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Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time   |  Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA     Windows 8 Sales Below Projections  Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time  Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying  Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA  You Can't Say That On the Internet  Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried  Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags   John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers"  GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012  Coffee and Intellectual Property  Ariane 5 Has No Chance, Says Elon Musk  Particle Physicists Confirm Arrow of Time Using B Meson Measurements  Ask Slashdot: Which International Online Music Stores Are Legit?  How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload's Fate  EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built     Windows 8 Sales Below Projections  From the cold-cakes department harrymcc writes "With early reports on Windows 8 sales indicating that the new operating system is off to a slow start, it's worth pondering what Microsoft could have done differently. Over at TIME.com, I considered several different scenarios,...   Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time  From the and-stay-down department garymortimer writes "Photos provided by the animal rights group show the multicopter smoking on the ground, with its lithium polymer battery supply smoldering. Another photo shows the drone's video camera smashed. The drone, dubbed 'Angel,' was a...   Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying  From the looks-like-we-got-a-reader department jones_supa writes "The recent anti-bullying survey conducted by ABA brings up some interesting findings. According to it, more than 90% of the 1,000 11-16 year-olds surveyed said they had been bullied or seen someone bullied for being too...   Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA  From the check-me department sciencewatcher writes "A 1999 cold case rape and murder in The Netherlands has been solved. Dutch police asked 8000+ men living within 5 kilometers of the crime scene to volunteer their DNA so that the murderer could be traced through (close or...   You Can't Say That On the Internet  From the watch-what-you-say department hessian writes in with a story about the arbitrary and often outdated online decency standards being imposed by companies."A bastion of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant...   Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried  From the it's-getting-hot-in-here department iONiUM writes "From the article: 'Over the years at the U.N. climate talks, the goal has been to keep future global warming below 2C. But as those talks have faltered, emissions have kept rising, and that 2C goal is now looking increasingly out of...   Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags   From the my-android-phone-freezes-way-too-often department symbolset writes "As reported on The Verge, many people are experiencing freezing, rebooting and battery problems on their new Windows Phone 8 devices. This WP8Central thread shows many of the issues. Affected devices include Lumia 920 and HTC...   John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers"  From the on-the-run department An anonymous reader writes "The IT security pioneer John McAfee has launched a blog to document his life on the lam, as Belize police chase him down for suspicion of killing a neighbor. McAfee is using the blog to state his case, raise suspicions...   GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012  From the in-other-arbitrary-news department mikejuk writes "GIF started out as a humble acronym 25 years ago, entered common parlance as the format used for web graphics and now achieves fame as a verb by becoming Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year 2012. GIF as a noun has always been...   Coffee and Intellectual Property  From the it-puts-the-coffee-lotion-(tm)-on-its-skin department cervesaebraciator writes "A 'Coffee Branding Workshop,' sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization, was held recently in Arusha City, at which the Director General of the Tanzania Coffee Board presented a paper titled 'Supporting...   Ariane 5 Has No Chance, Says Elon Musk  From the when-tony-stark-talks-people-listen department Dupple writes with some remarks by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, as reported by the BBC, on the Ariane 5 launch vehicle: Musk is anything but a disinterested party, but he has some especially harsh words for the ESA rocket: "'I don't say that with a...   Particle Physicists Confirm Arrow of Time Using B Meson Measurements  From the one-way-trip department ananyo writes with bad news for John Titor. From the article: "Four years after its closure, researchers working with data from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's particle physics experiment BaBar have used the data to make the first direct...   Ask Slashdot: Which International Online Music Stores Are Legit?  From the when-googling-for-mp3s-isn't-enough department rjnagle writes "I'm an American lover of music who is interested in buying legally music from other countries. How do I know which CD/online music stores are legit and actually benefit the artist? I'm very cost-conscious and prefer indie music...   How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload's Fate  From the easy-now department concealment writes "On November 27, RapidShare will start putting a tight cap on outbound downloads for its free users. Paid members will still have 30 gigabytes in outbound downloads per day, but everybody else will be capped at one gigabyte. The...   EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built  From the that's-no-moon department kkleiner writes "On the coattails of CERN's success with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Europeans and the world at large have another grand science project to be excited about: the Extreme Light Infrastructure project to build the most powerful...

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