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      <title>E-Books That Read You</title>
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      <description>An anonymous reader writes "Internet users have sadly grown used to having their every click and scroll measured by advertisers and content providers seeking to squeeze every last ounce of attention out of them. Now, it seems such data gathering is spreading into your favorite novels as well. The NY Times profiles several companies trying to collect data on how people read ebooks. Quoting: 'Scribd is just beginning to analyze the data from its subscribers. Some general insights: The longer a mystery novel is, the more likely readers are to jump to the end to see who done it. People are more likely to finish biographies than business titles, but a chapter of a yoga book is all they need. They speed through romances faster than religious titles, and erotica fastest of all. At Oyster, a top book is What Women Want, promoted as a work that "brings you inside a woman's head so you can learn how to blow her mind." Everyone who starts it finishes it. On the other hand, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s The Cycles of American History blows no minds: fewer than 1 percent of the readers who start it get to the end. Oyster data shows that readers are 25 percent more likely to finish books that are broken up into shorter chapters. That is an inevitable consequence of people reading in short sessions during the day on an iPhone.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=E-Books+That+Read+You%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1jJ8wQ9"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F1810220%2Fe-books-that-read-you%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1810220/e-books-that-read-you?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1810220/e-books-that-read-you?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4597033&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/3533bf33/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842197591/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3533bf33/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842197591/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3533bf33/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842197591/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3533bf33/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842197591/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3533bf33/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842197591/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3533bf33/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842197591/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3533bf33/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842197591/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3533bf33/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842197591/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3533bf33/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842197591/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3533bf33/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/HGC4PJqbcr8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 20:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
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      <dc:date>2013-12-25T20:54:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Ruby 2.1.0 Released</title>
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      <description>Today marks the release of Ruby version 2.1.0. A brief list of changes since 2.0.0 has been posted, and file downloads are available. Here are some of the changes: Now the default values of keyword arguments can be omitted. Those 'required keyword arguments" need giving explicitly at the call time.Added suffixes for integer and float literals: 'r', 'i', and 'ri'.def-expr now returns the symbol of its name instead of nil.rb_profile_frames() added. Provides low-cost access to the current ruby stack for callstack profiling. introduced the generational GC a.k.a RGenGC (PDF).&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ruby+2.1.0+Released%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1cRXrmY"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F1751215%2Fruby-210-released%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1751215/ruby-210-released?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1751215/ruby-210-released?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4596987&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/353329c6/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842237928/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353329c6/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842237928/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353329c6/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842237928/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353329c6/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842237928/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353329c6/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842237928/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353329c6/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842237928/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353329c6/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842237928/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353329c6/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842237928/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353329c6/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842237928/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353329c6/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/rKWxuDuxT0s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 19:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
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      <dc:date>2013-12-25T19:50:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>not-dying-after-all</slash:department>
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      <title>Snowden Gives Alternative Christmas Message On Channel 4</title>
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      <description>codeusirae wrote in with news that Edward Snowden gave an alternative to the UK's yearly Christmas message, speaking about his objections to mass indiscriminate surveillance by governments. The message aired on channel four at 16:15. Slashgear posted a transcript. Quoting: "Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person. A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves &amp;mdash; an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that's a problem, because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Snowden+Gives+Alternative+Christmas+Message+On+Channel+4%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F19hg2el"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F1729228%2Fsnowden-gives-alternative-christmas-message-on-channel-4%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1729228/snowden-gives-alternative-christmas-message-on-channel-4?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1729228/snowden-gives-alternative-christmas-message-on-channel-4?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4596949&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/353311c3/sc/21/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842194180/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353311c3/sc/21/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842194180/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353311c3/sc/21/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842194180/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353311c3/sc/21/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842194180/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353311c3/sc/21/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842194180/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353311c3/sc/21/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842194180/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353311c3/sc/21/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842194180/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353311c3/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842194180/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353311c3/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842194180/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/353311c3/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/WqIAQYWfLjw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 18:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Unknown Lamer</dc:creator>
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      <title>Prime Minister Wiretapped &amp;mdash; Vast Corruption Upending Turkey's Government</title>
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      <description>cold fjord writes with an update on the political upheaval happening in Turkey "From the article: 'Dawn raids last Tuesday nabbed almost 60 people and implicated three government ministries, the directors of state banks, and some of Turkey's most powerful businessmen in a massive corruption probe spread across three different cases. Three members of Turkey's cabinet resigned on Christmas Day, and one called on Erdogan to follow suit as accusations of kickbacks, smuggling, and abuse of office continue to mount. The scandal has even acquired an international dimension as suspicions that Iran has been using Turkey's banks to shirk sanctions were further bolstered by the arrest of Reza Sarraf, an Iranian businessmen who is accused of bribing the Economic Minister while coordinating transactions from Iran worth $120 billion. The AKP is scrambling to defend itself by claiming the arrests are a result of a dastardly foreign conspiracy ... while police officials have been removed and reshuffled and special prosecutors appointed to a degree that makes Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre look like exemplary justice. The Turkish press continues to eagerly publish the latest colorful details that emerge from the probe, including police reports of $500,000 bribes administered in boxes of chocolate and news that Erdoan himself was being wiretapped as part of the investigation.' Erdogan has been urged to resign, three days ago Turkey banned journalists from entering police stations, and police are using tear gas on protesters."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Prime+Minister+Wiretapped+%26mdash%3B+Vast+Corruption+Upending+Turkey's+Government%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1eEzbLN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F1645219%2Fprime-minister-wiretapped-vast-corruption-upending-turkeys-government%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://politics.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1645219/prime-minister-wiretapped-vast-corruption-upending-turkeys-government?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1645219/prime-minister-wiretapped-vast-corruption-upending-turkeys-government?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4596883&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/35331c2e/sc/30/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842235111/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35331c2e/sc/30/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842235111/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35331c2e/sc/30/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842235111/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35331c2e/sc/30/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842235111/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35331c2e/sc/30/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842235111/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35331c2e/sc/30/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842235111/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35331c2e/sc/30/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842235111/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35331c2e/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842235111/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35331c2e/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842235111/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35331c2e/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1xHap89ESQI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 17:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Unknown Lamer</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>politics</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T17:55:00Z</dc:date>
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      <slash:department>spring-turns-to-winter</slash:department>
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      <title>ISS Coolant Pump Restarted After Successful Spacewalks</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cwGr88RXK70/story01.htm</link>
      <description>Yesterday, two astronauts completed a seven hour spacewalk to finish installation of a spare coolant pump after a failed coolant pump forced a partial shut down of the ISS. As of late yesterday afternoon, that pump is online and operating normally: "The new pump now is considered fully functional, but it will take some time to fully reintegrate the pump and Loop A of the two-loop external cooling system. Teams at mission control are following a schedule that should allow the restored cooling loop to be fully activated and integrated into the station&amp;rsquo;s cooling system on Christmas Day, Dec. 25. ... Electrical systems that depend on cooling from Loop A will be repowered or moved back from temporary support on Loop B gradually on Thursday, Friday, and throughout the weekend."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=ISS+Coolant+Pump+Restarted+After+Successful+Spacewalks%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1a8a0Kd"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F1533236%2Fiss-coolant-pump-restarted-after-successful-spacewalks%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1533236/iss-coolant-pump-restarted-after-successful-spacewalks?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1533236/iss-coolant-pump-restarted-after-successful-spacewalks?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4596783&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/3532c594/sc/8/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842233328/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532c594/sc/8/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842233328/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532c594/sc/8/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842233328/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532c594/sc/8/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842233328/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532c594/sc/8/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842233328/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532c594/sc/8/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842233328/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532c594/sc/8/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842233328/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532c594/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842233328/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532c594/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842233328/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532c594/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/cwGr88RXK70" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 16:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Unknown Lamer</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>iss</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T16:59:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>xmas-miracle-thanks-to-engineering</slash:department>
      <slash:section>slashdot</slash:section>
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      <title>Whatever Happened To Sanford "Spamford" Wallace?</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5criqreV71c/story01.htm</link>
      <description>Tackhead writes "People of a certain age &amp;mdash; the age before email filters were effective, may remember a few mid-90s buzzwords like 'bulletproof hosting' and 'double opt-in.' People may remember that Hormel itself conceded that although 'SPAM' referred to their potted meat product, the term 'spam' could refer to unsolicited commercial email. People may also remember AGIS, Cyberpromo, Sanford 'Spam King' Wallace, and Walt Rines. Ten years after a 2003 retrospective on Rines and Wallace, Ars Technica reminds us that the more things change, the more they stay the same."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Whatever+Happened+To+Sanford+%22Spamford%22+Wallace%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FK55YMM"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F1426227%2Fwhatever-happened-to-sanford-spamford-wallace%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1426227/whatever-happened-to-sanford-spamford-wallace?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1426227/whatever-happened-to-sanford-spamford-wallace?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4596665&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/3532e2d8/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842238239/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532e2d8/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842238239/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532e2d8/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842238239/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532e2d8/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842238239/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532e2d8/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842238239/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532e2d8/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842238239/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532e2d8/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842238239/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532e2d8/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842238239/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532e2d8/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842238239/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3532e2d8/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/5criqreV71c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 16:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Unknown Lamer</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>spam</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T16:02:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>dj-master-spam</slash:department>
      <slash:section>it</slash:section>
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      <title>Why Don't Open Source Databases Use GPUs?</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/u3kxTZCQDhs/story01.htm</link>
      <description>An anonymous reader writes "A recent paper from Georgia Tech (abstract, paper itself) describes a system than can run the complete TPC-H benchmark suite on an NVIDIA Titan card, at a 7x speedup over a commercial database running on a 32-core Amazon EC2 node, and a 68x speedup over a single core Xeon. A previous story described an MIT project that achieved similar speedups. There has been a steady trickle of work on GPU-accelerated database systems for several years, but it doesn't seem like any code has made it into Open Source databases like MonetDB, MySQL, CouchDB, etc. Why not? Many queries that I write are simpler than TPC-H, so what's holding them back?"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Why+Don't+Open+Source+Databases+Use+GPUs%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FK3eETf"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F1327216%2Fwhy-dont-open-source-databases-use-gpus%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1327216/why-dont-open-source-databases-use-gpus?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1327216/why-dont-open-source-databases-use-gpus?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4596555&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/35323eb8/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842236552/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35323eb8/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842236552/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35323eb8/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842236552/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35323eb8/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842236552/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35323eb8/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842236552/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35323eb8/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842236552/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35323eb8/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842236552/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35323eb8/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842236552/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35323eb8/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842236552/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35323eb8/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/u3kxTZCQDhs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 15:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Unknown Lamer</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>database</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T15:07:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>connection-machines-rise-from-the-grave</slash:department>
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      <title>The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing C.E.O.</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/erBt7wZlfxw/story01.htm</link>
      <description>New submitter silverjacket writes "New research (JSTOR sub required / paywalled) shows that we see nonconformity as a sign of both status and competence &amp;mdash; under the right conditions. From the article: 'Next, the researchers asked students at American universities to imagine a professor who is clean-shaven and wears a tie, or one who is bearded and wears T-shirts. Students were slightly more inclined to judge the dapper professor as a better teacher and researcher. But some students were given another piece of information: that the professor works at a top-tier school, where the dress code is presumably more formal. For them, the slouchy scholar earned more points. Deviance can signal status, but only when there are clear norms from which to deviate.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Power+of+the+Hoodie-Wearing+C.E.O.%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F19oWzuM"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F1316229%2Fthe-power-of-the-hoodie-wearing-ceo%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1316229/the-power-of-the-hoodie-wearing-ceo?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/1316229/the-power-of-the-hoodie-wearing-ceo?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4596533&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/35320efb/sc/38/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842207204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35320efb/sc/38/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842207204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35320efb/sc/38/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842207204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35320efb/sc/38/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842207204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35320efb/sc/38/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842207204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35320efb/sc/38/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842207204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35320efb/sc/38/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842207204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35320efb/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842207204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35320efb/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842207204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/35320efb/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/erBt7wZlfxw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Unknown Lamer</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>social</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T14:10:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>kilt-qualifies-me-to-lead-the-free-world</slash:department>
      <slash:section>technology</slash:section>
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      <title>Google Sues Consortium Backed By Apple and Microsoft to Protect Android</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BK6GelqjXzA/story01.htm</link>
      <description>A couple months ago, Rockstar, a patent-holding consortium backed by Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Blackberry, and others launched a barrage of infringement suits against Google and the makers of Android devices. Google has now launched a counteroffensive, seeking protection from Rockstar's patent trolling. The complaint (PDF) says, "Rockstar produces no products and practices no patents. Instead, Rockstar employs a staff of engineers in Ontario, Canada, who examine other companies&amp;rsquo; successful products to find anything that Rockstar might use to demand and extract licenses to its patents under threat of litigation." Google's filing also accuses Rockstar of interfering with their business practices by contacting other companies and trying to convince them not to use Android. It asks for a declarative judgment of non-infringement.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Sues+Consortium+Backed+By+Apple+and+Microsoft+to+Protect+Android%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1hEna6M"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F0431203%2Fgoogle-sues-consortium-backed-by-apple-and-microsoft-to-protect-android%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/0431203/google-sues-consortium-backed-by-apple-and-microsoft-to-protect-android?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/0431203/google-sues-consortium-backed-by-apple-and-microsoft-to-protect-android?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4595367&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/3531b8b9/sc/15/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226095/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3531b8b9/sc/15/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226095/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3531b8b9/sc/15/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226095/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3531b8b9/sc/15/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226095/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3531b8b9/sc/15/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226095/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3531b8b9/sc/15/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226095/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3531b8b9/sc/15/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226095/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3531b8b9/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226095/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3531b8b9/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842226095/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3531b8b9/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BK6GelqjXzA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 13:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>android</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T13:21:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>tis-the-season</slash:department>
      <slash:section>news</slash:section>
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      <title>Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yrEPNUZNtZs/story01.htm</link>
      <description>theodp writes "Describing How Netflix Reinvented HR for the Harvard Business Review, ex-Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord describes 'the most basic element of Netflix's talent philosophy: The best thing you can do for employees &amp;mdash; a perk better than foosball or free sushi &amp;mdash; is hire only "A" players to work alongside them.' Continuing her Scrooge-worthy tale, McCord adds that firing a once-valuable employee instead of finding another way for her to contribute yielded another aha! moment for Netflix: 'If we wanted only "A" players on our team, we had to be willing to let go of people whose skills no longer fit, no matter how valuable their contributions had once been. Out of fairness to such people &amp;mdash; and, frankly, to help us overcome our discomfort with discharging them &amp;mdash; we learned to offer rich severance packages.' It's a sometimes-praised, sometimes-criticized strategy that's straight out of Steve Jobs' early '80s playbook. But, even if you assume your execs are capable of identifying 'A' players, how do you find enough employees if 90% of the country's population is deemed unworthy of jobs? Well, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' support of Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us PAC suggests one possible answer &amp;mdash; you get lobbyists to convince Congress you need to hire as many people as you want from outside the country. An article commenter points out that Netflix's 'Culture of Fear' has earned it a 3.2/5.0 rating on Glassdoor."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Netflix%3A+Non-'A'+Players+Unworthy+of+Jobs%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F18KTXHb"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F0242207%2Fnetflix-non-a-players-unworthy-of-jobs%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/0242207/netflix-non-a-players-unworthy-of-jobs?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/0242207/netflix-non-a-players-unworthy-of-jobs?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4595209&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/3530fec6/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226185/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3530fec6/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226185/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3530fec6/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226185/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3530fec6/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226185/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3530fec6/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226185/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3530fec6/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226185/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3530fec6/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226185/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3530fec6/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842226185/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3530fec6/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842226185/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/3530fec6/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/yrEPNUZNtZs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 10:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>business</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T10:29:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>bring-your-D+-game</slash:department>
      <slash:section>slashdot</slash:section>
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      <title>Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target?</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/k8YxI11jNSA/story01.htm</link>
      <description>An anonymous reader writes "Brian Krebs has done some detective work to determine who is behind the recent Target credit card hack. Krebs sifted through posts from a series of shady forums, some dating back to 2008, to determine the likely real-life identity of one fraudster. He even turns down a $10,000 bribe offer to keep the information under wraps."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Who's+Selling+Credit+Cards+From+Target%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1fGbrTW"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F25%2F0419236%2Fwhos-selling-credit-cards-from-target%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/0419236/whos-selling-credit-cards-from-target?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/12/25/0419236/whos-selling-credit-cards-from-target?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4595351&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352fdecc/sc/21/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842191234/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352fdecc/sc/21/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842191234/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352fdecc/sc/21/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842191234/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352fdecc/sc/21/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842191234/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352fdecc/sc/21/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842191234/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352fdecc/sc/21/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842191234/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352fdecc/sc/21/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842191234/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352fdecc/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842191234/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352fdecc/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842191234/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352fdecc/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/k8YxI11jNSA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 07:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>security</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T07:27:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>it's-the-grinch</slash:department>
      <slash:section>it</slash:section>
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      <title>A Big Step Forward In Air Display and Interface Tech</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/K6UwFIMIrR4/story01.htm</link>
      <description>wjcofkc writes "Interactive displays projected into the air in the spirit of Iron Man have been heralded as the next step in visual technology. Yet many obstacles remain. According to Russian designer Max Kamanin, creator of Displair, many the problems have now been largely cracked. With this attempt at refining the technology, the image is created inside a layer of dry fog which is composed of ultra-fine water droplets so small they lack moisture. Three-dimensional projections are then created using infrared sensors. The projected screen currently responds intuitively to 1,500 hand movements, many of which are similar to those used on mobile devices, such as pinch and zoom. The most immediate applications include advertising and medicine, with the latter offering a more hygienic alternative to touchscreens. The most immediate objection from home and office computer users is that they don't want to be waving their hands around all day, and while such questions as 'What happens when I turn on a fan?' are not answered here, just imagine a future with a projected keyboard and trackpad that use puff-air haptic feedback with the option of reaching right into the screen whenever it applies to the application at hand &amp;mdash; and applications that take advantage of such a technology would no doubt come along. Better yet, imagine for yourself in the comments. As always, pictures speak a thousand words, so don't neglect the articles gallery."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=A+Big+Step+Forward+In+Air+Display+and+Interface+Tech%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1eDBlLK"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F2227218%2Fa-big-step-forward-in-air-display-and-interface-tech%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/2227218/a-big-step-forward-in-air-display-and-interface-tech?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/2227218/a-big-step-forward-in-air-display-and-interface-tech?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4595021&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352f222e/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842199040/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352f222e/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842199040/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352f222e/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842199040/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352f222e/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842199040/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352f222e/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842199040/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352f222e/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842199040/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352f222e/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842199040/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352f222e/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842199040/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352f222e/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842199040/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352f222e/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/K6UwFIMIrR4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 04:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>displays</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T04:25:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>wave-your-hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-don't-care</slash:department>
      <slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
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      <title>Italy Approves 'Google Tax' On Internet Companies</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/84Ekv4_FIlc/story01.htm</link>
      <description>recoiledsnake sends this news from Bloomberg: "Italy's Parliament today passed a new measure on web advertising, the so-called 'Google tax,' which will require Italian companies to purchase their Internet ads from locally registered companies, instead of from units based in havens such as Ireland, Luxembourg and Bermuda. Google, for example, says that it sells nearly all its advertising in Europe from an Irish unit, leaving little taxable profits in the countries where its customers are based. That unit in turn pays royalties to a second Irish subsidiary, which says its headquarters are in Bermuda. Google last year moved nearly $12 billion to the Bermuda unit, the majority of its worldwide income, cutting more than $2 billion off its global income tax bill. Google's Italian unit last year reported total income taxes of just 1.8 million euros, corporate filings show."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Italy+Approves+'Google+Tax'+On+Internet+Companies%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1eDlOvz"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F2046206%2Fitaly-approves-google-tax-on-internet-companies%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/2046206/italy-approves-google-tax-on-internet-companies?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/2046206/italy-approves-google-tax-on-internet-companies?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594947&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352ed77c/sc/24/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201350/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352ed77c/sc/24/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201350/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352ed77c/sc/24/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201350/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352ed77c/sc/24/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201350/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352ed77c/sc/24/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201350/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352ed77c/sc/24/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201350/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352ed77c/sc/24/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201350/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352ed77c/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201350/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352ed77c/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842201350/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352ed77c/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/84Ekv4_FIlc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>google</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T01:30:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>all-about-the-benjamins</slash:department>
      <slash:section>technology</slash:section>
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      <title>Ask Slashdot: How Long Will the Internet Remember Us?</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Aq0EvJruPhs/story01.htm</link>
      <description>An anonymous reader writes "The common trope these days is that the internet never forgets. We tech-inclined folk warn our friends and relatives that anything embarrassing they put on the internet will stay there whether they want it to or not. But at the same time, we're told about massive amounts of data being lost as storage services go out of business or as the media it's stored on degrades and fails. There are organizations like the Internet Archive putting a huge amount of effort into saving everything that can be saved, and they're not getting all of it. My question is this: how long can we reasonably expect the internet to remember us? Assume, of course, that we're not doing anything particularly famous or notable &amp;mdash; just normal people leading normal lives. Will our great-grandkids be able to trace our online presence? Will all your publicly-posted photos be viewable in 50 years, or just the one of you tripping over a sheep and falling into the mud?"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+How+Long+Will+the+Internet+Remember+Us%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1le5Rtd"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F2044207%2Fask-slashdot-how-long-will-the-internet-remember-us%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/2044207/ask-slashdot-how-long-will-the-internet-remember-us?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/2044207/ask-slashdot-how-long-will-the-internet-remember-us?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594943&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352e35a9/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842206998/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e35a9/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842206998/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e35a9/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842206998/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e35a9/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842206998/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e35a9/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842206998/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e35a9/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842206998/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e35a9/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842206998/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e35a9/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842206998/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e35a9/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842206998/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e35a9/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Aq0EvJruPhs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>internet</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-25T00:22:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>it-forgot-about-you-six-years-ago</slash:department>
      <slash:section>askslashdot</slash:section>
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      <title>Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bCHReL4GUAE/story01.htm</link>
      <description>jones_supa writes "The x32 ABI for Linux allows the OS to take full advantage of an x86-64 CPU while using 32-bit pointers and thus avoiding the overhead of 64-bit pointers. Though the x32 ABI limits the program to a virtual address space of 4GB, it also decreases the memory footprint of the program and in some cases can allow it to run faster. The ABI has been talked about since 2011 and there's been mainline support since 2012. x32 support within other programs has also trickled in. Despite this, there still seems to be no widespread interest. x32 support landed in Ubuntu 13.04, but no software packages were released. In 2012 we also saw some x32 support out of Gentoo and some Debian x32 packages. Besides the kernel support, we also saw last year the support for the x32 Linux ABI land in Glibc 2.16 and GDB 7.5. The only Linux x32 ABI news Phoronix had to report on in 2013 was of Google wanting mainline LLVM x32 support and other LLVM project x32 patches. The GCC 4.8.0 release this year also improved the situation for x32. Some people don't see the ABI as being worthwhile when it still requires 64-bit processors and the performance benefits aren't very convincing for all workloads to make maintaining an extra ABI worthwhile. Would you find the x32 ABI useful?"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Linux+x32+ABI+Not+Catching+Wind%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F19KWOhM"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F2025228%2Flinux-x32-abi-not-catching-wind%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/2025228/linux-x32-abi-not-catching-wind?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/2025228/linux-x32-abi-not-catching-wind?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594927&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352e2e9e/sc/5/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842205650/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e2e9e/sc/5/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842205650/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e2e9e/sc/5/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842205650/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e2e9e/sc/5/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842205650/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e2e9e/sc/5/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842205650/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e2e9e/sc/5/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842205650/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e2e9e/sc/5/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842205650/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e2e9e/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842205650/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e2e9e/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842205650/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e2e9e/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/bCHReL4GUAE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
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      <dc:date>2013-12-24T23:20:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>try-a-bigger-sail</slash:department>
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      <title>Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FlK8nWUSuLA/story01.htm</link>
      <description>An article from Reuters explains how mergers involving T-Mobile and Time Warner Cable are likely to face a high level of scrutiny from the Obama Administration. Officials are wary of allowing any more power to consolidate among the huge corporations dominating the industry. A merger with one of the smaller companies would have a much easier time gaining approval. "Regulators could, on the other hand, welcome transactions that bolster new entrants, such as one combining satellite TV service provider Dish Network Corp with T-Mobile, experts say. 'Dish/T-Mobile, from a regulatory standpoint, it would be a slam-dunk,' said Stifel analyst David Kaut. ... The FCC, in an annual report released in March, said competition in the wireless industry is 'highly concentrated.' Similarly, the Justice Department's assistant attorney general for antitrust, William Baer, has described the industry as 'not uniformly competitive.' 'The Department believes it is essential to maintain vigilance against any lessening of the intensity of competitive market forces,' Baer told the FCC in a filing in April related to an upcoming auction of low-frequency airwaves. The government's rejection of AT&amp;amp;T's $39 billion plan to buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom in 2011 remains the biggest shadow looming over big communications deals."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Don't+Expect+US+Approval+of+Huge+Telecom+Mergers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1hCR5wq"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F207220%2Fdont-expect-us-approval-of-huge-telecom-mergers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/207220/dont-expect-us-approval-of-huge-telecom-mergers?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/207220/dont-expect-us-approval-of-huge-telecom-mergers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594905&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352e171d/sc/21/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842190230/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e171d/sc/21/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842190230/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e171d/sc/21/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842190230/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e171d/sc/21/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842190230/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e171d/sc/21/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842190230/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e171d/sc/21/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842190230/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e171d/sc/21/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842190230/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e171d/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842190230/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e171d/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842190230/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352e171d/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/FlK8nWUSuLA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>business</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-24T22:19:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>it's-nice-to-have-options</slash:department>
      <slash:section>yro</slash:section>
      <slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
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      <title>How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FLrNlYx34eo/story01.htm</link>
      <description>An anonymous reader notes an article about how the tribulations of Healthcare.gov brought the idea of software testing into the public consciousness in a more detailed way than ever before. Quoting: "Suddenly, Americans are sitting at their kitchen tables &amp;ndash; in suburbs, in cities, on farms &amp;ndash; and talking about quality issues with a website. The average American was given nightly tutorials on load testing and performance bottlenecks when the site first launched, then crumbled moments later. We talked about whether the requirements were well-defined and the project schedule reasonably laid out. We talked about who owns the decision to launch and whether they were keeping appropriate track of milestones and iterations. ... When the media went from talking about the issues in the website to the process used to build the website was when things really got interesting. This is when software testers stepped out of the cube farm behind the coffee station and into the public limelight. Who were these people &amp;ndash; and were they incompetent or mistreated? Did the project leaders not allocate enough time for testing? Did they allocate time for testing but not time to react to the testing outcome? Did the testers run inadequate tests? Were there not enough testers? Did they not speak up about the issues? If they did, were they not forceful enough?"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=How+Healthcare.gov+Changed+the+Software+Testing+Conversation%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FK0K4ti"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F1929258%2Fhow-healthcaregov-changed-the-software-testing-conversation%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1929258/how-healthcaregov-changed-the-software-testing-conversation?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1929258/how-healthcaregov-changed-the-software-testing-conversation?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594831&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352dcec9/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842195272/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352dcec9/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842195272/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352dcec9/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842195272/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352dcec9/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842195272/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352dcec9/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842195272/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352dcec9/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842195272/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352dcec9/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842195272/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352dcec9/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842195272/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352dcec9/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842195272/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352dcec9/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/FLrNlYx34eo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>software</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-24T21:16:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>polls-say-software-testing-is-patriotic</slash:department>
      <slash:section>technology</slash:section>
      <slash:hit_parade>1,1,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
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      <title>Is Ruby Dying?</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aiyKTSOFnXY/story01.htm</link>
      <description>New submitter John Moses writes "I have been working with node.js a lot lately, and have been discussing with co-workers if node.js is taking steam away from Ruby at all. I think the popularity of the language is an important talking point when selecting a language and framework for a new project. A graph on the release date of gems over time could help determine an answer. The front page of RubyGems only shows data on the most popular, but I am really interested in seeing recent activity. My theory is that if developers' contributions to different gems is slowing down, then so is the popularity of the language."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Is+Ruby+Dying%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FK2Y7iQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F1826204%2Fis-ruby-dying%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1826204/is-ruby-dying?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1826204/is-ruby-dying?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594761&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352da338/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352da338/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352da338/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352da338/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352da338/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352da338/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352da338/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352da338/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842201057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352da338/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842201057/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352da338/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/aiyKTSOFnXY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>ruby</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-24T20:11:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>netcraft-confirms-it</slash:department>
      <slash:section>developers</slash:section>
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      <title>Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength</title>
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      <description>A new study has been published in Nature Geoscience (abstract) detailing how scientists correctly anticipated the location and strength of an earthquake earlier this year. On September 5th, a 7.6 earthquake rocked Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula. That region had seen earthquakes of (roughly) magnitude 7 in 1853, 1900, and 1950, so "geoscientists had forecast that a magnitude 7.7 to 7.8 quake should occur around the year 2000, plus or minus 20 years." "The Nicoya Peninsula is prone to earthquakes because it's an area of subduction, where the Cocos Plate is pushing underneath the Caribbean Plate, moving at a rate of about 8.5 centimeters per year. When regions such as this suddenly slip, they produce a megathrust earthquake. Most of the world's largest earthquakes &amp;mdash; including the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki quake in Japan in 2011 and the magnitude 9.15 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in 2004, both of which produced devastating tsunamis &amp;mdash; fall into this category. .. The close study of this region allowed scientists to calculate how much strain was building in the fault and in May 2012 they published a study in which they identified two locked spots capable of producing an earthquake similar to the one in 1950. In September of that year, the landward patch ruptured and produced the earthquake. The offshore one is still locked and capable of producing a substantial but smaller earthquake, an aftershock with a magnitude as high as 6.9, the researchers say."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Scientists+Predict+Earthquake's+Location+and+Strength%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1cm1prn"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F183229%2Fscientists-predict-earthquakes-location-and-strength%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/183229/scientists-predict-earthquakes-location-and-strength?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/183229/scientists-predict-earthquakes-location-and-strength?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594709&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352d89c2/sc/38/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842185621/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d89c2/sc/38/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842185621/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d89c2/sc/38/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842185621/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d89c2/sc/38/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842185621/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d89c2/sc/38/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842185621/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d89c2/sc/38/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842185621/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d89c2/sc/38/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842185621/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d89c2/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842185621/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d89c2/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842185621/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d89c2/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Vkv6GOhgzCk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>science</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-24T19:10:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>shaking-up-the-seismology-community</slash:department>
      <slash:section>science</slash:section>
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      <title>A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lf5MDXFLliM/story01.htm</link>
      <description>Like many other review sites, it seems that MacWorld can hardly find enough good things to say about the new Mac Pro, even while conceding it's probably not right for many users. 9to5 Mac has assembled a lot of the early reviews, including The Verge's, which has one of the coolest shots of its nifty design, which stacks up well against the old Pro's nifty design. The reviews mostly boil down to this: If you're in a field where you already make use of a high-end Mac for tasks like video editing, the newest one lives up to its hype.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=A+Flood+of+Fawning+Reviews+For+Apple's+Latest+%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1ldu8Q9"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F184208%2Fa-flood-of-fawning-reviews-for-apples-latest%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/184208/a-flood-of-fawning-reviews-for-apples-latest?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/184208/a-flood-of-fawning-reviews-for-apples-latest?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594711&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352d0b50/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842183800/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d0b50/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842183800/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d0b50/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842183800/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d0b50/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842183800/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d0b50/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842183800/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d0b50/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842183800/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d0b50/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842183800/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d0b50/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842183800/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d0b50/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842183800/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352d0b50/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/lf5MDXFLliM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>upgrades</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-24T18:08:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>nifty-design</slash:department>
      <slash:section>apple</slash:section>
      <slash:hit_parade>4,3,2,2,1,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
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      <title>Upload a Spoof Video, Go To Jail (In Dubai)</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3Ipq54IYa-U/story01.htm</link>
      <description>Taco Cowboy writes with news, as reported by the BBC, that eight people have been imprisoned in Dubai for creating a spoof video about youth culture in that country, for which they were accused of acting "with the intent of inciting to actions, or publishing or disseminating any information, news, caricatures, or other images liable to endanger state security and its higher interests or infringe on the public order." "The video, posted to YouTube, was a gentle satire on young men in the Satwa residential suburb of Dubai who adopt a 'gangsta' pose despite living the sedate, prosperous lifestyle more usually associated with Dubai residents."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Upload+a+Spoof+Video%2C+Go+To+Jail+(In+Dubai)%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FK01p5C"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F1656209%2Fupload-a-spoof-video-go-to-jail-in-dubai%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1656209/upload-a-spoof-video-go-to-jail-in-dubai?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1656209/upload-a-spoof-video-go-to-jail-in-dubai?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594607&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352cce41/sc/38/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842148323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352cce41/sc/38/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842148323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352cce41/sc/38/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842148323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352cce41/sc/38/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842148323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352cce41/sc/38/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842148323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352cce41/sc/38/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842148323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352cce41/sc/38/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842148323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352cce41/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842148323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352cce41/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842148323/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352cce41/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/3Ipq54IYa-U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>censorship</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-24T16:57:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>little-touchy</slash:department>
      <slash:section>yro</slash:section>
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      <title>2013: an Ominous Year For Warnings and Predictions</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SGNZaULl0Go/story01.htm</link>
      <description>dcblogs writes "This year may be remembered for its striking number of reports and warning of calamitous events. The National Intelligence Council released its Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report that included a number of dire possibilities ahead, including the prospect of a catastrophic solar storm, on par with the 1859 Carrington Event. Historical records suggest a return period of 50 years for a repeat of the Quebec-level storm that knocked out the power for 6 million in 1989, and 150 years for very extreme storms, such as the Carrington Event, according to Lloyd's, in a report this year. Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory recently demonstrated in tests that 'geomagnetic disturbances have the power to disrupt and possibly destroy electrical transformers, the backbone of our nation's utility grid.' This was also the year the average daily level of CO2 reached a concentration above 400 parts per million. In a recent National Academies report this year, 'Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises,' scientists recommend creation of a global early warning system to alert mankind to abrupt climate changes. A recent paper in Nature, Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time, said financial trading systems are driving transaction times down to the speed of light, and 'the quickest that someone can notice potential danger and physically react, is approximately 1 second.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=2013%3A+an+Ominous+Year+For+Warnings+and+Predictions%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FJaYoQ3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F1556217%2F2013-an-ominous-year-for-warnings-and-predictions%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1556217/2013-an-ominous-year-for-warnings-and-predictions?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1556217/2013-an-ominous-year-for-warnings-and-predictions?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594529&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352c1667/sc/8/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842164940/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1667/sc/8/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842164940/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1667/sc/8/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842164940/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1667/sc/8/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842164940/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1667/sc/8/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842164940/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1667/sc/8/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842164940/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1667/sc/8/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842164940/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1667/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842164940/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1667/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842164940/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1667/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/SGNZaULl0Go" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>earth</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-24T15:58:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>it's-all-here-in-the-quatrain</slash:department>
      <slash:section>news</slash:section>
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      <title>Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mgl64FHUHIU/story01.htm</link>
      <description>Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Edward Snowden met with reporters from the Washington Post for fourteen hours and in his first interview since June reflected at length about surveillance, democracy and the meaning of the documents he exposed. 'For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won,' says Snowden. 'All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago. Right now, all we are looking at are stretch goals.' Snowden says that the NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events. But Snowden upended the agency on its own turf. 'You recognize that you're going in blind, that there's no model,' says Snowden, acknowledging that he had no way to know whether the public would share his views. 'But when you weigh that against the alternative, which is not to act, you realize that some analysis is better than no analysis. Because even if your analysis proves to be wrong, the marketplace of ideas will bear that out.' Snowden succeeded because the NSA, accustomed to watching without being watched, faces scrutiny it has not endured since the 1970s, or perhaps ever, and says people who accuse him of disloyalty mistake his purpose. 'I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Snowden+Says+His+Mission+Is+Accomplished%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F19nnash"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F149210%2Fsnowden-says-his-mission-is-accomplished%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/149210/snowden-says-his-mission-is-accomplished?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/149210/snowden-says-his-mission-is-accomplished?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594287&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352c1ebb/sc/38/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842144204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1ebb/sc/38/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842144204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1ebb/sc/38/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842144204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1ebb/sc/38/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842144204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1ebb/sc/38/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842144204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1ebb/sc/38/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842144204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1ebb/sc/38/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842144204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1ebb/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842144204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1ebb/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842144204/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352c1ebb/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/mgl64FHUHIU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>government</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-24T15:00:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
      <slash:department>so-where's-the-banner?</slash:department>
      <slash:section>yro</slash:section>
      <slash:hit_parade>8,7,1,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
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      <title>LinuxDevices Content Returns To the Web</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RTArv56jYr4/story01.htm</link>
      <description>DeviceGuru writes "One of most widely respected repositories of embedded and mobile Linux news and information has just returned to the web. LinuxDevices.com, which tracked the evolution of embedded and mobile Linux from an unknown player to being at the heart of billions of mobile and embedded devices, transferred from Ziff Davis Enterprise to QuinStreet through an acquisition two years ago, then went dormant for a year, and finally vanished from the web in May. Now, through an arrangement with QuinStreet, more than 14,000 news items and articles are back online in the form of a LinuxDevices Archive, hosted by LinuxGizmos.com. The archive is searchable from a calendar interface that lets you click on any month of any year between 1999 and 2012, to see what was going on in that time period."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=LinuxDevices+Content+Returns+To+the+Web%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1c3j7Pp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F1348231%2Flinuxdevices-content-returns-to-the-web%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1348231/linuxdevices-content-returns-to-the-web?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/1348231/linuxdevices-content-returns-to-the-web?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4594241&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352bb0f2/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842141468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352bb0f2/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842141468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352bb0f2/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842141468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352bb0f2/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842141468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352bb0f2/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842141468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352bb0f2/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842141468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352bb0f2/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842141468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352bb0f2/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842141468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352bb0f2/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842141468/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352bb0f2/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/RTArv56jYr4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>android</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2013-12-24T14:04:00Z</dc:date>
      <slash:department>battling-the-memory-hole</slash:department>
      <slash:section>linux</slash:section>
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      <title>Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back</title>
      <link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RC2oaKl8osg/story01.htm</link>
      <description>An anonymous reader writes with the latest news about the aftermath of the Silk Road shutdown "From the article: 'Ulbricht ... said in a notarised December 11 statement that he believes the virtual currency should be returned to him because Bitcoins are "not subject to seizure" by federal law. Ulbricht, 29, now admits the Bitcoin fortune is his &amp;mdash; even though he's previously denied any wrongdoing regarding Silk Road and claimed through his lawyer that the feds arrested the wrong guy.' So not only has he now confirmed his link to the site, and confirmed the money is his, but also means that a few precedents will be set. Is it seizable? Is it just 'copying data?'" Relatedly, three alleged moderators of Silk Road were indicted on Friday.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ulbricht+Admits+Seized+Bitcoins+Are+His+and+Wants+Them+Back%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F18JqqO5"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F24%2F0318204%2Fulbricht-admits-seized-bitcoins-are-his-and-wants-them-back%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/0318204/ulbricht-admits-seized-bitcoins-are-his-and-wants-them-back?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/0318204/ulbricht-admits-seized-bitcoins-are-his-and-wants-them-back?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=4591965&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/352b5aff/sc/36/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br clear='all'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842184985/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352b5aff/sc/36/rc/1/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842184985/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352b5aff/sc/36/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842184985/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352b5aff/sc/36/rc/2/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842184985/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352b5aff/sc/36/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842184985/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352b5aff/sc/36/rc/3/rc.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842184985/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352b5aff/sc/36/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842184985/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352b5aff/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/184842184985/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352b5aff/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/184842184985/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/352b5aff/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/RC2oaKl8osg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Unknown Lamer</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>bitcoin</dc:subject>
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