Slashdot Stories for 2009

3D Blu-ray Spec Finalized, PS3 Supported 157
How Europe's Mandated Browser Ballot Screen Works 169
Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away 139
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272
Are You Using SPF Records? 263
Firefox Mobile Threatens Mobile App Stores, Says Mozilla 278
26 Gigapixel Photo Sets New World Record 139
EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy 103
Not Enough Women In Computing, Or Too Many Men? 686
Shuttleworth To Step Down As Canonical CEO In 2010 163
DRM Flub Prevented 3D Showings of Avatar In Germany 386
PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361
Microsoft Promises Not To Sue Moonlight 2.0 Users 233
BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice 412
Smuggler-Proof Toilets Come To Canadian Prisons 18
Indian Sect Members Vow To Marry Sex Workers 21
Monkey Bruce Lee Bests His Master 5
$300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal 315
Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You! 155
Did Chandrayaan Find Organic Matter On the Moon? 141
Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads 419
Autonomous Intelligent Botnets Bouncing Back 152
$26 of Software Defeats American Military 534
Computer Scientist Looks At ICBM Security 124
Doom-Like Video Surveillance For Ports In Development 56
New Zealand Reintroduces 3 Strikes Law 165
Heavy Rain Previews Show Promise 84
UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 796
Facebook Mafiosi Go To the Mattresses vs. Zynga 102
Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated 715
94 New Species Described By CA Academy of Sciences 52
FCC's New Broadband Plan Prioritizes Competition 71
Nearby "Super Earth" May Have Atmosphere 7
Scientists Crack 'Entire Genetic Code' of Cancer 235
FASTRA II Puts 13 GPUs In a Desktop Supercomputer 127
Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect 527
Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398
What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? 428
VMware Workstation vs. VirtualBox vs. Parallels 289
Sam Ramji Answers Your Questions 81
Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments 806
US FTC Sues Intel For Anti-Competitive Practices 230
UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers 187
Driver Gets Stuck On Cruise Control 38
Weightlifter Unexpectedly Gives Birth While Training 10
Italy Investigates Pasta Makers Over Price-Fixing 2
Why Top Linux Distros Are For Different Users 496
Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service 572
Herschel's First Science Results, Eagle Nebula 91
EU Accepts Microsoft's Browser Choice Promise 336
BetaNet Sues Everyone For Remote SW Activation 227
Judge Orders Permanent Injunction Against Psystar 242
ASCAP Seeks Licensing Fees For Guitar Hero Arcade 146
Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop 929
Are Complex Games Doomed To Have Buggy Releases? 362
Dying Star Mimics Our Sun's Death 149
Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses 170
Hackers Counter Microsoft COFEE With Some DECAF 154
Using Hacked Wiimotes As Scientific Sensors 110
22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found 326
Microsoft Acknowledges Theft of Code From Plurk 215
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight 278
White House Holding Piracy Summit 268
Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249
Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes 258
Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits 316
Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant 161
Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus 205
Ads To Offset Cost of Unlocked Google Phone? 161
Project Honey Pot Traps Billionth Spam 118
Bed Jumping Banned 17
Sex Noises Regulated In UK 12
Christmas Light Hero 4
The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza 282
What Is the State of Linux Security DVR Software? 112
Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack 195
Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451
Why Is a Laptop's Battery Dearer Than a Lawnmower's? 427
Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship 200
Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service 242
The Trial of Terry Childs Begins 502
Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year 253
Microsoft Steals Code From Microblogging Startup 315
Australia Could Finally Get R18+ Games 143
Amazon Introduces Bidding For EC2 Compute Time 52
Eolas Sues World + Dog For AJAX Patent 647
Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones 400
"Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress 636
Supreme Court Takes Texting Privacy Case 184
SFLC Sues 14 Companies For BusyBox GPL Violations 309
Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242
Is Console Gaming Dying? 496
Cybersecurity Czar Job Is Useless, Says Spafford 104
Microsoft Fined In India For Using "Money Power" Against Pirates 204
Oracle Responds To MySQL Purchase Concerns 156
PayPal Offers $150,000 In Developer Challenge 80
Hand Written Clock 86
The Book of Xen 88
Farmers Potty-train Pigs to Curb Pollution 5
NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space 139
Scientists Confirm Fast is Best for Band-Aid Removal 14
B&N Nook Successfully Opened 275
Secret Copyright Treaty Timeline Shows Global DMCA 184
Building a Global Cyber Police Force 155
"Nexus One" Is Google's Android Phone 233
Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900 565
Microsoft eOpen Site Down For Nearly a Week 133
ID Thief Tries To Get Witnesses Whacked 168
Office 2003 Bug Locks Owners Out 247
Israeli ISPs Caught Interfering With P2P Traffic 139
French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3 379
Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record 276
Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics 334
Facebook Founder's Pictures Go Public 219
How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google? 533
The DIY Book Scanner 177
Bacterial Prisoner's Dilemma and Game Theory 95
Are Sat-Nav Systems Becoming Information Overload? 186
Widenius Warns Against MySQL Falling Into Oracle's Hands 278
Google Demonstrates Quantum Computer Image Search 106
EU Recommends Noise Limits On MP3 Players 360
MySpace-Imeem Deal Leaves Indie Artists Unpaid 124
Mediterranean Might Have Filled In Months 224
Google Releases Experimental Phone To Employees 141
US and Russia Open Talks On Limits To Cyberwar 80
The Limits To Skepticism 1093
WordPress.com Implements the Twitter API 39
Open Source Hardware Projects, 2009 77
Microsoft Invents Price-Gouging the Least Influential 259
Copyright Industries Oppose Treaty For the Blind 135
Nanotech Ink Turns Paper Into a Low-Cost Battery 129
Fines Fail To Curb Cell Phone Usage While Driving 339
ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share 296
House Outlaws Obama's NASA Intervention 209
Google and Microsoft Sued By Mini Music Label 105
GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project 587
White House Plans Open Access For Research 74
Music While Programming? 1019
Mars Express Captures Phobos and Deimos 84
Documentation Compliance Means MS Can Resume Collecting Protocol Royalties 139
$860 Million In Fines Handed Out For LCD Price-Fixing 151
Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing 1079
Is Earth's Atmosphere an Import? 114
Slashdot Turns 100,000 443
Virtual Money For Real Lobbying 85
Apple Counter-Sues Nokia Over Patents 137
Judges Can't "Friend" Lawyers in Florida 138
Science Gifts For Kids? 368
Researchers Create Cheap, Flexible, Plastic Flash Memory 82
Arrington Responds To the JooJoo, Files Suit 91
Global Deforestation Demoed In Google Earth 207
Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System 88
Method To Repair Damaged Adult Nerves Discovered 128
Hot Grits Assault, Natalie Portman Remains Wary 10
Brothers Build World's Largest Model Train Set 4
Nouveau NVIDIA Driver To Enter Linux 2.6.33 Kernel 289
Student Ditches Campus Housing and Moves Into Van 29
How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine 392
Pie Eating Competitors to be Drug Tested 3
Three Lawmakers Ask For Enforcement Against Leak Sites 316
Red Hat Open Sources SPICE Desktop Virtualization 79
AT&T's Net Neutrality Doublethink 215
Mozilla Exec Urges Switch From Google To Bing 527
NYT's "Games To Avoid" an Ironic, Perfect Gamer Wish List 189
Lotus Teases With a Fuel-Agnostic Two-Stroke Engine 269
Building Left 4 Dead Maps With Google Sketchup 44
Microsoft Expands exFAT Multimedia Licensing 181
Open Source FPS Blood Frontier Releases Beta 2 113
Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway's Light Show 236
DRBD To Be Included In Linux Kernel 2.6.33 166
"Universal Jigsaw Puzzle" Hits Stores In Japan 241
Anticipated Closure of BitTorrent Sites Spurs Panic Downloads In China 114
Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? 888
USPTO Asking For Ideas To Enhance Patent Quality 42
Fast Wi-Fi's Slow Road To Standardization 140
License For Textbooks — GNU FDL Or CC? 8
FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors 355
Quebec Data Center Built In a Silo 113
Microsoft Finally Open Sources Windows 7 Tool 284
Hackers Find Home In Amazon EC2 Cloud 89
All I Want For Christmas is Your Two Front Teeth 4
Neighbors Beg Woman to Stop Feeding Vultures 3
Tiger Woods Mistress Video *NSFW*
Robot Can Read Human Body Language 114
The Science Credibility Bubble 1747
Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface 446
SQL Injection Attack Claims 132,000+ 186
The Star Wars Christmas Special Still Exists 316
Samsung Enters Smartphone Wars With Bada OS 175
Treading the Fuzzy Line Between Game Cloning and Theft 235
Self-Destructing Bacteria Create Better Biofuels 139
America's Army Games Cost $33 Million Over 10 Years 192
Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall 120
Mega Man 10 Confirmed For WiiWare 104
US Patent Office Fast Tracks Green Patents 136
IBM's Newest Mainframe Is All Linux 251
Company Trains the Autistic To Test Software 419
Five Top Publishers Plan Rival to Kindle Format 123
Malware Found Hidden In Screensaver On Gnome-Look 611
A Critical Look At Open Licensing For Hardware 123
AT&T Moves Closer To Usage-Based Fees For Data 441
Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? 418
Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 178
NASA Tests Flying Airbag 118
Court Says Fair Use May Hold In Some RIAA Cases 145
Adobe Takes On Microsoft Role In E-book Market 161
Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 245
Student Killed By Exploding Gum 10
New Hubble Ultra Deep Field In Infrared 95
LHC Reaches Record Energy 347
Iron Mountain's Experimental Room 48 87
D-Link's New Boxee Box Runs Linux, Eyes Netflix 138
FTC, Google Go After Scammers 64
Pirates as a Marketplace 214
Silicon As the New Lithium 211
New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances 342
MySpace Buys and Then Takes Down Imeem 165
Saboteur Launch Plagued By Problems With ATI Cards 230
Interactive Computer Exhibits For Ages 3-8? 122
Monkeys With Syntax 197
Facebook Axes "Beacon," Donates $9.5M To Settle Suit 71
Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials 425
Questionable "Best Effort" Copyright Enforcement 123
Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272
US No Longer Leading the World In Spam 96
Microsoft To Get Malware Bailout In Germany 226
Martian Methane May Be Created By Lifeforms 297
Google Chrome Extensions Are Now Available 291
The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card 122
Saying No To Promotions Away From Tech? 410
UK Celebs Charged For Eating Rat 23
Thief Steals Robotic Dinosaur From Exhibit 1
Google Upgrades Chrome To Beta For OS X, Linux 197
15km of Offal Road 1
Police Reward Good Drivers With Candy 7
Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews 178
Data-Sifting For Timely Intelligence Still an Elusive Goal 131
Israeli Knesset Approves Biometric Database Law 303
New Sensory System Found In the Skin 8
ECMAScript Version 5 Approved 158
Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them 233
DVD-by-Mail Services Cleared In Patent Troll Case 73
Google CEO Says Privacy Worries Are For Wrongdoers 671
The Struggle For Private Game Servers 125
What Can I Expect As an IT Intern? 325
Building the Dream Google Smartbook 53
Dead Space 2 Announced 56
TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All 605
Linux Reaches 32% Netbook Market Share 389
Subverting Fingerprinting 169

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