Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

News for nerds, stuff that matters

Slashdot Tags

good
The World's Languages Are Fast Becoming Extinct
Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools
Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM
Jack Thompson Facing Disbarment Trial
Media Research Exec Says Music Industry Is On Its Last Legs
CA Proposes Rigorous Voting Machine Testing
Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers
Montana Says No to Real ID, Passes Law to Deny It
New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML
SCO Stock In Danger of Delisting, Again
MySpace Sues Spam King
Wikipedia Wins Defamation Case
Belgium May Prosecute the Church of Scientology
FCC Says No to Mobile Phones on Airplane
Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion?
FCC, FAA Still Don't Want Cell Phones on Planes
Karl Rove Resigning Aug 31
Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged
Asus Corrects Eee PC Source Code Issue
Bloggers Immune From Suits Against Commenters
Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug
Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting?
EU Bans Sock-Puppet Blogs
Microsoft Excludes GPLv3 From Linspire Deal
Microsoft to Get Tough on License Dodgers
More States Challenging National Driver's Licenses
Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook
NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon
Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers
TiVo Says It Could Suffer Under GPLv3
US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012
Web Contracts Can't Be Changed Without Notice
Deleting Online Predators Act - R.I.P.
EMI May Sell Entire Collection as DRM-less MP3s
FTC Threatens Spyware Distributors With Prison
Peter Jackson Unlikely To Direct a Hobbit Film
Professors To Ban Students From Citing Wikipedia
Jack Valenti, Dead at 85
American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross
Apple Sued Over iPhone Non-Replaceable Batteries
CD Music Sales Down 20% In Q1 2007
California Balks At Internet Sales Tax
CompUSA Closing More Than 50 Percent of Stores
Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers
FCC Nixes Airport's Ban On Private Net Access
Farewell To the Floppy Disk
Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month
GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC?
Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law
Lawsuit Against Google Dismissed
Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Takeover Offer
Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing
RIAA Receives Stern Letter, Folds
SCO Bankruptcy "Imminent, Inevitable"
SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits
Samba Adopts GPLv3 For Future Releases
Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide
Sun Looks To GPL3 For Java, Solaris
Supreme Court Clears Patent Invalidity Suits
Sweden to Make Denial of Service Attacks Illegal
Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI
The Prospects For Virtualizing OS X
Tiny Generator Runs Off Vibrations
UK Rejects Extending Music Copyright
Viral Marketing Breeding Cynicism
Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks
White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity
YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos
$1.5B Fine Overturned For Microsoft
65% of Americans Spend More Time With Their PC Than SO
Australia Plans to Censor the Internet
Blackberry Network is Down
Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise
Colbert Ballot Bid Shot Down
Comparing Memory Usage of Firefox 2 vs 3
Consumer Revolt Spurred Via the Internet
Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break
Delays to Canadian DMCA Could Doom Act
Females Outnumber Males Online
First Spammer Convicted Under CAN-SPAM Law
Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop
Halo 3 To Have 'Mute the Jerk' Button
Halo Movie Is Still Dead
Hard Drive Prices Hitting New Lows
Internet Archive Challenges Google
Inventors Protest Patent Reform Bill
Linus Warms (Slightly) to GPL3
Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law
McCain Backs Nuclear Power
Microsoft Pledges Conditional Support for ODF
Microsoft Will Allow Vista Reinstalls
Music Companies Mull Ditching DRM
MySpace is Free Speech, Case Overturned
NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam
Novell May be Banned from Distributing Linux
Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support
P2P File Sharing Ruining Physical Piracy Business
Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World
Private File Sharing To Remain/Become legal In EU
Privatunes Anonymizes iTunes Plus
RIAA Website Hacked
SCO Loses
Samsung 256GB SSD is World's Fastest
Sun Says Project Indiana is Not a Linux Copy
Supreme Court Weakens Patents
Tool Detects "In-Flight" Webpage Alterations
USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent
University of Kansas Will Not Forward RIAA Letters
Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming?
Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari
Why the RIAA Doesn't Want Defendants Exonerated
Wikipedia Begets Veropedia
Yahoo Music Chief Comes Out Against DRM
eBay Delisting All Auctions for Virtual Property
Norway Outlaws iTunes
'Gates for President' Group Gives Up
ISO Says No To Microsoft's OOXML Standard
Google Pushes To Open Public Records
"All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun
$298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware
12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions
A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?
A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing?
AMD Multi-Core G3MX DRAM Interface Details Emerge
AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs
AMD To Open ATI Specs
AOL Cutting 2000 Additional Jobs
Adobe May Launch Office Rival
Adult Film Industry Chooses HD-DVD
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early
Allofmp3 Shut Down, Again
An Open-Source Java Port To iPhone?
Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights
Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5
Are Marketers Abandoning Second Life?
Aussies Sue Over Misleading Google Ads
Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia
BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak
Bell, SuperMicro Sued Over GPL
Bilingualism Delays Onset of Dementia
Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command
Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship
Blogs Are Eating Tech Media Alive
Bomb Explodes At PayPal Headquarters
British Columbia To Charge Recycling Fee
British Drivers Destroying Surveillance Cameras
Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant
Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence
California Cracks Down On Genetic Testing
Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws
Census Bureau To Scrap Handhelds — Cost $3 Billion
Chinese Professor Sues Google, Yahoo Over Search Exclusion
Citizens Given Video Cameras To Monitor Police
Congress Gets Their Own Piece of YouTube to Host Videos
Debian Gets Win32 Installer
Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed
Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill
EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion
EU May Force iTunes Store To Accept Returns
EU Views Net Censorship As a "Trade Barrier"
EU's Anti-Trust Investigation of OOXML Continues
Ebay Fined $61M By French Court For Sales of Fake Goods
Electronic Arts Offers $2B For Take Two
FAA May Ditch Vista For Linux
FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
FSF Reaches Out to RIAA Victims
Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech
Falling Microsoft Income Endangers Yahoo Bid
Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe
First Caller-ID Spoofers Punished
First Guilty Verdict In Criminal Copyright Case
Florida Literally Scraps Touch-Screen Voting
GameStop Manager Suspended After "Games for Grades"
Gates' Last Day At Microsoft
Geist's Fair Copyright for Canada Principles
German Court Convicts Skype For Breaching GPL
German Police May Not Break Into a Suspect's PC
Germany Searches Credit Cards For Child Porn Payments
Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View
Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information
Google Calls For More Limits On Microsoft
Google Purges Thousands of Malware Sites
Google Says "We're Not Doing a Mobile Phone"
Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil
Governator Kills Data Protection Law
Granny Sues RIAA Over Unlicensed Investigator
HP Skin Patch May Replace Needles
Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense"
Hotmail Full Version Incompatible With Firefox 3
IBM Slams Microsoft, Calls OOXML "Inferior"
ISP Guarantees Net Neutrality, For a Fee
IT Braces for 'J-SOX' Rules
Ian Murdock Joins Sun
Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites
In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death
Independent Human Interface Guidelines
India Decides to Vote "No" For OOXML
Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples
Intel Opens Its Front-Side Bus
Internet Sites Biased Towards Supporting Suicide