The current regime seems pretty anti-science though, unless it is directly related to increasing tar sands oil extraction efficiency? http://science.slashdot.org/st... http://news.slashdot.org/story...

Russian and Chinese spies would be incompetent if they didn't already know everything Snowden leaked, judging by how easy it was for him to do so. Same with the Bradley Manning leaks, with tens of thousands of people have that level of security access.

Is Stan O'Neal even a citizen or resident of an EU country? How does the European Court ruling even apply to him?

I find browsing even 'legit' websites on my Android phone brings up malicious pop up ads warning my phone has a virus, and need to download. Clicking on the link would start a download for the malicious app to try and side-load it onto the phone. A recent site which tried to this was slickdeals.net, but there have been more than a few others.

Although not remote wiping as such, in New Zealand we have a system across all the major networks where when a phone is reported stolen, the IMEI number is barred from connecting to the networks.

The Jeff Hammerbacher articlethat quote is from on this subject is also very good: http://www.businessweek.com/ma...

Imagine how much more money these high frequency trader types could have made if they read this article a year ago.. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/12/11/0053259/high-frequency-traders-use-50-year-old-wireless-tech

Looks like Slashdot needs to update its image for Firefox stories too, it's still on the old one..

To gain respectability, Slashdot copies New York Times?

So it's not ok to hack Hospitals and Dams, but it's fine to drop bombs on them?

I thought line of sight microwave links were the new low latency rock star tech for Wall Street? Could this run alongside the fibre? http://slashdot.org/story/12/12/11/0053259/high-frequency-traders-use-50-year-old-wireless-tech

It hurts my eyes to read fibre spelt that way.