News Stories for 2011

Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson 473
Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? 126
Actual Damages For 1 Download = Cost of a 1 License 647
Open Source IDE GAMBAS Reaches 3.0 137
EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support 204
Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War 969
Arise SIR Jonathan Ive 183
Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? 315
Running Great Britain? There's an App For That! 165
Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet 192
Verizon Backtracks On $2 Convenience Fee 281
HP Wanted $1.2B For WebOS and Palm 139
Samoa and Tokelau Are Skipping December 30th 140
Warrantless Wiretapping Decisions Issued By Ninth Circuit Court 156
Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs 224
UK Ministry of Defense Improves War Games For Console Generation 102
What's Wrong With the US Defense R&D Budget? 225
Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping 865
Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie 289
TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas 338
Wikipedia To Dump GoDaddy Over SOPA 197
New Record High Temperature At South Pole 387
Sun Storms May Affect Radios, Cell Phones Today 50
Verizon Adds $2 Charge For Paying Your Bill Online 562
HP TouchPad Go: $99? 146
Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps 523
PandaBoard ES Benchmarked 77
IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent 455
Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies 435
Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply 421
Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? 848
Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar 725
PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade 419
Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted 240
America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy 900
Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games? 237
China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellites 168
Weird Fossils Show Ancient Organism Reproducing 32
Ask Slashdot: Geek-Centric Magazines Still Published On Paper? 125
What Life Was Like Inside the Hexagon Project 104
Do E-Readers Spell the Demise Of Traditional Schooling? 301
Techrights Recommends An Apple Boycott 542
Boxee 1.5 Will Be the Last Supported Desktop Version 113
What If Babbage Had Succeeded? 212
Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran 164
Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? 349
Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers 377
The Chinese Town Where Old Christmas Lights Go 117
Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server? 355
The Looming Library Lending Battle 390
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
Google and Mozilla: Partners, Not Competitors 151
NASA To Investigate Mysterious 'Space Ball' 192
Ask Slashdot: How Best To Deal With a GPLv2 License Infringement? 240
Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors 201
The Bitcoin Strikes Back 344
Study Finds Online Cheating Is Infectious 110
US Federal Reserve Data On Loans During Crisis Released 173
What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? 361
Cyber Insurance Industry Expected To Boom 58
Why the Occupy Movement Skipped Silicon Valley 328
Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters 180
East Coast vs. West Coast In the Quest For Young Programming Talent 235
Dell and Baidu Introduce a Smartphone With Forked Version of Android 146
The Curious Case of Increasing Misspelling Rates On Wikipedia 285
Mozilla's 3 Big Bets To Keep the Web Open 88
U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare 206
Apple Increases Dominance of Mobile Shopping 136
Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax 294
FCC Approves AT&T's $1.9 Billion Qualcomm Spectrum Purchase 52
Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater 256
Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab? 268
USTR Publishes Rogue Sites List 82
Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? 851
Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models 503
Twitter To Open Source Android Security Tech 164
The Fjord-Cooled Data Center 195
Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling 159
China Now Top Patent Filer 135
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source License For Guitar? 102
ASF Lays Out Its Plan For OpenOffice.org 129
Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google 315
Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship 449
US Asks Scientists To Censor Reports To Prevent Terrorism 273
Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released 152
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read? 647
HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials 365
Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement For Default Search 103
MIT To Expand Online Learning and Offer Certificates 96
High School Reunions — Facebook's Newest Victim? 168
Ready For Your Payroll Software Update? 105
New Qt Based Desktop Environment 241
Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial 172
Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved 330
Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws 209
IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate 216
Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism 39
Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From Developer To Executive? 229
Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE 228
SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket 345
Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers? 153
Google Outlines AI-Based Number Reading For Street View Photos 68
Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics 146
Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines 307
Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target 235
Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot 507
Spectrum Fragmentation Means Pricier Mobile Networking 80
How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest? 238
GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast 808
Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? 570
YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video 220
No SOPA Vote Until 2012 181
FCC Pays $100K To Open Source Apps Challenge Winner 15
Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers 255
Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own 392
Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 910
NIH Restricts Use of Chimpanzees in Labs 119
How HP and Open Source Can Save WebOS 86
Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes 236
Nightingale Media Player Preview Released 79
JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer 210
US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing 647
Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones 1003
Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA 231
At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet 287
Taking a Look At Kindle Format 8 76
Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness? 344
US Bans Loud Commercials 289
The Kindle Skews Amazon's 2011 Best-Seller List 135
The Undeclared "Cyber Cold War" With China 260
Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" 543
Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery 302
Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows 753
Fracking Disclosure Rules Approved In CO 279
Retina Implant Company Seeks FDA Trial Approval 46
Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent 284
Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA 175
UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER 398
Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone 663
New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological 472
Ask Slashdot: Working As an IT Contractor In a War Zone? 352
Publicly Available Russian Election Results Hint At Fraud 304
Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord 561
Quantum Dots Will Make Flexible Displays 83
FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ 156
Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option 373
Verizon Considering Purchase of Netflix 139
Tizen, webOS, & the Future of Mobile Open Source 94
The Encyclopedia of Sci-fi Goes Live Online 82
Corporate Claims On Public Domain YouTube Videos 320
Windows 8 Store Will Allow Open Source Apps 333
Intel Revenue Dives $1bn On Hard Disk Shortage 198
The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels 448
Does Mega Media Control 90% of Content? 231
Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue 178
Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad 396
Google Founder Offer $33M For Use of NASA Airship Hangar 86
Ask Slashdot: Open Vs. Closed-Source For a Start-Up 325
Researchers Create a Statistical Guide To Gambling 185
Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials 145
Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case 129
Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak 161
Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict 423
Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security 225
Is the Earth Special? 745
Royalty-Free MPEG Video Proposals Announced 108
Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? 845
TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts 493
HP Making webOS Open Source 169
Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft 85
Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps 282
Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least 435
Forget an Essay; Earn a Scholarship With a Tweet 99
Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model 471
Amazon Is Recruiting Authors For Its eBook Library 130
Draft Alternative To SOPA Released 170
IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools 50
GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales 344
Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone 612
Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules 353
OpenDNS Releases DNS Encryption Tool 94
DoJ Investigates eBook Price Fixing 165
Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy 451
The Unique Candidates of the New Hampshire Primary 116
Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? 387
Library of Congress To Receive Entire Twitter Archive 106
GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity 241
Facebook Tells India It Won't Help Censor the Web 168
Webhosting For A Large Art Project? 137
Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions 360
'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan 50
Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability 236
Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group 41
Reverse Robocall Turns Tables On Politicians 252
US Launches Virtual Embassy For Iran 174
Physical Models In an Age of Computers 78
EU Targets Apple In Ebook Investigation 99
Does Outsourcing Programming Really Save Money? 653
Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software 228
Google To Seek Dismissal of Suit Against Google Books 240
Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant 561
Kepler Confirms Exoplanet Inside Star's Habitable Zone 257
Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? 644
New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication 164
Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal 144
Senator Uses FCC Nomination Process To Question National Wireless Network 101
Ticketmaster Customers, Get Ready For Your (Tiny) Class-Action Payout 140
USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service 713
Feds Seize Korean Movie Download Portals 215
GCHQ Challenge Solution Explained 107
Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone 522
Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? 848
Toxic Montana Lake's Extremophiles Might Be a Medical Treasure Trove 133
Syria Bans iPhone, Protest App 69
Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network 300
Carrier IQ Drama Continues 244
Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress 629
Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era 144
Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server 205
After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More 173
Yeti Crab Cultivates Bacteria On Claw, Then Eats Them 49
Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? 517
Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech 203
Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling 393
Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser 511
US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers 1167
Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way 397
UK Recruiting Codebreakers Via Social Networks 85
AT&T Issues Scathing Response To FCC Report 215
Bank Accounts Vulnerable For Victims of ZeuS Trojan Variant 'Gameover' 80
OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes 133
Aleph One 1.0 Released 105
Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? 334
How Photoshopped Is That Picture? 226
Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? 861
WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study 96
Angry Snake Charmer Lets Snakes Loose In Gov't Office 0
30 Years of the BBC Micro 208
Italian Court Rules Web Editors Not Responsible For Comments 72
UK Plans Space Based Radar System 70
Permafrost Loss Greater Threat Than Deforestation 272
Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time 491
GamePro Shutting Down After 22 Years 91
China Wants Cyber Crisis Hotline 58
News Corp. Hacking Scandal Spreads To Government 105
UK Announces "Cyber Strategy" 56
Groupon Not Doing So Well On Wall Street 140
Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple 631
Latest Humble Bundle Comes With Uplink Source Code 96
How Publishers Are Cutting Their Own Throats With eBook DRM 355

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