United States Stories for 2011

Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson 473
EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support 204
Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War 969
Warrantless Wiretapping Decisions Issued By Ninth Circuit Court 156
What's Wrong With the US Defense R&D Budget? 225
TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas 338
Wikipedia To Dump GoDaddy Over SOPA 197
Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted 240
America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy 900
What Life Was Like Inside the Hexagon Project 104
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors 201
US Federal Reserve Data On Loans During Crisis Released 173
Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters 180
U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare 206
Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax 294
FCC Approves AT&T's $1.9 Billion Qualcomm Spectrum Purchase 52
Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater 256
USTR Publishes Rogue Sites List 82
China Now Top Patent Filer 135
Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google 315
US Asks Scientists To Censor Reports To Prevent Terrorism 273
Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial 172
Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws 209
Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism 39
SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket 345
Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics 146
How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest? 238
No SOPA Vote Until 2012 181
NIH Restricts Use of Chimpanzees in Labs 119
US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing 647
Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones 1003
Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA 231
US Bans Loud Commercials 289
The Undeclared "Cyber Cold War" With China 260
Fracking Disclosure Rules Approved In CO 279
Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone 663
Ask Slashdot: Working As an IT Contractor In a War Zone? 352
FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ 156
The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels 448
Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case 129
Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict 423
Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? 845
TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts 493
Draft Alternative To SOPA Released 170
GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales 344
Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone 612
Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules 353
Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy 451
The Unique Candidates of the New Hampshire Primary 116
Library of Congress To Receive Entire Twitter Archive 106
Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group 41
Reverse Robocall Turns Tables On Politicians 252
US Launches Virtual Embassy For Iran 174
New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication 164
Senator Uses FCC Nomination Process To Question National Wireless Network 101
USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service 713
Feds Seize Korean Movie Download Portals 215
Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone 522
Carrier IQ Drama Continues 244
Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress 629
Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era 144
Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech 203
US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers 1167
AT&T Issues Scathing Response To FCC Report 215
Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? 861
Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time 491
China Wants Cyber Crisis Hotline 58
Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple 631
Behind the Government's Rules of Cyber War 117
Judge Orders Hundreds of Websites Delisted From Search Engines, Social Networks 308
A Floating Home For Tech Start-ups 332
China Probes US Renewable Energy Policy 240
Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon 276
US Gov't Seizes 130+ More Domains In Crackdown 219
Ask Slashdot: Science Sights To See? 363
OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k 234
Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public 242
US Government Probes Huawei and ZTE 122
The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation 566
Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree 954
Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set 523
Afghanistan Biometric Data Given To US 108
Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right 427
Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy 268
A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck 60
Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Redistrict New York 102
Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack 575
Are SOPA Sponsors Violating SOPA Rules? Not So Fast, Says Ars Technica 115
US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games' 108
China Using Net Censorship As a Trade Weapon? 111
The $443 Million Smallpox Vaccine That Nobody Needs 290
EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship 477
Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator 381
Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge 358
TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners 233
Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns 803
DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime 536
Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut 86
NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment 933
Predicting US Supreme Court Justice Votes 186
A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California 309
Judge Rules Twitter Data Fair Game In Wikileaks Investigation 72
China Telecom Mulls Entry Into US Telecoms Market 161
Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System 451
Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality 345
Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced 548
Obama To Veto Anti-Net-Neutrality Legislation 355
Stop Online Piracy Act Supports Blacklisting, Says EFF 73
US Military Trying To Weed Out Counterfeit Parts 264
Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV 761
Scott Adams Proposes a Fourth Branch of Government 341
Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions 694
Slashdot Asks: Whom Do You Want To Ask About 2012's U.S. Elections? 343
The F-35 Story 509
White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions 232
Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security 382
FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert 210
Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? 841
Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search? 191
The CIA's Social Mining Department 110
DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying 151
How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports 264
PROTECT-IP Makes Its Way To the Floors of Congress 145
Rare-Earth Mineral Supply Getting Boost From California, Australia 84
US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote 735
White House Responds To Software Patents Petition 276
DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners 192
First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel 79
When Having the US Debt Paid Off Was a Problem 633
TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers 658
Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites 261
New Version of PROTECT IP Bill May Target Legal Sites 115
Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System 271
NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park 166
Feds Take USAjobs.gov Back From Monster, Performance Tanks 175
US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year 386
A Digital Direct Democracy For the Modern Age 308
$529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars 372
TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway 578
Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law 655
Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) 2247
ACTA Signed By 8 of 11 Participating Countries 213
Feds Shy Away From Raiding Email Without Warrant 71
US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry 162
IRS Auditing Google 328
US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network 156
U.S. Senator Wyden Raises Constitutional Questions About ACTA 239
US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data 240
Is the OMB Trying To End Planetary Exploration? 236
Air Force Network Admins Found Out About Drone Virus Through News Story 161
NYTimes Sues US Gov't To Know How It Interprets the PATRIOT Act 186
US Government Seizes Email of WikiLeaks Volunteer 217
Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? 1799
Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax 392
2-Year ID Theft Investigation Yields 86 Arrests; 25 More Sought 154
Oil May Be Finite, But U.S. Production Is Ramping Up 745
US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus 370
DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project 438
FCC Wants To Shift Phone Subsidy Funds To Broadband 211
Oracle To Pay US Almost $200M To Resolve False Claims Lawsuit 114
Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches 367
Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois 475
NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege 624
Is Off-Shoring a National Security Threat? 319
Inside ICS-CERT's War Room 30
Exploding Toilet Injures Two Government Workers 4
Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes 176
Privacy Groups Ask FTC For Facebook Investigation 68
Citigroup Questions Whether US Spectrum Shortage Exists 131
State Dept. Employee Investigated For Linking To WikiLeaks 172
Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure 885
Free Press Sues FCC Over Discrepancy In Net Neutrality Rules 71
Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones 619
Science Manual For US Judges 123
FBI Leaves Cleared Names On Terrorist Watch List 181
Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court 1019
ACTA To Be Signed This Weekend 277
Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating 961
The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone 172
Developer Seeks FDA Approval For Therapeutic Game 48
Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch' 217
Accent Monitoring: Innovation Or Rights Violation? 448
NASA: Satellite Debris Probably Hit Pacific, But Room For Doubt 65
Amendment: Violation of ToS Should Not Be a Crime 74
NASA Satellite Falls Back To Earth; Landfall in Canada 62
Missouri Removes Teacher-Student Social Media Ban 37
US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers 382
FCC Finalizes US Net Neutrality Rules 299
Surveillance Case May Reveal FBI Cellphone Tracking Techniques 57
Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? 241
Tax Loopholes No Longer Patentable 278
White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" 2115
Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment 519
Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight 235
Seven States Pile On To Block AT&T/T-Mobile Deal 152
Obama To Sign 'America Invents Act of 2011' Today 244
Senate Lets Teachers, Students Be Facebook Friends 66
NRO To Declassify Cold-War Spy-Sat Tech 77
Jobs Bill Funds Safety Network With Spectrum Sale 147
Court Denies EPIC's Rehearing Request, Awards Fees 30
Purported FBI Report Calls Anonymous a National Security Threat 159
$300M To Save 6 Milliseconds 524
How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks 123
Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 804
North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land 417
How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive 133
Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade 261
UK Joins Laser Nuclear Fusion Project 199
Patent Reform Bill Passes Senate 368
Smartphones Can't Cure Acne, FTC Rules 205
Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal 639
Missouri Hedges On 'Teachers Can't Friend Students' Law 102
Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters 568
TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger 699
Court Orders Gov't To Disclose GPS Tracking Data 40
Tech Company To Build Science Ghost Town In New Mexico 198
USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age 734
Canada Encouraged US To Place It On Piracy List 199
Mr. President, There Is No (US) Engineer Shortage 580
Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? 232
EPIC Uncovers: Mobile Scanners Not 'Certified People Scanners' 154
Solar Company Folds After $0.5B In Subsidies 694
EPIC Files For Rehearing In Body Scanner Case 95
US Gov't Lobbied EU To Approve Oracle-Sun Merger 169
When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? 426
The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream' 366
Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police 473
Hurricane Irene Prompts Unprecedented Evacuation of NYC 395
China Removes Cyberwar Video, Denies Everything 179
Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets 202
SEC Hit With Data Destruction Complaint 148
Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway 449
When Schools Are the Police 725
Anonymous Breaches Another US Defense Contractor 167
Why Amazon Can't Manufacture a Kindle In the US 598
Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism 775
American Grant Writing: Race Matters 464
DHS Tries To Hide Mobile Scanner Details 201
DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel 364
Amazon Launches 'AWS GovCloud' 26
Pakistan Lets China View US Stealth Technology 297
The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds 228
US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking 294
Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters 262
Feds' Radios Have Significant Security Flaws 84
Science Fair Entry Shuts Down Airport Terminal 380
Cisco, US DOJ Fire Another Salvo At Peter Adekeye 94
US Army Unveils Its Official Cologne 2
S&P's $2 Trillion Math Mistake 1040

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