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The Big Hangup At Burning Man Are Cell Phones (slashdot) 27 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "L. J. Williamson writes in the LA Times that with no running water, no plumbing, and no electrical outlets Burning Man isn't the kind of place to expect full bars on your ...
Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? (slashdot) 27 Aug 2013 | 04:35 am
theodp writes "There has been lots of heated discussion on the topic of where-the-girls-aren't, both in the tech and larger business world. Dave Winer broached the subject of 'Why are there so few wom...
A Crew Demolished The Wrong House Two Different Times (gizmodo) 27 Aug 2013 | 04:35 am
Look, we all know how it is. You're at work, but your mind is somewhere else. It happens. You can't be too hard on yourself. Ideally your lack of attention wouldn't result in the wrongful demolition o...
Ostrich-Egg Globe Believed Oldest To Show New World (slashdot) 27 Aug 2013 | 04:35 am
The National Post is carrying a report of an exciting discovery for cartographic historians: an ostrich-egg globe purchased last year at the London Map Fair is now believed to be the oldest to show an...
Inspired By the Peter Principle: the Peter Pinnacle (slashdot) 26 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
bfwebster writes "Michael Swaine — long-time, well-known and very prolific author/editor in the programming and personal computing worlds — has just devised a new twist on the Peter Principle: the Pet...
NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences (slashdot) 26 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
McGruber writes "According to documents seen by Germany's Der Spiegel, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) successfully cracked the encryption code protecting the United Nations' internal videocon...
Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down (slashdot) 26 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
An outage of one company's servers might only affect that company's customers — but when a major data center for Amazon hits kinks, sites that rely on the AWS cloud services all suffer from the downti...
A Million Cockroaches Escaped From A Chinese Farm And Are On The Move (gizmodo) 26 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
According to the Agence France-Presse, "at least" one million cockroaches escaped a nursery in Jiangsu, China where they were being farmed for traditional medicine applications like cancer and inflamm...
The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever (slashdot) 26 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Ryan Vogt writes in the Mercury News that Shakespeare described death as 'the undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.' Did you know there is a the mi...
iPhone 5S release dates, specs keep pouring in (cnet) 26 Aug 2013 | 08:34 am
It's up to Apple now to top or debunk the flood of iPhone 5S rumors, but many of the rumors seem credible. [Read more]
