What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson?; A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record

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Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Company Evaluate Your Performance?   |  WikiLeaks Begins Release of 2.5m Syrian Emails     Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson?  Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Company Evaluate Your Performance?  A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record  WikiLeaks Begins Release of 2.5m Syrian Emails  Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson  Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks  Copyrights To Reach Deep Space  San Diego's Fireworks Show Over In 15 Seconds  Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label  China Begins Stockpiling Rare Earths, Draws WTO Attention  Credible Reports of a 7.85 Inch iPad Mini Emerge  FDA Approves HIV Home-Use Test Kit  In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent  First iOS Malware Discovered In Apple's App Store  YouTube-MP3 Ripper Creator Takes On Google     Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson?  From the already-working-on-a-marketing-jingle department PhunkySchtuff writes "OK, so we're all hearing the news that they've found the Higgs boson. What are some of the more practical implications that are likely to come out of this discovery? I realize it's hard to predict this stuff — who would...   Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Company Evaluate Your Performance?  From the score-me department jmcbain writes "I'm a former Microsoftie, and one thing I really despised about the company is the 'stack ranking' employee evaluation system that was succinctly captured in a recent Vanity Fair article on the company. Stack ranking is basically...   A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record  From the good-but-not-great department sam_handelman writes "The common perception among Slashdotters is that while Bill Gates may cause us some professional difficulties, he makes up for it with an exemplary philanthropic record. His philanthropic efforts may turn out to be not as...   WikiLeaks Begins Release of 2.5m Syrian Emails  From the so-no-stopping-at-the-syrian-embassy department judgecorp writes "WikiLeaks has started publishing 2.5 million emails from Syrian political figures and other bodies. The material will embarrass Syria, as well as other governments according to Julian Assange (still hiding in the Ecuadorian...   Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson  From the more-nobel-juice-for-linus department An anonymous reader writes "Scientific Linux and Ubuntu had a vital role in the discovery of the new boson at CERN. Linux systems are used every day in their analysis, together with hosts of open software, such as ROOT. Linux plays a major role in...   Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks  From the surely-this-is-a-very-old-technique department skipkent tips a story at Wired's Danger Room, according to which "Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: Spot them by how they search, and then entice the secret-spillers with decoy documents that will give...   Copyrights To Reach Deep Space  From the lawyers-in-space department bs0d3 writes "Voyager 1 is expected to reach interstellar space soon. It will be the first made made object to cross the heliosphere, which is the final stop in our solar system. Voyager 1, famously contained a gold phonographic record. The record...   San Diego's Fireworks Show Over In 15 Seconds  From the san-antonio's-went-right-to-plan department First time accepted submitter fotoguzzi writes "Garden State Fireworks is investigating how the entire Fourth of July show was launched after a signal was sent to the barges that would set the timing for the rest of the show after the...   Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label  From the is-a-honda-from-tennessee-made-in-the-usa? department sl4shd0rk writes "Among the much ballyhooed tech at Google I/O last week was the Google Nexus Q. Google made an effort to proudly point out the device was "Made in the USA" and even had it stamped on the back of it. A tear-down at ifixit.com...   China Begins Stockpiling Rare Earths, Draws WTO Attention  From the stockpiling-is-the-pejorative-for-conserving department eldavojohn writes "A report by China Securities Journal claims that China is now stockpiling rare earths although it has not indicated when this stockpiling started. Many WTO members have complained about China's tightening restrictions on...   Credible Reports of a 7.85 Inch iPad Mini Emerge  From the betting-against-december-26th-launch-date department An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Network World: "For months now, rumors of an iPad with a 7.85-inch screen have been circulating through the blogosphere. And though Steve Jobs once said that 7-inch tablets are 'dead on arrival,'...   FDA Approves HIV Home-Use Test Kit  From the take-home-test department Hugh Pickens writes "The LA Times reports that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter HIV test kit, allowing people to test themselves in private at home and get preliminary results in less than 30 minutes. The...   In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent  From the patent-each-millimeter-as-unique department An anonymous reader writes "In a move that is likely to have wide-ranging implications for patent rulings around the world, a High Court Judge in the UK has ruled that HTC did not infringe on a number if Apple's patents. 'He said Apple's...   First iOS Malware Discovered In Apple's App Store  From the still-a-pretty-good-track-record department New submitter DavidGilbert99 writes "Security experts have discovered what is claimed to be the first ever piece of malware to be found in the Apple App Store. While Android is well known for malware, Apple has prided itself on being free from...   YouTube-MP3 Ripper Creator Takes On Google  From the anything-that-can-be-played-can-be-copied department judgecorp writes "21-year old computer science student Philip Matesanz is ignoring a 'cease and desist' order from Google over his site YouTube-mp3.org, which rips audio tracks from videos hosted on YouTube. Instead, he has launched a public...

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