http://slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-11-07T14:50:11+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-O5AJiI8uOM/NH-Supreme-Court-Hears-Case-On-Protections-For-Anonymous-Sources-Online fulldecent writes "The New Hampshire Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that calls into question the legal protections available to independent Web sites that cover news. The case involves mortgage lender Implode-Explode, a Las Vegas-based site launched in 2007 that publishes stories about the meltdown of the mortgage industry. Associate Justice Carol Ann Conboy pressed the point with [defense lawyer Jeremy Eggleton], questioning, 'Can anyone who posts a blog be considered a reporter,' for the purposes of claiming protection of anonymous sources? Eggleton answered yes, within limits: 'The test is whether the person has an intention to gather, analyze and disseminate.'"<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1345211/NH-Supreme-Court-Hears-Case-On-Protections-For-Anonymous-Sources-Online?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/07/1345211"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1345211/NH-Supreme-Court-Hears-Case-On-Protections-For-Anonymous-Sources-Online?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZKyiBOByAxwwlCRr4Fhs9iG6umQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZKyiBOByAxwwlCRr4Fhs9iG6umQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZKyiBOByAxwwlCRr4Fhs9iG6umQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZKyiBOByAxwwlCRr4Fhs9iG6umQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-O5AJiI8uOM" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T14:16:00+00:00 privacy in-a-statement-provided-by-xsephirothx yro 3 3,2,2,2,2,0,0 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/1345211/NH-Supreme-Court-Hears-Case-On-Protections-For-Anonymous-Sources-Online?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/K3TdWhI3VHI/Antimatter-In-Lightning AMESN writes "The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched last year, detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the gamma rays is specific to the decay of positrons, which are the antimatter flavor of electrons. Finding antimatter in lightning surprised researchers and suggests the electric field of the lightning somehow got reversed."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/047249/Antimatter-In-Lightning?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/07/047249"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/047249/Antimatter-In-Lightning?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N3yCn3I0B68QtYwcfW-TQa25kGo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N3yCn3I0B68QtYwcfW-TQa25kGo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N3yCn3I0B68QtYwcfW-TQa25kGo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N3yCn3I0B68QtYwcfW-TQa25kGo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/K3TdWhI3VHI" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T13:15:00+00:00 earth doc-brown-can-now-power-his-warp-drive science 37 37,36,25,19,9,6,3 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/047249/Antimatter-In-Lightning?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZV6bRBOloBM/Radar-Beats-GPS-In-Court-mdash-Or-Does-It TechnologyResource writes "More than two years ago in California, a police officer wrote Shaun Malone a ticket for going 62mph in a 45-mph zone. Malone was ordered to pay a $190 fine, but his parents appealed the decision, saying data from a GPS tracking system they installed in his car to monitor his driving proved he was not speeding. What ensued was the longest court battle over a speeding ticket in Sonoma county history. The case also represented the first time anyone locally had tried to beat a ticket using GPS. The teen's GPS pegged the car at 45 mph in virtually the same location. At issue was the distance from the stoplight &mdash; site of the first GPS 'ping' that showed Malone stopped &mdash; to the second ping 30 seconds later, when he was going 45 mph. Last week, Commissioner Carla Bonilla ruled the GPS data confirmed the prosecution's contention that Malone had to have exceeded the speed limit and would have to pay the $190 fine. 'This case ensures that other law enforcement agencies throughout the state aren't going to have to fight a case like this where GPS is used to cast doubt on radar,' said Sgt. Ken Savano, who oversees the traffic division. However, Commissioner Bonilla noted the accuracy of the GPS system was not challenged by either side in the dispute, but rather they had different interpretations of the data. Bonilla ruled the GPS data confirmed the prosecution's contention that Malone had to have exceeded the speed limit."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/037216/Radar-Beats-GPS-In-Court-mdash-Or-Does-It?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/07/037216"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/037216/Radar-Beats-GPS-In-Court-mdash-Or-Does-It?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZoWFxISmtcNEfFdPqB8B6XFq34/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZoWFxISmtcNEfFdPqB8B6XFq34/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZoWFxISmtcNEfFdPqB8B6XFq34/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZoWFxISmtcNEfFdPqB8B6XFq34/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ZV6bRBOloBM" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T10:14:00+00:00 transportation technology-deathmatch technology 137 137,135,114,77,19,10,3 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/037216/Radar-Beats-GPS-In-Court-mdash-Or-Does-It?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/k913wi6vmiQ/Skypes-Legal-Situation-Clears chill writes "Skype's co-founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have agreed to transfer ownership of the remaining Skype technology that eBay didn't own, paving the way for eBay to complete its sale of a majority stake in Skype to an investor consortium. In exchange, Friis and Zennstrom will join the investor consortium and obtain a 14 percent stake in Skype. The other consortium partners, led by Silver Lake, will own a 56 percent stake in Skype, and eBay will hold on to 30 percent, eBay said Friday."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/0340222/Skypes-Legal-Situation-Clears?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/07/0340222"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/0340222/Skypes-Legal-Situation-Clears?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AaYc_GJkx7qO4vNRELZK_OnU5g8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AaYc_GJkx7qO4vNRELZK_OnU5g8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AaYc_GJkx7qO4vNRELZK_OnU5g8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AaYc_GJkx7qO4vNRELZK_OnU5g8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/k913wi6vmiQ" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T07:13:00+00:00 business everybody-goes-home-happy news 32 32,30,20,13,7,5,3 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/0340222/Skypes-Legal-Situation-Clears?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vDYLv91JkJA/Norwegian-Court-Rules-ISP-Doesnt-Have-To-Block-The-Pirate-Bay C4st13v4n14 writes "In a sudden outbreak of uncommon sense yesterday, a Norwegian District Court handed down the decision that Telenor, Norway's largest ISP, will not have to block access to The Pirate Bay. Telenor was sued earlier this year by the IFPI after being threatened and not backing down. 'The court ruled that Telenor is not contributing to any infringements of copyright law when its subscribers use The Pirate Bay, and therefore there is no legal basis for forcing the ISP to block access to the site. ... In making its decision, the court also had to examine the repercussions if it ruled that Telenor and other ISPs had to block access to certain websites.'"<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/0256257/Norwegian-Court-Rules-ISP-Doesnt-Have-To-Block-The-Pirate-Bay?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/07/0256257"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/0256257/Norwegian-Court-Rules-ISP-Doesnt-Have-To-Block-The-Pirate-Bay?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3-8JLUF0nr9fdZ9ornEX_trWrfs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3-8JLUF0nr9fdZ9ornEX_trWrfs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3-8JLUF0nr9fdZ9ornEX_trWrfs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3-8JLUF0nr9fdZ9ornEX_trWrfs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/vDYLv91JkJA" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T05:09:00+00:00 court arrr-me-hearties yro 86 86,84,66,56,28,15,9 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/0256257/Norwegian-Court-Rules-ISP-Doesnt-Have-To-Block-The-Pirate-Bay?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0GpVN01qCHA/KDE-Founder-Receives-Highest-German-Honor Jiilik Oiolosse writes "KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated today with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software. The Federal Cross of Merit is both the most prestigious as well as the only general decoration awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is awarded by the Federal President for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, cultural, and other fields. Matthias was awarded the medal in recognition of his work spurring innovation and spreading knowledge for the common good."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/014245/KDE-Founder-Receives-Highest-German-Honor?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/07/014245"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/014245/KDE-Founder-Receives-Highest-German-Honor?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3A9QaQfe8otcZ15NRvapV0ZT1IU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3A9QaQfe8otcZ15NRvapV0ZT1IU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3A9QaQfe8otcZ15NRvapV0ZT1IU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3A9QaQfe8otcZ15NRvapV0ZT1IU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/0GpVN01qCHA" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T03:07:00+00:00 kde other-than-beer news 105 105,98,76,59,24,18,12 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/014245/KDE-Founder-Receives-Highest-German-Honor?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-Q389Fqzrec/Sony-Demos-Natal-Like-Control-System An anonymous reader writes "It's not just Microsoft investigating full body, markerless motion capture. Sony has enlisted the help of Swiss firm Atracsys to develop similar technology. Sony has openly discussed the technology with New Scientist, and has realistic expectations for the new system &mdash; it can capture broad body gestures but not individual fingers. That's just one trade-off needed in order to develop a real-time system that anyone can use, according to a markerless motion-capture expert." It's still in the early stages of development, but the accompanying video shows the use of face-recognition software as well. The demo game has players moving their heads left or right to position their character, and then smiling to "catch" an object.<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2346212/Sony-Demos-Natal-Like-Control-System?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/2346212"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2346212/Sony-Demos-Natal-Like-Control-System?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FfxdskqqLzLMIf5HkvZFPSvQMBQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FfxdskqqLzLMIf5HkvZFPSvQMBQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FfxdskqqLzLMIf5HkvZFPSvQMBQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FfxdskqqLzLMIf5HkvZFPSvQMBQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-Q389Fqzrec" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T01:03:00+00:00 inputdev wink-to-fire-the-cannon games 53 53,50,34,25,10,5,3 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2346212/Sony-Demos-Natal-Like-Control-System?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/s1288o-l_f4/AMD-Graphics-Chip-Shortage-Hits-PC-Vendors CWmike writes "An offshore AMD foundry is having trouble ramping up production of a new 40-nanometer GPU, forcing PC makers to delay shipments of desktop and laptop computers, AMD confirmed today. TSMC is struggling to get up to speed manufacturing AMD's 5800 series, 40-nm GPUs, according to Jim McGregor, an analyst at In-Stat. He added that the foundry is in full production, but so far yields are below expectation. Matt Davis, a spokesman for AMD, confirmed that TSMC is having issues with production of the chips. He added that it's not clear how far behind the foundry is on production expectations. 'The design is sound. It's just a matter of trying to get TSMC to a point where they can yield. They're feeling the manufacturing crunch,' said Davis. 'We're a little bit under yield but we're working back into a manufacturing schedule we want for these parts. TSMC can only kick them out so fast at this point.' He said that PC vendors are being affected but declined to say how many vendors are feeling the pinch or which ones. 'It's the end of the whip,' he added. '[The vendors] are going to have a hard time.'" A post at Anandtech suggests we'll see price hikes for the 5800-series Radeons until this situation sorts itself out.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2331212/AMD-Graphics-Chip-Shortage-Hits-PC-Vendors?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/2331212"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2331212/AMD-Graphics-Chip-Shortage-Hits-PC-Vendors?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2vbTGlrE7USQp_hMyw4K7Sdl4yg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2vbTGlrE7USQp_hMyw4K7Sdl4yg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2vbTGlrE7USQp_hMyw4K7Sdl4yg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2vbTGlrE7USQp_hMyw4K7Sdl4yg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/s1288o-l_f4" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-07T00:10:00+00:00 amd at-least-tsmc-is-consistent technology 68 68,64,52,38,16,5,3 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2331212/AMD-Graphics-Chip-Shortage-Hits-PC-Vendors?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z91zGLUOxfo/China-Bans-Physical-Punishment-For-Net-Addicts gimmebeer writes to tell us that months after a teen was beaten to death in an Internet boot camp, China has banned the use of physical punishment to help teens kick their net addiction. "The death of 15-year-old Deng Senshan, just hours after he checked into an Internet bootcamp in the southwestern Guangxi region in early August, caused a media storm in China. Days later, another teenager, Pu Liang, was taken to hospital with water in the lungs and kidney failure after a similar attack in Sichuan Province. The government in July had already banned electroshock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, after media reports about a controversial psychiatrist who administered electric currents to nearly 3,000 teenagers. The latest guidelines suggest officials in Beijing do not think that those with unhealthy Internet habits should be forced offline permanently."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2049214/China-Bans-Physical-Punishment-For-Net-Addicts?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/2049214"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2049214/China-Bans-Physical-Punishment-For-Net-Addicts?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bHJeEq7O-SdbwEfr_Ql7ktxYmgU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bHJeEq7O-SdbwEfr_Ql7ktxYmgU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bHJeEq7O-SdbwEfr_Ql7ktxYmgU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bHJeEq7O-SdbwEfr_Ql7ktxYmgU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/z91zGLUOxfo" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-11-06T23:17:00+00:00 government no-more-actually-kicking-the-habit yro 122 122,119,96,69,24,18,10 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2049214/China-Bans-Physical-Punishment-For-Net-Addicts?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BgHbE9PRmTM/Telecoms-Announce-One-Voice-Initiative-To-Promote-LTE-Wireless-Broadband-Stand suraj.sun writes to mention that Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks may have just gotten a boost over WiMax in the battle for wireless broadband dominance. A group of telecom companies has created the "One Voice" initiative, designed to promote a standard that will provide interoperability for broadband voice and SMS. "LTE has been fine at supporting data, which uses IP-based packet switching. But it's faced challenges trying to incorporate traditional circuit-based switching voice and SMS services onto IP-based networks. One Voice is the group's attempt to resolve that issue. The new specification will use existing functionality known as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), which already defines how to provide data, voice, and other content over an IP-based network. IMS was established by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a group comprised of telecom industry associations trying to set standards for 3G mobile networks."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2043208/Telecoms-Announce-One-Voice-Initiative-To-Promote-LTE-Wireless-Broadband-Stand?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/2043208"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2043208/Telecoms-Announce-One-Voice-Initiative-To-Promote-LTE-Wireless-Broadband-Stand?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w2dB8n9LHqS2rzRKCzwXXDlQ_do/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w2dB8n9LHqS2rzRKCzwXXDlQ_do/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w2dB8n9LHqS2rzRKCzwXXDlQ_do/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w2dB8n9LHqS2rzRKCzwXXDlQ_do/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BgHbE9PRmTM" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-11-06T22:33:00+00:00 cellphones wars-fought-with-dollars mobile 37 37,35,29,25,12,7,1 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/2043208/Telecoms-Announce-One-Voice-Initiative-To-Promote-LTE-Wireless-Broadband-Stand?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uL9iwcO4zCU/Drupal-Multimedia coder4hire writes "Of the leading content management systems used by developers for creating websites, Drupal is highly regarded for many characteristics, including a much smaller initial footprint, compared to Joomla and other CMSs. Yet some developers find this a disadvantage as well, because one of the most common criticisms leveled against Drupal is its lack of built-in support for images and multimedia elements &mdash; thereby forcing new Drupal developers to choose from the thousands of contributed Drupal modules those that would be optimal for implementing their websites' multimedia functionality. Aaron Winborn's book Drupal Multimedia is intended as a guide to help such developers." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1755216/Drupal-Multimedia?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/1755216"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1755216/Drupal-Multimedia?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/svZb2OmlzjHsjnYOFoz-0X8FdX4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/svZb2OmlzjHsjnYOFoz-0X8FdX4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/svZb2OmlzjHsjnYOFoz-0X8FdX4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/svZb2OmlzjHsjnYOFoz-0X8FdX4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/uL9iwcO4zCU" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-11-06T21:50:00+00:00 books read-all-about-it bookreview 100 100,98,83,66,16,9,4 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1755216/Drupal-Multimedia?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TfctuYRql4M/Multi-Button-OpenOfficeMouse-At-OOoCon-2009 An anonymous reader writes "WarMouse has announced their new multi-button OpenOfficeMouse for OpenOffice.org at the 2009 OOoCon in Orvieto, Italy. The mouse, which features 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, and an analog joystick, has double-click functionality on every button and stores up to 63 application and game profiles in its 512k of flash memory. The OpenOfficeMouse runs on Windows, Linux, and OS/X; its customization software will be released as free and open source software." We couldn't decide if this was a protest against Apple's new magic mouse, an elaborate practical joke, or just plain insanity run amok. In any case, it is hard to imagine a world in which so many tiny buttons on a mouse make sense.<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1728228/Multi-Button-OpenOfficeMouse-At-OOoCon-2009?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/1728228"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1728228/Multi-Button-OpenOfficeMouse-At-OOoCon-2009?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OpNmLKotDtAXF5INYVFKDQoEw4M/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OpNmLKotDtAXF5INYVFKDQoEw4M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OpNmLKotDtAXF5INYVFKDQoEw4M/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OpNmLKotDtAXF5INYVFKDQoEw4M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/TfctuYRql4M" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-11-06T21:05:00+00:00 inputdev flying-in-the-face-of-simple-design hardware 225 225,224,184,146,44,29,21 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1728228/Multi-Button-OpenOfficeMouse-At-OOoCon-2009?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NiF2pJhOeuU/Microsoft-Research-Shows-Off-New-Projects-On-College-Recruiting-Tour In a recent college recruiting tour, Microsoft's Craig Mundie was able to showcase some of the experiments coming out of their Research division. Among some of the interesting projects were another pass at the Minority Report interface, eye-tracking, intelligent data sorting, a global carbon-climate model, and several other software and hardware experiments. A video and supporting slideshow are also available via Microsoft's press site. "Mundie also will discuss the kinds of computers students will soon be using &ndash; machines that will respond to gestures through new natural user interfaces; deploy the power of new microprocessors; migrate data to the cloud; and use live data to drive new simulations and visualizations. He&rsquo;ll center on an environmental theme to show what it might be like to be a research scientist working on zero carbon energy in the future using new interactions with data and computers to increase insight."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1643227/Microsoft-Research-Shows-Off-New-Projects-On-College-Recruiting-Tour?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/1643227"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1643227/Microsoft-Research-Shows-Off-New-Projects-On-College-Recruiting-Tour?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dBJEaRssu17UGQgj0j6fVOufvJI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dBJEaRssu17UGQgj0j6fVOufvJI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dBJEaRssu17UGQgj0j6fVOufvJI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dBJEaRssu17UGQgj0j6fVOufvJI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NiF2pJhOeuU" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-11-06T20:22:00+00:00 microsoft why-do-they-want-computing-to-be-a-workout hardware 55 55,52,34,26,9,3,2 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1643227/Microsoft-Research-Shows-Off-New-Projects-On-College-Recruiting-Tour?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vc6AIZwvsOs/What-Does-Google-Suggest-Suggest-About-Humanity CNETNate writes "You'll laugh, but mostly you'll cry. Some of the questions Google gets asked to deliver results for is beyond worrying. 'Can you put peroxide in your ear?', 'Why would a pregnancy test be negative?', and 'Why can't I own a Canadian?' being just a selection of the truly baffling &mdash; and disturbing &mdash; questions Google is regularly forced to answer."<p><a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/167239/What-Does-Google-Suggest-Suggest-About-Humanity?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/167239"></a></p><p><a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/167239/What-Does-Google-Suggest-Suggest-About-Humanity?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pArW03BiAYWHYN_vkMnJ68PiWfc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pArW03BiAYWHYN_vkMnJ68PiWfc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pArW03BiAYWHYN_vkMnJ68PiWfc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pArW03BiAYWHYN_vkMnJ68PiWfc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/vc6AIZwvsOs" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-11-06T19:40:00+00:00 idle fire-makes-things-hot idle 446 446,443,337,247,66,44,33 http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/167239/What-Does-Google-Suggest-Suggest-About-Humanity?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/i16AHFKfgYQ/Cable-Exec-Suggests-Changing-Consumer-Behavior-Not-Business-Model Techdirt has pointed out yet another cable exec that just doesn't quite get it. Comcast's COO, Steve Burke, recently urged the TV industry to find ways to "get consumers to change" rather than figure out better methods to cater to demand. "'An entire generation is growing up, if we don't figure out how to change that behavior so it respects copyright and subscription revenue on the part of distributors, we're going to wake up and see cord cutting.' How many consumers, in any market, are focused on 'respecting' vendors' revenue streams? How, exactly, does he propose to effect this sea change? And why not just develop products that consumers will willingly pay for, rather than trying to change consumer behavior in such a fundamental way?"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1639252/Cable-Exec-Suggests-Changing-Consumer-Behavior-Not-Business-Model?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/1639252"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1639252/Cable-Exec-Suggests-Changing-Consumer-Behavior-Not-Business-Model?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p4fIRjmqgYDcaPI0acOlcIQ_np8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p4fIRjmqgYDcaPI0acOlcIQ_np8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p4fIRjmqgYDcaPI0acOlcIQ_np8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p4fIRjmqgYDcaPI0acOlcIQ_np8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/i16AHFKfgYQ" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-11-06T18:58:00+00:00 business customers-should-like-what-we-want-them-to-like news 632 632,625,488,381,90,52,33 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1639252/Cable-Exec-Suggests-Changing-Consumer-Behavior-Not-Business-Model?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://slashdot.org/search.pl