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Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar

Slashdot : News: 5 hours ago
js_sebastian writes "According to an article on the New York Times, a historical cross-over has occurred because of the declining costs of solar vs. the increasing costs of nuclear energy: solar, hardly the cheapest of renewable technologies, is now ... ...read article

ATM Hack Gives Cash On Demand

Slashdot : News: 5 hours ago
angry tapir writes "Windows CE-based ATMs can easily be made to dole out cash, according to security researcher Barnaby Jack. Exploiting bugs in two different ATM machines at Black Hat, the researcher from IOActive was able to get them to spit out ... ...read article

The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band

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sciencehabit writes "Modern physics can get complicated. Sure, researchers know exactly what forces act on a ball rolling down an incline—an experiment that helped Galileo develop universal laws for movement and acceleration. But what happens ... ...read article

Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL?

Slashdot : News: 5 hours ago
joabj writes "Now that Facebook has amassed more than 500 million users, a growing number of open source social networking developers are wondering if Facebook's photo sharing, status updates and other features wouldn't work better as Internet-wide ... ...read article

FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity

Slashdot : News: 5 hours ago
olsmeister writes "It appears the White House would like to make it easier for the FBI to obtain records of a person's internet activities without a court order to do so, via the use of an NSL. While they have been able to this this for a long time, ... ...read article

NASA'sTop 10 Space Junk Missions

Slashdot : News: 5 hours ago
Ant writes "NASA has identified the top ten space junk missions and said over 19,000 pieces of space junk are known to exist..." That's nothing: You should see my living room. Read more of this story at Slashdot.  ...read article

Valve Apologizes For 12,000 Erroneous Anti-Cheating Bans

Slashdot : News: 11 hours ago
Earlier this week, there were reports that large numbers of Modern Warfare 2 players on Steam were getting erroneously banned by Valve's Anti-Cheat software. While such claims are usually best taken with a grain of salt, the quantity and suddenness ... ...read article

FTC Wants Browsers To Block Online Tracking

Slashdot : News: 11 hours ago
storagedude writes "The FTC wants a do-not-track mechanism that would allow Web users to opt out of online behavioral tracking, similar to the national do-not-call registry. The agency's preferred method for accomplishing this would be a ... ...read article

X Prize To Offer Millions For Gulf Oil Cleanup Solution

Slashdot : News: 15 hours ago
Jamie noted that X Prize is offering prizes for a solution to the Gulf Coast oil clean up. This is in addition to categories for mapping genomes, making an incredibly fuel efficient car, and exploring the moon's surface with a robotic vehicle. Read ... ...read article

Data Storage Capacity Mostly Wasted In Data Center

Slashdot : News: 15 hours ago
Lucas123 writes "Even after the introduction of technologies such as thin provisioning, capacity reclamation and storage monitoring and reporting software, 60% to 70% of data capacity remains unused in data centers due to over provisioning for ... ...read article

What To Do About CC License Violations?

Slashdot : News: 15 hours ago
An anonymous reader writes "In the past, I've seen my pictures used by big commercial companies despite the Creative Commons license that clearly limits them to non-commercial use. I just let it slide because a friend who's a lawyer says that all I ... ...read article

Our Video Game Heritage Is Rotting Away

Slashdot : News: 15 hours ago
eldavojohn writes "There's been a movement to preserve virtual worlds but MIT's Tech Review paints a dire picture of our video game memories rotting away in the attic of history. From the article: 'Entire libraries face extinction the moment the last ... ...read article

GNOME 3.0 Delayed Until March 2011

Slashdot : News: 15 hours ago
Julie188 writes "GNOME 3.0 was scheduled to be released in September but during the developers conference, GUADEC 2010 in Den Haag, the organization had to face facts: the much ballyhooed GNOME Shell really wasn't ready. The Shell is supposed to ... ...read article

DefCon Ninja Badges Let Hackers Do Battle

Slashdot : News: 15 hours ago
eecue writes "The folks at DefCon, the world's largest hacker convention , have been making awesome badges for years. Last year along with the convention badge, a group of hackers known as the Ninjas created an electronic badge for their exclusive ... ...read article

Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats

Slashdot : News: 15 hours ago
SonicSpike links to what he calls "a transparent look at some statistics released by a small town's red-light camera program," writing "Specifically, in the last fiscal quarter, 7,213 incidents were recorded, 2,673 incidents were rejected by the ... ...read article
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