Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions; Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees

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We're just getting started with it; if you'd like to something featured in the blog, email us at feedback@slashdot.org.    What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union?   |  Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet     Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees  Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union?  Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers?  Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet  Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012  What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer?  Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse  Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand  Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability?  Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise  The Survival Machine Farm  Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead  AMD Launches Piledriver-Based 12 and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Family  Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg     Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions From the listen-up department A while ago you had the chance to ask Bruce Perens about how open source has changed in the past 15 years, what's happening now, and what's to come. Bruce has been busy traveling, but he's found some free time and sent in his answers... Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees  From the popularity-contest department An anonymous reader writes "The state-by-state election outcome probabilities today on Nate Silver's 538 imply a 97.7% probability for Obama to win 270 or more electoral college votes on Tuesday. A site that allows anyone but U.S....   Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union?  From the coders-unite department juicegg writes "TechCrunch contributor Klint Finley writes that developers have shunned unions because traditional workplace demands like higher pay are not important to us while traditional unions are incapable of advocating for what developers...   Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers?  From the watching-the-watchers department theodp writes "Just when you think the cable TV viewing experience couldn't get any worse, GeekWire reports on the Microsoft Xbox Incubation team's patent-pending Consumer Detector, which uses cameras and sensors like those in the Xbox 360 Kinect...   Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet  From the all-used-up department First time accepted submitter jigamo writes "Microsoft's newly released Surface tablets are available in 32 and 64 GB capacities. The company has disclosed how much of that space is available to the user. After taking into account Windows RT,...   Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012  From the love-'em-or-hate-'em department Late Tuesday, both the 2012 U.S. election (the popular vote at least) and the 2012 campaign season should be over. Whatever your ability or plans to vote are (see the current poll for a peek at what other readers claim about their...   What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer?  From the ending-the-game department Esther Schindler writes "Why is it that young developers imagine that older programmers can't program in a modern environment? Too many of us of a 'certain age' are facing an IT work environment that is hostile to older workers. Lately, Steven...   Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse  From the so-business-is-soft department angry tapir writes "Japan's Sharp, a major supplier of LCD displays to Apple and other manufacturers, has warned that it may not survive if it can't turn around its business. The Osaka-based manufacturer said there is "material doubt" about its...   Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand  From the take-a-left-at-hawaii department First time accepted submitter damagedbits writes "So it turns out that Me.ga is only part of Kim Dotcom's resolution for 2013. Even though he's still facing extradition to the U.S. for alleged piracy, Dotcom has plans to resurrect Pacific Fibre's...   Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability?  From the who-you-gonna-call? department jenningsthecat writes "Public payphones seem headed the way of the dinosaur, as noted here on Slashdot 10 years ago, and again by the CBC earlier this year. Reasons typically cited for their demise are falling usage, (thanks to the ubiquitous cell...   Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise  From the fix-it-yourself department skids writes "MA voters face a complex technical and economic question Tuesday about just how open automobile makers should be with their repair and diagnostic interfaces. A legislative compromise struck in July may not be strong enough for...   The Survival Machine Farm  From the zombie-machines department pacopico writes "There's a 30-acre plot of land in Maysville, MO where about two dozen people have gathered to build a Civilization Starter Kit. As Businessweek reports, they're working on open-source versions of bulldozers, bread ovens, saws and...   Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead  From the get-with-the-times department An anonymous reader writes "In a surprising blow to the movement to create free textbooks online, an upstart company called Flat World Knowledge is dumping its freemium model. The upstart publisher had made its textbooks free online and charged...   AMD Launches Piledriver-Based 12 and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Family  From the launching-needs-less-wooing-than-unveiling department MojoKid writes "AMD's new Piledriver-based Opterons are launching today, completing a product refresh that the company began last spring with its Trinity APUs. The new 12 & 16-core Piledriver parts are debuting as the Opteron 6300 series. AMD...   Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg  From the holy-moley! department An anonymous reader writes "4 years ago I read about experimental targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) surgery on Slashdot. 3 years ago I crashed my motorcycle and had my leg amputated — at which time I had TMR done. Today I climbed 103...

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action alert! Dozens of people protesting a potentially dangerous coal plant were injured and even more were arrested when police fired tear gas at the crowd. Support Anti-Coal Protesters in China please share it helps!     Dear Annisa, Over a thousand people have been participating in protests against a proposed coal plant opening in Yinggehai in China. When police attacked, dozens were injured and dozens more were arrested. But that hasn't stopped the residents from standing against the potentially dangerous coal power plant currently planned for the area. China is already suffering from the adverse effects of extreme pollution. Its authorities should be responding to its citizens' pleas for help with new, more environmentally sustainable plans, not with violence. The planned Yinggehai plant could cause serious and dangerous pollution in the area. The residents of Yinggehai don't deserve to have their helath and safety disregarded in this way. Sign the petition to stand with the Yinngehai protesters against the proposed plant! Thank you for taking action, Kathleen J. Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team
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Apple Pays Only 2% Corporate Tax Outside US; Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty

Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory?   |  Boeing 787 Makes US Debut     Apple Pays Only 2% Corporate Tax Outside US  Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory?  Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty  Boeing 787 Makes US Debut  Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling"  Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars  New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email  Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet  Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now  How To Build a Supercomputer In 24 Hours  Will the Star Citizen Project Fund Linux and Mac Ports For CryENGINE 3?  Dragonfly BSD 3.2 Released  Facebook Joins Linaro Linux-on-ARM Effort  MIT Research Tweaks Smartphone Amplifier Voltage To Gain Battery Life  Shanghai Hosts Its First Maker Carnival     Apple Pays Only 2% Corporate Tax Outside US  From the villagers-with-pitchforks department New submitter dryriver writes with this snippet from the BBC: "Apple paid only $713m (£445m) Tax in the year to 29 September on foreign pre-tax profits of $36.8bn (£23.0bn), a remarkably low rate of 1.9%. Apple channels much of its...   Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory?  From the they-weigh-the-same department First time accepted submitter BluPhenix316 writes "I'm currently in school for Network Administration. I was discussing Linux with my instructor and he said the problem he has with Linux is he doesn't know of a good alternative to Active...   Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty  From the because-that's-when-you-join-the-singularity department theodp writes "Enough with the dadgum naysayers. Google's Vivek Haldar lists some good reasons for why you would want to program at fifty (or any other age). Haldar's list would probably get a thumbs-up from billionaire SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, who...   Boeing 787 Makes US Debut  From the up-in-the-air-senior-birdman department thomas.kane writes "After years of delays, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is set to take off from Bush Intercontinental Airport this morning bound for O'Hare. Designed to make the flying experience 'revolutionary,' it is constructed from composite...   Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling"  From the not-just-shipping-mind-you department You may have noticed that retailers like Amazon are charging tax, in compliance with state laws, on not just the price of goods, but on the "shipping and handling" fees they charge. An anonymous reader writes "By coincidence I noticed this myself...   Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars  From the or-maybe-600-thousand-whatever department Hugh Pickens writes "Reuters reports that Hyundai and its affiliate Kia Motors conceded that they overstated the fuel economy on more than 1 million recently sold vehicles, and agreed to compensate owners for the additional fuel costs after the...   New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email  From the early-often-and-insecurely department First time accepted submitter danbuter writes "In probably the most poorly thought-out reaction to allowing people displaced by Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey [to take part in the 2012 presidential election], residents will be allowed to vote by...   Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet  From the one-neck-to-wring department Several outlets are reporting, based on screenshots posted by Android Police that Google is (or "may be" — CNet calls the report "loosely sourced") about to introduce a lower-tech variant on its smartphone-based Google Wallet payment system....   Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now  From the let's-go-for-a-spin department An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Low-Tech Magazine: "Both the velomobile and the electric bicycle increase the limited range of the cyclist — the former optimises aerodynamics and ergonomics, while the latter assists muscle...   How To Build a Supercomputer In 24 Hours  From the foxconn-this-ain't department An anonymous reader writes with a link to this "time lapse video of students and postdocs at the University of Zurich constructing the zBox4 supercomputer. The machine has a theoretical compute capacity of ~1% of the human brain and will be used...   Will the Star Citizen Project Fund Linux and Mac Ports For CryENGINE 3?  From the voting-with-your-wallet department Mr. Jaggers writes "Chris Roberts, game designer of Wing Commander fame, has had great success with his new crowd-funded Star Citizen project — so much that the $2m base goal has been smashed with weeks to go on the Kickstarter portion of...   Dragonfly BSD 3.2 Released  From the with-wings-to-fly department An anonymous reader writes "Dragonfly BSD recently announced the release of version 3.2 of their operating system. Improvements include: USB4BSD, a second-generation USB stack; merging of a GSoC project to provide CPU topology awareness to the...   Facebook Joins Linaro Linux-on-ARM Effort  From the like-a-tattoo department dgharmon writes "It has been more than two years since Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson, and Texas Instruments formed a non-profit software company called Linaro to help focus the disparate efforts to get Linux running well on...   MIT Research Tweaks Smartphone Amplifier Voltage To Gain Battery Life  From the ok-there's-the-car-analogy department hypnosec writes "Two MIT electrical engineering professors, Joel Dawson and David Perreault, have claimed that they have cracked the age old efficiency problem related to the power amplifier in smartphones by designing a new amplifier that...   Shanghai Hosts Its First Maker Carnival  From the untapped-market department First time accepted submitter spanner888 writes "The first Shanghai Maker Carnival was held this weekend in conjunction with a Creation Exhibition, an arts and crafts expo with about 200 exhibitors. 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Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling; Building the Ultimate Safe House

JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge   |  European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin     Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling  JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge  Building the Ultimate Safe House  European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin  Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a DDoS Attack?  Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far  Verizon Worker Arrested For Copying Customer's Nude Pictures  Solar Panel Breaks "Third of a Sun" Efficiency Barrier  Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media?  China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful  Most US Drones Still Beam Video Unencrypted  Constant Technology Use May Hamper Kids' Ability To Learn  Microsoft Escapes Kaspersky's Top 10 Vulnerabilities List  Canadian Island's Historic Hot Springs Dry Up After Earthquake  Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait     Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling  From the why-didn't-you-look-there department An anonymous reader writes "Apple today posted its second Samsung apology to its UK website, complying with requests by the UK Court of Appeal to say its original apology was inaccurate and link to a new statement. As users on Hacker News and...   JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge  From the does-not-play-well-with-others department SternisheFan writes with an update to a story from earlier this year about a lawsuit in which David Coppedge alleged he was fired from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for his advocacy of Intelligent Design. Now, a judge has ruled that Coppedge...   Building the Ultimate Safe House  From the don't-forget-the-toilet-paper department Hugh Pickens writes "Candace Jackson writes that an increasing number of home builders and buyers are looking for a new kind of security: homes equipped to handle everything from hurricanes, tornadoes and hybrid superstorms like this week's Sandy,...   European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin  From the new-is-scary department An anonymous reader writes "Erik Voorhees blogs for bitinstant.com: 'On Oct 29, 2012, the European Central Bank (ECB) released an official (and very nicely prepared) report called "Virtual Currency Schemes (PDF)." The 55-page report looks at...   Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a DDoS Attack?  From the boot-human-face-forever department First time accepted submitter TheUnFounded writes "A site that I administer was recently 'held hostage' for the vast sum of $800. We were contacted by a guy (who was, it turns out, in Lebanon), who told us that he had been asked to perform a DDoS...   Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far  From the harry-seldon department sfcrazy writes "Linus Torvalds has never been a big fan of Gnome owing [to] its extreme simplicity. Even Gnome 3.x failed to impress the father of the Linux kernel. He has now given KDE a try after a long time. Linus using your software is double...   Verizon Worker Arrested For Copying Customer's Nude Pictures  From the time-to-start-punishing-this department An anonymous reader writes "El Reg reports that two employees at a Verizon store in Florida are facing charges after making copies of a woman's naked pictures while helping her transfer data from an old phone to a new one. The two employees later...   Solar Panel Breaks "Third of a Sun" Efficiency Barrier  From the bright-idea department Zothecula writes "Embattled photovoltaic solar power manufacturer Amonix announced on Tuesday that it has broken the solar module efficiency record, becoming the first manufacturer to convert more than a third of incoming light energy into...   Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media?  From the check-the-wine-cellar department First time accepted submitter lukpac writes "We have an old (ancient) Unisys server in production that hosts a legacy system and are attempting to virtualize it. Unfortunately we don't have a generic UnixWare (2.1.2) installation CD, just a...   China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful  From the sneaky-as-can-be department New submitter vencs writes "China has successfully tested its second stealth fighter, a smaller, twin-engine jet that military analysts said could potentially allow it to one day fly missions from an aircraft carrier. Military analysts said the...   Most US Drones Still Beam Video Unencrypted  From the hey-it-beats-satellite-piracy department An anonymous reader writes "Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn't secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reaper drones, Danger Room has...   Constant Technology Use May Hamper Kids' Ability To Learn  From the tell-me-again-in-30-seconds department hessian writes "Scholars who study the role of media in society say no long-term studies have been done that adequately show how and if student attention span has changed because of the use of digital technology. But there is mounting indirect...   Microsoft Escapes Kaspersky's Top 10 Vulnerabilities List  From the or-maybe-it-goes-without-saying department An anonymous reader writes "Security firm Kaspersky has released its latest IT Threat Evolution report. There were some interesting findings in the report, as always, but the most interesting thing that stuck out was all the way at the bottom:...   Canadian Island's Historic Hot Springs Dry Up After Earthquake  From the don't-keep-that-all-bottled-up-inside-you department theshowmecanuck writes with this snippet from Canada's National Post: "Days after the remote B.C. archipelago of Haida Gwaii emerged virtually unscathed from Canada's second-strongest earthquake, locals discovered that the shifting earth had...   Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait  From the pleased-to-meet-me department astroengine writes "Using its robotic arm-mounted MAHLI camera, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped, quite possibly, the most iconic image to come from the mission so far. By stitching together 55 high-resolution photos, the rover has snapped...

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