Monday, October 24, 2011

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Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program
from the seems-about-right dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @09:30 (Education)
with 1563 comments
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1316228/ron-paul-wants-to-end-the-federal-student-loan-program?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy
from the free-markets-for-the-rest-of-us dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @12:10 (The Almighty Buck)
with 484 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1542240/the-147-corporations-controlling-most-of-the-global-economy?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile
from the all-that-dessert-makes-you-sluggish dept.
posted by timothy on Sunday October 23, @20:27 (Android)
with 338 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0016241/android-ics-will-require-16gb-ram-to-compile?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans
from the more-work-for-the-robots dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @17:02 (Earth)
with 302 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/207259/earth-officially-home-to-7-billion-humans?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans
from the too-good-to-last dept.
posted by timothy on Sunday October 23, @23:30 (Wireless Networking)
with 291 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0130214/sprint-cutting-unlimited-4g-data-plans?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ask The Bad Astronomer
from the but-nothing-dirty-this-time dept.
posted by timothy on Monday October 24, @14:15 (Space)
with 290 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1734252/ask-the-bad-astronomer?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Wikileaks Suspends Publishing Of Cables Due To "Financial Blockade"
from the gotta-pay-for-dem-oracle-licenses-somehow dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @10:50 (Politics)
with 276 comments
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1419239/wikileaks-suspends-publishing-of-cables-due-to-financial-blockade?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops?
from the the-internet-tells-me-this-is-easier-today dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @19:08 (GNU is Not Unix)
with 267 comments
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/221245/ask-slashdot-gnulinux-laptops?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off
from the two-more-years-of-stagnant-graphics dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @15:58 (PlayStation (Games))
with 234 comments
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1943254/next-gen-game-consoles-still-years-off?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Microsoft Now Collects Royalties From Over Half of All Android Devices
from the where-can-i-get-me-some-patents dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @08:48 (Android)
with 219 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1228232/microsoft-now-collects-royalties-from-over-half-of-all-android-devices?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up
from the remember-to-only-accept-domestic-subsidies dept.
posted by timothy on Monday October 24, @08:07 (Power)
with 214 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0022200/solar-panel-trade-war-heats-up?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools
from the principals-need-golden-parachutes dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @15:38 (Education)
with 204 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1836248/bill-gates-on-what-business-can-teach-schools?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

IT Shops Coping With Overloaded 2.4GHz WiFi Band
from the crowding-the-ethertubes dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @14:56 (Wireless Networking)
with 145 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1731204/it-shops-coping-with-overloaded-24ghz-wifi-band?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU
from the hardware-wants-to-be-free-too dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @12:50 (Open Source)
with 144 comments
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1445250/linux-31-released-with-support-for-the-openrisc-cpu?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs
from the improve-on-reality dept.
posted by timothy on Monday October 24, @02:19 (Graphics)
with 128 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/0513215/rendering-synthetic-objects-into-old-photographs?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Is Online Property Real? Lawyer Says Sort-Of
from the i-paid-10-btc-for-this-dire-wolf dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @10:11 (Games)
with 119 comments
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1335252/is-online-property-real-lawyer-says-sort-of?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Public Supports Geo-Engineering
from the turn-antarctica-into-a-penguin-hotel dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @16:19 (Earth)
with 102 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1941257/public-supports-geo-engineering?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC
from the will-it-still-run-quake dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @15:17 (Hardware Hacking)
with 88 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1859224/build-the-2006-prototype-25-pc?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

10-Centimeter Single-Celled Organisms Photographed 6 Miles Underwater
from the beware-the-leviathan dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @17:23 (Science)
with 77 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2047240/10-centimeter-single-celled-organisms-photographed-6-miles-underwater?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Manufacturing Dreams
from the starring-leonardo-dicaprio dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @18:27 (Medicine)
with 66 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2129202/manufacturing-dreams?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Bug Opens Chrome to Easy Remote Code Execution
from the social-engineering-never-works dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @11:31 (Bug)
with 55 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/151238/bug-opens-chrome-to-easy-remote-code-execution?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Predicting When Space Junk Will Come Home To Earth
from the not-in-my-back-yard-unfortunately dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @13:32 (Space)
with 39 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1710205/predicting-when-space-junk-will-come-home-to-earth?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Analysis of Google Dart
from the google-announces-replacement-for-english dept.
posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday October 24, @19:52 (Google)
with 34 comments
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/2320244/analysis-of-google-dart?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

UK Team Misses Balloon Altitude Record, But Beats a Few Others
from the good-show-and-congratulations dept.
posted by timothy on Monday October 24, @05:07 (Communications)
with 32 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/23/2330244/uk-team-misses-balloon-altitude-record-but-beats-a-few-others?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Stanford Scientists Show Stretchable Skin-Like Sensor
from the teaching-androids-to-feel dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 24, @17:44 (Robotics)
with 16 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/214231/stanford-scientists-show-stretchable-skin-like-sensor?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

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