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Get the details.      Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order?   |  Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People?     Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks  Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order?  California Legalizes Self Driving Cars  Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People?  Brazilian Judge Orders 24-hour Shutdown of Google and Youtube  Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism  Fast-Food Logos Burned Into Pleasure Center of Children's Brains  Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely  DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships  GNOME 3.6 Released  Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats On Oct. 1  Appeals Court Caves To TSA Over Nude Body Scanners  Windows 8 Has Scaling Issues On High-PPI Displays  NASA Mulling Earth-Moon L2 Point for Mars Staging Station  EU Court Asked To Rule On Private Copying     Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks  From the can't-we-all-just-get-along? department netbuzz writes "Last night Linux creator Linus Torvalds took to his Google+ page and called Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney 'a f***ing moron.' Torvalds' stated reason? Romney's much-ridiculed suggestion that air passengers would be...   Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order?  From the was-it-yggdrasil? department colinneagle writes "Linux dude Bryan Lunduke blogged here about the top three approaches he thinks are the easiest for new users to pick up Linux. Lunduke's, for example, went Ubuntu -> Arch -> openSUSE. It raises a question that Slashdot...   California Legalizes Self Driving Cars  From the third-place-leaders-of-the-free-world department Hugh Pickens writes writes "The Seattle PI reports that California has become the third state to explicitly legalize driverless vehicles, setting the stage for computers to take the wheel along the state's highways and roads ... 'Today we're...   Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People?  From the it-will-cost-negative-ten-meelion-dollars department New submitter billius writes "I was recently hired (along with another guy) as a web developer at a large university. Our job is to build tools to support the social science researchers on our team. When I got here the codebase was an unholy...   Brazilian Judge Orders 24-hour Shutdown of Google and Youtube  From the internet-replaces-the-airwaves department _Sharp'r_ writes "Judge Flavio Peren of Mato Grosso do Sul state in Brazil has ordered the arrest of the President of Google Brazil, as well as the 24-hour shutdown of Google and Youtube for not removing videos attacking a mayoral candidate....   Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism  From the rms-detained-on-hooliganism-charges department fermion writes with news of Windows computers being forcefully liberated: "The campaign headquarters of Michael Grimm, a U.S. House of Representatives member from New York, were vandalized. What has not been reported everywhere is that Linux was...   Fast-Food Logos Burned Into Pleasure Center of Children's Brains  From the run-for-the-border department bbianca127 writes "A study has found that fast-food logos are branded into the minds of children at an early age, perhaps fueling the U.S.'s obesity epidemic. The study showed children 60 logos from popular food brands and 60 logos from popular...   Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely  From the release-early-release-often department An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Geek.com: "Intel CEO Paul Otellini may be getting an angry phone call from Steve Ballmer today after it was revealed he told staff in Taiwan Windows 8 isn't ready for release. Otellini's comments...   DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships  From the one-world-government department An anonymous reader writes "Our politicians, and their henchmen, at their finest! In an apparent error, the Democratic National Convention's primary backdrop for its salute to veterans, by a 4-star admiral, featured a composite warship backdrop,...   GNOME 3.6 Released  From the get-it-while-it's-hot department kthreadd writes "Gnome 3.6 is out. The announcement reads: 'The GNOME Project is proud to present GNOME 3.6, the third update to the 3.x series. This latest version of GNOME 3 includes a number of new features and enhancements, as well as many bug...   Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats On Oct. 1  From the file-formats-rule-the-world department An anonymous reader writes "Google today announced a huge change for Google Apps, including its Business, Education, and Government editions. As of October 1, users will no longer have the ability to download documents, spreadsheets, and...   Appeals Court Caves To TSA Over Nude Body Scanners  From the privilege-of-free-movement-and-assembly department OverTheGeicoE writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) recently filed a petition to force the Department of Homeland Security to start its public comment period on body scanners within 60 days or stop using them entirely. The Court...   Windows 8 Has Scaling Issues On High-PPI Displays  From the to-be-fair-there's-not-much-room-there department crookedvulture writes "High-PPI displays are becoming increasingly popular on tablets and notebooks, but Windows 8 may not be ready for them. On a 13" notebook display with a 1080p resolution, the RTM version of Win8 scales up some desktop UI...   NASA Mulling Earth-Moon L2 Point for Mars Staging Station  From the my-religion's-in-space department jamstar7 writes "From the article: 'NASA is reportedly mulling the construction of a floating Moon base that would serve as a launching site for manned missions to Mars and other destinations more distant than any humans have traveled to so far....   EU Court Asked To Rule On Private Copying  From the off-with-their-heads department Techmeology writes "The Dutch Supreme Court has asked the European Court of Justice to decide whether downloading copyrighted material for personal use — even from illegal sources — is legal. At the heart of the debate is whether the...

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