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How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed   |  The Coming Internet Video Crash     Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations  How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed  Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain?  The Coming Internet Video Crash  Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters  Stanford Study Flawed: Organic Produce May Be More Nutritious After All  Stolen Maple Syrup Found and Returned To Strategic Reserve  Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production  Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte  802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel  Boeing Proposes Using Gas Clouds To Bring Down Orbital Debris  How To Steal a Space Shuttle  Samsung Creates New File System F2Fs For Linux & Android  Decentralized Social Networking — Why It Could Work  Hitachi Develops Boarding Gate With Built-In Explosives Detector     Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations  From the scotty-might-be-trapped department Hugh Pickens writes "An article by Ross Andersen makes note of Freeman Dyson's prediction in 1960 that every civilization in the Universe eventually runs out of energy on its home planet, a major hurdle in a civilization's evolution. Dyson argued...   How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed  From the still-grabbing-headlines-a-year-later department On the anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, reader SternisheFan sends in a story from CNN about how the Apple co-founder's legacy has changed since then. "... in the 12 months since, as high-profile books have probed Jobs' life and career, that...   Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain?  From the not-unless-you're-an-mma-fighter department Talcyon writes "I'm a 40-year-old developer, and it's become apparent that my .NET skillset is woefully out of date after five years of doing various bits of support. I tried the 'Management' thing last year, but that was a failure as I'm just not...   The Coming Internet Video Crash  From the wear-your-seat-belts-kids department snydeq writes "First, it was data caps on cellular, and now caps on wired broadband — welcome to the end of the rich Internet, writes Galen Gruman. 'People are still getting used to the notion that unlimited data plans are dead and gone for...   Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters  From the it's-not-easy-being-green department another random user writes with news of a study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which looked into the environmental impact of electric vehicles — not just how they do when driven, but how they are produced and by...   Stanford Study Flawed: Organic Produce May Be More Nutritious After All  From the eat-it department assertation writes "A few weeks ago an article was posted to Slashdot referring to a Stanford Study stating that organic produce, contrary to popular belief is not more nutritious. According to Mark Bitman of The New York times the Stanford study...   Stolen Maple Syrup Found and Returned To Strategic Reserve  From the pancakes-for-everyone department First time accepted submitter bmxeroh writes "Remember the tragic maple syrup heist? Police have seized more than 600 barrels of maple syrup they say are related to the missing syrup. It was transported back to Quebec via a 16 tractor trailer,...   Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production  From the take-this-job-and-shove-it department itwbennett writes "That army of robotic assembly line workers we mentioned yesterday apparently can't get started soon enough. As many as 3,000-4,000 workers are on strike at Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory, upset at stricter quality control...   Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte  From the more-bits-per-buck department crookedvulture writes "SSD prices continue plummeting. In just the past quarter, street prices have fallen by double-digit percentages for most models, with some slashed by 30% or more. We've reached the point where the majority of drives cost...   802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel  From the but-magnum-will-blow-them-all-away department alphadogg writes "While the Wi-Fi world is rightly abuzz over the rapidly approaching large-scale deployment of the new 802.11ac standard, experts at an Interop NY panel said this week that the 802.11ad standard is likely to be even more...   Boeing Proposes Using Gas Clouds To Bring Down Orbital Debris  From the anti-space-station-weaponry department cylonlover writes "Boeing has filed a patent application for a method of disposing of dead satellites and other debris orbiting the earth by hitting them with a puff of gas. The method, which is still at the conceptual stage, is designed to slow...   How To Steal a Space Shuttle  From the discovering-an-enterprising-endeavor department An anonymous reader tips a piece by Jason Torchinsky at Jalopnik, who attended the California Science Center's press conference about moving Space Shuttle Endeavour through Los Angeles to its final resting place. While he was there, he noticed...   Samsung Creates New File System F2Fs For Linux & Android  From the file-systems-are-for-files department sfcrazy writes "Samsung has created a new Linux file system called F2FS. Jaegeuk Kim of Samsung writes on the Linux Kernel Mailing List: F2FS is a new file system carefully designed for the NAND flash memory-based storage devices. We chose a log...   Decentralized Social Networking — Why It Could Work  From the keeping-your-face-off-the-books department Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes with "a response to some of the objections raised to my last article, about a design for a distributed social networking protocol, which would allow for decentralized (and censorship-resistant) hosting...   Hitachi Develops Boarding Gate With Built-In Explosives Detector  From the all-in-one department An anonymous reader writes "Hitachi, in collaboration with Nippon Signal and the University of Yamanashi, have successfully prototyped a boarding gate with built-in explosives detection equipment as part of efforts to increase safety in public...

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