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EPA's Science Advisory Board
Has Not Met in 6 Months

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(scientificamerican.com)

 Posted by msmash on Sunday March 11, 2018 @01:00PM from the two-step-backwards dept.
The U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board has not met in at least six
months, and some of its members say it's being sidelined to avoid
getting in the way of agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's anti-
regulatory agenda, Scientific American reported this week. From
the report: Agency officials say the lapse isn't intentional and that
it's just the result of delayed paperwork. That has prevented the
group from meeting because there weren't enough members to
make a quorum. The board, which typically has about 45
members, is tasked by Congress to evaluate the science used by
EPA to craft policy. The full board has not met since August, nor
has it had any conference calls or votes. In the past, members
would have had multiple interactions during that time period, said
William Schlesinger, a board member who is an emeritus
professor of biogeochemistry at Duke University. "I guess the
Science Advisory Board still exists; I guess I'm still on it," he said.
"I think the answer is maybe they're giving it what we used to call
the 'pocket veto': If you don't meet, then the scientists are not a
pain, because they don't have a forum."
     Report Says 

Radioactive
Monitors Failed at Nuclear Plant
(apnews.com)

 Posted by msmash on Sunday March 11, 2018 @12:00PM from the closer-look dept.
A new report says mistakes and mismanagement are to blame for
the exposure of workers to radioactive particles at the Hanford
Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. From the report:
Contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation on Thursday
released its evaluation of what went wrong in December during
demolition of the nuclear reservation's highly contaminated
Plutonium Finishing Plant. The Tri-City Herald reports the study Slashdot Deals
said primary radioactive air monitors used at a highly hazardous
Hanford project failed to detect contamination. Then, when the
spread of contamination was detected, the report said steps taken
to contain it didn't fully work.

At least 11 Hanford workers checked since mid-December inhaled

or ingested small amounts of radioactive particles. Private and
government vehicles were contaminated with radioactive
particles. The sprawling site in southeastern Washington contains
more than 50 million gallons of radioactive and toxic wastes in
underground storage tanks. It's owned by the U.S. Department of
Energy, which hires private contractors to manage the cleanup
work. Hanford was established during World War II and made the
plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The
560-square mile site also made most of the plutonium for the
nation's nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
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     Twitter Suspends 

Numerous Popular
Accounts That Are Known For
Stealing Tweets  (buzzfeed.com)
 Posted by msmash on Sunday March 11, 2018 @10:00AM from the tough-luck dept.
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against the "tweetdeckers," Twitter suspended on Friday several
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getting this release ready. Beta 1 includes some software updates Re:Kill switch (5 points, Informative) by
that are ready for broader testing. However, it is quite an early set Zocalo on Saturday March 10, 2018 @04:48PM
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     Could This Bold 
Interesting) by arglebargle_xiv on Sunday
New Technique March 11, 2018 @06:38AM attached to ESR's
Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS
Boost Gravitational­Wave
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Detection?  (space.com) Informative) by Anonymous Coward on
Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:05AM attached to Are
 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 11, 2018 @07:34AM from the fun-with-photons dept.
The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time?
Slashdot reader astroengine writes: One of the most expensive, Re:An epic failure in science journalism (5
complex and problematic components in gravitational wave points, Informative) by BadDreamer on
detectors like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Sunday March 11, 2018 @07:05AM attached to
Observatory (LIGO) — which made the first, historic detection of Can Electricity Travel Through Space on Astrophysical
these ripples in space-time in September 2015 — is the 4- Jets?
kilometer-long vacuum chambers that house all the interferometer Re:Kill switch (5 points, Informative) by
optics. But what if this requirement for ground-based gravitational sl149q on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:51PM
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(UMBC) who are developing a method that could allow extremely This Day on Slashdot
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comments
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Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 11, 2018 @03:34AM from the falling-backwards dept.
The New York Times notes an important caveat to Florida's TrueType core fonts 2.2B downloads
recently-approved law observing daylight savings time year- Notepad++ Plugin Mgr 1.5B downloads
round: it specifies that their change will only go into effect if "the VLC media player 899M downloads
United States Congress amends 15 U.S.C. s. 260a to authorize eMule 686M downloads
states to observe daylight saving time year-round." MinGW 631M downloads
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"In other words: Even if the governor signs the bill, nothing will sf
happen now... States can choose to exempt themselves from
daylight saving time -- Arizona and Hawaii do -- but nothing in
federal law allows them to exempt themselves from standard
time." Meanwhile one California legislator exploring the idea of
year-round standard time discovered that "youth sports leagues
and families worried that a year-round early sunset would shut
down their kids' after-school games." But the Times also
acknowledges problems in the current system. "In parts of Maine,
for example, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the sun sets
before 4 p.m. -- more than an hour earlier than it does in Detroit,
at the other end of the Eastern time zone." So is there a better
alternative?

An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider: Standardtime.com

has a unique suggestion. Their proposal has only two time zones
in the continental U.S. that are two hours apart, which The
Atlantic calls "a simple plan to fix [DST]"... Johns Hopkins
University professors Richard Henry and Steven Hanke have come
up with yet another possible fix: worldwide adoption of a single
time zone. They argue that the internet has eliminated the need for
discrete time zones across the globe, so we might as well just do
away with them...

No plan will satisfy everyone. But that doesn't mean daylight-

saving time is good. The absence of major energy-saving benefits
from DST -- along with its death toll, health impacts, and
economic ramifications -- are reason enough to get rid of the
ritual altogether.
The article associates Daylight Saving Time with "a spike in heart
attacks, increased numbers of work injuries, automobile accidents,
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suicides, and more." And in addition, it also blames DST for an

increased use of gasoline and air conditioners -- adding that it will
also "rob humanity of billions of hours of sleep like an evil
spacetime vampire."
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ESR's Newest 

Project: An Open
Hardware/Open Source UPS
(ibiblio.org)

 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 10, 2018 @11:34PM from the power-to-the-people dept.
An anonymous reader writes: Last month Eric S. Raymond
complained about his choices for a UPS (Uninterruptible Power
Supply), adding that "This whole category begs to be disrupted by
an open-hardware [and open-source] design that could be
assembled cheaply in a makerspace from off-the-shelf
components, an Arduino-class microcontroller, and a
PROM...because it's possible, and otherwise the incentives on the
vendors won't change." It could be designed to work with longer-
lasting and more environmentally friendly batteries, using "EV-
style intelligent battery-current sensors to enable accurate
projection of battery performance" (along with a text-based alert
system and a USB monitoring port).

Calling the response "astonishing," Raymond noted the emergence

within a week of "the outlines of a coherent design," and in an
update on GitLab reported that "The response on my blog and G+
was intense, almost overwhelming. It seems many UPS users are
unhappy with what the vendors are pushing" -- and thus, the
UPSide project was launched. "We welcome contributors: people
with interest in UPSes who have expertise in battery technology,
power-switching electronics, writing device-control firmware,
relevant standards such as USB and the DMTF battery-
management profile. We also welcome participation from
established UPS and electronics vendors. We know that consumer
electronics is a cutthroat low-margin business in which it's tough
to support a real R&D team or make possibly-risky product bets.
Help us, and then let us help you!"

There's already a Wiki with design documents -- plus a process

document -- and Raymond says the project now even has a
hardware lead with 30 years experience as a power and signals
engineer, plus "a really sharp dev group. Half a dozen experts
have shown up to help spec this thing, critique the design docs,
and explain EE things to ignorant me." And he's already touting
"industry participation! We have a friendly observer who's the
lead software architect for one of the major UPS vendors." Earlier
Raymond identified his role as "basically, product manager --
keeper of the requirements list and recruiter of talent" -- though he
admits on his blog that he's already used a "cute hack" to create a
state/action diagram for the system, "by writing a DSL to generate
code in another DSL and provably correct equivalent C
application logic."

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He adds to readers of the blog that if that seems weird to you,

"you must be new here."
     Chinese Police 

Begin Tracking
Citizens With Face­Recognizing
Smart Glasses  (reuters.com)

 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 10, 2018 @09:34PM from the I'll-be-seeing-you dept.
An anonymous reader quotes Reuters: At a highway check point
on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a
new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features
and car registration plates, and match them in real-time with a
database of suspects. The AI-powered glasses, made by LLVision,
scan the faces of vehicle occupants and the plates, flagging with a
red box and warning sign to the wearer when any match up with a
centralized "blacklist".

The test -- which coincides with the annual meeting of China's

parliament in central Beijing -- underscores a major push by
China's leaders to leverage technology to boost security in the
country... Wu Fei, chief executive of LLVision, said people should
not be worried about privacy concerns because China's
authorities were using the equipment for "noble causes", catching
suspects and fugitives from the law. "We trust the government," he
told Reuters at the company's headquarters in Beijing.
This weekend while China's President Xi Jinping is expected to
push through a reform allowing him to stay in power indefinitely,
Reuters reports that the Chinese goverment is pushing the use of
cutting-edge technology "to track and control behavior that goes
against the interests of the ruling Communist Party online and in
the wider world... A key concern is that blacklists could include a
wide range of people stretching from lawyers and artists to
political dissidents, charity workers, journalists and rights
activists...

"The new technologies range from police robots for crowd

control, to drones to monitor border areas, and artificially
intelligent systems to track and censor behavior online," Reuters
reports, citing one Hong Kong researcher who argues that China
now sees internet and communication technologies "as absolutely
indispensable tools of social and political control."
     Linux Developer 

McHardy Drops
GPLv2 'Shake Down' Case
(zdnet.com)

 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 10, 2018 @07:34PM from the not-making-your-case dept.
Former Linux developer Patrick McHardy dropped his Gnu
General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) violation case against
Geniatech in a German court this week. ZDNet explains why
some consider this a big "win": People who find violations
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typically turn to organizations such as the Free Software

Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), and the
Software Freedom Law Center to approach violators. These
organizations then try to convince violating companies to mend
their ways and honor their GPLv2 legal requirements. Only as a
last resort do they take companies to court to force them into
compliance with the GPLv2. Patrick McHardy, however, after
talking with SFC, dropped out from this diplomatic approach and
has gone on his own way. Specifically, McHardy has been accused
of seeking his own financial gain by approaching numerous
companies in German courts. Geniatech claimed McHardy has
sued companies for Linux GPLv2 violations in over 38 cases. In
one, he'd requested a contractual penalty of €1.8 million. The
company also claimed McHardy had already received over €2
million from his actions...

In July 2016, the Netfilter developers suspended him from the core
team. They received numerous allegations that he had been
shaking down companies. McHardy refused to discuss these issues
with them, and he refused to sign off on the Principles of
Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement. In October 2017, Greg
Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch,
summed up the Linux kernel developers' position. Kroah-Hartman
wrote: "McHardy has sought to enforce his copyright claims in
secret and for large sums of money by threatening or engaging in
litigation...."

Had McHardy continued on his way, companies would have been

more reluctant to use Linux code in their products for fear that a
single, unprincipled developer could sue them and demand
payment for his copyrighted contributions... McHardy now has to
bear all legal costs for both sides of the case. In other words,
when McHardy was faced with serious and costly opposition for
the first time, he waved a white flag rather than face near certain
defeat in the courts.
     Can Electricity 

Travel Through
Space on Astrophysical Jets?
(mdpi.com)

 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 10, 2018 @06:34PM from the current-events dept.
Slashdot reader Chris Reeve writes: An October 2017 paper titled
Electric Currents along Astrophysical Jets reports that "Several
researchers have reported direct evidence for large scale electric
currents along astrophysical jets." A review of the citations at the
end of that paper and others (here and here, for instance) would
seem to suggest that one of the great Internet science debates has
finally been settled: Electricity does indeed travel through space
over vast cosmic distances.

What has been interesting to watch about this unexpected

development is that science journalists have so far not explicitly
reported this as a shift in theory, and commenters on sites like
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phys.org appear to deny that any change has even occurred: "The
jets have been shown not to be electric currents, the energy and
the physics involved are certainly not electromagnetic." This
comment completely rejecting these new findings was highly rated
by other phys.org readers, suggesting that the failure to explicitly
report this as a change in theory has left this controversial topic in
a highly confused state.
The paper summarizes what it calls "observational evidence for
the existence of large scale electric currents and their associated
grand design helical magnetic fields in kpc-scale astrophysical
jets." And the original submitter details the history of the question
in a follow-up comment arguing that at our current moment in
time, "a mistaken bias against electricity in space continues to
dominate conversations."
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Perpetrator Is Now
Also Wanted in Florida
(kansas.com)

 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:34PM from the warrants-for-arrests dept.
An anonymous reader writes: Florida police recount how close
they were to aresting 25-year-old Tyler Barriss before his fake call
to Kansas police led to a fatal shooting. "Panama City Beach
police Lt. J.R. Talamantez told the Panama City News Herald that
police had tied Barriss to about 30 other bomb threats," reports
the Wichita Eagle -- a full month before another call led to the
fatal shooting of a father of two in Kansas. But attempts to secure
an arrest warrant may have been slowed by the lack of an address,
since apparently Barriss "lived in a shelter in South Los Angeles.
Police there found him in a local library."

A Florida newspaper reports that their local police department is

now doing what they can to right the situation. "Lt. J.R.
Talamantez, cyber crimes investigator with the Panama City
Beach police, said the department currently has two felony
warrants issued for Barris' arrest and is providing the U.S.
Attorney's Office with information... Talamantez said the end goal
is to identify all victims of Barriss' calls and bring him to justice
on all those incidents... "We just want to send a message that this
isn't going to end with a slap on the wrist. The victims will see an
appropriate punishment."
     Debian 9.4 

Released
(debian.org)

 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 10, 2018 @04:34PM from the Debian-distros dept.
An anonymous reader quotes Debian.org: The Debian project is
pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution
Debian 9 (codename "stretch"). This point release mainly adds
corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for
serious problems... Please note that the point release does not

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constitute a new version of Debian 9 but only updates some of the

packages included. There is no need to throw away old "stretch"
media. After installation, packages can be upgraded to the current
versions using an up-to-date Debian mirror.
Phoronix adds that Debian 9.4 "has a new upstream Linux kernel
release, various dependency fixes for some packages, an infinite
loop fix in Glade, several CVE security fixes, a larger stack size
for NTP, a new upstream release of their NVIDIA proprietary
driver package, Python 3 dependency fixes, and other security
fixes."
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Lawmakers Continue Fighting For
Net Neutrality in the US Senate,
Courts, and States  (cnet.com)

 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 10, 2018 @03:34PM from the not-staying-neutral dept.
Here's the latest developments in the ongoing fight over net
neutrality rules:
CNET reports that Democrats in the Senate "have been pushing to
use the Congressional Review Act to roll back the FCC's repeal of
net neutrality rules. They've gotten the support of 50 senators for
the measure, including one Republican, Susan Collins of Maine.
Sen. John Kennedy from Louisiana , who's been undecided in his
support of the CRA bill, was being courted by Democrats as the
tie-breaking vote to pass the measure in the Senate...

"On Wednesday, Kennedy introduced a piece of legislation that

would ban companies like AT&T and Comcast from slowing
down or blocking access to websites or internet services. But the
bill wouldn't prevent these broadband and wireless companies
from offering paid prioritization, which many critics fear could
lead to so-called internet 'fast lanes.'"
Axios reports that lawsuits looking to strike down the Federal
Communications Commission's repeal of its own net neutrality
rules "will be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit, the court said Thursday... The lottery to decide the
location of the court arguments was the result of lawsuits filed
against the FCC in different jurisdictions, including by Attorneys
General from more than 20 states, led by New York attorney
general Eric Schneiderman."
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The Associated Press reports that on Monday, Washington became

the first state to set up its own net-neutrality requirements. But
they add that governors in five states -- Hawaii, New Jersey, New
York, Montana and Vermont -- "have signed executive orders
related to net-neutrality issues, according to the National
Conference of State Legislatures. Montana's order, for instance,
bars telecommunications companies from receiving state contracts
if they interfere with internet traffic or favor higher-paying sites or
apps."

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Add 'Mario Kart'
Feature  (wlwt.com)

 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 10, 2018 @02:34PM from the Mario-where-are-you? dept.
An anonymous reader quotes WLWT News: Starting Saturday,
"Mario Time" will be available on the Google Maps app for iOS
and Android, letting you drive around town with Mario as your
guide, cruising the app in a go-kart similar to the iconic "Mario
Kart" video game. When users launch the latest version of the
app, the feature is activated by tapping a "?" beside the start
button normally used to start navigation.
It includes sound effects -- "Woo-hoo! Let's-a go!" says Mario --
and will be available for the next week. It's to commemorate
"Mario Day" -- Mar.10 -- that magical time of year one Portland
newspaper has described as "the most manufactured of corporate
holidays," on which Nintendo lowers the price on their Super
Mario Run app and offers other discounts.
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