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Submission + - Ask slashdot: what are slashdot alternatives? (slashdot.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @06:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: Given the upcoming beta.slashdot.org, what other sites should we start reading?

Submission + - OpenBSD Long Term Support (mtier.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @07:39AM

An anonymous reader writes: OpenBSD has had a model of supporting only the -current and the most recent release.
The company M:Tier has been providing free packages and binpatches for some time now, and they've expanded
to providing paid "long term support" for older releases including security fixes and backports for the two
previous releases. Their plans also include binary patches for the OpenBSD base system.

Submission + - Francois Englert And Peter W. Higgs got Nobel Prize For Physics 2013

Submitted by rtoz on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @07:15AM

rtoz writes: Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize For Physics.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two scientists for the “theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.”

Read more details here.

Submission + - New York Subpoenaed AirBnb for Its User Data (vice.com)

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:16AM

Daniel_Stuckey writes: The war between New York City and Airbnb is raging on, and the future of the hospitality business hangs in the balance.

The city is fighting the startup for breaking local laws against operating an illegal hotel out of your home, worried that hustlers are abusing the online service to turn a profit. To that end, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just slapped the company with a subpoena to hand over the user data of all New Yorkers who've listed their apartment on the site, the New York Daily News reported today. That's about 225,000 users.

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