India To Send World's Last Telegram Slashdotby Soulskill on communications at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at June 15, 2013, 11:32 pm)

New submitter afarhan writes "India will pull the plug on its 160-year-old telegram service on 14 July, this year. This will probably be the last telegram ever sent in the world. However, telegrams are still relevant in this vast country. More than 500 million people are still without access to a phone or Internet. For these people, telegram still remains the only digital communication available. 'At their peak in 1985, 60 million telegrams were being sent and received a year in India from 45,000 offices. Today, only 75 offices exist, though they are located in each of India's 671 districts through franchises. And an industry that once employed 12,500 people, today has only 998 workers.' In India, telegram is also considered a legal correspondence."

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Non-repudiation (SANS YouTube) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at June 15, 2013, 11:00 pm)

Man saknas efter fisketur SvD Inrikes(cached at June 15, 2013, 10:32 pm)

En man som var ute på fisketur utanför Robertsfors i Västerbotten saknas, uppger Sjöräddningscentralen.
”Det här är en väldigt viktig utveckling” SvD Inrikes(cached at June 15, 2013, 10:32 pm)

Expert om den nyvalda presidenten.
Ask Slashdot: Neurofeedback At Home, Is It Possible? Slashdotby Soulskill on technology at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at June 15, 2013, 10:32 pm)

New submitter sker writes "Mind hackers, self-help junkies, even regular people have heard wild promises of the power of neurofeedback — namely the process of watching a visual representation of your own brain's activity to influence what your brain is doing. Folks are using it to cure ADHD, PTSD, or even to supposedly improve mindfulness meditation. Previously the sole domain of costly hospital and research equipment, the necessary EEG equipment is making its way into the home. From newagey Deepak Chopra-endorsed kits to the for-engineers-only OpenEEG project, the options are rapidly getting unwieldy for curious bystanders to make sense of. Have you had experience with EEG or neurofeedback at home? Do you have advice?"

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Zimbabwe uppmanas skjuta upp val SvD Utrikes(cached at June 15, 2013, 10:02 pm)

Ledarna i södra Afrika anser att Zimbabwe bör skjuta upp valet som är utlyst till den 31 juli.
Bildt: ”Måste inleda samtal med Iran” SvD Utrikes(cached at June 15, 2013, 10:02 pm)

Rohani vald till president i Iran.
Config-Model-LcdProc-0.001 search.cpan.orgby Dominique Dumont at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at June 15, 2013, 10:01 pm)

Edit and validate LcdProc configuration file
App-Twimap-0.03 search.cpan.orgby Léon Brocard at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at June 15, 2013, 10:01 pm)

Push your Twitter home timeline to an IMAP server
Config-Model-2.037 search.cpan.orgby Dominique Dumont at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at June 15, 2013, 10:01 pm)

Create tools to validate, migrate and edit configuration files
Graph-Simple-0.02 search.cpan.orgby Alexis Sukrieh at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at June 15, 2013, 10:01 pm)

simple and intuitive interface for manipulating graph
WWW-KrispyKreme-HotLight-0.04 search.cpan.orgby Curtis Brandt at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at June 15, 2013, 10:01 pm)

Fetch Krispy Kreme locations near a given geolocation!
Egypt cuts diplomatic ties with Syria AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at June 15, 2013, 10:00 pm)

President Mohamed Morsi announces closure of embassies in Damascus and Cairo, and calls for imposition of no-fly zone.
Software-Defined Data Centers: Seeing Through the Hype Slashdotby Soulskill on business at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at June 15, 2013, 9:32 pm)

Nerval's Lobster writes "In case you didn't catch it yesterday, AllThingsD ran a piece endorsing the idea of the software-defined data center. That's a venue where hordes of non-technical mid- and upper-level managers will see it and (because of the credibility of AllThingsD) will believe software-defined data centers are not only possible, but that they exist and that your company is somehow falling behind because you personally have not sketched up a topology on a napkin or brought a package of it to install. If mid-level managers in your datacenter or extended IT department have not been pinged at least once today by business-unit managers offering to tip them off to the benefits of software-defined data centers—or demand that they buy one—then someone should go check the internal phone system because not all the calls are coming through. Why was AllThingD's piece problematic? First, because it's a good enough publication to explain all the relevant technology terms in ways that even a non-technical audience can understand. Second, it's also a credible source, owned by Dow Jones & Co. and spun off by The Wall Street Journal. Third, software-defined data centers are genuinely happening—but it's in the very early stages. The true benefits of the platform won't arrive for quite some time—and there's too much to do in the meantime to talk about potential endpoints. Fortunately, there are a number of resources online to help tell hype from reality."

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Turkisk polis tömmer parken på ockupanter SvD Utrikes(cached at June 15, 2013, 9:02 pm)

Polis har stormat Gezi-parken.