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Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer?   |  Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away     School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games  Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer?  IQ 'a Myth,' Study Says  Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away  Property Rights In Space?  Whose Bug Is This Anyway?  UK Pirate Party Forced To Give Up Legal Fight  Carmack: Next-Gen Console Games Will Still Aim For 30fps  How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code  Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time?  Most Kickstarter Projects Fail To Deliver On Time  Qt 5.0 Released  Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung  Spider Discovered That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys  Kodak Patents Sold for $525 Million     School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games  From the blame-game-will-commence department New submitter seepho writes "Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has introduced a bill directing the National Academy of Sciences to lead an investigation to determine what impact violent video games have on children. Senator Rockefeller commented,...   Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer?  From the can't-go-wrong-learning-klingon department ichimunki writes "I am a mid-career software developer. I am from the Midwestern U.S. and my native language is English. I've studied a few languages over the years, both human and computer. Lately I've begun to wonder what is the best second...   IQ 'a Myth,' Study Says  From the guess-we-need-a-new-metric-for-feeling-superior-to-others department An anonymous reader sends this quote from The Star: "The idea that intelligence can be measured by a single number — your IQ — is wrong, according to a recent study led by researchers at the University of Western Ontario (abstract). The...   Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away  From the dibs-on-the-oil department sciencehabit writes "Astronomers have discovered what may be five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the closest single star beyond our solar system whose temperature and luminosity nearly match the sun's. If the planets are there, one of them is about...   Property Rights In Space?  From the looking-forward-to-the-2049-dilithium-rush department ATKeiper writes "A number of companies have announced plans in the last couple of years to undertake private development of space. There are asteroid-mining proposals backed by Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, various moon-mining proposals, and,...   Whose Bug Is This Anyway?  From the it's-nobody's-fault-and-everybody's-angry department An anonymous reader writes "Patrick Wyatt, one of the developers behind the original Warcraft and StarCraft games, as well as Diablo and Guild Wars, has a post about some of the bug hunting he's done throughout his career. He covers familiar...   UK Pirate Party Forced To Give Up Legal Fight  From the live-to-fight-another-day department Grumbleduke writes "The UK Pirate Party has been forced to shut down its proxy of The Pirate Bay. The Party had been running the proxy since April, initially to support the Dutch Party's efforts, then as a means of combating censorship after the...   Carmack: Next-Gen Console Games Will Still Aim For 30fps  From the take-that-peter-jackson department An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from Develop: "Games developed for the next-generation of consoles will still target a performance of 30 frames per second, claims id Software co-founder John Carmack. Taking to Twitter, the industry veteran...   How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code  From the m-x-run-direct-neural-interface department Esther Schindler writes "We always talk about how programmers improve their skill by reading others' code. But the newbies aren't going to be as good at even doing that, when they start. There's some cool research underway, using eye tracking to...   Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time?  From the much-more-reliable-than-Thor-power department MrSeb writes "If you've not been tracking the thorium hype, you might be interested to learn that the benefits liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) have over light water uranium reactors (LWRs) are compelling. Alvin Weinberg, who invented...   Most Kickstarter Projects Fail To Deliver On Time  From the better-late-than-never department adeelarshad82 writes "A recently conducted analysis found that out of the top 50 most-funded Kickstarter projects, a whopping 84 percent missed their target delivery dates. As it turns out, only eight of them hit their deadline. Sixteen hadn't...   Qt 5.0 Released  From the half-of-common-lisp department sfcrazy writes "The Qt project and Digia, the company behind Qt framework, have released the most awaited C++ framework for developers, Qt 5.0. The company claims it's one of the best releases to date and has invested a significant amount of time...   Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung  From the elop-is-a-business-wizard department SternisheFan writes "PCMag's Angela Moscaritolo writes: 'Samsung is expected to account for 29 percent of worldwide cell phone shipments, up from 21 percent in 2011, when it nabbed the No. 2 spot in the market. Meanwhile, Nokia's share this year...   Spider Discovered That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys  From the welp-it's-been-a-good-run department OakDragon writes "A newly discovered species of spider — apparently of the genus Cyclosa — has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon. The spider builds an elaborate decoy out of web, twigs, and other scraps, which appears to be a much...   Kodak Patents Sold for $525 Million  From the doctor-strangelove department An anonymous reader writes "Intellectual Ventures and RPX Rational Patent, two companies frequently referred to as patent trolls, have snapped up the troubled Kodak company's imaging patents. Bloomberg reports that Kodak has agreed to sell the...

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