Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons; How To Fight Copyright Violations With DMCA?

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Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons  From the stop-thinking-of-the-children department Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that Tom Welton, a professor of sustainable chemistry at Imperial College, London, believes that a global shortage of helium means it should be used more carefully, — and since helium cools the large magnets...   iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours  From the must've-hated-the-last-version department An anonymous reader writes "iOS 6 has seen rapid adoption among iPhone and iPad users, reports developer David Smith. Smith's applications like Audiobooks get around 100k downloads weekly and he's taken to mapping the adoption of Apple's software...   Ask Slashdot: How To Fight Copyright Violations With DMCA?  From the which-narrative-do-you-prefer? department szyzyg writes "I've created some popular science videos showing how asteroid discoveries have happened over the last few decades. However I've run into a problem with a religious organization which borrowed my video and redubbed it to promote...   Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs  From the cash-grass-or-apps department TechCrunch reports that Apple, facing a substantial backlash (and some snarky competitive advertising) over goofs in the mapping software included in iOS 6, is going after the problem with a hiring spree. Here's TechCrunch's lead: "Apple is going...   Advertisers Never Intended To Honor DNT  From the creative-interpretation department First time accepted submitter oldlurker writes "After much discussion where many hoped a voluntary Do Not Track standard was agreed with advertisers, it turns out the advertisers already had a very different interpretation than most of us on how...   Google Could Face Heavy Antitrust Fines In the EU  From the we-understand-you've-got-a-lot-of-money department SquarePixel writes "Europe's competition watchdog is considering formal proceedings against Google over antitrust complaints about the way it promotes its own services in search results, potentially exposing the company to a fine of 10 percent of...   Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission  From the always-a-good-time-to-borrow-clever-designs department An anonymous reader writes "Apple received a lot of criticism during the Apple/Samsung litigation this past Summer as folks deemed it absurd that Apple was able to patent things such as icon design and the overall form factor of a smartphone. Well...   Iran Set To Block Access To Google  From the haraamph-haraamph department legolas writes "The official state online censorship body in Iran has reported that Google and Gmail are going to be blocked effective immediately, ostensibly in response to the contentious videos that YouTube is hosting. This comes as Iran is...   Chattanooga's Municipal Network Doubles Down On Fiber Speeds  From the choo-choo-is-not-the-right-sound-for-this department tetrahedrassface writes "The first city in the U.S. to offer a screaming fast fiber network has now announced customers will get a free 60% boost in speed. If you had the 30 MB/sec service you now will get 50. Mid-range customers get a doubling...   How Internet Data Centers Waste Power  From the let's-see-some-invisible-handling department Rick Zeman writes "The New York Times has extensively surveyed and analyzed data center power usage and patterns. At their behest, the consulting firm McKinsey & Company analyzed energy use by data centers and found that, on average they were...   Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software  From the what's-the-noodling-to-useful-ratio? department WebMink writes "With an impending deadline for America's schools to satisfy new federal reporting requirements on academic achievement, a new alliance of state educators is creating a system of open source software to help schools gather and...   The Swiss Pirate Party Has Its First Mayor  From the mayor-mc-swiss-cheese department bs0d3 writes "Alex Arnold from the Pirate Party Switzerland has been elected mayor of Eichberg. This is the first mayoral win for the pirates in Switzerland, and hopefully just the begining of things to come. Thomas Bruderer, president of the...   When Kickstarter Projects Go Missing  From the 404-error-is-not-a-beach-boys-song department On Friday, we posted about Kickstarter's new rules of engagement, including some new rules under which some of the most popular Kickstarter projects to date might never have surfaced. But what about ones that make it to the site, then disappear?...   W3C Group Proposed To Safeguard User Agent State Privacy  From the dry-title-but-juicy-facts department First time accepted submitter FredAndrews writes "A Private User Agent W3C Community Group has been proposed to tackle the privacy of the web browser by developing technical solutions to close the leaks. Current Javascript APIs are capable of...   XBian's Koenkk Replies To the XBian/RaspBMC Flap  From the jedi-craves-not-these-things department New submitter juenger1701 writes "Xbian's developer Koenkk has posted a reply to the code stealing accusations mentioned here Friday." In response, Sam Nazarko of Raspbmc has replaced his earlier complaint, "on the agreement that XBian participate...

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Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN; Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn

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Ask Slashdot: Actual Best-in-Show For Free Anti Virus?   |  Toyota Abandons Plans For All-Electric Vehicle Rollout     Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN  Ask Slashdot: Actual Best-in-Show For Free Anti Virus?  Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn  Toyota Abandons Plans For All-Electric Vehicle Rollout  Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed  Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung  Romney-Ryan Release Space Policy Paper  Will Apple Vs Samsung Verdict Be Overturned?  Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves?  Shuttleworth: Trust Us, We're Trying to Make Shopping Better  Accelerator Driven Treatment of Nuclear Waste  Flatlining User Base May Spell End of RIM  US Patent Office Seeks Aid To Spot Bogus Patent Claims  Cheap, Portable Ultrasound Could a Be Lifesaver .  Russian Opposition Figure Thinks Anti-Putin Movement Has Faltered     Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN  From the sticks-and-stones department eldavojohn writes "An article published in Pakistan's Daily Times contains several quotes from Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf indicating his intent to push for international blasphemy laws in both the United Nations and the...   Ask Slashdot: Actual Best-in-Show For Free Anti Virus?  From the good-and-cheap department First time accepted submitter paperclipman writes "I'm on the college student budget and want to make sure that my recent investment in an Acer laptop will last me a good long while. I like to think of myself as a reasonably competent CPU user so...   Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn  From the make-inciteful-comments department Presto Vivace writes with news (as reported by Engadget) of a riot at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant, reportedly over guards beating up a worker, and writes "Something is going on at Foxconn. Do any Slashdotters know of a good source for news about...   Toyota Abandons Plans For All-Electric Vehicle Rollout  From the more-of-the-same department Soultest writes "Toyota has given up on plans to sell any significant number of all-electric vehicles. Citing 'many difficulties' with the project, the company says it will only sell about 100 of the battery-powered eQ cars it has been working on...   Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed  From the sweet-milk department PolygamousRanchKid writes "As the worst drought in half a century has ravaged this year's U.S. corn crop and driven corn prices sky high, the market for alternative feed rations for beef and dairy cows has also skyrocketed. Brokers are gathering...   Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung  From the as-do-we-all department angry tapir writes "A California jury may have awarded Apple more than US$1 billion in damages in late August when it triumphed over Samsung in a hard-fought case over smartphone and tablet patents, but the iPhone maker is coming back for more:...   Romney-Ryan Release Space Policy Paper  From the to-the-stars department RocketAcademy writes "The Romney-Ryan campaign has released a white paper on space policy, which observers find to be long on criticisms of the Obama Administration but short on specific recommendations. The policy promises 'a robust role for...   Will Apple Vs Samsung Verdict Be Overturned?  From the on-second-thought department An anonymous reader writes "While there's much talk of Apple asking for more money from Samsung, there's less talk of the likelihood that the verdict will be overturned completely. Based on voir dire, and the foreman's subsequent statements to the...   Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves?  From the hoisting-with-your-own-petard department Paul Carver writes "Should developers be responsible for installing the software they develop into production environments? What about System Test environments? I'm not a developer and I'm not all that familiar with Agile or DevOps, but it seems...   Shuttleworth: Trust Us, We're Trying to Make Shopping Better  From the just-go-with-this department An anonymous reader writes "In a blog post responding to the latest controversy over Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth says 'integrating online scope results' are 'not putting ads in Ubuntu' because the shopping results 'are not paid placement', but...   Accelerator Driven Treatment of Nuclear Waste  From the mr.-fusion department quax writes "In the wake of the Fukushima disaster the nuclear industry again faces massive opposition. Germany even decided to abandon nuclear energy altogether and the future of the industry is under a cloud of uncertainty in Japan. But one...   Flatlining User Base May Spell End of RIM  From the rim-edge-brink-what's-the-difference? department Meshach writes "There is an article in the Globe and Mail that says that the user base for Blackberry has stopped growing for the first time in the company's history, and speculates that this is the beginning of the end of RIM. The main problem...   US Patent Office Seeks Aid To Spot Bogus Patent Claims  From the more-eyes department First time accepted submitter startling writes "Members of the public are being asked by the US Patent Office to help weed out bogus patent applications. It wants the public to contribute to a website that will spot applications for patents on...   Cheap, Portable Ultrasound Could a Be Lifesaver .  From the scan-me department ericjones12398 writes "Every year, around 250,000 women die due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth. New research developing cheap, portable ultrasounds could help reduce that number. From the article: 'Although diagnostic imaging is...   Russian Opposition Figure Thinks Anti-Putin Movement Has Faltered  From the revolution-is-exhausting department New submitter FilatovEV writes "Interview with Russian liberal opposition politician Vladimir Milov taken by Los Angeles Times reveals a different side of the Western narrative about Russia." From the article: "All they have for a plan is a very...

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US Military Designates Julian Assange an 'Enemy of State'; What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk?

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KDE Multi-Monitor Control Getting An Overhaul  Terabit Ethernet Is Dead, For Now  AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs  Rover Finds Ancient Streambed On Martian Surface  Bitcoin Exchange BitFloor Says It Will Replace Stolen Coins     US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State"  From the not-a-good-list department First time accepted submitter Cute and Cuddly writes in with some new Julian Assange news. "The U.S. military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States — the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist...   Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps  From the gnomes-in-the-glass-garden department tlhIngan writes "So why did Apple decide to ditch the (working) iOS maps app with one based on their own data (despite having one more year to the contract)? It turns out to be turn-by-turn voice navigation. It wasn't a feature in the original...   What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk?  From the put-them-in-management-with-the-other-jerks department First time accepted submitter glowend writes "Cliff Oxford writes in the New York Times 'I define Brilliant Jerks as specialized, high-producing performers. They are not, however, brilliant business people, and that is what companies need during...   Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7  From the 7-is-prime-of-course department judgecorp writes "Windows 8 is not proving an instant hit amongst the early adopters who have got their hands on it. More than half of them prefer Windows 7, according to a survey by a Windows 8 forum. Skeptics cited fears of price and...   Why It's Bad That Smartphones Have Banished Boredom   From the bvut-I-want-it-now department Hugh Pickens writes "Doug Gross writes that thanks to technology, there's been a recent sea change in how people today kill time. 'Those dog-eared magazines in your doctor's office are going unread. Your fellow customers in line at the deli...   NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes  From the no-hard-feelings-right? department Mad Hamster writes "In the latest installment of the megaupload saga, an official study has determined that New Zealand's Government Communications and Security Bureau broke NZ law by spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. NZ Prime Minister John...   AMD Trinity APUs Stack Up Well To Intel's Core 3  From the those-ndas-must-have-weighed-a-ton! department Barence writes "AMD's APUs combine processor and graphics core in the same chip. Its latest Trinity chips are more powerful than ever, thanks to current-generation Radeon graphics and the same processing cores as AMD's full-fat FX processors....   Game Review: Torchlight 2  From the play-it-if-you-got-it department CowboyNeal writes: "Last week was a big week for gamers, with the release of both Borderlands 2 as well as Torchlight 2. I already shared my thoughts on the former last week, so I got to playing the latter over the weekend. Torchlight 2 is the...   File-Sharing For Personal Use Declared Legal In Portugal  From the as-long-as-it-involves-kale department New submitter M0j0_j0j0 writes "After receiving 2000 complaints regarding 'illegal file sharing' from ACAPOR regarding P2P networks, the Portuguese prosecutor refused to take the case into court on the premise that file sharing is not illegal in...   Slashdot Turns 15, What Are You Doing Later?  From the party-like-it's-2012 department October marks Slashdot's 15th birthday. That's right, we're almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser. Throughout October we'll be running a number of meta news articles about our history, plans for the future, and special interviews. We're also giving away T-shirts to people willing to organize and host the biggest Slashdot parties....   KDE Multi-Monitor Control Getting An Overhaul  From the the-gnus-smiled-upon-us-this-day department Multi-monitor support on Free systems has always been a pain (even after RANDR made it a lot less of a pain). GNOME2 had a great feature: you only had to configure a given pair of displays once and it would do-the-right-thing and remember their...   Terabit Ethernet Is Dead, For Now  From the slow-lane department Nerval's Lobster writes "Sorry, everybody: terabit Ethernet looks like it will have to wait a while longer. The IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Higher Speed Ethernet Consensus group met this week in Geneva, Switzerland, with attendees...   AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs  From the just-pinch-your-mouse department eldavojohn writes "News outlets are reporting that AMD has partnered with BlueStacks to bring Android apps to AppZone Player, something that will apparently allow the more than 500,000 mobile apps to run on your PC. From their announcement:...   Rover Finds Ancient Streambed On Martian Surface  From the low-flow-planet department sighted writes "NASA reports that its Curiosity rover mission has found evidence that a stream once ran vigorously — and for a sustained amount of time — across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is, of course, earlier...   Bitcoin Exchange BitFloor Says It Will Replace Stolen Coins  From the fdic-never-replaces-bitcoins department angry tapir writes "Bitcoin exchanges generally don't seem to recover that easily after security breaches. However, BitFloor, which was hacked and had 24,000 Bitcoins stolen in early September, is coming back online, refunding account holders...

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