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Times Names Its Favorite Flops of the Year  FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet   Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money   LG Seeks Sales Ban of Samsung Galaxy Tablet In Korea  Data Brokers, Gun Owners, and Consumer Privacy  Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law  Bletchley Park Codebreaker Honored     Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug  From the otherwise-of-course-I'd-be-a-kernel-rockstar department An anonymous reader points out just how thick a skin it takes to be a kernel developer sometimes, linking to a chain of emails on the Linux Kernel Mailing List in which Linus lets loose on a kernel developer for introducing a change that breaks...   Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time?  From the we're-working-in-shifts department An anonymous reader writes "First, some quick background: I am 26 years old and I have been working for a large software development company with more than 50,000 employees for about 5 years now. My actual title is Senior Software Engineer, and I...   Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Could Mean Missing the Next Hurricane Sandy  From the it's-all-so-simple department Lasrick writes "Alex Knapp has an excellent article pointing out that NOAA satellites enabled NOAA to predict the 'left hook' of Hurricane Sandy into the Eastern Seaboard, which in turn enabled local governments to prepare. Those satellites are at...   Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave  From the well-of-course-he-was-duh department theodp writes "Rudy Giuliani had John Gotti to worry about; Mike Bloomberg has Steve Jobs. Despite all-time lows for the city in homicides and shootings, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said overall crime in New York City was up 3.3% in 2012 due to...   Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters  From the river-of-pig-blood department In January of this year, we posted news of a major pollution site in Texas that was the subject of some anonymous amateur sleuths with drones, who used their UAVs to document the release of a "river of blood" (pig blood, that is) into the Trinity...   Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth  From the c'mon-the-place-is-called-death-valley department Hugh Pickens writes "Adam Nagourney reports that after a yearlong investigation a team of climate scientists announced that it is throwing out a reading of 136.4 degrees claimed by the city of Al Aziziyah, Libya on Sept. 13, 1922 making the...   New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe  From the firefox-users-on-linux-even-safer department An anonymous reader writes "Criminals are using a new Internet Explorer security hole to attack Windows computers in targeted attacks, though the vulnerability could end up being more widely exploited. While IE9 and IE10 are not affected, versions...   In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run  From the old-enough-for-comics department The PlayStation 3 may have overshadowed it technically, but the PlayStation 2 has seniority. Now, the PS2 is being retired in Japan after nearly 13 years. That doesn't mean the games have stopped: "To this day, developers have continued to...   The L.A. Times Names Its Favorite Flops of the Year  From the always-too-many-to-choose-from department SternisheFan writes "Salvador Rodriguez and Deborah Netburn of The Los Angeles Times have a rundown of the top 10 tech gaffes of 2012. From their article: 'As 2012 comes to a close we take a look back at the biggest "oops" moments of the last...   FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet   From the paving-the-path-wouldn't-make-sense department The Washington Post reports on a development that may push Internet access on commercial aircraft from a pleasant luxury (but missing on most U.S. domestic flights) to commonplace. Writes the Post: "The Federal Communications Commission on Friday...   Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money   From the more-is-still-welcome department mbadolato writes "On December 9, 2012, Slashdot reported that the FreeBSD Foundation was falling short of their 2012 goal of $500,000 by nearly 50%. For all of those that continued to echo about how FreeBSD is dying, it's less than three weeks...   LG Seeks Sales Ban of Samsung Galaxy Tablet In Korea  From the battle-royale department Dupple writes "According to the Dow Jones News Wires, LG has filed an injunction in its home territory of South Korea, seeking to ban the sale of the Galaxy Note 10.1, alleging the panels inside the tablet infringe LG patents. The injunction...   Data Brokers, Gun Owners, and Consumer Privacy  From the ftc-just-wants-a-peek department New submitter FreaKBeaNie writes "Earlier this month, the FTC issued 9 orders to data brokerage companies to learn more about their privacy practices. Data brokers are skilled at connecting quasi-private data with publicly available data, like...   Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law  From the it's-always-the-gardener department An anonymous reader writes "Prenda Law — one of the most notorious copyright trolls — has sued hundreds of thousands of John Doe defendants, often receiving settlements of thousands of dollars from each. Prenda Law principal John...   Bletchley Park Codebreaker Honored  From the after-due-consideration department Rambo Tribble writes "England has awarded Raymond Roberts, one of the nine cryptanalysts responsible for breaking the Nazi Tunny code machine, (also known by the German designation Lorenz cipher machine) the MBE. Roberts is the last surviving...

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