How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant?; The Challenges for Techies Over 40

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You don't even need to log on to give us the goods.     How Free Speech Died On Campus   |  Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards     Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant?  How Free Speech Died On Campus  It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director  Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards  Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console  Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design  Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction  GOP Study Committee Director Disowns Brief Attacking Current IP Law  Just In Time for the Holidays, Nintendo Wii U Gets Its US Release  Hacker vs. Counter-Hacker — a Legal Debate  NASA Discovers Most Distant Galaxy In Known Universe  Dual-Booting PengPod Tablet Can Run Linux/Android  New Malware Variant Uses Google Docs As a Proxy To Phone Home  Reading and Calculating With Your Unconscious  Linux On the TI-Nspire Graphing Calculator     Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant?  From the information-kiosks-and-great-snacks department smi.james.th writes "Here on Slashdot, the concept that older models of business need to be updated to keep with the times is often mentioned. A friend of mine owns a DVD rental store, and he often listens to potential customers walk out, saying...   How Free Speech Died On Campus  From the marching-band-refused-to-yield department theodp writes "The WSJ catches up with FIRE's Greg Lukianoff and his crusade to expose how universities have become the most authoritarian institutions in America. In Unlearning Liberty, Lukianoff notes that baby-boom Americans who remember the...   It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director  From the cannon-fodder department New submitter NewYork writes with this chestnut from an article about the role of age in the high-tech workplace: 'The shelf life of a software engineer today is no more than that of a cricketer — about 15 years,' says V R Ferose, MD of...   Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards  From the this-pot-is-extra-black department Billly Gates writes "In a bizarre, yet funny and ironic move, Microsoft warned web developers that using WebKit stagnates open standards and innovation on the Web. According to the call to action in its Windows Phone Developer Blog, Microsoft is...   Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console  From the speculative-fiction department Penurious Penguin writes that "a hopeful article at The Verge persuasively suggests that through Valve, Linux could soon become a formidable contender in the gaming arena, capable of holding its own against such giants as Xbox 360, PlayStation 3,...   Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design  From the to-thine-own-hand-be-true department Vigile writes "Nintendo has never been known to be very aggressive with its gaming console hardware and with today's release (in the U.S.) of the Wii U we are seeing a continuation of that business model. PC Perspective spent several hours last...   Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction  From the even-uncle-sam-wants-you department An anonymous reader writes "When Pete London posted a resume on LinkedIn in December 2009, the JavaScript specialist stumbled into a trap of sorts. Shortly after creating a profile he received a message from a recruiter at Google. Just days later,...   GOP Study Committee Director Disowns Brief Attacking Current IP Law  From the extra-special-interests department cervesaebraciator writes "Saturday an article was featured on Slashdot which expressed some hope, if just a fool's hope, that a recent Republican Study Committee Brief could be a sign of broader national discussion about the value of current...   Just In Time for the Holidays, Nintendo Wii U Gets Its US Release  From the newfangled-and-shiny department YokimaSun writes "Nintendo has today fired the first salvo in the next-gen console wars with the U.S. release of their Wii U console, which is massively more powerful than the Nintendo Wii and also the PS3/Xbox 360 (so they claim). Yet again...   Hacker vs. Counter-Hacker — a Legal Debate  From the shhh-this-is-the-conspiracy-room department Freddybear writes "If your computer has been cracked and subverted for use by a botnet or other remote-access attack, is it legal for you to hack back into the system from which the attack originated? Over the last couple of years three legal...   NASA Discovers Most Distant Galaxy In Known Universe  From the home-of-many-rebel-bases department An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from cbc.ca: "'NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes (not to be outdone by the Kepler Space Telescope) have discovered the most distant galaxy identified so far in the universe... the galaxy is...   Dual-Booting PengPod Tablet Can Run Linux/Android  From the first-in-relation-to-what department New submitter garbagechuteflyboy writes "The PengPod is the first dual-booting tablet; It's able to run both Linux and Android. Pengpod is now running the latest Plasma Active which gives this powerful Linux tablet features that were previously...   New Malware Variant Uses Google Docs As a Proxy To Phone Home  From the why-not-use-linkedin-like-all-the-other-spammers department An anonymous reader writes "Windows 8 may block most malware out of the box, but there is still malware out there that thwarts Microsoft's latest and greatest. A new Trojan variant, detected as Backdoor.Makadocs and spread via RTF and Microsoft...   Reading and Calculating With Your Unconscious  From the coca-cola-available-in-the-lobby department lee1 writes "Using special techniques that present information to one eye while hiding the information from the conscious mind (by masking it with more distracting imagery presented to the other eye), researchers have shown two new and very...   Linux On the TI-Nspire Graphing Calculator  From the awesomeness-alert department An anonymous reader writes "Developers been working hard for the past few months to get Linux ported to the TI-Nspire calculator. The port is not yet fully stabilized nor quite ready for broad consumption and requires some user-level knowledge of...

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