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Get the details.     Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers?   |  Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests     The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll  Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers?  BitCoin Gets a Futures Market  Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests  Another Call For Abolishing Patents, This One From the St. Louis Fed  WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual  Indian Minister Says Telecom Companies Should Only Charge For Data  LightSquared Wants To Share Weather-Balloon Frequencies for LTE  CyanogenMod Drops ROM Manager In Favor of OTA Updates  Lingering Questions On the Extent of the Adobe Hack  PlaceRaider Builds a Model of Your World With Smartphone Photos  EU Privacy Watchdog To ICANN: Law Enforcement WHOIS Demands "Unlawful"  Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm  Does Crowdfunding Work?  African Robotics Network Challenge Spurs Rash of $10 Robots     The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll  From the your-uppance-will-come department McGruber writes "Dublin-based writer Leo Traynor has written a piece about confronting the troll who drove him off Twitter, hacked his Facebook, and abused and terrified his family. Quoting: 'I blocked the account and reported it as spam. The...   Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers?  From the try-this-delicious-addictive-coffee department New submitter Guru Jim writes "Our company is currently looking at our incentives program and are wondering what is out there that helps motivate IT workers. We have engineers/sys admins as well as developers. With both teams, we have guns who...   BitCoin Gets a Futures Market  From the prices-are-information-units department fireballrus writes "There is one more way to use your BitCoins rather than buying weed or socks. Recently, a Bitcoin Exchange called ICBIT quietly introduced a futures market, obviously using Bitcoins as its main currency. Gold futures trade...   Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests  From the at-least-the're-telling-you department alphadogg writes "The website for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) now tells visitors it will not honor their browsers' do-not-track requests as a form of protest against the technology pushed by privacy groups and parts...   Another Call For Abolishing Patents, This One From the St. Louis Fed  From the system-and-method-for-creating-systems-and-methods department New submitter WOOFYGOOFY writes "The most recent call for curtailing patents comes not just from an unexpected source, the St. Louis Fed, but also in its most basic form: total abolition of all patents. Via the Atlantic Monthly: a new working...   WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual  From the so-to-speak department theodp writes "Blogger Floopsy complains that he would love to RTFM, but can't do so if no one will WTFM. 'You spend hours, days, months, perhaps years refining your masterpiece,' Floopsy laments to creators of otherwise excellent programming...   Indian Minister Says Telecom Companies Should Only Charge For Data  From the remember-that-voice-is-data department bhagwad writes "In the US, telecom carriers are trying their best to hold on to depleting voice revenues. Over in India, the telecom minister urged carriers to stop charging for voice calls and derive all their revenues only from data plans. Is...   LightSquared Wants To Share Weather-Balloon Frequencies for LTE  From the everything's-up-in-the-air department IDG News Service reports (as carried by PC World) that LightSquared, having lost some of the spectrum they'd hoped to use for a nationwide LTE network because of worries it would interfere with GPS service, has a new plan: to use some of the...   CyanogenMod Drops ROM Manager In Favor of OTA Updates  From the sure-beats-at&t-for-my-phone-then department sfcrazy writes "There's some great news for CyanogenMod fans. The CM team has decided to drop ROM manager, which was the de facto standard of getting CyanogenMod updates." Instead, the CM team is building its own updating method, explained (with...   Lingering Questions On the Extent of the Adobe Hack  From the known-unknowns-and-unknown-unknowns department chicksdaddy writes "In the wake of Adobe's warning on Thursday about a high profile compromise on its network, security experts say the incident raises troubling questions about the extent of the breach at a company that makes software running on...   PlaceRaider Builds a Model of Your World With Smartphone Photos  From the persistent-virtual-worlds department Hugh Pickens writes "Neal Ungerleider writes about PlaceRaider, a trojan that can run in the background of any phone running Android 2.3 or above, and is hidden in a photography app that gives PlaceRaider the necessary permissions to access the...   EU Privacy Watchdog To ICANN: Law Enforcement WHOIS Demands "Unlawful"  From the whois-you-to-make-these-demands? department First time accepted submitter benyacrick writes "WHOIS was invented as an address book for sysadmins. These days, it's more likely to be used by Law Enforcement to identify a perpetrator or victim of an online crime. With ICANN's own study showing...   Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm  From the i-heard-that department An anonymous reader writes "In 2008, Sherrie Walters, now 42 years old, discovered that she had rapidly spreading basal cell cancer in her ear. The disease is a type of skin cancer. The doctors pursued an aggressive treatment to combat the...   Does Crowdfunding Work?  From the everybody-donate-8-cents-to-find-out department Barence writes "Is it really practical to fund a business from hundreds of small donations harvested over the internet? With Kickstarter grabbing the headlines with some high-profile projects, it's all too easy to assume crowdfunding is great, the...   African Robotics Network Challenge Spurs Rash of $10 Robots  From the isn't-rash-a-good-plural-for-robot? department An anonymous reader writes with this story from Wired: "When the African Robotics Network announced their $10 robot design challenge this summer, co-founder Ken Goldberg was careful not to share too many expectations, lest he influence...

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