cheezitmike writes “According to a story in the Washington Post, ‘Maryland and Virginia are going old school after Tuesday’s election. Maryland will scrap its $65 million electronic system and go back to paper ballots in time for the 2010 midterm elections. In Virginia, localities are moving to paper after the General Assembly voted last year […]
Zordak writes “The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just issued its much-anticipated opinion in In Re Bilski [PDF]. This was a re-visit of the State Street issue of what constitutes patentable subject matter (including whether software and business methods are patentable). In summary, the court has affirmed and strengthened the ‘machine-or-transformation’ test, […]
fons writes “Dutch Python hacker/artist Stani took part in a contest organised by the Dutch Ministry Of Finance to design a 5 euro commemorative coin. And he won, using only free software: ‘The whole design was done for 100% with free software. The biggest part consists of custom software in Python, of course within the […]
superbus1929 writes “I work as a security analyst at an internet security company. While troubleshooting an issue, we learned why our customer couldn’t keep his site-to-site VPN going from any location that uses Sprint as its ISP: Sprint has decided not to route traffic to Cogent due to litigation. This has a chilling effect; already, […]
An anonymous reader writes “A post on the EA Support Forums from APOC, online community manager for Electronic Arts, outlines a new policy for their new forums, saying users who earn a ban based on their behavior in the forums will be locked out of all of the EA games tied to that account: ‘Well, […]
A mere week after its release, the T-Mobile G1 phone has been unlocked. The dutiful folks at the Android Community posted pictures and a YouTube video of a G1 phone functioning with an AT&T SIM card. The site also claims — but does not illustrate or explain how — that the code works with any […]
eldavojohn writes “Mark Shuttleworth, the millionaire bankroller who keeps Ubuntu going strong, has revealed ‘Canonical is not cash-flow positive’ just as version 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) of the popular Linux distribution is released today. In a call, he said he ‘had no objection’ in funding Canonical for another three to five years. He did say, however, […]
Roland Piquepaille writes “Some clever computer scientists at UC San Diego (UCSD) have developed a software that can perform key duplication with just a picture of the key — taken from up to 200 feet. One of the researchers said ‘we built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not […]
Last month, Slashdot readers contributed their own inquiries to the pool of questions for the Walden University Presidential Youth Debate. Two of those questions made the cut, and you can watch either the individual video responses to each of the questions presented to John McCain and Barack Obama (by scrolling down the just-linked debate home […]
Business PC users now have a new, affordable option to access broadband-speed Internet via their ThinkPad notebook PCs thanks to a new alliance announced today by AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and Ericsson. The collaboration significantly lowers the price premium usually associated with built-in mobile broadband technology by up to $150 per […]