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AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos - (Thursday 12th of May 2011 12:45:05 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "The antarctic ocean reports that brass Obama's decision to withhold the
visual substantiation of Osama bin Laden's death has created a fundament disagreement between
the White House and the registered delegate Press, one of the largest  [...]

Writing Linux Kernel Functions In CUDA With KGPU - (Saturday 07th of May 2011 07:00:05 AM)

An unsigned reader writes "Until today, GPGPU reckoning was a userspace privilege because of
NVIDIA's closed-source policy and AMD's semi-open state. KGPU is a workaround to enable Linux
kernel functionality written in CUDA. Instead of figuring out GPU  [...]

Using Neutrons To Precisely Test Newton's Law of Gravity - (Tuesday 19th of April 2011 05:00:10 AM)

NotSanguine writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "The neutrons are shot between two parallel
plates, one above another and separated by about 25 micrometres — half a hair's width.
The upper plate absorbs neutrons, and the lower plate reflects  [...]

Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract - (Monday 18th of April 2011 03:45:09 AM)

Hugh Pickens writes "Judge Roger Hunt has unsealed the private agreement between Righthaven and
the Las Vegas Review-Journal that has allowed Righthaven to sue over more than 250 charities,
indigent hobby bloggers, reporters, and the newspaper's own sources,  [...]

Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin - (Wednesday 06th of April 2011 04:00:07 PM)

Jbrodkin writes "Two decades after Linus Torvalds adult his famous general expenses system
kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won, says Linux bed
official top dog* Jim Zemlin. With the one glaring oddity of the desktop  [...]

Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? - (Saturday 19th of March 2011 07:15:07 PM)

The northern US has been buried under snow several times this winter, and flooding has struck
quite a few places in the southwest. Those pale, though, beside the recent disasters in Haiti,
New Zealand, and Japan, and the outwardly inevitable arrival of  [...]

Geologists Say California May Be Next - (Saturday 19th of March 2011 07:15:07 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "Newsweek reports that first there was a violent magnitude-8.8 event in
Chile in 2010, then a horrifically damaging Pacific shock in New Zealand on February 22, and
now the recent tremblor in Japan. Though there is still no hard scientific  [...]

A man, down on his luck, went into a church which catered to the "uppity". ... - (Monday 14th of March 2011 08:59:13 AM)

A man, down on his luck, went into a church which catered to the "uppity". Spotting the man's
dirty clothes a deacon, worried about the churches image, went to the man and asked him if he
needed help. The man said, "I was praying and  [...]

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