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Also, join today to enter for a chance to win a cash prize of $1,000, $500 or $200. Learn More!  Learn More!    More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading  From the financial-chicken department bfwebster writes "From The Big Picture (a great finance/econ blog) comes a link to this New York Times article on some of the risks and problems of high-frequency trading on financial markets and a couple of 'gadflies' who are pushing hard to get...   Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd?  From the bet-you-can-think-of-a-few-reasons department jfruh writes "Apple's spent more than a decade on version 10 — or, rather, X — of its flagship operating system, with .x versions named after big cats (and many of them, it turns out, after the same big cats). Ubuntu Linux is...   School Regrets Swapping Laptops For iPads  From the look-before-you-leap department Barence writes "A school swapped all its staff laptops for iPads — and now wants to switch them back. 'Most staff are IT illiterate and jumped at the chance of exchanging their laptop for an iPad,' a teacher from the school told PC Pro. Now,...   FAA Permits American Airlines To Use iPads In Cockpit "In All Phases of Flight"  From the especially-the-angry-birds-phase department hypnosec writes "American Airlines has announced that it has received permission from FAA to allow its pilots to use iPads in the cockpit during 'all phases of flight.' According to the airlines, the tablet will enable pilots to store...   Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Found Calculators?  From the compare-them-for-accuracy department New submitter Covalent writes "I'm a science teacher and have, over the years, accumulated a number of lost graphing calculators (mostly TI-83s). After trying to locate the owners, I have given up and have been loaning them out to students as...   Nature Lover Vladimir Putin Flies With the Cranes  From the sarah-palin-vs-putin-rearing-his-ugly-wings department Hugh Pickens writes "Russian President Vladimir Putin is a nature lover. In 2007, the bare-chested president rode a horse through Siberia. In 2008, he fired a tranquilizer gun at a rare Siberian tiger. In 2010, he used a crossbow to shoot darts at...   Samsung Expected To Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 LTE Networking  From the knock-down-drag-out department An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Geek.com: "The courtroom battle between Apple and Samsung seems to be far from over, and come tomorrow Apple is in for a major headache as soon as it makes the iPhone 5 official. That's because...   Opus — the Codec To End All Codecs  From the sounds-like-work department New submitter jmv writes "It's official. The Opus audio codec is now standardized by the IETF as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state-of-the-art, fully Free and Open audio codec ratified by a major standards organization. Better, Opus covers...   8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case  From the more-expensive-than-itunes department NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has upheld the initial jury verdict in the case against Jammie Thomas, Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas-Rasset. This case was the first jury trial for a file-sharing suit...   Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users  From the information-theory department New submitter kgkoutzis writes "A few days ago I noticed some weird artifacts covering the screenshots I captured using the WoW game client application. I sharpened the images and found a repeating pattern secretly embedded inside. I posted this...   Cutting the Power Cable: How Advantageous Is Wireless Charging?  From the very-advantageous-for-the-lazy department Lucas123 writes "Furniture and auto makers are already ramping up production of wireless charging for mobile devices that will also allow I/O for music and data synchronization. Thanks to the widely accepted Qi standard, there shouldn't be a...   Amazon Blocks Arch Linux Handbook Author From Releasing Kindle Version  From the sharing-isn't-an-amazon-value department An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard the horror stories of Amazon swindling the user out of their content on the Kindle, but this time they've managed to do it preemptively: by blocking the GFDL licensed Arch Linux Handbook from the Kindle...   The Linux Desktop and ISVs/OEMs  From the mixing-freedom-and-business department olau writes "Michael Meeks, who's worked on GNOME and LibreOffice integration for many years, now for SuSE, has some really interesting thoughts on the recent Linux desktop debate and suggestions for possible strategies. He points out that...   Arma III Developers Arrested In Greece For 'Spying'  From the game-developers-make-the-best-secret-agents department An anonymous reader writes "Kotaku reports that two employees of Bohemia Interactive have been arrested while on a photo-tour of the Greek island of Limnos, on charges of spying. The developers were taking reference photos for the upcoming...   Go Daddy: Network Issues, Not Hacks Or DDoS, Caused Downtime  From the but-a-random-internet-person-said-otherwise department miller60 writes "GoDaddy says yesterday's downtime was caused by internal network problems that corrupted data in router tables. 'The service outage was not caused by external influences,' said Scott Wagner, Go Daddy's Interim CEO. 'It was not a...

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