Why 'Don't Talk to the Cops' Video Is Flawed; Crucial Milestone for Nuclear Fusion Reached

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Why 'Don't Talk to the Cops' Video Is Flawed Crucial Milestone for Nuclear Fusion Reached HP Cracks Down on Telecommuting The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? Hot Comment: "Crime's like any other job: the high-paying, less risky jobs all require..." From the Vault: When Libertarians Attack Free Software Watch It: Deep in the Heart of Houston's Texas-Sized Hackerspace  Poll Booth: My productivity peaks between... Why 'Don't Talk to the Cops' Video Is Flawed In response to Bennett Haselton's previous articles that raised questions about the Fifth Amendment, readers sent him a link to the famous video "Don't Talk To Cops" delivered by law professor James Duane. Haselton outlines what he thinks is wrong with Duane's position. Sound Off>> Crucial Milestone for Nuclear Fusion Reached In a breakthrough that brings us closer to achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion, scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at Livermore in California, conducted a test in September in which the power output was stronger than the power used by the lasers. Sound Off>> HP Cracks Down on Telecommuting Hewlett-Packard has enacted a policy requiring most employees to work from the office and not from home in an attempt to instigate a cultural shift, according to AllThingsD. But as many as 80,000 employees were working from home partly because the company didn't have desks for them all within its own buildings. Sound Off>> The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 Ed Felton writes about an incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel. It didn't work because the Linux team noticed that the code was in the CVS repository without having gone through the normal approval process. Who could have been behind the attack? Sound Off>> What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? Computer Scientist Daniel Lemire writes that many people try to convince software developers to adapt new ideas despite their dubious practical value. So, he came up with a list of ideas in software that are universally recognized as useful, which has sparked an interesting discussion. Sound Off>>   Re: Crime "Crime's like any other job: the high-paying, less risky jobs all require tons of skill and training, or family connections. If you haven't got a crime education or a crime pedigree, your only choices are super high-risk jobs like mugging or super low-paying jobs like corner drug sales." --by goodmanj Read More>>   When Libertarians Attack Free Software Four years ago, Timothy B. Lee posted an article that analyzed the unfortunate tendency of libertarian and free-market organizations to attack free software. He used an example of a policy analyst at the Heartland Institute who attacked network neutrality regulations by arguing that advocates have "unwittingly bought into" the "radical agenda" of the free software movement. Read More>> Deep in the Heart of Houston's Texas-Sized Hackerspace That things are bigger in Texas is sometimes more than just a cliche. A few weeks ago, on the way to LinuxCon, Timothy Lord stopped by Houston's TX/RX Labs and the hackerspace is not just big -- it's busy, and booked. Besides an array of CNC machines, 3-D printers, and both wood- and metal-working equipment, TX/RX has workbenches available for members to rent. Take a tour.  Watch the Video>> My productivity peaks between... 12AM to 4AM 4AM to 8AM 8AM to 12PM 12PM to 4PM 4PM to 8PM 8PM to 12AM I am never productive. Only on leap-seconds 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.