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The New Ethanol Blend May Damage Your Vehicle   |  Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Anti-Spam Service Extortion?     New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map  The New Ethanol Blend May Damage Your Vehicle  Ask Slashdot: Android Apps For Kids Under 12 Months?  Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Anti-Spam Service Extortion?  Acer Rethinks the "Tablet Bubble," Launching $99 Tablet  You're Being DDOSed — What Do You Do? Name and Shame?  Intel Challenges ARM On Power Consumption... And Ties  Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change  Steam Hit By 'No Connection' Error Worldwide  BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5  Rivalry Building Between Amazon and Google  How the Brain Organizes Everything We See  Class-Action Lawsuit Goes After Instagram Terms of Service Changes  Christmas On Mars  UK Court Invalidates Motorola Message Syncing Patents     New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map  From the verified-no-gun-map-would-be-more-interesting department New submitter Isaac-1 writes "First it was the sex offenders being mapped using public records, now it seems to be gun owners — I wonder who will be next? It seems a newspaper in New York has published an interactive map with the names and...   The New Ethanol Blend May Damage Your Vehicle  From the just-what-we-need department Hugh Pickens writes writes "About 80 percent of the gasoline consumed in the U.S. is blended with ethanol, primarily with a 10 percent mix of ethanol, generally derived from corn. Now Kate Sheppard writes that the Environmental Protection Agency...   Ask Slashdot: Android Apps For Kids Under 12 Months?  From the what-about-a-flight-simulator department An anonymous reader writes "My kid seems incredibly interested in my Android tablet, but I'm not too comfortable with letting her play with my browser. I've been hunting the app store for apps that I could let my kid play around with, but haven't...   Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Anti-Spam Service Extortion?  From the with-an-axe department An anonymous reader writes "I work for a European ISP, and lately we're receiving quite a few complaints from customers about not being able to send emails because of UCEProtect's listings. After checking with their site, we found out that our...   Acer Rethinks the "Tablet Bubble," Launching $99 Tablet  From the 3-2-1-*pop* department retroworks writes "In August 2011, Acer Chairman JT Wang declared that the consumer affection for tablets had already begun to cool, basically labeling it a fad. What a difference a year (and a half) makes. Acer now plans to introduce a...   You're Being DDOSed — What Do You Do? Name and Shame?  From the stop-drop-and-roll-doesn't-work department badger.foo writes "When you're hit with a DDOS, what do you do? In his most recent column, Peter Hansteen narrates a recent incident that involved a DNS based DDOS against his infrastructure and that of some old friends of his. He ends up asking:...   Intel Challenges ARM On Power Consumption... And Ties  From the not-too-shabby department GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware just published a detailed look at the Intel Atom Z2760 in the Acer Iconia W510 and compared it to the NVIDIA Tegra 3 in the Microsoft Surface. They break it down and demonstrate how the full Windows 8 tablet...   Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change  From the letting-the-market-decide department A recent paper in Science (abstract) examines the insurance industry's reaction to climate change. The industry rakes in trillions of dollars in revenues every year, and a shifting climate would have the potential to drastically cut into the...   Steam Hit By 'No Connection' Error Worldwide  From the tragedy-unbounded department jones_supa writes "Steam users worldwide are getting more than they expected this Christmas, courtesy of Valve. Increasingly annoyed reports are piling up on a Steam Community thread about an ominous 'No Connection' error. Depending on your luck,...   BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5  From the loose-ends-may-appear-under-the-microscope department hypnosec writes "BLAKE2 has been recently announced as a new alternative to the existing cryptographic hash algorithms MD5 and SHA-2/3. With applicability in cloud storage, software distribution, host-based intrusion detection, digital forensics...   Rivalry Building Between Amazon and Google  From the bezos-to-fight-brin-in-single-combat department Amazon and Google, both giants in the online business world, started out as separate entities with two very different agendas. As each has grown into an empire, the overlapping areas of business between the two companies has grown as well. But...   How the Brain Organizes Everything We See  From the probably-uses-microsoft-access department An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from a UC Berkeley news release: "Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day? Scientists at the University of California,...   Class-Action Lawsuit Goes After Instagram Terms of Service Changes  From the for-users-read-lawyers department New submitter Alex Belits writes "Users of the Instagram image sharing service owned by Facebook filed a class action against Facebook for the recent change in Terms of Service." The changes that were supposed to take effect on January 16, 2013...   Christmas On Mars  From the i'm-dreaming-of-a-red-christmas department At John Scalzi's blog, astronomer and science fiction author Diane Turnshek writes about spending the holidays at the Mars Desert Research Station, a place in Utah where The Mars Society is running test missions to figure out proper procedures for...   UK Court Invalidates Motorola Message Syncing Patents  From the patently-obvious department Dupple writes with news of another tech patent thrown out for obviousness. From the article: "On Friday, the High Court of London issued a ruling that said that one of Motorola's patents covering technology to synchronize messages across several...

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