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pickens writes "David Pogue writes in the NY Times that when you buy a new Windows PC, it comes festooned with stickers on the palm rests: one for Windows, one for Skype, one for Intel, one for the laptop company, maybe an Energy Star sticker and so on. 'It's like buying a new, luxury car mdash; and discovering that it comes with non-removable bumper stickers that promote the motor oil, the floor mat maker, the windshield-fluid company and the pine tree air freshener you have no intention of ever using,' writes Pogue. But the worst thing is that when you peel them off, they shred, leaving adhesive crud behind. 'When you've just spent big bucks on a laptop, should you really be obligated to spend the first 20 minutes trying to dissolve away the sticker goop with WD40?' But AMD has a solution. Starting next year, AMD will switch to new stickers that peel off easily, leaving no residue; after that, it's considering eliminating the sticker program altogether."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F180221%2FAMD-Hates-Laptop-Stickers-As-Much-As-You-Do" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=AMD+Hates+Laptop+Stickers+As+Much+As+You+Do%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F98AIdm" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/180221/AMD-Hates-Laptop-Stickers-As-Much-As-You-Do?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1775080amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5dca67/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S9optSaHYkRH88iPyp_W1arRwH8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S9optSaHYkRH88iPyp_W1arRwH8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S9optSaHYkRH88iPyp_W1arRwH8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S9optSaHYkRH88iPyp_W1arRwH8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/KJgtdYao11g" height="1" width="1"/

wiedzmin writes "Public broadcaster ARD's show 'Plusminus' teamed up with the known hacker organization 'Chaos Computer Club' (CCC) to find out how secure the controversial new radio-frequency (RFID) chips were. The report shows how they used the basic new home scanners that will go along with the cards (for use with home computers to process the personal data for official government business) to demonstrate that scammers would have few problems extracting personal information. This includes two fingerprint scans and a new six-digit PIN meant to be used as a digital signature for official government business and beyond." That was quick. Earlier this year, CCC hackers demonstrated vulnerabilities in German airport IDs, too.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F1747213%2FNew-German-Government-ID-Hacked-By-CCC" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=New+German+Government+ID+Hacked+By+CCC%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fbtr6gT" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/1747213/New-German-Government-ID-Hacked-By-CCC?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1775060amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5dae3a/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CQCZ47eH0hAqTgHudo8M4vCj2jk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CQCZ47eH0hAqTgHudo8M4vCj2jk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CQCZ47eH0hAqTgHudo8M4vCj2jk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CQCZ47eH0hAqTgHudo8M4vCj2jk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/INo5aDnG0DA" height="1" width="1"/

eldavojohn writes "A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five-page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was 'very sorry' and the judge chastised her, saying, 'You violated your oath. You had decided she was already guilty without hearing the other side.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F1424237%2FFacebook-Post-Juror-Gets-Fined-Removed-Assigned-Homework" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Facebook+Post+Juror+Gets+Fined%2C+Removed%2C+Assigned+Homework%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcTAwGU" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/1424237/Facebook-Post-Juror-Gets-Fined-Removed-Assigned-Homework?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774852amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5d8c52/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AMlisCRCHNIIstDpjmJg67XnsF0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AMlisCRCHNIIstDpjmJg67XnsF0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AMlisCRCHNIIstDpjmJg67XnsF0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AMlisCRCHNIIstDpjmJg67XnsF0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-2BRcUlaAQA" height="1" width="1"/

rexjoec writes "Cisco is making a bid for Skype. The deal, if successful, would derail a planned initial public offering from Skype and redraw the battle lines in the lucrative market of video communications." The rumored price is $5B.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F167232%2FCisco-Planning-To-Acquire-Skype" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cisco+Planning+To+Acquire+Skype%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fc23Dru" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/167232/Cisco-Planning-To-Acquire-Skype?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774964amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5d67d8/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0PhjvBGtRU18iTWGqYehsQ4VI-Q/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0PhjvBGtRU18iTWGqYehsQ4VI-Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0PhjvBGtRU18iTWGqYehsQ4VI-Q/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0PhjvBGtRU18iTWGqYehsQ4VI-Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/hghQljRTKpo" height="1" width="1"/

A few readers have noted that another gulf oil rig has exploded. This one is off the coast of Lousiana. So far all the workers are accounted for, but they are in immersion suits waiting for rescue.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F1618206%2FAnother-Gulf-Oil-Rig-Explodes" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Another+Gulf+Oil+Rig+Explodes%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fc7zv0T" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/1618206/Another-Gulf-Oil-Rig-Explodes?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774984amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5d01a2/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LLdoefWHDIshNRWeV7Q3UDiar6s/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LLdoefWHDIshNRWeV7Q3UDiar6s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LLdoefWHDIshNRWeV7Q3UDiar6s/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LLdoefWHDIshNRWeV7Q3UDiar6s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/eAnRaXIDdek" height="1" width="1"/

tlhIngan writes "Despite all the lawsuits and injunctions by Sony to keep the PS3 Jailbreak out of modder's hands, it appears that a third party has made a clone. The best part is, it only requires a cheap (approximately $40) development board by Atmel, and the requisite software is open-source. Get the Atmel code from GitHub and apply a small patch which will enable backup play (the code by itself only lets you run unsigned code, the patch allows for BD backups). The code is GPLv3. It would be highly ironic if someone ported this to Linux USB Gadgets, then you could use a Linux device to jailbreak your PS3, to which Sony removed Linux functionality. An Android phone would be suitable."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F1530210%2FOpen-Source-PS3-Jailbreak-Released" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Open+Source+PS3+Jailbreak+Released%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9gbhxC" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/1530210/Open-Source-PS3-Jailbreak-Released?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774922amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5cfb2d/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b5eV-jyWriAjYAaOLotBOr_aHHM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b5eV-jyWriAjYAaOLotBOr_aHHM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b5eV-jyWriAjYAaOLotBOr_aHHM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/b5eV-jyWriAjYAaOLotBOr_aHHM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/HYlFVseo7r8" height="1" width="1"/

eldavojohn writes "A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was 'very sorry' and the judge chastised her saying, 'You violated your oath. You had decided she was already guilty without hearing the other side.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F1424237%2FFacebook-Posting-Juror-Gets-Fined-Removed-Homework" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Facebook+Posting+Juror+Gets+Fined%2C+Removed%2C+Homework%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcTAwGU" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/1424237/Facebook-Posting-Juror-Gets-Fined-Removed-Homework?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774852amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5cb576/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/y05-rDpL8VvlIH6n0XogaUASSMc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/y05-rDpL8VvlIH6n0XogaUASSMc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/y05-rDpL8VvlIH6n0XogaUASSMc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/y05-rDpL8VvlIH6n0XogaUASSMc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/xfIkh_BTPTs" height="1" width="1"/

We recently discussed a man who sued NCsoft for making Lineage II "too addictive" after he spent 20,000 hours over five years playing it. Now, several readers have pointed out that the lawsuit has progressed past its first major hurdle: the EULA. Quoting: "NC Interactive has responded the way most software companies and online services have for more than a decade: it argued that the claims are barred by its end-user license agreement, which in this case capped the company's liability to the amount Smallwood paid in fees over six months prior to his filing his complaint (or thereabouts). One portion of the EULA specifically stated that lawsuits could only be brought in Texas state court in Travis County, where NC Interactive is located. ... But the judge in this case, US District Judge Alan C. Kay, noted that both Texas and Hawaii law bar contract provisions that waive in advance the ability to make gross-negligence claims. He also declined to dismiss Smallwood's claims for negligence, defamation, and negligent infliction of emotional distress."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F0447259%2FLineage-II-Addiction-Lawsuit-Makes-It-Past-the-EULA" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Lineage+II+Addiction+Lawsuit+Makes+It+Past+the+EULA%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaU4cts" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/0447259/emLineage-IIem-Addiction-Lawsuit-Makes-It-Past-the-EULA?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774254amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d580f21/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CK3axA1XYOvdj-7klq8CRQSLBtY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CK3axA1XYOvdj-7klq8CRQSLBtY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CK3axA1XYOvdj-7klq8CRQSLBtY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CK3axA1XYOvdj-7klq8CRQSLBtY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/WjFGvArAW7c" height="1" width="1"/

beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of water that fell on the island. They were quite successful. The island even has a cloud forest now. From the article: '[British ecologist] Wilkinson thinks that the principles that emerge from that experiment could be used to transform future colonies on Mars. In other words, rather than trying to improve an environment by force, the best approach might be to work with life to help it "find its own way."'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F0255256%2FCharles-Darwins-Best-Kept-Secret" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Charles+Darwin's+Best-Kept+Secret%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcGhX22" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/0255256/Charles-Darwins-Best-Kept-Secret?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774168amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5c4d2f/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1C7Gr42a9ZR_0vnya-d4j7BEenI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1C7Gr42a9ZR_0vnya-d4j7BEenI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1C7Gr42a9ZR_0vnya-d4j7BEenI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1C7Gr42a9ZR_0vnya-d4j7BEenI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/R5dXyjvWGuQ" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the owners of TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com are complaining that they're being wrongfully written about in the press mdash; one for not having had any content about Sarah Jones but being told it needs to pay $11 million, and the other for having the content and having the press say it lost a lawsuit, even though no lawsuit was ever actually filed against it."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F1250224%2FWoman-Wins-Libel-Suit-By-Suing-Wrong-Website" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Woman+Wins+Libel+Suit+By+Suing+Wrong+Website%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcRr6Tl" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/1250224/Woman-Wins-Libel-Suit-By-Suing-Wrong-Website?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774752amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5bae2d/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Ds37OQvRoHdXPy9pfdjFWBGWIw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Ds37OQvRoHdXPy9pfdjFWBGWIw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Ds37OQvRoHdXPy9pfdjFWBGWIw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7Ds37OQvRoHdXPy9pfdjFWBGWIw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/vpsngV-CvxA" height="1" width="1"/

adeelarshad82 writes "IBM revealed details of its 5.2-GHz chip, the fastest microprocessor ever announced. Costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, IBM described the z196, which will power its Z-series of mainframes. The z196 contains 1.4 billion transistors on a chip measuring 512 square millimeters fabricated on 45-nm PD SOI technology. It contains a 64KB L1 instruction cache, a 128KB L1 data cache, a 1.5MB private L2 cache per core, plus a pair of co-processors used for cryptographic operations. IBM is set to ship the chip in September."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F0257236%2FIBM-Unveils-Fastest-Microprocessor-Ever" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=IBM+Unveils+Fastest+Microprocessor+Ever%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcA2mOW" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/0257236/IBM-Unveils-Fastest-Microprocessor-Ever?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774170amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d5a8d0e/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6_zYG9Dp9nvstCtL31b4w89zWV0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6_zYG9Dp9nvstCtL31b4w89zWV0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6_zYG9Dp9nvstCtL31b4w89zWV0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6_zYG9Dp9nvstCtL31b4w89zWV0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/RfnZtoU8d4Q" height="1" width="1"/

Buffalo55 writes "For the most part, classic games manage to reappear on different systems. Just look at Nintendo. The publisher has done an excellent job bringing NES, SNES, Genesis and even old school Neo Geo titles to the Wii's Virtual Console, while Microsoft's Game Room brings the best of Atari's 2600 into the living room. Of course, not every console was a success. The '90s, in particular, saw quite a few flops from companies like Panasonic, Sega and Atari. Just because a system is a failure, though, doesn't mean all of its games suck. On the contrary, most of these machines have a few gems that fell between the cracks once the console croaked." What overlooked game on a failed platform would you like to see revived?pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F0454258%2FThe-Best-Video-Games-On-Awful-Systems" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Best+Video+Games+On+Awful+Systems%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaJmbIo" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/0454258/The-Best-Video-Games-On-Awful-Systems?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774262amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d59cd6e/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bq1u6Wc98illfYbCv8b1cnyDlOI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bq1u6Wc98illfYbCv8b1cnyDlOI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bq1u6Wc98illfYbCv8b1cnyDlOI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bq1u6Wc98illfYbCv8b1cnyDlOI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/t-Lt_JO95M4" height="1" width="1"/

aarondubrow writes "Three years ago, researchers from Caltech and The University of Texas at Austin came together to create a computational tool that could model the Earth and answer the most pressing questions in geophysics: What controls the speed of plates? How do microplates interact? How much energy do the plates generate and how does it dissipate? Using a new geodynamics software package they developed, the researchers have modeled plate motion with greater accuracy than ever before. The project is also a finalist for the Gordon Bell Prize mdash; high performance computing's Oscar mdash; at this year's SC10 conference."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F037223%2FSolving-an-Earth-Sized-Jigsaw-Puzzle" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Solving+an+Earth-Sized+Jigsaw+Puzzle%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaMTN0e" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/037223/Solving-an-Earth-Sized-Jigsaw-Puzzle?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774176amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d58d814/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uRAv6Eq06fM9P8zKQYiRMxEO-Ts/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uRAv6Eq06fM9P8zKQYiRMxEO-Ts/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uRAv6Eq06fM9P8zKQYiRMxEO-Ts/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uRAv6Eq06fM9P8zKQYiRMxEO-Ts/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/kEe8fqcr4Lg" height="1" width="1"/

Julie188 writes "Target will begin selling Facebook's virtual currency as gift cards on September 5, becoming the first brick-and-mortar retailer to do so. Facebook Credit gift cards will be available in $15, $25 and $50 denominations at the retailer's 1,750 stores. That's right, you can now spend real dollars to get fake ones so you can buy imaginary items for games like FarmVille, Bejeweled and 150 other FB games or apps. If that interests you, please contact me. I have some swamp land in Florida I'd like to show you."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F031223%2FTarget-To-Sell-Facebook-Credits-As-Gift-Cards" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Target+To+Sell+Facebook+%22Credits%22+As+Gift+Cards%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcT4env" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/031223/Target-To-Sell-Facebook-Credits-As-Gift-Cards?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774174amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d57d06c/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o1AKYU8pR4P8RYCt0GumMizMht4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o1AKYU8pR4P8RYCt0GumMizMht4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o1AKYU8pR4P8RYCt0GumMizMht4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o1AKYU8pR4P8RYCt0GumMizMht4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/pznFE54bhAM" height="1" width="1"/

angry tapir writes "Late last week an Australian court issued an injunction against a handful of retailers selling or importing hardware mdash; commonly known as 'mod chips' mdash; that allows unauthorized software to run on Sony's PlayStation 3. The court also required that the four parties that were the subject of the injunction actually hand over to Sony any PlayStation modchips they have. Sony's PlayStation 3 mod chip lawsuit could be just the first of many such cases in Australia, according to a lawyer who defended a client against Nintendo in a similar case earlier this year."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F0436232%2FAustralian-Crackdown-On-Console-Modchips-Likely-To-Continue" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Australian+Crackdown+On+Console+Modchips+Likely+To+Continue%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdyoFFY" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/0436232/Australian-Crackdown-On-Console-Modchips-Likely-To-Continue?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774246amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d577ba4/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/j4n8wPeR2aY4Uir887MZUTVA5zQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/j4n8wPeR2aY4Uir887MZUTVA5zQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/j4n8wPeR2aY4Uir887MZUTVA5zQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/j4n8wPeR2aY4Uir887MZUTVA5zQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/13RwU8e2P3w" height="1" width="1"/

beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of water that fell on the island. They were quite successful. The island even has a cloud forest now. From the article: '[British ecologist] Wilkinson thinks that the principles that emerge from that experiment could be used to transform future colonies on Mars. In other words, rather than trying to improve an environment by force, the best approach might be to work with life to help it "find its own way."'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F0255256%2FCharles-Darwins-Best-kept-Secret" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Charles+Darwin's+Best-kept+Secret%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcGhX22" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/0255256/Charles-Darwins-Best-kept-Secret?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774168amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d570f1b/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rTa--2FVJ1OAfW1chMPtjNlKw9Q/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rTa--2FVJ1OAfW1chMPtjNlKw9Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rTa--2FVJ1OAfW1chMPtjNlKw9Q/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rTa--2FVJ1OAfW1chMPtjNlKw9Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NMp08b-Aaa8" height="1" width="1"/

thecarchik writes "It is not an easy task to compare the environmental effects of battery powered cars to those caused by conventionally fueled automobiles. The degree to which manufacture, usage and disposal of the batteries used to store the necessary electrical energy are detrimental to the environment is not exactly known. Now, for the first time, a team of Empa scientists have made a detailed life cycle assessment (LCA) or ecobalance of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, in particular the chemically improved (i.e. more environmentally friendly) version of the ones most frequently used in electric vehicles. Researchers decided to find out for sure. They calculated the ecological footprints of electric cars fitted with Li-ion batteries, taking into account all possible relevant factors, from those associated with the production of individual parts all the way through to the scrapping of the vehicle and the disposal of the remains, including the operation of the vehicle during its lifetime."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F0017208%2FLi-Ion-Batteries-Get-Green-Seal-of-Approval" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Li-Ion+Batteries+Get+Green+Seal+of+Approval%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9JtrQc" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/0017208/Li-Ion-Batteries-Get-Green-Seal-of-Approval?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774074amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d568d03/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8BYD8FvYXhJXln1B-fNIycPz4_g/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8BYD8FvYXhJXln1B-fNIycPz4_g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8BYD8FvYXhJXln1B-fNIycPz4_g/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8BYD8FvYXhJXln1B-fNIycPz4_g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/58fFVB2qZro" height="1" width="1"/

Geoffrey.landis writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, there's a new species of patent troll out there. These new trolls sue companies that sell products with an expired patent number on them. That's right, it's against the law to sell a product that's marked with an expired patent number. The potential fine? $500. Per violation - and some of the companies have patent numbers on old plastic molds that have made literally billions of copies. Using whistle-blower laws, 'anyone can file a claim on behalf of the government, and plaintiffs must split any fine award evenly with it.' You've been warned."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F02%2F0013250%2FA-New-Species-of-Patent-Troll" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=A+New+Species+of+Patent+Troll%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fc5S0su" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/0013250/A-New-Species-of-Patent-Troll?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1774070amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d56736e/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DGyDdIvR3SszWvnyiCVtQt55O-M/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DGyDdIvR3SszWvnyiCVtQt55O-M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DGyDdIvR3SszWvnyiCVtQt55O-M/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DGyDdIvR3SszWvnyiCVtQt55O-M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-rdH_fcoAd8" height="1" width="1"/

itwbennett writes "Starting this month, mobile carriers in China are requiring people who set up new mobile phone accounts to register with their real names as part of a new government measure to reduce anonymity among the country's 800 million mobile users. And within 3 years, the carriers must also register the real identities of all existing users, said China Telecom spokesman Xu Fei. The new policy comes as China has been pushing users to register with their real names online. In August, online gamers had to begin real-name registration under regulations that are meant to protect minors from Internet addiction and 'unhealthy' content."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F01%2F2228247%2FChina-Demands-Real-Names-From-Mobile-Phone-Users" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=China+Demands+Real+Names+From+Mobile+Phone+Users%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9qww3R" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/01/2228247/China-Demands-Real-Names-From-Mobile-Phone-Users?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1773986amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d56390f/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a0wK5gIGpouuCXWBjCw9OEcE4jk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a0wK5gIGpouuCXWBjCw9OEcE4jk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a0wK5gIGpouuCXWBjCw9OEcE4jk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a0wK5gIGpouuCXWBjCw9OEcE4jk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/qSIEa8vIb6o" height="1" width="1"/

wiredmikey writes "Think you can bust out some silly fresh rhymes on the subjects of hacking, identity theft and computer viruses? In a somewhat untraditional partnership, Snoop Dogg and Symantec's Norton want you to show off your their lyrical skills on the subject of cybercrime and enter the 'Hack is Wack' cybercrime rap contest. If you have the skills and bust out the phattest rap, you'll receive round trip airfare for two to Los Angeles along with two days and two nights' hotel stay to meet with Snoop's management, learn more about his business. You'll also get two tickets to a Snoop Dogg concert and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F01%2F205227%2FSnoop-Dogg-Joins-the-War-On-Cybercrime" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Snoop+Dogg+Joins+the+War+On+Cybercrime%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fch7oHs" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/01/205227/Snoop-Dogg-Joins-the-War-On-Cybercrime?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1773872amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d55c9a2/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/d5UeptU8AvtWCmRkeEf3J4_L4Zs/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/d5UeptU8AvtWCmRkeEf3J4_L4Zs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/d5UeptU8AvtWCmRkeEf3J4_L4Zs/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/d5UeptU8AvtWCmRkeEf3J4_L4Zs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-WClrKkIqAs" height="1" width="1"/