| Missouri Republican Wants Violent Video Game Tax | Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing  LogMeIn (R) Remote Access and Management Use LogMeIn Pro to monitor systems and manage IT tasks remotely. Support, update and diagnose with zero disruption to users. Try it Free. Learn More! Get a weekly roundup of the most-discussed stories from Slashdot delivered to your inbox. It's your one-stop shop for a recap of the week's top News for Nerds. Subscribe today. Learn More! From the i'm-sure-nobody-at-all-will-complain-about-this-ever department New submitter mallyn points out that the state of New York has become the first state to pass a new gun control law since the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary last month. "Called the New York Safe Act, the law includes a tougher assault...  From the guns-don't-kill-people,-imaginary-guns-do department New submitter sHr0oMaN writes with news that Diane Franklin, a Republican member of Missouri's state House of Representatives, has proposed a sales tax on violent video games. The proposal, HB0157I, is one of many responses to the shooting in... From the proxy-banned-from-posting department judgecorp writes "Faced with the shortage of IPv4 addresses and the failure of IPv6 to take off, British ISP PlusNet is testing carrier-grade network address translation CG-NAT, where potentially all the ISP's customers could be sharing one IP... From the working-hard-or-hardly-working department New submitter kju writes "The security blog of Verizon has the story of an investigation into unauthorized VPN access from China which led to unexpected findings. Investigators found invoices from a Chinese contractor who had actually done the... From the hooray-we-are-slightly-less-dumb-than-we-thought department DavidHumus writes "The much-publicized international rankings of student test scores -- PISA -- rank the U.S. lower than it ought to be for two reasons: a sampling bias that includes a higher proportion of lower socio-economic classes... From the making-it-harder-to-accomplish-nothing department New submitter schneidafunk writes with news that the White House is raising the signature requirement for petitions from 25,000 to 100,000. From the source: "When we first raised the threshold -- from 5,000 to 25,000 -- we called it 'a... From the stubborn-genes department kkleiner writes "Twenty-year-old Brooke Greenberg hasn't grown since age five. For the last 15 years, mystified doctors have been unable to explain the cause for Brooke's disorder that has kept her aging in check. At age twenty, she maintains the... From the i-didn't-know-my-broken-tv-could-see-into-hyperspace department cylonlover writes "The two Star franchises (Wars and Trek) and countless science fiction movies have given generations of armchair space travelers an idea of what to expect when looking out the window of a spaceship that's traveling faster than... From the but-a-suit-makes-you-cool department sciencehabit writes "Soot is bad stuff all around, whether you're breathing it into your lungs or it's heating the atmosphere by absorbing more of the sun's energy. But a new 4-year, 232-page assessment (PDF) of soot's role in climate finds that... From the and-anagram-generator-detection department innocent_white_lamb writes "A researcher says that some letters are over valued and some are under-valued in Scrabble, due to recent changes to the lists of allowable words. Z and X are now much easier to play and should be worth less, while U, M... From the history-of-a-time-to-come department magic maverick writes "The Atlantic recently ran an 'advertorial' for the 'Church of Scientology'. During this time, they filtered comments and removed negative comments. While they have since apologized, incisive.nu has an interesting run down... From the no-fly-list department hcs_$reboot writes "The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has already occupied some of Slashdot news space recently: FAA to investigate the 787 (Jan 11) or 787 catches fire in Boston (Jan 08). Today (Jan 16 JST) another incident happened that led to Japan... From the because-they-might-control-the-volcanoes department Lasrick writes "Physicist Lawrence Krauss has a great piece in the NY Times today about the lack of influence scientists wield on global security issues, to the world's detriment. He writes, 'To our great peril, the scientific community has had... From the lungfuls-of-death department skade88 writes "This story should remind us all that air pollution controls are not just about addressing global warming. They also help us have cleaner air and fewer health problems resulting from smog and haze. Starting earlier this month,... From the under-your-thumbdrive department angry tapir writes "Two U.S. power companies have reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB drives, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's...  |
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