Slashdot Newsletter 2012-06-11

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Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland   |  RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina     History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author  Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland  Evaluating the Harmful Effects of Closed Source Software  RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina  MorphOS 3.0 Released: Refusing To Let the PPC Desktop OS Die Gracefully  Audacious Visions For Future Spaceflight  Ask Slashdot: Comparing the Value of Skilled Admins vs. Contributing Supervisors  Ask Slashdot: Best Training To Rekindle a Long Tech Career?  Kinect: You Are the Controlled  Neal Stephenson Reinventing Computer Swordfighting, Via Kickstarter  X11 7.7 Released, Brings Multi-Touch Input   Ask Slashdot: Advice On Child-Friendly Microscopes?  Linaro Tweaks Speed Up Android, By Up To 100 Percent  Researcher: Interdependencies Could Lead To Cloud 'Meltdowns'  Patent Troll Sues Google, AOL Over Search 'Snippets' and Ad Serving Tech     History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author  From the skynet-will-forget-both department Hugh Pickens writes "PC Magazine reports that journalist Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Outliers, has stirred up quite a controversy in tech circles with his off-the-cuff remarks that history will remember Bill Gates fondly...   Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland  From the actually-it's-the-delicious-green-weather department jones_supa writes with this news, straight from The Irish Times: "Rovio, the Finnish company behind Angry Birds, is considering moving its headquarters to Ireland, chief executive Mikael Hed has said. Rovio employs approximately 400 people, mostly...   Evaluating the Harmful Effects of Closed Source Software  From the probably-causes-cancer department New submitter Drinking Bleach writes "Eric Raymond, coiner of the term 'open source' and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, writes in detail about how to evaluate the effects of running any particular piece of closed source software and...   RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina  From the low-and-despicable department New submitter Progman3K writes "Richard Stallman, father of the FSF, had his bag containing his laptop, medicine, money and passport stolen after his talk at the University of Buenos Aires on Friday, June 8." Adds reader jones_supa, excerpting...   MorphOS 3.0 Released: Refusing To Let the PPC Desktop OS Die Gracefully  From the ultimate-nagware department An anonymous reader writes "Version 3.0 of MorphOS has been released. It's the independent PPC OS designed for outdated Apple systems like G4 PowerBooks (5,6; 5,7; 5,8; or 5,9) and eMacs (1.25 GHz/1.42 GHz) and PPC Mac Minis, and some G4 PowerMac...   Audacious Visions For Future Spaceflight  From the it's-been-a-lonnnnng-road department New submitter nagalman writes "There is a very powerful video out that takes the audio of words from Neil deGrasse Tyson, receiver of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, and meshes it with powerful images of the history and successful...   Ask Slashdot: Comparing the Value of Skilled Admins vs. Contributing Supervisors  From the class-warfare department HappyDude writes "I've been asked to manage a department in our IT group. It's comprised of UNIX, VMWare, Citrix, EMC and HP SAN Admins, Technicians and Help Desk personnel. The group covers the spectrum in years of experience. I am a 20-year...   Ask Slashdot: Best Training To Rekindle a Long Tech Career?  From the choose-his-own-adventure department New submitter SouthSeaDragon writes "I'm a computer professional who has performed most of the functions that could be expected over a 39 year career, including hardware maintenance and repair, sitting on a 800 support line, developing a help desk...   Kinect: You Are the Controlled  From the read-'em-but-avoid-weeping department theodp writes "GeekWire reports on a newly-surfaced Microsoft patent application for 'Targeting Advertisements Based on Emotion', which describes how information gleaned from Kinects, webcams, online games, IMs, email, searches, webpage content,...   Neal Stephenson Reinventing Computer Swordfighting, Via Kickstarter  From the if-only-I-had-a-spare-10k-around department New submitter toxygen01 writes "Neal Stephenson, sci-fi writer mostly known for his books Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon, takes on revolutionizing virtual sword fighting with help of crowdfunding. Inspired by the little-known fictional universe of...   X11 7.7 Released, Brings Multi-Touch Input   From the nostalgia-for-moderns department First time accepted submitter Jizzbug writes "The X Window System made release X11 7.7 last night (June 9th): 'This release incorporates both new features and stability and correctness fixes, including support for reporting multi-touch events from...   Ask Slashdot: Advice On Child-Friendly Microscopes?  From the skip-the-electrified-eye-piece department OceanMan7 writes "My 7-year-old son is getting very interested in microscopic things — from bacteria to parameciums (paramecia?) Not being a biologist, I would appreciate advice on what type of microscope to get. I'd be operating it and he...   Linaro Tweaks Speed Up Android, By Up To 100 Percent  From the mowing-the-other-guy's-lawn department Argon writes with an excerpt from Liliputing of interest to Android users: "'The folks behind the Linaro open source software project have put a little time into tweaking Google Android to use the gcc 4.7 toolchain. The result is a version of...   Researcher: Interdependencies Could Lead To Cloud 'Meltdowns'  From the we-can-only-hope department alphadogg writes "As the use of cloud computing becomes more and more mainstream, serious operational 'meltdowns' could arise as end-users and vendors mix, match and bundle services for various means, a researcher argues in a new paper set for...   Patent Troll Sues Google, AOL Over Search 'Snippets' and Ad Serving Tech  From the excuse-me-have-you-seen-my-rent? department First time accepted submitter WindyWonka writes "Google and AOL were sued for patent infringement Thursday, accused of violating two former British Telecom patents via Google's search 'snippets' and by Google AdSense and Advertising.com ad serving...

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