United States Stories for 2012

New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street 584
Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law 81
Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters 177
Senate Renews Warrantless Eavesdropping Act 218
New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map 1232
China Set To Surpass US In R&D Spending In 10 Years 233
NSA Targeting Domestic Computer Systems 105
NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter 292
USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video 114
Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex, Civilians Or Military? 183
Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener 354
Training Under Way For New Nuclear Plant Operators In S. Carolina 74
Using Technology To Make Guns Safer 1013
FTC Strengthens Children's Privacy Protections Online 45
Newest Gov't Tracking Threat: Cell-Site Data Without a Warrant 107
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage 1719
Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church 1061
Is the Flickr API a National Treasure? 101
Solar Impulse Announces Flight Across America For 2013 57
Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama 449
Solar Panels For Every Home? 735
NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens 332
Jammie Thomas Takes Constitutional Argument To SCOTUS 146
Guatemala Deports McAfee To the US 141
Laser Fusion Put On a Slow Burn By US Government 143
Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap 368
US Nuclear Industry Plans "Rescue Wagon" To Avert Meltdowns 184
Chinese Firm Wins Bid For US-Backed Battery Maker 183
Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet 174
How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation 391
How Yucca Mountain Was Killed 340
US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board 76
Republican Staffer Khanna Axed Over Copyright Memo 506
A Twisted Clean-Tech Tale: How A123 Wound Up In Bankruptcy 164
Historians Propose National Park To Preserve Manhattan Project Sites 150
US House Votes 397-0 To Oppose UN Control of the Internet 297
Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe 133
In the World of Big Stuff, the US Still Rules 184
Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages 342
Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle 289
Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone 219
Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales 268
Some Apple iMacs "Assembled In America" 279
Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? 943
US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low 567
Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail 369
Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon 206
Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Technology 292
BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill 238
TVShack Founder Signs Deal Avoiding Extradition 147
US Congressman Wants To Ban New Internet Laws 205
Longest US Space Mission Planned For 2015 29
Prediction Market Site InTrade Bans US Customers 260
Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas 486
U.S. Denies Using Flame Malware To Spy On French President 52
NTSB Dumps BlackBerry In Favor of iPhone 5 100
Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case 218
USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable' 153
Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants 403
Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time 733
Legalizing Online Futures Betting 80
GOP Study Committee Director Disowns Brief Attacking Current IP Law 176
Man Arrested At Oakland Airport For Ornate Watch 519
Will It Take a 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' To Break Congressional Deadlock? 104
A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It 102
USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help 473
House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" 134
US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent 362
Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email 228
Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 467
Geomapping Racism With Twitter 409
Stuxnet Infected (But Didn't Affect) Chevron Network In 2010 82
NRC Report Links Climate Change To National Security 242
Foxconn Denies Plans For New US Operations 96
CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair 401
Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States 430
All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True 576
Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court 380
AT&T To Pay $700,000 For Overcharging Consumers 74
Barack Obama Retains US Presidency 1576
U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? 821
Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot 383
Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections? 153
GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works 171
Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees 881
Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012 409
New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email 189
Most US Drones Still Beam Video Unencrypted 138
Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? 398
Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest 555
US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time 531
US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web 128
Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US 165
Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance 420
Google Launches Open Source Voter Information Tool 104
Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game? 157
CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway 97
FBI Says They're Now Working 24/7 To Investigate Hackers and Network Attacks 74
Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes 560
Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case 242
Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy? 232
South Carolina Department of Revenue Hacked, 3.6 Million SSNs Taken 112
Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs 795
Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers 817
Third 2012 US Presidential Debate Tonight: Discuss Here 529
Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs 75
Trade Show Video Features Iranian Tech, Talk of Stuxnet Retaliation 131
The Long Reach of US Extradition 242
TSA Moving X-ray Body Scanners To Smaller Airports 168
US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here 706
Congressman Warns FTC: Leave Google Alone 303
MacKinnon Extradition Blocked By UK Home Secretary 258
US Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks 292
Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses 208
US Navy Cruiser and Submarine Collide 236
U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of a Possible 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor' 190
FTC To Recommend Antitrust Case Against Google 195
S. Carolina Supreme Court: Leaving Email In the Cloud Isn't Electronic Storage 112
US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions 698
US Supreme Court Says Wiretapping Immunity Will Stand 203
US and EU Clash Over Whois Data 67
Judge Orders Piracy Trial To Test IP Address Evidence 321
Quantum Particle Work Wins Nobel For French, US Scientists 38
US Air Force's 1950s Supersonic Flying Saucer Declassified 300
National Ignition Facility Fails To Ignite Support In Congress 190
US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' 186
Automated DMCA Takedown Notices Request Censorship of Legitimate Sites 192
US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell 1113
Ad Group Says Internet Accounts For 5.1M US Jobs, 3.7% of GDP 73
Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit 402
Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners 119
FCC Chief: 300MHz More Spectrum By 2015 60
MPAA Boss Admits SOPA and PIPA Are Dead, Not Coming Back 186
Lenovo Building Manufacturing Plant in North Carolina 120
Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5 196
The US Navy's Railgun Program 321
White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack 212
US Court Says Motorola Can't Enforce Microsoft Injunction In Germany 175
IPv6 Must Be Enabled On All US Government Sites By Sunday 179
Air Force Foresaw Fatal F-22 Problems; Rejected $100,000 Fix As Too Expensive 232
United States Navy Names Ship After Neil Armstrong 71
Astronomy Portfolio Review Recommends Defunding US's Biggest Telescope 192
Microsoft Calls For $5B Investment In U.S. Education 257
Electronic Surveillance By US Law Enforcement Agencies Rising Steeply 105
US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" 805
DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships 218
Appeals Court Caves To TSA Over Nude Body Scanners 169
Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. 1080
Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software 151
Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots 584
Space Shuttle Items For Sale Soon VIa GSA Auction 59
US Military Tested the Effects of a Nuclear Holocaust On Beer 215
No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission 265
Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack 252
How Big Pharma Hooked America On Legal Heroin 499
Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To 180
Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered 361
The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film 727
Report Hints At Privacy Problem of Drones That Can Recognize Faces 107
DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not 228
House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act 326
EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks 680
Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak 103
GAO Slams DHS Over BioWatch Biological Defense System 88
Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes 500
White House Circulating Draft of Executive Order On Cybersecurity 94
Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate 519
TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New 427
Why Apple Should Stop Censoring Apps 144
FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec 216
Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire 608
Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum 306
The Danger In Exempting Wireless From Net Neutrality 161
FCC To Review the Relative Value of Low, High, and Super-high Spectrum Licenses 58
Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe 340
Appeals Court: You Can Infringe a Patent Even If You Didn't Do All the Steps 126
Apple Rejects Drone Strike App 234
US DOJ Drops Charges Against Two Seized Websites 152
US Doctors Back Circumcision 1264
Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children 1774
Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" 847
Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died 480
19 Million Americans Cannot Get Broadband Access 279
Prices Drive Australians To Grey Market For Hardware and Software 280
Ex-Marine Detained For Facebook Posts Deemed "Terrorist in Nature" 593
US Carbon Emissions Hit 20-Year Low 245
US Astronomy Facing Severe Budget Cuts and Facility Closures 157
Cables Show US Seeks Assange 488
How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution 245
US Court Sides With Gene Patents 255
Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange 923
White House Pulls Down TSA Petition 638
Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate 757
Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' 523
US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange In Vietnam 277
FCC Asked To Reassess Cell Phone Radiation Guidelines 78
Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers? 214
This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like 443
US Gov't Can't Be Sued For Warrantless Wiretapping 221
What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? 362
Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 397
Identity Theft May Cost IRS $21 Billion Over Next 5 Years 112
US Missile Defense Staff Told To Stop Watching Porn 187
US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet 266
US Navy Admiral Questions Expensive Stealth Platforms 490
US Census Bureau Offers Public API For Data Apps 47
Is China's Space Race An Opportunity For the US? 164
NSA Official Disputes Chief's Claim That Agency Doesn't Collect American Data 214
6 IT Projects, $8 Billion Over Budget At Dept. of Defense 113
US Gov't Says They Can Still Freeze Megaupload Assets If the Case Is Dismissed 530
Man Claims Cell Phone Taken By DC Police For Taking Photos 318
US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females 310
Senate Bill Raises Possibility of Withdrawl From ITER As Science Cuts Loom 180
Spooky: How NSA's Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life 211
The Nation Is Losing Its Toolbox 525
US Regaining Manufacturing Might With Robots and 3D Printing 475
Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s 696
Harvard Study Suggests Drone Strikes Can Disrupt Terror Groups 429
US Charges Russian With Launching 2008 Amazon DoS Attack 58
FCC Tariff Changes Mean No More Free Conference Calls 76
EPIC Files Motion About Ignored Body Scanner Ruling 183
Al Franken Calls for Tight Rules on Facial Recognition Software 158
Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" 561
Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? 207
Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise 502
US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge 469
When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide 358
Defense Expert: Hire Hackers and Wage War 157
The FDA Spied On Its Own Scientists 95
Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax 647
Icelandic Court Rules: Wikileaks Will Get Contributed Credit Card Money 168
What's Wrong With American Ninja Warrior? 349
Laser Powers Lockheed Martin's Stalker Drone For 48 Hours 129
DHS Still Stonewalling On Body Scanning Ruling One Year Later 242
Kim Dotcom Offers the DoJ a Deal 383
SOPA Provisions Being Introduced Piecemeal From Lamar Smith 134
Executive Order Grants US Gov't New Powers Over Communication Systems 513
Paul Vixie On DNS Changer: We're Dealing With Malware the Wrong Way 163
50th Anniversary of the Starfish Prime Nuclear Weapon Test Today 190
Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features 498
US Election Year, Still No Voting Reform 302
Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks 263
Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label 241
China Begins Stockpiling Rare Earths, Draws WTO Attention 227
Icelandic MP Claims US Vendetta Against WikiLeaks 227
Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? 421
Thomas Jefferson: Scientist, Inventor, Gadgeteer 220
After Recent US Storms, Why Are Millions Still Without Power? 813
Twitter Can't Keep Protestor's Data From Cops 105

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