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Technology Home > All Blogs > Blogs about Technology   Show Info [Close] Name: Slashdot Home Page URL: http://slashdot.org/ Feed URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot Last Post Found: 2013-05-21 02:16:33 Latest Entries from Slashdot Total Score 7 Rate It Slashdot: German Researchers Hit 40 Gbps On Wireless Link judgecorp writes "German researchers from the Fraunhover and Karlsruhe institutes have achieved 40Gbps transfers over 1km using a wireless link. The new record raises the hope that point-to-point wireless could be used instead of expensive fibers in some ... Dateline: 2013-05-21 2:16am -07:00T (59 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 12 Rate It Slashdot: The Hunt For LulzSec's Missing Sixth Member DavidGilbert99 writes "LulzSec's star burnt brightly in the short period it was active, but things quickly turned sour when its core members began getting arrested. Last week three of the six core members were sentenced in the UK, but this only served to ... Dateline: 2013-05-21 1:01am -07:00T (123 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 20 Rate It Slashdot: Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook richlv writes "Latvian police recently raided the home of a history teacher and confiscated his computer. The crime? Scanning a history book and making it available on his website covering various topics on history. The raid was based on a complaint from ... Dateline: 2013-05-20 9:31pm -07:00T (77 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 24 Rate It Slashdot: EFF Resumes Accepting Bitcoin Donations After Two Year Hiatus hypnosec writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has started accepting donations in the form of Bitcoins again after a two year hiatus, stating that the legal uncertainty hovering over the digital currency has all but disappeared. On their blog t... Dateline: 2013-05-20 8:16pm -07:00T (90 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 42 Rate It Slashdot: Motion To Delay Sanctions Against Prenda Lawyers Denied rudy_wayne writes with news that the Prenda lawyers recently sanctioned by a federal judge are starting to face consequences. From the article: "On Friday, Paul Hansmeier, a Minnesota attorney who has been pointed to as one of the masterminds of the Prend... Dateline: 2013-05-20 6:01pm -07:00T (201 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 54 Rate It Slashdot: Google Drops XMPP Support Cbs228 writes "During last week's Google I/O conference, the company announced a replacement for its aging Talk instant messenger: Google Hangouts. Hangouts, which is only available for Android, iOS, and Chrome, offers closer integration with Google+. Unf... Dateline: 2013-05-20 6:01pm -07:00T (202 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 36 Rate It Slashdot: Viruses In Mucus Protect From Infection ananyo writes "Researchers have discovered that animal mucus — ' whether from humans, fish or corals' — is loaded with bacteria-killing viruses called phages. These protect their hosts from infection by destroying incoming bacteria. In return,... Dateline: 2013-05-20 4:46pm -07:00T (108 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 48 Rate It Slashdot: NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy Nerval's Lobster writes "Location is everything when choosing the site of a data center. Firms such as Microsoft and Google and Facebook spend a lot of time looking into the costs of land, power, regulation and taxes before placing their respective data c... Dateline: 2013-05-20 4:46pm -07:00T (212 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 48 Rate It Slashdot: Reporters Threatened, Labeled Hackers For Finding Security Hole colinneagle writes "Scripps News reporters discovered 170,000 records online of customers of Lifeline, a government program offering affordable phone service for low-income citizens, that contained everything needed for identity theft . Last year, the FCC... Dateline: 2013-05-20 3:31pm -07:00T (169 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 50 Rate It Slashdot: Steve Jackson Shows Off the Texas Brick Railroad (Video) Imagine game designer Steve Jackson and a bunch of friends building Lego trains and tracks and scenery, including buildings and other props. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? The group calls itself the Texas Brick Railroad. A lot of members have children, so t... Dateline: 2013-05-20 2:16pm -07:00T (160 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 45 Rate It Slashdot: Judges Debate Patents and If New Software Makes a Computer a "New Machine" First time accepted submitter ectoman writes "A third party steps into a financial transaction to make sure all parties exchange funds at the same time and as expected. Can you patent this process? What if the third party is a computer? Rob Tiller, vice p... Dateline: 2013-05-20 2:16pm -07:00T (156 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 44 Rate It Slashdot: Narrowing Down When Humans Began Hurling Spears sciencehabit writes "Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone-tipped spears and darts at large prey. By throwing a spear, instead of thrusting it, humans could hunt buffalo and other dangerous game from a safe distance, with ... Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:01pm -07:00T (109 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 51 Rate It Slashdot: Dell Dumps Its Public Cloud Offerings itwbennett writes "Last week, Dell said that it would be 'refining' its OpenStack plans. Now we know that 'refining' means 'backing away from'. Although the company wouldn't answer direct questions on the subject, a press release spells it out like this: ... Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:01pm -07:00T (88 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 51 Rate It Slashdot: Book Review: Locked Down: Information Security For Lawyers benrothke writes "Had Locked Down: Information Security for Lawyers not been published by the American Bar Association (ABA) and 2 of its 3 authors not been attorneys; one would have thought the book is a reproach against attorneys for their obliviousness... Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:01pm -07:00T (98 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 51 Rate It Slashdot: FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps kkleiner writes "The FDA is finalizing its review of the antibacterial agent triclosan common to many soaps and other health/household products after four decades of use. Recent studies suggest the chemical may be harmful to animals and could interfere wi... Dateline: 2013-05-20 11:46am -07:00T (78 words) Average Rating:     Copyright 2013 Blogowogo.com. All rights reserved to the original publishers of their respective articles. (v. 0.014 )