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Friendster Going Strong In Asia, Maybe Soon In Court
Date : 2008 08 05
SlashdotDekortage writes "Remember Friendster? Long ago outrun and lapped by MySpace and Facebook, and a textbook case of social networkin read more »
Hot Water, Hot Earth
Date : 2008 08 05 SlashdotCalopteryx notes a New Scientist article on the discovery of "supercritical" water emerging from a vent in the Atlantic Ocean at 4 read more »
11 Charged In TJX, Other Breaches
Date : 2008 08 05 Slashdotcoondoggie writes "The Justice Department has charged 11 people in connection with the massive theft of credit card numbers from v read more »
Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale
Date : 2008 08 05 SlashdotPizzaFace writes "The Washington Post reports on the booming business of selling your medical treatment records. Today these are m read more »
California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL
Date : 2008 08 05 Slashdotbeezzie writes "Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a pay cut, to minimum wage of $6.55/hr,, for 200,000 read more »
Obscura Digital Demos "Minority Report"-Like Display
Date : 2008 08 05 SlashdotBarence and other readers sent along word of a demonstration by Obscura Digital of a new technology it's dubbed a multi-touch holo read more »
NYT Techie Night Life Reprogrammed
Date : 2008 08 05 Slashdotsecuritas writes "Almost a decade after the Internet bubble collapsed, the New York Times reports on the revival of the Silicon Al read more »
"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO
Date : 2008 08 05 SlashdotKozar_The_Malignant writes "A laptop containing the unencrypted security data for 33,000 travelers using the Clear system was stol read more »
Effective Optical Disc Repair?
Date : 2008 08 05 SlashdotCyberKnet writes "I have an extensive music collection on original CD media. While most of it is in impeccable condition, I have a read more »
Craigslist Prankster Sued, Argues DMCA Abuse
Date : 2008 08 05 Slashdotdestinyland writes "Though Sunday's New York Times dubbed him a spokesperson for internet trolls, Jason Fortuny's just been sued i read more »
USAF Violates DMCA, Escapes Unscathed
Date : 2008 08 04 Slashdoteldavojohn recommends coverage at Ars on a Byzantine case just thrown out by an appeals court. The US Air Force cracked the code t read more »
NASA's Mars News Is Not Life, But Perchlorate
Date : 2008 08 04 Slashdotleighklotz writes "In an update to the little green men story of not-life-on-Mars, NASA has twittered: 'The buzz this weekend was read more »
Source Claims 240K Kindles Sold
Date : 2008 08 04 SlashdotNaturalist writes "Exact data on (the Linux-powered) Kindle sales figures have been hard to come by. Amazon is notoriously tight-l read more »
Linux Pre-Installs In the UK Hit 2.8%
Date : 2008 08 04 Slashdotschliz alerts us to a story out of the UK PC distribution channel. It seems that the percentage of systems pre-installed with Linu read more »
University of Maryland Team Wins Robot Sub Competition
Date : 2008 08 04 SlashdotWilliam Cox writes "A team from the University of Maryland has won the 11th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Com read more »
RIAA's $222k Verdict Is Likely To Be Set Aside
Date : 2008 08 04 SlashdotNewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Apparently the RIAA's 'big gun' didn't fare so well this morning in Duluth, when he tried to persuade read more »
iPhone Nano To Be Launched By Christmas?
Date : 2008 08 04 Slashdotthe-s-dog writes writes to mention that while there have been many people wishing on a star for an iPhone nano, it seems that at l read more »
Why Microsoft Cozied up to Open Source at OSCON
Date : 2008 08 04 SlashdotThis year at OSCON it seemed that you couldn't throw a stone without hitting someone from Microsoft (and in fact, I'm sure several read more »
AMD Fusion Details Leaked
Date : 2008 08 04 SlashdotnegRo_slim writes "AMD has pushed Fusion as one of the main reasons to justify its acquisition of ATI. Since then, AMD's finances read more »
Diablo III Designer Defends New Look and Feel
Date : 2008 08 04 SlashdotIn response to a fair amount of angry outcry at the new look and feel for Diablo III, designer Jay Wilson has critiqued some fan-a read more »
Study Suggests Music Industry Embrace Piracy
Date : 2008 08 04 Slashdotunassimilatible writes to tell us that according to the Financial Times, the music industry should embrace illegal file-sharing we read more »