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Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection   |  Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV     Do We Need a Longer School Year?  Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection  Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista  Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV  Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot  How Apple's Story Is Like Breaking Bad  Book Review: Why Does the World Exist?  Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption  Knocking Infected PCs Off the Internet  Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10 Arrives For Testing  Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found  Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0  Among Others Wins Hugo For Best Novel  Fans Bring Back Half Life Game Series: Black Mesa Mod Launches 9/14  University of Cambridge Offers Free Online Raspberry Pi Course     Do We Need a Longer School Year?  From the school's-out-for-the-summer department Hugh Pickens writes "Jennifer Davis writes that while summer holds a special place in our hearts: lazy afternoons, camping at the lake, warm evenings gazing at the moon, languid summers can be educationally detrimental, with most youth losing...   Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection  From the yippie-ka-yay department First time accepted submitter oobayly writes "It appears that Bruce 'Die Hard' Willis isn't too impressed that he can't include his iTunes collection in his estate when he dies. According to the article: 'Bruce Willis, the Hollywood actor, is said...   Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista  From the top-of-the-list department judgecorp writes "Latest market share figures show the difference between perception and reality. Windows 7 just nudged past Windows XP with both around the the 43 percent mark. OS X and Windows Vista divide the rest of the spoils, with all...   Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV  From the dear-indugu department An anonymous reader writes "I have been telecommuting as a software architect for a major corporation since 2007. It has allowed me to live a quality rural lifestyle. Never content, am now considering living on the road for several years. Due to...   Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot  From the not-as-much-fun-as-bender department New submitter Penmanpro writes news of the Hugo Awards stream being unintentionally cut off by some AI gone awry: "Quotes from the linked article 'UStream's incorrectly programmed copyright enforcement squad had destroyed our only access.' 'Just...   How Apple's Story Is Like Breaking Bad  From the holiday-news-cycle department theodp writes "Over at CNN, Omar L. Gallaga explains how Apple's story is like Breaking Bad, the TV drama whose protagonist — high school chemistry teacher Walter White — decides to use his science skills to cook methamphetamine to...   Book Review: Why Does the World Exist?  From the read-all-about-it department eldavojohn writes "For quite some time humans have struggled to answer the question why there is anything rather than nothing. Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist? tackles such questions in the form of a journey. After laying a brief groundwork,...   Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption  From the cheap-at-half-the-price department CowboyRobot writes "Is full disk encryption (FDE) worth it? A recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute shows that the expected benefits of FDE exceed cost by a factor ranging from 4 to 20, based on a reduction in the probability that data...   Knocking Infected PCs Off the Internet  From the and-stay-out department nk497 writes "Malware could block your access to the internet – but in some cases by those on the right side of the security fence, who are deploying tactics such as blocked ports, letters in the mail and PCs quarantined from the net to...   Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10 Arrives For Testing  From the mixing-it-up department sfcrazy writes "The first ISO (alpha) images of Gnome Shell edition of Ubuntu is now available for download and testing. The Gnome edition of Ubuntu will bring back a lot of hard-core Gnome Shell fans who were looking elsewhere to get the pure...   Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found  From the start-of-it-all department phantomfive writes "Language geeks might be interested in a recent study that suggests Turkey as the birthplace of the Indo-European language family. The Indo-European family is the largest, and includes languages as diverse as English, Russian,...   Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0  From the subhurds-for-the-masses department Orome1 writes "Joanna Rutkowska, CEO of Invisible Things Lab, today released version 1.0 of Qubes, a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS. It is the most secure option among the existing desktop operating systems — even more secure than...   Among Others Wins Hugo For Best Novel  From the congratulations-to-all department The 2012 Hugo Award ceremony has completed at Chicon 7, and Among Others by Jo Walton has been given the award for Best Novel. The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson won for Best Novella, and The Paper Menagerie won for Best Short Story....   Fans Bring Back Half Life Game Series: Black Mesa Mod Launches 9/14  From the back-by-popular-demand department MojoKid writes "In a little less than two weeks, Half Life fans will have an opportunity to relive Valve's original 1998 title Half Life, albeit reborn and modified using the company's Source engine. The ambitious third-party project is called...   University of Cambridge Offers Free Online Raspberry Pi Course  From the learn-all-about-it department Barence writes "The University of Cambridge has released a free 12-step online course on building a basic operating system for the Raspberry Pi. The course, Baking Pi — Operating Systems Development, was compiled by student Alex Chadwick...

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