An anonymous reader writes "Edwin Vargas, a detective with the New York City Police Department, was arrested on Tuesday for computer hacking crimes. According to the complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court, between March 2011 and October 2012, Vargas, an NYPD detective assigned to a precinct in the Bronx, hired an e-mail hacking service to obtain log-in credentials, such as the password and username, for certain e-mail accounts. In total, he purchased access to at least 43 personal e-mail accounts belonging to 30 different individuals, including at least 19 who are affiliated with the NYPD."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=NYPD+Detective+Accused+of+Hiring+Email+Hackers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10MqRwp"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F2021218%2Fnypd-detective-accused-of-hiring-email-hackers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/2021218/nypd-detective-accused-of-hiring-email-hackers?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/2021218/nypd-detective-accused-of-hiring-email-hackers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3775713amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c462376/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664233657/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c462376/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664233657/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c462376/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664233657/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c462376/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/e5-SoDhzf4E" height="1" width="1"/
AndyKrish writes "A BBC story reports that scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University found Vitamin C kills drug resistant tuberculosis (abstract). Though results are preliminary mdash; the lead investigator of the study said, 'We have only been able to demonstrate this in a test tube, and we don't know if it will work in humans and in animals' mdash; this is an exciting development in the fight against drug-resistant TB."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Scientists+Find+Vitamin+C+Kills+Drug-Resistant+Tuberculosis%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11cvWE0"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F198252%2Fscientists-find-vitamin-c-kills-drug-resistant-tuberculosis%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/198252/scientists-find-vitamin-c-kills-drug-resistant-tuberculosis?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/198252/scientists-find-vitamin-c-kills-drug-resistant-tuberculosis?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3775531amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c461dda/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664233035/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c461dda/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664233035/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c461dda/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664233035/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c461dda/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ratcv04mlqI" height="1" width="1"/
Aguazul2 writes "The German software giant SAP has announced it plans to recruit hundreds of people with autism within the next few years. The project has already started in India and Ireland where a total of 11 people with autism are employed by the company. The program to take on software testers, programmers and data management workers will spread across Germany, Canada and the U.S. this year. People with autism have a neural development disorder that often undermines their ability to communicate and interact socially [...] but in the world of computers the tendencies they often display such as an obsession for detail and an ability to analyze long sets of data very accurately can translate into highly useful and marketable skills."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=German+IT+Firm+Seeks+Autistic+Workers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10Qm0yi"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F1844216%2Fgerman-it-firm-seeks-autistic-workers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1844216/german-it-firm-seeks-autistic-workers?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1844216/german-it-firm-seeks-autistic-workers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3775463amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c453fd7/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664418497/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c453fd7/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664418497/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c453fd7/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664418497/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c453fd7/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/l8tNcrick38" height="1" width="1"/
astroengine writes "The mother of all cosmic collisions has been spotted between two galaxies containing a total of 400 billion stars, igniting the birth of 2,000 new stars per year! This incredible event was first spotted by the recently-retired Herschel infrared space observatory (abstract), a mission managed by the European Space Agency. This violent discovery isn't just awesome to look at, it could also help explain how massive, red elliptical galaxies evolved in the early universe."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Violent+Galactic+Clash+May+Solve+Cosmic+Mystery%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10TY4XS"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F1839249%2Fviolent-galactic-clash-may-solve-cosmic-mystery%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1839249/violent-galactic-clash-may-solve-cosmic-mystery?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1839249/violent-galactic-clash-may-solve-cosmic-mystery?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3775453amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c45472e/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664231106/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c45472e/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664231106/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c45472e/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664231106/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c45472e/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CH1GuRSLYwA" height="1" width="1"/
FuzzNugget writes "A contributor at ScienceBlogs.com has compiled and published a shockingly long list of systematic attacks on scientific research committed by the Canadian government since the conservatives came to power in 2006. This anti-scientific scourge includes muzzling scientists, shutting down research centers, industry deregulation and re-purposing the National Research Council to align with business interests instead of doing real science. It will be another two years before Canadians have the chance to go to the polls, but how much more damage will be done in the meantime?"pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Canadian+Government's+War+On+Science%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZdUM6u"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F1756232%2Fthe-canadian-governments-war-on-science%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1756232/the-canadian-governments-war-on-science?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1756232/the-canadian-governments-war-on-science?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3775343amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c44e766/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664323205/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c44e766/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664323205/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c44e766/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664323205/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c44e766/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/yD3IPoQBQTI" height="1" width="1"/
Nerval's Lobster writes "MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL source code, split off in the wake of concerns over what Oracle would do with MySQL licensing. In addition to its role as a 'drop-in replacement' for MySQL, MariaDB also includes some new features that (some claim) make it better than MySQL. Jeff Cogswell compares MySQL and MariaDB and suggests (in his opinion) that there's 'more than enough reason to ditch MySQL and switch over to MariaDB and stay there.' Why? While he breaks down MariaDB's new features and thinks many of them aren't that fantastic, and while MariaDB's performance isn't that much better than that of MySQL ('MariaDB's performance appears a bit better on multi-core machines, but I strongly suspect that one could tweak MySQL to match'), the questions over Oracle and MySQL licensing give him pause. 'MariaDB shows every indication that it will be around for quite awhile, while you can't really say the same of Oracle's MySQL,' he writes. 'Free-and-open MySQL competes with Oracle's proprietary and extremely competitive tools. That alone is grounds for concern mdash; will Oracle do something to impede MySQL's development?'"pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=MariaDB+vs.+MySQL%3A+A+Performance+Comparison%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10M5jjz"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F1651203%2Fmariadb-vs-mysql-a-performance-comparison%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1651203/mariadb-vs-mysql-a-performance-comparison?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1651203/mariadb-vs-mysql-a-performance-comparison?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3775163amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c448964/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665296760/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c448964/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665296760/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c448964/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665296760/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c448964/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/eBWD_hDOaeQ" height="1" width="1"/
beaverdownunder writes "I recently attended a 'hackathon' that was really just another pitching contest, and out of frustration am tempted to organize an event myself that is better suited to developers and far less entrepreneur-centric than some of the latest offerings. What I'd like to know from the /. community is, what would you like to see in a hackathon? What are some good hackathons you've attended that weren't just thinly-veiled pitch-development workshops? I have an idea around assigning attendees to quasi-random teams based on their skill sets, then giving them 48 hours to complete a serious coding / engineering challenge (probably in the not-for-profit space) mdash; but maybe you've got some better ideas?"pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+What+Makes+a+Great+Hackathon%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14xrKxE"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F1420253%2Fask-slashdot-what-makes-a-great-hackathon%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1420253/ask-slashdot-what-makes-a-great-hackathon?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1420253/ask-slashdot-what-makes-a-great-hackathon?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3774801amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c42bca6/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664224584/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c42bca6/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664224584/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c42bca6/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664224584/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c42bca6/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/otDm58L-tCs" height="1" width="1"/
An anonymous reader writes "Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version features a big boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of 'smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,' according to Google. Starting with this release, the scheduler more aggressively uses an idle connection and demotes the priority of preloaded resources so that they donrsquo;t interfere with critical assets."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Chrome+27+Is+Out%3A+5%25+Faster+Page+Loads%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F166NBjI"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F0224203%2Fgoogle-chrome-27-is-out-5-faster-page-loads%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/0224203/google-chrome-27-is-out-5-faster-page-loads?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/0224203/google-chrome-27-is-out-5-faster-page-loads?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3772281amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3b463d/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664716545/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3b463d/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664716545/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3b463d/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664716545/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3b463d/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/GH56oQeqrOM" height="1" width="1"/
Wired reports on a cluster of mini-satellites that will soon be launched into orbit that will assist U.S. special forces personnel during manhunts. "SOCOM is putting eight miniature communications satellites, each about the size of a water jug, on top of the Minotaur rocket that's getting ready to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. Theyrsquo;ll sit more than 300 miles above the earth and provide a new way for the beacons to call back to their masters." When special forces are able to tag their target, the target can be tracked and located through the use of satellites and cell towers, but coverage is poor in many areas of the world. The satellites going up in September will help to fill in some gaps. "This array of configurable 'cubesats' is designed to stay aloft for three years or more. Yes, it will serve as further research project. But 'operators are going to use it,' Richardson promised an industry conference in Tampa last week."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Special+Ops+Takes+Its+Manhunts+Into+Space%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14vlfv4"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F2315257%2Fspecial-ops-takes-its-manhunts-into-space%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2315257/special-ops-takes-its-manhunts-into-space?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2315257/special-ops-takes-its-manhunts-into-space?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3771945amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3ac510/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664387011/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3ac510/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664387011/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3ac510/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664387011/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3ac510/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/_URu4Z6dbk8" height="1" width="1"/
An anonymous reader writes "When in early 2010 Google shared with the public that they had been breached in what became known as the Aurora attacks, they said that the attackers got their hands on some source code and were looking to access Gmail accounts of Tibetan activists. What they didn't make public is that the hackers have also accessed a database containing information about court-issued surveillance orders that enabled law enforcement agencies to monitor email accounts belonging to diplomats, suspected spies and terrorists. Whether this was the primary goal of the attacks as well as how much information was exfiltrated is unknown. current and former U.S. government officials interviewed by the Washington Post say that the database in question was possibly accessed in order to discover which Chinese intelligence operatives located in the U.S. were under surveillance."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Aurora+Attackers+Were+Looking+For+Google's+Surveillance+Database%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16LzGQ0"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F2231234%2Faurora-attackers-were-looking-for-googles-surveillance-database%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2231234/aurora-attackers-were-looking-for-googles-surveillance-database?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2231234/aurora-attackers-were-looking-for-googles-surveillance-database?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3771879amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c39f5d8/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664197493/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39f5d8/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664197493/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39f5d8/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664197493/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39f5d8/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ECSfgeYfnW0" height="1" width="1"/
An anonymous reader writes "Seth Ladd has an excellent write-up of Dart: 'When Dart was originally launched, many developers mistook it for some sort of Java clone. In truth, Dart is inspired by a range of languages such as Smalltalk, Strongtalk, Erlang, C#, and JavaScript. Get past the semicolons and curly braces, and you'll see a terse language without ceremony. ... Dart understands that sometimes you just donrsquo;t feel like appeasing a ceremonial type checker. Dartrsquo;s inclusion of an optional type system means you can use type annotations when you want, or use dynamic when thatrsquo;s easier. For example, you can explore a new idea without having to first think about type hierarchies. Just experiment and use var for your types. Once the idea is tested and yoursquo;re comfortable with the design, you can add type annotations."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Dart+Is+Not+the+Language+You+Think+It+Is%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10SxWMR"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F2123245%2Fdart-is-not-the-language-you-think-it-is%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2123245/dart-is-not-the-language-you-think-it-is?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2123245/dart-is-not-the-language-you-think-it-is?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3771771amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c39bbcc/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664712039/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39bbcc/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664712039/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39bbcc/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664712039/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39bbcc/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/9XGIUv1bJSQ" height="1" width="1"/
New submitter QuantumPion writes "The Environmental Protection Agency released draft guidelines last month that could significantly relax radiation hazard standards in the case of a radiological event in the United States by using risk-based decisions. The goal is to have limits that make sense in an emergency that are different from the limits in day-to-day life. From the article: 'Currently, the only guidance are the extremely strict standards that apply for EPA Superfund sites and nuclear plant decommissioning, which are as low as 0.010ndash;0.025 rem/year, far below the natural background levels in the U.S. of 0.300 rem/year, and even well below the average amount of radioactive materials that Americans eat each year. And these guidelines arenrsquo;t really different from the 1992 PAG, except in the area of long-term cleanup standards and, perhaps, standards for resettlement. Whatrsquo;s the big deal here? As radworkers, wersquo;re allowed to get 5 rem/year. 2 rem/year doesnrsquo;t rate a second thought. ... No one has ever been harmed by 5 rem/year, so setting emergency levels at 2 rem/year is pretty mild and more than reasonable. ... Think of it this way. The situations covered by these new guidelines are similar to someone dying of thirst who has the chance to drink fresh water having 2,000 pCi per gallon of radium in it. While the safe drinking water levels are 20 pCi/gal for Ra, 2,000 pCi/gal is of no threat, especially if yoursquo;re going to die from imminent dehydration. Of course, a bag of potato chips has 3,500 picocuries, so go figure.'"pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=EPA+Makes+a+Rad+Decision%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F180ttiN"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F211256%2Fepa-makes-a-rad-decision%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/211256/epa-makes-a-rad-decision?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/211256/epa-makes-a-rad-decision?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3771729amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c39d59b/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665263025/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39d59b/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665263025/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39d59b/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665263025/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c39d59b/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/4nsOrtHP8Ek" height="1" width="1"/
Nerval's Lobster writes "Fresh off purchasing Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Yahoo has moved to the next stage of what's becoming a company-wide reboot: fixing Flickr, the photo-sharing service that it acquired in 2005 and subsequently allowed to languish. Yahoo boosted Flickr accounts' individual storage capacity to one free terabyte, revamped the Website's overall look, and launched a new Flickr app for Google Android, among other tweaks. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer clearly wants her company to fight toe-to-toe on features with Google and Facebook, but she faces a long road ahead of her: not only does she need to streamline Yahoo's cumbersome corporate structure and product portfolio into something that resembles fighting shape, but she needs to reverse the general perception that Yahoo is teetering on the edge of history's trash-bin, with an aging customer base and unexciting features. The question is, could anyone actually pull it off? Is Yahoo capable of an Apple-style turnaround, or are its current actions merely delaying the inevitable?"pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+Can+Yahoo+Actually+Stage+a+Comeback%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16Las4b"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F2031247%2Fask-slashdot-can-yahoo-actually-stage-a-comeback%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2031247/ask-slashdot-can-yahoo-actually-stage-a-comeback?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2031247/ask-slashdot-can-yahoo-actually-stage-a-comeback?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3771659amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3951d1/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664288714/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3951d1/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664288714/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3951d1/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664288714/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3951d1/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/svgXCF2Z53s" height="1" width="1"/
cervesaebraciator writes "According to Quartz, '[Anjan Contractor's] Systems amp; Materials Research Corporation just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer. But Contractor, a mechanical engineer with a background in 3-D printing, envisions a much more mundane mdash; and ultimately more important mdash; use for the technology. He sees a day when every kitchen has a 3-D printer, and the earth's 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store. Contractor's vision would mean the end of food waste, because the powder his system will use is shelf-stable for up to 30 years, so that each cartridge, whether it contains sugars, complex carbohydrates, protein or some other basic building block, would be fully exhausted before being returned to the store.' No word yet on whether anyone other than the guy trying to sell the technology thinks it'll make palatable food."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=3-D+Printable+Food+Gets+Funding+From+NASA%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12K6Drc"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1958237%2F3-d-printable-food-gets-funding-from-nasa%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1958237/3-d-printable-food-gets-funding-from-nasa?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1958237/3-d-printable-food-gets-funding-from-nasa?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3771595amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c390a76/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664709980/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c390a76/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664709980/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c390a76/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664709980/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c390a76/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/wNxshKZb4iI" height="1" width="1"/
necro81 writes "Although its Tevatron particle accelerator has gone dark, Fermi Laboratory outside Chicago is still doing physics. A new experiment, called muon g-2 will investigate quantum mechanical behavior of the electron's heavier sibling: the muon. Fermi needs a large ring chamber to store the muons it produces and investigates, and it just so happens that Brookhaven National Laboratory outside NYC has one to spare. But how do you transport a delicate, 15-m diameter, 600-ton superconducting magnet halfway across the country? Very carefully."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Transporting+a+15-Meter-Wide%2C+600-Ton+Magnet+Cross+Country%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10jqN8z"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1842247%2Ftransporting-a-15-meter-wide-600-ton-magnet-cross-country%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1842247/transporting-a-15-meter-wide-600-ton-magnet-cross-country?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1842247/transporting-a-15-meter-wide-600-ton-magnet-cross-country?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3771429amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c388535/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664193689/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c388535/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664193689/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c388535/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664193689/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c388535/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/b3n5FkiGrRY" height="1" width="1"/
Lucas123 writes "U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include 'personalization technology' in their weapons. Tierney said he got the idea for The Personalized Handgun Safety Act of 2013 from the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. In it Bond escapes death when his handgun, which is equipped with technology that recognizes his fingerprints, becomes inoperable when a bad guy picks it up. 'This technology, however, isn't just for the movies mdash; it's a reality,' Tierney said. Tierney pointed to a myriad of cases where the smart gun tech could prevent children from being harmed or killed in firearms accidents. Jim Wallace, executive director of the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League, the official state association of the NRA, said he knows of no gun owners who would want smart gun technology on their weapons. Wallace said any technology that may impede the proper function of a weapon is a problem. He pointed to the fact that any integrated processor technology would also require a battery of some kind, which could pose a system failure if it lost power."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=House+Bill+Would+Mandate+Smart+Gun+Tech+By+U.S.+Manufacturers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13IPCiq"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1845232%2Fhouse-bill-would-mandate-smart-gun-tech-by-us-manufacturers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1845232/house-bill-would-mandate-smart-gun-tech-by-us-manufacturers?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1845232/house-bill-would-mandate-smart-gun-tech-by-us-manufacturers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3771435amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c384a7c/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664380191/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c384a7c/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664380191/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c384a7c/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664380191/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c384a7c/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/zdZqtS53DzI" height="1" width="1"/
jammag writes "Free sodas, candy and energy bars can be surprisingly important to developers, says longtime coder Eric Spiegel. They need the perks, not to mention the caffeine boost. More important, free sodas from management are like the canary in the coal mine. If they get cut, then layoffs might be next. 'The sodas are just the wake-up call. If the culture changes to be focused more on cost-cutting than on innovation and creativity, then would you still want to work here? I wouldn't.' Are free perks really that important?"pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Do+Developers+Need+Free+Perks+To+Thrive%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16KeVEs"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F161204%2Fdo-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/161204/do-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/161204/do-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3771057amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c37fbd0/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665258620/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c37fbd0/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665258620/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c37fbd0/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665258620/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c37fbd0/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/3FFZE8nZwTY" height="1" width="1"/
dcblogs writes "The Senate's immigration bill may force the large offshore outsourcing firms to reduce their use of H-1B visa-holding staff, forcing them to hire more local workers and raising their costs. But one large Indian firm, Infosys, will try to offset cost increases with software robotics. Infosys recently announced a partnership with IPsoft, a New York-based provider of autonomic IT services. With IPsoft's tools, work that is now done by human beings, mostly Level 1 support, could be done by a software machine. Infosys says that IPsoft tools can 'reduce human intervention.' More colorfully, Chandrashekar Kakal, global head of Infosys's business IT services, told the Times of India, that 'what robotics did for the auto assembly line, we are now doing for the IT engineering line.' James Slaby, a research director of HFS Research who has been following the use of autonomics closely, wrote in a recent report that the IPsoft partnership may help Infosys 'reap fatter margins by augmenting and replacing expensive, human IT support engineers with cheaper, more accurate, efficient automated processes,' and by improving service delivery."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Immigration+Reform+May+Spur+Software+Robotics%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12JnI4v"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1440234%2Fimmigration-reform-may-spur-software-robotics%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1440234/immigration-reform-may-spur-software-robotics?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1440234/immigration-reform-may-spur-software-robotics?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3770907amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3695eb/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664186950/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3695eb/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664186950/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3695eb/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664186950/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3695eb/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Sl-Vkr3VZ6E" height="1" width="1"/
Trailrunner7 writes "The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been spearheading botnet takedowns and other anti-cybercrime operations for many years, and it has had remarkable success. But the cybercrime problem isn't going away anytime soon, so the DCU is in the process of building a new cybercrime center here, and soon will roll out a new threat intelligence service to help ISPs and CERT teams get better data about ongoing attacks. Dennis Fisher sat down with TJ Campana, director of security at the DCU, to discuss the unit's work and what threats could be next on the target list."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Inside+the+Microsoft+Digital+Crimes+Unit%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F165gwVg"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1354208%2Finside-the-microsoft-digital-crimes-unit%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1354208/inside-the-microsoft-digital-crimes-unit?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1354208/inside-the-microsoft-digital-crimes-unit?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3770799amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c3599bc/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664699441/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3599bc/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664699441/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3599bc/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664699441/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c3599bc/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/2HnwQkNo7xw" height="1" width="1"/
Just a few weeks after Cody Wilson and friends successfully fired an instance of their own 3-D printed handgun design, Sparrowvsrevolution writes, "a couple of Wisconsin hobbyist gunsmiths have already managed to adapt Defense Distributed's so-called Liberator firearm and print it on a $1,725 Lulzbot 3D printer, a consumer grade machine that's far cheaper than the industrial quality Stratasys machine Defense Distributed used. They then proceeded to record their cheaper gun (dubbed the 'Lulz Liberator') firing nine .380 rounds without any signs of cracking or melting. Eight of the rounds were fired from a single plastic barrel. (Defense Distributed only fired one through its prototype.) In total, the Lulz Liberator's materials cost around $25 and were printed over just 48 hours."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Working+Handgun+Printed+On+a+Sub-%242%2C000+3D+Printer%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11UUEdN"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1328248%2Fworking-handgun-printed-on-a-sub-2000-3d-printer%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1328248/working-handgun-printed-on-a-sub-2000-3d-printer?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1328248/working-handgun-printed-on-a-sub-2000-3d-printer?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=3770741amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c358ee8/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664698220/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c358ee8/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664698220/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c358ee8/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664698220/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c358ee8/a2t.img" border="0"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/cZlOXiS1bBU" height="1" width="1"/
