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Also, join today to enter for a chance to win a cash prize of $1,000, $500 or $200. Register today! Learn More!  Learn More!    Will the Desktop PC Live Forever?  From the there-can-be-only-one department concealment points out a rebuttal from PCWorld of the increasingly common claims that we live in a post-PC world. "It's an intriguing proposition, but don't count on mobile devices killing off your desktop PC any time soon. While mobile gear is...   Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own  From the industry-argues-"ownership"-hurts-revenues department Jafafa Hots writes "The Supreme Court is set to decide, in the case of Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, whether or not First Sale Doctrine applies to products made with parts sourced from outside the United States. If the Supreme Court upholds...   PETA Condemns Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse  From the gotta-kill-em-all department SchrodingerZ writes "PETA, the same group that last November protested Mario for 'wearing fur,' has condemned the Pokémon media franchise and video game series. In light of the recent release of Pokemon Black and White Versions 2, the...   Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars  From the littering-on-another-planet department MrSeb writes "A few hundred million miles away on the surface of the Red Planet, Mars rover Curiosity has photographed an unidentified, shiny, metallic object. Now, before you get too excited, the most likely explanation is that bright object is...   Ask Slashdot: Video Monitors For Areas That Are Off the Grid?  From the hey-expletive-you-expletive-expletive department An anonymous reader writes "I have a cottage at the end of a long dirt road, no electricity nor internet, and recently some (insert expletive here) wads are using the area as a trash dump: countertops, sofas, metal scraps, tvs — all the...   The Case That Apple Should Buy Nokia  From the finland-finland-finland department Hugh Pickens writes "Nokia has seen better days. The Finnish phone maker continues to struggle to gain traction in a marketplace dominated by Apple and Android, and its new flagship device, the Windows-powered Lumia 920, failed to impress...   Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV  From the can-we-ban-them-from-being-on-tv-too department An anonymous reader sends this quote from The Guardian: "Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol, on the amount of time children spend watching screens – and under-threes should be kept away from the...   How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco   From the you-need-the-executive-membership department concealment writes with this extract from GigaOm: "'We buy lots and lots of hard drives . . . . [They] are the single biggest cost in the entire company.' Those are the words of Backblaze Founder and CEO Gleb Budman, whose company offers unlimited...   Post Mortem of GunnAllen IT Meltdown  From the but-it-was-business-class-cable department CowboyRobot writes "The story begins when GunnAllen, a financial company, outsourced all of its IT to The Revere Group. Before long, it was discovered that 'A senior network engineer had disabled the company's WatchGuard firewalls and routed all...   Microsoft Patents 1826 Choropleth Map Technique  From the right-click-add-to-dictionary department theodp writes "A newly-granted Microsoft patent for Variable Formatting of Cells covers the use of 'variable formatting for cells in computer spreadsheets, tables, and other documents', such as using the spectrum from a first color to a second...   Can Google Base Ads On E-mails Sent To Gmail Accounts?  From the can-and-do department concealment writes "A new lawsuit targets Google for reading e-mails to target ads, according to TechCrunch. But the issue isn't that Google is reading e-mails from registered users; rather, the company is using e-mails sent from other services to...   Firefox 16 Released: More HTML5 Support  From the onward-and-upward department Today Mozilla released the final version of Firefox 16, which includes a number of new tools for developers. "A number of HTML5 code has been 'unprefixed,' which means that Mozilla has decided it has matured enough to run in the browser without...   Pandora Shares Artist Payment Figures  From the money-for-nothin' department An anonymous reader writes "Today in a blog post, Pandora has shared some details of the fees they pay to musical artists for playing songs over their music streaming service. Over 2,000 different artists will pull in $10,000 or more in the next...   Halliburton's Missing Radioactive Cylinder Found  From the in-the-junk-drawer-after-all department First time accepted submitter Tator Tot writes "A small radioactive cylinder that went missing from a Halliburton Co. truck last month was found on a Texas road late Thursday, the company said, ending a weeks-long hunt that involved local, state...   Russian Officials Consider Ban On Wi-Fi Use For Kids  From the you-can-still-be-young-at-heart department dsinc writes that Russia's "Communications and Press Ministry has proposed banning children from using Wi-Fi networks in public, potentially making cafes, restaurants and other locations providing the service responsible for enforcing the law. An...

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