News Stories for 2012

Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) 218
Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever 253
Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission? 79
Firefox 20 Will Finally Fix Private Browsing Mode 186
Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? 943
British Pirate Party Asked To Pull Pirate Bay Proxy 80
US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low 567
UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact 783
Grim Picture of Polar Ice-Sheet Loss 412
Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail 369
Inside an Amazon Warehouse 206
German Copyright Bill Would Let Publishers Charge Search Engines For Excerpts 114
Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon 206
Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? 161
Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version 403
PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android 82
In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US 491
Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art" 376
Virus Eats School District's Homework 321
Scientific American's Fred Guterl Explores the Threats Posed By Technology 93
Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times 133
Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? 287
Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Technology 292
BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill 238
Swedish Stock Exchange Hit By Programming Snafu 136
Real-World Cyber City Used To Train Cyber Warriors 59
Ask Richard Stallman Anything 573
Canada Creates Cap On Liability For File Sharing Lawsuits 208
TVShack Founder Signs Deal Avoiding Extradition 147
US Congressman Wants To Ban New Internet Laws 205
Seas Rising Faster Than Projected 605
Ask Slashdot: Will You Shop Local Like President Obama, Or Online? 430
Amazon and Google Barred From UK Government Cloud 79
Users Abandon Ship If Online Video Quality Is Not Up To Snuff, Says Study 155
Canada Prepares For Crackdown On BitTorrent Movie Pirates 292
Longest US Space Mission Planned For 2015 29
Prediction Market Site InTrade Bans US Customers 260
Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail 75
The Wii Mini Is Real, Arrives December 7 — In Canada 139
DOOM 3 BFG Edition On Github, Timed For Oculus Rift 83
Sub-Ice Antarctic Lake Vida Abounds With Life 122
Firefox 18 Beta Out With IonMonkey JavaScript Engine 182
Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company 451
Book Review: Version Control With Git, 2nd Edition 116
Cyber Monday and Amazon's Online Dominance 174
Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything 319
A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers 338
O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% 108
Rise of the Online Code Schools 98
Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer 217
US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom 609
Cambridge University To Open "Terminator Center" To Study Threat From AI 274
Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve 600
Antarctic Marine Wildlife Is Under Threat From Ocean Acidification, Study Finds 180
Researchers Find Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Box Office Revenues 203
Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas 486
Minecraft Ported To the Raspberry Pi 57
Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma 118
Another Player In the World of Free, Open Online CS Courseware 64
After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code 263
Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? 686
A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available 36
Judge Issues Temporary Order Blocking Expulsion For Refusing To Wear RFID Tag 305
The World Falls Back In Love With Coal 341
Mozilla Dropping 64-Bit Windows Nightly Builds For Now 224
U.S. Denies Using Flame Malware To Spy On French President 52
Australian Govt Pledges Action On Google Tax Evasion 331
Fox News Parent NewsCorp May Face Corruption Investigation 145
Could Testing Block Psychopaths From Senior Management? 422
Ask Slashdot: Best Console For the Kids This Holiday? 267
Sandy Island, the Undiscovered Country 182
GNOME 3 To Support a "Classic" Mode, of Sorts 197
UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo 222
Entries Open For First Ever 24-Hour Raspberry Pi Hackathon 74
Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston 179
NTSB Dumps BlackBerry In Favor of iPhone 5 100
Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case 218
Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD 163
Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing 623
Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order 743
Popular Android ROM Accused of GPL Violation 197
Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee 518
NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 179
Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks 137
USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable' 153
Meg Whitman Says HP Was Defrauded By Autonomy; HP Stock Plunges 237
$250 Chromebook With Ubuntu Linux Is Very Fast 117
Pirate Party MEP Helps Draft New Credit Card Company Controls 129
Mozilla Makes Prototype of Firefox OS Available 101
Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants 403
The World's Oldest Original Digital Computer Springs Back Into Action At TNMOC 65
Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying 684
Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time 733
Unresolved Issues Swirl Around Securing Mobile Payments 44
Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried 439
GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 315
Legalizing Online Futures Betting 80
EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built 83
Ask Slashdot: Which International Online Music Stores Are Legit? 166
Coffee and Intellectual Property 198
Linux On the TI-Nspire Graphing Calculator 49
How Free Speech Died On Campus 530
Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? 547
GOP Study Committee Director Disowns Brief Attacking Current IP Law 176
New Malware Variant Uses Google Docs As a Proxy To Phone Home 85
Ask Slashdot: Data Storage Highway Robbery? 168
Man Arrested At Oakland Airport For Ornate Watch 519
Computer Science vs. Software Engineering 322
How Can Wikipedia's Visual Editor Top Other Word Processors? 196
Star Citizen Takes the Crowdfunding Crown, Raising More Than $4M 123
David Cameron 'Orders New Curbs On Internet Porn' 345
Just Days After Release, Google's Nexus 4 Has Already Been Rooted 85
US Justice Dept. Sues eBay For Anti-Competitive Hiring Practices 66
Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes 409
Valve's Steam License Causes Linux Packaging Concerns 163
Gentoo Developers Fork udev 152
Judge Accepts $22.5M Google Fine In Privacy Case 25
Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts 423
Will It Take a 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' To Break Congressional Deadlock? 104
Running Netflix On Linux 185
A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It 102
USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help 473
House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" 134
Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? 230
Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market 601
In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail 233
Kinected Browser Lets You Flick Through Websites 46
Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design 69
US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent 362
CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked 143
Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit 210
Nokia Releasing Maps for Competing Devices 57
Fully Open A13-OLinuXino Single-Board Linux Computer 111
Oracle Makes Red Hat Kernel Changes Available As Broken-Out Patches 104
Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago 637
Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism? 284
Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email 228
With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race 622
Acer C7 Chromebooks Expand Chrome OS Market 67
Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal 401
Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 467
UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events 196
The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project 99
BeOS Clone Haiku Releases R1 Alpha 4 117
Book Review: Reverse Deception 43
Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook 534
Global Warming Felt By Space Junk and Satellites 224
X-Ray Laser For Creating Supercharged Particles 55
Amid Fiscal Uncertainty, Venture Capital Is Way Down In Silicon Valley 421
Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked 245
Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" 214
NASA DTN Protocol: How Interplanetary Internet Works 109
Geomapping Racism With Twitter 409
'Treasure Trove' In Oceans May Bring Revolutions In Medicine and Industry 107
Stuxnet Infected (But Didn't Affect) Chevron Network In 2010 82
Brainstorming Ways To Protect NYC From Real Storms 203
NRC Report Links Climate Change To National Security 242
MOOC Mania 102
Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers 510
Climate Change Could Drive Coffee To Extinction By 2080 345
Why You Can't Build Your Own Smartphone: Patents 179
Foxconn Denies Plans For New US Operations 96
Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months 299
CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair 401
Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? 361
Book Review: Presentation Patterns 27
A Year After Thailand Flooding, Hard Drive Prices Remain High 214
Facebook's Corona: When Hadoop MapReduce Wasn't Enough 42
New Credit Card Includes Display and Keypad 118
Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States 430
Canada's Supreme Court Tosses Viagra Patent For Vagueness 100
Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' 312
Australian Telcos Declare SMS Unsafe For Bank Transactions 42
Open Compute Wants To Make Biodegradable Servers 102
All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True 576
Apple Stops Hiding Samsung Apology On Its UK Site 189
Ask Slashdot: Finding Work Over 60? 306
Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court 380
Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars 336
Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System 368
AMD Closes OSRC, Lays Off Several Linux Kernel Developers 94
Researchers Create Working Nano Laser 39
Canadian Copyright Reform Takes Effect 103
Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force 457
AT&T To Pay $700,000 For Overcharging Consumers 74
Barack Obama Retains US Presidency 1576
A Trail of Clicks, Culminating In Conflict 65
Cloud Computing Needs To Embrace the Linux Model, Says Rackspace CTO 42
U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? 821
Gate One 1.1 Released: Run Vim In Your Browser 150
Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? 358
Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot 383
Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event 134
Welsh Scientists Radically Increase Fiber Broadband Speeds With COTS Parts 72
iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD 260
Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections? 153
GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works 171
Self-Assembling Robots Using Flying Drones 33
Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm 141
Phil Shapiro: Slashdot Reader, FOSS Activist, and Library Computer Guy (Video) 30
Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? 267
Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? 761
Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions 52
Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees 881
Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead 156
Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse 284
Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012 409
Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling" 330
Apple Pays Only 2% Corporate Tax Outside US 432
Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet 190
New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email 189
Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling 743
Facebook's Prism, Soon To Be Open Sourced, Gives Hadoop Delay Tolerance 17
Constant Technology Use May Hamper Kids' Ability To Learn 163
European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin 301
Microsoft Escapes Kaspersky's Top 10 Vulnerabilities List 112
Navigating the Vast Ocean of Open Source 23
Canadian Island's Historic Hot Springs Dry Up After Earthquake 97
Most US Drones Still Beam Video Unencrypted 138
Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? 193
Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? 398
Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest 555
UK Takes Huge Step Forward On Open Standards 67
WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney 287
US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time 531
Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal 448
$1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent 339
Artificial Misting System Allows Reintroduction of Extinct Toad 121
Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" 204
Security Firm VUPEN Claims To Have Hacked Windows 8 and IE10 118
US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web 128
A Fun Slashdot 15th Anniversary Get-Together in St. Petersburg, FL (Video) 47
UK Court of Appeal Reprimands Apple Over Mandated Samsung Statement 241
KDE Plasma Active: the Mobile Interface That Works 70
Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads 90
Judge To Newspaper - Reveal Name of Commenter 307
In Time For Halloween: 9 New Tarantula Species Discovered 26
Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US 165
Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance 420
Windows Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Firefox 6-9 Million Downloads 245
Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 117
Google Launches Open Source Voter Information Tool 104
Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game? 157
EFF Wants Ubuntu To Disable Online Search By Default 124
New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages 186
Using Magnets To Interact With Your Tablet 64
ITER Fusion Project Struggles To Put the Pieces Together 138
France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets 350
NewsCorp/NDS Sets Up Operation To Expose Canadian Pirates; What Could Go Wrong? 95
Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites 238

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