 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=GMail+Introduces+Priority+Inbox%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaxyZan" 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/10/08/31/156240/GMail-Introduces-Priority-Inbox?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772136amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4b018c/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aIOMMBykl0mDHoAVILkcYw5I-cw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aIOMMBykl0mDHoAVILkcYw5I-cw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aIOMMBykl0mDHoAVILkcYw5I-cw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aIOMMBykl0mDHoAVILkcYw5I-cw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CHWhgJp2y9c" height="1" width="1"/

Jamie noticed an interesting map of critical thinking and science done in a sort of subway style. You can track Newton and Einstein and Tesla and so on. It's actually pretty interesting to navigate.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F1525228%2FThe-Map-of-Critical-Thinking-and-Modern-Science" 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+Map+of+Critical+Thinking+and+Modern+Science%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbXp5sx" 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/10/08/31/1525228/The-Map-of-Critical-Thinking-and-Modern-Science?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1772152amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d4b018b/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_bqi1Hrbsa1RWWhphyoAKb-Ci_4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_bqi1Hrbsa1RWWhphyoAKb-Ci_4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_bqi1Hrbsa1RWWhphyoAKb-Ci_4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_bqi1Hrbsa1RWWhphyoAKb-Ci_4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/39B6-238ki8" height="1" width="1"/

Tisha_AH writes "For the past fifty years the technology behind aircraft flight data recorders has remained stagnant. Some of the advances of cloud computing, mesh radio networks, real-time position reporting and satellite communications are held back by a combination of aircraft manufacturers, pilots unions and the slow gears of government bureaucracy. Many recent aircraft loss incidents remain unexplained, with black boxes lost on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, buried under the wreckage of the World Trade Centers or with critical information suppressed by government secrecy or aircraft manufacturers. Many devices still rely upon tape recorders for voice and data that only record a very small sampling of aircraft dynamics, flight and engine systems or crew behaviors. Technologically simple solutions like battery backup, continual telemetry feeds by satellite and hundreds of I/O points, monitoring many systems should be within easy reach. Pilot unions have objected to the collection and sharing of detailed accident data, citing privacy concerns of the flight crew. Accidents may be due to human error, process problems or design flaws. Unless we can fully evaluate all factors involved in transportation accidents, it will be difficult to improve the safety record. Recommendations by the NTSB to the FAA have gone unheeded for many years. With all of the technological advancements that we work with in the IT field, what sort of best practices could be brought forward in transit safety?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F0316231%2FFlight-Data-Recorders-Decades-Out-of-Date" 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=Flight+Data+Recorders%2C+Decades+Out+of+Date%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaJuDpD" 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/10/08/31/0316231/Flight-Data-Recorders-Decades-Out-of-Date?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1771596amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d492cb7/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/W7GvGysgBBbBtEbcZFbTbsoSto0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/W7GvGysgBBbBtEbcZFbTbsoSto0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/W7GvGysgBBbBtEbcZFbTbsoSto0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/W7GvGysgBBbBtEbcZFbTbsoSto0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/MkMH6NJfc3o" height="1" width="1"/

sk8pmp writes with news that iFixit, a website known for Apple gadget teardowns and repair guides, is expanding into the game console market, launching a series of troubleshooting and repair guides to help gamers fix their own machines. They're also starting to sell replacement parts and the tools necessary to work on them. "Right now there are repair guides for 24 gaming consoles, including 206 repairs and upgrades. Some of these fixes deal with major issues, such as the infamous Red Ring of Death from the Xbox 360, but others are simpler. For instance, right now there is no easy way to clean out the fans inside your console. 'I think this is probably the number one cause of overheating these days now that manufacturers have mostly gotten their act together,' Wiens said. 'This is routine maintenance, and it's mind-boggling that the manufacturers don't provide people with an easy way to open the case up and blow it out.' You'll also learn how to replace broken LCD screens on your portables, replace the motherboard on your PlayStation 3, and do just about anything else you might want to do to these systems, from the simple to the harrowing."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F036239%2FiFixit-Moves-Into-Console-Repair" 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=iFixit+Moves+Into+Console+Repair%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaiJjnK" 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/10/08/31/036239/iFixit-Moves-Into-Console-Repair?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1771590amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d482139/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GacA9_Ll0tM9rObK3rwsDUISHo4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GacA9_Ll0tM9rObK3rwsDUISHo4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GacA9_Ll0tM9rObK3rwsDUISHo4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GacA9_Ll0tM9rObK3rwsDUISHo4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7_kjEtBI_ME" height="1" width="1"/

Hugh Pickens writes "Graeme Wood writes in the Atlantic that increasingly GPS devices are looking like an appealing alternative to conventional incarceration, as it becomes ever clearer that traditional prison has become more or less synonymous with failed prison. 'By almost any metric, our practice of locking large numbers of people behind bars has proved at best ineffective and at worst a national disgrace,' writes Wood. But new devices such as ExacuTrack suggest a revolutionary possibility: that we might do away with the current, expensive array of guards and cells and fences, in favor of a regimen of close, constant surveillance on the outside and swift, certain punishment for any deviations from an established, legally unobjectionable routine. 'The potential upside is enormous. Not only might such a system save billions of dollars annually, it could theoretically produce far better outcomes, training convicts to become law-abiders rather than more-ruthless lawbreakers,' adds Wood. 'The ultimate result could be lower crime rates, at a reduced cost, and with considerably less inhumanity in the bargain.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F0145252%2FBuilding-Prisons-Without-Walls-Using-GPS-Devices" 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=Building+Prisons+Without+Walls+Using+GPS+Devices%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbK5QNh" 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/10/08/31/0145252/Building-Prisons-Without-Walls-Using-GPS-Devices?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1771548amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d476413/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/x3-fOLsBxBz4E4mMT4PLR3XlExo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/x3-fOLsBxBz4E4mMT4PLR3XlExo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/x3-fOLsBxBz4E4mMT4PLR3XlExo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/x3-fOLsBxBz4E4mMT4PLR3XlExo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CFDzeWfgNT0" height="1" width="1"/

osliving writes "This article takes a tour of the hardware and software behind the innovative Apertus, a real world open source project. Led by Oscar Spierenburg and a team of international developers, the project aims to produce 'an affordable community driven free software and open hardware cinematic HD camera for a professional production environment'."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F30%2F1639248%2FApertus-the-Open-Source-HD-Movie-Camera" 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=Apertus%2C+the+Open+Source+HD+Movie+Camera%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdB43Px" 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/10/08/30/1639248/Apertus-the-Open-Source-HD-Movie-Camera?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1771106amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d463cad/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3pFurW09Og0r7iwtxbrIYWDSVSU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3pFurW09Og0r7iwtxbrIYWDSVSU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3pFurW09Og0r7iwtxbrIYWDSVSU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3pFurW09Og0r7iwtxbrIYWDSVSU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1mAWjVdGt7M" height="1" width="1"/

webmink writes "The MPEG LA seem unwilling to explain why they have extended their 'free' H.264 streaming video policy now. This article unpacks the history of MPEG LA and then suggests the obvious mdash; it's all because of WebM mdash; and the worrying mdash; maybe it's preparing the ground for opening a third front in the patent war against Google."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F0257214%2FFree-H264-a-Precursor-To-WebM-Patent-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='Free'+H.264+a+Precursor+To+WebM+Patent+War%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcNq91f" 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/10/08/31/0257214/Free-H264-a-Precursor-To-WebM-Patent-War?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1771584amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d45bb9e/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/auUqxWjOeb1RbMkgzuYuYkNmrYQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/auUqxWjOeb1RbMkgzuYuYkNmrYQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/auUqxWjOeb1RbMkgzuYuYkNmrYQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/auUqxWjOeb1RbMkgzuYuYkNmrYQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/N8lXsk9ZWdQ" height="1" width="1"/

Trailrunner7 writes "A Spanish security researcher has discovered a new vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime software that can be used to bypass both ASLR and DEP on current versions of Windows and give an attacker control of a remote PC. The flaw apparently results from a parameter from an older version of QuickTime that was left in the code by mistake. It was discovered by Ruben Santamarta of Wintercore, who said the vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a malicious Web site. On a machine running Internet Explorer on Windows 7, Vista or XP with QuickTime 7.x or 6.x installed, the problem can be exploited by using a heap-spraying technique. In his explanation of the details of the vulnerability and the exploit for it, Santamarta said he believes the parameter at the heart of the problem simply was not cleared out of older versions of the QuickTime code. 'The QuickTime plugin is widely installed and exploitable through IE; ASLR and DEP are not effective in this case and we will likely see this in the wild,' said HD Moore, founder of the Metasploit Project."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F31%2F0140238%2FNew-QuickTime-Flaw-Bypasses-ASLR-DEP" 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=New+QuickTime+Flaw+Bypasses+ASLR%2C+DEP%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaRplNe" 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/10/08/31/0140238/New-QuickTime-Flaw-Bypasses-ASLR-DEP?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1771546amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d451931/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pgCeVigcoiwd8OEeO7YmsK4Sopg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pgCeVigcoiwd8OEeO7YmsK4Sopg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pgCeVigcoiwd8OEeO7YmsK4Sopg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pgCeVigcoiwd8OEeO7YmsK4Sopg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Rep83a4YzFs" height="1" width="1"/

suraj.sun writes with this snippet from CNET: "The EPA and Department of Transportation on Monday proposed a fuel economy label overhaul to reflect how electric and alternative fuel vehicles stack up against gasoline passenger vehicles. ... The changed label, mandated by the 2007 energy law, includes the same information on city and highway miles per gallon and estimated driving costs based on 15,000 miles a year now available. But the new labels add more comparative information, rating cars on mileage, greenhouse gas contribution, and other air pollutants from tailpipe emissions. That means that consumers can look at a label to see how one vehicle compares to all available vehicles, rather than only cars in a specific class. One label proposes grades, ranging from an A-plus to a D. There are no failing grades, since vehicles need to comply with the Clean Air Act."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F30%2F2325259%2FEPA-Proposes-Grading-System-For-Car-Fuel-Economy" 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=EPA+Proposes+Grading+System+For+Car+Fuel+Economy%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbNYy5G" 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/10/08/30/2325259/EPA-Proposes-Grading-System-For-Car-Fuel-Economy?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1771482amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d449bf4/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pfrjY8LmSzY5szFKqbsEUBQKS48/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pfrjY8LmSzY5szFKqbsEUBQKS48/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pfrjY8LmSzY5szFKqbsEUBQKS48/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pfrjY8LmSzY5szFKqbsEUBQKS48/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/z1GKETLgw5o" height="1" width="1"/