Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought; Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours

Google Blocks 'Innocence of Muslim' Video In Indonesia and India   |  How the Critics of the Apollo Program Were Proven Wrong     Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought  Google Blocks 'Innocence of Muslim' Video In Indonesia and India  Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours  How the Critics of the Apollo Program Were Proven Wrong  Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money?  Hardware Is Dead — At Least Most Expensive Hardware Is  The Perils of Developers Hooking Up  Ask Slashdot: Best Protection Plan For Your Phone?  China Unveils Yet Another Stealth Fighter  Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia  Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer  Yahoo Excludes BlackBerry From Employee Smartphone List  Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines  Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas  "Out of Africa" Theory Called Into Question By Originator     Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought  From the warp-seven-engage department runner_one writes "Harold 'Sonny' White of NASA's Johnson Space Center said Friday (Sept. 14) at the 100 Year Starship Symposium that warp drive might be easier to achieve than earlier thought. The first concept for a real-life warp drive was...   Google Blocks 'Innocence of Muslim' Video In Indonesia and India  From the not-in-my-country department hypnosec writes "Google has blocked the anti-Islamic video, which was posted on YouTube, in Indonesia as well as India. YouTube has already denied a complete removal of the clip 'Innocence of Muslims' that mocks Islam and Prophet Mohammed. The...   Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours  From the got-to-have-one department TheBoat writes "Apple announced on Monday that iPhone 5 preorders topped 2 million units in the smartphone's first 24 hours of pre-sale availability. That figure doubles Apple's first-day iPhone 4S sales last year, making the iPhone 5 Apple's...   How the Critics of the Apollo Program Were Proven Wrong  From the on-second-thought department MarkWhittington writes "A recent story in The Atlantic reminds us that the Apollo program, so fondly remembered in the 21st Century, was opposed by a great many people while it was ongoing, on the theory that the money spent going to the moon...   Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money?  From the best-value department Lucas123 writes "The price of 2.5-in solid state drives have dropped by 3X in three years, making many of the most popular models less than $1 per gigabyte or about 74 cents per gig. Hybrid drives, which include a small amount of NAND flash cache...   Hardware Is Dead — At Least Most Expensive Hardware Is  From the not-just-the-so-called-pc department First time accepted submitter ze_jua writes "In this article, Jay Goldberg, a financial analyst who travels to Shenzhen several times a year, analyses the potential consequences of the very low cost of hardware he found there on the consumer...   The Perils of Developers Hooking Up  From the like-with-like-among-their-own-kind department jammag writes "Who better for a developer to love than another developer? Yet as a veteran coder describes, it's not always a good idea for a programmer to fall for another programmer. He describes his experience observing — and getting...   Ask Slashdot: Best Protection Plan For Your Phone?  From the best-of-class department First time accepted submitter nastav writes "Now that I'm eagerly awaiting the delivery of my new shiny iPhone 5, I'm faced with a dilemma — SquareTrade, Applecare Plus, or some other insurance option? I have used SquareTrade in the past for...   China Unveils Yet Another Stealth Fighter  From the fly-the-secret-skies department An anonymous reader writes "Pictures of a new Chinese stealth fighter prototype started showing up recently on the web. The airplane prototype was photographed at a Shenyang aircraft facility and seems to be a twin-engined lightweight fighter in...   Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia  From the devaluing-bond-villain-exploits department An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the Christian Science Monitor: "'Russia has just declassified news that will shake world gem markets to their core: the discovery of a vast new diamond field containing 'trillions of carats,'...   Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer  From the great-I'll-take-a-dozen department An anonymous reader writes "Presenting at the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing conference, a researcher from the University of Tennessee presented evidence that the iPad 2 is as fast as the original Cray-2 supercomputer. Performance...   Yahoo Excludes BlackBerry From Employee Smartphone List  From the anything-but-that department Nerval's Lobster writes "Freshly minted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is promising the company's U.S. employees a new smartphone of their choice. There's just one catch: it can't be a BlackBerry. According to Business Insider, which posted significant...   Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines  From the initiate-self-destruct-sequence department mask.of.sanity writes "A security researcher has demonstrated a series of attacks that are capable of disabling touch tone and voice activated phone systems, forcing them to disclose sensitive information. The commands can be keyed in using...   Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas  From the where'd-I-put-that? department Hugh Pickens writes "Oil-field service companies lower radioactive units into wells to let workers identify places to break apart rock for a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which frees oil and natural gas. Now...   "Out of Africa" Theory Called Into Question By Originator  From the oh-great-now-you-tell-me department Amiga Trombone writes "Christopher Stringer is one of the world's foremost paleoanthropologists. He is a founder and most powerful advocate of the leading theory concerning our evolution: Recent African Origin or 'Out of Africa.' He now calls the...

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