Friday, October 28, 2011

[Slashdot] Headlines for 2011-10-29

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1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online
from the free-enegy-time dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @05:45 (Power)
with 688 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/030244/1-mw-cold-fusion-plant-supposedly-to-come-online?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source
from the free-music dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 27, @22:20 (IOS)
with 499 comments
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/0115247/apples-lossless-audio-codec-alac-now-open-source?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers
from the give-the-people-what-they-do-not-want dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @15:23 (Privacy)
with 497 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1921254/tsas-vipr-bites-rail-bus-and-ferry-passengers?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing
from the watch-where-you're-pointing-that-thing dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @00:49 (Security)
with 349 comments
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/019259/faa-goes-to-the-web-to-fight-laser-pointing?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market
from the taking-a-bite-out-of-apple dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @09:38 (Businesses)
with 332 comments
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1337252/samsung-takes-the-lead-in-the-smartphone-market?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

The RMS Tour Rider
from the no-question-unanswered dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @11:22 (GNU is Not Unix)
with 326 comments
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1432221/the-rms-tour-rider?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot
from the keep-it-fair dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @11:45 (Linux)
with 252 comments
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1527238/linux-foundation-releases-document-on-uefi-secure-boot?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had?
from the alternate-e-history dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @16:50 (Netscape)
with 182 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2017224/microsoft-tried-to-buy-netscape-suppose-they-had?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems
from the stop-glaring-at-me dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @11:03 (Displays)
with 180 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1443230/invisible-glass-solves-screen-reflection-problems?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Smarter Thread Scheduling Improves AMD Bulldozer Performance
from the almost-up-to-par dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @13:12 (AMD)
with 168 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1658212/smarter-thread-scheduling-improves-amd-bulldozer-performance?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering
from the trade-secret-my-son dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @13:55 (Microsoft)
with 165 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1734224/skype-goes-after-reverse-engineering?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

World's Biggest Gold Coin Minted In Australia
from the because-they-can dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @04:31 (Australia)
with 159 comments
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/0246227/worlds-biggest-gold-coin-minted-in-australia?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

ARM Goes 64-Bit With Its New ARMv8 Chip Architecture
from the new-and-improved dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @08:11 (Hardware)
with 136 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/036235/arm-goes-64-bit-with-its-new-armv8-chip-architecture?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Highly Efficient Oxygen Catalyst Found
from the fuel-for-the-cause dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @10:20 (Power)
with 128 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1344222/highly-efficient-oxygen-catalyst-found?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Meet Firefox's Built-In PDF Reader
from the must-include-web-browser dept.
posted by timothy on Friday October 28, @18:36 (Firefox)
with 121 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2223223/meet-firefoxs-built-in-pdf-reader?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Stars Found To Produce Complex Organic Compounds
from the galaxy-seeding dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @03:23 (Space)
with 87 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/0238221/stars-found-to-produce-complex-organic-compounds?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ask Slashdot: Image Recognition For Race Timing?
from the show-your-work dept.
posted by timothy on Friday October 28, @19:03 (Open Source)
with 85 comments
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2259218/ask-slashdot-image-recognition-for-race-timing?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Superluminal Neutrinos, Take Two
from the now-with-infinitely-more-scrutiny dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @08:55 (Opera)
with 84 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1254213/superluminal-neutrinos-take-two?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Asteroid Lutetia Revealed As a Protoplanet
from the planetary-life-begins-at-accretion dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @13:34 (Space)
with 82 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1712209/asteroid-lutetia-revealed-as-a-protoplanet?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Inside Facebook's Cyber-Security System
from the anti-social-network dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 27, @20:14 (Cloud)
with 59 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/27/2319243/inside-facebooks-cyber-security-system?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Four CAs Have Been Compromised Since June
from the four-whole-californias-wow dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @16:08 (The Internet)
with 52 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1954201/four-cas-have-been-compromised-since-june?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages
from the giving-up-the-ghost dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @17:33 (Blackberry)
with 46 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/212229/rim-helps-indian-authorities-access-blackberry-messages?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Blue Coat Concedes Its Devices Operating in Syria
from the hat-tip-to-jake dept.
posted by timothy on Friday October 28, @19:49 (Censorship)
with 46 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2330218/blue-coat-concedes-its-devices-operating-in-syria?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Agile Quadruped Robot Unveiled By Italian Roboticists
from the can-i-borrow-it-for-halloween dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @14:39 (Robotics)
with 43 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1756226/agile-quadruped-robot-unveiled-by-italian-roboticists?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules
from the thin-client-solutions dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @12:30 (Science)
with 39 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1629231/massively-parallel-computer-built-from-single-layer-of-molecules?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

New Coral Named After <em>Call of Duty: Black Ops</em>
from the Cnidarian-shooter dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday October 28, @01:29 (First Person Shooters (Games))
with 26 comments
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/0232201/new-coral-named-after-call-of-duty-black-ops?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Stanford's Open Source Human Motion Software
from the defining-the-mathematically-perfect-swagger dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, @18:15 (Medicine)
with 7 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/2111228/stanfords-open-source-human-motion-software?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

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