Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops; Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%

Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation?   |  Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping?     Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops  Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation?  Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%  Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping?  Julian Assange: "Online Totalitarianism Is Near, Entire Nations Are Intercepted"  Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade  Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer?  Why KDE Plasma Makes Sense For Linux Gaming  The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs  Multi-Server Microkernel OS Genode 12.11 Can Build Itself  Nintendo Power's Final Cover  "Self-Healing" NAND Flash Memory That Can Survive Over 100 Million Cycles  A Tale of Two Companies  Interview With Icculus on GNU/Linux Gaming  PengPod Hits Funding Goal, Plans to Ship Linux Tablet In January     Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops  From the too-soon? department theodp writes "Don't believe everything Steve Jobs and Tim Cook tell you, advises The Verge's Sean Hollister. Gunshy of touchscreen laptops after hearing the two Apple CEOs dismiss the technology (Jobs: 'Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical.'...   Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation?  From the illegal-in-michigan department theodp writes "Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has launched a website and gone social on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to educate taxpayers on why they must make good on pension promises to state workers. And, in addition to Squeezy the Pension...   Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%  From the meaningless-stats-to-ponder department An anonymous reader writes "Just three months ago, we reported how Windows 7 had finally overtaken Windows XP in terms of market share. Now it's time to see how long it takes Windows 8 to succeed its predecessors. Between October to November,...   Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping?  From the god-save-the-cd department I recently retired my ancient AthlonMP rig for something a bit more modern, and in the upgrade got a new DVD±RW drive. Since I have the new rig and a lot more disk space, the time has come to re-rip my ~450 disc CD collection into FLAC (I...   Julian Assange: "Online Totalitarianism Is Near, Entire Nations Are Intercepted"  From the war-and-disorder department dryriver writes "Russia Today's correspondents have visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Assange has been holed up for nearly 6 months now. In the 12 minute long interview with RT, Assange has many interesting things...   Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade  From the not-fixed-enough-for-me department Hugh Pickens writes writes "The Washington Post reports that Apple has finally unveiled their new version of iTunes, overhauling its look and feel and integrating it more closely with the company's iCloud Internet- storage service with one of the...   Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer?  From the whole-greater-than-parts department An anonymous reader writes "Joshua Simmons authored an article for the N.Y.U. Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law. The article is a comparison of the developments in copyright law and patent law in the nineteenth century that...   Why KDE Plasma Makes Sense For Linux Gaming  From the compatibility-matters department sfcrazy writes "Martin Gräßlin, a lead KDE developer, addresses some queries around a topic bugging Gnome and Unity users — the fallback mode. In this post he says that 'having the non-composited mode around allows us to do things...   The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs  From the culture-police department hypnosec writes "The Pirate Bay's artist promotion platform (the Promo Bay), despite being perfectly legal, is being blocked by several UK Internet service providers including BT, and Virgin Media. The Promo Bay was launched this week as a...   Multi-Server Microkernel OS Genode 12.11 Can Build Itself  From the and-they-say-microkernels-won't-work department An anonymous reader wrote in with a story on OS News about the latest release of the Genode Microkernel OS Framework. Brought to you by the research labs at TU Dresden, Genode is based on the L4 microkernel and aims to provide a framework for...   Nintendo Power's Final Cover  From the centerfold-is-a-doozy department skade88 writes "Ars Technica has a review of the last-ever issue of Nintendo Power. It's bittersweet seeing a part of my childhood ending." Being in print for 25 years means it's got most single-platform computer magazines beat.   "Self-Healing" NAND Flash Memory That Can Survive Over 100 Million Cycles  From the forged-in-the-fires-of-mount-nand department another random user writes with an interesting use of 800C heating elements to keep flash working longer. It's long been known that heating NAND to temperatures around 250C can restore life, but doing so was practically impossible. From the...   A Tale of Two Companies  From the dying-breed department Rick Zeman writes "They've had the best of times, and now they're living through the worst of times. The Washington Post talks about the dissolution of both Kodak's and Polaroid's business models, what Kodak can learn from Polaroid's earlier...   Interview With Icculus on GNU/Linux Gaming  From the ioquake3-between-stories department Via Phoronix comes a link to an interview with prolific GNU/Linux game porter Icculus about the state of gaming on GNU/Linux. Topics include Steam, Windows 8, his experiences trying to push FatELF vs full screen games, and the general state of the...   PengPod Hits Funding Goal, Plans to Ship Linux Tablet In January  From the tablet-for-the-gnu-slash-rest-of-us department An anonymous reader writes "Quoting liliputing: 'PengPod plans to start shipping 7 and 10 inch tablets with support for Linux as well as Google Android in January. The company, founded by Neal Peacock, has been raising money to help support...

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How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze?; Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros

Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever   |  Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source)     Fortran expert Steve Lionel gives free webinar on parallelism. Explore DO CONCURRENT and coarrays with Doctor Fortran. Tuesday, December 4, 9 a.m. PDT. Attend and get a free book on parallelism  Learn More! How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze?  Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever  Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros  Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source)  Apple Claims Ignorance of Jury Foreman's Previous Tangle With Samsung  Least-Cost Routing Threatens Rural Phone Call Completion  North Korea Claims Archaeologists Have Found 'Unicorn Lair' In Pyongyang  One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators  Ask Slashdot: Tablets For Papers; Are We There Yet?  Ouya Consoles Will Start Shipping On December 28th  Samsung Sets New Guidelines For Alcoholic Beverages  Elite Creator David Braben: Games Like Elite 'Too Risky' For Publishers  Raspberry Pi's $25 Model A Hits Production Line  7 Jailed In 'Kidney For iPad' Case In China  Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission?    Share Your Opinions with Geeknet Exercise influence on content enhancements, product development and identifying critical technology trends by joining the Geeknet Thought Leadership Panel. Also, join today to enter for a chance to win a cash prize of $1,000, $500 or $200. Learn More!    How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze?  From the when-factors-align department JameskPratt writes "This Slate article talks about a single line of code — 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10 — and how it manages to create a complicated maze without the use of a loop, variables and without very complicated...   Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever  From the nerdrage-in-three-two-one department Kwyj1b0 writes "In a massive study on genetic variation among humans, researchers found that most changes have occurred in the last 200 generations, too fast for natural selection to catch up. Recent papers show that rare genetic variations have a...   Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros  From the working-with-the-work-around department TrueSatan writes "Matthew Garrett, formerly of Red Hat, is providing a shim bootloader that will allow installation/booting of secure boot enabled computers. The shim is designed to chain boot GRUB (Grand Universal Bootloader) without the need for...   Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source)  From the but-they-said-to-download department WebMink writes "GitHub is a great open source hosting site, right? Wrong. There's no requirement that projects on GitHub provide any copyright license, let alone an open source one, so roughly half the projects on GitHub are "all rights reserved"...   Apple Claims Ignorance of Jury Foreman's Previous Tangle With Samsung  From the no-idea-yerhonor department quantr writes with the news that Apple claims that the company "wasn't aware during trial that the foreman of the jury that issued a $1.05 billion verdict against Samsung Electronics Co. was involved in a lawsuit with his former employer, Seagate...   Least-Cost Routing Threatens Rural Phone Call Completion  From the back-to-pigeons department New submitter kybred writes "Rural landline users are increasingly having problems with incoming calls not completing or being dropped. The culprit may be the bargain long distance carriers penchant for 'least cost routing' combined with the...   North Korea Claims Archaeologists Have Found 'Unicorn Lair' In Pyongyang  From the not-so-horny-after-all department eldavojohn writes "NPR pointed out a press release claiming that North Korean archaeologists have found a 'unicorn lair' in Pyongyang. The members of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have "reconfirmed" that this site...   One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators  From the getting-it-up-is-only-half-the-battle department McGruber writes "The Wall Street Journal has an article about Theresa Christy, a mathematician who develops algorithms for Otis Elevator Company, the world's largest manufacturer and maintainer of people-moving products including elevators,...   Ask Slashdot: Tablets For Papers; Are We There Yet?  From the getting-closer-at-least department An anonymous reader writes "When I was younger, engineering and science offices didn't have computers yet. It was the tradition: Piled Higher and Deeper desks, and overloaded bookcases. I ended up doing other things, and haven't been in a regular...   Ouya Consoles Will Start Shipping On December 28th  From the did-you-bet-correctly? department sfcrazy writes "Ouya has stuck to its deadlines. The team has posted an update on the official blog that the units will start shipping on the scheduled date of December 28th. These units are for those developers who backed the project on...   Samsung Sets New Guidelines For Alcoholic Beverages  From the no-wonder-I-don't-work-for-samsung department jones_supa writes "To tame the vigorous drinking habits of the Koreans, the parent company, Samsung Group, implemented a strict code of conduct for staff dinners at Samsung. Deeply ingrained in South Korean business culture, hoesik is a...   Elite Creator David Braben: Games Like Elite 'Too Risky' For Publishers  From the games-are-business department Pecisk writes "While PC game development veterans are using Kickstarter more and more for their projects (see the already successful Star Citizen Kickstarter project, which already went home with $2 million, or Elite: Dangerous, a sequel of...   Raspberry Pi's $25 Model A Hits Production Line  From the house-automation-brain-perhaps department hypnosec writes "The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that the cheaper variant of the Raspberry Pi — the Model A — has entered production phase. Model A of the credit-card sized computer has been stripped of its Ethernet port and...   7 Jailed In 'Kidney For iPad' Case In China  From the let's-ask-tyler-cowen department hackingbear writes "In China, the whole team of medical staff and their brokers were sentenced to jail yesterday over their involvement in the case of a teenager who sold a kidney to buy an iPhone and iPad. He Wei, who organized the illegal...   Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission?  From the take-this-string-and-those-cans department bellwould writes "In teaching information tech to a 13-year-old with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), I've found she's wildly interested in the details of data transmission but not programming. We've had limited success with command-line tools...

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Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill?; New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games

UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact   |  US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low     Fortran expert Steve Lionel gives free webinar on parallelism. Explore DO CONCURRENT and coarrays with Doctor Fortran. Tuesday, December 4, 9 a.m. PDT. Attend and get a free book on parallelism  Learn More! Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill?  UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact  New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games  US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low  Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail  Grim Picture of Polar Ice-Sheet Loss  Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail  Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node  FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn  DOE Wants 5X Improvement In Batteries In 5 Years  Inside an Amazon Warehouse  Newzbin2 Closes For Good  Ask Slashdot: Good Linux Desktop Environment For Hi-Def/Retina Displays?  Microsoft Security Essentials Loses AV-Test Certificate  In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad    Share Your Opinions with Geeknet Exercise influence on content enhancements, product development and identifying critical technology trends by joining the Geeknet Thought Leadership Panel. Also, join today to enter for a chance to win a cash prize of $1,000, $500 or $200. Learn More!    Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill?  From the i-volunteer-to-collect-them department coondoggie writes "It seems well past time that the U.S. ditch its $1 bill — considering such a move could save the country somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 billion. But there is much resistance, or perhaps a lack of real consideration of...   UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact  From the no-more-monkeying-around department An anonymous reader writes "A story at the BBC explains how the UK government has put an extra clause into a funding bill to ensure that any new 'free schools' (independent schools run by groups of parents or organizations, but publicly-funded)...   New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games  From the what-the... department jbernardo writes "After all the indie, multi-platform (including 4 for android) and DRM free releases, the latest Humble Bundle release is a polarizing one. It features non-indie games, it is Windows only, and the games are saddled with DRM. There...   US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low  From the peaceful-movie-theaters-and-airline-flights-hit-record-high department Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that the U.S. birthrate is at its lowest since 1920, the earliest year with reliable records. The rate decreased to 63.2 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age — a little more than half of...   Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail  From the zombie-apocalypse-could-do-it department Nerval's Lobster writes "Microsoft's Surface Pro boasts one feature that could rapidly become an Achilles Heel, especially if Microsoft intends for the device to compete against Apple's iPad and a host of lightweight Google Android touch-screens....   Grim Picture of Polar Ice-Sheet Loss  From the i-blame-the-ice-cube-miners department ananyo writes "A global team of researchers has come up with the most accurate estimate yet for melting of the polar ice sheets, ending decades of uncertainty about whether the sheets will melt further or actually gain mass in the face of climate...   Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail  From the somebody-ought-to-make-an-amendment department TrueSatan writes "Finally, Bradley Manning's military court case starts. He's only had to wait 2 years to be heard. Manning claims that while remanded in custody in Iraq he 'passed out due to the heat' and 'contemplated suicide.' The United...   Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node  From the internet-over-tor-is-a-series-of-tubers department An anonymous reader writes "A Tor Exit node owner is being prosecuted in Austria. As part of the prosecution, all of his electronics have been held by the authorities, including over 20 computers, his cell phone and hard disks. 'During interview...   FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn  From the lesson-learned-always-spy-on-your-kids department nonprofiteer writes "This is a crazy story. An FBI agent put spyware on his kid's school-issued laptop in order to monitor his Internet use. Before returning the laptop to the school, he tried to wipe the program (SpectorSoft's eBlaster) by having...   DOE Wants 5X Improvement In Batteries In 5 Years  From the charging-scientists-with-this-task department dcblogs writes "The U.S. Dept. of Energy has set a goal to develop battery and energy storage technologies that are five times more powerful and five times cheaper within five years. DOE is creating a new center at Argonne National Laboratory, at...   Inside an Amazon Warehouse  From the packing-it-up department redletterdave writes "In each one of Amazon.com's 80 fulfillment centers around the globe, Amazon relies on barcodes and human hands rather than robots or automation to find and ship the proper items in a quick and efficient manner. Without...   Newzbin2 Closes For Good  From the So-long-farewell-auf-weidersehen-goodbye department AlphaWolf_HK writes "Newzbin2, one of the most recognized index sites for usenet, has closed for good. A statement reads: 'It is with regret that we announce the closure of Newzbin2. A combination of several factors has made this the only option....   Ask Slashdot: Good Linux Desktop Environment For Hi-Def/Retina Displays?  From the time-to-start-thinking-about-this-again department Volanin writes "I have been using Linux for the last 15 years both at home and at work (mostly GNOME and now Unity). Recently, I gave in to temptation and bought myself a Macbook retina 15". As you can read around, Linux still has no good support...   Microsoft Security Essentials Loses AV-Test Certificate  From the is-there-extra-credit? department helix2301 writes "Every two months, AV-Test takes a look at popular antivirus software and security suites and tests them in several ways. In their latest test which was performed on Windows 7 during September and October, Microsoft Security...   In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad  From the all-colors department KermMartian writes "In what seems to be an accelerating arms race for graphing calculator supremacy between Texas Instruments and Casio, the underdog Casio has fired a return salvo to the recently-announced TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition. The new...

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