| Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots | Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic  SlashDataCenter Update For many IT pros, the data center is a daily and pressing concern. SlashDataCenter features top experts and technologists who offer news, analysis, and commentary examining how data centers are evolving both on-premises and in the cloud. Sign up now for the SlashDataCenter newsletter to get the latest. Learn More! Get business intelligence news and views from journalists, developers, analysts and business leaders delivered directly to your inbox every week. Sign up now for SlashBI Update to find out the latest from the rapidly growing field of BI--and what it means to you. Learn More! From the not-what-I-want-by-default department An anonymous reader writes "Scheduled to be released next month, Ubuntu 12.10 now includes both Amazon ads in the user's dash and by default an Amazon store in the user's launcher. The reason for these 'features'? Affiliate revenue. Despite...  From the it's-the-little-things department doug141 writes "A Colorado county put bar codes on printed ballots in a last minute effort to comply with a rule about eliminating identifying markings. Citizens sued, because the bar codes can still be traced back to individual voters. In a... From the file-formats-are-what-matter department curtwoodward writes "For most consumers, monthly subscriptions are still something for magazines and cable TV. With Office 365, Microsoft is about to embark on a huge social experiment to see if they'll also pay that way for basic software. But in... From the wealthy-donors-doing-just-fine department theodp writes "As part of the economic stimulus program, the Obama administration put into effect a Bush-era incentive program that provides tens of billions of dollars for physicians and hospitals that make the switch to electronic records, using... From the obvious-witticisms-are-obvious department Hork_Monkey writes "I recently sustained a severe injury to one of my arms, and am lucky not to be an amputee. I'm an avid gamer (primarily PC, but also XBox) and looking for advice one how to adapt to the challenge now presented of enjoying one... From the just-give-it-more-plant-food department hessian writes with this news from the New York Times: "Since 2000, Dr. [Steven] Running and his colleagues have monitored how much plant growth covers terra firma, using two NASA satellites in the agency's Earth Observing System. After they... From the oh-you-mean-that-was-a-license department tetrahedrassface writes "Rasbmc developer Sam Nazarko is reporting that Xbian had violated the GPL and stolen his installer code without providing attribution and not releasing their source. His breakdown of events is interesting, and currently... From the all-in-best-interest department New submitter ferrisoxide.com writes "In Victoria (Australia), detailed information about electricity customers' power usage, which gives insights into when a house is occupied, is being shared with third parties including mail houses, debt... From the fox-in-your-pocket department An anonymous reader writes "It's no secret that Mozilla has been working on a mobile OS. Previously codenamed Boot2Gecko, the project focused on a purely HTML5 based system that worked in many ways like current mobile devices. As the project grew... From the tab-a-slots-b-through-q department An anonymous reader writes with this news from Geek.com: "you're planning to get a new Verizon iPhone 5, there might be a little bonus feature included that neither Apple nor Verizon are keen to admit. As units have started making it out of the... From the controlling-the-world department dburr writes "If This Then That (IFTTT) is a web mashup service that lets you connect together multiple services in unique and powerful ways. For example, you can automatically bookmark Favorited tweets using a social bookmarking service such as... From the cows-go-begging-milk-is-free department SquarePixel writes "Google has yanked its free music service in China after being unable to make it popular enough. The service offered Chinese people free licensed music downloads and was launched in 2009 to compete with the rival search engine... From the see-something-say-something department The Bad Astronomer writes "An extremely bright meteor burned up over Ireland and the northern UK around 22:00 UTC on Friday night, and was apparently witnessed by thousands of people. It traveled east to west, and was moving relatively slowly. It... From the what-is-the-exact-color-of-your-van? department New submitter mybluevan writes "The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science is putting together an open hardware spectrometer kit on Kickstarter. The kits are built using an HD webcam, discarded DVD, and a couple other odd bits. They've... From the prepare-the-sniping-software department shortyadamk writes "According to the Government Services Administration auction page: 'Attention GSA Auctions bidders and interested participants. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Space Shuttle Program has retired and NASA has...  |
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