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Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. service</copyright><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:56:13 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:56:13 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>2</ttl><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><sy:updateBase>1970-01-01T00:00:00Z</sy:updateBase><dc:creator>help@slashdot.org</dc:creator><dc:subject>Technology</dc:subject><dc:publisher>Dice</dc:publisher><dc:date>2013-05-20T12:56:13Z</dc:date><dc:language>en-us</dc:language><dc:rights>Copyright 1997-2013, Dice. All Rights Reserved. Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. service</dc:rights><image><title>Slashdot</title><url>http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif</url><link>http://slashdot.org/</link></image><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot" /><feedburner:info uri="slashdot/slashdot" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><title>Open Source Projects For Beginners</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/S-UYkrHIjQc/story01.htm</link><description>itwbennett writes "Whoever said 'everyone has to start somewhere' has clearly never tried contributing to an open source project &amp;mdash; the Linux Kernel development team in particular is known for its savagery. But if you're determined to donate your time and talents, there are some things you can do to get off on the right foot. Of course you should pick something you're interested in and that you use. Check, and double check. You should also research the project, learn about the process for contributing, and do your utmost to avoid asking questions that you can find the answers to. But beyond that there are some hallmarks of beginner-friendly open source projects like Drupal, Python, and LibreOffice &amp;mdash; namely, a friendly and active community, training and mentorship programs, and a low barrier to entry."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Open+Source+Projects+For+Beginners%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14nvsdb"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F1131222%2Fopen-source-projects-for-beginners%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1131222/open-source-projects-for-beginners?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1131222/open-source-projects-for-beginners?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3766789&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c287468/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664657634/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c287468/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664657634/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c287468/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664657634/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c287468/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/S-UYkrHIjQc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:49:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c287468/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C11312220Copen0Esource0Eprojects0Efor0Ebeginners0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator><dc:subject>opensource</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-20T12:49:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><slash:department>just-starting-out</slash:department><slash:section>news</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>1,1,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c287468/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C11312220Copen0Esource0Eprojects0Efor0Ebeginners0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>NWS Announces Big Computer Upgrade</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rPudvYW1KZs/story01.htm</link><description>riverat1 writes "After being embarrassed when the Europeans did a better job forecasting Sandy than the National Weather Service Congress allocated $25 million ($23.7 after sequestration) in the Sandy relief bill for upgrades to forecasting and supercomputer resources. The NWS announced that their main forecasting computer will be upgraded from the current 213 TeraFlops to 2,600 TFlops by fiscal year 2015, over a twelve-fold increase. The upgrade is expected to increase the horizontal grid scale by a factor of 3 allowing more precise forecasting of local features of weather. The some of the allocated funds will also be used to hire some contract scientists to improve the forecast model physics and enhance the collection and assimilation of data."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=NWS+Announces+Big+Computer+Upgrade%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16JujjC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F0528207%2Fnws-announces-big-computer-upgrade%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/0528207/nws-announces-big-computer-upgrade?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/0528207/nws-announces-big-computer-upgrade?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3765579&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c27b901/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664141634/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c27b901/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664141634/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c27b901/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664141634/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c27b901/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/rPudvYW1KZs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c27b901/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A52820A70Cnws0Eannounces0Ebig0Ecomputer0Eupgrade0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>earth</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-20T12:04:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><slash:department>in-these-troubled-economic-times</slash:department><slash:section>hardware</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>1,1,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c27b901/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A52820A70Cnws0Eannounces0Ebig0Ecomputer0Eupgrade0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mageia 3 Released</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xMBYVHFgDqA/story01.htm</link><description>Freshly Exhumed writes "Forked from Mandriva Linux back in 2010, Mageia Linux has hit a new release milestone. Trish at the Mageia blog announces: 'All grown up and ready to go dancing: Mageia 3's out! We still can't believe how much fun it is to make Mageia together, and we've been doing it for two and a half years. For people who can't wait, get it here; release notes are here. To upgrade from Mageia 2, see here.'" Adds reader hduff: "It offers cutting edge and stable versions of your favorite applications and desktop environments as well as a version of the STEAM gaming software."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Mageia+3+Released%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10Hs0p2"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F0542202%2Fmageia-3-released%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/0542202/mageia-3-released?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/0542202/mageia-3-released?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3765623&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c26295b/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664231319/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c26295b/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664231319/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c26295b/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664231319/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c26295b/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/xMBYVHFgDqA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c26295b/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A54220A20Cmageia0E30Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>mandriva</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-20T09:00:00Z</dc:date><slash:department>linux-mandrake-back-to-the-future</slash:department><slash:section>linux</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c26295b/l/0Llinux0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A54220A20Cmageia0E30Ereleased0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Music and Movies Could Trigger Mobile Malware</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5RjZStu3c-o/story01.htm</link><description>mask.of.sanity writes "Lights, sounds and magnetic fields can be used to activate malware on phones, new research has found. The lab-style attacks defined in a paper (PDF) used pre-defined signals hidden in songs and TV programmes as a trigger to activate embedded malware. Malware once activated would carry out programmed attacks either by itself or as part of a wider botnet of mobile devices."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Music+and+Movies+Could+Trigger+Mobile+Malware%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1161fum"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F027251%2Fmusic-and-movies-could-trigger-mobile-malware%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/027251/music-and-movies-could-trigger-mobile-malware?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/027251/music-and-movies-could-trigger-mobile-malware?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3765219&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c244818/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665195125/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c244818/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665195125/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c244818/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665195125/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c244818/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/5RjZStu3c-o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:03:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c244818/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A272510Cmusic0Eand0Emovies0Ecould0Etrigger0Emobile0Emalware0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>security</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-20T06:03:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><slash:department>seeds-of-your-own-destruction</slash:department><slash:section>technology</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>2,2,2,2,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c244818/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A272510Cmusic0Eand0Emovies0Ecould0Etrigger0Emobile0Emalware0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture?</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YjaxxrKEoI4/story01.htm</link><description>b1tbkt writes "So it seems that furniture manufacturers have not yet acknowledged the realities of modern life. Kitchen tables could benefit greatly from built-in concealable receptacles. Even more obvious is the need for electrical wiring in couches and coffee tables. I realize that there are safety (fire) concerns but as it stands most families that I know already have power cords for laptops, tables and phones draped over, under and through their couches at any given point. If someone wanted to wire their furniture with AC or some type of standardized LV DC system, what are some dangers to watch for and what, if any, specialized hardware exists for the purpose?"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+Wiring+Home+Furniture%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F115OIXF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F024247%2Fask-slashdot-wiring-home-furniture%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/024247/ask-slashdot-wiring-home-furniture?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/024247/ask-slashdot-wiring-home-furniture?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3765217&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2372ef/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664126690/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2372ef/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664126690/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2372ef/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664126690/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2372ef/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YjaxxrKEoI4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:08:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2372ef/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A242470Cask0Eslashdot0Ewiring0Ehome0Efurniture0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>hardhack</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-20T03:08:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>10</slash:comments><slash:department>for-a-couch-that-seats-1</slash:department><slash:section>askslashdot</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>10,10,2,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2372ef/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A242470Cask0Eslashdot0Ewiring0Ehome0Efurniture0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Medical Firm Sues IRS For 4th Amendment Violation In Records Seizure</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yLR4b9P7eJU/story01.htm</link><description>cold fjord writes "A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, charging they wrongfully seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans ... [The unnamed company alleges] the agency violated the Fourth Amendment in 2011, when agents executed a search warrant for financial data on one employee &amp;ndash; and that led to the seizure of information on 10 million, including state judges. The search warrant did not specify that the IRS could take medical information, UPI said. And information technology officials warned the IRS about the potential to violate medical privacy laws before agents executed the warrant, the complaint said." Also at Nextgov.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Medical+Firm+Sues+IRS+For+4th+Amendment+Violation+In+Records+Seizure%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F112UwY0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F005208%2Fmedical-firm-sues-irs-for-4th-amendment-violation-in-records-seizure%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/005208/medical-firm-sues-irs-for-4th-amendment-violation-in-records-seizure?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/005208/medical-firm-sues-irs-for-4th-amendment-violation-in-records-seizure?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3765115&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c22778b/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664637449/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c22778b/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664637449/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c22778b/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664637449/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c22778b/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/yLR4b9P7eJU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c22778b/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A0A520A80Cmedical0Efirm0Esues0Eirs0Efor0E4th0Eamendment0Eviolation0Ein0Erecords0Eseizure0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>government</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-20T00:05:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><slash:department>tell-me-again-why-you-hate-all-that-is-good</slash:department><slash:section>yro</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>2,2,2,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c22778b/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C0A0A520A80Cmedical0Efirm0Esues0Eirs0Efor0E4th0Eamendment0Eviolation0Ein0Erecords0Eseizure0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Military Dolphins Discover 1800s Torpedo</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZChxfY1ggG4/story01.htm</link><description>First time accepted submitter The0retical writes "A couple of mine-sweeping dolphins dredged up what is known as a 'Howell torpedo' dating from 1870 to 1889. Only 50 were ever produced, this being the second example known to exist. The 11-foot-long brass torpedo had a maximum range and speed of 400 yards at 25 knots. The new example will be displayed at Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash. alongside the only other example."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Military+Dolphins+Discover+1800s+Torpedo%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10deaf4"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F237217%2Fmilitary-dolphins-discover-1800s-torpedo%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/237217/military-dolphins-discover-1800s-torpedo?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/237217/military-dolphins-discover-1800s-torpedo?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3765063&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c226d04/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664636348/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c226d04/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664636348/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c226d04/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664636348/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c226d04/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ZChxfY1ggG4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 23:07:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c226d04/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C2372170Cmilitary0Edolphins0Ediscover0E180A0As0Etorpedo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>military</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T23:07:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><slash:department>dolphins-what-can't-they-do?</slash:department><slash:section>technology</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>2,2,1,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c226d04/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C2372170Cmilitary0Edolphins0Ediscover0E180A0As0Etorpedo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Apple Mobile Devices Cleared For Use On US Military Networks</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8TMrzHg3sJE/story01.htm</link><description>puddingebola writes with this excerpt from a Bloomberg report: "The Pentagon cleared Apple Inc. (AAPL) devices for use on its networks, setting the stage for the maker of iPhones and iPads to compete with Samsung Electronics Co. and BlackBerry for military sales. The Defense Department said in a statement [Friday] that it has approved the use of Cupertino, California-based Apple's products running a version of the iOS 6 mobile platform. The decision eventually may spur a three-way fight for a market long dominated by Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry.'" Also, Apple devices are best for uploading viruses to alien craft.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=+Apple+Mobile+Devices+Cleared+For+Use+On+US+Military+Networks%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12N1gq2"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F224238%2Fapple-mobile-devices-cleared-for-use-on-us-military-networks%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/224238/apple-mobile-devices-cleared-for-use-on-us-military-networks?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/224238/apple-mobile-devices-cleared-for-use-on-us-military-networks?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764993&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2233fe/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665186311/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2233fe/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665186311/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2233fe/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665186311/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2233fe/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/8TMrzHg3sJE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2233fe/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C2242380Capple0Emobile0Edevices0Ecleared0Efor0Euse0Eon0Eus0Emilitary0Enetworks0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>military</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T22:05:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><slash:department>siri-what's-the-best-way-to-launch-a-nuclear-missile?</slash:department><slash:section>technology</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>1,1,1,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2233fe/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C2242380Capple0Emobile0Edevices0Ecleared0Efor0Euse0Eon0Eus0Emilitary0Enetworks0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mice, Newts Retrieved After a Month Orbiting Earth At 345 Miles Up</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iA8dtw8j-T0/story01.htm</link><description>The Associated Press (as carried by the Washington Post) reports that a living payload of newts and mice has been retrieved after a month orbiting earth in a Russian space capsule at an altitude of 345 miles, far higher than the ISS's orbital distance of 205 miles. Says the story: "Fewer than half of the 53 mice and other rodents who blasted off on April 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome survived the flight, Russian news agencies reported, quoting Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and the lead researcher. Sychov said this was to be expected and the surviving mice were sufficient to complete the study, which was designed to show the effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on cell structure. All 15 of the lizards survived, he said. The capsule also carried small crayfish and fish."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Mice%2C+Newts+Retrieved+After+a+Month+Orbiting+Earth+At+345+Miles+Up%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F18VYIuu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F2033203%2Fmice-newts-retrieved-after-a-month-orbiting-earth-at-345-miles-up%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/2033203/mice-newts-retrieved-after-a-month-orbiting-earth-at-345-miles-up?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/2033203/mice-newts-retrieved-after-a-month-orbiting-earth-at-345-miles-up?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764911&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c216557/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664308752/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c216557/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664308752/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c216557/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664308752/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c216557/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/iA8dtw8j-T0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 20:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c216557/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C20A3320A30Cmice0Enewts0Eretrieved0Eafter0Ea0Emonth0Eorbiting0Eearth0Eat0E3450Emiles0Eup0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>earth</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T20:38:00Z</dc:date><slash:department>eye-of-space-newt-was-called-for</slash:department><slash:section>science</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c216557/l/0Lscience0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C20A3320A30Cmice0Enewts0Eretrieved0Eafter0Ea0Emonth0Eorbiting0Eearth0Eat0E3450Emiles0Eup0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0NuWd_VA-9A/story01.htm</link><description>hypnosec writes "IBM is taking its COBOL server platform to the next level by updating the mainframe platform in a bid to extend and enable its mainframes to host cloud based applications and services. The latest update is looking to add XMLS Server as well as Java 7 capabilities to the System/z COBOL platform and this update would extend the overall lifespan of COBOL by taking it up a notch and gearing it towards the cloud computing arena."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=IBM+Takes+System%2Fz+To+the+Cloud+With+COBOL+Update%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11PlaFk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F1855246%2Fibm-takes-systemz-to-the-cloud-with-cobol-update%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1855246/ibm-takes-systemz-to-the-cloud-with-cobol-update?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1855246/ibm-takes-systemz-to-the-cloud-with-cobol-update?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764833&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c213ad1/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664215816/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c213ad1/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664215816/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c213ad1/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664215816/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c213ad1/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/0NuWd_VA-9A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c213ad1/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C18552460Cibm0Etakes0Esystemz0Eto0Ethe0Ecloud0Ewith0Ecobol0Eupdate0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>ibm</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T19:40:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><slash:department>spirits-of-the-ancient-ones</slash:department><slash:section>developers</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>3,3,1,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c213ad1/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C18552460Cibm0Etakes0Esystemz0Eto0Ethe0Ecloud0Ewith0Ecobol0Eupdate0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Google's Nexus Q Successor Hits the FCC</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/214eWQncm68/story01.htm</link><description>With the kind of cagey phrasing found in many such electronics approval applications, Google describes a device that some are taking to be the successor to its discontinued Nexus Q thus: "The device functions as a media player." From the article: "Some of the specs of the device includes a 2.4GHz WiFi b/g/n connectivity. The FCC report does not contain test photos so we do not know what the device looks like. It is likely that the H840 will support Google Play Music All Access and will have similar functionality as a Sonos media player that can be connected to external speakers."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google's+Nexus+Q+Successor+Hits+the+FCC%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12mWnUc"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F1850228%2Fgoogles-nexus-q-successor-hits-the-fcc%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1850228/googles-nexus-q-successor-hits-the-fcc?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1850228/googles-nexus-q-successor-hits-the-fcc?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764823&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c215729/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664307360/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c215729/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664307360/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c215729/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664307360/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c215729/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/214eWQncm68" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 18:48:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c215729/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C1850A2280Cgoogles0Enexus0Eq0Esuccessor0Ehits0Ethe0Efcc0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>google</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T18:48:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><slash:department>h-2-g-2-is-a-good-name</slash:department><slash:section>technology</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>4,3,1,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c215729/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C1850A2280Cgoogles0Enexus0Eq0Esuccessor0Ehits0Ethe0Efcc0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Yahoo Board Approves a $1.1B Pricetag For Tumblr</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y0F-5iprmnk/story01.htm</link><description>TechCrunch reports that Yahoo's string of acquisitions may soon include Tumblr: "The Wall Street Journal is now reporting via Twitter that the rumored $1.1 billion cash acquisition deal for social blogging site Tumblr has been approved by Yahoo&amp;rsquo;s board of directors. The Tumblr acquisition was rumored last week, with a price tag reportedly north of $1 billion, which appears to be accurate if the WSJ&amp;rsquo;s sources are correct." The article notes, too, that "Yahoo had only $1.2 billion cash on hand as of its most recent quarterly earnings, which makes an all-cash offer for Tumblr a lot more of a stretch than it would be for someone like Apple, or even Facebook, which acquired Instagram for $1 billion in a mix of both cash and stock."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Yahoo+Board+Approves+a+%241.1B+Pricetag+For+Tumblr%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10O63Wf"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F1710241%2Fyahoo-board-approves-a-11b-pricetag-for-tumblr%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1710241/yahoo-board-approves-a-11b-pricetag-for-tumblr?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1710241/yahoo-board-approves-a-11b-pricetag-for-tumblr?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764735&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c206501/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664631267/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c206501/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664631267/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c206501/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664631267/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c206501/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Y0F-5iprmnk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 17:29:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c206501/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C1710A2410Cyahoo0Eboard0Eapproves0Ea0E11b0Epricetag0Efor0Etumblr0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>business</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T17:29:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><slash:department>bedrock-or-pet-rock?</slash:department><slash:section>news</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>1,1,1,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c206501/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C1710A2410Cyahoo0Eboard0Eapproves0Ea0E11b0Epricetag0Efor0Etumblr0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/leFGyW9r7oQ/story01.htm</link><description>First time accepted submitter russotto points out the claim of industry group TechAmerican Foundation (reported by Computerworld) that "wages for the software industry are falling, not rising. Wages fell 2% to $99,000 in 2012." Averages are one thing; the article points out though that wages vary vastly within the industry, and that some jobs are harder to fill (thus, better paid) than others. An excerpt: "Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, a research firm that also analyzes IT wage and employment trends, cited a number of reason for the decline in wages for software professionals. First, technology is becoming easier to implement without having an IT professional, he said. Also, the option of turning to outsourcing creates less pressure to increase wages. As the recession continues, companies continue 'to look at productivity and will often look to hire individuals who are lower cost employees,' said Janulaitis. That could include displaced baby boomer workers who have been out of work for some time and 'will take a lower paying job just to get back into the workforce.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Trade+Group%3A+US+Software+Developer+Wages+Fell+2%25+Last+Year%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11P5x0I"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F1631212%2Ftrade-group-us-software-developer-wages-fell-2-last-year%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1631212/trade-group-us-software-developer-wages-fell-2-last-year?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1631212/trade-group-us-software-developer-wages-fell-2-last-year?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764705&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2019a5/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665181388/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2019a5/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665181388/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2019a5/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665181388/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c2019a5/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/leFGyW9r7oQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 16:32:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2019a5/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C16312120Ctrade0Egroup0Eus0Esoftware0Edeveloper0Ewages0Efell0E20Elast0Eyear0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>money</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T16:32:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>7</slash:comments><slash:department>ban-farm-equipment</slash:department><slash:section>news</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>7,6,3,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c2019a5/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C16312120Ctrade0Egroup0Eus0Esoftware0Edeveloper0Ewages0Efell0E20Elast0Eyear0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Wikileaks Releases Docs Before Trial of TPB Founder Warg</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FDL1yrV9ky0/story01.htm</link><description>Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is to be tried starting tomorrow in Sweden, after his indictment last month for computer hacking and fraud. Wikileaks has released several documents related to his detention and the associated charges. From the summary of this material: "This material includes inter alia the interrogations with GSW and his co-accused, internal correspondence from the Swedish Foreign Minister and the Swedish embassy in Cambodia, damage assessment reports by the companies and the authorities concerned, and correspondence between GSW and Kristina Svartholm and the Swedish prison authorities. The material is formally public, but the Swedish prosecution authority has refused to provide the documents in digital format. Photocopying this volume of paper costs around &amp;pound;350." Notable is the refusal of Warg's request to obtain a graphing calculator while in prison.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Wikileaks+Releases+Docs+Before+Trial+of+TPB+Founder+Warg%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13z0QCs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F1524254%2Fwikileaks-releases-docs-before-trial-of-tpb-founder-warg%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1524254/wikileaks-releases-docs-before-trial-of-tpb-founder-warg?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1524254/wikileaks-releases-docs-before-trial-of-tpb-founder-warg?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764641&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1fc702/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664211871/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1fc702/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664211871/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1fc702/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664211871/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1fc702/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/FDL1yrV9ky0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:26:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1fc702/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C15242540Cwikileaks0Ereleases0Edocs0Ebefore0Etrial0Eof0Etpb0Efounder0Ewarg0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>crime</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T15:26:00Z</dc:date><slash:department>with-a-calculator-he-could-upload-a-virus-to-the-mothership</slash:department><slash:section>yro</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1fc702/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C15242540Cwikileaks0Ereleases0Edocs0Ebefore0Etrial0Eof0Etpb0Efounder0Ewarg0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sh0lLmVVxFc/story01.htm</link><description>Velcroman1 writes "The former island home of anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee burned down Thursday afternoon under circumstance he told FoxNews.com were 'suspicious.' It's an odd choice of words from a man whom the Belize police found suspicious, following the November 2012 murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull, a well-liked builder from Florida who was shot at his home in San Pedro Town on the island of Ambergris Caye. 'I believe that there are a select few with great power in Belize that will go to great lengths to harm me,' McAfee said. 'This fire was not just a strange coincidence.'" Watch for more from McAfee soon.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=John+McAfee's+Belize+Home+Burns+To+Ground%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14k2VFj"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F1413243%2Fjohn-mcafees-belize-home-burns-to-ground%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1413243/john-mcafees-belize-home-burns-to-ground?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1413243/john-mcafees-belize-home-burns-to-ground?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764585&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1fe191/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664303283/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1fe191/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664303283/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1fe191/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664303283/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1fe191/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/sh0lLmVVxFc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1fe191/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C14132430Cjohn0Emcafees0Ebelize0Ehome0Eburns0Eto0Eground0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>crime</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T14:30:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><slash:department>bet-he-gets-the-last-laugh</slash:department><slash:section>news</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>2,2,1,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1fe191/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C14132430Cjohn0Emcafees0Ebelize0Ehome0Eburns0Eto0Eground0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Amazon, Google and Apple Won't Need To Pay Tax, Despite Goverment Threats</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QNaOhaPgzMo/story01.htm</link><description>girlmad writes "Despite moves by government to get Google, Amazon and Apple to admit they make sales in the UK and US, and therefore should pay tax on these earnings, this article argues these are empty threats and that any taxes paid will get returned to the tech giants in government grants and subsidies. Tough luck to the small firms out there."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Amazon%2C+Google+and+Apple+Won't+Need+To+Pay+Tax%2C+Despite+Goverment+Threats%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10dSMJZ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F1322225%2Famazon-google-and-apple-wont-need-to-pay-tax-despite-goverment-threats%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1322225/amazon-google-and-apple-wont-need-to-pay-tax-despite-goverment-threats?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1322225/amazon-google-and-apple-wont-need-to-pay-tax-despite-goverment-threats?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764539&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1f5dc7/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665178061/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1f5dc7/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665178061/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1f5dc7/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665178061/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1f5dc7/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/QNaOhaPgzMo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1f5dc7/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C13222250Camazon0Egoogle0Eand0Eapple0Ewont0Eneed0Eto0Epay0Etax0Edespite0Egoverment0Ethreats0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>business</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T13:27:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><slash:department>rent-done-been-sought</slash:department><slash:section>yro</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>2,2,2,2,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1f5dc7/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C13222250Camazon0Egoogle0Eand0Eapple0Ewont0Eneed0Eto0Epay0Etax0Edespite0Egoverment0Ethreats0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>NetBSD 6.1 Has Shipped</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xs7b1xO09KQ/story01.htm</link><description>Madwand writes "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent for use in both production and research environments, and the source code is freely available under a business-friendly license. NetBSD is developed and supported by a large and vibrant international community. Many applications are readily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=NetBSD+6.1+Has+Shipped%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11Oy06H"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbsd.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F054239%2Fnetbsd-61-has-shipped%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/054239/netbsd-61-has-shipped?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/054239/netbsd-61-has-shipped?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764147&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1e81cb/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664301202/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1e81cb/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664301202/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1e81cb/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664301202/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1e81cb/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/xs7b1xO09KQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:28:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1e81cb/l/0Lbsd0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C0A542390Cnetbsd0E610Ehas0Eshipped0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>os</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T12:28:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><slash:department>more-of-a-workhorse-than-a-showboat</slash:department><slash:section>bsd</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>2,2,1,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1e81cb/l/0Lbsd0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C0A542390Cnetbsd0E610Ehas0Eshipped0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Charge Your Cellphone In 20 Seconds (Eventually)</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Hd_C0v4aUF4/story01.htm</link><description>New submitter GoJays writes "An 18-year-old from Saratoga, California has won an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds. The fast-charging device is a so-called supercapacitor, a gizmo that can pack a lot of energy into a tiny space, charges quickly and holds its charge for a long time. What's more, it can last for 10,000 charge-recharge cycles, compared with 1,000 cycles for conventional rechargeable batteries, according to the inventor Eesha Khare." This one in particular has been used so far only to power an LED, rather than a phone or laptop, but I hope in a few years near-instant charging of portable electronics will be the norm as supercapacitors grow more common.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Charge+Your+Cellphone+In+20+Seconds+(Eventually)%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11Ohl3k"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F0536234%2Fcharge-your-cellphone-in-20-seconds-eventually%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/0536234/charge-your-cellphone-in-20-seconds-eventually?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/0536234/charge-your-cellphone-in-20-seconds-eventually?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3764173&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1d6bd8/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664108675/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1d6bd8/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664108675/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1d6bd8/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664108675/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1d6bd8/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Hd_C0v4aUF4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 09:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1d6bd8/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C0A5362340Ccharge0Eyour0Ecellphone0Ein0E20A0Eseconds0Eeventually0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>power</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T09:24:00Z</dc:date><slash:department>drive-by-juicing</slash:department><slash:section>hardware</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1d6bd8/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C0A5362340Ccharge0Eyour0Ecellphone0Ein0E20A0Eseconds0Eeventually0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Yahoo! Japan May Have Had 22 Million User IDs Stolen</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ODGlC2kWyTw/story01.htm</link><description>hypnosec writes with report of the possible theft of up to 22 million user IDs revealed by Yahoo! Japan. That scale is massive, but, he writes, "According to Yahoo, the information that was stolen didn't have passwords or any other information that would allow unauthorized users to carry out user identity verification." A story at the Japan Times adds a bit more detail.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Yahoo!+Japan+May+Have+Had+22+Million+User+IDs+Stolen%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12lpOGa"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F18%2F2143258%2Fyahoo-japan-may-have-had-22-million-user-ids-stolen%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/2143258/yahoo-japan-may-have-had-22-million-user-ids-stolen?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/2143258/yahoo-japan-may-have-had-22-million-user-ids-stolen?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3763725&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1c8c34/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664105877/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1c8c34/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664105877/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1c8c34/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664105877/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1c8c34/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ODGlC2kWyTw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 06:18:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1c8c34/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C21432580Cyahoo0Ejapan0Emay0Ehave0Ehad0E220Emillion0Euser0Eids0Estolen0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>crime</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T06:18:00Z</dc:date><slash:department>they-just-walked-off-quietly-to-think</slash:department><slash:section>yro</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1c8c34/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C21432580Cyahoo0Ejapan0Emay0Ehave0Ehad0E220Emillion0Euser0Eids0Estolen0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ask Slashdot: Why Do Firms Leak Personal Details In Plain Text?</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SBYVEnpU_ek/story01.htm</link><description>An anonymous reader writes "Having entered my personal details (full real name, home address) to websites with an 'https://' prefix in order to purchase goods, I am still being sent emails from companies (or their agents) which include, in plain text, those same details I have entered over a secure connection. These are often companies which are very keen to tell you how much they value your privacy and how they will not pass your details on to third parties. What recourse does one have to tell them to desist from such behaviour whilst still doing business with them if their products are otherwise desirable? I email the relevant IT team as a matter of course to tell them it's not appropriate (mostly to no avail), but is there any legislation &amp;mdash; in any territory &amp;mdash; which addresses this?"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+Why+Do+Firms+Leak+Personal+Details+In+Plain+Text%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F17N0WNw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F028223%2Fask-slashdot-why-do-firms-leak-personal-details-in-plain-text%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/028223/ask-slashdot-why-do-firms-leak-personal-details-in-plain-text?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/028223/ask-slashdot-why-do-firms-leak-personal-details-in-plain-text?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3763967&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1c272c/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664293681/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1c272c/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664293681/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1c272c/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664293681/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1c272c/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/SBYVEnpU_ek" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 03:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1c272c/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C0A282230Cask0Eslashdot0Ewhy0Edo0Efirms0Eleak0Epersonal0Edetails0Ein0Eplain0Etext0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>security</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T03:21:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>7</slash:comments><slash:department>more-exciting-that-way</slash:department><slash:section>askslashdot</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>7,7,4,3,1,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1c272c/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C0A282230Cask0Eslashdot0Ewhy0Edo0Efirms0Eleak0Epersonal0Edetails0Ein0Eplain0Etext0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Data Center Managers Weary of Whittling Cooling Costs</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Vzemqn54HeY/story01.htm</link><description>Nerval's Lobster writes that a survey from the Uptime Institute "suggests something it calls 'green fatigue' is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener. 'Green fatigue' is exactly as it sounds: managers are getting tired of the increasingly difficult race to chop their PUE, or Power Usage Effectiveness. The PUE is a measure of a data center's efficiency. The lower the PUE, the better &amp;mdash; and Microsoft and Google, with nearly limitless resources, have set the bar so high (or low, depending on your perspective) that it's making less-capitalized firms frustrated. Just a few years ago, the Uptime Institute estimated that the average PUE of a data center was around 2.4, which meant for every dollar of electricity to power a data center, $1.4 dollars were spent to cool it. That dropped to 1.8 recently, an improvement to be sure. But then you have companies such as Google and Microsoft building data centers next to rivers for cheap hydroelectric power in remote parts of the Pacific Northwest and reporting insanely low PUEs (below 1.1 in some cases). The Institute latest survey of data center operators shows only 50 percent of respondents in North America said they considered energy efficiency to be very important to their companies, down from 52 percent last year and 58 percent in 2011."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Data+Center+Managers+Weary+of+Whittling+Cooling+Costs%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F18TGF8e"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F18%2F2137228%2Fdata-center-managers-weary-of-whittling-cooling-costs%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/2137228/data-center-managers-weary-of-whittling-cooling-costs?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/2137228/data-center-managers-weary-of-whittling-cooling-costs?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3763717&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1b7730/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664291811/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1b7730/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664291811/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1b7730/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664291811/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1b7730/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Vzemqn54HeY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1b7730/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C21372280Cdata0Ecenter0Emanagers0Eweary0Eof0Ewhittling0Ecooling0Ecosts0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>earth</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-19T00:21:00Z</dc:date><slash:department>that's-a-lot-of-air-to-move</slash:department><slash:section>hardware</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1b7730/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C21372280Cdata0Ecenter0Emanagers0Eweary0Eof0Ewhittling0Ecooling0Ecosts0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Canadian Cellphone Users May Get Justice Over Phantom Charges</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sR5NZ-0MFIY/story01.htm</link><description>An anonymous reader writes "For years, Bell Mobility customers in northern Canada were charged 75 cents a month for 911 emergency service. The problem is that cellphone users outside Whitehorse, Yukon, don't have access to 911 service. The Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories ruled against Bell this week, following a class action lawsuit which challenged the phantom cellphone 911 billings. Subject to a possible final appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, Bell will likely owe 30,000 northern cellphone subscribers some bucks."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Canadian+Cellphone+Users+May+Get+Justice+Over+Phantom+Charges%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F113XeGQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F18%2F211215%2Fcanadian-cellphone-users-may-get-justice-over-phantom-charges%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/211215/canadian-cellphone-users-may-get-justice-over-phantom-charges?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/211215/canadian-cellphone-users-may-get-justice-over-phantom-charges?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3763693&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1ab009/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664101219/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1ab009/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664101219/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1ab009/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664101219/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1ab009/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/sR5NZ-0MFIY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 23:18:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1ab009/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C2112150Ccanadian0Ecellphone0Eusers0Emay0Eget0Ejustice0Eover0Ephantom0Echarges0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>canada</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-18T23:18:00Z</dc:date><slash:department>but-justice-is-thin-on-the-ground</slash:department><slash:section>news</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1ab009/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C2112150Ccanadian0Ecellphone0Eusers0Emay0Eget0Ejustice0Eover0Ephantom0Echarges0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Wired Writer Imagines Google Island</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NBqOIJ7BmpQ/story01.htm</link><description>theodp writes "The last thing Wired's Mat Honan remembered before awaking on the self-driving boat that dropped him on the island was sitting through a four-hour Google I/O keynote in Moscone Center and hearing Google CEO Larry Page promote a vision of a utopia where society could be free to innovate and experiment, unencumbered by government regulations or social norms. 'Welcome to Google Island,' a naked-save-for-a-pair-of-eyeglasses Larry Page tells Honan. 'As soon as you hit Google's territorial waters, you came under our jurisdiction, our terms of service. Our laws &amp;mdash; or lack thereof &amp;mdash; apply here. By boarding our self-driving boat you granted us the right to all feedback you provide during your journey. This includes the chemical composition of your sweat. Remember when I said at I/O that maybe we should set aside some small part of the world where people could experiment freely and examine the effects? I wasn't speaking theoretically. This place exists. We built it.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Wired+Writer+Imagines+Google+Island%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10clPh0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F18%2F2045249%2Fwired-writer-imagines-google-island%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/2045249/wired-writer-imagines-google-island?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/2045249/wired-writer-imagines-google-island?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3763679&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1ab92f/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664197780/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1ab92f/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664197780/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1ab92f/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664197780/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1ab92f/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NBqOIJ7BmpQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 22:19:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1ab92f/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C20A452490Cwired0Ewriter0Eimagines0Egoogle0Eisland0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>google</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-18T22:19:00Z</dc:date><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><slash:department>through-a-hazy-fog-of-snark</slash:department><slash:section>technology</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>1,1,1,1,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1ab92f/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C20A452490Cwired0Ewriter0Eimagines0Egoogle0Eisland0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Syrian Electronic Army Hits Financial Times Sites, Feeds</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pebxIA0kS9k/story01.htm</link><description>puddingebola writes with an excerpt from the New York Times: "The Web site and several Twitter accounts belonging to The Financial Times were hacked on Friday by the Syrian Electronic Army in a continuing campaign that has aimed at an array of media outlets ranging from The Associated Press to the parody site The Onion, according to a claim by the so-called army. The Syrian Electronic Army said it seized control of several F.T. Twitter accounts and amended a number of the site's blog posts with the headline 'Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army.' Hackers used their access to the F.T.'s Twitter feed to post messages, including one that said, 'Syrian Electronic Army Was Here,' and another that linked to a YouTube video of an execution. Both messages were quickly removed.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Syrian+Electronic+Army+Hits+Financial+Times+Sites%2C+Feeds%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F15WPuzc"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F18%2F2037250%2Fsyrian-electronic-army-hits-financial-times-sites-feeds%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/2037250/syrian-electronic-army-hits-financial-times-sites-feeds?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/2037250/syrian-electronic-army-hits-financial-times-sites-feeds?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3763673&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1a9122/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665164482/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1a9122/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665164482/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1a9122/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665164482/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1a9122/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/pebxIA0kS9k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:16:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1a9122/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C20A37250A0Csyrian0Eelectronic0Earmy0Ehits0Efinancial0Etimes0Esites0Efeeds0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>themedia</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-18T21:16:00Z</dc:date><slash:department>people's-liberation-front</slash:department><slash:section>yro</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1a9122/l/0Lyro0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C20A37250A0Csyrian0Eelectronic0Earmy0Ehits0Efinancial0Etimes0Esites0Efeeds0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Arduino Branches Out, With a Plug-and-Program Robot</title><link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LADjHGz1rUY/story01.htm</link><description>mikejuk writes "The new Arduino robot looks a bit like a robot vacuum cleaner, but it has a lot more going for it and it certainly doesn't suck &amp;mdash; well not unless you add an air pump to it. As always, the Arduino Robot is completely open source and comes as an easy to assemble kit involving no soldering, just some plugging in of components. It consists of two circular boards, 19cm in diameter, each with its own Arduino controller. They fit together to create a stack about 10cm tall. The bottom board has two wheels and motors which allow it to move in any direction. The top board contains lots of sensors and a central display. The two communicate via a serial connection. There is also a lot of space for expansion. There is a new library which can be downloaded to help write programs for this fairly sophisticated robot. There is only one big problem with the Arduino robot &amp;mdash; you can't buy one at the moment. If you really can't wait, until early July when they should start shipping from the Arduino shop and from distributors, then you will have to get to the Maker Faire San Mateo (May 17-19) where they are being demonstrated and sold."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Arduino+Branches+Out%2C+With+a+Plug-and-Program+Robot%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10Msfjz"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F18%2F1954223%2Farduino-branches-out-with-a-plug-and-program-robot%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/1954223/arduino-branches-out-with-a-plug-and-program-robot?utm_source=slashdot&amp;amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/1954223/arduino-branches-out-with-a-plug-and-program-robot?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=3763633&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1a317d/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664613019/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1a317d/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664613019/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1a317d/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664613019/u/49/f/647410/c/35028/s/2c1a317d/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/LADjHGz1rUY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 20:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1a317d/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C19542230Carduino0Ebranches0Eout0Ewith0Ea0Eplug0Eand0Eprogram0Erobot0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</guid><dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator><dc:subject>hardhack</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-05-18T20:21:00Z</dc:date><slash:department>roll-'em</slash:department><slash:section>hardware</slash:section><slash:hit_parade>0,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade><feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647410/s/2c1a317d/l/0Lhardware0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C19542230Carduino0Ebranches0Eout0Ewith0Ea0Eplug0Eand0Eprogram0Erobot0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
