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Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women; Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel

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   Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women  From the our-friends-in-the-middle-east department
dsinc writes "Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements. Since last week, Saudi women's male...
  Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey?  From the robot-chef department
First time accepted submitter almostadnsguy writes "There seem to be a lot of ways to cook a turkey the geekiest ones are probably out of the realm of possibility for normal geeks. However, Within the limits of normal society (or outside if you...
  Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel  From the not-for-everyone department
An anonymous reader writes "Many this week have declared Israel's American financed Iron Dome rocket defense system a success. Some have even gone so far to declare it a vindication of Ronald Reagan's 1980's Star Wars missile defense system....
  Could Testing Block Psychopaths From Senior Management?  From the self-aggrandizing-liars-with-golden-parachutes department
Freshly Exhumed writes "Dr. Clive Boddy believes that increasingly fluid corporate career paths have helped psychopaths conceal their disruptive workplace behavior and ascend to previously unattainable levels of authority. Boddy points out...
  Ask Slashdot: Best Console For the Kids This Holiday?  From the vt100-all-the-way department
First time accepted submitter undulato writes "I've got an aging, fat PS3 with only a couple of games that I still play on it but three kids under 9 who love Skylanders, iPet, Lego whatever etc. We all watch movies on it and it has been pretty...
  UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo  From the listen-to-the-computer department
dryriver writes "The BBC reports: 'The UK branch of an American company — SAS Software — has developed a hi-tech software program it believes can help detect and prevent potentially dangerous passengers and cargo entering the UK using...
  Research Suggests Apes and Humans Separated By a Single Gene  From the nothing-between-me-and-calvins department
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers believe that they have found the definitive difference between humans and other primates, and they think that the difference all comes down to a single gene."
  GNOME 3 To Support a "Classic" Mode, of Sorts  From the classic-coke department
An anonymous reader writes "LWN.net is reporting that GNOME developer Matthias Clasen has announced that, with the upcoming demise of 'fallback mode,' the project will support a set of official GNOME Shell extensions to provide a more "classic"...
  Sandy Island, the Undiscovered Country  From the proof-of-global-warming department
Big Hairy Ian writes "A South Pacific island, shown on marine charts and world maps as well as on Google Earth and Google Maps, does not exist, Australian scientists say. The supposedly sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island on Google maps,...
  This Is What Happens When You Deep Fry a Frozen Turkey  From the arson-excuse-maker department
Too late for many east-coast Americans, but perhaps in time to stop a blaze or two in California, an anonymous reader writes with this video of "a controlled demonstration of why it is a bad idea to fry a frozen turkey." My brother this morning...
  World Governments Object To New gTLDs  From the world-governments-acting-as-usual department
hypnosec writes "ICANN is receiving more and more requests for new generic top level domains, and governments around the world are busy registering their complaints and objections with the proposed names. To date, more than 200 objections have...
  Fox News Parent NewsCorp May Face Corruption Investigation  From the semi-absolute-power department
rtfa-troll writes "The Guardian reports that News Corporation may face FCPA investigations after an 'official of the British ministry of defence' was charged 'for allegedly receiving £100,000 from Murdoch's tabloid newspapers.' News...
  Supercomputers' Growing Resilience Problems  From the a-thousand-potential-cuts department
angry tapir writes "As supercomputers grow more powerful, they'll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. Today's high-performance computing (HPC) systems can have 100,000 nodes or more —...
  Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D  From the amniotic-and-insomniac department
Rambo Tribble writes "Reuters reports 4D scans have conclusively shown that fetuses do yawn. Understandable, eh? After all, all they get is cable."
  Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It"  From the secret-security department
chicksdaddy writes "Google's been known to pay $60,000 for information on remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in its Chrome web browser. So, when a researcher says that he has one, but isn't interested in selling it, eyebrows get raised. And...
     
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