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What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux?  Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works  What 'Earth-Shaking' Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars?  Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous  Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants  Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity?  'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch  Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over  One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics  Meg Whitman Says HP Was Defrauded By Autonomy; HP Stock Plunges  Is Oprah Cheating On Her Microsoft Love?  Tolkien Estate Sues Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines  Hands-On With Intel's "Next Unit of Computing" Mini PC  NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000  USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable'    Share Your Opinions with Geeknet Exercise influence on content enhancements, product development and identifying critical technology trends by joining the Geeknet Thought Leadership Panel. Also, join today to enter for a chance to win a cash prize of $1,000, $500 or $200. Learn More!    What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux?  From the war-games-of-course department skade88 writes "Everyone knows content is king. Many of us use Windows or OS X at home instead of Linux because the games we love just are not available on Linux. With Steam moving forward for a Linux launch, I would like to hear from the...   Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works  From the reagan-strikes-back department Hugh Pickens writes "Sarah Tory reports that the debut of Israel's Iron Dome missile defense shield has added a new element to the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza strip, one that military officials are calling a...   What 'Earth-Shaking' Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars?  From the taxpayers-will-die-while-NASA-teases department Randym writes "NASA scientists have some exciting new results from one of the rover's instruments. On the one hand, they'd like to tell everybody what they found, but on the other, they have to wait because they want to make sure their results are...   Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous  From the adobe-flash-up-to-date-on-all-government-sites department Mephistophocles writes "Ever since the beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense, hackers have been working overtime to strike a blow against the Israeli government's computer systems, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said Sunday. No fewer than 44...   Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants  From the as-if-they-wouldn't-otherwise department concealment writes "A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law. [Sen. Patrick] Leahy's rewritten bill would...   Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity?  From the at-least-one-romulan-for-every-human department An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting on how debate over diversity has managed to get a Ruby conference in the UK cancelled, as the speakers were 100% white male. The person running the conference, Chuck Hardy, said he 'was not...   'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch  From the assessment-will-not-be-by-humans department Taco Cowboy writes "A self-proclaimed 'Human Rights Group' — the 'International Human Rights Clinic' from Harvard Law School — has teamed up with 'Human Rights Watch' to urge the banning of 'Killer Robots.' A report issued by the Human...   Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over  From the genuine-angus department Hugh Pickens "The LA Times reports that after years of stubbornly arguing that iTunes was, in the words of singer Brian Johnson, 'going to kill music if they're not careful,' AC/DC has reached a deal with Apple to sell its entire catalog —...   One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics  From the stick-to-being-a-musician department jfruh writes "Most Slashdotters have been following the debate among the various players in the music industry about how much money artists (and their labels) get from traditional music outlets like radio and newer services like Pandora or...   Meg Whitman Says HP Was Defrauded By Autonomy; HP Stock Plunges  From the damn-english-ravines department McGruber writes "CNBC is reporting that Meg Whitman claims HP was defrauded in its purchase of Autonomy. 'We believed there is a willful effort on the part of certain members of Autonomy management to mislead shareholders when Autonomy was a...   Is Oprah Cheating On Her Microsoft Love?  From the can't-even-fake-it department theodp writes "In what would be akin to General Petraeus pledging fidelity to his wife from the Gmail account he shared with his lover, Oprah has professed her endless love for the Microsoft Surface from an iPad. Microsoft's Surface tablet is one...   Tolkien Estate Sues Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines  From the tricksy-hobbitses department An anonymous reader writes "The Tolkien Estate has filed an $80 million copyright infringement lawsuit in U.S. District Court over the use of Lord of the Rings slot machines. The complaint hinges on a contract between the estate and Warner Bros....   Hands-On With Intel's "Next Unit of Computing" Mini PC  From the get-one-for-the-cat department crookedvulture writes "Intel's Next Unit of Computing has finally made its way into the hands of reviewers. The final revision is a little different from the demo unit that made the rounds earlier this year, but the concept remains the same....   NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000  From the it's-about-that-time-again department An anonymous reader writes "It seems a glitch of some sort wreaked havoc on some NTP servers yesterday, causing many machines to revert to the year 2000. It seems the Y2K bug that never happened is finally catching up with us in 2012."   USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable'  From the patent-lawyers-everywhere-agree department elashish14 writes "David Kappos, head of the USPTO, today provided a strong defense of the patent system, particularly in the mobile industry. In his address, he implored critics, 'Give the [America Invents Act] a chance to work.' He then went on...

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