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Debian's Testing Branch Nears Completion
Date : 2008 08 14
SlashdotDeviceGuru writes "With Debian Lenny (aka 'testing') poised to displace Etch as the popular Linux distribution's 'stable' branch p read more »
reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts
Date : 2008 08 14 Slashdotsciencehabit writes "Computer scientists have developed a program, called reCAPTCHA, which is being used in lieu of CAPTCHA by sev read more »
Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments
Date : 2008 08 14 SlashdotLoopback writes "According to this article on ZDNet, it appears that I'm not the only one waiting for my NetFlix movies. It seems read more »
Using Photographs To Enhance Videos
Date : 2008 08 14 Slashdotseussman71 writes with a link to some very interesting research out of the University of Washington that employs "a method of usin read more »
What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road?
Date : 2008 08 14 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "In a prediction of the open-source future, InfoWeek speculates on What Linux Will Look Like In 2012. T read more »
30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging
Date : 2008 08 14 SlashdotCutie Pi writes "In a recent Rasmussen poll looking at the public's attitudes toward a possible revival of the fairness doctrine b read more »
Slashdot's Disagree Mail
Date : 2008 08 14 SlashdotI am responsible for reading most of the help requests sent to Slashdot. Most of the mail I get in a day is what you would expect, read more »
Violent Video Gaming Comes To the Wii
Date : 2008 08 14 SlashdotTuringTest writes "In an attempt to bring the Wii closer to the hardcore gamer's taste, Sega is preparing to release MadWorld, a v read more »
Slashdot Announces Idle Section
Date : 2008 08 14 SlashdotFor the last few months we've been beta testing Idle.slashdot.org, our offtopic humor/meme/viral video/pictures section. Like many read more »
Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs
Date : 2008 08 14 Slashdothazehead writes "The growing trend of folks refusing to wait for big-car manufacturers to deliver mainstream electric vehicles is read more »
The Evolution of Sega
Date : 2008 08 14 SlashdotGamasutra is running an interview with Simon Jeffrey, Sega of America's CEO, discussing the gradual change of the company from a h read more »
Literacy Bridge Founder Answers Your Questions
Date : 2008 08 14 SlashdotYou asked Cliff Schmidt, founder and executive director of Literacy Bridge, about charity, education, and the "talking book", and read more »
Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones
Date : 2008 08 14 SlashdotPreedit writes "Continuing its defiance of Apple, Psystar is reassuring customers that it is "definitely still shipping" its line read more »
'Slow' Light To Speed Up the Net
Date : 2008 08 13 SlashdotJPawlak writes "Researchers believe that it may be possible to increase the speed of the Internet by slowing down certain parts of read more »
Game Developer's Response To Pirates
Date : 2008 08 13 Slashdotcliffski writes "A few days ago, indie PC games developer Positech publicly called for people pirating their games to explain why, read more »
Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password
Date : 2008 08 13 Slashdotnarramissic writes "We all know well the perils of password reuse. But what about the information used to reset passwords? Many si read more »
Police Secretly Planting GPS Devices On Cars
Date : 2008 08 13 Slashdotbfwebster writes "The Washington Post has a long investigative article on how more and more police departments are secretly planti read more »
UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage
Date : 2008 08 13 SlashdotBarence writes "Big Brother Britain moved a step further today with the news that the Government will store 'a billion incidents o read more »
Mechanical Reasoners Battle It Out In Sydney Today
Date : 2008 08 13 SlashdotStephan Schulz writes "Today, the CADE ATP System Competition will pit about 20 of the worlds most powerful mechanical mathematici read more »
Let the Games Be Doped
Date : 2008 08 13 SlashdotHugh Pickens writes "John Tierney poses the question in the New York Times 'what if we let athletes do whatever they wanted to exc read more »
Strong Court Ruling Upholds the Artistic License
Date : 2008 08 13 Slashdotdilute writes "The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (an authoritative court that normally deals with patent law), has i read more »