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Submission + - Members of congress caught pirating via bittorrent (dailytech.com)

Submitted by Dega704
Dega704 writes: TorrentFreak used Hurricane Electric's handy list of assigned IP blocks to track down which IP addresses belong to the offices of members of Congress. And lo and behold, when those addresses were compared to results on YouHaveDownloaded, a torrent tracking site, they yielded over 800 hits.

Now to put this in context. YouHaveDownloaded tracks only a tiny portion of torrent traffic, so it appears that Congress — even as they look to punish lesser mortals for file sharing — are themselves gleefully committing a "smash and grab" as Vice President Joe Biden (D) once put it.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Ships New Atom Processors to PC Makers (ndtv.com)

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randomErr
randomErr writes: "Intel began shipping the new mobile Atom, formerly codenamed "Cedar Trail", processors to manufacturers. As with most new chips it has more features and longer battery life. Intel said today "Computing systems using new Atom processors will debut in early 2012 through leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Toshiba." A netbooks based on the new chip may have up to 10 hours of battery life, weeks of standby and high-definition video."
Censorship

Submission + - GoDaddy Backs SOPA (ibtimes.com) 1

Submitted by
redletterdave
redletterdave writes: "Website hosting company GoDaddy has officially voiced its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Bill in 2012, which is designed to thwart movie and music piracy on the Internet by empowering copyright holders to effectively shut down websites or online services found with infringing material. If passed, the U.S. government could blacklist any website it deems in violation of copyright, which could range from a few posts in a Web forum to a few links sent in an e-mail. GoDaddy supports SOPA for "protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. business and the American public from the harm that necessarily flows from the purchase of counterfeit products." Yet, of the 142 companies that support the SOPA bill, GoDaddy is the only Internet company on that list."
Education

Submission + - Getting into Management Without a Degree

Submitted by Tha_Big_Guy23
Tha_Big_Guy23 writes: At the beginning of my IT career, after I left college, I got a leg up from a friend of mine and acquired a job working in IT. Since then, I've worked more than a decade as an application developer and/or sysadmin. Along the way I've been team leads, project leads, and a senior developer. At this point I'm looking at trying to transition away from what I'm currently doing into more of a managerial position. The problem is that I don't have a college degree. While the college degree isn't absolutely necessary for what I do, given my past experience, it seems that any management track requires some type of formal education. I estimate that It would take several years to complete my degree and/or an MBA going to school for each only part-time. Upon completion of said education I would be in my mid 40's. So I ask the slashdot crowd, how would you go about getting into management in the IT fields without a degree, or is going back to school my only option?
China

Submission + - China has surpassed the United States. Is America (the-diplomat.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to a recent U.N. report, China has surpassed the United States in renewable energy investment in 2010, making it now the world’s largest. . In 2010, China’s wind power installation capacity was about 42GW, which places China as the biggest installation country globally.

Comment Is it just me... (Score 5, Insightful) 283

by mrquagmire (#38427162) Attached to: Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet
Or does it really seem like our country is going straight down the toilet at an accelerating rate? I mean I know I've only been alive for so long and I've only been paying attention to this stuff for a shorter period of time, but the events that occurred over the course of the last decade (and especially the last few years) combined with the policies that have been set up over the last 30 years or so is really starting to make me think we're in serious trouble. I mean real. serious. trouble.

Am I way off? Has our country been in a situation like this before where all the powers-that-be seem to be working together for their benefit, at the expense of everyone else's freedoms, liberties, and way of life?

Please tell me I'm wrong...
Science

Submission + - Russia set to extend life of nuclear reactors past (thebulletin.org)

Submitted by __aaqpaq9254
__aaqpaq9254 writes: Yikes! Russia is extending the lifetime of nuclear power reactors beyond their engineered life span of 30 years, including the nation's oldest reactors: first-generation VVERs and RBMKs, the Chernobyl-type reactors.
This goes against existing Russian law, because the projects have not undergone environmental assessments. Scary article, well-written.
China

Submission + - Chinese Government Tries to Control Rainfall With (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by formaggio
formaggio writes: China's government is intervening with nature by rolling out four regional programs to artificially increase precipitation across the country by 10 percent before 2015. The program is anticipated to bring in an additional 230 billion cubic meters of precipitation per year by 2015. This is on top of the 50 billion China already artificially creates annually in the northeastern province of Jilin.
Science

Submission + - How the 'Thermal Grill' Illusion Tricks the Mind (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: In a trick called the thermal grill illusion, placing your hand over alternating warm and cool bars can cause a burning sensation. Scientists have know about the phenomenon for more than 100 years, but they never understood why it caused pain. Now, a new fMRI study sheds light on the science behind this mysterious trick of the mind.
Android

Submission + - FBI Admits Carrier IQ Used For Law Enforcement Pur (muckrock.com)

Submitted by bonch
bonch writes: A FOIA request has revealed that the FBI is using Carrier IQ data for investigative purposes. In response to a request for documents related to accessing Carrier IQ information, the FBI replied that it did have files but could not release them due to possible interference with an ongoing investigation. This would seem to contradict earlier claims by researchers that Carrier IQ isn't logging data.
Hardware

Submission + - Hitachi announces world's first 4TB hard drive (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If you’ve been trying to wait out the high prices before buying a new, big hard drive, the flooding may have actually been a blessing in disguise. While 3TB drives have been the biggest available until now, Hitachi has just set the bar higher with not one, but two 4TB drive announcements.

The new drives carry the names Deskstar 5K4000 and Touro Desk External Drive. As you’ve probably guessed, the 5K4000 is the 3.5-inch internal version that ships with a 32MB cache and uses CoolSpin technology to save power–a 28% saving when compared to a 7,200rpm Deskstar 7K3000. That’s a bit misleading though, as this new drive is thought to max out at 5,900rpm.

Submission + - Slashdot Q&A with LightSquared Team (lightsquared.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I work with LightSquared and we would like to offer our EVP of Ecosystem Development and Satellite Business for a Q&A with the Slashdot community. Given the timeliness of the news, we would like to propose we immediately solicit questions and close by noon tomorrow. We will provide written responses by Wednesday morning.

Please let me know if this is a workable timeline and format. We hope to hear from you soon!

Patrick Kerley
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