Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination
from the don't-take-medical-advice-from-nude-models dept.
posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 31, @08:18 (Medicine)
with 628 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/0542237/Measles-Resurgent-Due-To-Fear-of-Vaccination?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid
from the what-could-go-wrong? dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @13:30 (China)
with 402 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1656237/Chinese-Want-To-Capture-an-Asteroid?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Alloy Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel Using Sunlight
from the panacea-for-the-zeppelin-industry dept.
posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 31, @00:21 (Power)
with 331 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/015246/Alloy-Could-Produce-Hydrogen-Fuel-Using-Sunlight?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language
from the one-of-us-one-of-us dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday August 31, @11:17 (GNU is Not Unix)
with 331 comments
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1445203/Sixteen-Years-Later-GNU-Still-Needs-An-Extension-Language?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Apple's Chinese Suppliers Accused of Causing Significant Environmental Damage
from the spoonfull-of-mercury dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday August 31, @12:50 (China)
with 292 comments
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1626245/Apples-Chinese-Suppliers-Accused-of-Causing-Significant-Environmental-Damage?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger
from the but-ma-was-so-close-to-being-rebuilt dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday August 31, @12:01 (AT&T)
with 265 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1543256/Justice-Dept-Files-Antitrust-Complaint-Against-ATampT-and-T-Mobile-Merger?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Will Climate Engineering Ever Go Prime Time?
from the warm-up-the-hurricane-gun dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @14:20 (Science)
with 215 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1746218/Will-Climate-Engineering-Ever-Go-Prime-Time?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Wikileaks Reveals BitTorrent Lawsuit Background
from the one-copyright-regime-to-rule-them-all dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday August 31, @09:00 (Australia)
with 186 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1218220/Wikileaks-Reveals-BitTorrent-Lawsuit-Background?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

James Gosling Leaves Google
from the just-stopping-by dept.
posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 30, @20:12 (Google)
with 182 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/000250/James-Gosling-Leaves-Google?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Akamai Employee Tried To Sell Secrets To Israel
from the nobody-does-it-like-nedry dept.
posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 30, @22:13 (Privacy)
with 167 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/0114249/Akamai-Employee-Tried-To-Sell-Secrets-To-Israel?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Another Unreleased iPhone Lost by Employee In a Bar
from the I-think-I-saw-this-episode-already dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @18:20 (Iphone)
with 128 comments
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2132203/Another-Unreleased-iPhone-Lost-by-Employee-In-a-Bar?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels
from the fuel-panda-makes-fuel dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @10:51 (Power)
with 104 comments
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1348241/Panda-Poo-Yields-Key-To-Cheaper-Biofuels?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Juno Looks Back, Photographs Earth-Moon System
from the we-tread-upon-specks dept.
posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 31, @03:39 (Earth)
with 97 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/0551247/Juno-Looks-Back-Photographs-Earth-Moon-System?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

German Ban On <em>Doom</em> Finally Lifted
from the that-was-fast dept.
posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 31, @18:40 (Censorship)
with 77 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2024209/German-Ban-On-Doom-Finally-Lifted?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Chemical Cocktail Turns Mice Clear
from the thank-you-science dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @19:32 (Science)
with 75 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2223248/Chemical-Cocktail-Turns-Mice-Clear?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

The Crypto Project Revives Cypherpunk Ethic
from the blast-from-the-past dept.
posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 31, @02:23 (Privacy)
with 74 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/0424251/The-Crypto-Project-Revives-Cypherpunk-Ethic?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Localizing Language In the Brain
from the look-at-my-big-language-center-babe dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday August 31, @09:42 (Science)
with 69 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/136241/Localizing-Language-In-the-Brain?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Large Improvement in Graphene Photosensitivity Realized
from the we-demand-more-bits dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday August 31, @10:30 (The Internet)
with 67 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1356236/Large-Improvement-in-Graphene-Photosensitivity-Realized?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Book Review: CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development
from the read-all-about-it dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @15:57 (Book Reviews)
with 62 comments
http://books.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1627240/Book-Review-CoffeeScript-Accelerated-JavaScript-Development?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Hackers May Have Nabbed Over 200 SSL Certificates
from the from-bad-to-worse dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @19:11 (Security)
with 58 comments
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2221248/Hackers-May-Have-Nabbed-Over-200-SSL-Certificates?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Russia Close To Findings On Soyuz and Proton
from the who's-to-blame dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @15:09 (ISS)
with 56 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1756247/Russia-Close-To-Findings-On-Soyuz-and-Proton?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Record-Low Error Rate For Qubit Processor
from the top-of-the-class dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @16:45 (Hardware)
with 47 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1844252/Record-Low-Error-Rate-For-Qubit-Processor?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Swarmanoid 'Bots Rule Air, Land, Bookshelves
from the just-don't-tell-them-where-the-guns-are dept.
posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 31, @05:24 (Robotics)
with 40 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/0611250/Swarmanoid-Bots-Rule-Air-Land-Bookshelves?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

UCLA Develops Stretchable OLED Display
from the pulled-thin dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 31, @17:33 (Displays)
with 28 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2019240/UCLA-Develops-Stretchable-OLED-Display?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

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