Friday, December 30, 2011

[Slashdot] Headlines for 2011-12-31

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Occupy Protesters Are Building a Facebook for the 99%
from the will-it-have-games? dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday December 30, @08:08 (Social Networks)
with 372 comments
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/0343205/occupy-protesters-are-building-a-facebook-for-the-99?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain?
from the food-for-thought dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @10:15 (Medicine)
with 252 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1445212/does-supersizing-supershrink-your-brain?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

New Group Paves Way For 2012 Online Primary
from the not-sure-if-want dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @11:40 (The Internet)
with 226 comments
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1553216/new-group-paves-way-for-2012-online-primary?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs
from the playing-with-somebody-else's-toys dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @08:50 (Facebook)
with 205 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1317216/open-source-increasingly-replaced-by-open-apis?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Doctorow: the Coming War On General-Purpose Computing
from the fought-with-dollar-bills dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @17:26 (DRM)
with 205 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/2159200/doctorow-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Verizon Backtracks On $2 Convenience Fee
from the people-have-spoken dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @16:42 (Businesses)
with 193 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/2059226/verizon-backtracks-on-2-convenience-fee?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

China Reveals Its Space Plans Up To 2016
from the moving-on-up dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 29, @21:09 (China)
with 190 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/016203/china-reveals-its-space-plans-up-to-2016?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise
from the time-to-incorporate-rorschach-verification-tech dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @13:07 (Security)
with 182 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1727257/malicious-qr-code-use-on-the-rise?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year?
from the just-use-2012-and-your-initials dept.
posted by timothy on Friday December 30, @18:50 (Security)
with 161 comments
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/2326226/ask-slashdot-changing-passwords-for-the-new-year?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw
from the choose-your-weapon dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday December 30, @05:05 (Security)
with 144 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/047203/attack-tool-released-for-wps-setup-flaw?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Court Rules Website Immune From Suit For Defamatory Posting
from the people-say-the-craziest-things dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 29, @19:44 (The Courts)
with 139 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/29/2320209/court-rules-website-immune-from-suit-for-defamatory-posting?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water?
from the at-the-water-store-duh dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @14:32 (Space)
with 131 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1817234/where-would-earth-like-planets-find-water?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Warrantless Wiretapping Decisions Issued By Ninth Circuit Court
from the win-some-lose-some dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @10:58 (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
with 123 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1549228/warrantless-wiretapping-decisions-issued-by-ninth-circuit-court?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

2011: Record Year For Airline Safety
from the tsa-rushes-to-take-credit dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @12:25 (Transportation)
with 121 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1635241/2011-record-year-for-airline-safety?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Samoa and Tokelau Are Skipping December 30th
from the custom-week-crafting dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @13:50 (Businesses)
with 120 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1810227/samoa-and-tokelau-are-skipping-december-30th?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Orangutans To Skype Between Zoos With iPads
from the 2011-in-a-nutshell dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @15:16 (Idle)
with 117 comments
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1853229/orangutans-to-skype-between-zoos-with-ipads?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Copyright Claim Sets Back Cognitive Impairment Testing
from the we-invented-the-question-mark dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @09:33 (Medicine)
with 110 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1321240/copyright-claim-sets-back-cognitive-impairment-testing?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet
from the i-too-remember-the-etch-a-sketch dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @18:07 (Android)
with 100 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/2211204/creating-the-worlds-cheapest-tablet?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

UK Ministry of Defense Improves War Games For Console Generation
from the a-war-you-can-relate-to dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 29, @23:07 (Government)
with 99 comments
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/0116232/uk-ministry-of-defense-improves-war-games-for-console-generation?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

HP Wanted $1.2B For WebOS and Palm
from the is-that-in-monopoly-money dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday December 30, @15:57 (HP)
with 91 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/2048237/hp-wanted-12b-for-webos-and-palm?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Transistor Made From Cotton Yarn
from the your-socks-want-more-ram dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday December 30, @02:02 (Hardware)
with 84 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/0217232/transistor-made-from-cotton-yarn?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

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