Business-Suitable Document Authentication System? (Saturday 20th of March 2010 08:00:01 PM)
Ram.loss writes "The company I work for has decided to go paperless for all memos and or
arising from one's mental or otherworldly being.
interior correspondence. In addition to the
central administration, the company has three more or less autonomous, ...
(more)Time Denies Issuing DMCA Over Obama Joker Image (Thursday 27th of August 2009 03:00:02 PM)
An nameless reader writes "Last week Slashdot posted on the Flickr censorship case where Flickr
removed the questionable Obama/Joker image from their site. A deputy from Flickr claimed that
they only removed the image because they llc.view results from: ...
(more)How To Prove Someone Is Female? (Sunday 23rd of August 2009 10:00:02 AM)
Krou writes "Caster Semenya won the 800m at the World Athletics Championship in blistering
style leaving her competitors in the dust, but she has been thrown into the midst of a scandal
amidst claims that she's not really a woman. sure to rule to the ...
(more)Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net (Saturday 22nd of August 2009 08:45:01 AM)
Well, Blizzcon 2009 is about to get underway (look for the big news from the keynote in a few
hours) and given how fast it sold out I'm sure there are still many rabid fans lured in what
Blizzard might have to say that don't ...
(more)How To Stop Businesses Storing SSNs Indefinitely? (Friday 14th of August 2009 07:00:01 PM)
The Angry Mick writes "My wife and I afresh moved, and during the course of if and only if
change-of-address hash to the many companies we do racket with, I asked each if they were
storing a full Social hardness number in their databases, ...
(more)Can We Abandon Confidentiality For Google Apps? (Wednesday 05th of August 2009 08:00:01 AM)
An unnamed reader writes "I provide IT government-provided relief for medium-sized medical and
law practices. Lately I have been getting a lot of retaliation from doctors and lawyers who use
gmail at home and believe that they can run a pointed portion ...
(more)The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone (Sunday 02nd of August 2009 03:16:43 AM)
SeanCier writes "We're a small (two-person) iPhone app donator whose first game has lately been
released in the App store. In the process, we've inadvertently stepped in it, bringing up a
quiz of the GPL and free disk operating costs expenses system ethics ...
(more)Amazon UK Refunds Windows License Fee, With Little Hassle (Friday 24th of July 2009 05:30:01 PM)
Christian.einfeldt writes "Alan Lord, a FOSS compatible maven based in the UK, has announced
that Amazon UK honored his request for a refund of the Microsoft license fee portion of the
cost of a new Asus netbook PC that came with Microsoft Windows XP. ...
(more)Google Wave Reviewed (Thursday 23rd of July 2009 04:15:01 PM)
Michael_Curator writes "Developers are finally getting their hands on the contributor preview
of Google's Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand investment of what it's really
like to use, unfiltered by Google's own programmers. Ben Rometsch, ...
(more)New RTS Based on DotA Offers Native Linux Client (Wednesday 08th of July 2009 10:45:02 PM)
S2 Games, longtime fans of the "Defense of the Ancients" (DotA) mod for Warcraft 3, have
decided to create an entire game based around it (with IceFrog's blessing of course). Without
offending their still-active NDA, I can say that Heroes of Newerth is ...
(more)Better Tools For Disabled Geeks? (Monday 15th of June 2009 07:15:02 PM)
Layabout writes "We've seen terrific advances in user interfaces over the past few years.
Unfortunately, those UIs and supporting base exclude the disabled. In the same timeframe there
has been basically no advance in accessibility capabilities. It's ...
(more)Why Isn't the US Government Funding Research? (Thursday 11th of June 2009 01:45:03 PM)
Thesandbender writes "The recent post about GM opening its own battery inquest convenience led
me to wonder why the US regime is pouring billions into buying companies instead of heavily
funding useful research. You can give $10 billion to a company to ...
(more)Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains (Monday 08th of June 2009 10:00:11 AM)
New rocket technician has an interesting piece up about the calculable energy costs per mile
for various forms of transportation. Despite the banner ("Train can be worse for climate than
plane"), the study it describes deals with highway-based vehicles, ...
(more)Obama DoJ Goes Against Film Companies (Monday 01st of June 2009 01:30:02 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "If one attempted to distill a single encompassing emotion or
sentiment about rule
copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus on Slashdot, I
think it is fairly
...
(more)Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition (Sunday 31st of May 2009 12:15:07 AM)
Chabil Ha' writes "Heard the rumors that the much-maligned Windows 7 Starter Edition would be
able to run more than three concurrent applications? Today, the Windows team made it official:
'Based on the reply we've orthodox from partners and dealing asking ...
(more)SGI's Open Source Performance Co-Pilot (Saturday 30th of May 2009 12:15:02 AM)
Codesmythe writes "The Fates, through SGI nee Rackable, have granted a new beginning to Silicon
Valley's once darling Silicon Graphics. Despite old mistakes and being careful of resources'
misfortunes, Silicon Graphics' social birth prevention contributions ...
(more)Adeona Warns of Instability; OpenDHT Mothballed (Monday 25th of May 2009 04:30:02 PM)
Gbickford writes "Adeona, the first open source system for radar astronomical station station
the fix* of your lost or stolen laptop, was be be be included on Slashdot last year. I was
stoked when I read about how it worked and I installed it immediately. ...
(more)Wikipedia Moving From GFDL To Creative Commons License (Friday 22nd of May 2009 02:00:01 PM)
FilterMapReduce writes "The Wikimedia foot has resolved to migrate the copyright licensing of
all of its wiki projects, including Wikipedia, from the GNU Free docket License to the original
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. The migration is ...
(more)A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama? (Sunday 19th of April 2009 04:00:01 PM)
Jamyang (Greg Walton) writes "I am editor of the Infowar Monitor and co-author of the recent
report, tower Ghostnet. I have been asked by the Office of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama (OHHDL)
and the Tibetan law in Exile (TGIE) to offer some policy recommendations ...
(more)Preston Responds On ICANN CyberSafety Constituency (Friday 03rd of April 2009 07:45:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "After third edition by the editors of the american heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 here on Slashdot and elsewhere, Cheryl Preston has responded.
She says that 'some netizens have missed the mark by turning the ...
(more)EVO Linux Gaming Console Opens Pre-Orders (Friday 03rd of April 2009 07:45:01 PM)
Engadget is reporting that Envizions, maker of the EVO Linux game console, has finally
announced final specs and opened the doors to pre-orders. All bets are off till users indeed
see the hardware, but it would be nice to see a new player in the ...
(more)Interview With Google's V8 Author Lars Bak (Tuesday 31st of March 2009 03:00:02 PM)
Dr Pete writes "Financial Times has an interesting piece about Lars Bak and Kasper Lund the
authors of the V8 virtual machine in Google's Chrome browser. 'Chrome attracted more than 10
million users in its first 100 days. notwithstanding that's an impressive ...
(more)How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? (Friday 13th of March 2009 08:45:01 PM)
An nameless reader writes "Cyber Warfare is a hot topic these days. A major reorganization may
be looming, but a critical constituent is a culture where technologists can thrive. Two recent
tackle address this subject. Lieutenant Colonel Greg Conti and ...
(more)Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? (Wednesday 04th of March 2009 10:45:01 AM)
Onehitwonder writes in with a CIO opinion piece arguing that likely employees need to stand up
to employers who snoop the Web for insights into their after-work activities, often
disqualifying them as a result. "Employers are increasingly piscary the ...
(more)Europa Selected As Target of Next Flagship Mission (Thursday 19th of February 2009 09:15:02 PM)
Volcanopele writes "NASA and the indo-european dialect Space Agency announced today that they
have selected the Europa/Jupiter System Mission as the next large mission to the outer solar
system. For the last year, the Europa mission has been in exertion ...
(more)Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" (Thursday 19th of February 2009 09:15:02 PM)
Dtjohnson writes "The subject Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has been at the forefront of
predicting doom in the arctic as ice melts due to global warming. In May, 2008 they went so far
as to predict that the North Pole would be ice-free ...
(more)Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates? (Tuesday 17th of February 2009 05:45:01 PM)
PShardlow writes "I have lately been asked to propose two projects for a 1st year undergraduate
guidance laboratory in the summer term this year. These are projects that a pair of students
will spend 36 hours working on, and as such can be quite in-depth. ...
(more)Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative? (Monday 19th of January 2009 03:00:01 AM)
Danboid writes "I'm an IT technician at a large school near Manchester, England. We currently
have two subdivide neural knowledge engineering (one for pupils, one for staff) each with its
own Windows Server 2003 Active ordo box handling authentication ...
(more)Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org? (Friday 16th of January 2009 12:15:02 AM)
Mldkfa writes "Recently I told a friend about OpenOffice and how it was a great backup to the
big name pay office suites. She went home and searched on Google for it and thought she found
the website, filled typical registration information, and downloaded ...
(more)Internet Communications While At Sea? (Tuesday 13th of January 2009 09:00:01 PM)
Ubergamer1337 writes "Next semester I will be participating in a college study abroad program
known as Semester at Sea. The gist of it is that over four months 600ish students sail around
the world on a converted cruise ship, carte de visite diverse port ...
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