Friday, January 6, 2012

[Slashdot] Headlines for 2012-01-07

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Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria?
from the manholes-are-round-to-accommodate-ninja-turtles dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @09:30 (Programming)
with 597 comments
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1334246/are-brain-teasers-good-hiring-criteria?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like
from the recording-for-posterity dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @12:24 (Transportation)
with 570 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1723238/what-a-black-box-data-dump-looks-like?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams?
from the tip-well dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @17:26 (Government)
with 476 comments
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/224234/ask-slashdot-whats-the-best-way-to-deal-with-roving-tsa-teams?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Why Fuel Efficiency Advances Haven't Translated To Better Gas Mileage
from the bigger-better-faster dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @18:09 (Transportation)
with 403 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/2255235/why-fuel-efficiency-advances-havent-translated-to-better-gas-mileage?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

US Report Sees Perils To America's Tech Future
from the cutting-into-our-tv-time dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @13:54 (Government)
with 303 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1848246/us-report-sees-perils-to-americas-tech-future?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Apple Threatens Steve Jobs Doll Maker With Lawsuit
from the no-doll-for-you dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 05, @22:17 (China)
with 300 comments
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/0041224/apple-threatens-steve-jobs-doll-maker-with-lawsuit?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators
from the that-link-will-cost-you dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 05, @20:06 (Media)
with 277 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/004211/ap-and-28-news-groups-to-collect-fees-from-aggregators?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Iran Developing 'Halal' Domestic Intranet
from the taking-their-toys-and-going-home dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @08:48 (Censorship)
with 218 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1322206/iran-developing-halal-domestic-intranet?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Apple Patents Power Adapter That Recovers Lost Passwords
from the charging-for-security dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @11:40 (Crime)
with 187 comments
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1639202/apple-patents-power-adapter-that-recovers-lost-passwords?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Microsoft In Talks To Buy Nokia's Smartphone Division?
from the how-much-were-you-asking? dept.
posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 05, @19:18 (Microsoft)
with 183 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/05/2325227/microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-nokias-smartphone-division?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Shopping Center Tracking System Condemned by Civil Rights Campaigners
from the on-the-do-not-track-list dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday January 06, @03:08 (Privacy)
with 151 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/0255217/shopping-center-tracking-system-condemned-by-civil-rights-campaigners?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

US 'Space Warplane' Spying On Chinese Spacelab
from the it-is-now-the-future dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @10:54 (China)
with 150 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1543222/us-space-warplane-spying-on-chinese-spacelab?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

French Court Frowns On Autocomplete, Tells Google To Remove Searches
from the la-coste-has-an-esalligator dept.
posted by timothy on Friday January 06, @18:44 (Google)
with 142 comments
http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/2327246/french-court-frowns-on-autocomplete-tells-google-to-remove-searches?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Canadian Gov't Considers Plan To Block Public Domain
from the victory-for-dead-authors dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @13:06 (Canada)
with 134 comments
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1749239/canadian-govt-considers-plan-to-block-public-domain?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

No, SETI Has Not Detected Alien Signals From Space
from the feel-free-to-panic-anyway-though dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @14:36 (Space)
with 129 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1935210/no-seti-has-not-detected-alien-signals-from-space?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Researchers Create First Genetically Modified Monkeys
from the didn't-we-just-see-this-movie dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @10:12 (Biotech)
with 123 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/143204/researchers-create-first-genetically-modified-monkeys?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Symantec Looks Into Claims of Stolen Source Code
from the all-your-code-are-belong-to-us dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday January 06, @00:27 (Security)
with 111 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/0243220/symantec-looks-into-claims-of-stolen-source-code?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ohm's Law Survives To the Atomic Level
from the smaller-the-better dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday January 06, @08:05 (Science)
with 100 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/044208/ohms-law-survives-to-the-atomic-level?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Solo Explorer Begins Bicycle Journey To South Pole
from the things-i-really-don't-want-to-ever-do dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @15:59 (Transportation)
with 99 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/209235/solo-explorer-begins-bicycle-journey-to-south-pole?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Is the Canadian Arctic the Future of Astronomy?
from the planets-and-poutine dept.
posted by samzenpus on Friday January 06, @05:35 (Canada)
with 93 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/0410207/is-the-canadian-arctic-the-future-of-astronomy?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Drones Within a Drone Riding a Balloon
from the unidentifiable-flying-object dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @15:17 (The Military)
with 85 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1941200/drones-within-a-drone-riding-a-balloon?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Ants Turned Into 'Supersoldiers'
from the ok-science-we're-through dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @17:01 (Science)
with 57 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/2141232/ants-turned-into-supersoldiers?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Negative Irreproducible Tweets For Science Publishing
from the but-let's-not-call-them-that dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @16:42 (Communications)
with 35 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/2113223/negative-irreproducible-tweets-for-science-publishing?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Mozilla Public License 2.0 Released
from the expect-3.0-beta-tomorrow dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @13:25 (Mozilla)
with 33 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1752240/mozilla-public-license-20-released?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

NASA Launches Open Source Portal
from the not-your-typical-nasa-launch dept.
posted by Soulskill on Friday January 06, @14:59 (NASA)
with 26 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1957205/nasa-launches-open-source-portal?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

A Whale's Virtual Reality
from the sounds-like-a-good-video-game dept.
posted by timothy on Friday January 06, @18:22 (Science)
with 11 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/2321238/a-whales-virtual-reality?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

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