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NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop   |  Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes     FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor  NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop  Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election  Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes  2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted  Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live  FunnyJunk v. the Oatmeal: Copyright Infringement Complaints As Defamation  Why Smart People Are Stupid  Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories  'Inventor of Email' Gets Support of Noam Chomsky  House of Commons Could Force Social Networks To Identify Trolls  Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years  Patent Granted on Mandatory Digital Keys to Prevent Textbook Piracy  Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored  Russian Programmers Dominate At Google Code Jam     FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor  From the cost-of-anonymous-communication department v3rgEz writes "Documents released by the FBI provide an unusual inside look at how the agency is struggling to penetrate 'darknet' Onion sites routed through Tor, the online privacy tool funded in part by government grants to help global...   NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop  From the au-contrair-mon-frere department Rick Zeman writes "According to the normally geek-friendly online store Newegg , installing Linux Mint is tantamount to breaking your new Lenovo laptop. Is it the purchaser's fault for not restoring the laptop to its original state of Windows-y...   Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election  From the maybe-they-just-don't-like-the-guy department Hugh Pickens writes "Garance Franke-Ruta writes about a new study of racially charged search terms on Google that aims to predict the effects of the Bradley effect, a theory proposed to explain observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls...   Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes  From the borat-plus-hitler-plus-gattica department ananyo writes "Hungary's Medical Research Council (ETT), which advises the government on health policy, has asked public prosecutors to investigate a genetic-diagnostic company that certified that a member of parliament did not have Roma or Jewish...   2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted  From the better-luck-next-year department CowboyRobot writes with news on the FY2013 allocation of H-1B visas. From the article: "As of June 1, the government had issued 55,600 standard H-1B visas out of the annual allotment of 65,000, according to United States Immigration and...   Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live  From the i-do-not-envy-their-customer-service-reps department eldavojohn writes "One thing Diablo 3 has that many other games do not is a 'Real Money Auction House' (RMAH), which went live today for players with two factor authentication. Of course, mere hours before that, Blizzard publicly announced they...   FunnyJunk v. the Oatmeal: Copyright Infringement Complaints As Defamation  From the just-ask-l-ron's-successors-in-interest department An anonymous reader writes "Funny as it might sound, FunnyJunk's threat of litigation against The Oatmeal raises a very important issue: the extent to which artists can complain in public about perceived or actual infringement of their works by...   Why Smart People Are Stupid  From the gotta-be-the-shoes department nicholast writes "There's a good piece by Jonah Lehrer at the New Yorker about why smart people are often more likely to make cognitive errors than stupid people. The article examines research about the shortcuts that our brains take while...   Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories  From the who-watches-the-watchers-who-watch-the-watchers department stevegee58 writes "Posting videos to YouTube allegedly showing police misconduct has become commonplace these days. Now police themselves are posting their own videos to refute misconduct claims. 'After a dozen Occupy Minnesota protesters were...   'Inventor of Email' Gets Support of Noam Chomsky  From the today's-bizarro-news-continues department Ian Lamont writes "Shiva Ayyadurai, who famously claims to have invented email as a teenager in the 1970s, is back. A statement attributed to Noam Chomsky offers support for Ayyadurai's claim while attacking 'industry insiders' for stating...   House of Commons Could Force Social Networks To Identify Trolls  From the we've-found-a-troll-may-we-burn-her? department concertina226 writes with this news snipped from Techworld UK: "Websites such as Facebook and Twitter could be forced to unmask so-called internet trolls, under new government proposals in the Defamation Bill. The move comes after a British woman...   Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years  From the lots-of-spare-time department Have you ever wondered what a game of Civilization 2 would look like after running for 10 years? According to one gamer it's a "hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation." "Lycerius" says that he's been playing the same game of Civ II off and...   Patent Granted on Mandatory Digital Keys to Prevent Textbook Piracy  From the arm-the-lawsuit-cannon department First time accepted submitter discussM tipped us to a story about a recently granted patent in which "a system and method preventing unauthorized access to copyrighted academic texts is provided in which trademark licenses, discussion boards, and...   Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored  From the not-so-shocking department MojoKid writes "Intel's Light Peak technology eventually matured into what now is known in the market as Thunderbolt, which debuted initially as an Apple I/O exclusive last year. Light Peak was being developed by Intel in collaboration with Apple....   Russian Programmers Dominate At Google Code Jam  From the steady-diet-of-brain-food department New submitter Migala77 writes "Now that the third round for Google Code Jam is finished and only 25 contestants are left, we can look at which nationalities performed well and which didn't. Code Jam contestant foxlit has the stats, and some...

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