News Stories for 2008

A Computer Composing and Playing Jazz 134
Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air 438
Google Turns On User-Tweakable Search Wiki 161
BluWiki Seeks iPodHash Author, Hopes for Help From EFF 77
How to Deal With an Aging Brain? 684
Google to Track TV Viewers More Closely 123
Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu 248
Microsoft Moves To Quash Case, End E-mail Revelations 158
Object Lights Night Sky Across Canadian Prairies 125
Misdemeanor Plea Ends Norwich Pornography Case 260
Police Cars To Transmit Real-Time Video 149
Harnessing Slow Water Currents For Renewable Energy 113
Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System 169
Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition 77
Rock Band Creators Hit With Class Action Lawsuit 79
Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE 290
Chinese Hacking of American Military Networks On the Rise 205
After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" 430
Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media 295
Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 265
How To Help Our Public Schools With Technology? 378
RICO Class Action Against RIAA In Missouri 213
Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins 317
AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo 622
Zapping Contrails With Microwave Emitters 125
Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End 243
Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project 453
Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA 288
IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationship 261
Apple's New MacBooks Have Built-In Copy Protection 821
Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube 222
Good Deep-Knowledge Analog Design Books? 65
FCC Publishes "White Spaces" Rules 63
American Nerd 240
Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" 412
Psystar Antitrust Claim Against Apple Dismissed 256
Court Slams Door On Sale of Spyware 51
Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? 794
Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid 337
National Geographic Getting Into Video Games 35
New Generator Boosts Wind Turbine Efficiency 50% 315
HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade 499
Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? 1563
Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China 278
New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations 331
It's Official, Australia Needs a Space Agency 199
Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore 465
Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos 199
New Star Trek Trailer 591
Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading 176
Ender in Exile 507
The Science of the Lightsaber 197
Preview the New MythTV User Interface 229
Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free 905
75 Comics That Are Being Made Into Films 256
Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student? 418
Boycott Novell Protesters Manhandled In India 360
Rubber Duckies For Global Warming Research 167
On the Economics of the Kindle 398
Some Schools Welcoming Patent Firm, Others Wary 55
How To Build a Web 2.0 Government? 249
Firefox 2 and Gecko 1.8 End of Life 138
French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge 326
Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree? 564
Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre 382
"Heat Wheel" Could Lower Data Center Power Bills 97
Plastic Logic E-Newspaper 75
Unhappy People Watch More TV 193
Success Not Just a Matter of Talent 247
Google Earth Recreates Ancient Rome 97
$1M Reward Offered To Nab Data Breach Extortionist 134
Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team 179
Sun Banks On Open Source For Its Survival 211
Independent Dev Reports Over 80% Piracy Rate On DRM-Free Game 422
Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA 159
Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project For Takeoff 90
Scientists Create Easier Way To Embed Objects Into Video 236
New Report On NSA Released Today 81
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction 399
Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada 541
Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle 314
China Eases Licensing Rules For Foreign Media Sources 36
Job and Internship Salary Comparisons? 231
O'Reilly Now Competing With Sun Java Certificates 44
Non-Profit Org Claims Rights In Library Catalog Data 152
Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer 857
The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com 275
Nuke Site Converted Into Green Data Center 125
Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy 618
US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use 374
Multiple Upcoming Games, Movies Based On Jordan's Wheel of Time 217
3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine 417
Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks 576
First Trek Film Footage Unveiled 320
As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland 521
The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives 205
Solar Cycle 24 May Have Finally Begun 72
An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case 189
Microsoft Denies Paying Nigerians $400K To Ditch Linux 148
Seagate Acknowledges Problems With 1.5-TB HDD 239
OLPC's "Give 1 Get 1" Comes To Europe 134
EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts 219
Mystery Science Theater Turns 20 165
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists 610
Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows 154
EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents 145
Vital Parts of Games As DLC? 446
Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple 270
Obama's Election Means a Return of Vampire Flicks 97
Philosophy and Computer Science Revisited 204
U-Turn On UK ID Cards 143
Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy 574
MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube 116
StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack 135
Drive From Sydney Museum Could Unlock NASA Moon Data 0
Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform 73
After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test 267
Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana 388
Two New Class-Action Suits Against EA Over DRM 336
FTC Wants To Straighten Out IP Law 97
How Social Software Can Improve Democracy 182
Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic 86
Which Computer Books For Prisoners? 257
NYCL Responds to RIAA Accusations 231
Malaysia Frees "Anti-Islamic" Blogger 53
Telco Appeals Minnesota City's Fiber-Optic Win 162
Researchers Hijack Storm Worm To Track Profits 128
Yahoo Interested In a Microsoft Buyout, But Microsoft Isn't 174
Should the United States' New CTO Really Be a CIO? 243
US Army To Use MMOs For Turing Tests 55
Doctorow On Copyright Reform & Culture 243
The State of Electronic Voting In the 2008 US Elections 223
Scientists Turn Tequila Into Diamonds 249
Four Google Officials Facing Charges In Italy For Errant Video 153
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 126
Obama Launches Change.gov 1486
(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? 412
Guitar Hero World Tour Equipment Problems, Subscription Possibilities? 146
Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads 402
iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition 668
Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code 369
How To Verify CD-R Data Retention Over Time? 303
Cash Lifeline For Bletchley Park 63
Bill Joy For New National CTO Post? 393
Games To Outsell Music, Video In UK 47
Michael Crichton Dead At 66 388
US Army To Push X-Files Tech Development 139
Obama, McCain Campaigns Both Hacked, Files Compromised 255
Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship 426
Applied Security Visualization 45
Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs 211
Barack Obama Wins US Presidency 3709
UK ISPs Near Agreement On Illegal File Sharing 97
Bones Found Near Crash Site Confirmed Fossett's 129
China To Begin Taxing Profits From Virtual Currencies 65
New "MP3 100% Compatible" Logo For DRM-Free Music 263
FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum 138
Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL 252
Concerns About ACTA In EU, Canada 75
Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel 244
Stretchable, Flexible, Transparent Nanotube Speakers 76
Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic 68
World's Largest Flower Blooming In Streaming HD 61
Discuss the US Presidential Election 1912
Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox 310
GFDL 1.3 Is Out, Allows Migration To CC 72
Portable Solar Power For Portable Hardware? 262
AT&T Begins a Trial To Cap, Meter Internet Usage 421
Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" 353
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education 1515
How To Make Money With Free Software 81
Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users 205
1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out 467
How We Used To Vote 517
French Senate Passes Anti-Piracy Internet Cut-Off Law 225
Judge Orders White House To Produce Wiretap Memos 178
How To Supplement Election Coverage? 241
Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow 443
Stealing Data With Obfuscated Code 101
German Foreign Ministry Migrates Desktops To OSS 147
Google May Scrap Yahoo Deal 49
Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99 221
Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth 235
ASUS and Intel Launch Collaborative PC Design Site 85
Google Sheds Light On 'Dark Web' With PDF Search 78
Tasks of a Free Software Legal Department 24
Google Book Search Settlement Receiving Criticism 119
BBC Brings DRM-Free Content To Linux Users 131
Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks 323
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care 1270
Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Infrared Telescope 85
Examining the Role of Video Games In the US Election 81
Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK 190
Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet 413
MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video 395
Presidential Youth Debate Answers and Details Now Online 74
Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents 73
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA 420
Looking At Changes In the Newest GCC 54
CueCat Patent Granted, Finally 184
Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released 482
Rock Band Licenses The Beatles 266
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War 1211
Explore the Web From China 165
Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? 351
RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional 281
Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? 396
Thailand Blocks Anti-Royal Websites 169
The IDA Pro Book 85
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy 2369
MTV Launches Music Video Site 192
Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes 366
Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants 332
London Is Still World's Wi-Fi Access Point Capital 88
US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search 623
$125 Million Settlement In Authors Guild v. Google 238
Kazaa Founder Wants Us To Find "Legitimate" Files 75
Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Reporting it 547
10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web" 205
Canadian Court Rules "Hyperlink" Is Not Defamation 120
Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty 565
WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes 900
Russian Regulators Block Google Online Advertising Acquisition 120
Game-Related Education On the Rise At Colleges 178
Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" 793
US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool" 320
Australian Government Ignoring Problems With Proposed Filters 292
Perimeter Institute Launches Modern Physics Resource 30
Blogger.com Banned In Turkey 262
Interest Growing For Pre-Paid Game Cards 70
Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos 238
Small Bird Astounds Scientists With 11,200km Flight 99
Cellphone Banking Helping To Fight Poverty In India 76
White Space Debate Intensifies As Vote Approaches 94
Google Launches User-Driven Debate Site 68
Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative 164
Further Details On the Star Wars MMO 129
The Effects of the Cloud On Business, Education 68
Amazon Kindle Endorsed By Oprah 197
$29M To Start US Satellite Protection Program 74
ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" 979
ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs 168
Stellar Seismologists Record "Music" From Stars 102
Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards 172
Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran' 516
Greenspan Tells Congress Bad Data Hurt Wall Street 496
User Interface of Major Oscilliscope Brands? 281
Dutch Court Punishes Theft of Virtual Property 276
Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time? 755
First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip 528

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