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Paypal Declares War on Legal Published Erotica 0

Submitted by Nom du Keyboard on Sunday February 19, @07:00PM

Nom du Keyboard writes "If you're doing business on the Internet you pretty much have to deal with Paypal for payments. Other alternatives are either more expensive, more limited, generally unsuitable, unavailable worldwide, or otherwise not able to meet the requirements for accepting payments over the Internet from pretty much everybody. And dealing with Paypal means dealing with their often arbitrary and capricious enforcement of vague and unseen policies. Now Paypal has suddenly declared war on legal published erotica and is demanding that an increasing number of individuals, as well as major eBook distributors, remove all titles that Paypal alone objects to, or lose their primary means of payment processing.. The Internet has just defeated SOPA and PIPA, but can it ever defeat the 900lb gorilla of Paypal? Note: It's unlikely that Paypal initiated this action completely on their own. They have always been more reactive than proactive, so where is this sudden new pressure to act coming from now? Enquiring Slashdotters would like to know."

Intel gets serious with solar-powered CPU tech-> 0

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angry tapir

on Sunday February 19, @06:19PM

angry tapir writes "Intel's experimental solar-powered processor may have started off as a fun project, but the chip maker is now looking to extend the technology to hardware such as graphics processors, memory and floating point units. Intel last year showed the low-power processor — charged only by the light from a reading lamp — running Windows and Linux PCs. Intel is expected to share further details about the processor, which is code-named Claremont, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. The company is also expected to reveal information about efforts to integrate wireless capabilities into Atom chips for mobile devices."
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Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom-> 0

Submitted by stupendou on Sunday February 19, @03:11PM

stupendou writes "Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal. The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be orders of magnitude smaller and quicker than today’s silicon-based machines."
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First cross browser exploit to detect Social Network logins-> 0

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TomAnthony

on Sunday February 19, @03:08PM

TomAnthony writes "The first cross browser exploit that allows detection of Facebook, Twitter and Google+ logins so a website can detect which Social Networks a visitor is logged in to. For Twitter and Google+ it exploits the login mechanism."
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Ask Slashdot: Can companies force employees to join social networks?-> 3

Submitted by

rubeon

on Sunday February 19, @11:25AM

rubeon writes "Companies can get a lot of mileage out of social networking services from the likes of Google or Facebook. Chat, document collaboration, and video conferencing using services like Google+ Hangouts or Facebook's Skype are seductive additions to an IT arsenal. But a lot of people have privacy concerns about these services, and there's no shortage of horror stories how these sites track and exploit their users' habits. Can a company force its employees to use Google+?"
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Making the transition from a web developer to video games developer 0

Submitted by dvir.azulay on Sunday February 19, @10:54AM

dvir.azulay writes "Hello fellow developers. I'm a web developer since I can remember myself, developing mainly with PHP and worked for two years as one, mainly in a web start-up. I started my Computer Science degree last year, and soon I'll come to the time I have to choose between internships and goals as a developer. I really love being a web developer, but I have this secret, really strong urge to be a video games developer and working in a big company like Blizzard and such. My question is — How hard is the transition from a web developer to video games developer, and what skills should I aim to develop during my studies that will take me forward in that direction? And the big question — how to start? Thanks!"

Best Android Weather Applications-> 0

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Jessicaxx

on Sunday February 19, @09:58AM

Jessicaxx writes "A list of the best weather applications that you'll need on your Android phone: Never ignore weather, it's in your lifestyle!"
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Top Android Apps-> 0

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jakson0100

on Sunday February 19, @09:28AM

jakson0100 writes "Apps can make your Motorola smartphone or tablet even more fun and more efficient than it already is. The ones below are fully tested, fully awesome and just a download away. Visit the Android Market. for even more app options—hundreds of thousands, to be exact."
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Braillle-based iPhone & iPad texting app not only for visually impaired-> 0

Submitted by alphadogg on Sunday February 19, @09:08AM

alphadogg writes "Georgia Tech University researchers have developed a prototype iPhone and iPad app that is based on the Braille writing system and could provide a way to text without looking at your mobile device whether you are visually impaired or not. The free open-source BrailleTouch app, which will be extended to the Android platform as well, involves using just six keys to convert smartphone and tablet touchscreens into eyes-free texting systems."
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How do you deal with priorities inflation in IT projects? 0

Submitted by NetDanzr on Sunday February 19, @09:08AM

NetDanzr writes "I work for an IT company that has a steady stream of projects, new features to our existing products and technical support issues. As it is customary, though, our development resources are not sufficient to cover the amount of projects. As a result, our delivery dates are slipping, and as a result the average priority of projects is rising. Where the goal was to have only 10% of projects rated high, within a year nearly 50% of projects is rated as such. Our solution is to completely wipe out the project list once per year and start a new, properly prioritized list. How does your company deal with this inflation of priorities?"