Index Stories for 2011

How the Year Looked On Slashdot 161
Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson 473
Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers 469
Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? 126
Speculating On What a Microsoft Superphone Might Mean 371
Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo 38
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
Transforming Any Flat Surface Into a Control Panel With Sound 53
Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War 969
Arise SIR Jonathan Ive 183
Soyuz Lifts Off Again, Delivers Globalstar Satellites 40
Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 152
Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? 315
Running Great Britain? There's an App For That! 165
Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? 339
Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet 192
Doctorow: the Coming War On General-Purpose Computing 439
Verizon Backtracks On $2 Convenience Fee 281
HP Wanted $1.2B For WebOS and Palm 139
Orangutans To Skype Between Zoos With iPads 149
Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? 168
Samoa and Tokelau Are Skipping December 30th 140
Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise 234
2011: Record Year For Airline Safety 144
New Group Paves Way For 2012 Online Primary 249
Warrantless Wiretapping Decisions Issued By Ninth Circuit Court 156
Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? 283
Copyright Claim Sets Back Cognitive Impairment Testing 116
Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs 224
Occupy Protesters Are Building a Facebook for the 99% 451
Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw 164
Transistor Made From Cotton Yarn 92
UK Ministry of Defense Improves War Games For Console Generation 102
China Reveals Its Space Plans Up To 2016 218
Court Rules Website Immune From Suit For Defamatory Posting 171
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
How Doctors Die 646
Ask Slashdot: Best Android Tablet For Travel? 356
Russia Building World's Largest Li-Ion Battery Plant 128
Intel Ships New Atom Processors To PC Makers 59
No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 233
Researchers Demo New GSM Attacks at Chaos Communications Congress 17
HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices 133
World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side 576
How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked 262
New Record High Temperature At South Pole 387
Sun Storms May Affect Radios, Cell Phones Today 50
Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update 156
Verizon Adds $2 Charge For Paying Your Bill Online 562
FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal 172
Imgur.com: Why We Dumped GoDaddy 279
Insects Rapidly Becoming Resistant To GM Corn 368
Free Wi-Fi Coming To Japanese Vending Machines 81
HP TouchPad Go: $99? 146
IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers 378
Apocalypse Tourism: Where To Celebrate Doomsday? 233
Did Microsoft Make Google Pay Triple Rate To Mozilla? 248
Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation" 213
Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps 523
Progressive Era Hacker Griefed Marconi Demonstration 147
New York Times Hacked? 103
Summary of the M-Edge Vs. Amazon Lawsuit 61
Data Exposed In Stratfor Compromise Analyzed 141
Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel 309
Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S 192
Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms 218
Justifications For Creating an IT Department? 214
PandaBoard ES Benchmarked 77
IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent 455
Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies 435
Auction of Copyright Troll Righthaven's Website Underway 63
Passive Optical Diode Created At Purdue University 92
Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply 421
Intel Medfield SoC Specs Leak 164
Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? 848
Experimenting With Robotic Movement 23
New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing 86
Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar 725
SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? 167
PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade 419
Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted 240
Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off 397
America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy 900
Twin GRAIL Probes To Map Lunar Gravity Field 18
2012 and the Technology Blahs 130
DigiTimes Lends Credence To Apple-Branded TVs For 2012 232
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
More Details On Drug Cartel's Clandestine Communications Network 84
Ask Slashdot: Geek-Centric Magazines Still Published On Paper? 125
What Life Was Like Inside the Hexagon Project 104
The GoDaddy Saga Continues 203
Will Hackers Try To Disrupt the Iowa Caucuses? 162
Do E-Readers Spell the Demise Of Traditional Schooling? 301
Techrights Recommends An Apple Boycott 542
GnuPG Short ID Collision Has Occurred. 110
Boxee 1.5 Will Be the Last Supported Desktop Version 113
Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone? 783
China's Parallel Online Universe 173
Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident 267
A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? 201
What If Babbage Had Succeeded? 212
Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark 227
Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran 164
Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection 81
Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? 349
i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China 320
LAPD Surveillance Cameras Go Unused 106
Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI 369
Samsung Buys Sony's Stake In LCD Joint Venture 38
New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End 126
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
Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof 121
The Looming Library Lending Battle 390
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day 356
Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor 356
Amazon Patents Deducing Religion From Gift Wrap 164
The Science of Santa 223
Google and Mozilla: Partners, Not Competitors 151
Television White Space Spectrum Approved For Use By FCC 107
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
Linux-Powered Christmas Display Puts Rudolph To Shame 68
The Bitcoin Strikes Back 344
Study Finds Online Cheating Is Infectious 110
US Federal Reserve Data On Loans During Crisis Released 173
Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users 348
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
Face-Scanning Vending Machine Denies Children Access To Pudding 215
ISO Updates C Standard 378
Dell and Baidu Introduce a Smartphone With Forked Version of Android 146
Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity 294
Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? 375
The Curious Case of Increasing Misspelling Rates On Wikipedia 285
Game Developers Eyeballing Kindle Fire 48
Mozilla's 3 Big Bets To Keep the Web Open 88
Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab Won't Get Android 4.0 333
The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Recreated In Lego 80
Russia Botches Another Rocket Launch 119
U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare 206
Apple Increases Dominance of Mobile Shopping 136
Go Daddy Reverses Course On SOPA 330
Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax 294
Trion Worlds' Rift Account Database Compromised 88
FCC Approves AT&T's $1.9 Billion Qualcomm Spectrum Purchase 52
Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater 256
Volkswagen Turns Off E-mail After Work-Hours 377
How the Tevatron Influenced Computing 66
New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops 571
Why 2012 Will Be the Year of the Android Tablet 584
EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ 103
Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops 215
Major Australian Retailer Accused of Selling Infected Hard Drives 128
GoDaddy Backs SOPA 353
Raspberry Pi Beta Boards Unveiled 161
NRC Approves New Nuclear Reactor Design 299
Do You Have the Right Stuff To Be an Astronaut? 229
Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab? 268
The Problem With Windows 8's Picture Password 206
Solar Cells Made From a Spreadable Nanoparticle Paste 66
KDE 4.8 RC 1 Now Available 140
USTR Publishes Rogue Sites List 82
Average Web Page Approaches 1MB 319
Astronaut Photographs Comet Lovejoy ... From Space 25
ORNL's Newest Petaflop Climate Computer To Come Online For NOAA 66
Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? 851
Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models 503
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Launched, Fastest GPU Tested 281
Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts? 357
Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials 102
New Particle Identified At LHC 164
Reinventing Xerox PARC As a Money Maker 99
Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com 630
Twitter To Open Source Android Security Tech 164
Is Overclocking Over? 405
EU Shipping Sector Cyber Security Awareness "Non-Existent" 55
Spanish Court Rules In Favor of P2P Engineer 365
The Fjord-Cooled Data Center 195
ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent 141
Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling 159
Hack Your Holiday Decorations 48
China Now Top Patent Filer 135
Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3 314
Researcher Claims Siemens Lied About Security Bugs 46
Inductive Charging For EVs To Be Tested In Berlin 123
Book Review: Defense Against the Black Arts 58
Exoplanets Spotted Orbiting Dead Star 76
Troops In Afghanistan Supplied By Robot Helicopter 140
Domestic Surveillance Drones On the Rise 96
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source License For Guitar? 102
New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 284
Microsoft Says Goodbye To CES 79
Hobbit Film Trailer Posted Online 257
Liquid Metal Capsules Used To Make Self-Healing Electronics 135
Ask Gaming [Designer, Professor, Gadfly] Ian Bogost 57
Intel Demos Phone and Tablet In New Mobile Chip Push 99
Project To Mainline Android Kernel Changes Formed 73
Microsoft, Nokia, and Amazon Contemplated RIM Takeover 114
ASF Lays Out Its Plan For OpenOffice.org 129
Apple Buys Israeli Flash Manufacturer 114
Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access 275
QuakeForge 0.6.0 Released In Time For Christmas 30
Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google 315
US Chamber of Commerce Infiltrated By Chinese Hackers 173
Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship 449
New Kind of Metal Theorized To Be In the Earth's Lower Mantle 117
US Asks Scientists To Censor Reports To Prevent Terrorism 273
Australian Government Bans New Syndicate Game 115
Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides 155
In-Car Video Chat and 4G Streaming From OnStar 72
Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released 152
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read? 647
Gaining a Remote Shell On Android 124
Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls 434
Undersea Neutrino Observatory To Be Second-Largest Human Structure 120
Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision 384
HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials 365
October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code 136
Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor 379
Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement For Default Search 103
Star Wars: the Old Republic Launches 389
MIT To Expand Online Learning and Offer Certificates 96
Kepler Discovers First Earth-Sized Exoplanets 179
X-Men Origins Pirate Draws a 1-Year Sentence 341
Google Working On Siri Competitor Majel 360
India To Cut Out Animal Dissection 145
Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? 189
Superannuated Scientists Still Productive 117
IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years 219
Kim Jong-Il Was an "Internet Expert" 238
Denver Must Prove Red-Light Cameras Improve Safety 433
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

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