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Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs   |  Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media?     Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge  Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs  Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot  Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media?  Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy  Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam  FSF Does Want Secure Boot; They Just Want It Under User Control  New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD  Autonomy Chief Says Whitman Is Watering Down HP Fraud Claims  Early Apple Designs Revealed, Courtesy of Hartmut Esslinger  Investing In Lego Bricks For Fun But Mostly Profit  Ban on Certain Samsung Products Appears Likely ITC Ruling  Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default  Odds Favor Discovery of Earth-Like Exoplanet in 2013   Stan Lee Celebrates 90th Birthday     Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge  From the 5-feet-high-and-risin' department hypnosec writes "With Linux enthusiasts and distro publishers eagerly waiting for a solution to Microsoft's UEFI SecureBoot, there are those who have already looked at the viability of Linux on Microsoft Surface tablet. Matthew Garrett, a.k.a....   Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs  From the want-some-dagnabbit-super-lights department ndverdo writes "Cree just announced production power LEDs reaching 200 lumen/watt. Approximately doubling the previous peak LED light efficiency, the new LEDs will require less cooling. This should enable the MK-R series to finally provide direct...   Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot  From the no-one-will-ever-name-a-child-uefi department hypnosec writes "The Free Software Foundation is on an offensive against restricted boot systems and is busy appealing for donations and pledge in the form of signatures in a bid to stop systems such as the UEFI SecureBoot from being adopted on a...   Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media?  From the one-way-data-transfer-is-much-simpler department First time accepted submitter Lordfly writes "The wife and I have started looking to buy a house. In the spirit of that, I've been giving away books, CDs, and DVDs to 'downsize' the pile of crap I'll have to lug around when we do find the right...   Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy  From the reality-preempts-the-onion department On Saturday, Pakistan briefly lifted the months-old ban on YouTube, spurred by the widely distributed U.S.-made video presented as a trailer for a film titled "Innocence of Muslims" and decried in many places around the world as blasphemous...   Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam  From the tape-it-all-let-god-sort-it-out department acidradio writes "Yesterday a Tupolev 204 (Russian-made aircraft equivalent to an Airbus 321 or a shortened 757) overran the runway at Moscow Vnukovo airport and crashed into a nearby highway. A plane crash is always bad, but what makes this seem...   FSF Does Want Secure Boot; They Just Want It Under User Control  From the where-the-devil-is department Yesterday, we ran a story with the headline "Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot." It's more complicated than that, though, writes gnujoshua: "We want computer manufacturers to implement Secure Boot in a way that is...   New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD  From the under-the-new-year's-wire department tearmeapart writes "The teams at FreeBSD have reached another great achievement with FreeBSD 9.1, with improvements to the already fantastic zfs features, more VM improvements (helping bringing FreeBSD to the next generation of VMs), and...   Autonomy Chief Says Whitman Is Watering Down HP Fraud Claims  From the series-of-tangled-webs department McGruber writes "Possibly the wierdest tax-writeoff of the year happened when Meg Whitman claimed that her US-based multinational corporation HP had been defrauded by British-software firm Autonomy; Ms. Whitman and HP claimed an 8.8 billion dollar...   Early Apple Designs Revealed, Courtesy of Hartmut Esslinger  From the sainted-before-ives department SternisheFan writes with an excerpt as carried by CNET of former Apple design chief Hartmut Esslinger's upcoming book, titled Design Forward: Creative Strategies for Sustainable Change. Writing of Steve Job's integration of design as an essential...   Investing In Lego Bricks For Fun But Mostly Profit  From the step-2-is-buy-lego department First time accepted submitter theideabulb writes "Just as stock investors have portfolios of all different sorts of stocks, Lego investors hold massive collections of Lego sets and can make annual profits that beat stocks. This article is a...   Ban on Certain Samsung Products Appears Likely ITC Ruling  From the king-solomon-at-work department Ars Technica reports that "On Friday the ITC filed a redacted version of a remedy suggested by ITC Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender, in which he recommended a ban be enforced against Samsung products that were found to infringe upon four...   Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default  From the that-will-have-no-problems department Location services can be useful and fun, but, depending on how paranoid ("cautious") you are, you might already dislike the idea of a social-network dashboard keeping track of where you are at a given moment. After all, bad guys can use computers,...   Odds Favor Discovery of Earth-Like Exoplanet in 2013   From the awaken-the-sleeping-giant department Earth-like exoplanets have gotten a lot of attention in the last few years; it's exciting to think that there's life — or even just life-sustaining conditions — on planets other than Earth, whether near by (on Mars) or much farther...   Stan Lee Celebrates 90th Birthday  From the let-us-now-praise-famous-men department An anonymous reader writes "Congratulatory tweets and missives pour in to honor @theRealStanLee (nee Stanley Lieber), the Romanian immigrant who created or co-created most of Marvel Comics' memorable heroes. Lee celebrated his 90th birthday on...

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