News Stories for 2008

Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? 877
Capitol Records Flooded Internet With MP3s, Says MP3Tunes CEO 168
The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008 198
Time Warner Recommends Internet For Some Shows 379
Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide 785
Wikipedia Almost Reaches $6 Million Target 412
Terry Pratchett Knighted 366
Content Filtering Pulled From Free Broadband Proposal 111
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
Worlds.com Sues NCSoft Over MMO-Patent 261
FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge 222
Interclue and What Going Proprietary Can Do 149
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
BBC's iPlayer Chief Pushes Tiered Charging For ISPs 172
Entire Transcript of RIAA's Only Trial Now Online 315
How Can the Stimulus Plan Help the Internet? 154
Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy 44
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
Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? 386
Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids 580
RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet 221
UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship 377
Comcast Facing Lawsuit Over Set-Top Box Rentals 200
Streaming Video Service Coming To the Wii 103
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview 250
Print News Fading, Still Source of Much News 140
Technocrat.net Shut Down 326
White Christmas In Antarctica 84
Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen 262
Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS 308
Mapping Planets and Moons In 3D With Stereophotoclinometry 23
DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders 248
Legal Troubles Continue To Mount For Diebold 115
Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion 414
Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion 234
NSA's History of Communications Security — For Your Eyes, Too 52
ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core 474
Quicken 2007 For Mac Lacks EV Cert Support 108
Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? 517
Space Is Just a Little Bit Closer Than Expected 130
The RIAA's Rocky Road Ahead 542
Inside the Active Volcano On Montserrat 42
Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS 648
As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" 366
Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed 182
Will People Really Boycott Apple Over DRM? 664
Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts 211
US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans 133
Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV 482
Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? 325
Warner Music Pulls Videos Off YouTube 237
Are Newspapers Doomed? 338
New Contest Will Seek the Best "I'm Linux" Video 460
Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power 275
Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95 126
The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway 94
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
New York City Street Lights To Go LED 303
EA Is Now Officially On Steam, Spore Loses SecuROM 354
Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming 492
Trick or Treatment 713
RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers 619
Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps 58
City In Georgia Planning Virtual World For Civic Interaction 39
iPlayer Released for Mac, Linux; Adobe Announces AIR for Linux 231
Indian GPS Cartographers Charged As Terrorists 269
Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming 656
US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory 394
IRS Doesn't Check Cyberaudit Logs 78
Are Micro-Transactions the Future of Online Game Business Models? 68
Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs 142
Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible? 186
Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field 200
What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? 1117
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
New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax 655
Tech Firms Oppose Union Organizing 715
Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit 51
Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook 204
CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? 301
Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash 361
Court Nixes National Security Letter Gag Provision 128
Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs 583
O'Reilly Interview Digs Into the Tech of Storm Chasing 64
Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President 601
RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California 339
Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car 341
Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? 521
The Manga Guide to Statistics 164
Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers 494
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest 417
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
Documentary Released On Canadian Fight Against DMCA 69
Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug 175
Publishers Detail Specific In-Game Ad Plans For Future Games 104
Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ 278
Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008 112
20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe 268
Google's Mayer Says Personalization is Key To Future Search 93
BD+ Successfully Resealed 443
HP Pushes Open Source For Small Businesses 118
Data Recovered From DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence 231
Report Rips Government Wireless Network Effort 54
Windows Cheap Enough For $2B Aussie Laptop Deal 234
Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives 584
Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" 626
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
Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons 213
Sony Hit With $1M Penalty For COPPA Violations 85
Nintendo Slapped With Wiimote Strap Lawsuit Once Again 356
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs 545
Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo 98
FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations 409
Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System 436
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary 498
Activision Wants To Bring Guitar Hero To Arcades 75
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
Nintendo To Start Publishing Ebooks On the DS 216
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
Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? 592
FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering 217
Aussie Censorship "Live Trials" Won't Be Live 148
Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers 538
Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs 516
Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity 409
Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security 459
21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale 302
Netflix Comes To Tivo, AppleTV, Linux 190
Nmap Network Scanning 125
Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus 901
Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity 773
Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? 1367
RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient 663
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
Cell Phone SIM Cards Lead To Terrorists' Trail 118
Battle Over Minimum Pricing Heating Up 272
NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio 119
RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry 216
Forry Ackerman Dead At 92 83
German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia 113
US Tests New Missile Defense 278
Amazon Fights Piracy Tool, Creators Call It a Parody 268
RIAA Vs. Web 2.0? Social Media and Litigation 41
Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network 255
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 135
Automated Scripts Overrun eBay Holiday Contest 182
Online Reporters Now the Journalists Most Often Jailed 147
Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities 375
Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" 279
Human Rights Court Calls UK DNA Database a 'Breach of Rights' 206
Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food 153
New Hampshire Law Students Take On RIAA 173
Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent 208
Apple Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar 606
Google Was 3 Hours Away From DOJ Antitrust Charges 221
30 Minutes of Frank Miller's The Spirit Reviewed 100
Who Protects the Internet? 177
UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework 152
Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes 295
Persistence Pays Off With Israel's First Windows Refund 84
Copper Thieves Jeopardize US Infrastructure 578
DMCA Exemptions Desired To Hack iPhones, Remix DVDs 188
Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series 297
Lessig Launches Open Transition Principles 129
Teacher Sells Ads On Tests 532
Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty 727
US Has Been In Recession Since December 2007 540
Reading Guide To AI Design & Neural Networks? 266
EMA Suggests Point-Of-Sale Game Activation To Fight Piracy 244
Techniques and Styles of Video Game Music 68
Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms 420
French "Three Strikes" Law Gets New Life 193
Virtual Peace Sim Game Based On America's Army 186
Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated 152
MySQL in a Nutshell 86
FCC Considering Free Internet For USA 502
Acorns Disappear Across the Country 474
IT Job Without a Degree? 1123
James Boyle's New Book Under CC License 80
Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict 457
Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford? 752
iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio 397
Linux Foundation Says All Major Distros Are IPv6 Compliant 241
Royal Society of Chemistry Slams UK Exam Standards 408
An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks 715
Google's Gatekeepers 150
Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science 186
Street Fighter HD Remix Launches With Fan-Made Soundtrack 44
"Cyber Monday" Expected To Draw Virtual Crowds 133
Obama Team Considers Cancellation of Ares, Orion 870
New Asimov Movies Coming 396
Greenpeace Slams Apple For Environmental Record 271
Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel 405
HP Seeks to Block Competitor From Revealing Its Pricing 144
IT Cutbacks For 2012 London Olympics 190
Gen Con Goes Up For Sale 34
18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD 603
Stephen Hawking Going To Canada 204
Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid 256
FTC Pursues Rambus Appeal To Supreme Court 50
Who Will Obama Choose As Copyright Czar? 174
Annual Video Game Report Card Is Positive, For Once 75
Computer For a Child? 556
Game Industry Optimistic About Surviving Economic Crisis 52
FAA Greenlights Satellite-Based Air Traffic Control System 138
Blockbuster's Movie Download Box Runs Linux 194
Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions 568
Houses With Tails 307
jQuery in Action 154
Evolving Rocks 172
The Player Is and Is Not the Character 152
At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs 273
90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted 333
Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid 388
Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP 147
1.4 Billion Pixel Camera To Watch For Asteroids 138
Symantec Reports Spate of Attacks Via Recent Windows Flaw 56
Judge Excludes 3 "John Does" From RIAA Subpoena 225
Spanish City Sets Up Solar Cemetery 71
Google Map To Real Piracy 262
Home Theatre System Using Laptops 37
Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery 187
Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed 217
US Army To Invest $50 Million In Game Development 68
How Politics Interacts With Games 81
Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple 123

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