Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change; Apple Kills Aperture, Says New Photos App Will Replace It

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Forrester recently conducted a study to find out and the results may surprise you. Learn More!    Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change  From the collection-of-data-is-not-an-anecdote department cold fjord (826450) writes with this excerpt from ScienceNordic: Researchers the world over almost unanimously agree that our climate is changing ... But many farmers – at least Swedish ones – have experienced mild winters and shifting...   Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year  From the answer-is-blowin'-in department mdsolar (1045926) writes "Researchers have carried out an environmental lifecycle assessment of 2-megawatt wind turbines mooted for a large wind farm in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. They conclude that in terms of cumulative energy payback, or the...   Apple Kills Aperture, Says New Photos App Will Replace It  From the you-can-shop-outside-the-company-store department mpicpp (3454017) writes Apple told news website The Loop that it has decided to abandon Aperture, its professional photo-editing software application. "With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely...   How Apple Can Take Its Headphones To the Next Level  From the if-only-earbuds-would-stick-in-my-ears department redletterdave (2493036) writes "Apple is one of the biggest headphone makers in the world thanks to those signature white earbuds that have shipped with every iPod, iPhone, and iPad since 2001. But even two years after earbuds became 'EarPods,'...   Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing  From the too-much-overkill-is-never-enough department MojoKid (1002251) writes LG is probably getting a little tired of scraping for brand recognition versus big names like Samsung, Apple and Google. However, the company is also taking solace in the fact that their smartphone sales figures are...   Fox Moves To Use Aereo Ruling Against Dish Streaming Service  From the crossing-the-streams department An anonymous reader writes A day after a surprise U.S. Supreme Court decision to outlaw streaming TV service Aereo, U.S. broadcaster Fox has moved to use the ruling to clamp down on another internet TV service. Fox has cited Wednesday's ruling...   Facial Recognition Might Be Coming To Your Car  From the ok-but-how-does-it-fail? department cartechboy writes What if you got into your car and you had to authenticate that it was you behind the wheel? That might be what's coming in the near future as Ford's working with Intel to bring facial recognition to the car. The idea would be to...   In 2012, Facebook Altered Content To Tweak Readers' Emotions  From the beats-the-top-stories-option-at-least department The Atlantic reports that two years ago, Facebook briefly conducted an experiment on a subset of its users, altering the mix of content shown to them to emphasize content sorted by tone, negative or positive, and observe the results. From the...   Netflix Could Be Classified As a 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules  From the negative-I-am-a-meat-popsicle department Jason Koebler (3528235) writes "The cybersecurity bill making its way through the Senate right now is so broad that it could allow ISPs to classify Netflix as a "cyber threat," which would allow them to throttle the streaming service's delivery to...   US National Archives Will Upload All Its Holdings To Wikipedia  From the promise-or-threat department An anonymous reader writes The U.S. National Archives has revealed to Wikipedia newspaper The Signpost that it will be uploading all of its holdings to the Wikimedia Commons. Dominic McDevitt-Parks told the Signpost that "The records we have...   RAND Study: Looser Civil Service Rules Would Ease Cybersecurity Shortage  From the rand-can't-help-seeming-creepy department New submitter redr00k (3719103) writes with a link to the summary of a RAND Corporation study addressing "a general perception that there is a shortage of cybersecurity professionals within the United States, and a particular shortage of these...   Want To Resell Your Ebooks? You'd Better Act Fast  From the semantic-boundaries department Nate the greatest (2261802) writes "Here in the US it is legal to resell your MP3s on Redigi, and thanks to the UsedSoft decision you can resell downloaded software in Europe. But if you want to resell your ebooks you had better act fast. Tom...   On the Significance of Google's New Cardboard: An Idea Worth Recycling  From the off-the-shelf department Last week at Google I/O, the company introduced Cardboard, its cheap-and-cheerful (it's made of cardboard, after all) approach to nearly instant VR viewing. It's no Oculus Rift — lacking the Rift's connection to a powerful backend PC, it...   Intelligent Autonomous Flying Robots Learn and Map Environment As They Fly  From the learning-as-they-go department An anonymous reader writes with this story about a machine-learning project out of the UK's University of Sheffield: Using simple drones the researchers have created automatic-control software that enables the "flying robot" to learn about its...   EDSAC Diagrams Rediscovered  From the thought-they-were-wrong-but-were-mistaken department mikejuk (1801200) writes Due to its importance in the history of computing, the UK's Computer Conservation Society embarked on a 4-year project to build a replica of EDSAC. The main challenge facing the team of volunteers who are working on the...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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Germany's Glut of Electricity Causing Prices To Plummet; YouTube Introduces 60fps Video Support

That Toy Is Now a Drone   |  Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze, Part II     Germany's Glut of Electricity Causing Prices To Plummet  That Toy Is Now a Drone  YouTube Introduces 60fps Video Support  Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze, Part II  Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America?  Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails  Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core?  Bye Bye Aereo, For Now  Secret of the Banjo's Unique Sound Discovered By Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist  Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own  KeyStore Vulnerability Affects 86% of Android Devices  2600 Distributor Withholds Money, Magazine's Future In Limbo  Why The Korean Government Could Go Open Source By 2020  Are the Hard-to-Exploit Bugs In LZO Compression Algorithm Just Hype?  Tom's Hardware: Microsoft Smartband Coming In October With 11 Sensors     Germany's Glut of Electricity Causing Prices To Plummet  From the these-low-low-prices-come-with-a-trail-of-blood department WIth an interesting followup to the recent news that Germany's power production by at least some measures was briefly dominated by solar production, AmiMoJo (196126) writes Germany is headed for its biggest electricity glut since 2011 as new...   That Toy Is Now a Drone  From the arbitrary-power department fluxgate (2851685) writes "A notice from the FAA announced earlier this week just turned a bunch of kids' toys into drones. In the past, the FAA had made the distinction between model aircraft (allowed) and drones (prohibited without special...   YouTube Introduces 60fps Video Support  From the aw-that's-nothin' department jones_supa (887896) writes Google's YouTube announced that it's adding two new features that will especially benefit people who enjoy watching gameplays and those who stream games live. Most excitingly, the site is rolling out 60 frames per second...   Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze, Part II  From the connecting-supply-and-demand department McGruber (1417641) writes In December 2013, Slashdot reported the arrest of seven metro Atlanta residents for allegedly selling counterfeit MARTA Breeze cards, stored-value smart cards that passengers use as part of an automated fare collection...   Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America?  From the not-our-strong-suit department An anonymous reader writes I'll be returning to North America for July for the first time in a few years, and I'm curious how the phone carrier market compares with the rest of the world. My last time in the U.S., I had to pick up a disposable...   Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails  From the just-visit-our-lair-for-updates department New submitter outofluck70 (1734164) writes Got an email today from Microsoft, text is below. [Note: text here edited for formatting and brevity; see the full text at seclists.org.] They are no longer going to send out emails regarding patches, you...   Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core?  From the think-I-prefer-google-to-the-nea department theodp (442580) writes In an interview with The Washington Post's Lyndsey Layton that accompanied her report on How Bill Gates Pulled Off the Swift Common Core Revolution (the Gates Foundation doled out $233 million in grants to git-r-done), Gates...   Bye Bye Aereo, For Now  From the boston-strangler-argument-sometimes-wins department An anonymous reader writes It didn't take long for Aereo to deal with the realities of the U.S. Supreme Court decision. As of 11:30am EDT today Aereo is suspending operations while they go back to U.S. District Court. In order to keep good will...   Secret of the Banjo's Unique Sound Discovered By Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist  From the ok-now-tell-us-why-people-like-it department KentuckyFC (1144503) writes The banjo is a stringed instrument that produces a distinctive metallic sound often associated with country, folk and bluegrass music. It is essentially a drum with a long neck. Strings are fixed at the end of the neck,...   Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own  From the ink-is-kind-of-a-committment department First time accepted submitter Peter Hudson (3717535) writes Cory Doctorow writes on boingboing.net "BitLit works with publishers to get you free or discounted access to digital copies of books you own in print: you use the free app for Android and...   KeyStore Vulnerability Affects 86% of Android Devices  From the that's-a-lot department jones_supa (887896) writes "IBM security researchers have published an advisory about an Android vulnerability that may allow attackers to obtain highly sensitive credentials, such as cryptographic keys for some banking services and virtual...   2600 Distributor Withholds Money, Magazine's Future In Limbo  From the wish-I-could-make-this-year's-hope department First time accepted submitter themusicgod1 (241799) writes According to 2600, their distributor (Previously known as "Source Interlink", now recently renamed to "TEN: The Enthusiast Network") has decided to consolidate its resources and is keeping...   Why The Korean Government Could Go Open Source By 2020  From the file-formats-matter department An anonymous reader writes As the support for the Microsoft (MS) Windows XP service is terminated this year, the government will try to invigorate open source software in order to solve the problem of dependency on certain software. By 2020 when...   Are the Hard-to-Exploit Bugs In LZO Compression Algorithm Just Hype?  From the you'll-never-feel-it department NotInHere (3654617) writes In 1996, Markus F. X. J. Oberhumer wrote an implementation of the Lempel–Ziv compression, which is used in various places like the Linux kernel, libav, openVPN, and the Curiosity rover. As security researchers have...   Tom's Hardware: Microsoft Smartband Coming In October With 11 Sensors  From the easier-sell-than-new-headgear department New submitter TuxHiggs (2691251) writes "Last month, Forbes wrote that Microsoft was preparing a cross-platform smartwatch with the ability to continuously track your heart rate and sync the data to your devices. A trusted source with knowledge of...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight; Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language?

CDC: 1 In 10 Adult Deaths In US Caused By Excessive Drinking   |  Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities     Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight  CDC: 1 In 10 Adult Deaths In US Caused By Excessive Drinking  Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language?  Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities  If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap  What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant  Exploiting Wildcards On Linux/Unix  Larry Page: Healthcare Data Mining Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year  An Army Medal For Coding In Perl  Google Starts Removing Search Results After EU Ruling  Norway Scraps Online Voting  Meet Carla Shroder's New Favorite GUI-Textmode Hybrid Shell, Xiki  Fixing Faulty Genes On the Cheap  Protesters Launch a 135-Foot Blimp Over the NSA's Utah Data Center  NASA's Orion Spaceship Passes Parachute Test     Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight  From the you-can-trust-us department New submitter thermowax sends a report on how Massachusetts SWAT teams are dodging open records requests by claiming to be corporations. From the article: As it turns out, a number of SWAT teams in the Bay State are operated by what are called law...   CDC: 1 In 10 Adult Deaths In US Caused By Excessive Drinking  From the america's-real-national-pastime department An anonymous reader writes: According to new research from the CDC, 9.8% of deaths in working-age adults (22-64 years old) in the U.S. from 2006 to 2010 were "attributable to excessive drinking." This makes excessive drinking the fourth leading...   Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language?  From the fortran-and-a-stack-of-recycled-construction-paper department tyggna writes: "The flame wars of different shells and text editors have long been established, but my question is this: are text editors and various languages linked? Do the majority of Ruby programmers use Emacs? Are most Perl programmers...   Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities  From the building-a-strong-base-of-coders department redletterdave writes: According to a blog post from Gregg Pollack, CEO of the Code School, Google is paying for three free months for any women and minorities interested in tech to expand their skills. The offer is part of Google's $50 million...   If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap  From the congress-members-shouting-at-one-another department dcblogs writes: In a speech Wednesday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) declared immigration reform dead. He chastised and baited Republicans in Congress for blocking reform, and declared that winning...   What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant  From the swallow-your-phone-when-they-approach-your-car department blottsie writes: The Supreme Court ruled this week that it is illegal for police to search your phone without a warrant. But just because that's the new rule doesn't mean all 7.5 million law enforcement officers in the U.S. will abide by it. This...   Exploiting Wildcards On Linux/Unix  From the teaching-a-new-dog-old-tricks department An anonymous reader writes: DefenseCode researcher Leon Juranic found security issues related to using wildcards in Unix commands. The topic has been talked about in the past on the Full Disclosure mailing list, where some people saw this more as...   Larry Page: Healthcare Data Mining Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year  From the minority-report-but-for-hospitals department An anonymous reader writes Google often gets criticism for its seemingly boundless desire for data collection and analysis, but the company says it has higher ambitions than just figuring out how best to serve advertising. Speaking to the NY...   An Army Medal For Coding In Perl  From the bringing-efficiency-to-the-military-beast department shocking writes: Arizona National Guard member Vivin Paliath was surprised to be commended for writing Perl scripts and Excel macros while his unit was deployed in Iraq. His work automated a number of previously manual processes that were part of...   Google Starts Removing Search Results After EU Ruling  From the forget-me department An anonymous reader writes Google has begun removing some search results to comply with a European Union ruling upholding citizens' right to have objectionable personal information about them hidden in search engines. "Google engineers overnight...   Norway Scraps Online Voting  From the will-now-elect-officials-through-online-petitions-instead department An anonymous reader sends news that Norway will no longer experiment with online voting: [T]he trials have ended because, said the government, voters' fears about their votes becoming public could undermine democratic processes. Political...   Meet Carla Shroder's New Favorite GUI-Textmode Hybrid Shell, Xiki  From the shades-of-some-others department New submitter trogdoro (3716731) writes with an excerpt from Linux Cookbook author Carla Schroder's enthusiastic introduction to what looks like a tempting tool, combining elements of GUI and text-mode interfaces: Command-line lovers, allow me to...   Fixing Faulty Genes On the Cheap  From the what-if-i-like-the-worn-out-look department An anonymous reader sends an article about CRISPR, a system for modifying genes and moving them from cell to cell. It's notable because the cost to do so is dropping to the point where it's becoming viable to use on a patient-by-patient basis....   Protesters Launch a 135-Foot Blimp Over the NSA's Utah Data Center  From the go-big-or-go-home department Dega704 sends this news from Wired: Plenty of nightmare surveillance theories surround the million-square-foot NSA facility opened last year in Bluffdale, Utah. Any locals driving by the massive complex Friday morning saw something that may...   NASA's Orion Spaceship Passes Parachute Test  From the first-step department An anonymous reader writes The spacecraft it is hoped will take man to Mars has passed its first parachute tests. Nasa's Orion spacecraft landed gently using its parachutes after being shoved out of a military jet at 35,000 feet. "We've put the...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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