Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards; Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone

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Do You?  Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs?     Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards  From the hoisting-with-your-own-petard department inode_buddha writes "Not long ago we ran a story about how a NY newspaper published lists of gun owners. Now, it seems the same newspaper has hired armed guards in response to unspecified threats to the editor, amid 'large volumes of negative...   Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code?  From the roofies-in-his-mountain-dew department An anonymous reader writes "I have a coworker who, despite being very smart, and even very knowledgeable about software, writes the most horrible code imaginable. Entire programs are stuffed into single functions, artificially stretched thanks to...   Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone  From the who's-to-blame department First time accepted submitter Bent Spoke writes "In a bit of delicious irony, Microsoft laments Google is not playing fair by excluding access to meta-data on YouTube, preventing the development of the kind of powerful app readily available on...   Connecticut Group Wants Your Violent Videogames — To Destroy Them  From the world-is-a-strange-place department DavidGilbert99 writes with this excerpt from IB Times: "The Sandy Hook shooting once again raised the debate about how much power violent videogames wield over teenagers. Following proclamations from the National Rifle Association and the...   Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013  From the thought-they-were-made-here-in-america department First time accepted submitter master_kaos writes "Canada is going to stop producing pennies in February 2013 to help save the tax payers $11 million per year. Cash transactions will be rounded to the nearest nickel. Cheque/Credit Card transactions...   HP Cuts Workforce By 5%, Looks To Probe GM Hires  From the picking-teams department dcblogs writes "Hewlett-Packard's reduced its workforce last year by 17,800 employees, more than half-way to its restructuring goal. But some key IT workers left unexpectedly and have taken jobs with HP customer, General Motors. GM, which...   'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge  From the such-a-small-creature-makes-such-a-big-difference department CowboyRobot writes "In the past five years there has been an 8x increase in the amount of content being generated per every two-hour cinematic piece. Although 3D is not new, modern 3D technologies add from 100% to 200% more data per frame. In...   Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone?  From the small-but-dedicated-band-of-belgian-craftsmen department Nerval's Lobster writes "When Canonical whipped back the curtain from its upcoming Ubuntu for smartphones, it set off a flurry of blogosphere speculation about the open-source operating system's chances on the open market. But which company would...   Reason On How and Why 38 Studios Went Bust  From the other-people's-money department cathyreisenwitz writes "The 2012 bankruptcy of Rhode Island-based video-game developer 38 Studios isn't just a sad tale of a start-up tech company falling victim to the vagaries of a rough economy. It is a completely predictable story of crony...   Are Programmers Responsible For the Actions of Their Clients?  From the ok-now-let's-talk-tortkey department Bobfrankly1 writes "Robert Stuart and his company Extensions Software are being charged by New York authorities, claiming he is promoting gambling in New York because of the actions of his clients. They are charging him after he rejected a plea...   Google Engineer Shows How To Forge Swords and Knives  From the like-y'do department An anonymous reader writes "Niels Provos, an engineer at Google working on malware and phishing protection, is showing on YouTube how to forge knives and Viking swords. The process is absolutely fascinating and follows the steps of Viking...   The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles  From the lost-their-wheels department Hugh Pickens writes writes "Eriq Gardner writes that Warner Brothers is suing California resident Mark Towle, a specialist in customizing replicas of automobiles featured in films and TV shows, for selling replicas of automobiles from the 1960s...   Nokia N9: the World's Most Underrated Smartphone?  From the single-minded department jrepin writes "Eighteen months ago, Nokia announced a smartphone unlike any other it has produced before. It was a proper smartphone, one that looked miles away from previous Nokia phones: it was sleek, modern and simple at the same time. The...   Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You?  From the everyone-misses-a-few department llamafirst writes "As the year flipped to 2013, we learned that Adobe and Apple don't test for "forward date" bugs. Adobe prevented any copy of FrameMaker 10 from launching and Apple broke Do Not Disturb for the first week of 2013. Surely some...   Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs?  From the call-them-all-linksys-done department First time accepted submitter junkfish writes "I am not able to install a controller based Wi-Fi solution in my office due to cost, but I like presenting my users with a single SSID rather than an array of four or five differently named SSIDs from...

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