UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone'; Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi Are Protected Intellectual Property

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion   |  4K Displays Ready For Prime Time     UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone'  Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion  Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi Are Protected Intellectual Property  4K Displays Ready For Prime Time  UPS Denies Helping the NSA 'Interdict' Packages  Scientists Find Method To Reliably Teleport Data  Security Researchers Threatened With US Cybercrime Laws  Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases  Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking?  How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds  The Light Might Make You Heavy  Ford's Bringing Adaptive Steering To the Masses  Happy 95th Anniversary, Relativity  Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework  Scott Adams's Plan For Building Giant Energy-Generating Pyramids     UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone'  From the might-hurt-if-you-throw-them-at-somebody department New submitter graveyardjohn writes: "The BBC has a short video about why the U.K.'s National Ballistics Intelligence Service thinks 3D-printed guns are 'of no use to anyone.' They show a 3D-printed gun being fired in a test chamber. The barrel...   Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion  From the big-wallet department DroidJason1 (3589319) writes "Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has purchased the LA Clippers for a whopping $2 billion, also setting a new record price for an NBA team. This deal is apparently tentative until Donald Sterling gives his blessing....   Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi Are Protected Intellectual Property  From the attention-i-have-trademarked-the-space-between-letters-please-stop-using-it department Byteme writes: "A number of Zazzle.com users have had their art and products removed from the site after a man named Paul Ingrisano was granted a trademark for 'Pi Productions' using a logo that consists of this freely available version of the pi...   4K Displays Ready For Prime Time  From the all-the-pixels department An anonymous reader writes "After the HD revolution, display manufacturers rolled out gimmick after gimmick to try to recapture that burst of purchasing (3-D, curved displays, 'Smart' features, form factor tweaks, etc). Now, we're finally seeing...   UPS Denies Helping the NSA 'Interdict' Packages  From the what-can-brown-do-for-you department An anonymous reader writes "When Glenn Greenwald's book came out recently, one of the most startling revelations was that the NSA has been intercepting shipments of networking gear to add spyware. Cisco was one of the vendors whose gear was...   Scientists Find Method To Reliably Teleport Data  From the who-needs-gigabit-fiber-anyway department An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience say they've managed to reliably teleport quantum information stored in one bit of diamond to another sitting three meters away (abstract, pre-print) . Now, their goal is...   Security Researchers Threatened With US Cybercrime Laws  From the building-inspectors-threatened-with-arson-laws department An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian reports that many of the security industry's top researchers are being threatened by lawyers and law enforcement over their efforts to track down vulnerabilities in internet infrastructure. 'HD Moore,...   Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases  From the let-us-do-that department jfruh (300774) writes "Amazon is pushing hard to be as ubiquitous in the world of cloud computing as it is in bookselling. The company's latest pitch is that even your highest-performing databases will run more efficiently on Amazon Web Services...   Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking?  From the that-stupid-turtle department An anonymous reader writes "What got you into hacking? This is a question that Jennifer Steffen, IOActive CEO, often asks hackers she meets on conferences around the world. More often than not, the answer is movies: War Games, Hackers, The Matrix,...   How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds  From the greased-lightning department colinneagle (2544914) writes "What if you could transmit data without link layer flow control bogging down throughput with retransmission requests, and also optimize the size of the transmission for network efficiency and application latency...   The Light Might Make You Heavy  From the switch-to-zero-calorie-light department Rambo Tribble writes: "Writing in the American Journal of Epidemiology, researchers have found that sleeping with high ambient light levels may contribute to obesity (abstract). In a survey of 113,000 women, a high correlation was found between...   Ford's Bringing Adaptive Steering To the Masses  From the power-power-steering department cartechboy writes: "Most automakers have made the jump from hydraulic power steering to electronic power steering to help conserve fuel. By using an electric motor instead of a hydraulic system, less energy is drawn from the engine. Many luxury...   Happy 95th Anniversary, Relativity  From the it's-all-relative department StartsWithABang (3485481) writes "It's hard to believe, but there are people alive today who remember a world where Newtonian gravity was the accepted theory of gravitation governing our Universe. 95 years ago today, the 1919 solar eclipse...   Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework  From the also-ready-for-prime-time department Kvorg writes: "Back in 2012 Slashdot noticed how at the time of Perl 5.16, the modern Perl projects, including Mojolicious, formed a new and expanding movement of a Perl Renaissance. With the release of Perl 5.20 and Mojolicious 5.0, the Modern...   Scott Adams's Plan For Building Giant Energy-Generating Pyramids  From the pyramid-power department LoLobey (1932986) writes "Scott Adams has proposed a pyramid project to save the world via energy generation and tourism. Basically build giant pyramids, miles wide and high, in the desert to generate power via chimney effect and photo voltaics...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration; 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets

The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes   |  In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism     Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration  The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes  'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets  In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism   Shrinking Waves May Save Antarctic Sea Ice  Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick  Amazon Confirms Hachette Spat Is To 'Get a Better Deal' Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2  Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia  Report: Verizon Claimed Public Utility Status To Get Government Perks  Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Earns One Million Dollars In Less Than a Day  OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers  SpaceX To Present Manned Dragon Capsule  Valve's Steam Machines Delayed, Won't Be Coming In 2014  Imparting Malware Resistance With a Randomizing Compiler     Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration  From the ok-you-need-not-register-your-zombies department Responding to an editorial endorsing a national vaccine registry in Canada (though the same kind of registry could be and has been proposed in the U.S. with the same logic), an anonymous reader writes "Vaccine Registration makes me think of Mutant...   The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes  From the only-109-more-isolated-numbers-until-the-singularity department Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "The environmental benefits of streaming a movie (or downloading it) rather than purchasing a DVD are staggering, according to a new U.S. government study by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory....   'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets  From the ok-use-the-wormhole-to-get-the-printer department Jason Koebler (3528235) writes "Adam Steltzner, the lead engineer on the NASA JPL's Curiosity rover mission, believes that to send humans to distant planets, we may need to do one of two things: look for ways to game space-time—traveling...   In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism   From the smart-enough-for-exile department mspohr (589790) points out NBC News's interview with Edward Snowden, the first time Snowden has talked with an American television reporter. It's a wide-ranging conversation, in which Snowden emphasizes his ongoing belief that he did the right...   Shrinking Waves May Save Antarctic Sea Ice  From the no-wake-zone department sciencehabit (1205606) writes "It's a nagging thorn in the side of climatologists: Even though the world is warming, the average area of the sea ice around Antarctica is increasing. Climate models haven't explained this seeming contradiction to...   Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick  From the says-the-gartner-analyst department Lucas123 (935744) writes "Currently, the hottest trend from TV manufacturers is to offer curved panels, but analysts say it's nothing more than a ploy to pander to consumers who want the latest, coolest-looking tech in their home. In the end, the...   Amazon Confirms Hachette Spat Is To 'Get a Better Deal'  From the no-book-for-you department tlhIngan (30335) writes "Last week we heard that Amazon was withdrawing Hachette books from its virtual shelves including allowing preorders of the new JK Rowling book. Amazon has responded to these allegations, and confirms that yes, they are...   Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2  From the loyal-opposition department An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft [Wednesday] announced it is developing at least four new features for the next release of Internet Explorer (IE): Web Audio API, Media Capture and Streams, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2. The company says this is...   Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia  From the yeah-right-grandma department concertina226 (2447056) writes "Scientists from the University of Eastern Finland have found that people who have high levels of cynical distrust are three times as likely to suffer from dementia in later life, than those who have more faith in...   Report: Verizon Claimed Public Utility Status To Get Government Perks  From the best-of-both-worlds department An anonymous reader writes "Research for the Public Utility Law Project (PULP) has been released which details 'how Verizon deliberately moves back and forth between regulatory regimes, classifying its infrastructure either like a heavily...   Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Earns One Million Dollars In Less Than a Day  From the bucks-for-books department An anonymous reader writes "LeVar Burton and the rest of the Reading Rainbow crew opened a Kickstarter campaign to bring back Reading Rainbow yesterday, with the ambitious goal of collecting a million dollars for their cause. They are now at...   OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers  From the can-we-send-them-snacks? department Trailrunner7 (1100399) writes "Scarcely a month after announcing the formation of a group designed to help fund open source projects, the Core Infrastructure Initiative has decided to provide the OpenSSL Project with enough money to hire two...   SpaceX To Present Manned Dragon Capsule  From the calling-shotgun department camperdave (969942) writes "SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is set to unveil the Dragon V2 at a media event from Hawthorne, California, tonight at 7 pm. Pacific. The 'Dragon V2' is an upgraded, man rated version of the unmanned spaceship that has made...   Valve's Steam Machines Delayed, Won't Be Coming In 2014  From the some-day-soon department sfcrazy (1542989) writes "Valve has announced that its Steam Machines won't be available in the market anytime in 2014. The company delayed the release due to ongoing work on the Steam Controller. Valve's Eric Hope explains on Steam Forums why the...   Imparting Malware Resistance With a Randomizing Compiler  From the well-if-it-works-for-apache-linux department First time accepted submitter wheelbarrio (1784594) writes with this news from the Economist: "Inspired by the natural resistance offered to pathogens by genetically diverse host populations, Dr Michael Franz at UCI suggests that common software...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds; Google Unveils Self-Driving Car With No Steering Wheel

Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy   |  TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker     Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds  Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy  Google Unveils Self-Driving Car With No Steering Wheel  TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker  The Singularity Is Sci-Fi's Faith-Based Initiative  I Want a Kindle Killer  Parenting Rewires the Male Brain  Google Starts Blocking Extensions Not In the Chrome Web Store  PHP Next Generation  Temporary Classrooms Are Bad For the Environment, and Worse For Kids  Microsoft Demos Real-Time Translation Over Skype  Apple Confirms Purchase of Beats For $3 Billion  Virtual DVDs, Revisited  No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code  The Andromeda Galaxy Just Had a Bright Gamma Ray Event     Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds  From the coming-to-terms-with-reality department PvtVoid writes: "Jeopardy champion Arthur Chu pens a heartfelt takedown of misogyny in nerd culture: 'I've heard and seen the stories that those of you who followed the #YesAllWomen hashtag on Twitter have seen...   Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy  From the also-doesn't-measure-temperature-or-blood-pressure department cold fjord writes: "Dan Kahan at the Yale Law School Cultural Cognition Project says, 'Because imparting basic comprehension of science in citizens is so critical to enlightened democracy, it is essential that we develop valid measures of it, so...   Google Unveils Self-Driving Car With No Steering Wheel  From the in-soviet-google,-car-drives-you department cartechboy writes: "We've already discussed and maybe even come to terms with the fact that autonomous cars are coming. In fact, many automakers including Mercedes-Benz and Tesla have committed to self-driving cars by 2017. Apparently that's not...   TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker  From the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-Jkkms0EuPPlvOmW7Mk5x2A== department Several readers sent word that the website for TrueCrypt, the popular disk encryption system, says that development has ended, and Windows users should switch to BitLocker. A notice on the site reads...   The Singularity Is Sci-Fi's Faith-Based Initiative  From the omnipotent-god-computers-will-not-run-your-life department malachiorion writes: "Is machine sentience not only possible, but inevitable? Of course not. But don't tell that to devotees of the Singularity, a theory that sounds like science, but is really just science fiction repackaged as secular prophecy....   I Want a Kindle Killer  From the newton-rises-from-the-grave department lpress (707742) writes "Amazon's Kindle is a good e-reader and they've sold around 40 million units, but it is far from perfect. It could be significantly improved with speech recognition for commands and text entry, a well-designed database for...   Parenting Rewires the Male Brain  From the swearing-circuits-rerouted-and-patience-circuits-bolstered department sciencehabit writes: "Cultures around the world have long assumed that women are hardwired to be mothers. But a new study (abstract) suggests that caring for children awakens a parenting network in the brain—even turning on some of the same...   Google Starts Blocking Extensions Not In the Chrome Web Store  From the protecting-you-from-yourself department An anonymous reader writes "Google has begun blocking local Chrome extensions to protect Windows users. This means that as of today, extensions can be installed in Chrome for Windows only if they're hosted on the Chrome Web Store. Furthermore,...   PHP Next Generation  From the looking-forward-to-php-deep-space-nine department An anonymous reader writes "The PHP Group has put up a post about the future of PHP. They say, 'Over the last year, some research into the possibility of introducing JIT compilation capabilities to PHP has been conducted. During this research, the...   Temporary Classrooms Are Bad For the Environment, and Worse For Kids  From the false-economy department tcd004 (134130) writes "You've always suspected those trailer-type portable classrooms are no good, right? It turns out you're right. Analysis of prefabricated classrooms in Washington shows the structures often don't allow for proper...   Microsoft Demos Real-Time Translation Over Skype  From the speaking-the-same-language department Z80xxc! (1111479) writes "Today at the first annual Code Conference, Microsoft demonstrated its new real-time translation in Skype publicly for the first time. Gurdeep Pall, Microsoft's VP of Skype and Lync, compares the technology to Star Trek's...   Apple Confirms Purchase of Beats For $3 Billion  From the throwing-down-the-big-money department SimonTheSoundMan writes: "Apple has confirmed it will buy Beats Electronics and Beats Music for $3 billion. Apple will make the purchase using $2.6 billion in cash and $400 million in stock. An important part of the acquisition for Apple is...   Virtual DVDs, Revisited  From the still-waiting-on-virtual-laserdiscs department Bennett Haselton writes: "In March I asked why Netflix doesn't offer their rental DVD service in 'virtual DVD' form -- where you can 'check out' a fixed number of 'virtual DVDs' per month, just as you would with their physical DVDs by mail, but by...   No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code  From the but-somebody-on-the-teevee-said-so department itwbennett writes: "Half a billion lines of code for a transactional website — more than five times as much code as that behind OS X — just didn't pass the sniff test. But just how many lines of code does it take to generate...   The Andromeda Galaxy Just Had a Bright Gamma Ray Event  From the alien-super-weapon department First time accepted submitter SpaceMika (867804) writes "We just saw something bright in the Andromeda Galaxy, and we don't know what it was. A Gamma Ray Burst or an Ultraluminous X-Ray Object, either way it will be the closest of its type we've...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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