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Ask Slashdot: Instead of a Laptop, a Tiny Computer and Projector?   |  Liu Yang Becomes China's First Female Astronaut     Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support  Ask Slashdot: Instead of a Laptop, a Tiny Computer and Projector?  Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network  Liu Yang Becomes China's First Female Astronaut  Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription   How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus  At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded  Windows 8: .NET Versus HTML5 Metro App Development  SPDY Not As Speedy As Hyped?  Ruby, Clojure, Ceylon: Same Goal, Different Results  Proposed UK Communications Law Could Be Used To Spy On Physical Mail  Did Neandertals Paint Early Cave Art?  Banking On Your Personal Online Data  Wearable Device Generates Electricity From Walking Knee Movements  Leaked Document Hints At Augmented Reality Glasses For Future Xbox     Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support  From the first-person-digital department New submitter jppiiroinen writes "Linus Torvalds received the Millennium prize last week for his work on Linux operating system. He was already in Finland, so Aalto University arranged a talk session with him (video). During the Q&A, a person...   Ask Slashdot: Instead of a Laptop, a Tiny Computer and Projector?  From the trade-off-is-convenience department rover42 writes "I travel a lot, usually on a tight budget and often on airlines with tight luggage weight restrictions and high fees for going over, so traveling light is very important to me. So is connecting to the net when traveling, which...   Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network  From the bring-the-fire-extinguishers department First time accepted submitter gpowers writes "I am the IT Manager for Shambhala Mountain Center, near Red Feather Lakes, Colorado. We are in the pre-evacuation area for the High Park Fire. What is the best way to load 50+ workstations, 6 servers,...   Liu Yang Becomes China's First Female Astronaut  From the holding-up-half-of-heaven department China launched Saturday a rocket bearing three astronauts and an experimental orbiting module intended to presage a full-fledged space station at the end of this decade. While that's big news in itself, the launch also marks the first trip for a...   Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription   From the sounds-like-a-pretty-good-plan department New submitter quantic_oscillation7 writes with this excerpt from the Register: "Phil Zimmermann and some of the original PGP team have joined up with former U.S. Navy SEALs to build an encrypted communications platform that should be proof against...   How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus  From the addition-problem department Anthony_Cargile writes "Everyone thinks of Google Plus as a social networking website competing with Facebook, but that is no longer the case — even Google recognizes its failure in that regard. But in a meeting with Sergey Brin and Larry...   At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded  From the perfecting-recipe-for-boiled-frog department New Jazari writes "Careful what you say when traveling, since the authorities will soon be able to zoom in on your conversations and record them for an indefinite amount of time. The story is about Canada, but I see no reason to think that this...   Windows 8: .NET Versus HTML5 Metro App Development  From the don't-fence-me-in department An anonymous reader writes "Will Microsoft take advantage of .NET's Java-like CIL and allow .NET code to run on Windows 8, or force developers to switch to HTML5 Metro apps instead for porting apps to Windows 8? This article brings up important...   SPDY Not As Speedy As Hyped?  From the but-it-stays-late-on-weekends department Freshly Exhumed writes "Akamai's Guy Podjarny reveals after testing: SPDY is different than HTTP in many ways, but its primary value comes from being able to multiplex many requests/responses from client to server over a single (or few) TCP...   Ruby, Clojure, Ceylon: Same Goal, Different Results  From the ways-of-seeing department snydeq writes "Charles Nutter, Rich Hickey, and Gavin King each discovered that 'simplicity' doesn't mean the same thing as they developed Ruby, Clojure, and Ceylon, respectively. 'Languages that are created with similar goals in mind may yield...   Proposed UK Communications Law Could Be Used To Spy On Physical Mail  From the old-bailey's-long-planned-demolition department An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that the UK's Draft Communications Bill includes a provision which could be used to force the Royal Mail and other mail carriers to retain data on all physical mail passing through their networks. The...   Did Neandertals Paint Early Cave Art?  From the everyone's-a-critic department sciencehabit writes "Dating experts working in Spain, using a technique relatively new to archaeology, have pushed dates for the earliest cave art back some 4000 years to at least 41,000 years ago, raising the possibility that the artists were...   Banking On Your Personal Online Data  From the but-the-action's-at-wholesale-not-retail department snydeq writes "While privacy groups are working to lock away your personal data, a better — or perhaps supplementary — option may be to let you sell it for what it's really worth. 'Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, Google Drive, or...   Wearable Device Generates Electricity From Walking Knee Movements  From the walk-to-work department Zothecula writes "If you've ever worn a knee brace, then you may have noticed what a large change in angle your knee goes through with every step you take, and how quickly it does so. A team of scientists from the U.K.'s Cranfield University,...   Leaked Document Hints At Augmented Reality Glasses For Future Xbox  From the leak-or-trial-balloon-is-the-constant-question department An anonymous reader writes "A 56-page leaked document details Microsoft's plans to build a Project Glass competitor. Kinect Glasses is marked as a 2014 project designed to connect to a future Xbox 720 console. The document also includes potential...

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