Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day?; World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens In China

Defending the First Sale Doctrine   |  Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways     Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day?  Defending the First Sale Doctrine  World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens In China  Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways  Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012?  EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012  How Do YOU Establish a Secure Computing Environment?  Google Challenging Microsoft For Business Software  Amazon: Authors Can't Review Books  Lockheed, SpaceX Trade Barbs  Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem"  Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013  UK Milk Supply Contains New MRSA Strain  Gerry Anderson, Co-Creator of Thunderbirds, Dies  Debian m68k Port Resurrected     Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day?  From the i-vote-yes department dryriver sends this hopeful note from the BBC: "'It's three years since audiences around the world swarmed into cinemas to see James Cameron's Avatar. It rapidly became the biggest grossing film of all time, in part because of its ground-breaking...   Defending the First Sale Doctrine  From the by-reading-this-you-agree-not-to-sell-it department The Electronic Frontier Foundation recaps two court cases pending in the U.S. which will decide whether you're allowed to re-sell the things you purchase. The first case deals with items bought in other countries for resale in the U.S., such as...   World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens In China  From the flatten-all-the-pennies department An anonymous reader writes "Today China continued rolling out the future of high speed rail by officially unveiling the world's longest high-speed rail line — a 2,298-kilometer (1,428-mile) stretch of railway that connects Beijing in the...   Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways  From the that's-far-out-man department An anonymous reader writes with news of a study out of the Netherlands (abstract) about the link between psychosis and marijuana use. The researchers wanted to examine what caused the relationship — was marijuana use leading to psychosis, or...   Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012?  From the obligatory-xkcd department skade88 writes "It's time to do another year-end best-of roundup! Today's topic is web comics. What was your favorite web comic of 2012? Feel free to use the following categories, or make up your own. 1) Best overall web comic series of 2012. (Any...   EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012  From the noodly-appendage department As part of their 2012 in review series, the EFF takes a look at how blasphemy laws have chilled online speech this year. A "dishonorable mention" goes to YouTube this year: "A dishonorable mention goes to YouTube, which blocked access to the...   How Do YOU Establish a Secure Computing Environment?  From the can't-root-this department sneakyimp writes "We've seen increasingly creative ways for bad guys to compromise your system like infected pen drives, computers preloaded with malware, mobile phone apps with malware, and a $300 app that can sniff out your encryption keys. On...   Google Challenging Microsoft For Business Software  From the if-you-come-at-the-king-you-best-not-miss department SternisheFan tips a report at the NY Times about the progress Google is making in its quest to unseat Microsoft's position atop the business software industry. From the article: It has taken years, but Google seems to be cutting into Microsoft's...   Amazon: Authors Can't Review Books  From the what-would-they-know-about-writing department In an effort to step up its fight against astroturfers, Amazon has barred authors from reviewing books. It's not simply that authors can't review their own books — they can't review any book in a similar genre to something they've published....   Lockheed, SpaceX Trade Barbs  From the can't-we-all-just-get-along department Lockheed Martin and Boeing have been getting all government launch contracts for the past six years. That is, until SpaceX demonstrated they could reach the International Space Station successfully this year. Asked about the new competition...   Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem"  From the we're-all-doomed department cstacy writes "Tatu Yionen, inventor of SSH, says he feels 'a moral responsibility' to come out of retirement and warn that a 'little-noticed problem' could jeopardize the security of much of the world's confidential data. He is referring to the...   Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013  From the lightly-braised-cloud department sfcrazy writes "Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, has shared his plans for 2013. It was clear from the Nexus 7 initiative that Ubuntu is eventually looking into the mobile space more seriously. Google created the cheap device Ubuntu was...   UK Milk Supply Contains New MRSA Strain  From the don't-have-a-cow department Tests on milk from several different farms across the U.K. have turned up evidence for a new strain of MRSA — bacteria which have evolved resistance to common antibiotics. As long as the milk is properly pasteurized, it poses no threat to...   Gerry Anderson, Co-Creator of Thunderbirds, Dies  From the rest-in-peace department jamstar7 writes "According to the BBC, 'Gerry Anderson, the creator of hit TV shows including Thunderbirds, Stingray and Joe 90, has died at the age of 83. He also created Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and his puppet superheroes fired the...   Debian m68k Port Resurrected  From the just-a-flesh-wound department After two years of work, Debian m68k has working build servers, and is slowly working through the backlog of stale packages. "Contrary to some rumours which I've had to debunk over the years, the m68k port did not go into limbo because it was...

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