| FreeBSD 7.1 Gets a Little ... | | Internet News - 5 Hours ago | | Latest BSD release adds new Sun developed feature but the tech transfer isn't just one one way. Share this Article DiggDel.icio.us furl StumbleUpon BlinkList Newsvine Magnolia Facebook Tailrank Slashdot | | | | Add Comment |
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| Russia's Mars Mission Raising Concerns | | Slashdot - 95 Minutes ago | | eldavojohn writes 'Space.com has a blog on Russia's Phobos-Grunt project designed to explore the planet further. He voices concerns about part of this exploration that is dubbed LIFE (Living Interplanetary | | | | Add Comment |
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| Semantics in HTML 5 | | A List Apart - 117 Minutes ago | | Iâ??m going to make a bold prediction. Long after you and I are gone, HTML will still be around. Not just in billions of archived pages from our era, but as a living, breathing entity. Too much effort, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Playing Tetris Is Good For You | | Slashdot - 2 Hours ago | | An anonymous reader writes 'Some UK researchers found out that playing Tetris is actually good for people with post-traumatic stress disorder, by interfering with memory. I wonder if playing Minesweeper | | | | Add Comment |
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| Federal Trade Commission To Scrutinize DRM | | Slashdot - 3 Hours ago | | Ars Technica reports that the FTC is getting ready to take a hard look at gaming DRM, setting up a town hall meeting to be held on March 25th. They're currently recruiting panelists, and they say the | | | | Add Comment |
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| Gaming Patents From Years Past | | Slashdot - 5 Hours ago | | The Technologizer has collected a series of electronic gaming patents spanning from 1969 to 1989. The list includes devices such as the Atari joystick, Simon Says, and Nintendo's Game Boy. It also has | | | | Add Comment |
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| CES 2009 Shrinks With Dwindling Economy | | Slashdot - 6 Hours ago | | nandemoari writes ' Not long after we first heard murmurs Microsoft may be ready to lay off as much as 17 per cent of its workforce, the popular Consumer Electronics Show, held every year in Las Vegas, | | | | Add Comment |
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| How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library? | | Slashdot - 9 Hours ago | | txmadman writes 'Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children, I have several SD , mini-SD, and micro-SD cards for various purposes: cameras, cell phones, my laptop, etc. These things are | | | | Add Comment |
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| Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job | | Slashdot - 16 Hours ago | | rohitm918 writes 'A study by Microsoft Research concludes that phishers make very little (PDF): '...low-skill jobs pay like low-skill jobs, whether the activity is legal or not.' They also find that the | | | | Add Comment |
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| A Peek At DHS's Files On You | | Slashdot - 18 Hours ago | | kenblakely writes 'We've known for a while that the Department of Homeland Security was collecting travel records on those who cross US borders, but now you can see it for yourself. A Freedom of Information | | | | Add Comment |
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| Israel, Palestine Wage Web War | | Slashdot - 21 Hours ago | | An anonymous reader writes 'A war has erupted on the Internet between Israel and Palestine, alongside the war being fought on the ground in Gaza. A new report claims that a group called the 'DNS Team' | | | | Add Comment |
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| Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes | | Slashdot - 22 Hours ago | | Phil Schiller delivered the keynote at MacWorld, the first after the Steve Jobs era of keynotes. Here is Engadget's live blog. The big news, predicted by many rumor sites, was the introduction of the | | | | Add Comment |
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| Dr. Dobb's Journal Going Web-Only | | Slashdot - 23 Hours ago | | paleshadows writes 'The first issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal (DDJ) was published in January 1976. A few days ago, Herb Sutter (the chair of the ISO C++ committee and a long-time DDJ columnist) announced | | | | Add Comment |
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| Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then? | | Slashdot - 23 Hours ago | | BinaryGrind writes 'I just got started taking Computer Science classes at my local university and after reading Universities Patenting More Student Ideas I felt I needed to ask: How do I tell if any of | | | | Add Comment |
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| Using Your BlackBerry As a Modem On Linux | | Slashdot - 1/6/2009 | | ruphus13 writes 'Now, the suits and the geeks can unite Barry allows BlackBerrys to serve as modems for Linux machines. From the news post, 'Barry, created by open source software vendor Net Direct, lets | | | | Add Comment |
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| A TV Show Based On MAKE Magazine | | Slashdot - 1/6/2009 | | ptorrone writes 'Make: television debuted online and on public television (broadcast / cable tv). The series encourages everyone to invent, reinvent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular | | | | Add Comment |
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