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ulla rhedoto [ mail: ulla.rhedoto[at]strengkatholisch.de | homepage: ulla.strengkatholisch.de ]	Why Tesla Cars Aren't Bricked By Failing Batteries
itwbennett writes "Don't believe recent claims made by a blogger that non-functioning batteries in the Tesla Roadster cause the electric cars to be bricked, says IDC analyst Sam Jaffe. 'Here's the primary fact that the blogger in question doesn't understand: the Tesla battery pack is not a battery,' says Jaffe. 'It's a collection of more than 8,000 individual batteries. Each of those cells is independently managed. So there's only two ways for the entire battery pack to fail. The first is if all 8,000 cells individually fail (highly unlikely except in the case of something catastrophic like a fire). The second failure mechanism is if the battery management system tells the pack to shut down because it has detected a dangerous situation, such as an extremely low depth of discharge. If that's the case, all that needs to be done is to tow the vehicle to a charger, recharge the batteries and then reboot the battery management system. This is the most likely explanation for the five 'bricks' that the blogger claims to have heard about.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.

         

                

                 

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                        23 February 2012, 8:07 am                 
                
                

                 

                         rüdiger axm [ mail: rüdiger.axm[at]fickschlitten.com | homepage: rüdiger.fickschlitten.com ]
                 
                 

                         Secret UK Network Hunts GPS Jammers                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


garymortimer writes "A secret network of 20 roadside listening stations across the UK has confirmed that criminals are attempting to jam GPS signals on a regular basis. From the article: 'Government-funded trials involving the police have revealed more than a hundred incidents of GPS jammer use in the UK.

The Sentinel project, which has been running since January 2011, was designed to measure GPS jamming on UK roads. The project, run by GPS-tracking company Chronos Technology, picked up the illegal jamming incidents via four GPS sensors in trials lasting from two to six months per location.'"




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        23 February 2012, 6:32 am                 
                
                

                 

                         christina rntuhge [ mail: christina.rntuhge[at]bongfaschist.de | homepage: christina.bongfaschist.de ]
                 
                 

                         Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


Julie188 writes "Last summer the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to spend millions to reinvent the toilet. That investment has born fruit with teams from around the world coming up with many different ways to turn human waste into energy."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        23 February 2012, 5:35 am                 
                
                

                 

                         adolf dehli [ mail: adolf.dehli[at]fickschlitten.com | homepage: adolf.fickschlitten.com ]
                 
                 

                         Almost a Million UK Homes Will Suffer 4G TV interference                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


First time accepted submitter Nick Fel writes "As the UK nears the end of a lengthy digital TV switch-over, the sale of the analogue TV spectrum for 4G mobile phones will disrupt digital TV in almost a million homes. Affected homes will be issued with a filter or required to upgrade to satellite or cable, and in extreme cases may be granted funding to find their own solution."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        23 February 2012, 3:06 am                 
                
                

                 

                         jens gehinnn [ mail: jens.gehinnn[at]bongfaschist.de | homepage: jens.bongfaschist.de ]
                 
                 

                         FCC Chair Calls On ISPs To Adopt New Security Measures                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


alphadogg writes "U.S. Internet service providers should take new steps to protect subscribers against cyber attacks, including notifying customers when their computers are compromised, the chairman of the FCC said Wednesday. Julius Genachowski called on ISPs to notify subscribers whose computers are infected with malware and tied to a botnet and to develop a code of conduct to combat botnets. Genachowski also called on ISPs to adopt secure routing standards to protect against Internet Protocol hijacking and to implement DNSSEC, a suite of security tools for the Internet's Domain Name System."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        23 February 2012, 1:25 am                 
                
                

                 

                         albrecht acsrinthi [ mail: albrecht.acsrinthi[at]brasei.de | homepage: albrecht.brasei.de ]
                 
                 

                         Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


An anonymous reader writes "Biologists have previously predicted that that the male sex-determining Y chromosome, which once carried around 800 genes, like the X, has lost hundreds of them over the past 300 million years, will mutate itself out of existence, leading to the eventual extinction of men. However, researchers of a study published in the latest issue of Nature found evidence to suggest that the Y chromosome will not shed anymore of the 19 ancestral genes that it is left with."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        23 February 2012, 12:56 am                 
                
                

                 

                         erich ealnume [ mail: erich.ealnume[at]ich-blicks.net | homepage: erich.ich-blicks.net ]
                 
                 

                         NRC Releases Audio of Fukushima Disaster                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


mdsolar writes "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today released transcripts and audio recordings made at the NRC Operations Center during last year's meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. The release of these audio recordings comes at the request of the public radio program 'BURN: An Energy Journal,' and its host Alex Chadwick. The recordings show the inside workings of the U.S. government's highest level efforts to understand and deal with the unfolding nuclear crisis as the reactors meltdown. In the course of a week, the NRC is repeatedly alarmed that the situation may turn even more catastrophic. The NRC emergency staff discusses what to do — and what the consequences may be — as it learns that reactor containment safeguards are failing, and that spent fuel pools are boiling away their cooling water, and in one case perhaps catching fire."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        23 February 2012, 12:36 am                 
                
                

                 

                         olga arikn [ mail: olga.arikn[at]strengkatholisch.de | homepage: olga.strengkatholisch.de ]
                 
                 

                         LinkedIn Buys Rapportive                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


redletterdave writes "Business networking site LinkedIn acquired Rapportive on Wednesday, which is a Gmail add-on that provides information about your social contacts as you e-mail them. The deal was reportedly already in place by Dec. 8, but Rapportive confirmed the acquisition on Wednesday in its company blog. Rapportive, which is still available over Gmail, adds an e-mailer's social networking accounts, including their Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, and overlays the information over open messages and e-mail drafts. Neither Rapportive nor LinkedIn would release the financial details of the acquisition, but sources close to the situation say the deal closed in the 'low teens' of millions of dollars."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        22 February 2012, 11:50 pm                 
                
                

                 

                         jürgen buriknte [ mail: jürgen.buriknte[at]an-neuss.de | homepage: jürgen.an-neuss.de ]
                 
                 

                         Microsoft's Anti-Google Video Campaign                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


eldavojohn writes "As the presidential race heats up, the smear ads on TV are also increasing. But Microsoft isn't going to site idly by and let the politicians engage in all that song and dance — and Microsoft really does employ both song and dance. Their Youtube channel appears to be slowly transforming from trade show videos and launches into a marketing attack or propaganda campaign that only targets Google (both videos I've watched seemed to have nothing positive about Microsoft in them). Under a month ago, they launched a spoof called GMail man, a creepy guy that flips through all your GMail and serves up super personal ads that are wrong (although they never say if Hotmail engages in targeted marketing). And a few days ago Googlighting shows up to spread fear and uncertainty about Google Docs. Most amusing to this viewer was that I found no such trace of 'Googlighting' on Bing's video service."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        22 February 2012, 11:04 pm                 
                
                

                 

                         erich nita [ mail: erich.nita[at]mudjaheddin.de | homepage: erich.mudjaheddin.de ]
                 
                 

                         Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Maintaining IT Policy In K-12 Public Education?                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


First time accepted submitter El Fantasmo writes "I work in public education, K-12, for a small, economically shaky, low performing school district. What are some good or effective tactics for getting budget controllers to stop bypassing the IT boss/department? We sometimes we end up with LOW end MS Win 7 Home laptops, that basically can't get on our network (internet only) or be managed. The purchaser refuses to return them for proper setups. Unfortunately, IT is currently under the 'asst. superintendent of curriculum and instruction,' who has no useful understanding of maintaining and acquiring IT resources and lets others make poor IT purchasing decisions, by bypassing the IT department, and dips into IT funds when their pet project budgets run low. How can this be reversed when you get commands like 'make it work' and the budget is effectively $0?"




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        22 February 2012, 10:18 pm                 
                
                

                 

                         tina nsirgu [ mail: tina.nsirgu[at]ich-blicks.net | homepage: tina.ich-blicks.net ]
                 
                 

                         Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


smolloy writes "It would appear that the hotly debated faster-than-light neutrino observation at CERN is the result of a fault in the connection between a GPS unit and a computer. This connection was used to correct for time delays in the neutrino flight, and after fixing the correction the researchers have found that the time discrepancy appears to have vanished."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        22 February 2012, 9:34 pm                 
                
                

                 

                         victor fwideinr [ mail: victor.fwideinr[at]fickschlitten.com | homepage: victor.fickschlitten.com ]
                 
                 

                         Book Review: Liars and Outliers                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


First time accepted submitter benrothke writes "It is said that the song Wipe Out launched a generation of drummers. In the world of information security, the classic Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneier may have been the book that launched a generation of new cryptographers. Schneier's latest work of art is Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive. For those that are looking for a follow-up to Applied Cryptography, this it is not. In fact, it is hard to classify this as an information security title and in fact the book is marked for the current affairs/sociology section. Whatever section this book ultimately falls in, the reader will find that Schneier is one of the most original thinkers around." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        22 February 2012, 8:50 pm                 
                
                

                 

                         james ptruer [ mail: james.ptruer[at]about-warren.com | homepage: james.about-warren.com ]
                 
                 

                         Disconnection of Millions of DNSChanger-Infected PCs Delayed                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


tsu doh nimh writes "Millions of computers infected with the stealthy and tenacious DNSChanger Trojan may be spared a planned disconnection from the Internet early next month if a New York court approves a new request by the U.S. government. Meanwhile, six men accused of managing and profiting from the huge collection of hacked PCs are expected to soon be extradited from their native Estonia to face charges in the United States."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        22 February 2012, 8:06 pm                 
                
                

                 

                         christoph irtnhka [ mail: christoph.irtnhka[at]brasei.de | homepage: christoph.brasei.de ]
                 
                 

                         Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


itwbennett writes "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com — unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do it. The change goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks at EFF have posted some simple instructions showing how to delete your web history at Google."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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                        22 February 2012, 7:25 pm                 
                
                

                 

                         günter mhutle [ mail: günter.mhutle[at]about-warren.com | homepage: günter.about-warren.com ]
                 
                 

                         FDA To Review Inhalable Caffeine                 
 
                
                

                 

                        


First time accepted submitter RenderSeven writes "Manufacturing .NET reports that U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement. AeroShot went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and it's also available in France. Consumers put one end of the canister in their mouths and breathe in, releasing a fine powder that dissolves almost instantly."




                                                                                                                                                                              



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