Are you a jealous lover, helicopter parent, or otherwise neurotic human being with crippling trust issues? Then we’ve got the answer to all your problems right here. No, it’s not therapy (although, you know, good idea); it’s a top-of-the-line smartphone that comes pre-loaded with all the spyware an overbearing human could ever hope for. Read more…
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Dear Creepers: You Can Buy a Smartphone Pre-Loaded With Spyware Now
sandbagger writes “The director of the U.S. government office that monitors scientific misconduct in biomedical research has resigned after 2 years out of frustration with the ‘remarkably dysfunctional’ federal bureaucracy. Officials at the Office of Scientific Integrity spent ‘exorbitant amounts of time’ in meetings and generating data and reports to make their divisions look productive, David Wright writes. He huge amount of time he spent trying to get things done made much of his time at ORI ‘the very worst job I have ever had.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Top U.S. Scientific Misconduct Official Quits In Frustration With Bureaucracy
You know kaiju, right? Those Japanese-style monsters now have their own watering hole, which serves booze and eats. There’s an important rule, though: No superheroes allowed. Don’t you dare break it! Read more…
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Get Drunk with Kaiju at This New Japanese Bar
If you ever want to change the style of all the headings or captions in a document, bold all the italicized text, or otherwise fine-tune the formatting of your document in one swoop, Microsoft Word has a setting for that. Read more…
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Select All Text with the Same Formatting in Word (and Other Word Tips)
Integrated graphics are getting better and better , but if you really want to game on your laptop, ain’t nothing gonna beat discrete. Nvidia’s new line of GTX mobile cards are about as good as it gets, and they’re not just bringing performance upgrades, but better battery life as well. Read more…
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Nvidia’s New Laptop Cards Are Battery-Saving Scorchers
Migraines suck, but do they suck enough that you’d strap on an electric headband that zaps your brain’s nerves to block the pain? The FDA doesn’t think that’s such a crazy notion—the agency just approved exactly such a device for treating and preventing migraine headaches. Read more…
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Migraine-Blasting Electric HeadbandIs Coming to The U.S.
A US Court, at the behest of movie studios, has ordered the shutdown of domains related to DVDFab, one of our favorite DVD and Blu-ray ripping tools . For the time being, DVDFab reps say you can get around it by going to the company’s Japanese website . Read more and see the full injunction over at TorrentFreak . Read more…
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A US Court, at the behest of movie studios, has ordered the shutdown of domains related to DVDFab, o
We don’t need to tell you that data can be beautiful—but the process of putting it in order can look pretty darn good, too. A new site called SORTING aims to make people aware of just how elegant some of computer science’s most fundamental algorithms can be. Read more…
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Visualizing How Sorting Algorithms Work Is as Good as Any Art
itwbennett writes “As Slashdot readers will remember, last month the U.S government ‘petitioned the court system’ to let the NSA retain phone call metadata for more than 5 years, ironically ‘because it needs to preserve it as evidence for the various privacy lawsuits filed against the government.’ Well, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled against that request. The FISC’s Presiding Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday (PDF) that the proposed amended procedures would further infringe on the privacy interests of U.S. persons whose ‘telephone records were acquired in vast numbers and retained by the government for five years to aid in national security investigation.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Court Denies NSA Request To Hold Phone Records Beyond 5 Years
Have you been wanting to dive into the world of Star Trek novels, but aren’t sure where to start? Check out the Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flowchart , which lays out which books should come earliest on your reading list. Read more…
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The Proper Reading Order for the Star Trek Novels in a Handy Flowchart