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<title>E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering</title>
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<description>Ian Lamont writes "The three owners of Internet currency service e-gold have pled guilty to money laundering in the U.S. District Court for D.C.. The service is based in the West Indies, but the directors apparently live in Florida. They haven't been sentenced yet, but potentially face decades in prison and millions in fines. In addition, the principal director posted a blog entry yesterday saying that 'criminal activity will not be tolerated,' and pledging to eliminate the loopholes that allowed money laundering to thrive on the service. He also claims that e-gold has more transaction volume in a single quarter than all of the first-generation Web currency services like Cybercash, Beenz, and Flooz completed over their lifetimes. Ironically, one of the reasons that contributed to Flooz's demise in 2001 was rampant money laundering."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/1434246&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/22/1434246"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/1434246&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<title>Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" Due In September</title>
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<description>Alexander Rose writes "Neal Stephenson's new novel, ANATHEM, germinated in 01999 when Danny Hillis asked him and several other contributors to sketch out their ideas of what the Millennium Clock might look like. Stephenson tossed off a quick sketch and promptly forgot about it. Five years later however, when he was between projects, the idea came back to him, and he began to explore the possibility of building a novel around it. ANATHEM is the result, and will be released on September 9th, 02008." Read Rose's complete posting for more information about the release of the book, which he describes as set "in a genre bending alt-future-retro world where mechani-punk technology meets space opera in a blend of the best of Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle."<p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/1259253&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/22/1259253"></a></p><p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/1259253&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
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<description>DangerFace writes "A little while ago some Dutch researchers cracked the Oyster card, meaning they could get free public transport around London. The company that makes the cards, NXP, sought and got an injunction to stop the exploit being published, but that has now been overruled by a Dutch judge. The lovely Dutch blokes are holding off from releasing the hack for the time being, to give NXP time to secure their systems."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/1242251&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/22/1242251"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/1242251&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-22T13:09:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>TechCrunch Wants To Create an Open Source Tablet</title>
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<description>RKo618 writes "TechCrunch announced that they are planning to design their own $200 web tablet device. Quoting: 'The idea is to turn it on, bypass any desktop interface, and go directly to Firefox running in a modified Kiosk mode that effectively turns the browser into the operating system for the device. Add Gears for offline syncing of Google docs, email, etc., and Skype for communication and you have a machine that will be almost as useful as a desktop but cheaper and more portable than any laptop or tablet PC.' The aim is for the tablet to run on modified open source software, which will be released back to the community along with the specifications for the hardware."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/050233&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/22/050233"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/050233&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-22T12:20:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<slash:department>i-prefer-gelcaps</slash:department>
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<title>How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming?</title>
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<description>Anonymous Hacker writes "I'm in a bit of a bind. My young teenage son is starting to get curious about computers, and in particular, programming. Now, I'm a long time kernel hacker (Linux, BSD and UNIX). I have no trouble handling some of the more obscure things in the kernel. But teaching is not something that I'm good at, by any means. Heck, I can't even write useful documentation for non-techies. So my question is: what's the best way to encourage his curiosity and enable him to learn? Now, I know there are folks out there with far better experience in this area than myself. I'd really appreciate any wisdom you can offer. I'd also be especially interested in what younger people think, in particular those who are currently in college or high school. I've shown my son some of the basics of the shell, the filesystem, and even how to do a 'Hello World' program in C. Yet, I have to wonder if this is the really the right approach. This was great when I was first learning things. And it still is for kernel hacking, and other things. But I'm concerned whether this will bore him, now that there's so much more available and much of this world is oriented towards point-n-click. What's the best way to for a young teen to get started in exploring this wonderful world of computers and learning how to program? In a *NIX environment, preferably." Whether or not you have suggestions for generating interest or teaching methods, there was probably something that first piqued your curiosity. It seems like a lot of people get into programming by just wondering how something works or what they can make it do. So, what caught your eye?<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/0452225&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/22/0452225"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/0452225&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-22T09:11:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>programming</dc:subject>
<slash:department>electroshock</slash:department>
<slash:section>askslashdot</slash:section>
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<title>Consumer 3D Television Moving Forward</title>
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<description>TheSync writes "Hollywood Reporter claims that SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) will 'establish an industry task force to define the parameters of a mastering standard for 3D content distributed via broadcast, cable, satellite, packaged media and the Internet, and played-out on televisions, computer screens and other tethered displays.' Already, Japanese Nippon BS viewers with Hyundai 3D LCD sets can watch an hour of 3D programming daily. Even your existing DLP TV set might be 3D capable today with the addition of LCD shutter glasses." Reader DaMan1970 makes note of another developing television technology; telescopic pixel displays. "Each pixel consists of 2 opposing mirrors where the primary mirror can change shape under an applied voltage. When the pixel is off, the primary &amp; secondary mirrors are parallel &amp; reflect all of the incoming light back into the light source."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/0241221&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/22/0241221"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/0241221&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=XAdyOR"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=XAdyOR" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/342266944" height="1" width="1"/></description>
<dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-22T06:02:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>tv</dc:subject>
<slash:department>don't-tag-this-porn</slash:department>
<slash:section>tech</slash:section>
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<title>Floating Cities On Venus</title>
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<description>Geoffrey.landis writes "Some of you may have heard me talk about colonizing Venus. Well, for those who haven't, Universe Today is running story about floating cities on Venus. It's a reasonable alternative for space colonies &mdash; after all, the atmosphere of Venus (at about 50 km) is the most Earth-like environment in the solar system (other than Earth, of course). '50 km above the surface, Venus has air pressure of approximately 1 bar and temperatures in the 0C-50C range, a quite comfortable environment for humans. Humans wouldn't require pressurized suits when outside, but it wouldn't quite be a shirtsleeves environment. We'd need air to breathe and protection from the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/0040202&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/22/0040202"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/0040202&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=XvkiIw"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=XvkiIw" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/342195089" height="1" width="1"/></description>
<dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-22T03:58:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>space</dc:subject>
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<title>Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers</title>
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<description>An anonymous reader points out an interview with Mozilla's "evangelist," Christopher Blizzard, regarding the future of Firefox and how it affects other browsers. It's an Austrian site, so forgive the comma abuse. From derStandard: "It's sort of interesting though, part of our strategy is to make sure, that we continue making change and the indirect effect of this is that Microsoft continues to have to do releases, because if we get so far ahead that we're able to drive the platform they are not able to keep up and keep their users. I mean, we have this joke which says 'Internet Explorer 7 is the best release we ever did,' because they would not have done it, if we would have not built Firefox. And the same is true for Apple, they are doing a lot to keep up with us. Safari 3.1 is a good example, as far as we see it, the only reason they did this release was that Firefox 3 would come out and have Javascript speed which would be twice as fast as theirs, cause that's how it was before. So by pushing other people to make releases we can go on our mission to make sure the web stays healthy."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/0012210&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/22/0012210"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/0012210&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=3588NM"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=3588NM" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/342106311" height="1" width="1"/></description>
<dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-22T01:59:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>mozilla</dc:subject>
<slash:department>driving-the-market</slash:department>
<slash:section>tech</slash:section>
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<title>Switching To Solar Power &ndash; One Month Later</title>
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<description>ThinSkin writes "After an interesting article on solar panel installation for the home, Loyd Case at ExtremeTech has written a follow-up after about a month of normal use. Posting an $11.34 electric bill (roughly 3% of previous months), Loyd shares his experiences using solar power and how it can be fun for the geek, with computer monitoring services and power generation data. Of course, solar power isn't all fun and games, given the amount of required maintenance &mdash; even unpredictable maintenance, like wiping off accumulated ash from fires in Northern California."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/2310208&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/21/2310208"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/2310208&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-21T23:51:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>power</dc:subject>
<slash:department>bright-idea</slash:department>
<slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
<slash:comments>490</slash:comments>
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<title>Kaminsky's DNS Attack Disclosed, Then Pulled</title>
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<description>An anonymous reader writes "Reverse engineering expert Halver Flake has recently mused on Dan Kaminsky's DNS vulnerability. Apparently his musings were close enough to the mark to cause one of the Matasano team, who apparently already knew of the attack, to publish the details on the Matasano blog in a post entitled 'Reliable DNS Forgery in 2008.' The blog post has since been pulled, but evidence of it exists on Google and elsewhere. It appears only a matter of time now before the full details leak." Reader Time out contributes a link to coverage on ZDNet as well.<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/2212227&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/21/2212227"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/2212227&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-21T23:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>security</dc:subject>
<slash:department>can-of-worms</slash:department>
<slash:section>it</slash:section>
<slash:comments>203</slash:comments>
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<title>IT Jobs To Drop In 2009</title>
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<description>ruphus13 writes "A new Goldman Sachs IT report recently released states that IT jobs will be dramatically reduced in 2009, starting with contract and offshore developers. From the article: 'Sharp reductions likely in contract staff, professional services and hardware, and almost no investment in cloud computing.' The article goes on to say 'The CIOs indicated that server virtualization and server consolidation are their No. 1 and No. 2 priorities. Following these two are cost-cutting, application integration, and data center consolidation. At the bottom of the list of IT priorities are grid computing, open-source software, content management and cloud computing (called on-demand/utility computing in the survey) &mdash; less than 2% of the respondents said cloud computing was a priority.' Postulating a 'pointy haired boss' problem, an analyst goes on to say, '[Grid computing, Open Source and Cloud computing] require a technical understanding to get to their importance. I don't think C-level executives and managers have that understanding.' But they do control the paychecks ..."<p><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/2037204&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/21/2037204"></a></p><p><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/2037204&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>CmdrTaco</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-21T22:15:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>business</dc:subject>
<slash:department>gonna-get-worse-before-it-gets-better</slash:department>
<slash:section>mainpage</slash:section>
<slash:comments>296</slash:comments>
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<title>NIA Brain-Computer Interface, Mind-Control Gaming</title>
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<description>MojoKid writes "Sunnyvale-based manufacturer OCZ Technology has laid claim to being the first to bring a 'brain-computer' interface to the retail market and they have aimed it squarely at the gamer. The device is called the NIA, which is an acronym that stands for Neural Impulse Actuator. Instead of buttons, sticks, gyroscopes or motion sensors, it reads the body's natural bio-signals and translates them into commands that can be used to control PC games. This evaluation of the NIA shows the product actually works as advertised, with a little practice. It can, in some cases, offer reaction times superior to standard controllers, based on faster trigger response time, and the difference is quite noticeable and immediate."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/1926251&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/21/1926251"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/1926251&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>CmdrTaco</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-21T21:35:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>inputdev</dc:subject>
<slash:department>and-it-melts-your-brain</slash:department>
<slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
<slash:comments>76</slash:comments>
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<title>2008 Pwnie Award Nominees Announced</title>
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<description>ruphus13 writes "The Pwnie Awards, an 'annual awards ceremony celebrating and making fun of the achievements and failures of security researchers and the wider security community' announced their 2008 nominees. From their site, 'The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is finally published. We've received some really good submissions and it was not an easy task to narrow them down to five nominees per category, but we hope that we've done a good job. The next step for the Pwnie Awards judges will gather in an undisclosed location prior to the award ceremony and vote on the winners.'"<p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/1923237&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/21/1923237"></a></p><p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/1923237&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>CmdrTaco</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-21T20:51:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>humor</dc:subject>
<slash:department>my-little-pwnie</slash:department>
<slash:section>entertainment</slash:section>
<slash:comments>70</slash:comments>
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<title>Watchmen Movie Trailer Is Out</title>
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<description>I forgot to mention the other bit of exciting comic book movie news this week: DaSpudMan noted that the Watchmen trailer is out &mdash; from the Director of 300, which spawns mixed feelings at our office. But it looks pretty good.<p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/1855204&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/21/1855204"></a></p><p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/1855204&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>CmdrTaco</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-21T19:53:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>movies</dc:subject>
<slash:department>stuff-to-see</slash:department>
<slash:section>entertainment</slash:section>
<slash:comments>235</slash:comments>
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<title>Inside the Lego Factory</title>
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<description>An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has a fascinating report and video tour inside the Lego factory, which is full of robots and controlled by a mainframe. 'This video shows something that very few people have had the opportunity to witness: the inside of the Lego factory, with no barriers or secrets. I filmed every step in the creation of the brick. From the raw granulate stored in massive silos to the molding machines to the gigantic storage cathedrals to the decoration and packaging warehouses, you will be able to see absolutely everything, including the most guarded secret of the company: the brick molds themselves.'"<p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/1716239&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/21/1716239"></a></p><p><a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/1716239&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<dc:creator>CmdrTaco</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-07-21T19:05:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>toy</dc:subject>
<slash:department>when-i-was-a-kid-there-were-only-2-kinds-of-bricks</slash:department>
<slash:section>entertainment</slash:section>
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