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No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires   |  For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread     Apache Patch To Override IE 10's Do Not Track Setting  No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires  When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia  For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread  China's Yangtze River Turns Red  Judge Rules Sniffing Open Wi-Fi Networks Is Not Wiretapping  Ask Slashdot: Hackable Portable Music Player For Helicopters?  Rhombus Tech A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card Schematics Completed  Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle  Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook  The Struggles of Developing StarCraft  How the Pirate Bay Can Be an Asset To Game Developers  White House Circulating Draft of Executive Order On Cybersecurity  WhatsApp Is Using IMEI Numbers As Passwords  Researchers Create First All Optical Nanowire NAND Gate     Apache Patch To Override IE 10's Do Not Track Setting  From the routing-around-it department hypnosec writes "A new patch for Apache by Roy Fielding, one of the authors of the Do Not Track (DNT) standard, is set to override the DNT option if the browser reaching the server is Internet Explorer 10. Microsoft has by default enabled DNT in...   No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires  From the aside-from-not-buying-one,-anyway department An anonymous reader writes "Lost amid the announcements for Amazon's new tablets and e-readers was the news that their latest Kindle Fire tablets would include advertisements. So-called 'Special Offers' would place ads on the devices' lock screens...   When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia  From the citation-needed department unixluv writes "Evidently, Wikipedia doesn't believe an author on his own motivations when trying to correct an article on his own book. A Wikipedia administrator claimed they need 'secondary sources.' I'm not sure where you would go to get a...   For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread  From the so-many-other-sweets-to-explore department First time accepted submitter brocket66 writes with this excerpt from BGR: "Three major revisions of Google's Android operating system have launched since the company released Android 2.3 more than 21 months ago in December 2010, but Gingerbread...   China's Yangtze River Turns Red  From the have-you-tried-turning-it-off-and-on-again department redletterdave writes "The Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world traditionally known as the 'golden watercourse,' mysteriously blushed for the first time on Sept. 6. Residents in the surrounding area near the city of Chongqing, where...   Judge Rules Sniffing Open Wi-Fi Networks Is Not Wiretapping  From the makes-you-a-bit-of-a-jerk-though department An anonymous reader writes "Ars reports on a decision from a district judge in Illinois, who ruled that sniffing traffic on an unencrypted Wi-Fi network is not wiretapping. In the ruling, the judge points out an exception in the Wiretap Act which...   Ask Slashdot: Hackable Portable Music Player For Helicopters?  From the everyone-should-just-learn-to-hum department First time accepted submitter mrhelio writes "I work for a medium-sized helicopter company; we mainly fly tourists around on sightseeing flights. My company needs help finding a hacker-friendly portable music player for our helicopters. We have a...   Rhombus Tech A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card Schematics Completed  From the soon-for-the-carputer department lkcl writes "Rhombus Tech's first CPU Card is nearing completion and availability: the schematics have been completed by Wits-Tech. Although it appears strange to be using a 1ghz Cortex A8 for the first CPU Card, the mass-volume price of the A10...   Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle  From the kinda-sorta department mbone writes "A very interesting paper (PDF) has just hit the streets (or, at least, Physics Review Letters) about the Heisenberg uncertainty relationship as it was originally formulated about measurements. The researchers find that they can...   Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook  From the grey-goo-of-the-big-s-state department linjaaho writes "Senja Larsen, who runs popular Facebook study group Senja teaches you Swedish, collected $14,161 via Kickstarter's crowd funding service. The project caught much media attention in Finland (TV and all major newspapers), since it...   The Struggles of Developing StarCraft  From the requires-more-vespene-gas department An anonymous reader writes "Patrick Wyatt led production efforts for several of Blizzard Entertainment's early games, including Warcraft 1 & 2 and StarCraft. Wyatt has just published an in-depth look at the development of StarCraft,...   How the Pirate Bay Can Be an Asset To Game Developers  From the or-at-least-some-of-them department Underholdning writes "It's been five years since Radiohead brought the pay what you want model to the public with their successful sale of their 'In Rainbows' album. Now, here's a fresh example of how a game developer is making The Pirate Bay work...   White House Circulating Draft of Executive Order On Cybersecurity  From the do-things-if-you-want-or-not-we-don't-care department New submitter InPursuitOfTruth writes with news that the Obama administration has been circulating a draft of an executive order focused on cybersecurity. This follows the recent collapse of an attempt at cybersecurity legislation in the Senate....   WhatsApp Is Using IMEI Numbers As Passwords  From the security-through-handwavery department mpol writes "In the past, WhatsApp has been criticized over their insecure use of XMPP. Recently, new versions of their app have incorporated encryption. It seems the trouble isn't over yet for WhatsApp and its users. Sam Granger writes on his...   Researchers Create First All Optical Nanowire NAND Gate  From the anything-electrons-can-do-photons-can-do-better department mhore writes "Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created the first all optical, nanowire-based NAND gate, which paves the way towards photonic devices that manipulate light to perform computations. From the release: 'The research...

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