Can Anyone Become a Programmer?; When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far?

The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film   |  iPhone 5 GeekBench Results     Can Anyone Become a Programmer?  The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film  Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far?  iPhone 5 GeekBench Results  Chicago Teachers Rip 'Big Money Interest Groups'  The Linux-Proof Processor That Nobody Wants  Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered  The Passing of the Personal Computer Era  AMD's Hondo Chip 'A Windows 8 Product'  NASA To Face $1.3 Billion Cut Next Year Under Sequestration  Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It  BitInstant CEO Says World Operates "On an Inferior Monetary System"   50 Years of Research and Still No Microwave Weapons  How Indie Devs Made an 1,800-Player Action Game Mod In Their Spare Time  Two Teams Win the BotPrize     Can Anyone Become a Programmer?  From the special-and-unique-snowflakes department another random user writes "A Q&A on Ars Technica asks about an old adage that many programmers stick to: 'It takes a certain type of mind to learn programming, and not everyone can do it.' Users at Stack Exchange are wading in with their...   The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film  From the universality-for-some department ideonexus writes "While the decision has been a footnote in most news stories, the Washington Post is raising the question of what it means that Google can shutdown access to the anti-Islam film in countries where that film has sparked riots,...   Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far?  From the your-time-is-our-time department An anonymous reader writes "I work in a call center, full time, for a large mail order pharmacy. Recently, as part of their campaign to better track time spent both at and away from our desks, they have started tracking bathroom breaks. They use a...   iPhone 5 GeekBench Results  From the the-numbers-are-in department EGSonikku writes "The iPhone 5 has been benchmarked using the GeekBench tool. According to the results, Apple's claim of 2x higher performance over the iPhone 4S seem accurate. The results show the iPhone 5's A6 CPU is dual core and clocked at...   Chicago Teachers Rip 'Big Money Interest Groups'  From the all-about-the-benjamins department theodp writes "The striking Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is holding a massive 'Wisconsin-style rally' Saturday as ongoing negotiations try to bring an end to the strike that has put education on hold for 350,000 of the city's schoolchildren. 'The...   The Linux-Proof Processor That Nobody Wants  From the last-kid-picked department Bruce Perens writes "Clover Trail, Intel's newly announced 'Linux proof' processor, is already a dead end for technical and business reasons. Clover Trail is said to include power-management that will make the Atom run longer under Windows. It had...   Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered  From the simple-but-effective department The Organization for Economic and Cooperation and Development (OECD), a forum of the top 34 developed economies, has released an annual education report, and guess what? The U.S. has once again ranked poorly in relation to many other developed...   The Passing of the Personal Computer Era  From the turn-the-page department An anonymous reader writes "AllThingsD columnist Arik Hesseldahl noticed another milestone marking the passing of the personal computer era: for the first time since the early '80s, the share of worldwide sales of DRAM chips consumed by PCs...   AMD's Hondo Chip 'A Windows 8 Product'  From the riding-a-new-horse department dgharmon points out comments from AMD's Steve Belt, who was asked about the company's upcoming Hondo APU. Hondo is their biggest attempt to date to break into the tablet market, and they're doing so with a distinct focus on Windows 8. Belt said,...   NASA To Face $1.3 Billion Cut Next Year Under Sequestration  From the more-for-less department littlesparkvt writes "A budget forecast that was released on Friday shows that the defense department isn't the only department getting hammered, NASA is as well if the automatic budget cuts happen. According to Nature magazine, NASA will lose...   Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It  From the until-it-learns-to-fear-you department another random user writes with news of a patent application from Microsoft that details a method for silencing your phone by giving it a whack. "There are a variety of circumstances under which it may be desirable to quickly control a device...   BitInstant CEO Says World Operates "On an Inferior Monetary System"   From the your-money-is-no-good-here department hypnosec writes "BitInstant's CEO Charlie Shrem and Erik Voorhees were invited to speak about virtual currency at the NACHA (the North American Payments Association) Annual Global Payments Forum held in Rio de Janeiro. At the conference the duo...   50 Years of Research and Still No Microwave Weapons  From the feeling-hot-hot-hot department DevotedSkeptic writes in with a story about the lack of usable microwave technology to come from 50 years of military research. "For some Pentagon officials, the demonstration in October 2007 must have seemed like a dream come true — an...   How Indie Devs Made an 1,800-Player Action Game Mod In Their Spare Time  From the massively-multiplayer-regular-game department An anonymous reader writes "Just Cause 2 Multiplayer has been getting a lot of press lately, but this making-of feature points out how the mod raises serious questions about the games industry: if 1,800-player massively multiplayer action games...   Two Teams Win the BotPrize  From the just-make-them-swear-a-lot-over-xbox-live department An anonymous reader writes "For the past five years, the 2K BotPrize has challenged artificial intelligence researchers and programmers to create a computer-game-playing bot that plays like a person. It's one thing to make bots that play computer...

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