Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)

Dtolman writes "Scientists at the Keck and Gemini telescopes stole the thunder of Hubble
scientists posting the first picture of an extrasolar world orbiting a star. Hubble scientists
announced today that they were able to lay open an extrasolar world ...
(more)Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's
Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been managerial for the past 5 years
delivered commodity of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. ...
(more)Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's
Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been managerial for the past 5 years
delivered commodity of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. ...
(more)The Stigma of a Tech Support Background (Tuesday 30th of September 2008 03:15:02 AM)

An unsigned reader writes "Since the last semester of college I've been working as a first line
tech support agent. At first it was just a way to earn some extra money; then it became a way
to scrape by until I could find myself ...
(more)Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome (Tuesday 02nd of September 2008 09:15:01 PM)

Tandiond writes to tell us that in a recent blog posting, Mozilla CEO John Lily shared his
emotions on Google's new browser project, Chrome, and what that means for Mozilla. "It should
come as no real unsettle that Google has done article here — ...
(more)A blonde is on a four-engine plane crossing the Atlantic. ... (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 08:10:02 AM)

A blonde is on a four-engine plane loop the Atlantic.All of a sudden there's a loud bang. The
pilot announces over the intercom “I'm sorry, one of our engines has just shut off. We'll
be delayed 45 minutes.”Suddenly there's another bang. Once ...
(more)Legal & General Recommends Brits Check their Holiday Luggage Cover Even If Staying in the UK (Saturday 23rd of August 2008 01:30:08 AM)

Recent inquiry by Legal & General identified that the credit crunch has made Brits think about
modification their holiday plans. 26% be included that they were now not going on holiday, 20%
said that they would go on a cheaper holiday and 39% said they ...
(more)Reasonable Expectation of Privacy From Web Hosts? (Monday 28th of July 2008 04:00:01 AM)

Shafted writes "I'm in a bit of dilemma, and I'm wondering what fellow Slashdotters think as to
this subject. I've been hosting web sites for some clients for years using my own server. About
a year and a half ago, I got a reseller account ...
(more)Cell Phone Tracking Reveals Users' Habits (Sunday 08th of June 2008 09:40:33 PM)

DinkyDogg writes "'New experimentation that makes innovatory use of hyperesthetic
location-tracking data from 100,000 cellphones in Europe suggests that most people can be found
in one of just a few locations at any time, and that they do not regularly ...
(more)MediaDefender Explains Itself (Monday 02nd of June 2008 06:10:51 PM)

I Don't Believe in Imaginary land writes "Wired has an seminar with MediaDefender in which they
try to explain why they attacked Revision3, which uses BitTorrent to host its own content.
Somehow it eluded MediaDefender that they had injected fake content ...
(more)Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next Four Years (Saturday 31st of May 2008 05:00:03 PM)

Dr. Jim writes "The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies
that they believe will change the world over the next four years. The usual suspects including
multi-core chips, virtualization, and cloud computing are on ...
(more)The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops? (Monday 21st of April 2008 07:00:04 PM)

Santi Onta writes "Today Lenovo retired the last NON-widescreen laptop they offered (the T61
14.1) from the market, and Lenovo is just an example (Apple, Sony, HP, etc. are the same). I
understand the catalyst behind all the laptop manufacturers to move ...
(more)Urgent action needed against global food crisis (Saturday 19th of April 2008 01:34:00 AM)

Life scientists from the third world country world told their french age group at the EAGLES
Food Symposium, held this week at the New Library of Alexandria (Egypt), that they are dismayed
and even horrified at the persistent failure of Europe to deploy ...
(more)Users Know Advertisers Watch Them, and Hate It (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 12:30:01 PM)

Chris Blanc tips an Ars writeup on a survey of consumer attitudes toward targeted advertising.
The results of the survey, conducted for TRUSTe, confirm that advertisers are in a tough spot.
"[The survey company] randomly selected 1,015 nationally representative ...
(more)NYPD To Replace Motor Fleet With Electric Scooters (Thursday 27th of December 2007 08:45:07 PM)

XueCast writes "A few days ago, the New York Police tract (NYPD ), one of the largest police
forces in the United States of America, announced that they are planned parenthood to make New
York greener by replacing their gasoline motorcycle fleet with ...
(more)Cutting Down on Clutter: 16 Neat Tips! (Tuesday 04th of December 2007 01:00:00 PM)

When it comes to organization, many people are in fact their own worst enemies. Such people
often keep things packed away, cocksure that they may need them again someday. The problem is
that they haven't used these items for more than five years. And ...
(more)Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive (Tuesday 30th of October 2007 10:15:14 AM)

The Consumerist is reporting that a Best Buy customer afresh purchased a hard drive only to
discover that the box contained six ceramic toilet tiles instead of the Western Digital drive
he had expected. The rub of it is Best Buy is refusing to grant ...
(more)SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (Saturday 15th of September 2007 01:15:02 PM)

Can you say "the SCO, the" in German? writes "Trading of SCO's stock has been halted on news
that SCO has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. This move just so happens to fall on the eve of
SCO's trial with Novell. One would think that ...
(more)LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links (Thursday 30th of August 2007 06:45:05 PM)

Many of you might remember the previous story about LiveJournal erroneously deleting hundreds
of users as suspected paedophiles, spurred on by pressure from the group, Warriors for
innocence. Since then, they've been taking action against users hosting ...
(more)DynDNS Drops Non-Delivery Reports (Saturday 25th of August 2007 04:00:04 PM)

Jetkins writes "In an email to subscribers, DynDNS announced that they will no longer deliver
locally generated non-delivery reports (NDRs) from any MailHop systems. MailHop is a
multi-faceted service offering in- and outbound relay services, spam and ...
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