Slashdot Stories for 2012

EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability 156
Panda Blood May Hold Potent Assailant Against Superbugs 149
A Wish List For Tablets In 2013 453
Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies At 103 36
Does 2012 Mark the End of the Netbook? 336
FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet 449
Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future 179
NASA Releases New Photos of Saturn's Rings and Clouds 34
Intel's Rumored TV Plans Would Compete With Apple, Google 82
Team Aims To Build Robot Toddler In Nine Months 114
US Firms Race Fiscal Cliff To Install Wind Turbines 98
Christmas Tree Rocketry 29
New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street 584
YouTube Drops 2 Billion Fake Music Industry Views 167
The Power of a Hot Body 161
The Future of 802.11ac 125
Gnome Extension Offers a Shopping Lens We Can Live With 72
Origin of Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' Line Revealed 149
China's Controversial Brain Surgery To Cure Drug Addiction 385
Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge 561
Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy 275
New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD 149
Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default 101
FSF Does Want Secure Boot; They Just Want It Under User Control 210
Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam 253
Autonomy Chief Says Whitman Is Watering Down HP Fraud Claims 117
Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media? 272
Early Apple Designs Revealed, Courtesy of Hartmut Esslinger 115
Investing In Lego Bricks For Fun But Mostly Profit 98
Odds Favor Discovery of Earth-Like Exoplanet in 2013 90
Ban on Certain Samsung Products Appears Likely ITC Ruling 90
Stan Lee Celebrates 90th Birthday 57
Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs 421
Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot 355
Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave 311
The L.A. Times Names Its Favorite Flops of the Year 145
New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe 169
Data Brokers, Gun Owners, and Consumer Privacy 95
Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Could Mean Missing the Next Hurricane Sandy 296
Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth 175
Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time? 433
Bletchley Park Codebreaker Honored 57
Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law 81
Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money 113
In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run 146
LG Seeks Sales Ban of Samsung Galaxy Tablet In Korea 91
FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet 93
Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug 1051
Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters 177
How To Make PC Gaming Better 337
Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins 132
How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service 207
Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits 592
Instagram User Drop Claims Overblown 49
A Peek Into the Business Side of Online Publishing (Video) 43
What Turned VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier Against the Web 212
Senate Renews Warrantless Eavesdropping Act 218
Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics 315
Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Motherboard Manufacturers? 352
McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous 111
Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released 169
China Tightens Internet Restrictions 83
NASA's Ion Thruster Sets Continuous Operation Record 165
Russia Says Next-Gen Spacecraft Design Ready 59
John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize 243
Britain Suspends Exploratory Drilling of Antarctic Lake 37
Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas 370
Ramanujan's Deathbed Conjecture Finally Proven 186
The Most Unique Viruses of 2012 94
Empty Times Square Building Generates $23 Million a Year From Digital Ads 227
New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users 223
Adafruit To Teach Electronics Through Puppets In New Kids Show 68
'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind 217
GNU C Library 2.17 Announced, Includes Support For 64-bit ARM 68
Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines 129
Want a Job At Google? Better Know Microsoft Office! 243
Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade 157
New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups 183
Samsung Retaliates Against Ericsson With Patent Complaint 43
Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes 78
Raspberry Pi vs. Cheap Android Dongle: Embarrassment of (Cheap) Riches 233
SpaceX's Grasshopper VTVL Finally Jumps Its Own Height 111
Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents 167
What Debris From North Korea's Rocket Launch Shows 223
Bangladesh Slaughters 150,000 Birds After Worst H5N1 Virus Outbreak In 5 Years 76
Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare 342
Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? 346
Popular Wordpress Plugin Leaves Sensitive Data In the Open 54
Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close? 540
Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012? 321
Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways 358
Running a Linux Live KDE Desktop In 210MB 106
Gerry Anderson, Co-Creator of Thunderbirds, Dies 129
Amazon: Authors Can't Review Books 248
World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens In China 322
UK Milk Supply Contains New MRSA Strain 179
How Do YOU Establish a Secure Computing Environment? 314
Debian m68k Port Resurrected 145
Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" 212
EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 278
Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 202
Lockheed, SpaceX Trade Barbs 215
Google Challenging Microsoft For Business Software 235
Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day? 436
Iran Claims New Cyberattacks On Industrial Sites 75
Defending the First Sale Doctrine 338
Open Source Foundations Coming of Age — What Next? 65
Rivalry Building Between Amazon and Google 97
You're Being DDOSed — What Do You Do? Name and Shame? 336
How the Brain Organizes Everything We See 83
Tales From the Slashdot Help Desk: Reverse-Engineering Rob Malda (Video) 28
Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change 156
Christmas On Mars 41
BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5 134
Steam Hit By 'No Connection' Error Worldwide 126
Ask Slashdot: Android Apps For Kids Under 12 Months? 311
New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map 1232
Class-Action Lawsuit Goes After Instagram Terms of Service Changes 59
The New Ethanol Blend May Damage Your Vehicle 375
Acer Rethinks the "Tablet Bubble," Launching $99 Tablet 243
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Anti-Spam Service Extortion? 279
UK Court Invalidates Motorola Message Syncing Patents 31
Intel Challenges ARM On Power Consumption... And Ties 163
Linux, Apache, Perl, X10, Webcams... and Christmas Lights 30
How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? 337
Ask Slashdot: How Do You "Unwrap" e-Gifts? 86
China Set To Surpass US In R&D Spending In 10 Years 233
US Congress May Not Have Stomach For Another SOPA 95
Book Review: Burdens of Proof 70
The Twelve Days of Christmas Gadgets 28
FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon 204
Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art 289
Microsoft Patents Virtual Handshakes, Hugs 87
NASA Plans To "Lasso" Asteroid and Turn It Into Space Station 200
Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt? 307
Peel-and-Stick Solar Cells Created At Stanford University 46
Internet Archive Needs Donations, Has Matching Donor 58
World's Oldest Wooden Water Wells Discovered 50
Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam 221
Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold 248
Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation 121
West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought 247
VLC For Windows 8 Reaches $65,000 Funding Goal On Kickstarter 210
Samsung Reaches Milestone For 14nm Technology 123
NSA Targeting Domestic Computer Systems 105
GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project 476
New Pirate Bay Proxies Spring Up 91
Typingpool: Human Audio Transcription Parallelism 41
Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? 348
Researcher Says the Hawaiian Islands Are Dissolving 55
Has Lego Sold Out? 425
Google Skunkworks Working on 'X Phone,' Reports WSJ 97
Minecraft Documentary Premiers On Pirate Bay As Well As Xbox Live 75
Game On War In Syria Explores Ongoing Conflict 62
Foxconn Invests $200 Million In GoPro 83
Coral Reefs In Grave Danger, Say Climate Simulations 313
The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee 241
Asteroid 2011 AG5 Will Miss Earth In 2040 143
Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent 85
Mobile Raspberry Pi Computer: Build Your Own Pi-to-Go 97
Specific Gut Bacteria May Account For Much Obesity 470
Arduino and MK802 Robot, Controlled By Phone 31
Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds 209
DARPA Wants Wireless Devices That Can Blast Through the Noise 79
Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Blacklists For Websites 132
Ask Slashdot: How To Gently Keep Management From Wrecking a Project? 276
NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter 292
KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 55
Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest 630
Microsoft Kills Expression Suite — And Makes It Free, For Now 89
Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO 165
Juggling By the Numbers 59
After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out 259
First Radeon HD 8000M GPU Benchmarked 68
USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video 114
How the Internet Became a Closed Shop 206
GNU Hands Out Trisquel At a Microsoft Store 274
Real World Code Sucks 292
Mini-Tornadoes For Generating Electricity 135
All Systems Go For Highest Altitude Supercomputer 36
EU Charges Samsung With Abusing Vital Telecoms Patent 96
Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot 223
RIM Pays Off Nokia; Patent Dispute Settled 23
Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? 430
Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex, Civilians Or Military? 183
Net Neutrality Bill Aimed At ISP Data Caps Introduced In US Senate 151
2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts 336
Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 325
UK Gov't Plans To Give 'Greater Freedom To Use Copyright Works' 48
Learn Linux the Hard Way 185
New NASA Spacesuit Looks Like Buzz Lightyear's 81
Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated 471
ACTA Gets Death Certificate In Europe 36
UK Government To Spy On Computers of the Jobless 278
Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims 233
DARPA's Headless Robotic Mule Takes Load Off Warfighters 210
Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study 240
iOS 6 Adoption Rates Soar Following Google Maps Release 143
MIT Research Shows New Magnetic State That Could Aid Quantum Computing 49
Vivos Founder Builds an Underground City Where You Can Ride Out the Apocalypse 150
Why Google Hired Ray Kurzweil 117
30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 1110
Japanese Police Charge 2channel Founder Over Forum Posts 62
Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling 149
GarageGames Starts IndieGoGo Campaign To Port Torque 3D To Linux 71
Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener 354
Book Review: Terrible Nerd 66
ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time 268
New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks 511
Ask Slashdot: Gifts For a 90-Year-Old, Tech-Savvy Dad? 211
UK Cookie Consent Banners Draw Complaints 108
Training Under Way For New Nuclear Plant Operators In S. Carolina 74
VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms 111
Using Technology To Make Guns Safer 1013
UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block 163
Makerbot Cracks Down On 3D-Printable Gun Parts 528
Obama Releases National Strategy For Information Sharing 83
European Data Retention Rule Could Violate Fundamental EU Law 61
Drone Made of Lego Takes Flight 83
TI-84+C-Silver Edition: That C Stands For Color 198
Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta 353
Researchers Create Ultrastretchable Wires Using Liquid Metal 94
3D Printer Round-Up: Cube 3D, Up! Mini, and Solidoodle 91
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Microsatellite? 117
The Mark Cuban Chair To Eliminate Stupid Patents 121
FTC Strengthens Children's Privacy Protections Online 45
Boeing Uses 20,000 Lbs. of Potatoes To Check Aircraft Wireless Network Signals 104
IQ 'a Myth,' Study Says 530
KDE Software Compilation 4.10 RC1 Released 59
Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? 258
Most Kickstarter Projects Fail To Deliver On Time 179
Property Rights In Space? 269
School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games 1168
How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code 238
Kodak Patents Sold for $525 Million 117
Qt 5.0 Released 161
UK Pirate Party Forced To Give Up Legal Fight 245
Game Review: Street Fighter X Mega Man 79
Chilling Guidelines Issued For UK Communications Act Enforcement 111
Huge Site Ranking Dataset Donated to the Common Crawl Foundation 23
Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung 134
Newest Gov't Tracking Threat: Cell-Site Data Without a Warrant 107
How Much Are You Worth To an Online Lead-Gen Site? 83
Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? 514
Spider Discovered That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys 119
Carmack: Next-Gen Console Games Will Still Aim For 30fps 230
Open-Source Hardware Hacker Ladyada Awarded Entrepreneur of the Year 56
Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away 420
Whose Bug Is This Anyway? 241
ICANN Raffle Sets gTLD Processing Order 37

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