Slashdot Stories for 2011

Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial 172
Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved 330
NASA Considers Sending Telescope To the Outer Solar System 152
Victory For Irish File Sharers Dashed By Government Report 77
Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive 603
Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? 601
FBI Cybercrime Director Comments On Hacktivism 254
Apple Wins Injunction Banning Import of HTC Devices 314
NFL: National Football Luddites? 257
AT&T Officially Ends Plans To Acquire T-Mobile USA 176
MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases 68
Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet 283
Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle 134
Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws 209
Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core? 181
IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate 216
Moxie Marlinspike Answers Your Questions 76
Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties 445
Businesses Now Driving "Bring Your Own Device" Trend 232
Man Changes Name to "Mark Zuckerberg" After Facebook Sues Him 113
Researchers Create "Mighty Mouse" With Gene Tweak 112
Fermilab's New Commercial Research Center 24
BT Sues Google Over Android 214
Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism 39
Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From Developer To Executive? 229
In Australia, Even Private Facebook Photos Are Public 71
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 518
MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data 29
Dell Ditches Netbooks 354
Hello World On PS Vita, Thanks to Buffer Overflow 123
How To Thwart the High Priests In IT 417
Why Google Is Disabling Kids' Gmail Accounts 228
Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE 228
SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket 345
Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers? 153
Google Outlines AI-Based Number Reading For Street View Photos 68
Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics 146
Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines 307
The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives 385
Sony's Next-Generation Portable Is Out, In Japan 134
Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target 235
Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives 209
Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores 156
Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot 507
Spectrum Fragmentation Means Pricier Mobile Networking 80
Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas 330
Innovative Use of Plastics Could Cheaply Double Solar Cell Output 141
How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest? 238
GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast 808
Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? 570
YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video 220
Smallest Known Black Hole Found 69
PCMCIA Computer Project Aims Even Higher (and Cheaper) Than Raspberry Pi 161
Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children 284
Self-Contained PC Liquid Coolers Explored 86
Belgium Anti-Piracy Group Expands Attack On Access To the Pirate Bay 159
Google Rolls Out Official Android 4.0 ICS Update 92
DynDNS Cuts Back Free DNS Options 223
Novell's WordPerfect Antitrust Suit Ends In Mistrial 98
No SOPA Vote Until 2012 181
Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? 203
FCC Pays $100K To Open Source Apps Challenge Winner 15
Technical Details Behind the LAN-Party Optimized House 123
New Standard For Issuance of SSL/TLS Certificates 62
Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers 255
Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones 156
Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny 477
Android Update Alliance Already Struggling 364
The Future of Battle Tech 122
Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother 191
Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own 392
US Watchdog Bans Photoshop Use In Cosmetics Ads 383
Judge Dismisses Twitter Stalking Case 51
Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown 201
Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 910
NIH Restricts Use of Chimpanzees in Labs 119
How HP and Open Source Can Save WebOS 86
Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes 236
Challenges of Setting Up a Security Conference 29
Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text 213
Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights 321
Ask Slashdot: Good Metrics For a Small IT Team? 315
The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 292
Nightingale Media Player Preview Released 79
JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer 210
Running Tor On Your TV 80
Hubble Captures the Violent Birth of a Star 102
Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android 614
US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing 647
Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones 1003
Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier 449
Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE 476
How 3D Printing Could Help Keep the ISS In Orbit 200
Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? 514
Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA 231
Hotel ISP iBahn Denies Breach By Chinese Hackers 30
Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House 175
At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet 287
Taking a Look At Kindle Format 8 76
Qt 4.8.0 Released 90
Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University 359
Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness? 344
E-Crime Police Raid Melbourne Newspaper 52
A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web 392
Japanese Use Wild Monkeys To Track Radiation 85
Astronomers Find Gas Cloud About To Fall Into Black Hole 94
The Four Fallacies of IT Metrics 223
Feds Arrest GeneSimmons.Com Attacker 180
Picture Blocking Beer Cooler Keeps Your Face Out of Embarrassing Photos 200
Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent 121
US Bans Loud Commercials 289
Verizon's Galaxy Nexus To Launch Tomorrow 123
Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off 309
The Kindle Skews Amazon's 2011 Best-Seller List 135
Book Review: The Economics of Software Quality 83
The Undeclared "Cyber Cold War" With China 260
Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" 543
Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery 302
In Nuclear Power, Size Matters 230
Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows 753
Atlantic Crossing By Amateur Radio High Altitude Balloon 51
KDE Releases Plasma Active Two 49
Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android 532
NVIDIA Releases Source To CUDA Compiler 89
Fracking Disclosure Rules Approved In CO 279
Amazon Granted Location Tracking Patent 68
Retina Implant Company Seeks FDA Trial Approval 46
Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent 284
What Microsoft Should and Shouldn't Do For the Xbox 720 502
Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA 175
New Humble Indie Bundle Goes Live 159
NASA Developing Comet Harpoon For Sample Return 49
Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog 590
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? 360
Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information 140
24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs 291
Chinese Government Ramps Up Weather Control Efforts 139
Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project 152
Out of Sight, Out of Mind 147
Judge Dismisses 'Other OS' Class-Action Suit Against Sony 403
UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER 398
Russia Set To Extend Life of Nuclear Reactors Past Engineered Life Span 215
NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers 938
Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone 663
Facebook Launches Suicide-Prevention Effort 159
New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological 472
Ask Slashdot: Working As an IT Contractor In a War Zone? 352
LHC Homes In On Possible Higgs Boson Around 126GeV 210
Publicly Available Russian Election Results Hint At Fraud 304
Adblock Plus Developers To Allow 'Acceptable' Ads 247
EU Regulators Delay Google's Motorola Buy, Seeking More Info 45
MIT's New Camera Can Take 1 Trillion Frames Per Second 197
House Panel Moving Forward With SOPA 206
Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord 561
Million Dollar Crowdturfing Industry Dupes Social Networks 170
Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence 264
Quantum Dots Will Make Flexible Displays 83
In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions 265
Facebook Releases JIT PHP Compiler 244
Isaac Newton's Notes Digitized 92
FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ 156
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option 373
Verizon Considering Purchase of Netflix 139
Predator Drone Helps Nab Cattle Rustlers 214
Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy 463
Tizen, webOS, & the Future of Mobile Open Source 94
The Encyclopedia of Sci-fi Goes Live Online 82
Corporate Claims On Public Domain YouTube Videos 320
Windows 8 Store Will Allow Open Source Apps 333
Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP 340
Intel Revenue Dives $1bn On Hard Disk Shortage 198
Two Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found 150
Scientists Create World's Smallest Steam Engine 84
The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels 448
Does Mega Media Control 90% of Content? 231
Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue 178
North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights 441
Life Possible On 'Large Regions' of Mars 154
Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad 396
Verizon Tech Charged In $4.5M Equipment Scam 104
Google Founder Offer $33M For Use of NASA Airship Hangar 86
Researchers Teach Subliminally; Matrix Learning One Step Closer 103
German Court Issues Injunction Against iPhone & iPad 349
Ask Slashdot: Open Vs. Closed-Source For a Start-Up 325
World's First Programmable Quantum Photonic Chip 156
Researchers Create a Statistical Guide To Gambling 185
The Ups and Downs of Being a Twitter Fraudster 101
Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials 145
Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires 434
Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network 260
The Condescending UI 980
Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet For Running a Real GNU/Linux Distribution? 277
Was Russia Behind Stuxnet? 281
LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test 197
Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case 129
Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform' 318
Two SOPA Writers Become Entertainment Lobbyists 171
Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances 213
Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak 161
Apple Transfers Patents Through Shell Company To Sue All Phone Makers 422
NASA May Send Landers To Europa In 2020 156
Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict 423
Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security 225
Is the Earth Special? 745
Pop Artists Support Megaupload; Universal Censors 255
'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into US Speech 331
Royalty-Free MPEG Video Proposals Announced 108
Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? 845
Massive Radio Telescope Starts Observing the Skies 44
2nd SpaceX Demo Flight Slated For Feb. 7 42
PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives 353
GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award 378
Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers 187
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Print From an Android Tablet? 203
Microsoft and GE Partner On Healthcare 157
Google Demonstrates Chrome Native Client With Bastion 154
You Really Are What You Know 188
Silverlight 5 Released 107
TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts 493
LHC To Narrow Search For Higgs Boson 99
Why We Need More Programming Languages 421
NASA Missing Hundreds of Moon Rocks 132
HP Making webOS Open Source 169
Why Android Upgrades Take So Long 226
Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft 85
Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps 282
Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least 435
Forget an Essay; Earn a Scholarship With a Tweet 99
Rats Feel Each Other's Pain 200
Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads, Games Dominate 178
Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model 471
Amazon Is Recruiting Authors For Its eBook Library 130
Apple Loses Tablet Battle In Australia 159
EU Moves To End Surveillance Tech Sales To Repressive Regimes 132
17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle 255
Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps 389
Geodesic Gingerbread House Template For the Holidays 61
Draft Alternative To SOPA Released 170
Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa 102
IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls 93
Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess 231
NASA's Gypsum Find Clear Evidence There Was Water On Mars 162
IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools 50
Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets 125
Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain 243
GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales 344
Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone 612
Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools 276
Big Brother In the Home Office 298
Miyamoto Steps Down As Nintendo Game Design Head 112

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