Slashdot Stories for 2008

Ice Beard 4
Porta Potty Nightmare 5
Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives 248
Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X 225
Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users 178
New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax 655
A First Look At Internet Explorer 8 RC1 271
If Programming Languages Were Religions 844
Tech Firms Oppose Union Organizing 715
Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit 51
Spaceport America Gets FAA License 61
Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? 165
Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy 167
Club Nintendo Goes Live 59
Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote 371
Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook 204
Data Breach Notices Show Tip of the Iceberg 50
CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? 301
SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput? 517
Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash 361
Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy 186
Court Nixes National Security Letter Gag Provision 128
100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes 293
Man Steals Fridge Full of Urine Samples 4
MySpace Verdict a Danger To Depressed Kids 502
A Very Special Reindeer 3
Armadillo Tree 1
Canadian Nuke Bunker To Be Converted Into Data Fortress 197
Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs 583
Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead 140
O'Reilly Interview Digs Into the Tech of Storm Chasing 64
Realtek's Wireless Driver Drives Thoughts of an Apple Netbook 136
Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown 115
Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability 455
Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President 601
Adventure Game Interfaces and Puzzle Theory 149
God of War 3 Gameplay Unveiled 30
In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You 133
Torture in Games 249
Injectable Artificial Bone Developed 105
64-Bit Java For Linux 387
RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California 339
The Best Burglar Alarm In History 137
iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App 269
Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car 341
Sleep Mailing 195
MIT Injects Nanotubes To Help Fight Cancer 58
Great Games To Put On a Free PC? 634
Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? 521
The Manga Guide to Statistics 164
Teacher Laid Off For Telling the Truth About Santa 26
openSUSE Launches 11.1 173
Robot Poverty
Turtle Helmet 3
Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia 389
The Age of Touch Computing 414
The Year of 2008 In Cybercrime 47
Is MySQL's Community Eating the Company? 223
Safari and Chrome: Tied For the Worst Password Manager 218
Samba's Jeremy Allison On Linux's Future 193
Network Neutrality Defenders Quietly Backing Off? 171
Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults 64
Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers 494
How Gamers View Their MMOs 132
Telstra Kicked Out of $15bn Broadband Project 158
The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008 97
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest 417
Wine Goes 64-Bit With Wine64 385
Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 907
Canadians Miss Out On Doctor Who Season Finale 303
A Sixth Region In the Magnetosphere 69
FCC Cancels Free Internet Vote 257
BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? 291
Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community 123
Documentary Released On Canadian Fight Against DMCA 69
The End of Individual Genius? 364
Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug 175
Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer To Google Notebook 107
Publishers Detail Specific In-Game Ad Plans For Future Games 104
Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ 278
Huge iPhone Cut-and-Paste Tool Security Flaw 85
Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008 112
The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks 445
McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs 165
Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux 231
Australia Says No to Internet Censorship 209
Ultra-Sensitive Camera To Measure Exoplanet Sizes 62
Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? 166
20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe 268
VASIMR Plasma Thruster To Be Tested Aboard ISS 81
Google's Mayer Says Personalization is Key To Future Search 93
Long-Term Personal Data Storage? 669
BD+ Successfully Resealed 443
Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail 77
Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs? 290
HP Pushes Open Source For Small Businesses 118
Ubisoft Testing PC Prince of Persia Without DRM 254
Google Zeitgeist 2008 136
Cyan Worlds To Open-Source Myst Online: Uru Live 39
Data Recovered From DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence 231
PlayStation Home Beta Opens to the Public 206
Report Rips Government Wireless Network Effort 54
Windows Cheap Enough For $2B Aussie Laptop Deal 234
Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives 584
Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole 77
World of Warcraft, the Restaurant 73
How Do I Manage Seasoned Programmers? 551
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Now Final 57
Wireless Invention Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Calls 232
Photos of the Damage To the Large Hadron Collider 106
Toupee For Reindeer 1
Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" 626
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" Beamed Into Space 10
The Bus Stop of No Return 3
Trailer Complex 2
Apple's 3D Desktop Patent Filing Examined 156
Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans 92
How a Rogue Geologist Discovered Diamonds 237
Android Susceptible To Apps That Turn On Roaming 136
Oldest-Known Human Brain Discovered 74
Five PC Power Myths Debunked 551
Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA? 479
Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons 213
Will Consoles Merge Back Into PCs? 356
Sony Hit With $1M Penalty For COPPA Violations 85
Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years 157
Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel 276
Nintendo Slapped With Wiimote Strap Lawsuit Once Again 356
Ericsson and Intel Offer Remote Notebook Lockdown 105
Inside Tsubame, Japan's GPU-Based Supercomputer 75
Brain Electrodes That Screw On the Skin 58
Performance Tests Show Early Windows 7 Build Beats Vista 534
Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity 516
Google Chrome Is Out of Beta 444
Broadband Access Without the Pork? 412
Oracle Adds Data-integrity Code To Linux Kernel 53
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs 545
Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo 98
Australian Teachers Told Marking In Red Damages Students 19
Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data 276
The PETA Coffin 13
FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations 409
Smart Monster Truck 2
Get The Shot
Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System 436
Which OS Performs Best With SSDs? 255
Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps 348
Graphene Transistors Clocked At 26GHz 174
Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? 355
Slackware 12.2 Released 351
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary 498
Examining the Beginnings of the RTS Genre 135
SpaceX Successfully Tested Draco Thruster 88
Inventor Builds Robot Wife 469
On Luck and Randomness In Games 156
Intel On Track For 32 nm Manufacturing 139
Activision Wants To Bring Guitar Hero To Arcades 75
iPhone App Pricing Limits Developers 437
FTC Kills Scareware Scam That Duped Over 1M Users 329
Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds? 962
Musicians Protest Use Of Songs By US Jailers 210
A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice 118
Why a Music Tax Is a Bad Idea 194
Carbon Dioxide and Water Found On Exoplanet 151
OpenSolaris 2008.11 Released, Reviewed 87
Oops! Missed One Fix — Windows Attacks Under Way 292
Should Apple Open Source the iPhone? 379
Ultracapacitor LED Flashlight Charges In 90 Seconds 131
Company Launches Pre-Chewed Pencils 7
An Open Source Coffee Machine 99
Cosmetic Surgery For the Deceased 3
How To Cook Everything 5
Burning Bus 2
Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters 397
Enterprise 2.0 47
Nintendo To Start Publishing Ebooks On the DS 216
Ants Used For Mind-Controlled Robotic Limbs 82
Microsoft Plans VR Simulation of Everything? 217
Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed 392
William Gibson's AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed 98
When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education 1589
Used Game Market Affecting Price, Quality of New Titles 384
Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download 292
SOE Allows Purchase of In-Game Items In Everquest I, II 173
Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? 592
Atari Purchases Cryptic Studios For $26.7 Million 45
FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering 217
Botnets As "eWMDs" 172
Higher-Order Perl Available For Free Download 68
Aussie Censorship "Live Trials" Won't Be Live 148
Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers 538
DNSSEC Advances in gTLDs; Bernstein Intros DNSCurve 179
IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship 226
USPS Server Meltdown 238
Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs 516
Restaurant Charges Extra If You Don't Finish Everything 8
Man Fights Parking Ticket For Two Years 4
Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky 486
Lazy Road Crew 5
The Wrong Kind Of Playmate 1
Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity 409
'Lab On a Chip' Made From Paper and Tape 66
The Mouse Turns 40 169
Comparison of Nine Ruby Implementations 75
Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web 367
Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS 278
Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security 459
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing 216
Khronos Releases OpenCL Spec 115
Intel Boosts Optical Communication Speeds 32
Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming 326
FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents 58
21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale 302
Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant 155
World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Call" 95
Broadcom Crams 802.11n, Bluetooth, and FM Onto a Single Chip 174
Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler 290
Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation 318
Netflix Comes To Tivo, AppleTV, Linux 190
Adobe Building Zoetrope, a Web "Time Machine" 133
Nmap Network Scanning 125
Woman Claims Nintendo Scrabble Game is Teaching Profanity 9
130,000 Inflatable Breasts Have Been Lost At Sea 5
HP and ASU Demo Prototype Flexible Display 64
Sesame Slayer 5
Milk Man 1
Review: Wrath of the Lich King 545
Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus 901
Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn 612
Audio CAPTCHAs Cracked; ReCAPTCHA Remains Strong 157
Google To Sell Truly Open Android Dev Phone 219
Is There a Cyberwar, and Is the US Losing It? 320
Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity 773
This Is the Way the World Ends 394
Gears of War 2 Patched To Fix Matchmaking Issues, Problems Persist 34
Saving 28,000 Lives a Year 263
Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? 1367
RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient 663
Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun 285
Freelance Web Developer Best Practices? 438
Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection 351
Reuters Pulls Out of Second Life, Army Heads In 77
China's .cn Now the Second Most Popular TLD 86
What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines 737
Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" 320
Cell Phone SIM Cards Lead To Terrorists' Trail 118
UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia 668
Battle Over Minimum Pricing Heating Up 272
Obama's "ZuneGate" 608
Activision Blizzard Announces Guitar Hero 5, New Call of Duty 85

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