Index Stories for 2009

What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? 331
New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released 44
The Twelve Most Tarnished Brands In Tech 430
Motorola's Rumored Android Phone Focuses on Screen Size 134
Embedded OS RTEMS Turns 21 54
TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive 379
Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? 605
AT&T Readying For the End of Analog Landlines 426
Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ 568
Sir Patrick Stewart 324
DRM and the Destruction of the Book 419
NASA WISE Telescope Starts Taking Pics 43
An Inside Look At Warhammer Online's Server Setup 71
Ten Gadgets That Defined the Decade 313
BRINK Interview With Richard Ham and Edward Stern 34
Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid 305
The Neuroscience of Screwing Up 190
Boost a Weak 3G Modem Signal, With a Saucepan 146
USPTO Awards LOL Patent To IBM 274
Quantum Encryption Implementation Broken 133
Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow 202
Impressive Robot Hand From Shadow 101
IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193
The Rise of Machine-Written Journalism 134
Google Nexus Rumored To Cost $530 Or $180 w/Plan 284
5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open 162
Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills 403
How Many Admins Per User/Computer Have You Seen? 414
Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights 839
Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees 736
Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So 467
Italy May Censor Torrent Sites 194
OnLive One Step Closer 175
Following In Bing's Footsteps, Yahoo! and Flickr Censor Porn In India 167
Duke Nukem 3D Ported To Nokia N900 95
MS Issues Word Patch To Comply With Court Order 179
Toshiba Intros Trilingual Translation App For Cellphones 44
Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube 36
Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products 419
Uniforms For the Help Desk? 837
A Mixed Review For Google Chrome On Linux 223
Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites 227
Photovoltaic Eye Implant Could Give Sight To the Blind 15
Harry McCracken Rounds Up the Year In Tech 86
Bruce Schneier On Airport Security 582
Adobe Flash To Be Top Hacker Target In 2010 180
Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade" 346
A Decade of Dreadful Microsoft Ads 220
Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites 605
Google Netbook Specs Leaked 176
China's DIY Aviators Take Flight 113
Graphic Novelist Calls For Better Game Violence 465
UK Consumers To Pay For Online Piracy 300
The Need For Search Neutrality 203
GSM Decryption Published 299
North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux 346
Escaped Convict Continues To Update Facebook 125
Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds 206
Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning 238
China Debuts the World's Fastest Train 491
Ruby In Practice 104
The Speculative Pre-History of the iPhone 195
Happy Birthday, Linus 376
HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors 442
Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar 870
One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion 242
NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes 507
Chinese Pirates Launch Ubuntu That Looks Like XP 580
GNU Emacs Switches From CVS To Bazaar 198
Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network 420
What's Happened In Mobile Over the Past 10 Years 149
German Wikipedia Passes One Million Article Mark 106
How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? 799
Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught 162
Security In the Ether 93
Critics Call For NASA TV To "Liven Up" 305
Amazon Sells More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books 111
What DARPA's Been Up To, At Length 54
World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India 128
TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight 888
A Brief History of Modems 249
The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves 202
Groklaw Putting Comes v. Microsoft Docs Online 159
Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam 249
Real-World Synthehol In Development 273
Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off 260
Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server? 539
Scientists Create First Functional Molecular Transistor 57
Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight 809
50 Years of Domesticating Foxes For Science 347
NetBIOS Design Allows Traffic Redirection 68
Simplifying Search For a Younger Audience 72
Religion in Video Games 523
Holiday E-Commerce DDoS Attack Hits EC2 Cloud 75
Skeptics Question OLPC's Focus With $75 Tablet 159
Wikileaks Needs Help, and Not Just Money 134
First Tablet Using Pixel Qi Screen On The Way 97
Twitter Buys Mixer Labs For Geolocation Services 25
Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? 192
Jobs Finally "Happy" With Unannounced Apple Tablet 303
The Science of Santa 76
Fraudulent Anti-Terrorist Software Led US To Ground Planes 147
Gnome Switches Nautilus Back To Browser Mode 311
Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names 301
Cygwin 1.7 Released 203
Does Santa Hate Linux? 271
Testing Network Changes When No Test Labs Exist? 164
Really Misleading Ads From Broadband Providers 256
Launching Frequently Key To NASA Success 145
Amazing New Movies of Saturn's Moons 32
IsoHunt Guilty of Inducing Infringement 243
Networked Christmas Tree Controlled By Twitter 38
More on the Waterworld Goldilocks Planet 107
Is Neurostim Becoming a Reality? 249
"Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week 325
All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop 443
The Science of Avatar 275
iPhone 4 Rumors Rumble 119
Next-Gen Glitter-Sized Photovoltaic Cells Unveiled 155
Hulu and Warner Music Sign Deal For Music Content 29
Helping Perl Packagers Package Perl 130
BBC's Plan To Kick Open Source Out of UK TV 302
The Best Robots of 2009 51
NASA and Space Station Alliance On Shaky Ground 73
Girl Gamers More Hardcore Than Guys 284
Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? 484
AT&T Wins Gizmodo 3G Bandwidth Test 156
VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works 120
OLPC Unveils Plans For Tablets By 2012 102
Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity 597
An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71
Demo For NASA MMO Coming In January 84
Typing With Your Brain 262
Is Code Auditing of Open Source Apps Necessary? 108
Google About Openness 283
Body Heat Energy Generation 214
BlackBerry Outages Across North America 284
Comcast Pays Out $16M In P2P Throttling Suit 176
Amazon Kindle Proprietary Format Broken 203
Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google 241
A New Libel Defense In Canada; For Blogs Too 146
Intel Patches Flaws In Trusted Execution Tech 84
Nuclear Reactors As Art 118
Wikileaks Targets the Local News Frontier 57
Citibank Denies Reported Breach Linked To Russian Gang 53
How Can I Contribute To Open Source? 332
Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast 274
Windows 7 May Finally Get IPv6 Deployed 283
Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word 272
The US Economy Needs More "Cool" Nerds 453
Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed 549
The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade 378
Microsoft Policies Help Virus Writers, Says Security Firm 166
New USPTO Test Could Limit Software-Based Patents 123
Climate, Habitat Threaten Wild Coffee Species 274
CherryPal's $99 "Odd Lots" Netbook 234
The Nuking of Duke Nukem 325
Cyber-Security Czar To Be Named 139
The 87 Lamest Moments In Tech, 2000-2009 328
Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations 427
The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn 420
The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line 525
Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys 510
Ford's New Cars To Be Wi-Fi Hotspots 196
Intel's New Atom D510 Benchmark Tested 86
New Antifreeze Molecule Isolated In Alaskan Beetle 108
Malware and Botnet Operators Going ISP 131
Best Open Source Business Tools? 164
Virtual Visits To Doctors Spreading 215
Music By Natural Selection 164
Website Owner's Manual 40
The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* 629
Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones 314
OSU President Cans Anthrax Vaccine Research On Primates 230
DirecTV Sued By Washington State 181
Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By 148
Intel Launches Next-Gen Atom N450 Processor 165
Android's Success a Threat To Free Software? 416
Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark 191
Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas 336
Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts 362
AU Authority Moves To Censor Net Filtering Protest Site 225
Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope 447
Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide 422
Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture 241
The First Robot To Cross the Atlantic Ocean Underwater 156
DMCA Takedown Scandal, Part Two 153
When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay? 426
Palm Pre Development In the Browser 53
The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook 752
Call To "Open Source" AIG Investigation 259
A Requiem For Saab 438
Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? 349
Making Sense of the Cellphone Landscape 185
Nvidia Waiting In the Wings In FTC-Intel Dispute 143
Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books 108
Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan 197
Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android 306
Vimeo Sued For Audio Infringement 85
Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light 30
The State of Social Gaming On the iPhone 33
Verizon Defends Doubling of Early Termination Fee 319
Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern 181
Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest 464
Alien Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, Dead At 63 139
Google Open Sources Etherpad, Piratepad Launches 126
Caltech Scientists Film Photons With Electrons 46
Psystar Not Closing Up Shop 439
Mandatory Use of Open Standards In Hungary 163
First Look At Latest Ion-Infused Asus Eee PC 323
Google In Talks To Buy Yelp 95
$25,000 of Communications Gear In a $500 Car 215
Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement 254
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers 553
DECAF Was Just a Stunt, Now Over 206
Yes, Google Does De-List Pages; But When? 133
First MySQL 5.5 Beta Released 95
US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January 376
iPhone Has 46% of Japanese Smartphone Market 214
EU Demands Canada Rework Its Copyright, Patent Law 271
Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget 391
Netflix Sued For Privacy Invasion 262
Dark Matter Particles May Have Been Detected 156
Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? 558
Revisiting the "Holy Trinity" of MMORPG Classes 362
After Berlusconi Attack, Italy Considers Web Censorship 160
Australian AvP Ban Reversed 71
The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid 391
3D Blu-ray Spec Finalized, PS3 Supported 157
How Europe's Mandated Browser Ballot Screen Works 169
Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away 139
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272
Are You Using SPF Records? 263
Firefox Mobile Threatens Mobile App Stores, Says Mozilla 278
26 Gigapixel Photo Sets New World Record 139
EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy 103
Not Enough Women In Computing, Or Too Many Men? 686
Shuttleworth To Step Down As Canonical CEO In 2010 163
DRM Flub Prevented 3D Showings of Avatar In Germany 386
PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361
Microsoft Promises Not To Sue Moonlight 2.0 Users 233
BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice 412
$300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal 315
Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You! 155
Did Chandrayaan Find Organic Matter On the Moon? 141
Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads 419
Autonomous Intelligent Botnets Bouncing Back 152
$26 of Software Defeats American Military 534
Computer Scientist Looks At ICBM Security 124
Doom-Like Video Surveillance For Ports In Development 56

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