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Also, join today to enter for a chance to win a cash prize of $1,000, $500 or $200.  Learn More!    Ad Blocking: A Coming Legal Battleground?  From the you-must-watch-and-hear-this-ad department An anonymous reader writes "Computerworld asks: What will happen if big advertisers declare AdBlock Plus a clear and present danger to online business models? Hint: it will probably involve lawyers. From the article: 'Could browser ad blocking one...   Police Raid Home of 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay User, Seize "Winnie the Pooh" Laptop  From the that's-some-mighty-fine-police-work-there-lou department zacharye writes "Copyright enforcement might be getting out of hand in Scandinavia. As anti-piracy groups and copyright owners continue to work with authorities to curtail piracy in the region, police this week raided the home of a 9-year-old...   Australian Govt Pledges Action On Google Tax Evasion  From the pay-up department daria42 writes "Looks like Google's habit of funneling billions of dollars in revenue through its Irish and Bermuda subsidiaries continues to attract unfavorable government attention globally. France has already announced plans to take on the...   The World Falls Back In Love With Coal  From the midsummer-2045 department Hugh Pickens writes "Richard Anderson reports on BBC that despite stringent carbon emissions targets in Europe designed to slow global warming and massive investment in renewable energy in China, coal, the dirtiest and most polluting of all the...   Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge  From the well-that's-proportional department dgharmon writes with this excerpt from rt.com: "A pretrial hearing in the case against accused LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond this week ended with the 27-year-old Chicago man being told he could be sentenced to life in prison for compromising the...   Judge Issues Temporary Order Blocking Expulsion For Refusing To Wear RFID Tag  From the dang-terrorist-judges department An anonymous reader writes with an update about the student refusing to wear an RFID badge in Texas. From the article: "A district court judge for Bexar County has granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) to ensure that Andrea Hernandez, a San...   After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code  From the reopen-bletchley-park department An anonymous reader writes "A dead pigeon discovered a few weeks ago in a UK chimney may be able to provide new answers to the secrets of World War II. Unfortunately, British cryptographers at the country's Government Communications Headquarters...   Mozilla Dropping 64-Bit Windows Nightly Builds For Now  From the posted-from-64-bit-linux-firefox department hypnosec writes "Plans for 64-bit Firefox for Windows have been put on hold by Mozilla in a bid to concentrate more on the 32-bit version. Eliminating the 64-bit nightly builds was proposed by Benjamin Smedberg, a Firefox developer, last week....   LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far  From the freedom-hating-socialists department Mojo66 writes "After project savings had been estimated to amount to at least €4 million in March, more precise figures are now in: Over €10 million (approximately £8 million or $12.8 million) has been saved by the city of Munich,...   DuckDuckGo - Is Google Playing Fair?  From the one-engine-to-rule-them-all department Penurious Penguin writes "Privacy-oriented search-engine and Google-rival DuckDuckGo is contending possible anti-competitiveness on the part of Google. MIT graduate and founder of DuckDuckGo Gabriel Weinberg cites several examples; his company's...   Water Bottle Fills Itself From the Air  From the everything-is-wet department mbstone writes "The Namib Desert Beetle generates water from water vapor via its shell, which has alternating hydrophilic and hydrophobic bumps which channel water droplets into its mouth. Scientists at MIT developed a self-filling water bottle...   Ask Slashdot: Math and Science iOS Apps For Young Kids?  From the mildly-annoyed-birds department Oyjord writes "I have a very smart and curious 3-year-old daughter. Before anyone tries to derail my query, yes, we get a lot of play time outside with soccer and baseballs, and inside with blocks, Hot Wheels, PlayDoh, etc. However, on the rare...   EU Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet  From the hands-off department An anonymous reader writes "Today, the European Parliament passed a resolution that condemns the upcoming attempt from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to assert control over the Internet, and instructed its 27 Member States to act...   Samsung Claims iPad Mini, iPad 4, New iPod Touch Also Infringe Patents  From the put-them-up-against-the-wall department SternisheFan writes "Here we go again. Korean electronics giant Samsung has added three new Apple products to the list of products that the company claims infringes on its patents. In a filing to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District...   Pakistan To Cut Phone Services To Prevent Muharram Attacks  From the this-interruption-brought-to-you-by department SternisheFan writes with this news from the Indian Express: "Pakistan's interior minister Friday said the government will suspend cell phone services in most parts of the country over the next two days to prevent attacks against Shia Muslims...

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