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Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons  From the stop-thinking-of-the-children department Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that Tom Welton, a professor of sustainable chemistry at Imperial College, London, believes that a global shortage of helium means it should be used more carefully, — and since helium cools the large magnets...   iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours  From the must've-hated-the-last-version department An anonymous reader writes "iOS 6 has seen rapid adoption among iPhone and iPad users, reports developer David Smith. Smith's applications like Audiobooks get around 100k downloads weekly and he's taken to mapping the adoption of Apple's software...   Ask Slashdot: How To Fight Copyright Violations With DMCA?  From the which-narrative-do-you-prefer? department szyzyg writes "I've created some popular science videos showing how asteroid discoveries have happened over the last few decades. However I've run into a problem with a religious organization which borrowed my video and redubbed it to promote...   Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs  From the cash-grass-or-apps department TechCrunch reports that Apple, facing a substantial backlash (and some snarky competitive advertising) over goofs in the mapping software included in iOS 6, is going after the problem with a hiring spree. Here's TechCrunch's lead: "Apple is going...   Advertisers Never Intended To Honor DNT  From the creative-interpretation department First time accepted submitter oldlurker writes "After much discussion where many hoped a voluntary Do Not Track standard was agreed with advertisers, it turns out the advertisers already had a very different interpretation than most of us on how...   Google Could Face Heavy Antitrust Fines In the EU  From the we-understand-you've-got-a-lot-of-money department SquarePixel writes "Europe's competition watchdog is considering formal proceedings against Google over antitrust complaints about the way it promotes its own services in search results, potentially exposing the company to a fine of 10 percent of...   Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission  From the always-a-good-time-to-borrow-clever-designs department An anonymous reader writes "Apple received a lot of criticism during the Apple/Samsung litigation this past Summer as folks deemed it absurd that Apple was able to patent things such as icon design and the overall form factor of a smartphone. Well...   Iran Set To Block Access To Google  From the haraamph-haraamph department legolas writes "The official state online censorship body in Iran has reported that Google and Gmail are going to be blocked effective immediately, ostensibly in response to the contentious videos that YouTube is hosting. This comes as Iran is...   Chattanooga's Municipal Network Doubles Down On Fiber Speeds  From the choo-choo-is-not-the-right-sound-for-this department tetrahedrassface writes "The first city in the U.S. to offer a screaming fast fiber network has now announced customers will get a free 60% boost in speed. If you had the 30 MB/sec service you now will get 50. Mid-range customers get a doubling...   How Internet Data Centers Waste Power  From the let's-see-some-invisible-handling department Rick Zeman writes "The New York Times has extensively surveyed and analyzed data center power usage and patterns. At their behest, the consulting firm McKinsey & Company analyzed energy use by data centers and found that, on average they were...   Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software  From the what's-the-noodling-to-useful-ratio? department WebMink writes "With an impending deadline for America's schools to satisfy new federal reporting requirements on academic achievement, a new alliance of state educators is creating a system of open source software to help schools gather and...   The Swiss Pirate Party Has Its First Mayor  From the mayor-mc-swiss-cheese department bs0d3 writes "Alex Arnold from the Pirate Party Switzerland has been elected mayor of Eichberg. This is the first mayoral win for the pirates in Switzerland, and hopefully just the begining of things to come. Thomas Bruderer, president of the...   When Kickstarter Projects Go Missing  From the 404-error-is-not-a-beach-boys-song department On Friday, we posted about Kickstarter's new rules of engagement, including some new rules under which some of the most popular Kickstarter projects to date might never have surfaced. But what about ones that make it to the site, then disappear?...   W3C Group Proposed To Safeguard User Agent State Privacy  From the dry-title-but-juicy-facts department First time accepted submitter FredAndrews writes "A Private User Agent W3C Community Group has been proposed to tackle the privacy of the web browser by developing technical solutions to close the leaks. Current Javascript APIs are capable of...   XBian's Koenkk Replies To the XBian/RaspBMC Flap  From the jedi-craves-not-these-things department New submitter juenger1701 writes "Xbian's developer Koenkk has posted a reply to the code stealing accusations mentioned here Friday." In response, Sam Nazarko of Raspbmc has replaced his earlier complaint, "on the agreement that XBian participate...

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