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The Empire In Decline?   |  Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage     Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary?  The Empire In Decline?  Apple Orders Developers to Stop Using 'Memory' In App Titles Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage  Artificial Wombs In the Near Future?  Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code  Motorola Wants 2.25% of Microsoft's Surface Revenue  Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses  Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation  Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit  Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong'  Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan  Probable Rogue Planet Spotted   RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive  CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked     Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary?  From the patented-arithmetic department stox writes "As many of you know, AT&T has implemented caps on DSL usage. When this was implemented, I started getting emails letting me know my usage as likely to exceed the cap. After consulting their Internet Usage web page, I felt the...   The Empire In Decline?  From the blame-the-colonials department An anonymous reader writes "Pundits continue to weigh in on Steve Sinofsky's sudden exit from Microsoft (as executive head of Windows Division, he oversaw the development and release of Windows 7 and 8). SemiAccurate's Charlie Demerjian sees...   Apple Orders Developers to Stop Using 'Memory' In App Titles From the slashdot-trademarks-news department An anonymous reader writes with this bit of trademark absurdity from geek.com: "Ravensburger is a German gaming company that specializes in jigsaw puzzles, but has also expanded into other areas such as children's books and games. The company owns...   Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage  From the that-guy-from-Wings-probably-needs-work department Hugh Pickens writes "The WSJ reports that U.S. airlines are facing their most serious pilot shortage since the 1960s. Federal mandates are taking effect that will require all newly hired pilots to have at least 1,500 hours of prior flight...   Artificial Wombs In the Near Future?  From the invest-in-popcorn-when-this-hits-mainstream-politics department New submitter DaemonDan writes "The first successful pregnancy by IVF was accomplished over 50 years ago, essentially creating a multi-billion dollar industry. Many scientists are trying to take it one step farther with a 100% test tube baby...   Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code  From the let-the-drama-begin department sfcrazy writes "A very serious argument erupted on the Linux kernel mailing list when Andy Grover, a Red Hat SCSI target engineer, requested that Nicholas A. Bellinger, the Linux SCSI target maintainer, provide proof of non-infringement of the...   Motorola Wants 2.25% of Microsoft's Surface Revenue  From the just-scratching-the-surface department An anonymous reader writes "On the opening day of a patent trial between Microsoft and Google-owned Motorola Mobility, Motorola filed a brief (PDF) arguing that the WiFi tech central to the case is also critical to Microsoft's new Surface tablet....   Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses  From the to-protect-and-record department Psychotic_Wrath writes "The Salt Lake Police department will be much more transparent with their law enforcement. A program is being rolled out to require officers wear glasses equipped with a camera to record what they see. Of course, there are...   Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation  From the couldn't-keep-quiet department sfcrazy writes "Samsung is clearly accusing Hogan in its recent filing of influencing the jury in favor of Apple. Samsung said in its filing: 'Mr. Hogan's own statements to the media suffice if such a showing is required. Once inside the jury...   Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit  From the fish-can't-catch-a-break department mdsolar writes with an update on how the oceans around Fukishima are doing. From the article: " The Fukushima disaster caused by far the largest discharge of radioactivity into the ocean ever seen. A new model presented by scientists from Woods...   Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong'  From the because-right-is-boring department ananyo writes "Many people dislike the clashing dissonances of modernist composers such as Arnold Schoenberg. But what's our problem with dissonance? There has long been thought to be a physiological reason why at least some kinds of dissonance...   Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan  From the fleet-captain-pike-would-be-proud department c0lo writes "'Severely brain-injured Scott Routley hasn't spoken in 12 years. None of his physical assessments since then have shown any sign of awareness, or ability to communicate, thus being diagnosed as vegetative (vegetative patients emerge...   Probable Rogue Planet Spotted   From the omarion-nebula department Maow writes with news of a sighting of a rogue gas giant: "'This object was discovered during a scan that covered the equivalent of 1,000 times the [area] of the full moon,' said study co-author Etienne Artigau of the University of Montreal. 'We...   RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive  From the last-ditch-effort department zacharye writes "In version 7, RIM has added a voice calling feature that will allow BBM users to speak to each other for free when connected to Wi-Fi networks. While similar third-party solutions like Viber exist and extend the free calling...   CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked  From the greed-is-the-silent-enemy department An anonymous reader writes "The team behind CyanogenMod, one of the most popular community-driven, Android-based operating systems for phones and tablets, has announced that they're moving to Cyanogenmod.org after their .com domain was held ransom...

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