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Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps
Date : 2008 08 18
SlashdotAnti-Globalism sends along a PCWorld article outlining two technologies from Intel and Dell that do an end run around Windows. "De read more »
Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "The impending IPv4 address allocation shortage has lead to a lot of speculation on the future of IPv6 read more »
One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP?
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotCWmike writes "More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to Windows XP, either at the factory or by th read more »
Why One-time Passwords Suck For MITM Attacks
Date : 2008 08 18 Slashdotwhitehartstag writes "Black Hat 08 disclosed several SSL VPN and DNS vulnerabilities that caused several people to sit up and take read more »
Beijing 2008 In Lego
Date : 2008 08 18 Slashdotjedie noted an impressive rendering of the Beijing Olympics in Lego. Featuring 300,000 bricks, and 4,500 Lego, it was built by the read more »
RIAA 'Elektra V. Barker' Case Is Settled
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotNewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Elektra v. Barker, one of the leading cases repudiating the RIAA's 'making available' theory, has bee read more »
Archiving the History of Virtual Worlds
Date : 2008 08 18 Slashdoteldavojohn writes "Some members of the University of Texas are trying to create a repository to store the histories of online virt read more »
Bottom of the Barrel Book Reviews — The Lost Blogs
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotWe get a lot of books for review here at Slashdot. Most are sent out to users on our reviewer list within a few weeks. Others beco read more »
Grokking SCO's Demise
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "You have already heard the news that the SCO Group's US$5 billion threat against Linux is effectively read more »
Ask NewsTrust Founder Fabrice Florin About NewsTrust — Or Anything Else
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotNewsTrust is, to quote from the site's header, "Your guide to good journalism." Specifically, NewsTrust links to stories published read more »
Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotAnti-Globalism writes "In an age of digital manipulation, many people believe that snapshots and family photos need no longer stan read more »
Torvalds Says It's No Picnic To Become Major Linux Coder
Date : 2008 08 18 SlashdotJack Spine writes "Linus Torvalds has given an interview to ZDNet.co.uk about the trials and tribulations of becoming a Linux kern read more »
Obama's Evolving Stance On NASA
Date : 2008 08 18 Slashdotmknewman writes "The Houston Chronicle is reporting a change in Obama's stance on NASA, saying his position on space exploration c read more »
Dell Loses Bid To Trademark "Cloud Computing"
Date : 2008 08 17 Slashdot1sockchuck writes "The USPTO has issued a 'non-final determination' refusing Dell's request to trademark the term 'cloud computing read more »
Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water
Date : 2008 08 17 Slashdotplantsdoitsocanwe writes "An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to repl read more »
Canadians Battling Proposed Canadian DMCA
Date : 2008 08 17 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "CTV reports on how Canadians are fighting back against the Canadian DMCA. Led by Michael Geist, the Fa read more »
Getting Human Hands Back Into Digital Design
Date : 2008 08 17 SlashdotHugh Pickens writes "Using computers to model the physical world has become increasingly common as products as diverse as cars and read more »
Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet
Date : 2008 08 17 Slashdotperlow tips his blog entry over at ZDNet on why the Internet didn't melt when millions of users streamed 480i video for a week. Th read more »
Stars Could Shine In Many Universes
Date : 2008 08 17 SlashdotA commonplace of cosmologists who argue the anthropic principle is the assumption that if any or a few of the constants of nature read more »
Why Is Adobe Flash On Linux Still Broken?
Date : 2008 08 17 Slashdotmwilliamson writes "As I sit reading my morning paper online I still cannot view the embedded videos due to auto-detection of my F read more »
World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California
Date : 2008 08 17 SlashdotPickens writes "Two photovoltaic solar power plants will be built in San Luis Obispo County in California, covering 12.5 square mi read more »