iPhone 5 GeekBench Results; Warp Drive Could Become Science Fact

Don't miss a single issue of Slashback. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. iPhone 5 GeekBench Results Warp Drive Could Become Science Fact  Can Anyone Become a Programmer? Implications of Google Restricting Access to Anti-Islam Film When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? Hot Comment: The Beauty of this Attack From the Vault: The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed Watch It: Anonymous: Unconventional Adversary Poll Booth: How I treat my books iPhone 5 GeekBench Results Apple's claim that the iPhone 5 has 2x higher performance over the iPhone 4S seems accurate, according to the GeekBench tool. The results show the iPhone 5's A6 CPU is dual core and clocked at 1.2GHz, and is paired with 1GB of RAM. Sound Off>> Warp Drive Could Become Science Fact The first concept for a real-life warp drive found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy. But now, physicists say that adjustments can be made that would enables the proposed warp drive to fun on significantly less energy. Sound Off>> Can Anyone Become a Programmer? Many programmers stick to the old adage: "It takes a certain type of mind to learn programming, and not everyone can do it." Slashdotters shared their thoughts on the topic. Sound Off>> Implications of Google Restricting Access to Anti-Islam Film What does it means that Google can shut down access to the anti-Islam film in countries where that film has sparked riots? Does it highlight how Internet companies have become global arbiters of free speech? Sound Off>> When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? An anonymous reader, who works in a call center, said that their employer recently installed a clock out option that says "Bathroom" to better track employees' time at and away from desks. The reader asked Slashdotters if this was acceptable or even legal. Sound Off>> The Beauty of this Attack "Motorola is saying, 'Either Apple has such a stranglehold on consumer choice that to remove them is to remove the market, proving that they must be in an anti-competitive position OR removing them from the market wouldn't hurt the market because there are enough viable alternatives so don't judge this based on whether banning iDevices would harm consumers.' I think that's a beautiful argument and I can't wait to see how the court weasels out of the proposed dilemma." -- by ZeroSumHappiness Read More>> The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed Nine years ago, "David Dvorkin, a programmer and writer of some repute, published an essay on The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed. Read More>> Anonymous: Unconventional Adversary Joshua Corman, director of security intelligence at Akamai and one of the instigators of Rugged Software talks about unconventional adversaries vs. conventional wisdom and why he sympathizes with Anonymous more than with corporate or government forces that are determined to bring order to everything. Watch the Video>> How I treat my books: Fine and valuable art: protect, preserve, safeguard Ordinary possessions: Respect, don't fret over Working tools, but careful: Post-Its and pencil Pfui! Margin Doodles and notes -- in ink. Once in a while I shake out the sand and food. I just back-up and recharge them once in a while. Cast Your Vote>> 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.