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Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz   |  Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised"     Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom"  Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz  Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship  Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised"  Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology?  Apple-Motorola Judge Questions Need For Software Patents  Ubuntu Can't Trust FSF's Secure Boot Solution  Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client  US Election Year, Still No Voting Reform  BitTorrent Usage Increases In Europe, Following the Pirate Bay Blockade  Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced?  University Sues Student For Graduating Early  Dark Matter Filament Finally Found  UN Declares Internet Freedom a Basic Right  Software-Defined Radio: the Apple I of Broadcast?     Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom"  From the open-the-tubes department Charliemopps writes "Ron and Rand Paul are shifting the central focus of their family's libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom. From the article: 'Kentucky senator Rand and his father Ron Paul, who has not yet formally conceded the...   Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz  From the especially-when-we-drop-them-on-people department An anonymous reader writes "Famed academic Kenneth Waltz for years has argued that more nukes around the world create peace. Why? Because the more nukes are around, the more people are afraid to start a war with a nuclear-armed state. Peace seems...   Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship  From the good-luck-with-that department DrEnter writes "Apparently, the recent very public divorce of Katie Holmes and devout believer Tom Cruise is reflecting negatively on the Church of Scientology. Adding to this are other recent issues causing problems for 'church' leadership. In...   Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised"  From the your-own-worst-enemy department zacharye writes "Microsoft has a long and storied history of leadership in the tech industry, and the company has driven innovation for decades. In recent years, however, Microsoft has fallen behind the times in several key industries; the...   Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology?  From the tips-from-an-all-star department xTrashcat writes "I am 22 years of age and have been working in the IT field for over a year. I try to learn as much about technology as my cranium can handle; I even earned the nickname 'Google' because of the amount of time I spend attempting to...   Apple-Motorola Judge Questions Need For Software Patents  From the you-boys-go-on-home-now department imamac sends this quote from a Reuters report: "The U.S. judge who tossed out one of the biggest court cases in Apple's smartphone technology battle is questioning whether patents should cover software or most other industries at all. ... Posner...   Ubuntu Can't Trust FSF's Secure Boot Solution  From the dem's-fightin'-woids department sfcrazy writes "The Free Software Foundation recently published a whitepaper criticizing Ubuntu's move to drop Grub 2 in order to support Microsoft's UEFI Secure Boot. The FSF also recommended that Ubuntu should reconsider their decision. Ubuntu's...   Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client  From the sometimes-it-hits-the-fan department An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla will be announcing next week that they will effectively be taking away resources from Thunderbird's development. Mozilla believes it's better for the developers behind the open-source e-mail client to work on...   US Election Year, Still No Voting Reform  From the we'll-procrastinate-in-a-little-while department An anonymous reader writes "A year ago, we discussed this on Slashdot: E-Voting Reform In an Out Year?. The point was that due to the hoard of problems with electronic (and mechanical) voting, it is best to approach reform in an out year, when it...   BitTorrent Usage Increases In Europe, Following the Pirate Bay Blockade  From the I-didn't-want-to-until-you-told-me-I-couldn't department MrSeb writes "In a twist that will surprise no one except the RIAA, MPAA, BREIN, and other anti-piracy lobbies, the amount of BitTorrent traffic has stayed the same or increased in Europe following the blockade of The Pirate Bay in the UK,...   Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced?  From the set-it-free department First time accepted submitter Optic7 writes "Many gamers have probably dreamed about the idea of an old favorite game or other no longer supported or developed commercial software being converted to an open-source license so that it could be...   University Sues Student For Graduating Early  From the slow-down department "A student who attended a private German economics and business university is being sued by the school because he finished his degree too quickly. Marcel Pohl finished 60 exams in 20 months, completing 11 semesters worth of work in only 3. The...   Dark Matter Filament Finally Found  From the there-it-is department An anonymous reader writes "Everyone is talking about the recent Higgs boson announcement by the scientists at CERN, but another significant scientific discovery was revealed this week as well. In a study published online in the journal Nature on...   UN Declares Internet Freedom a Basic Right  From the it's-true-i-read-it-on-the-internet department The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a landmark resolution (PDF) declaring that internet freedom is a basic human right. They wrote: "...the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular freedom of...   Software-Defined Radio: the Apple I of Broadcast?  From the will-it-sell-for-hundreds-of-thousands-in-35-years department benfrog writes "A company called Per Vices has introduced software-defined radio gear that Ars Technica is comparing to the Apple I. Why? Because software radio can broadcast and receive nearly any radio signal on nearly any frequency at the...

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