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It's your one-stop shop for a recap of the week's top News for Nerds. Learn More! Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions  From the ask-away department Linus Torvalds was (and still is) the primary force behind the development of the Linux kernel, and since you are reading Slashdot, you already knew that. Mr. Torvalds has agreed to answer any questions you may have about the direction of...   UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook  From the you've-got-to-be-not-joking department An anonymous reader writes "A tasteless joke posted on Facebook saw a man arrested in the UK under section 127 of the Communications Act, for sending a public electronic communication which is 'grossly offensive'. Matthew Wood, 20, of Eaves Lane,...   How We'll Get To 54.5 MPG By 2025  From the check-the-tires department concealment writes "At the end of August this year, the US Department of Transport's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new standards to significantly improve the fuel...   Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu  From the give-me-something department jfruh writes "The Start Button, which has offered Windows users quick access to important programs, folders, and configuration options since 1995 and has looked more or less the same for all that time, has been re-engineered beyond recognition for...   Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama  From the eh-is-the-new-awesome department redletterdave writes with an excerpt from IB Times that should be met with a bit of skepticism: "A new study released by international law firm DLA Piper Monday morning shows that among technology companies and their executives, Republican nominee...   Supreme Court To Decide If Monsanto GMO Patents Are Valid  From the he-said-kill-it-before-it-grows department tomhath writes with this exerpt from a Reuters story: "The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an Indiana farmer's appeal that challenges the scope of Monsanto Co.'s patent rights on its Roundup Ready seeds. Mr. Bowman bought and planted...   US Air Force's 1950s Supersonic Flying Saucer Declassified  From the I-want-to-believe department MrSeb writes "Tighten the strap on your tinfoil hat: Recently declassified documents show that the US Air Force was working on, and perhaps had already built, a supersonic flying saucer in 1956. The aircraft, which had the code name Project 1794,...   SpaceX Launch Not So Perfect After All  From the we-have-a-problem department First time accepted submitter drichan writes "Those of us who watched the live feed of last night's Falcon 9 launch could be forgiven for assuming that everything went according to plan. All the reports that came through over the audio were heavy...   The Case For the Blue Collar Coder  From the cue-the-call-for-unionization department theodp writes "U.S. tech talent shortage discussions tend to focus on getting more young people to go to college to become CS grads. Nothing wrong with that, writes Anil Dash, but let's not forget about education which teaches mid-level...   Student Publishes Extensive Statistics On the Population of Middle-Earth  From the how-many-hobbits? department First time accepted submitter dsjodin writes "There are only 19% females in Tolkien's works and the life expectancy of a Hobbit is 96.24 years. In January 2012 chemical engineering student Emil Johansson published a website with the hope for it to...   Automated DMCA Takedown Notices Request Censorship of Legitimate Sites  From the totally-unpredictable-outcome department Techmeology writes "Microsoft has sent automated DMCA notices to Google demanding the removal of several legitimate URLs from its search results that Microsoft claims were facilitating the distribution of illegal copies of Windows 8, including...   National Ignition Facility Fails To Ignite Support In Congress  From the no-burning-desire department Hugh Pickens writes "For more than 50 years, physicists have been eager to achieve controlled fusion, an elusive goal that could potentially offer a boundless and inexpensive source of energy. Now Bill Sweet writes in IEEE Spectrum that the...   US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat'  From the q-in-tel-is-totally-a-different-story department dgharmon writes with the lead from a story in the Brisbane Time: "Chinese telecom company Huawei poses a security threat to the United States and should be barred from US contracts and acquisitions, a yearlong congressional investigation has...   Unredacted Documents In Apple/Samsung Case, No Evidence of 'Copy' Instruction  From the you-can-see-clearly-now department another random user writes "Previously redacted documents presented in the Apple-Samsung case seem not to offer actual evidence that Samsung told its designers to copy the iPhone. Documents that have now been unredacted seem to show that there was...   Apple Now Shipping Lightning To 30-Pin Adapters  From the here-they-come department hcs_$reboot writes "Apple has started shipping the iPhone 5 Lightning connector to 30-pin adapters. Some iPhone 5 owners complained about its new connector being incompatible with the previously well known 30 pin connectors (iPhone 4S and before,...

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