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Learn More!  Learn More!    US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions  From the more-coke-more-pepsi-where's-bloomberg-now? department Tonight's debate between the two largest American political parties' candidates for vice president of the United States takes place at Danville, Kentucky's Centre College, starting at 9 p.m. Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will face each other on stage,...   Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body  From the redacted-redacted-redacted-redacted department Onymous Hero writes "Following the recent YouTube video 'The Innocence of Muslims' and the subsequent Muslim violence, Saudi Arabia has stated that there is a 'crying need for international collaboration to address "freedom of expression" which...   Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life?  From the compendium-of-cheese department gspec writes "A little background about me: 36-year-old computer engineer working in the Bay Area. While I bring in a comfortable salary, I consider myself an underachiever, and my career is stagnant (I have only been promoted four times in my...   Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations  From the have-you-tried-turning-it-off-and-then-on-again department fishdan writes "I'm a long time Slashdot member with excellent karma. I am also the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Congress in the Massachusetts 6th District. I am on the ballot. I polled 7% in the only poll that included me, which was taken...   Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers  From the smells-like-progress department If you are a seafood lover and wish that you could eat more fish raised on pig feces, your dreams are coming true. Due to fierce competition in the Chinese tilapia industry, farmers are increasingly switching to feces instead of commercial feed....   Ask Slashdot: Best Approach To Reenergize an Old Programmer?  From the get-back-in-the-game department StonyCreekBare writes "I started out programming in Z80 assembler in the 1970s. Then I programmed in Pascal. Then x86 Assembler in the early '90s. Over time I did a smattering of C, Basic, Visual C++, Visual Basic, and even played at Smalltalk....   DRM Could Come To 3D Printers  From the i-would-totally-download-a-car department another random user sends this excerpt from TorrentFreak: "Downloading a car – or a pair of sneakers – will be entirely possible, although Ford and Nike won't be particularly happy if people use their designs to do so. A new patent,...   Linux Foundation Offers Solution for UEFI Secure Boot  From the sidestep-and-ignore department Ever since news broke last year that Microsoft would require Windows 8 machines to have UEFI secure boot enabled, there were concerns that it would be used to block the installation of other operating systems, such as Linux distributions. Now,...   19,000 Emails Against and 0 In Favor of UK Draft Communications Bill  From the it-looks-close department Qedward writes "Open source writer Glyn Moody discusses the Draft Communications Bill (aka Snooper's Charter) in the UK and how the Joint Parliamentary Committee that had been considering the bill received almost 19,000 emails during its...   EFF To Ask Judge To Rule That Universal Abused the DMCA  From the lesson-in-responsibility department xSander writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal judge in San Jose, CA to rule that Universal abused the DMCA to take down a video of a toddler dancing to a Prince song. The case in question, whose oral argument will be...   Mozilla Details How Old Plugins Will Be Blocked In Firefox 17  From the another-warning-message-your-parents-can-ignore department An anonymous reader writes "Last week, Mozilla announced it will prompt Firefox users on Windows with old versions of Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight to update their plugins, but refused to detail how the system will work....   The Great Meteor Grab  From the you-may-not-own-rocks-in-space department RocketAcademy writes "New regulations by the Federal government define asteroidal material to be an antiquity, like arrowheads and pottery, rather than a mineral — and, therefore, not subject to U.S. mining law or eligible for mining claims....   WikiLeaks Losing Support From Anonymous  From the all-about-the-benjamins-and-the-julians department Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that members of computer hacker collective Anonymous have distanced themselves from WikiLeaks, claiming the whistleblowers' site has become too focused on the personal tribulations of its founder, Julian...   Samsung Galaxy Nexus Ban Overturned  From the another-day,-another-apple/samsung-ruling department Maow writes with word that the U.S. Federal Appeals Court has reversed a sales ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone. According to the decision (PDF), "Regardless of the extent to which Apple may be injured by the sales of the Galaxy Nexus, there...   Making Driverless Cars Safer  From the limiting-them-to-1-mph department colinneagle writes "Several autonomous cars have been developed elsewhere, most famously by Google, and they are generally capable of identifying objects in the road directly ahead of or behind them. The challenge undertaken by MIT researchers is...

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