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Ask Slashdot: Would You Take a Pay Cut To Telecommute?

coondoggie writes “IT pros want to telecommute — so much so that more than one-third of those surveyed by Dice.com said they would take a pay cut for the chance to work full time from home. In a survey conducted by the careers site, 35% of technology professionals said they would sacrifice up to 10% […]

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Sony’s NGP May Be Delayed By Japan Quake

RedEaredSlider writes “Sony’s upcoming portable gaming console, code named NGP, may be latest victim of the ongoing crisis afflicting Japan. Sony America president Jack Tretton told Bloomberg that Sony may stagger the global release of its next portable as the company is hit with disruptions to its production cycle.”

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GNOME vs. KDE: the Latest Round

jammag writes “The debate about whether KDE or GNOME is the better Linux desktop is longstanding. Yet as Linux pundit Bruce Byfield discusses, it has entered a fresh chapter now that both desktop environments have versions that are radically different from their incarnations just a few years back. Moreover, ‘the differences in KDE 4.6 and […]

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Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer’s Researchers

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from Nature News: “The website of the Alzheimer’s Institute of America (AIA) doesn’t reveal much about the organization, but portrays it as committed to supporting research and patients. Among people who study Alzheimer’s disease, however, the AIA, based in St Louis, Missouri, is best known for filing lawsuits against […]

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Inducement To Piracy, Adobe Style

S Vulpy writes “A post at the Social Science Research Council’s website talks about how piracy greases the wheels of the Adobe Creative Suite marketplace by making it easier to deal with Adobe breaking compatibility between versions. Quoting: ‘… such incompatibility doesn’t involve exotic functionality, just straight text layout into columns and boxes. The kind […]

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Solar Storm Nearly Wipes Out NASA’s Messenger

tcd004 writes “There was a close call last week when an enormous coronal ejection nearly hit Mercury and the orbiting Messenger spacecraft. Scientists at the Space Weather Laboratory flew into action, modeling the event to determine how close it had come to the spacecraft using data from the twin STEREO sun observers. The group used […]

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World’s Most Powerful Rocket Ready In 2012, SpaceX Says

Velcroman1 writes “Elon Musk, the millionaire founder of private space company Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX for short) said the long-planned Falcon Heavy vehicle would be ready for lift off at the end of 2012. The rocket, which he called the most powerful in the world, would be capable of taking men to the International […]

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FCC.gov: A Modern Open Platform

An anonymous reader writes “FCC.gov just launched a public beta which aims to take the agency into the future. The $1.35 million site follows the WhiteHouse.gov lead to Drupal. Agency director Steven Van Roekel spoke with O’Reilly about the agency’s push for an open platform: ‘It’s not breakthrough stuff, but it’s breakthrough for government.’”

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Tobii Releases Eye-Controlled Mouse For PCs

Zothecula writes “Sweden’s eye tracking and control innovator Tobii has announced the release of a stand-alone eye control device called PCEye. Like the laptop-based prototype system demonstrated at CeBIT last month, the device tracks eye movement and translates it into mouse cursor action onscreen. Positioned in front of a PC monitor and connected via USB, […]

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Britain’s Oldest Working Television For Sale

If you happen to be in London on April 19th you have a chance to own a piece of history. A Marconi type–702 television set, which was built using England’s then secret radar research, is going up for auction at Bonhams Mechanical Music and Scientific Instruments sale. Built in 1936, the set is believed to […]

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