Slashdot Stories for 2010

R2-D2 Creator Grant McCune Dead At 67 37
YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy 254
Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? 571
Tech History Behind New York's New Year's Eve Ball 106
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hack Demonstrated 89
'Colonizing the Red Planet,' a How-To Guide 288
Cheap GSM Eavesdropping a Reality 75
Google Patenting 'Exponential' Friend Spamming 64
China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested 219
'Zombie' Satellite Returns To Life 98
One Tip Enough To Put Name On Terrorist Watch List 446
FBI Raids Texas ISP For Anonymous DDoS Info 120
Solar Cells Integrated In Microchips 38
Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months 165
Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance 198
Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes 348
World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought 338
PC Gamers Crush Console Brethren 387
Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today 262
A Guitar Robot That Can Really Shred 88
Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries 1128
New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have 127
What Can a Lawyer Do For Open Source? 162
Android Trojan Found, Spreading From Chinese App Stores 277
VoIP Now Technically Illegal In China 181
Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011 155
Skype For iPhone Now Makes Video Calls 102
The 10 Worst Tech Products of 2010 203
Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage 278
The Significant Decline of Spam 263
Amazon Censorship Expands 764
Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year 5
Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? 804
Periodic Table Etched Onto a Single Hair 59
OSI Refers Novell Patent Deal To Authorities 88
Intel Intros 310 Series Mini SSDs 122
Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit 314
Nintendo Warns 3D Games Can Ruin Children's Eyes 229
South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet 168
Tales From the Tech Trenches 99
Solar Storms Could Bring Northern Lights South 88
Wikileaks and Democracy In Zimbabwe 669
Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good 534
Court Rules Website Doesn't Have To Remove Defamatory Comments 145
Drupal 7 Module Development 31
Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks 204
German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs 291
IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough 164
Cheaters Exposed Analyzing Statistical Anomalies 437
Paul Allen Amends Lawsuit Against Facebook, Apple 129
Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers 696
The Empire Strikes Back Added To National Film Registry 129
Wired Responds In Manning Chat Log Controversy 222
How Zynga's CityVille Drew 70 Million Players In Less Than a Month 101
Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything 241
Elliptic Labs To Bring Touchless Gestures To iPad 55
Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City 509
Why Teach Programming With BASIC? 709
Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question 450
Can Movies Inspire Kids To Be Future Scientists? 298
Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning? 381
France Planning Non-Windows Tablet Tax? 227
Dell Reveals Specs For the Looking Glass Tablet 174
Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet 535
Apple's $1 Billion Data Center Mystery 244
Ubuntu Powered Tablet Spotted! 169
Open Source After 12 Years 174
Solar Panels For Your Pants 81
The Right's War On Net Neutrality 945
4chan Has Been DDOSed 710
London Neighborhood Tops Both "Healthy" and Binge Drinking Lists 3
NASA To Continue Funding Canceled Ares Project Until March 229
Microsoft Kinect With World of Warcraft 80
Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data 154
London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day 280
Tron: Legacy — Too Much Imagination Required? 429
Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64 645
Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions 239
Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System 572
Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux 500
Using LED Ceiling Lights For Digital Communication 143
Old Facebook Apps Still Plunder Your Privacy 101
States Letting Students Opt Out of P.E. 18
Hello, Android Third Edition 74
California Rare-Earth Mine Reopens 244
Satellite-Based Laser Hunts Woodpeckers From Space 53
North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia 187
After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? 320
African Villages Glow With Renewable Energy 172
Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ 452
Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? 496
AMD Radeon HD 6950 Can Be Unlocked To HD 6970 191
Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life 96
Did Stuxnet Take Out 1,000 Centrifuges At Natanz? 189
Spammers Finally Under the Legal Gun? 204
A New Idea, For People Who Want To See More Banner Ads 167
IBM Projects Holographic Phones, Air-Driven Batteries 109
Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places 586
What's the Oldest File You Can Restore? 498
EFF Offers an Introduction To Traitorware 263
Joel Test Updated 182
Microsoft, Motorola Add 9 Patents To Ongoing Court Battle 61
If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet From the Start 191
How To Be Popular On Facebook, Quantified 97
The Animal World Has Its Junkies, Too 250
Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion 214
Apple Forces Steve Jobs Action Figure Off eBay 233
The Wrong Way To Weaponize Social Media 90
Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? 545
VLC For Android May Arrive In Early 2011 90
Google Discontinues On2 Flix Engine Video Encoder 56
Indian Launch Vehicle Explodes After Lift-Off 227
UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication 162
Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End 346
What Robots Do For Christmas 31
'Eternal' Solar Plane Stays Two Weeks Aloft 37
A Real World HTML 5 Benchmark 163
Google Pushes Openness Over Rooting 196
Problems With Truncation On the Common Application 135
Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law 166
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid 551
New Solar Reactor Prototype Unveiled 50
Pay What You Want — a Sustainable Business Model? 133
23 Years of Culture Hacking With Perl 99
Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' 369
The Best Case Mods From 2010 82
White House Warns of Supercomputer Arms Race 123
Android Phones At the Edge of Space 42
FCC Chair Seeks Comcast-NBC Merger Conditions 68
Court Upholds Blizzard's Anti-Bot DMCA Claim, Denies Copyright Infringement 143
New Molecule Could Lead To Better Rocket Fuel 121
TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws 394
Will Patents Make NCAA Football Playoffs Impossible? 177
Solar Dynamo Still Anemic, Magnetism and UV Lax 156
Aerial Video Footage of New York Taken By RC Plane 208
MegaUpload Dares RIAA To Sue Them 255
Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line 464
Skype Slowly Restores Service To Users 76
Microsoft Ready To Talk Windows On ARM 342
Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names 249
10 Dos and Don'ts To Make Sysadmins' Lives Easier 246
BYTE Is Coming Back 185
New IE Zero Day 305
Top 10 Things You CAN'T Have For Christmas 230
The Tipping Point of Humanness 272
Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception 430
Latest Mars Photos Show Frosty Landscapes, Ancient Lakebeds 60
Audio and Video Patents Haunt Apple and Android 98
Skype Outage Hits Users Worldwide 167
New Zealand Government Opens UFO Files 100
Spanish Congress Rejects Internet Censorship Law 229
Examining Indie Game Pricing 188
Using Kinect For a Touch-Free Interface In Surgery 53
Navy Uses Railgun To Launch Fighter Jet 314
8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study 174
US Spurs Plethora of Problem Solving Prizes 140
Study Finds DDoS Attacks Threaten Human Rights 118
The Year In Downtime 32
RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police 421
Is Net Neutrality Really Needed? 705
Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters 441
Kodak's Patent Spat Threatens Photo Web Sites 171
New Tech Promises Cheap Gene Sequencing In Minutes 121
A Klingon Christmas Carol 170
DIY Gyroscope Messenger As Christmas Gift
10 Geeky Gingerbread Creations 1
iPad Newspaper From News Corp Rumored in January 220
Will 2011 Be the Year of Mobile Malware? 111
Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security 277
CIA Launches WTF To Investigate Wikileaks 402
De Raadt Doubts Alleged Backdoors Made It Into OpenBSD 136
DC Universe Online To Launch January 11th 49
Mathematics As the Most Misunderstood Subject 680
ITC Investigates Xbox 360 After Motorola Complaint 71
Pirate Bay Defendant Aims For Sweden's Supreme Court 98
Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law 620
Hacking Neighbor Pleads Guilty On Death Threats and Porn 284
NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source 286
Data Breach Could Test Massachusetts Law 73
Google TV Suffers Setback 202
Recording the Police 515
Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory At South Pole 78
Oregon To Let Students Use Spell Check on State Exams 235
How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle 280
The Smartphone That Spies, and Other Surprises 132
Firefox 4 Beta 8 Up 385
Why Android Is the New Windows 424
Woman Sues Google Over Street View Shots of Her Underwear 417
WikiLeaks Continues To Fund Itself Via Flattr 194
Obama FCC Caves On Net Neutrality 853
The 57 Lamest Tech Moments of 2010 123
Bicycle Designer Builds a Beer Bike 4
WikiLeaks App Removed From Apple Store 338
Labor Lockout Lingers At Honeywell Nuclear Plant 252
Minecraft Reaches Beta Status, Price Goes Up 279
AT&T To Pay $1.93 Billion For FLO TV Spectrum 72
Split Screen Co-op Is Dying 362
British ISPs Respond On Filtering 163
Google Declines To Turn Over Harvested Wi-Fi Data 201
Scientists Decipher 3-Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils 217
Memo Details Gawker Security Strategy 76
Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 406
Microsoft Puts the Kibosh On Kinect Sex Game Plans 419
Air Force Sonic Booms Ignite Crocodiles' Sex Drives 61
D0z.me — the Evil URL Shortener 116
DHS Seized Domains Based On Bad Evidence 235
Microsoft Kills Office Anti-Piracy Program 233
Microchips Now In Tombstones, Toilets, & Fish Lures 83
Jboss AS 5 Performance Tuning 45
Al Franken Makes a Case For Net Neutrality 604
iBook Store Features Leave Indie Publishers Behind 146
The DNSSEC Chicken & Egg Challenge 77
Do High Schools Know What 'Computer Science' Is? 564
Tron: Legacy 412
Swiss Bank Has 43-Page Dress Code 212
Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked 840
Database of Private SSL Keys Published 200
Can Zuckerberg Leap the Great Firewall of China? 102
Vint Cerf, US Congresswoman Oppose Net Regulation 156
RubyGems' Module Count Soon To Surpass CPAN's 206
Google Donates Windowbuilder, Codepro To Eclipse 150
FBI Defend Raids On Texas Datacenter 115
Nigerian Email Scam Victim Sues Bank, Loses Appeal 312
US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier 279
Best Open Source Genealogy Software? 292
A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors 252
Is Going To an Elite College Worth the Cost? 391
Cablegate, the Game 90
Intel's Atom To Ship In Over 35 Tablets Next Year 146
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Released 175
Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging 371
UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default 642
H.R. Giger Returns To the Alien Franchise 144
Drop Out and Innovate, Urges VC Peter Thiel 239
Make Your Own DHS Threat Level Display At Home 132
Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released 307
How To Cut a Nanotube? Lots Of Compression 38
Opera Goes To 11, With Extensions and Tab Stacks 296
Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' 828
Intel's Sandy Bridge Processor Has a Kill Switch 399
Join a Worldwide Planet Search 54
Privacy Concerns With Android and iPhone Apps 116
Spamhaus Under DDoS Over Wikileaks.info 295
Periodic Table of Elements To Get an Update 99
Exposing the Link Between Cell Phones and Fertility 112
Look Forward To Per-Service, Per-Page Fees 400
Yahoo! Says Delicious To Get the Boot, Not the Axe 84
Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks Transactions 467
The Clock Is Ticking On Encryption 228
Raising a Botnet In Captivity 60

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