Thursday, October 20, 2011

[Slashdot] Headlines for 2011-10-21

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Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets)
from the sounds-pretty-good-to-me dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @11:46 (Government)
with 1944 comments
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1541224/ron-paul-suggests-axing-5-us-federal-departments-and-budgets?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion
from the incentives-and-disincentives dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @09:32 (Education)
with 849 comments
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1243212/us-student-loans-exceed-1-trillion?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law
from the this-is-pretty-nuts dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @16:26 (Bitcoin)
with 480 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1956211/legal-tender-maybe-not-says-louisiana-law?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer
from the all-the-better-to-track-you-with dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, @04:16 (EU)
with 443 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/0311234/eu-debates-installing-a-black-box-on-your-computer?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Android Source Code Gone For Good?
from the not-for-your-eyes dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @22:40 (Android)
with 344 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/012227/android-source-code-gone-for-good?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Reuters Reports Death of Gaddafi In Libyan City of Sirte
from the now-you-can-spell-his-name-however-you-want dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @10:16 (News)
with 287 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1334214/reuters-reports-death-of-gaddafi-in-libyan-city-of-sirte?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway
from the papers-please dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, @18:49 (Security)
with 258 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2212225/tsa-doing-random-truck-searches-on-tennessee-highway?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ubuntu Turns 7
from the lots-of-work-and-much-success dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @09:53 (Ubuntu)
with 219 comments
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1320231/ubuntu-turns-7?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source
from the what-order-will-emerge? dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @14:18 (Software)
with 208 comments
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1757226/os-x-notifier-app-growl-goes-closed-source?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

ACTA Signed By 8 of 11 Participating Countries
from the authority-to-engage-in-trainwrecks dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @08:52 (Piracy)
with 202 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1228255/acta-signed-by-8-of-11-participating-countries?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Google+ To End Real Names Policy
from the just-keep-an-eye-on-the-birdie dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @15:21 (Google)
with 178 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1845252/google-to-end-real-names-policy?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

French Court Orders ISP To Block Police Misconduct Website
from the don't-look-at-that dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, @01:20 (Censorship)
with 169 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/0259217/french-court-orders-isp-to-block-police-misconduct-website?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks
from the we-all-win-when-top-gear-wins dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @18:03 (The Courts)
with 152 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2155243/high-court-rules-in-favor-of-top-gear-over-tesla-remarks?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program
from the ungrateful-whelps dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @13:56 (Books)
with 150 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1624223/librarian-attacks-amazons-kindle-lending-program?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Paywalled NYT Now Has 300,000 Online Subscribers
from the hopefully-you-won't-have-to-log-in dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @14:39 (The Media)
with 150 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1810247/paywalled-nyt-now-has-300000-online-subscribers?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

When Political Mapping Leaks Into Science Research
from the dashed-line-means-prison dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @13:13 (China)
with 138 comments
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1557205/when-political-mapping-leaks-into-science-research?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ask Slashdot: Computer Test Lab Set-Up For Home?
from the why-we-didn't-have-homes-or-feet dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @12:30 (Cloud)
with 117 comments
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1612259/ask-slashdot-computer-test-lab-set-up-for-home?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

MC Hammer Launches a Search Engine
from the can't-find-this dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, @11:25 (The Internet)
with 113 comments
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/157222/mc-hammer-launches-a-search-engine?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders
from the what-is-your-favorite-algorithm dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @17:21 (Facebook)
with 108 comments
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2025241/gnarly-programming-challenges-help-recruit-coders?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

A Vigorous Discussion of Our Future In Space
from the how-amazing-was-it dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @12:06 (Space)
with 87 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1518236/a-vigorous-discussion-of-our-future-in-space?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

China Says Its Internet Policies Are Open and Clear
from the do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, @19:34 (Censorship)
with 80 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2217201/china-says-its-internet-policies-are-open-and-clear?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

British Police Accused of Stealing Software
from the was-that-wrong? dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, @08:09 (Crime)
with 74 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/0342209/british-police-accused-of-stealing-software?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

SMH Outs Copyright-Violation Hunters As Porn-Pushing Brothers
from the mixed-motives dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @11:01 (Media)
with 66 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1255238/smh-outs-copyright-violation-hunters-as-porn-pushing-brothers?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD
from the want-want-want-want dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @18:24 (Data Storage)
with 58 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2147243/ocz-releases-first-1tb-laptop-ssd?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Open Source CPUs Coming To a Club Near You?
from the more-the-better dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @16:05 (Graphics)
with 34 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/193245/open-source-cpus-coming-to-a-club-near-you?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Federated Media Lands WordPress.com Deal
from the ad-for-your-thoughts dept.
posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, @20:25 (Advertising)
with 33 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/19/2258227/federated-media-lands-wordpresscom-deal?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Tokai University Team Wins World Solar Challenge
from the congratulations-all-around dept.
posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, @08:30 (Australia)
with 23 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1217231/tokai-university-team-wins-world-solar-challenge?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

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