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Videos and Report From Embedded Linux Conference
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology
SlashdotThomas Petazzoni writes "The fourth edition of Embedded Linux Conference was held from April 15 to 17 in Mountain View, California read more »
A View From Inside the OLPC Project
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdoticknay writes "Here's an interesting rant on the OLPC from someone who worked there, including: 'The core mistake of the present S read more »
Comparing 3G Networks
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdotbsk_cw writes "Brian Nadel got hold of cellular network cards from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, and tried them out with a Lenovo read more »
Quantum Cryptography Broken, and Fixed
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdotschliz writes in with research out of Sweden in which researchers showed that, looking at a quantum cryptographic system as a whol read more »
UK Agency Files OOXML Complaint, EU Demurs
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology SlashdotChristopher Blanc writes to let us know that although BECTA, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, has fil read more »
Terrafugia CEO Responds To "Flying Car" Criticism
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdotwaderoush writes "The majority of the comments on last week's Slashdot post It's Not a Flying Car — It's A Drivable Airplane read more »
Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdotmytrip notes a News.com article reporting that Google has begun blurring faces in its Street View service, which has spawned priva read more »
Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdotnuke-alwin writes "Stephen Hawking has traveled to South Africa in search of Africa's Einsteins. The project will create Africa's read more »
Internet Explorer Gets More del.icio.us
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Search Engines Yahoo! Search BlogSince many del.icio.us users use Internet Explorer as their primary browser, the del.icio.us team has announced an early beta rele read more »
Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdotesocid writes "WorldWide Telescope, developed by Microsoft's research arm, knits together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, read more »
Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology SlashdotCharter Communications has begun sending letters to its customers informing them that, in the name of an "enhanced user experience read more »
Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdotdmbasso writes "Continuing its strategy to support FOSS application on the Windows platform, Microsoft mailed the Blender develope read more »
How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdotjyosim writes "The Chronicle of Higher Ed got a briefing at RIAA headquarters on how the group catches pirates. They just use Lime read more »
Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology SlashdotBrianGKUAC writes "Fedora 9 has been released as of 10 AM Eastern Time this morning. Release notes can be found here. Some of the read more »
Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology SlashdotSecurityBob writes "Debian package maintainers tend to very often modify the source code of the package they are maintaining so th read more »
4D Analogue of Megaminx Puzzle
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology Slashdotroice writes "The crazy hypercubists who created the 4D and 5D Rubik's cubes (here are previous Slashdot posts on the 4-D one and read more »
Free (As In Speech) Beer, V2.0
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology SlashdotAgentPaper writes "Three years ago we discussed an open source brewing project in which a Danish brewer made his beer recipes avai read more »
Seeking Signs of Ancient Martian Life
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology SlashdotStonyandCher writes in about a collaboration between NASA and a leading Australian exploration and mining scientist, Dr. Brent McI read more »
Earthquake In China
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Technology SlashdotSeveral readers sent in links on the earthquake that hit 10 hours ago near the Sichuan city of Chengdu in China. The Telegraph foc read more »
"Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta
Date : 2008 05 12 Category : Technology Slashdotreligious freak sends word of the public beta of Powerset, a closely watched San Francisco startup that promises an "understanding read more »
Using Microwaves To Cook Ballast Stowaways
Date : 2008 05 12 Category : Technology SlashdotSmivs writes "US researchers say they have developed an effective way to kill unwanted plants and animals that hitch a ride in the read more »