Groklaw Shuts Down Over NSA Spying; The Last Days of Unix

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Groklaw Shuts Down Over NSA Spying The Last Days of Unix The Obesity Era: What's the Real Cause? Google Outage Causes 40% Plunge in Internet Traffic UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives Hot Comment: "I think Google made the iphone youtube app themselves, which they won't..." From the Vault: Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid Watch It: Cryonics Offers a Chance at Immortality Poll Booth: My SSID Is... Groklaw Shuts Down Over NSA Spying Groklaw, a Website that has spent the past decade covering legal issues important to the open-source community, has decided to shut down because its founder says she simply can't continue in an environment of constant online surveillance. Sound Off>> The Last Days of Unix Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, is going the way of the dodo, according to IDC's Jean Bozman. She attributes Unix's slow, inexorable decline on several factors, including platform migration issues and competition from Linux and Microsoft. Sound Off>> The Obesity Era: What's the Real Cause? The belief that obesity is simply the result of a lack of willpower and an inability to discipline eating habits is no longer defensible. So, what is causing the rise in obesity, which is a transnational and, apparently, trans-species problem? Everything. Sound Off>> Google Outage Causes 40% Plunge in Internet Traffic Google services suffered a complete black-out last week and, according to web analytics experts, that caused worldwide Internet traffic to plunge around 40%. The reason for the outage is not yet known, but the huge impact reflects Google's massive grip on the Web. Sound Off>> UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives The UK government has been pressuring the Guardian over its publication of the Snowden leaks for a while, and it ultimately ended with Government Communications Headquarters (GHCQ) officials overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the newspaper's basement. Sound Off>>   Re: Only relevant line "I think Google made the iphone youtube app themselves, which they wont do for Microsoft because they are too busy and there aren't enough users (which is in part due to lack of main stream apps). But the rest sounds plausible. Microsoft might deserve it, but it seems cruel to me for Google to punish those poor 11 windows phone users." --by Dr Max Read More>>   Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid Four years ago, The Telegraph reported on a study that found that men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive. Read More>>  Cryonics Offers a Chance at Immortality SlashTV: Do you want to be frozen after you die, in hopes of being revived a century or two (or maybe ten) in the future? It can cost less than an electric car. That's what the Cryonics Institute (CI) offers. David Ettinger, the son of CI founder Robert Ettinger and CI's lawyer, discusses the process. Watch the Video>>  My SSID Is... The default My name Named after some media reference (game, movie, music) Named after a famous person Something humorous Hidden Other CowboyNeal 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.