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Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System   |  Barack Obama Retains US Presidency     Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force  Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System  FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM  Barack Obama Retains US Presidency  Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars  Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP?  Gabon Suspends Me.ga Domain, Dotcom Says "We Have Alternative Domain"  'World of Warcraft' Candidate For Maine State Senate Wins Election  Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars  The Privacy Illusion  James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus  The Web Won't Be Safe Or Secure Until We Break It  The Data Crunchers Who Helped Win The Election  HIV Vaccine Safe Enough To Pass Phase 1 Human Trials  Apple Loses Patent Case For FaceTime Tech, Owes $368 Million       Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force  From the dance-majors-for-jill-stein-2016 department Hugh Pickens writes "Jordan Weissmann writes that a task force commissioned by Florida Governor Rick Scott is putting the finishing touches on a proposal that would allow the state's public universities to charge lower tuition for studying topics...   Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System  From the boy-that-costs-a-ton department An anonymous reader writes "In Britain, where it is custom and practice to charge around £10 for a copy of your medical results, a patient has discovered that his copy will cost him £2,000 because the records are stored on an obsolete...   FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM  From the rms-weeps-quietly department An anonymous reader writes "Brooks Davis has announced that the FreeBSD Project has now officially switched to Clang/LLVM as C/C++ compiler. This follows several years of preparation, feeding back improvements to the Clang and LLVM source code...   Barack Obama Retains US Presidency  From the but-will-he-go-for-the-three-peat department Incumbent Barack Obama has won his bid for reelection. Of the so-called 'battleground states,' Obama carried Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire, which, along with all of the solidly Democrat-leaning states, was...   Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars  From the fine-but-can-we-at-least-do-it-on-mars department pigrabbitbear writes "There's a reason why Elon Musk is being called the next Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, he's a visionary, a super successful serial entrepreneur, having made his initial fortune with a company he sold to Compaq before starting Paypal....   Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP?  From the hit-the-lotto-and-then-buy-somebody-out department hawkeyeMI writes "I live in a small, rural town nestled in some low hills. Our town has access to only one DSL provider, and it's pretty terrible. However, a regional fiber project is just being completed, and some of the fiber is in fact running...   Gabon Suspends Me.ga Domain, Dotcom Says "We Have Alternative Domain"  From the everyone-loves-racketeers-this-year department hypnosec writes "Kim Dotcom's plan to launch a 'bigger, better, faster, stronger, safer' Megaupload successor, Mega, is already in peril as Gabon's government has suspended the domain me.ga . Announcing his decision, Gabon's Communication Minister...   'World of Warcraft' Candidate For Maine State Senate Wins Election  From the vows-to-rule-ruthlessly department Teancum writes "Colleen Lachowicz, candidate for the State Senate District 25 of Maine, won the election yesterday against her opponent Thomas Martin. This race was notable in part because her World of Warcraft character that was mentioned...   Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars  From the getting-lazy department SternisheFan sends this quote from Wired: "An international team of astronomers used three telescopes — the UK Infrared Telescope and the Subaru Telescope, both in Hawaii, and Chile's Very Large Telescope — to study trends in star...   The Privacy Illusion  From the you-have-your-very-own-database-entry department LoLobey writes "Scott Adams has an entertaining entry on his Dilbert Blog about the perception of privacy. He writes, 'It has come to my attention that many of my readers in the United States believe they have the right to privacy because of...   James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus  From the license-to-kill() department Velcroman1 writes "No smartphones. No exploding pens. No ejector seats. No rocket-powered submarines. 'It's a brave new world,' gadget-maker Q tells James Bond in the new film Skyfall. The new film, released on the 50th anniversary of the storied...   The Web Won't Be Safe Or Secure Until We Break It  From the i'll-get-the-hammer department CowboyRobot writes "Jeremiah Grossman of Whitehat Security has an article at the ACM in which he outlines the current state of browser security, specifically drive-by downloads. 'These attacks are primarily written with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript,...   The Data Crunchers Who Helped Win The Election  From the at-least-we-didn't-ask-the-bynars department concealment sends in a story at Time that goes behind the scenes with the team of data crunchers that powered many of the Obama campaign's decisions in the lead-up to the election. From the article: "For all the praise Obama's team won in 2008 for...   HIV Vaccine Safe Enough To Pass Phase 1 Human Trials  From the good-work-folks department An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from Western University in Canada: "The first human applied clinical study (SAV CT 01) using a genetically modified killed whole-virus vaccine (SAV001-H) to evaluate its safety and tolerability was initiated...   Apple Loses Patent Case For FaceTime Tech, Owes $368 Million  From the we-invented-the-transmission-of-data department beeudoublez writes "Apple was ordered to pay $368 million today to a software company named VirnetX over patents related to Apple's FaceTime technology. Apple engineers testified they didn't pay attention to any patents when building FaceTime....

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