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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!    Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order  From the had-me-until-mark-of-the-beast department BeatTheChip writes "Lawyers representing Andrea Hernandez, a science and engineering student at John Jay High School, are fighting an expulsion notice issued a week ago for refusing to wear a Smart ID badge. To represent her, lawyers filed a...   With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers  From the mind-the-potholes,-potheads department Hugh Pickens writes "A recent assessment by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, based on random roadside checks, found that 16.3% of all drivers nationwide at night were on various legal and illegal impairing drugs, half them high...   Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing  From the blame-canada department Dupple writes "Following on from a world bank report of 4 degree C warmer world comes this story from the BBC. 'The effects of climate change are already evident in Europe and the situation is set to get worse, the European Environment Agency has...   Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee  From the wouldn't-want-to-get-any-science-in-it department An article at Ars examines three members of the U.S. House of Representatives who are seeking chairmanship of its Committee on Space, Science, and Technology. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said in an interview, "My analysis is that in the global warming...   High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves  From the Cu-on-the-other-side department coondoggie writes "It may be a gimmick or the ultimate answer, but a California city this week okay-ed a draft ordinance that would let businesses install 7,000-volt electric fences to protect sites from rampant copper thieves. As reported by the...   Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License  From the side-effects-include department MrSeb writes "In an amusing twist that undoubtedly spells the end of some hapless manager's career, Microsoft has accidentally gifted pirates with a free, fully-functioning Windows 8 license key. As you have probably surmised, this isn't...   Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case  From the just-wants-to-go-like-his-own-posts department An anonymous reader writes "Back in September, a U.S. judge ruled that a school district violated the First Amendment (freedom of speech) and Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure) rights of a 12-year-old student by forcing her to hand...   Form1 3D Printer and Kickstarter Get Sued For Patent Infringment  From the thus-began-the-printing-wars department An anonymous reader writes "3D Systems, one of the big fish in 3D printer manufacturing, filed a suit against Formlabs's hugely popular Form1 printer put forth on Kickstarter. The crowdfunding effort has amassed close to 3M US Dollars, of an...   The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed  From the threatening-to-become-post-bootloader department hypnosec writes "The Linux Foundation's plans for releasing a signed pre-bootloader that will enable users to install Linux alongside Windows 8 systems with UEFI have been reportedly delayed. The Foundation proposed a signed pre-bootloader that...   Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD  From the bad-idea-has-bad-consequences department judgecorp writes "Amazon.com could lose the .amazon domain, as Brazil and Peru have disputed the retailer's application to ICANN, backed by other South American governments, who want to protect use of that domain for 'purposes of public interest...   Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston  From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong department poofmeisterp writes "Due to old cast iron underground pipelines, natural gas leaks run amok in Boston, MA. '"While our study was not intended to assess explosion risks, we came across six locations in Boston where gas concentrations exceeded the...   Popular Android ROM Accused of GPL Violation  From the small-details-like-compliance department An anonymous reader writes "A petition has recently been started to get the developer of the popular Android 'MIUI' ROM, Chinese based Xiaomi, to comply with the GPL. While Android itself is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License, and therefore...   Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes?  From the what-about-change-burns department AngryDad writes "Today I received a baffling email from my hosting provider that said, 'We have a company-wide patching freeze and we will not be releasing patches to our customers who utilize the patching portal for the months of November and...   Why Big Data Could Sink Europe's 'Right To Be Forgotten'  From the internets-never-forget department concealment tips this news from GigaOm: "Europe's proposed 'right to be forgotten' has been the subject of intense debate, with many people arguing it's simply not practical in the age of the internet for any data to be reliably expunged from...   Linux Mint 14 Is Out  From the new-and-shiny department New submitter medge_42 sends words that Linux Mint 14 has been released. Check out their list of features and release notes to see what's new. One version uses MATE 1.4, which includes some long-needed bug fixes as well as functional bluetooth...

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