Blocking Gun Laws With Patents; 'The Hobbit': Higher Frame Rate Will Cost

Don't miss a single issue of this newsletter. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Blocking Gun Laws With Patents Analyzing the New MacBook Pro What's Your Take on HTTPS Snooping? 'The Hobbit': Higher Frame Rate to Cost Theater Operators Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet Hot Comment: It's from Microsoft and this is Slashdot... From the Vault: Bill Gates on Linux Watch It: Elon Musk Shows off the SpaceX Dragon Space Capsule Blocking Gun Laws With Patents Legislation proposed in several states to require certain gun manufacturers to use the "microstamping" has met with fierce opposition, including one California group that went as far as to pay a fee to extend a lapsing patent in order to delay the law from taking effect. Sound Off>> Analyzing the New MacBook Pro Apple's next-gen 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display has been touted as an engineering marvel in the same league as the original iPhone or MacBook Air. But behind the new and rather shiny exterior, the device has no user-replaceable parts at all. Sound Off>> What's Your Take on HTTPS Snooping? A submitter, who recently worked for a company that imposed a so-called transparent HTTPS proxying on their network, asked Slashdotters if HTTPS proxying a reasonable company policy? Is it worth leaving a job over? Should it even be legal? Sound Off>> The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate to Cost Theater Operators Peter Jackson has said he hopes "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" could be played in 48 frames per second--twice the industry standard 24fps-- in "as many cinemas as possible" when it opens in December. But exhibitors must pay the cost of the additional equipment. How much of the cost will be passed onto ticket buyers? Sound Off>> Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet Microsoft's foray into the tablet hardware market--the Surface--hit the scene with pomp, circumstance, and constructed anticipation. How does it stack up to the rivals' offerings? And is it Microsoft's best chance to compete in a cloud-centric mobile computing world? Sound Off>> It's from Microsoft and this is Slashdot... "So there is irrational rabid hate for it." -- by Dunega Read More>> Bill Gates on Linux Nine years ago, USA Today interviewed Bill Gates about Linux. He  seemed to consider the open-source OS as a passing-thru competition, just like OS/2, and that Microsoft is the one in the marketplace that keeps pushing new technologies. Sound Off>> Elon Musk Shows off the SpaceX Dragon Space Capsule From Slashdot TV: SpaceX's Dragon Capsule, which recently became the first commercial space craft to complete a mission to the ISS, has made Elon Musk a proud papa. He talks about what the groundbreaking flight means and expresses his gratitude to the 150 SpaceX employees in McGregor, Texas. Watch the Video>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.