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It's your one-stop shop for a recap of the week's top News for Nerds. Learn More!   Ask Slashdot: What Were You Taught About Computers In High School?  From the dug-song-playing-dirty-tetris-at-high-volume department An anonymous reader writes "What /was/ taught to you about computers in High School? Computer use and computer science in schools are regular headlines, but what 'normal' do we compare it to? It's not a shared reference. A special class with...   Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected  From the just-some-reamde-plotlines-nothing-to-worry-about department hypnosec writes "Entire cities in the World of Warcraft have been destroyed with no one spared, not even the NPCs. About 13:00 GMT, forums on WOW started getting the first comments from users regarding players and NPCs dying on the Ragnaros-EU...   They Work Long Hours, But What About Results?  From the management-types-prefer-inaccurate-precision department theodp writes "HBS lecturer Robert C. Pozen says it's high time for management to stop emphasizing hours over results. By viewing those employees who come in over the weekend or stay late in the evening as more 'committed' and 'dedicated' to their...   Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight  From the they-should-hire-an-annoying-mascot department An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today announced it will soon start prompting Firefox users to upgrade select old plugins. This will only affect Windows users, and three plugins: Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight. Mozilla...   Assange Seeks To Sue Prime Minister Gillard For Defamation  From the gillard-should-have-done-it-anonymously department First time accepted submitter menno_h writes "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he has hired lawyers to investigate how to sue Prime Minister Julia Gillard for defamation." Assange "says comments made by Ms Gillard in 2010 that WikiLeaks...   Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World  From the under-the-lidar department LucidBeast writes "Mapping the world isn't easy as our friends in Cupertino have found out. Google's maps seem ubiquitous, but there is a less known real heavyweight still mapping the world. Nokia acquired Navteq in 2007, and five years later they...   DNA Analysis Probes the End of Human-Neanderthal Sex   From the if-you-buy-their-claim-that-it's-ended department An anonymous reader writes "Modern Europeans may have interbred with Neanderthals as recently as 37,000 years ago, after modern humans with advanced stone tools expanded out of Africa, according to a new study. In an attempt to understand why the...   NASA Prepares For Space Surgery and Zero Gravity Blood  From the in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-choke-on-vomit department Hugh Pickens writes "Draining an infected abscess is a straightforward procedure on Earth but on a spaceship travelling to the moon or Mars, it could kill everyone on board. Now Rebecca Rosen writes that if humans are to one day go to Mars, one...   Take a Free Networking Class From Stanford  From the beats-tuition department New submitter philip.levis writes "Nick McKeown and I are offering a free, online class on computer networking. We're professors of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford and are also co-teaching Stanford's networking course...   SpaceX Dragon Set To Launch  From the go-cat-go department SpaceX's first regular launch to the International Space Station is set to go off at 8:35 (Eastern time) Sunday evening; the first SpaceX launch to successfully reach the ISS was more of a test, though it did bring some goodies to the crew. Wired...   Parallella: an Open Multi-Core CPU Architecture  From the what's-your-use-case department First time accepted submitter thrae writes "Adapteva has just released the architecture and software reference manuals for their many-core Epiphany processors. Adapteva's goal is to bring massively parallel programming to the masses with a...   Sweden Returns Passport To Pirate Bay Co-Founder  From the packing-for-south-america department An anonymous reader writes "In August, Piratebay co-founder Fredrik Neij had his Swedish passport revoked by the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok. After an appeal the revocation was dismissed [Saturday], with a ruling that the embassy cannot take away...   Felix Baumgartner Prepares for Supersonic Skydive Attempt in New Mexico  From the but-what-do-you-do-for-excitement? department Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner has tempted fate with quite a few spectacular skydiving feats; now, he is preparing to be the first man to intentionally exceed the speed of sound by jumping from a balloon instead of staying inside a plane or...   Oatmeal Fundraiser a Success; Non-Profit Buys Land For Tesla Museum   From the visit-scenic-long-island department Ars Technica reports that The Oatmeal's successful fund-raiser has borne fruit; on Friday the non-profit to which Oatmeal founder Matthew Inman's Indiegogo campaign's money was directed completed part of its goal to purchase and turn into a museum...   Space Junk May Require ISS Maneuver In Advance of SpaceX's Dragon  From the always-something department SpaceX's Dragon capsule, loaded with food and scientific gear, is scheduled to launch toward the ISS tomorrow evening (with backup launch slots on each of the following two days). There's a last-minute wrinkle, though: Space.com managing editor...

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