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 -  Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters Jump to articles * Submit Story * Help * Log In Search * StoriesRSS * Recent * Popular * Search Create Account * 18:31 * Preferences * Slashdot [e] * AMD [e] * Apache [e] * Apple [e] * Ask Slashdot [e] * Backslash [e] * Book Reviews [e] * BSD [e] * Developers [e] * Entertainment [e] * Features [e] * Games [e] * Geeks in Space [e] * Hardware [e] * Idle [e] * Intel [e] * Interviews [e] * IT [e] * Linux [e] * Meta [e] * Mobile [e] * News [e] * Oracle [e] * Politics [e] * Polls [e] * Science [e] * Search [e] * SF.net Auth [e] * Taco Hell [e] * Technology [e] * The 2000 Beanies [e] * ThinkGeek [e] * Vendors [e] * YRO [e] Site Info * FAQ * Bugs * Code Stories * Old Stories * Old Polls * Hall of Fame * Bookmarks * Submit Story Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop 4485429 story + - Your Rights Online: Copyright Infringment of Books on Tuesday May 12, @05:58PM Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, @05:58PM from the all-just-bits dept. Books Maximum Prophet recommends a NY Times piece on the growing phenomenon of unauthorized digital versions of copyrighted books showing up online. The problem has been growing exponentially, fed in part by the popularity of reading devices such as the Kindle and the iPhone. The article features the odd photographic juxtaposition of Cory Doctorow and Ursula K. Le Guin, who take opposite views on electronic editions, authorized or not. Ms. Le Guin: \"I thought, who do these people think they are? Why do they think they can violate my copyright and get away with it?\" Mr. Doctorow: \"I really feel like my problem isn\'t piracy. It\'s obscurity.\" \"Doctorow, a novelist whose young adult novel \'Little Brother\' spent seven weeks on the New York Times children\'s chapter books best-seller list last year, offers free electronic versions of his books on the same day they are published in hardcover. He believes free versions, even unauthorized ones, entice new readers.\" Read More... 50 comments internet books yro books story Comments: 50 4482535 story + - Technology: Social Networking Behavioral Agreements At Work? on Tuesday May 12, @05:06PM Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, @05:06PM from the in-case-they-need-another-reason-to-fire-you dept. Social Networks r0nc0 writes \"My company (a Fortune 15 company) has recently required everyone that accesses the company portal to accept or decline an \'agreement\' that governs the use of social networking. It basically states that any discussion of the company or any of the work that you do, whether at the office or at home, must be governed by their rules of social networking. Naturally these rules are that you never say anything bad or negative about the company, nor do you say anything bad or negative about anything. It\'s presented like a EULA, but if you decline more than 3 times your manager is notified. Naturally I declined it each time until my manager complained to me about all the email he was getting about me not accepting the agreement, so I went ahead and accepted, knowing that anybody who cares would just post anonymously anyway. This is the first time I\'ve run into a forced agreement about social networking, and the agreement is so broad that it can\'t possibly be enforced. I\'ve tried pointing out that agreements like that only drive people away and aren\'t necessary anyway, but I might as well talk to a brick wall. Has anyone else out there run into social networking behavioral agreements like this?\" Read More... 124 comments business social boeing yro privacy tech social story Comments: 124 4484039 story + - Hardware: Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced on Tuesday May 12, @04:16PM Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, @04:16PM from the big-if dept. Omomyid was among several readers writing in about the production of microscopic amounts of ultra-dense deuterium by scientists at the University of Gothenberg, in Sweden. A cubic centimeter of the stuff would weigh 287 lbs. (130 kg). UDD is 100,000 times more dense than water, and a million times more dense than deuterium ice, which is a common fuel in laser-ignited fusion projects. The researchers say that, if (big if) the material can be produced in large quantities, it would vastly improve the chances of starting a fusion reaction, as the atoms are much closer together. Such a D-D fusion reaction would be cleaner than one involving highly radioactive tritium. Many outlets have picked up the same press release that Science Daily printed pretty much verbatim (as is their wont); there doesn\'t seem to be much else about this on the Web. Here\'s the home page of one of the researchers. The press release gives no hint as to how the UDD was produced. Reader wisebabo asks: \"I can easily imagine a material being compressed by some heavy duty diamond anvil to reach this density, the question is: what happens when you let the pressure off? Will it expand (explosively one would presume) back to its original volume?\" Read More... 160 comments power science hardware power story Comments: 160 4483235 story + - News: Microsoft Raises $3.8B in Bond Sale on Tuesday May 12, @03:28PM Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, @03:28PM from the name-is-bond-cheap-bond dept. pfleming writes \"Microsoft quietly, or not so quietly, raised some cheap cash in bond sales yesterday. For a company that already has a huge cash war chest and doesn\'t carry debt, what is the incentive to sell nearly $4 billion in bonds? From the article: \'Microsoft is sitting on $25 billion in cash, so the company doesn\'t need the bond proceeds \"unless they have something big in mind,\" says Reena Aggarwal, professor of finance at Georgetown University\'s McDonough School of Business.\'\" Read More... 313 comments money microsoft news microsoft story Comments: 313 4482417 story + - Technology: 220-mph Solar-Powered Train Proposed In Arizona on Tuesday May 12, @02:37PM Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, @02:37PM from the gonna-soak-up-the-sun dept. Mike writes \"An ambitious Arizona company has recently revealed plans for a solar powered bullet train that will streak across the desert at 220 mph, traveling from Tuscon to Phoenix in 30 minutes flat. Proposed by Solar Bullet LLC, the system comprises a series of tracks that would serve stations including Chandler, Casa Grande, Red Rock, and Marana, and may one day be extended to Flagstaff and Nogales. The train would require 110 megawatts of electricity, which would be generated by solar panels mounted above the tracks.\" Local coverage of the plan takes a harder look, noting that Solar Bullet LLC is two guys who are now asking local governments in the towns at which such a train would potentially stop for $35K for a legal and feasibility study. Total cost is estimated at $27B. Read More... 290 comments power transportation earth monorail simpsons tech transportation story Comments: 290 4481929 story + - News: NY Court Says Police Can\'t Track Suspect With GPS on Tuesday May 12, @01:48PM Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, @01:48PM from the when-a-cop-slaps-you-on-the-back-check-your-back dept. SoundGuyNoise sends in a story that brings into relief just how unsettled is the question of whether police can use GPS to track suspects without a warrant. Just a couple of days ago a Wisconsin appeals court ruled that such tracking is OK; and today an appeals court in New York reached the opposite conclusion. \"It was wrong for a police investigator to slap a GPS tracking device under a defendant\'s van to track his movements, the state\'s top court ruled today. A sharply divided NY Court of Appeals, in a 4-3 decision, reversed the burglary conviction of defendant Scott Weaver, 41, of Watervliet. Four years ago, State Police tracked Weaver over 65 days in connection with the burglary investigation.\" Read More... 313 comments court privacy gps news court story Comments: 313 4481071 story + - Your Rights Online: Break-In Compromises 160k Medical Records At UC Berkeley on Tuesday May 12, @12:57PM Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 12, @12:57PM from the no-ivy-league-nudes-on-file-at-berkeley dept. nandemoari writes \"Hackers have reportedly infiltrated restricted computer databases at the University of California Berkeley, putting the private data of 160,000 students, alumni, and others at risk. According to UC Berkeley, computer administrators determined on April 9, 2009 that electronic databases in University Health Services had been breached by overseas criminals. The breakins began in October 2008. Information contained on the breached databases included Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and non-treatment medical information such as records of immunization and names of treating physicians.\" Read More... 138 comments news privacy storage security education yro privacy story Comments: 138 4480637 story + - Your Rights Online: French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill on Tuesday May 12, @12:10PM Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 12, @12:10PM from the what-does-the-academy-think-of-baseball-metaphors? dept. An anonymous reader writes \"After lots of turmoil, including a surprise rejection and a European amendment against it, Sarkozy\'s 3 strikes law has just been passed by the French Assembly [in French]: \'The first warning mails ... should be sent in the coming fall. In case of second offenders, the first disconnections should start beginning 2010.\'\" Read More... 266 comments court internet news politics government yro court story Comments: 266 4479843 story + - Technology: Qt Opens Source Code Repositories on Tuesday May 12, @11:23AM Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 12, @11:23AM from the good-news-on-a-few-fronts dept. sobral writes \"Following the announcement of the LGPL license model, since yesterday the Qt source code repositories are open to the public together with their roadmap. The contribution model is online and will enable developers from the community to submit patches through a single click process, avoiding the previous hassle of sending in signed paperwork. The code is hosted at qt.gitorious.org and an instant benefit of this launch is that Qt Software has been working together with Gitorious maintainers for the last four months to improve Gitorious and all these new features are already submitted upstream.\" Read More... 170 comments kde programming nokia qt freeatlast tech programming story Comments: 170 4479471 story + - Hardware: Zotac\'s Ion-Based Mini-ITX Board For Atom Debuts on Tuesday May 12, @10:54AM Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 12, @10:54AM from the underseat-entertainment-box-for-the-subaru dept. Intel MojoKid writes \"There have been a handful of NVIDIA Ion-based products with Intel\'s Atom processor that have been unveiled recently, ranging from NVIDIA\'s own reference system, to the Acer Aspire Revo SFF PC. Today Zotac announced an Ion motherboard that will be appealing to the DIY crowd. The design of this IONITX-A model board tested and reviewed here in particular, offers some very interesting features, not the least of which is its DC power input with an external power brick. It also is built on Intel\'s dual core Atom process for a bit more horsepower to back up NVIDIA\'s Ion integrated graphics chip.\" Read More... 91 comments hardware intel green ion itx hardware intel story Comments: 91 Today Yesterday Sunday Many more Submit Story Book Reviews Recent reviews from Slashdot readers: * Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis Learn to turn Excel into something that rivals Mathematica using VBA, brains, and a heaping helping of fortitude.(Jack Herrington\'s review.) * Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring A great book for anyone using Nagios as more than a casual user.(jgoguen\'s review.) * Schneier on Security Schneier argues that security is not something you can buy; it is something you must get.(Ben Rothke\'s review.) 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