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Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise?   |  New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss     A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet  Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise?  Aircraft Carriers In Space  New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss  Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8  Slackware 14.0 Arrives  US Court Says Motorola Can't Enforce Microsoft Injunction In Germany  Free Font Helps People With Dyslexia  Python 3.3.0 Released  Iran's News Agency Picks Up Onion Story  Blender Debuts Fourth Open Source Movie: Tears of Steel  Newly Spotted Comet May Shine Among Brightest In History  A Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness  Illinois Prof Calls for a Federal Law To Safeguard Digital Afterlives  Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon     A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet  From the modicum-of-decency department Hugh Pickens writes "Will Oremus reports that Fox News showed a grisly spectacle Friday afternoon during a live car chase when the suspect got out of his car, stumbled down a hillside, pulled a gun, and shot himself in the head. As the scene...   Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise?  From the simply-remove-eardrums department b1tbkt writes "I live at the corner of one of the busiest intersections in my city (pop. 350k). Although I've replaced all windows, insulated, and caulked every square inch of the place, the fire trucks and cars with obnoxious stereos still...   Aircraft Carriers In Space  From the way-beyond-the-red-line department An anonymous reader writes "Real-world military conventions have had obvious effects on many sci-fi books, movies, and TV shows. But how does their fictional representation stack up against the evolving rules of high-tech warfare? In an interview...   New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss  From the opting-out-of-common-sense department TrueSatan writes "Reminiscent of buggy whip manufacturers taking legal action against auto makers, the former U.S. Register of Copyrights, Ralph Oman, has given an amicus brief in the Aereo case (PDF) stating that all new content-delivery...   Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8  From the taking-a-stand department MojoKid writes "The backlash against Windows 8 from various developers continues, but this time a game's creator isn't just expressing discontent. Notch, the developer behind smash hit Minecraft, has declared that he won't be working with...   Slackware 14.0 Arrives  From the significant-digits department First time accepted submitter SgtKeeling writes "After 5 release candidates, a new version of Slackware has been released. From the website: 'Yes, it is that time again! After well over a year of planning, development, and testing, the Slackware...   US Court Says Motorola Can't Enforce Microsoft Injunction In Germany  From the was-meinst-du? department First time accepted submitter Chris453 writes "A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit cannot enforce a patent injunction that it obtained against Microsoft Corp in Germany, diminishing Google's leverage in...   Free Font Helps People With Dyslexia  From the in-the-interest-of-manknid department Thornburg writes "There is a free font available which has been designed to make it easier for people with dyslexia to read. DailyTech has a piece which pulls together a BBC interview and blog postings by the designer, Abelardo Gonzalez, who...   Python 3.3.0 Released  From the onward-and-upward department An anonymous reader writes "After just over a month of release candidates, the final version of Python 3.3 launched today. This version includes new syntax, including the yield from expression for generator delegation; new library modules,...   Iran's News Agency Picks Up Onion Story  From the makes-them-cry department J053 writes "FARS, the Iranian news agency, ran a story about a Gallup poll which showed that 'the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans said they would rather vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than U.S. president Barack...   Blender Debuts Fourth Open Source Movie: Tears of Steel  From the heat-tear-ducts-to-1200C department An anonymous reader writes "On September 26th the Blender Foundation released their fourth open source short movie called Tears of Steel. This time around, Blender, the fantastic open source 3d modeling/animation/shading/rendering package, was...   Newly Spotted Comet May Shine Among Brightest In History  From the until-bruce-willis-destroys-it department Reader intellitech points to an article at National Geographic, from which he excerpts: "If astronomers' early predictions hold true, the holidays next year may hold a glowing gift for stargazers—a superbright comet, just discovered...   A Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness  From the the-horror-the-horror department sciencehabit writes "Like all invisible things that are only partly understood, black holes evoke a sense of mystery. Astronomers know that the tremendous gravitational pull of a black hole sucks matter in, and that the material falling in causes...   Illinois Prof Calls for a Federal Law To Safeguard Digital Afterlives  From the you-don't-seem-to-be-using-this-account-any-more department An anonymous reader writes "A new paper from Professor Jason Mazzone at the University of Illinois calls for federal laws to regulate what happens to digital accounts after the account holder's death. Mazzone argues that Facebook and other online...   Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon  From the get-it-right-the-first-time department linjaaho writes "A group of Finnish mathematics researchers, teachers and students write an upper secondary mathematics textbook in a three-day booksprint. The event started on Friday 28th September at 9:00 (GMT+3) and the book will be (hopefully)...

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