Windows 9: Ready or Not, Here It Comes; Ex-Cop Kills Man for Texting at the Movies

The Mystery of the $3 Million Google Engineer  |  NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway 'Backdoors' in PCs To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Windows 9: Ready or Not, Here It Comes Ex-Cop Kills Man for Texting at the Movies Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money for an Indian' The Mystery of the $3 Million Google Engineer NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway 'Backdoors' in PCs Hot Comment: "Democracy creates these idiots. The problem is that politicians..." From the Vault: Google Accuses Bing of Cheating, Copying Watch It: Powered, Remote-Controlled Paper Airplane Poll Booth: How would you use science to innovate upon sports? Sponsored Resource: 10 Common Problems APM Helps You Solve Windows 9: Ready or Not, Here It Comes A little over a year after Microsoft released Windows 8, and a mere three months after it pushed out a major update, rumors abound that Windows 9 (codenamed "Threshold," at least for the moment) is already on its way and will be discussed at April's BUILD conference. Sound Off>> Ex-Cop Kills Man for Texting at the Movies A retired police officer shot and killed a man in a theater following an argument over texting. A New York Times report notes that cinema execs at a recent trade event debated whether to accommodate younger viewers by allowing text messages during some movies. Sound Off>> Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money for an Indian' When a former Oracle sales manager wanted to transfer a high-performing salesman from Oracle's India office to California and pay him a salary equivalent to white employees in the same position, he was denied. And when he protested, he was fired. Sound Off>> The Mystery of the $3 Million Google Engineer Business Insider caused a minor stir with a recent story about a nameless Google engineer who's making $3 million a year. Who is this person, and how unusual are pay scales like this inside the Googleplex? Phil Johnson uses public information to try to get the answers. Sound Off>> NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway 'Backdoors' in PCs The New York Times reports that the NSA implanted transmitters into the USB input devices of PCs, allowing computers unplugged from the Internet to still be monitored, via radio, from up to 8 miles away. The source of the data was the leak from Edward Snowden. Sound Off>> Re: As wasted as that idiotic Irish luddite "Democracy creates these idiots. The problem is that politicians are expected to have opinions on everything, yet it's impossible to know everything. These people end up making decisions on things they understand little or nothing about." --1s44c Read More>>   Google Accuses Bing of Cheating, Copying Three years ago, Google said that it ran a sting operation that discovered Bing was watching what Google users searched for, the sites they selected from the results and then used that information to improve Bing's own listings. And Microsoft didn't deny it. Read More>> Powered, Remote-Controlled Paper Airplane The PowerUp 3 is a powered paper airplane you control with your smartphone that creator Shai Goitein calls "a mixture of origami and technology." Timothy Lord caught up Goitein at CES and talked with him about the software and electronics involved with flying a piece of paper with your phone. Watch the Video>>   How would you use science to innovate upon sports? Weapons-grade PEDs Genetically Modified Athletes Robot exoskeletons Computer-enhanced senses 'Smart' equipment (e.g. baseballs with flywheels inside) Adapt and play them in zero-G Digitize/CGI them and let AI play Just let me on the blasted WiFi at the stadium Cast Your Vote>>     10 Common Problems APM Helps You Solve Applications in today's distributed, cloud-based IT environment need to perform at their peak at all times. Unfortunately, most do not. And while many developers and IT professionals have Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, they often don't know how to take full advantage of their benefits. This SlashGuide gives IT professionals and developers practical advice they need to get the most out of APM. Learn More>>  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.