XKCD's Time Ends; Google's Net Neutrality Hypocrisy?

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend XKCD's Time Ends  Google's Great Net Neutrality Hypocrisy? 4,000+ Players Duke It Out in Epic Online Space Battle 'Slingatron' Aims to Hurl Stuff into Orbit Internet Rideshare Drivers Busted by SFO Officials Hot Comment: "Because they will kill AND torture Snowden..." From the Vault: Apple Sued for Turning Workers Into Slaves Watch It: Working to Open Source Laws Poll Booth: Time until Facebook is replaced? XKCD's Time Ends  After more than 3,000 images, xkcd's long-running, auto-updating comic "Time" has come to its conclusion. Randall Munroe's series spawned multiple methods of viewing and thousands of forum posts. Sound Off>> Google's Net Neutrality Hypocrisy? Google has made countless statements supporting network neutrality, the idea that all packets of information on the Internet should be treated equally. But now that the company is an ISP, it's changing its tune, telling the FCC that citizens don't have the right to run servers on their home broadband connections. Sound Off>> 4,000+ Players Duke It Out in Epic Online Space Battle For five hours, more than 4,000 EVE Online players participated in a massive online battle between two alliances, which forced parent company CCP Games to slow game time down to a sluggish 10 percent of real time to prevent servers from imploding. Sound Off>> 'Slingatron' Aims to Hurl Stuff into Orbit Rockets are incredibly expensive with the cheapest launch costs hovering around $2,000 per pound. But there is a cheaper and cleaner approach--hurling payloads into orbit with a "mechanical hypervelocity mass accelerator" called the Slingatron. Sound Off>> Internet Rideshare Drivers Busted by SFO Officials San Francisco International Airport officials have been making citizen's arrests of drivers from mobile-app enabled rideshare companies that pick up and drop off passengers. An airport spokesman said that the companies, which are not regulated, are trespassing. Sound Off>>   Because they will kill AND torture Snowden "Get it? They said OR, so that's not a lie." --by Anonymous Coward Read More>>   Apple Sued for Turning Workers Into Slaves Five years ago, Apple employees filed lawsuit in California alleging that Apple denied technical staffers required overtime pay and meal compensation, which is in violation of state law. The employees also claimed many of them were subjected to working conditions resembling indentured servitude. Read More>> Working to Open Source Laws SlashTV: The field of law has a data problem, which could benefit by adopting some the best practices and tools of programmers, says Jim Hazard, an attorney who leans geek. Hazard, who has been working to bring the benefits of open source to both lawyers and their clients, explains. Watch the Video>> Time until Facebook is replaced? Within the next year Two or three years Three or four years Five or six years Seven or eight years Over nine years Too long, apparently Who uses Facebook? 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.