News Stories for 2007

Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel 937
How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World 256
Qwest Punished by NSA for Non-Cooperation 170
Paramount Casts New James T. Kirk 244
DDoS Attacks Cripple Real Money Trading Sites 30
FCC Weighs Net Access Charge Decision 86
Mark Webbink Joins Software Freedom Law Center 10
High Performance Web Sites 132
A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions 216
Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News 256
Yahoo Exec Says "Enough DRM" 391
Juror From RIAA Trial Speaks 918
Defending Games For Adults on National Television 134
eBay Sellers Seething Over Targeted Ads 151
Google To Monetize Content From Consenting YouTubers 55
Canadian Mint Claims Rights To Words "One Cent" 286
Google and IBM to Provide Cloud Computing to Students 68
How Not to Write a Cease-and-Desist Letter 235
Is the Internet Bad For Professional Writers 193
Tivo Tries, Cancels PayPerPost Ad Strategy 62
New Hope for Jackson Hobbit Film? 268
In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism 602
Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued 486
Googlestalking For Covert NSA Research Funding 150
New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die' 176
Teachers Give ERP Implementations Failing Grades 169
X-Wing Rocket Launches, Disintegrates 240
FCC Declines To Probe Disclosure of Phone Records 97
MPAA Chases Uploads, Ignores Open Sales of DVD-Rs? 156
Novell to SCO - Pay Up 151
RIAA Conceals Overturned Case 211
Video-on-Demand Success in France Deters Piracy 119
Ecuador Tax Agency Closes Microsoft Branch Offices 109
Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking 418
White House Lauds MN RIAA Win, Analysis of Victory 368
A New Map of the Internet 147
Lessons To Learn From The OLPC Project 261
Space Money Invented For Space Tourists 296
Court Puts Further Limits on Software Patents 113
Ask Rob Malda 405
Jonathan Coulton Track Part of the Orange Box 30
Judges Reinstate Charges In Google Age Discrimination Suit 291
SAS CEO Blasts Old-School Schooling 594
DHS Injects Itself With DDoS 136
2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault 204
Verdict Reached In RIAA Trial 1001
Getting Gouged by Geeks 581
David Pogue Reviews the XO Laptop 303
Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray 378
Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed 267
Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Party Updates 37
Testimony Wraps In RIAA Trial 132
Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election 177
Self-Tuning Electric Guitar 389
UC Berkeley Posts Full Lectures to YouTube 204
GIMP 2 for Photographers 471
New Dinosaur Species Discovery In Utah Released 108
A Brief History of Slashdot Part 1, Chips & Dips 503
Indiana Jones Gets Robbed 227
Sony BMG Says Ripping CDs is Stealing 767
Major Linux Hardware Donor Is a CNN "Hero" 341
Resolution of BSD-GPL Wireless Code Dispute? 215
Blizzard, Microsoft Codify Licenses for Machinima 63
Science In Islamic Countries 1289
Online Videos May Conduct Viruses 195
USA Today's Sensationalist Take on Manhunt 2 128
HD Recorder Can Use Standard DVDs 154
Carnegie Mellon CAPTCHA Digitization Project Now Underway 119
Radiohead Says Name Your Own Price for New Album 498
Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents 636
The 700MHz Question 148
The Dirty Business of Assembling WiMAX Spectrum 101
A Case Study In GPLv2 / GPLv3 Compatibility 239
Coppola Loses All His Data 266
Amazon MP3 Vs. iTunes Music Store 310
Olin College — Re-Engineering Engineering 181
Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? 1131
IBM Seeks US Patents For Offshoring US Jobs 203
'Floating Bridge' Property of Water Found 191
Hospital Wants Critical Blogger's Anonymity Ended 181
FDIC Closes Netbank, One of the First Online Banks 174
Knight Rider To Ride Again 243
Motley Fool Says RIAA Hitting a Brick Wall 228
1-Click Rejection Rejected 201
Cyber Crime A Distant #3 Priority for FBI 154
Google Goes After Open Source Licensing Cruft 127
Verizon Reverses Itself On Pro-Choice News Texting Ban 175
The Canadian Taxman Goes Browsing on eBay 221
Parts of the Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional 414
Sex Pistols Reunite For Guitar Hero III 47
First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years 838
New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law 255
Justice Department's Bio-terror Mistake 477
MIT Hacks Harvard For Halo, Game Prompts Lots of Sick Days 127
The Soldier of the Future 289
Convicted VoIP Hacker Robert Moore Speaks 183
Review of Amazon's DRM-Less Music Download Store 437
The History of the Federal Reserve 514
Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing 333
Supreme Court Continues to Address Patent Concerns 78
Internet Service Tax Moritorium Set To Expire 163
Watchdog To Represent eBay Seller In Autodesk Suit 80
Annual IT Salary Survey Finds Dissatisfaction 582
GPL Lawsuit May Not Settle 285
Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement 234
Is Good Scientific Journalism Possible? 237
Survey Says GPLv3 Is Shunned 382
Amazon DRM-Free Music Store Goes Beta 349
UK Schools Will Fight Cyberbullying 273
Embedding XML In Docs? 90
Apple May Be Breaking the Law With Policy On iPhone Unlocks 385
Chinese Worm Creator Gets High-Paying Job Offer In Prison 148
Law Firm Fighting For White Collar (IT) Overtime 573
Unisys Investigated For Covering Up Cyber-Attacks 114
Canadian Copyright Official Dumped Over MPAA Conflict 215
Virgin Digital To Close Up Shop 207
First US GPL Lawsuit Heads For Quick Settlement 196
Vivendi Calls iTunes Contract Terms "Indecent" 288
Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics 261
Game Pirate Sentenced To Jail Time 136
Jack Thompson Sets His Sights On Halo 3 240
Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop 246
The Fall Geek TV Lineup 318
OLPC Announces Buy-2-Get-1 XO Laptop Sale 360
Apple Legend Woz Blasts iPhone Price Drop 272
MIT's SAT Math Error 280
Sony Shifting PS3 Marketing to Focus on Blu-Ray 151
Method for $1/Watt Solar Panels Will Soon See Commercial Use 502
Wikipedia 2.0, Now With Trust? 228
New Attorneys Fee Decision Against RIAA 144
Crazy Stevie's iPhone Prices are Insaaane! 357
FBI Boosts Servers For Faster Criminal Searches 90
Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon? 482
RIAA Targets New Colleges, Still Avoids Harvard 159
Telecom Companies Seek Retroactive Immunity 177
Linux To Be Installed In Every Russian School 293
The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media 422
NSA Tasked With 'Policing' Government Networks 93
Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons' 524
Germany Says Copying of DVDs, CDs Is Verboten 230
MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport 1547
Croal vs. Totilo - Metroid Prime 3 vs. BioShock 75
Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008 247
CMU Professor Randy Pausch's 'Last Lecture' 93
Man Wins Partial Victory In Circuit City Arrest 788
First New Dismissal Motion Against RIAA Complaint 155
Suit Seeks 'A La Carte' TV Channel Choices 350
Velociraptor Had Feathers 189
Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL 315
Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? 280
Google Unveils Flash Ads 225
US Senate Fails To Reinstate Habeas Corpus 790
Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ 702
Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore 499
NBC to Offer Free Video Download Service 229
Nasdaq to Delist SCO Sep 27 269
Ghost in the Shell, Other Anime Coming to Xbox Live 49
Massive Canadian Class-Action Cellphone Suit Is Approved 242
Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas 274
OpenGL Programming Guide 6th Ed. 86
The Wiimote As Yoda Intended - A Lightsaber 268
Cybercrime Now Worth $105 Billion, Bypasses Drug Trade 177
Misleading Data Undermines Counterfeiting Claims 91
False Ad Clicks Cost Google 1 Billion Dollars A Year 233
Inside the Third Gen iPod Nano 230
US Register of Copyrights Says DMCA Is 'Working Fine' 224
Meet Korea's Gaming Rockstars 64
GPS Transitions to New Control System 170
SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing 321
Most Science Studies Tainted by Sloppy Analysis 252
Oklahoma Game Law Permanently Enjoined 60
New York Times Ends Its Paid Subscription Service 169
Half of SCO's Accountants Quit 371
GameStop Manager Suspended After "Games for Grades" 539
Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music" 637
Universal Offers iPod-Resistant Music 323
Nintendo Sues Korean Sites Over Copyright Violations 46
Silicon Knights Rejects Epic Counter-Suit 25
How Students Are 'Evolving' With Technology 249
Microsoft Loses EU Anti-Trust Appeal 322
Apple, the RIAA, and Ringtones 218
DOJ To Open Price-Fixing Query Into NAND Memory Market 19
Has RIAA Abandoned the 'Making Available' Defense? 125
Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away 571
German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server 428
Undergrad-built Robots Play "Operation" 33
Researchers Suggest P2P As Solution To Video Domination of The Internet 121
Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the World 212
Are You Being Cheated by Digital Cable? 291
PC Superstore Admits Linux Hinge Repair Mistake 193
Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA 585
CRIA Admits P2P Downloading Legal in Canada 106
OLPC Cost Rises To $188 Per Laptop 270
Google Quietly Closes AdSense API to Small Sites 56
City Fights Blogger On Display of Public Information 134
The Many Paths To Data Corruption 121
SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy 421
Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users 854
Lindor Attacks Record Company Copyright-Pooling 136
WSVG Explains Event Closure 12
Germany Makes Arrests In Global Phishing Scam 56
Legal Summits to Tackle Linux 107
eBay Seller Sues Autodesk for $10 Million 318
RIAA Complaint Dismissed as "Boilerplate" 197
Verizon Sues FCC over 700MHz Open Access Rules 115
Microsoft Sued by a Beijing Student Over 'Privacy Violation' 157
Viacom Yields to YouTuber Who DMCA Counterclaimed 113
TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase 474
A Chat with EVE's Economist 94
EFF Lands a Blow On DirecTV 100
A Coveted Landing Strip for Google's Founders 427
FCC Says Analog TV Lives Until 2012 412
Russia Tests World's Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb 632
Fair Use Worth More Than Copyright To Economy 274
NTP Sues Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile 83
Republic.com 2.0 59
Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds 965
Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle" 348
What Are the Advantages/Disadvantages of Game Schools? 123
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] 486
RIAA Trying To Avoid a Jury Trial 183
Method of Reading Discovered 181
Google Sued Over Deceptive Search Results 246
'Make Love, Not Warcraft' Episode Wins An Emmy 82
Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T 951
Google Mulling Video Ads In Search Results 269
No More TV Listings For MythTV Users 346
HD VMD Shows Up Late For the Format War 280
Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies 242
Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire 236
Bringing Science and Math Into Writing? 434
Help Find Steve Fossett 439
FAA Gets a Big-Screen Touch Table 130
USPTO Imposes 'Undue Hardship' On 1-Click Lawyers 96
Ohio Court Admits Lie Detector Tests As Evidence 198
Judge Kimball Strikes SCO's Jury Trial Demand 149
Would You Pay Pennies For Game Features? 64
G.I. Joe No Longer the Real American Hero? 548
Don't Dismiss Online Relationships As Fantasy 357
BBC's iPlayer To Be Crossplatform 232
Copyright Alliance Says Fair Use Not a Consumer Right 504
Justice Department Opposes Net Neutrality 292
DHS Ends Data-Mining Program 75
Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act 673
Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America 898
NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit 217
FEC Will Not Regulate Political Blogging 171
Programming Erlang 314
TV Viewing Linked to Attention Problems 301
After 10,000 Years, Farming No Longer Dominates 332

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