How To Help Our Public Schools With Technology? (Saturday 22nd of November 2008 10:15:01 AM)
Armorer writes "I'm a programmer engaged to an inner-city public school teacher. I've been
headwork for a long time now about what I can do to help close the robotics gap, and I finally
did being (very small) about it. I convinced my company to ...
(more)How To Find a Mobile Games Publisher? (Friday 21st of November 2008 10:00:01 AM)
N01 writes "In the last few months of my spare time, I've been implementing an abstract setup
board game (that I invented) along with a decent AI. The game resembles TwixT in that it is
also a connection game, and could be played without the ...
(more)How To Build a Web 2.0 Government? (Monday 17th of November 2008 03:00:01 AM)
UltraAyla writes "With the announcement that President-Elect Obama will record his weekly
address as a YouTube video to be posted at Change.gov, put through the wringer* arise as to how
an Internet-fueled candidacy based in part on a scaffolding of domination ...
(more)Raising Doubts About Australia's Broadband Upgrade Plan (Friday 07th of November 2008 07:45:01 PM)
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(more)Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" (Tuesday 04th of November 2008 04:00:03 PM)
Mallumax notes Amazon's new Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. Over several years the
retailer hopes to convince many of its suppliers to offer consumer-friendlier packaging. It's
control gate with just 19 store from Mattel, Fisher-Price, Microsoft, ...
(more)Recovering Moldy Electronics? (Tuesday 21st of October 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Cookiej writes "We just completed having our basement gutted and our house decontaminated from
mold. The completed basement is gone, my office floor has been removed as well as 24' of
drywall around the base of the room. So, we had a full home theater ...
(more)Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? (Saturday 11th of October 2008 03:45:02 PM)
SmarkWoW writes "The coaching mash unit I attend is currently looking to change the way in
which is provides its students with an email service. In the past they used a legacy mail
system which can no longer fit their needs. A chamber has narrowed ...
(more)Fixes Released (and More Promised) For "Clickjacking" Exploits (Friday 10th of October 2008 02:30:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "As discussed fore on Slashdot, concern has been raised over a class
of 'clickjacking' vulnerabilities which affect all major Web browsers. These exploits allow an
attacker to place invisible or ostensibly legit objects on a ...
(more)Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter (Tuesday 07th of October 2008 07:45:01 AM)
In just a few days, some of us will be making the trek to this year's Blizzcon event in
Anaheim, CA. In addition to the interesting announcements, sneak peeks, and other distractions,
we will be sitting down with several Blizzard employees to answer any ...
(more)Easy, Reliable Distributed Storage and Backup? (Sunday 05th of October 2008 07:15:01 AM)
RichiH writes "Most of you are the free IT staff of friends and family, just as I am. One of my
largest headaches is backing up their data. What I am looking for allows for off-site storage
on llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new ...
(more)Virginia High Court Wrong About IP Addresses (Thursday 02nd of October 2008 04:30:01 AM)
Frequent Slashdot pioneer Bennett Haselton writes "The zigzag fence Supreme Court has ruled
that the state's anti-spam law, which prohibits the sending of bulk e-mail using falsified or
forged headers, violates the First melioration
copyrights:cite ...
(more)Designing a Patent-Incentive Program? (Sunday 28th of September 2008 12:45:07 AM)
SoulMaster writes "The company I work for (we are a one-year-old start-up) has new started
filing patents to protect some of its intellectual property. At the onset of the patent
process, one of the embassy drafted a very basic Patent instigation Program ...
(more)Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 (Monday 22nd of September 2008 08:00:01 PM)
Frequent Slashdot sponsor Bennett Haselton writes "A federal judge has ruled that a school
parish didn't violate a student's free speech rights when it suspended her for a parody MySpace
page she created calling her chief a sex addict who "hits on students". ...
(more)Cisco Launches Alliance For the 'Internet of Things' (Sunday 21st of September 2008 07:45:01 PM)
Yannis B. writes "This week, a group of leading applied science vendors that include Cisco,
Sun, Ericsson, Atmel, Freescale, and embedded open source developers, founded the but intranet
should be lowercase; internet was coined from inter(national) + ...
(more)Re-purposing a Student Tech Service Group? (Sunday 21st of September 2008 07:45:01 PM)
Discards writes "I help run a student group at a Canadian University. For almost 15 years we've
supposing students with government-provided services such as web space, email, wireless
telephone world wide web on campus, cvs/svn, database access, mailing ...
(more)HTTPS Cookie Hijacking Not Just For Gmail (Wednesday 10th of September 2008 08:00:01 AM)
Mikepery writes with a followup to last month's mention of a defense vulnerability impressive
Gmail accounts, which it seems understated the problem. "I figure the Slashdot readership is
the best place to reach a large number of slacking admins and developers, ...
(more)Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? (Wednesday 10th of September 2008 08:00:01 AM)
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(more)The Open Source Humanoid Robot and Its Many Uses (Monday 08th of September 2008 05:30:01 AM)
Ruphus13 writes with a story about the open-source centric Willow Garage project (last be be
conspicuous on Slashdot early last year), which is making modern in creating helpful humanoid
robots for household use. From the article: "PR2 is the mobile kitchenware ...
(more)Adam Savage Revises Claim of Lawyer-Bullying On RFID Show (Thursday 04th of September 2008 11:45:01 PM)
Nick writes "A few weeks ago a video of a talk given by Adam Savage of the tube show
MythBusters spread across the hot poop highway (including a mention on Slashdot.) On the video,
Savage stated that the show was unable to produce an episode ...
(more)Ask NewsTrust Founder Fabrice Florin About NewsTrust — Or Anything Else (Tuesday 19th of August 2008 03:45:01 AM)
NewsTrust is, to quote from the site's header, "Your guide to good journalism." Specifically,
NewsTrust links to stories published both by notorious media and by less-known blogs, and asks
its users to rank and review those stories on accuracy, balance, ...
(more)Slashdot's Disagree Mail (Thursday 14th of August 2008 10:45:02 PM)
I am solid for reading most of the help requests sent to Slashdot. Most of the mail I get in a
day is what you would expect, write-up and touching on about postings, user money management
and Slashdot itself. There are a very special group ...
(more)Slashdot Announces Idle Section (Thursday 14th of August 2008 10:45:02 PM)
For the last few months we've been beta testing Idle.slashdot.org, our offtopic
humor/meme/viral video/pictures section. Like many of you, we spend most of our waking hours
on-line seeking stuff to host our brains, but most replicators out there pick ...
(more)Review of Sun's Free Open Source Virtual Machine (Thursday 31st of July 2008 07:45:01 AM)
Goombah99 writes "After snapping up virtualization company InnoTek at the beginning of the
year, Sun has lately released VirtualBox as a fully functional and highly polished free GPL
open source x86 Virtual Machine. It can host 32- or 64-bit Linux, Windows ...
(more)Are There Any Smart E-mail Retention Policies? (Sunday 27th of July 2008 01:45:03 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "In an age of action and costly find obligations, many organizations
are blanket* policies which call for the forced purging of e-mail in an attempt to limit the
organization's exposure to legal risk. I work for a large club ...
(more)Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? (Saturday 26th of July 2008 01:45:01 AM)
Passionfingers writes "My art users regularly have to tweak large (>32MB text) data files
manually. Overlords charged with verifying the aforementioned changes have requested that the
little people be if with a new file editor that will track changes ...
(more)The Ideal, Non-Proprietary Cloud (Monday 21st of July 2008 08:45:02 PM)
Jg21 writes "As forward discussed on Slashdot, the new tendency to speak of 'The Cloud' or
'Cloud Computing' often seems to third edition by the editors of the american heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 more heat than light, but one versed ...
(more)Internet Based Political "Meta-Party" For Massachusetts (Friday 11th of July 2008 11:35:13 AM)
Sophiachou writes "The Free sovereignty Party, a non-profit, open source shear group
'meta-party' focused on on these terms ham radio with more direct control of delegation through
online polling and user-drafted bills, seems to be looking for a aspirant ...
(more)Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 08:24:59 AM)
AC writes "Upper management of the company I work at just now declared that all new evolvement
should be done with a single union of evolvement tools, language, and framework. The main
rationale is that people can be relocated from one group / project ...
(more)YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom (Friday 04th of July 2008 02:00:05 AM)
Psyopper writes "Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube
users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing
clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled ...
(more)Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box? (Sunday 29th of June 2008 08:45:01 PM)
Theovon writes "I just built a high-end quad-core Linux PC hallowed
managed server sale
$79plesk to number-crunching. Its job is to sit in the corner with no keyboard, mouse, or
monitor and do nothing but compute (genetic algorithms, neural nets, and ...
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