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Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire   |  SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer     Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash  Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire  Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work?  SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer  Tesla Delivers First Batch of Model S Electric Sedans  Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths  Strong AI and the Imminent Revolution In Robotics  Wikipedia As a "War Zone," Rather Than a Collaboration  Posner Dismisses Apple/Motorola Case, With Prejudice  Erasing Details Of Bad Memories  PadMapper Gets C&D From Craigslist Over Apartment Listing Maps  Microsoft Phasing Out Office Starter Edition  Laser Treatment For Earth-Bound Asteroids  Intel Releases Ivy Bridge Programming Docs Under CC License  Google CEO Larry Page Says "Nothing Seriously Wrong"     Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash  From the paid-entirely-in-itunes-scrip department raque writes "The NYTimes is reporting on just how badly Apple Retail employees are being paid. Apple is exploiting its fan base for cheap labor. This is one reason I don't go to Apple Stores if I can avoid it. Stores like NY's Tekserve offer a...   Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire  From the marie-curie-or-mary-lou-jepson-or-danica-mckellar department sciencehabit writes "A new video released by the The European Commission — ostensibly aimed at getting girls interested in science — is drawing widespred condemnation from around the web for its depiction of female scientists as sexy...   Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work?  From the you-were-never-here department An anonymous reader writes "Hello! Every summer (and other holidays) the work load at my job becomes minimal. I like scripting (HTML, CSS etc.) and would like to get into programming just to tinker a bit due to curiosity. At work we are not...   SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer  From the well-was-already-pretty-toxic department Techdirt has a story about statements from Congressional staffer Stephanie Moore, who had some interesting — and somewhat insulting — things to say about the 'net-wide protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). "Netizens...   Tesla Delivers First Batch of Model S Electric Sedans  From the have-you-considered-our-undercoat-treatment? department After years of tantalizing pictures and promises, on Friday the first 10 Model S sedans left Tesla's Fremont, California factory. This first handful of the new S has long been spoken for, and the cars have been delivered (or are on the way) to...   Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths  From the now-that's-just-creepy department Peristaltic writes "Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are trying to determine if an unexpected mutation in a popular GM grass, Tifton 85, is responsible for the sudden deaths of a small herd of cattle in Elgin, Texas three weeks...   Strong AI and the Imminent Revolution In Robotics  From the i-don't-think-so-tim department An anonymous reader writes "Google director of research Peter Norvig and AI pioneer Judea Pearl give their view on the prospects of developing a strong AI and how progress in the field is about to usher in a new age of household robotics to rival...   Wikipedia As a "War Zone," Rather Than a Collaboration  From the one-way-to-look-at-it department horselight writes "A new study by sociologists studying social networking have determined that Wikipedia is not an intellectual project based on mutual collaboration, but a war zone. The study finds that although the content does end up being...   Posner Dismisses Apple/Motorola Case, With Prejudice  From the get-out-and-stay-out department whisper_jeff writes "Judge Posner has dismissed the patent case between Apple and Motorola, with prejudice (meaning they can't refile), putting an end to this patent dispute between the two companies. Posner wrote, 'Both parties have deep pockets....   Erasing Details Of Bad Memories  From the will-it-work-on-the-star-wars-christmas-special department An anonymous reader writes "People can be trained to forget specific details associated with bad memories, according to breakthrough findings that may lead the way for the development of new depression and post-traumatic stress disorder therapies....   PadMapper Gets C&D From Craigslist Over Apartment Listing Maps  From the too-bad-smart-service department First time accepted submitter Autumnmist writes "Craigslist has sent a Cease and Desist to PadMapper, a site that does a mashup of Craigslist (as well as Rent.com, Apartments.com) apartment listings and Google Maps. Craigslist is great, but...   Microsoft Phasing Out Office Starter Edition  From the decreasing-bloatware department nk497 writes "Microsoft has started phasing out its Office 2010 Starter edition, ahead of the arrival of Windows 8. Office Starter was included in the OEM pre-installation kit (OPK) of software sent to manufacturers, and included ad-supported...   Laser Treatment For Earth-Bound Asteroids  From the what-if-they-just-want-to-be-friends? department arisvega writes "A recent publication (for the math-versed) proposing the deployment of a Solar-powered, space-borne fleet of LASER cannons that would deflect Earth-bound asteroids caught the attention of international news agencies. Do you think...   Intel Releases Ivy Bridge Programming Docs Under CC License  From the buncha-commies department An anonymous reader writes "The Ivy Bridge graphics processor from Intel is now fully documented under the Creative Commons. Intel released four volumes of documents (2400+ pages) covering their latest graphics core as a complete programming guide...   Google CEO Larry Page Says "Nothing Seriously Wrong"  From the just-going-a-bit-tessier-ashpool department After Larry Page bowed out from some public appearances, reader Pigskin-Referee writes with the news that "Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page has reassured employees about his health, but the company on Friday shed little additional light on an...

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