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Submission + - Pardon Snowden Whitehouse Petition could set record

InPursuitOfTruth writes: The Whitehouse petitition requesting that Edward Snowden be pardoned not only surpassed the 100,000 signatures last weekend required to solicit a response from the Whitehouse that is pursuing him as he travels the globe with criminal charges for leaking of NSA documents revealing the widespread scope of domestic surveillance in the US, but if it keeps going, it could set the record for the Whitehouse petition with the most number of signatures, currently 366,000. Todays' /. poll shows those who think Snowden is a hero (spoiler coming) beating those who think he's a villain by 8 to 1.

Submission + - study abroad program in South East Asia (angelfire.com)

Jmarney writes: The practices in transferring credits vary from country to country. In some countries universities may be more flexible about transferring credits than in others. Students are advised to ask their possible home institutions about the requirements and practices regarding credit transfer for studies completed abroad.

Submission + - Walking Dead TV Show (walkingdeadtvshow.org)

An anonymous reader writes: Walking Dead TV is for all the true fans of the show. Watch the Walking Dead episodes online. Learn more about the Walking Dead characters, Walking Dead comics and the news on the next season.

Submission + - American Bankers Association Claims Copyright On Bank Routing Numbers 1

192_kbps writes: Greg Thatcher's website publishes bank routing numbers, the nine-digit numbers appearing at the bottom of US checks identifying the issuing bank. The American Bankers Association's lawyers issued a takedown notice, on follow-up claiming "These advances in the ABA Routing Number were the result of significant effort and creativity by the ABA." Techdirt has an analysis, and a change.org petition supporting Thatcher has been created.

Submission + - New Zealand ISP offers 'global mode' so users can circumvent geo-restrictions (brw.com.au)

An anonymous reader writes: Many content sites restrict access from different markets or have variable pricing for downloads in different markets. New Zealand-based ISP Slingshot is now offering a 'global mode' that lets customers hide their location. This means they can access overseas online services that would normally be restricted to specific markets.

Submission + - MSX turns 30 years old (theregister.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: The MSX standard, craddle of Metal Gear, Parodius, Puyo Puyo, Bomber Man and many others, is now 30 years old! The Register and Weekly ASCII released detailed articles about the history of the standard, who profited the most, the war with the Nintendo NES, what was envisioned and how this standard influenced modern computer/video game designs up to the Playstation-2 era.

Submission + - The Father of Civilization: Profile of Sid Meier (kotaku.com)

An anonymous reader writes: One year, as Stealey recalls, the two men went to an electronics trade conference. On the second night of the show, they stumbled upon a bunch of arcade games in a basement. One by one, Meier beat Stealey at each of them. Then they found Atari’s Red Baron, a squiggly flight game in which you’d steer a biplane through abstract outlines of terrain and obstacles. Stealey, the Air Force man, knew he could win at this one. He sat down at the machine and shot his way to 75,000 points, ranking number three on the arcade’s leaderboard. Not bad.

Then Meier went up. He scored 150,000 points.

“I was really torqued,” Stealey says today. This guy outflew an Air Force pilot? He turned to the programmer. “Sid, how did you do that?”

“Well,” Meier said. “While you were playing, I memorized the algorithms.”

Submission + - Mouse cloned from drop of blood (bbc.co.uk)

Ogi_UnixNut writes: Scientists in Japan have succeeded in cloning a mouse from a drop blood. From the BBC: "Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at the Riken BioResource Center reports in the journal Biology of Reproduction."

The female mouse managed to live a normal lifespan and could reproduce, according to the researchers.

Submission + - Best Android Apps for Tablet 2013 (techdomino.com)

allwinter writes: There have been few and poor quality Android apps for tablet so far, but this is changing quickly. Developers are now putting more effort into making higher quality tablet apps for Android. Here are the best 10 Android apps for tablets right now:

Comment Maybe this will help (Score 1) 440

Use the -d switch if you want to automatically select the file to delete or use no switch if you want a list of commands to copy to remove duplicates.

For readability, s/;/;\n/g. From an error message it seems Slashdot is hostile to small lines in posts. The original is 73 lines.

http://pastebin.com/sUfZkVaQ

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use Digest::SHA; use Cwd; use File::Util; my $topDir=cwd(); my($f) = File::Util->new(); my(@files) = $f->list_dir($topDir,'--recurse'); my %hash; my $deleteFlag=$ARGV[0]; #print $deleteFlag,"\n"; foreach my $file(@files) { if(-d $file) {next;} my $size=$f->size($file); push @{$hash{$size}},$file; } my ($filectr,$setctr)=(0,0); foreach my $key (sort { $a $b } keys %hash) {#loop through sizes my $value=$hash{$key}; my @arr=@{$value}; my $numFiles = @arr; if ($numFiles $b } keys %shahash) { #loop through files of same hash value my $shavalue=$shahash{$shakey}; my @shaarr=@{$shavalue}; my $numFilesSha = @shaarr; if($numFilesSha new($alg); $sha->addfile($filename); my $digest = $sha->hexdigest(); return $digest; } sub unixFilename { my ($filename) = @_; $filename =~ s/\)/\\\)/g; $filename =~ s/\(/\\\(/g; $filename =~ s/\ /\\ /g; $filename =~ s/\;/\\\;/g; $filename =~ s/\'/\\\'/g; $filename =~ s/\"/\\\"/g; $filename =~ s/\&/\\\&/g; $filename =~ s/\!/\\\!/g; return $filename; }

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