Slashdot Stories for 2008

Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? 877
Capitol Records Flooded Internet With MP3s, Says MP3Tunes CEO 168
400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" 353
The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008 198
Time Warner Recommends Internet For Some Shows 379
Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) 695
The Best Computer Mice In Every Category 246
Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon 333
Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide 785
Wikipedia Almost Reaches $6 Million Target 412
The 2008 Malware Challenge 29
A Look At the Growth of MMOs In 2008 122
Terry Pratchett Knighted 366
The Best Games of 2008 109
Content Filtering Pulled From Free Broadband Proposal 111
Next Generation T9 Keyboard Technology 150
Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords 630
Why LEDs Don't Beat CFLs Even Though They Should 685
NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report 223
HP Accused of Illegal Exportation To Iran 287
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax 713
Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3 302
Tales From the Support Crypt 855
CCC Create a Rogue CA Certificate 300
Alan Cox Leaves Red Hat 163
New Photos of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Assembly 122
The Fight Over NASA's Future 288
CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security 116
How Small Can Computers Get? Computing in a Molecule 143
Avoiding Wasted Time With Prince of Persia 507
AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code 307
Worlds.com Sues NCSoft Over MMO-Patent 261
FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge 222
Resurrecting Old Games, What Works? 381
The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion 523
Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino 255
Interclue and What Going Proprietary Can Do 149
Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" 314
InfoWorld's Crystal Ball Predicts the Future of Microsoft 376
Storm Causes AT&T Outage Across Midwest 213
Penny Arcade On NPR 128
The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn 933
Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought 453
Leap Second To Be Added Dec 31, 2008 255
Early Praise For Empire: Total War 79
Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware 224
Categorizing Puzzles In Adventure Games 44
BBC's iPlayer Chief Pushes Tiered Charging For ISPs 172
Entire Transcript of RIAA's Only Trial Now Online 315
Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs? 183
Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster 149
Batteries To Store Wind Energy 275
How Can the Stimulus Plan Help the Internet? 154
First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 898
Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy 44
What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting 570
Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick" 676
Bush's Electronic Archives Threaten To Swamp National Archives 185
XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID 97
RIAA's Request For Appeal Denied In Thomas Case 197
AMD Phenom II Available To Distributors This Week 114
Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? 386
Touchscreen Netbooks To Shine At CES 2009 109
Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids 580
Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality 249
RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet 221
CastleCops Anti-Malware Site Closes Down 68
Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros 313
UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship 377
Comcast Facing Lawsuit Over Set-Top Box Rentals 200
Chandrayaan M3 Instrument Confirms Iron-Bearing Minerals On the Moon 67
Streaming Video Service Coming To the Wii 103
Managing Last.FM's "Mountain of Data" 139
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview 250
Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails? 897
Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas 553
Valuable Objects Stimulate Brain More Than Junk 118
Vietnam Imposes New Blogging Restrictions 206
Cryptol, Language of Cryptography, Now Available To the Public 140
30 Years of Star Wars Technology 146
RIM Accuses Motorola of Blocking Job Offers 353
Print News Fading, Still Source of Much News 140
Top Tech Breakthroughs of 2008 116
Technocrat.net Shut Down 326
DIY USB Servo-Guided Water Gun 66
Thai Premier Spams Nation, Prompts Consumer Outcry 81
White Christmas In Antarctica 84
Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen 262
Amazon 1-Click Lawyers Make USPTO Work Xmas Eve 117
Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS 308
Amateurs Are Trying Genetic Engineering At Home 245
Mapping Planets and Moons In 3D With Stereophotoclinometry 23
DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders 248
Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales 207
Legal Troubles Continue To Mount For Diebold 115
How Do You Monitor Documents? 237
10 Years of Baldur's Gate 63
Aussie Net Filtering Trial Delayed 83
The Role of Video Game Immersion 40
Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided 191
What Parrots Tell Us About the Evolution of Birds 62
Smooth Open Street Maps For the iPhone 46
Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion 414
Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents 305
Cisco Launching Blade Servers in 2009 87
Storing Photons In a Solid State Device 68
Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion 234
MS Issues Critical SQL Server Flaw Warning 69
NSA's History of Communications Security — For Your Eyes, Too 52
Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen? 403
OpenSUSE 11.1 License Changes Examined 90
Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? 823
Is the Gaming PC Dead? 417
Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference 235
Boss By Day, Gamer By Night 51
ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core 474
NASA Outsources ISS Resupply To SpaceX, Orbital 151
Quicken 2007 For Mac Lacks EV Cert Support 108
How To Create More Jobs 368
Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash 377
Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge 80
Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics 219
Roku Box Adds HD, Grows Beyond Netflix 95
Happy Festivus 17
Doubts Multiply About the "Long Tail" 194
Top 10 Objects That Have Flown In Space 5
Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? 517
125 Years of Santa Claus-Related Patents 2
Hang the Lights 3
Dew Tree
Repair Crews Reach Vicinity of Damaged Cables In Mediterranean 145
Shuttleworth Proposes Overhaul of Desktop Notifications 306
Microsoft Extends XP To May 2009 For OEMs 605
Space Is Just a Little Bit Closer Than Expected 130
Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone 172
Perfect MITM Attacks With No-Check SSL Certs 300
The RIAA's Rocky Road Ahead 542
Tabula Rasa Goes Free, Brings New Content 87
Inside the Active Volcano On Montserrat 42
Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS 648
Not All Cores Are Created Equal 183
As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" 366
Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief 198
With Lawsuit Settled, Hackers Working With MBTA 90
Thieves Take the Cake 91
Dell's XPS 730x Core I7 Gaming System Reviewed 171
Nanocar Wins Top Science Award 175
Zoe's Tale 109
Mass Santa Record Broken 4
Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed 182
Santa T 1
Santa Hate IV
Santa Shocker 2
NSA Patents a Way To Spot Network Snoops 161
VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host 374
Australia To Block BitTorrent 674
Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In 307
Will People Really Boycott Apple Over DRM? 664
EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor 603
Are Browser Games Filling the Same Role As Political Cartoons? 33
Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts 211
The Return of (Old) PC Graphic Adventures 93
The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning 327
US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans 133
Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV 482
SpaceShipTwo Mothership Makes Maiden Flight 110
Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? 325
Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies 898
Warner Music Pulls Videos Off YouTube 237
Denver Couple Unveils Homemade Service Robot 140
Water Detected At Record Distance From Earth 104
NIST Announces Round 1 Candidates For SHA-3 Competition 125
Are Newspapers Doomed? 338
Abit To Close Its Doors Forever On Dec. 31, 2008 195
New Contest Will Seek the Best "I'm Linux" Video 460
How To See In 3D On Your iPhone 94
Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination 779
Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases 100
Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power 275
Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95 126
Inside F.E.A.R. 2's Engine and AI 34
The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway 94
An In-Depth Look At Game Piracy 504
Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic? 396
Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive 465
RIAA Claim of Stopping Suits "Months" Ago Is False 141
Court Allows Arkansas To Hide Wikipedia Edits 145
Nobel Jurors Facing Bribery Probe 74
Lenovo's New ThinkPad Has 2 LCD Screens, Weighs 11 Pounds 194
Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet 65
New York City Street Lights To Go LED 303
EA Is Now Officially On Steam, Spore Loses SecuROM 354
Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life 160
Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer 259
Dubai Is Building a Refrigerated Beach 249
New Game Download Site Offers Play-As-You-Download Service 104
Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming 492
Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again 329
Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill 300
Burger King Releases Burger-scented Men's Body Spray 13
Giant ASIMO To Participate In Rose Parade 4
"See-Through" Touchscreen Solves Fat Finger Problem 170
Santa Hate III 2
Imperial Santa 3
Trick or Treatment 713
CSIS Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin Answers Your Questions 75
Java Performance On Ubuntu Vs. Windows Vista 258
Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? 170
Toshiba To OEM Laptops With OpenSolaris 226
RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers 619
Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps 58
Game Devs Warming Up To More Mature-Rated Games On the Wii 129
Simulations May Explain Loss of Beagle 2 Mars Probe 98
City In Georgia Planning Virtual World For Civic Interaction 39
Brand Names Take On Generics In PSU Showdown 223
Majel Roddenberry Dies At 76 356
Researchers Create Graphite Memory 10 Atoms Thick 135
Wireless Power Consortium Pushes For Standard 221
iPlayer Released for Mac, Linux; Adobe Announces AIR for Linux 231
Indian GPS Cartographers Charged As Terrorists 269
Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive 256
Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming 656
The World's Deadliest Foot Massaging Machine 5
US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory 394
Santa Hate
Santa Hate II
Santa's Lap 2
Recession Pushes IT To Find New Value In Old Gear 206
2009, Year of the Linux Delusion 696
NVIDIA GTX 295 Brings the Pain and Performance 238
Personalized Spam Rising Sharply, Study Finds 142
Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch 376
How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs 331
IRS Doesn't Check Cyberaudit Logs 78
Console Makers Pushing For More Network Reliance 198
British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows 725
Are Micro-Transactions the Future of Online Game Business Models? 68
Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs 142
Video Game Trends In 2008 81
Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible? 186
Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field 200
What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? 1117
Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now 197
How To Build a Homebrew PS3 Cluster Supercomputer 211
2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form 258
New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use 540
With Olympics Over, China Re-Censors Internet 242
Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii 251
Novell Cancels BrainShare Conference 102
Yahoo Promises To Anonymize and Limit User Data 76

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