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Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a $248 Win8 PC.   |  Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company     Fortran expert Steve Lionel gives free webinar on parallelism. Explore DO CONCURRENT and coarrays with Doctor Fortran. Tuesday, December 4, 9 a.m. PDT. Attend and get a free book on parallelism  Learn More! Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware  Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a $248 Win8 PC.  How Do We Program Moral Machines?  Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company  GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won  Prediction Market Site InTrade Bans US Customers  Large Hadron Collider May Have Produced New Matter  Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations  Google Found Guilty of Libel For Search Results In Australia  Firefox 18 Beta Out With IonMonkey JavaScript Engine  What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty  The Wii Mini Is Real, Arrives December 7 — In Canada  What Will NASA Do With Its Gifted Spy 'Scopes?  Slashdot Mobile: Now For Tablets As Well As Phones  Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas    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!    Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware  From the the-more-things-stay-the-same department jfruh writes "Windows 8's Metro UI presents a clean and spiffy new interface for Microsoft's latest OS. But one of the operating system's oldest and most hated problems — crapware — still lurks below the surface. For instance, the...   Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a $248 Win8 PC.  From the boosting-sales-numbers department theodp writes "A little birdie told me which Windows 8 machines would sell out fast. 'Cheep' ones! While no official sales figures have emerged, anecdotal evidence suggests that cheap Windows 8 laptops were a big hit with Black Friday shoppers,...   How Do We Program Moral Machines?  From the needs-of-the-many-outweigh-the-needs-of-the-few department nicholast writes "If your driverless car is about to crash into a bus, should it veer off a bridge? NYU Prof. Gary Marcus has a good essay about the need to program ethics and morality into our future machines. Quoting: 'Within two or three...   Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company  From the freeloading-hippies department An anonymous reader writes "I'm one of the original founders of an open source company which offers a popular open source product (millions of downloads) targeted primarily to small businesses. We have been doing this for 10 years now and we fund...   GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won  From the arrr-me-hearties department An anonymous reader writes "As if we needed further proof that DRM really is more trouble for publishers and consumers than it's worth, Good Old Games, the DRM-free download store that specializes in retro games, has yet more damning evidence. In...   Prediction Market Site InTrade Bans US Customers  From the baptists-and-bootleggers department MyFirstNameIsPaul writes "In an announcement dated Monday, Nov 26, 2012, Dublin-based InTrade stated 'that due to legal and regulatory pressures, InTrade can no longer allow U.S. residents to participate in our real-money prediction markets.' The...   Large Hadron Collider May Have Produced New Matter  From the news-for-nerds-stuff-that's-matter department Covalent writes "The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator and the 'Big Bang machine' that was used to discover what appears to be the long-sought Higgs boson particle (as announced July 4), may have...   Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations  From the at-least-the-fashionable-ones department Hugh Pickens writes "Charles Q. Choi reports that hairspray could one day serve as the sign that aliens have reshaped distant worlds because one group of gases that might be key to terraforming planets are CFCs. 'Our hypothesis is that evidence of...   Google Found Guilty of Libel For Search Results In Australia  From the don't-point-at-that-guy-who-says-mean-things department Meshach writes "Google has been found guilty for refusing to take down a libelous search result in an Australian court (ruling). Music promoter Milorad Trkulja sued Google for refusing to take down links to website articles promoting libelous...   Firefox 18 Beta Out With IonMonkey JavaScript Engine  From the up-to-11 department An anonymous reader writes with a quick bite from The Next Web about the latest Firefox beta, this time featuring some under-the-hood improvements: "Mozilla on Monday announced the release of Firefox 18 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can...   What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty  From the make-it-like-minecraft-and-you've-got-yourself-a-soldier department Velcroman1 writes "Teenagers raised on Call of Duty and Halo might relish flying a massive Predator drone — a surprisingly similar activity. Pilots of unmanned military aircraft use a joystick to swoop down into the battlefield, spot enemy...   The Wii Mini Is Real, Arrives December 7 — In Canada  From the tora-tora-tora department An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday there was a rumor doing the rounds that Nintendo was set to release a brand new version of the Wii console called the Wii Mini. The new machine would be significantly smaller than the current Wii, is expected...   What Will NASA Do With Its Gifted Spy 'Scopes?  From the regift-them-to-spacex department astroengine writes "NASA has begun surveying scientists on what they would like to do with two Hubble-class space telescopes donated to the civilian space agency by its secretive sibling, the National Reconnaissance Office — which operates...   Slashdot Mobile: Now For Tablets As Well As Phones  From the ensmallening department Gaurav Kuchhal (Head of Product, Slashdot) writes "Slashdot Mobile has finally made it out of the gates for tablets as well as phones. The Mobile site for phones launched some weeks back, but now you can take advantage of the changes we've made to...   Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas  From the those-words-in-that-order department Sparrowvsrevolution writes "You may remember a vulnerability in four million keycard locks presented at the Black Hat conference in July. Hacker Cody Brocious showed he could insert a device he built for less than $50 into the port at the bottom...

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