News Stories for 2011

Behind the Government's Rules of Cyber War 117
Judge Orders Hundreds of Websites Delisted From Search Engines, Social Networks 308
Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator 326
A Floating Home For Tech Start-ups 332
Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code 153
A 3D Display You Can Touch 63
Scientists Cryo-Freeze Coral Reef 130
Reading, Writing, Ruby? 292
CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S 218
Free Software Activists Take On Google Search 254
Does Open Source Software Cost Jobs? 530
Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground 269
Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures 1319
UK ISP Disconnecting Filesharers 106
Restaurants Plan DNA-Certified Seafood Program 174
The Problem With Carbon-Cutting Programs 219
Good Disk Library Solutions? 371
China Probes US Renewable Energy Policy 240
London Wires Up For 2012 Olympic Games 79
Hacker Tries To Land IT Job At Marriott Via Extortion 218
China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay 463
Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon 276
US Gov't Seizes 130+ More Domains In Crackdown 219
Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking 44
UK University Creates First Inkjet-Printed Graphene Circuit 60
Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? 569
155 MPH Biofuel Truck Breaks Speed Record 105
$350 Hardware Cracks HDMI Copy Protection 161
Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label On Blogs 370
Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought 413
The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV 277
Dutch Government Officially Trusts OpenVPN-NL 53
Lego Bible Too Racy For Sam's Club 484
3-Way Price War On Black Friday: iPad, Nook, and Kindle 230
The Myth of Renewable Energy 835
Ask Slashdot: Science Sights To See? 363
Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics 375
Nature Publishes a "Post-Gutenberg" Electronic Text 124
Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses 161
OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k 234
Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday 198
Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public 242
Evolution Of Debian Package Dependencies Resemble Predator-Prey Relationships 58
Netflix Expects To Be Unprofitable In 2012 323
US Government Probes Huawei and ZTE 122
Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial 472
Anne McCaffrey Passes Away At 85 181
CarrierIQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher 216
Small OSS Library Project Battles US Corporation 118
Doom 3 Source Released 187
The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation 566
New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails 585
Hosting Services May Be Breaking Syrian Sanctions 106
South Africa Passes Secrecy Bill, Makes Whistleblowing a Dangerous Act 118
Canonical Drops CouchDB From Ubuntu One 93
Ask Slashdot: Which Ph.D For Work In Applied Statistics / C.S.? 173
Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers 611
4 Wave Gliders Begin Their Autonomous Pacific Crossing Attempt 41
Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree 954
Penguin Yanking Kindle Books From Libraries 206
How Much Tech Can Kids Take? 240
Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set 523
How To Get Into an Elite Comp-Sci Program 297
Afghanistan Biometric Data Given To US 108
Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right 427
Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy 268
A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck 60
JavaScript JVM Runs Java 234
The Convoluted Life Cycle of a News Story 75
Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Redistrict New York 102
Whither the Portable Optical Drive? 440
Human Survival Depends On Space Exploration, Says Hawking 438
Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack 575
2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software 203
'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix 201
Are SOPA Sponsors Violating SOPA Rules? Not So Fast, Says Ars Technica 115
Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather 469
US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games' 108
Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? 377
LHC Research May Help Explain the Universe's Matter/Antimatter Imbalance 113
B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art 332
China Using Net Censorship As a Trade Weapon? 111
PayPal Launches Facebook App For Sending Money 66
The $443 Million Smallpox Vaccine That Nobody Needs 290
Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved 161
Toronto School Bans Hard Balls 319
EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship 477
Computing Pioneers Share Their First Tech Memories 99
Apple Addresses Factory Pollution In China 190
Occupy Flash? 507
Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator 381
Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge 358
BT Fiber Infrastructure Plans 'Fatal' To Competition 100
Syrian Protesters Roll Out New iPhone Apps 105
TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners 233
Mongolia Wants To Use Artificial Glaciers To Cool Capital 97
Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns 803
Ask Slashdot: Statistical Analysis Packages For Libraries? 146
Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release 283
Universal Music Demands Insurer Pay For Infringement Damages 165
Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting 521
Canada CRTC Rules Against Usage Based Billing 117
Mario's Raccoon Suit Enrages PETA 491
DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime 536
Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut 86
Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community 158
Aussie Bank Wants To Trade Social Network Data For Better Deals 68
GAO Criticizes IRS Over Serious IT Deficiencies 57
NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment 933
Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 235
Common Crawl Foundation Providing Data For Search Researchers 61
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Released 285
China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert 412
Tech Site Sues Ex-Employee, Claiming Rights To His Twitter Account 267
Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? 288
Secret BBC Documents Reveal Flimsy Case For DRM 199
Bad Astronomer Phil Plait Responds 55
Cray Replaces IBM To Build $188M Supercomputer 99
Diaspora Co-founder Dies At 22 312
Schools Buy .xxx Domains In Trademark Panic 231
The IOCCC Competition Is Back 201
Is American Innovation Losing Its Shine? 625
Canary Islands Eruption Could Create New Land 93
Workshops Begin In Australia On WikiLeaks Opera 45
Ask Slashdot: Crowdfunding For Science — Can It Succeed? 153
Predicting US Supreme Court Justice Votes 186
Motorola Reinvents the RAZR 208
X-ray Facility To Simulate Conditions At Earth's Core 37
A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California 309
How Litigation Only Spurred On P2P File Sharing 140
Rise of the Ping Pong Robots 50
Mexican Cartel Beheads Another Blogger 536
Firefox 9.0 Beta Available 291
60 Years of Business Computing Started With Tea Shops 89
Brits Rejecting Superfast Broadband 247
Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? 685
Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired 554
Hamburg To Fine Facebook Over Facial Recognition Feature 195
How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works 39
Judge Rules Twitter Data Fair Game In Wikileaks Investigation 72
China Telecom Mulls Entry Into US Telecoms Market 161
Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System 451
Lawyer Continues Android v. GPL Crusade 155
Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing 132
Programming Cells, With CellOS 58
Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality 345
IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years 1105
Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced 548
Mapping a World of Human Activity 36
HP Delays WebOS Decision 77
Microsoft Killing Silverlight? 324
End Bonuses For Bankers 548
Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers 485
ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains 94
Film Studios Seeking Complete Block of Newzbin2 in the UK 231
Obama To Veto Anti-Net-Neutrality Legislation 355
Stop Online Piracy Act Supports Blacklisting, Says EFF 73
US Military Trying To Weed Out Counterfeit Parts 264
Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy 411
Banshee, Mono May Be Dropped From Ubuntu Default 255
HP Pondering Sale of WebOS 99
Firefox 8.0 Released 383
Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV 761
Scott Adams Proposes a Fourth Branch of Government 341
Ask The Yes Men 53
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? 333
In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop 487
Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions 694
World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario 760
Strange Places To Find Open Source 118
Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels 333
Slashdot Asks: Whom Do You Want To Ask About 2012's U.S. Elections? 343
The F-35 Story 509
One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals 412
White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions 232
Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security 382
FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert 210
Hacked MIT Server Used To Stage Attacks 75
Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? 841
Oklahoma Hit By Its Strongest-Ever Recorded Quake 202
Grant To Allow Khan Academy To Expand, Build a Physical School 92
Cracks Signal Massive Iceberg Forming In Antarctica 147
Open Source Tool Scans For Duqu Drivers 64
Oxford Professor Taken To Task For Linking Internet Use To Autism 247
Google Maps, Disease Risk, and Migration 34
No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube 948
A Brief History of Failed Digital Rights Management Schemes 149
Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search? 191
B&N Nook Tablet vs. Amazon Kindle Fire 138
Music Industry Pushing For BT To Block Pirate Bay 175
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD 488
Fee Increase Attempt Inspires 'Dump Your Bank Day' 667
Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations? 151
Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies 161
Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard 260
The CIA's Social Mining Department 110
Simulated Mars Mission 'Returns' After 520 Days 201
Hotmail Mobile Usage Spikes Thanks To Apple iOS 5 122
DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying 151
Meet the Saber-Toothed Squirrel 59
Godfather of Xen On Why Virtualization Means Everything 150
AMD To Lay Off 10% of Global Workforce 224
3D Printed Bone Models Cut Cost of Surgery Operations 88
Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking 318
Amazon Launching eBook Lending Program, Publishers Unenthusiastic 150
OLPC Project To Air-Drop Laptops 130
Gecko-Inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls 29
Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 169
Vim Turns 20 271
Is the Apple App Store a Casino? 542
US Marshals Ordered To Seize Righthaven Property 120
Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal 311
How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports 264
'Free' Games Dominate Top-Grossing Game List On App Store 161
PROTECT-IP Makes Its Way To the Floors of Congress 145
Rare-Earth Mineral Supply Getting Boost From California, Australia 84
US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote 735
Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack 397
White House Responds To Software Patents Petition 276
Ask Florian Kaps of the Impossible Project 61
DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners 192
New Mac OS Trojan Produces BitCoins 247
Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use? 320
Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? 798
Open Hardware Journal 103
First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel 79
Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets 281
Authorities Seize Duqu's C&C Servers In Mumbai 53
Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today 776
UK Police Buy Covert Cellphone Surveillance System 103
Student Loans In America: the Next Big Credit Bubble 768
Fish Evolve Immunity To Toxic Sludge 267
Microsoft Drops Suit Against Firm In Botnet Case 49
Dennis Ritchie Day 301
Schools In Portugal Moving To OSS 319
$25 PC Prototype Gets Award At ARM TechCon 238
Droughts Linked To Global Warming 535
Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel 548
When Having the US Debt Paid Off Was a Problem 633
Ask Slashdot: Image Recognition For Race Timing? 170
Meet Firefox's Built-In PDF Reader 257
Stanford's Open Source Human Motion Software 15
TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers 658
Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering 207
The RMS Tour Rider 373
World's Biggest Gold Coin Minted In Australia 171
Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source 526
Inside Facebook's Cyber-Security System 63
Redbox Raises Its Prices To $1.20 Per Day 232
Copyright Troll Righthaven Ordered To Pay $119,000 75

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