Global Food Riots Coming in One Year?; GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility

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Quoting the article: "In a 2011 paper, researchers at the Complex Systems Institute unveiled a model that accurately explained why the waves of unrest that swept the world in...   Following FEMA's Zombie Preparedness Plan Could Land You On Terrorist List  From the fund-and-games department colinneagle writes "As if warning a zombie apocalypse is imminent, FEMA hosted a webinar for its Citizen Corps encouraging emergency planners 'to use the threat of zombies — the flesh-hungry, walking dead — to encourage citizens to...   GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility  From the protect-ya-neck department An anonymous reader writes "A member of the Anonymous hacktivist group appears to have taken down GoDaddy with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The widespread issue seems to be affecting countless websites and services around the...   One Company's Week-Long Interview Process  From the one-more-thing department jfruh writes "What's the longest tech interview you've had to sit through — two hours? Eight? Ruby on Rails devs who want to work for Hashrocket need to travel to Florida and do pair-programming on real projects for a week before they can...   Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India   From the will-launch-for-food department MarkWhittington writes "Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was obliged recently to defend his country's space program, which involves the spending of billions of rupees when India still has a large number of people living in abject poverty. The...   The Problems With Online Math Classes  From the get-your-learnings department dcollins writes "As a college instructor specializing in statistics, I felt compelled to survey one of the massive-enrollment online education courses that are all the rage these days. This summer, it seemed a perfect opportunity when Udacity...   Look-Alike Web Sites Hoodwink Republican Donors  From the more-than-meets-the-eye department Hugh Pickens writes "Shane Goldmacher writes that a network of look-alike campaign websites have netted hundreds of thousands of dollars this year in what some are calling a sophisticated political phishing scheme. The doppelgänger websites...   90 Percent of Eligible Kansas City Neighborhoods Sign Up For Google Fiber  From the greased-lightning department puddingebola writes in with a story about how popular Google Fiber is in Kansas City. "The company wrote in a blog post yesterday that at least 180 out of 202 'fiberhoods' have already qualified for the super-high-speed Internet service. Google...   App Developer Says Stolen UDIDs Came From Them, Not FBI  From the who's-to-blame department pdabbadabba writes "A Florida iPhone and iPad app developer, Blue Toad, has come forward claiming that it is the source of the Apple UDIDs previously released by Anonymous. Their dataset, they say, is a 98% match for the one Anonymous hackers...   Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google  From the search-and-sue department quax writes "Bettina Wulff faces an uphill battle for her reputation. Her husband had to resign as Germany's president due to corruption allegations and has many detractors. Apparently some of them started a character assassination campaign...   Toys R Us Unveils Android Tablet For Kids  From the think-of-the-children department puddingebola writes "Can Toys R Us provide the iPad killer? The 'Tabeo' s a 7 inch Android tablet running ICS with a micro-SD card slot. From the article, 'Powered by a 1GHz processor, the multitouch device comes with 4GB of built-in storage but...   Valve Reveals Gaming Headset, Teases Big Picture  From the this-one-goes-on-your-head department dotarray writes with a bit from Player Attack: "Gaming is big business, says Valve, as the developer takes the time to show off its brand new gaming headset and TV-based Big Picture. Rather than inviting the games media masses who have been...   100GbE To Slash the Cost of Producing Live Television  From the ever-smoother-tubes department New submitter danversj writes "I'm a Television Outside Broadcast Engineer who wants to use more IT and Computer Science-based approaches to make my job easier. Today, live-produced TV is still largely a circuit-switched system. But technologies...   QR Codes For Memorials  From the last-message department mikejuk writes "Companies in America, Denmark and the UK are adding QR codes to gravestones that can be used to view online memorials via smartphones. The idea is that these living headstones can include photographs, videos and memories of the...   Want to Change the Slashdot Logo? For 1 Day in October, You Can  From the small-canvas-for-big-ideas department The Slashdot logo has been around for a long time now; the truth is, we're rather fond of it, and have only rarely introduced substantial changes. But for the month of October, as a way of celebrating the site's 15 years of delivering News for...

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