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Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing   |  Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees?     U.S. Apple Factory May Be Robot City  Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing  Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees?  F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base  Valve's 'Steam Box' Console Is Real, Says Gabe Newell  Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash  FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50%  UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations  Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet  Sir Patrick Moore Dies Aged 89  Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt   NZBMatrix Closes Their Website  Catfish Strands Itself To Kill Pigeons  Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted     U.S. Apple Factory May Be Robot City  From the rise-of-the-iMachines department dcblogs writes "Apple's planned investment of $100 million next year in a U.S. manufacturing facility is relatively small, but still important. A 2009 Apple video of its unibody manufacturing process has glimpses of highly automated robotic...   Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing  From the opinions-are-like-delusions department An anonymous reader writes "A study recently published in Nature (abstract) looked at how personal beliefs altered a person's perception of climate change. Surveying a sample of people in 2008 and then the same people again in 2011, the study...   Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish From the war-or-words department spacenet writes "As a response to RMS speaking out against Ubuntu about its privacy-violating integrated Amazon search results, which he considers to be spyware, Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon has addressed RMS's statements. In his reply,...   Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees?  From the what-do-you-think? department First time accepted submitter Shifuimam writes "I downloaded a DOSBox port for Android recently to get back into all the games of my childhood. Turns out that the only free distribution available hasn't been updated in nearly two years, so I...   F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base  From the check-craigslist department Hugh Pickens writes "Defense Tech reports that several F-16 engines weighing 3,700 pounds each have been stolen from a base in a central part of the country. Israeli officials played down the loss, saying the engines were old or retired and likely...   Valve's 'Steam Box' Console Is Real, Says Gabe Newell  From the come-out-right-after-half-life-3 department symbolset writes "The Verge is reporting that the Steam Console we discussed in November is a real thing. Gabe Newell said it will be a locked down platform for the living room. The source is a Kotaku interview with Newell at the Video Game...   Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash  From the easy-buy department sfcrazy writes "Ubuntu is becoming a shopping center. Instead of addressing the queries raised by Stallman and the EFF, Canonical is now pushing for making Ubuntu a shopping cart. With Ubuntu 13.04 Canonical is going one step forward, and soon you...   FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50%  From the half-empty department TrueSatan writes "Perhaps a sign of our troubled times or a sign that FreeBSD is becoming less relevant to modern computing needs: the FreeBSD project has sought $500,000 by year end to allow it to continue to offer to fund and manage projects,...   UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations  From the that-should-take-care-of-that department Hugh Pickens writes writes "BBC reports that UN climate talks in Doha have closed, with a historic shift in principle agreed to by nearly 200 nations, extending the Kyoto Protocol through 2020 and establishing for the first time that rich nations...   Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet  From the whoever-controls-the-cat-pictures-controls-the-universe department kodiaktau writes "A proposal put forth by Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates seeks greater international control and government of internet addressing. 'A leaked draft (PDF) of the Russia-led proposals would...   Sir Patrick Moore Dies Aged 89  From the fare-thee-well department First time accepted submitter Tastecicles writes "Patrick Moore, the monocled surveyor of the sky who awakened in millions of people an interest in galactic goings on, has died at 89. His love of astronomy began at the age of six, and that...   Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt   From the badger-badger-badger-badger-mushroom department Press2ToContinue writes "Dubbed the Python Challenge, the month-long contest will award $1,000 for the longest python and $1,500 for the most pythons caught between Jan. 12 and Feb. 10 in any of four hunting areas north of Everglades National Park...   NZBMatrix Closes Their Website  From the gone-for-good department An anonymous reader writes "Hot on the heels of the closure of Newzbin2, this morning the usenet NZB indexing website NZBMatrix closed shop in the face of another DMCA notice. NZBMatrix allowed users to sift through messy usenet groups and quickly...   Catfish Strands Itself To Kill Pigeons  From the step-away-from-the-water department SternisheFan writes "In Southwestern France, a group of fish have learned how to kill birds. As the River Tarn winds through the city of Albi, it contains a small gravel island where pigeons gather to clean and bathe. And patrolling the island are...   Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted  From the be-careful-what-links-you-copy department SternisheFan sends this quote from Ars: "On Friday, a federal grand jury in Dallas indicted Barrett Brown, a former self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesperson, for trafficking 'stolen authentication features,' as well as 'access device fraud' and...

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