Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet; U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills

David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy   |  Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days     Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet  David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy  U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills  Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days  Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition  Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning  Belief In Hell Predicts a Country's Crime Rates Better Than Other Factors  Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador  Schneier Calls US Stuxnet Cyberattack a 'Destabilizing and Dangerous' Action  Women's Enrollment In Computer Science Correlates Negatively With Net Access  Testing for Many Designer Drugs At Once  How Would You Redesign the TLD Hierarchy?  Capitalists Who Fear Change  NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans' Privacy To Say How Many of Us It Spied On  How Icaros Desktop Brings the Amiga Experience To x86 PCs     Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet  From the but-will-it-run-Debian department MrSeb was one of several submitters to write in about Microsoft's foray into the tablet hardware market. From the article: "At its much-discussed 'big unveil' this evening, Microsoft did indeed launch a tablet — but rumors that the device...   David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy  From the let's-argue-about-the-semantics-of-the-word-theft department New submitter Mystakaphoros writes "Musician David Lowery (of Cracker fame) takes NPR intern Emily White to task for her stance on paying for (or failing to pay for) music. Quoting: 'By allowing the artist to treat his/her work as actual property,...   U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills  From the therefore-all-dogs-are-brown department sciencehabit writes "The first-ever use of interactive computer tasks on a national science assessment suggests that most U.S. students struggle with the reasoning skills needed to investigate multiple variables, make strategic decisions, and...   Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days  From the tower-kills-everyone-in-part-ii department An anonymous reader writes "Even since the current world's tallest builing — the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — was completed, there has been a constant battle to build the world's next tallest building. The current record holder stands tall...   Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition  From the education-is-big-business department retroworks writes "Bloomberg News makes the case that when the federal government offers tuition assistance, students apply to more expensive colleges, giving the institutions an incentive to raise tuition and a disincentive to lower it. (The Wall...   Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning  From the maybe-more-of-them-should-get-the-bills department An anonymous reader writes "CNN reports that younger listeners are increasingly opting to stream music rather than own it. If their music is constantly available anywhere on any device, then 'what's the difference?,' ponders the article. The...   Belief In Hell Predicts a Country's Crime Rates Better Than Other Factors  From the also-correlates-with-air-conditioner-sales department An anonymous reader writes "Religion is often thought of as psychological defense against bad behavior, but researchers have recently found that the effect of religion on pro-social behaviors may actually be driven by the belief in hell and...   Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador  From the where-in-the-world-is-julian-assange department david.emery writes "Julian Assange, his appeals in the United Kingdom having run out, today went to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to request asylum from his pending extradition to Sweden to face questioning for 'unlawful coercion and sexual...   Schneier Calls US Stuxnet Cyberattack a 'Destabilizing and Dangerous' Action  From the excuse-me-while-I-pluck-out-your-eye department alphadogg writes "Revelations by The New York Times that President Barack Obama in his role as commander in chief ordered the Stuxnet cyberattack against Iran's uranium-enrichment facility two years ago in cahoots with Israel is generating...   Women's Enrollment In Computer Science Correlates Negatively With Net Access  From the it's-al-gore's-fault department New submitter MoriT sends this excerpt from a post examining the correlation between women's enrollment in computer science programs at college and their access to the internet. "There is currently a responsibility-dodging contest between industry...   Testing for Many Designer Drugs At Once  From the collision-induced-disassociation department LilaG writes "Drug tests spot banned substances based on their chemical structures, but a new breed of narcotics is designed to evade such tests. These synthetic marijuana drugs, found in 'herbal incense,' are mere chemical tweaks of each other,...   How Would You Redesign the TLD Hierarchy?  From the sell-to-high-bidders-model-taken department First time accepted submitter at.drinian writes "Last week, we heard about the many applications for new top-level domains that have been put forth by various businesses and organizations. ICANN, of course, has come under heavy criticism for its...   Capitalists Who Fear Change  From the great-band-names department bill_mcgonigle writes "In his essay 'Capitalists Who Fear Change,' author Jeffrey Tucker takes on 'wimps who don't want to improve.' From DMCA take-downs on 3D printing files to the constant refrain that every new form of music recording will...   NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans' Privacy To Say How Many of Us It Spied On  From the you-can-trust-us department colinneagle writes "Would you believe the Inspector General from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it would violate the privacy of Americans for the IG office to tell us how many people in the United States had their privacy...   How Icaros Desktop Brings the Amiga Experience To x86 PCs  From the bouncy-bouncy department angry tapir writes "Icaros Desktop is an effort to build a modern Amiga-compatible operating system to standard x86 hardware. It's a distribution built atop AROS, which is an open source effort to create a system compatible at the API level with...

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