ciaohound writes "The Baltimore Sun has a story about 'unschooling,' which is like homeschooling except, well, without the schooling. '...unschooling incorporates every facet of a child's life into the education process, allowing a...
Topics: education

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drunken_boxer777 sends us to The Wall Street Journal for a lengthy article on a small tech company, Palantir Technologies, that is making the CIA, Pentagon, and FBI take notice. The submitter adds, "And yes, their company name is a reference to what.
Topics: database

{"title":"How a Team of Geeks Cracked the Spy Trade","post_url":"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/04\/1443248\/How-a-Team-of-Geeks-Cracked-the-Spy-Trade?from=rss","feed_url":"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/Slashdot\/slashdot","author":null,"date":"2009-09-04 09:25:00","summary":"drunken_boxer777 sends us to The Wall Street Journal for a lengthy article on a small tech company, Palantir Technologies, that is making the CIA, Pentagon, and FBI take notice. The submitter adds, \"And yes, their company name is a reference to what."}

Thorfinn.au sends along big physics news: magnetic monopoles have been detected at low temperatures in "Dirac strings" within a single crystal of Dysprosium Titanate. Two papers are being published today in the journal Science and two more on...
Topics: science

{"title":""Overwhelming" Evidence For Magnetic Monopoles","post_url":"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/04\/1226227\/Overwhelming-Evidence-For-Magnetic-Monopoles?from=rss","feed_url":"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/Slashdot\/slashdot","author":null,"date":"2009-09-04 06:55:00","summary":"Thorfinn.au sends along big physics news: magnetic monopoles have been detected at low temperatures in \"Dirac strings\" within a single crystal of Dysprosium Titanate. Two papers are being published today in the journal Science and two more on..."}

Tyler Too writes "The MPAA is once again trying to badger the FCC into approving Selectable Output Control, which would plug the 'analog hole' during broadcasts of some prerelease HD movies. MPAA bigshots met with seven staffers from the FCC.
Topics: tv

{"title":"MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole","post_url":"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/04\/1156247\/MPAA-Pushes-Once-Again-To-Close-the-Analog-Hole?from=rss","feed_url":"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/Slashdot\/slashdot","author":null,"date":"2009-09-04 06:05:00","summary":"Tyler Too writes \"The MPAA is once again trying to badger the FCC into approving Selectable Output Control, which would plug the 'analog hole' during broadcasts of some prerelease HD movies. MPAA bigshots met with seven staffers from the FCC."}

Lucas123 writes "Intel is planning to launch its native flash memory module, code named Braidwood, in the first or second quarter of 2010. The inexpensive NAND flash will reside directly on a computer's motherboard as cache for all I/O and it...
Topics: storage

{"title":"Intel's Braidwood Could Crush SSD Market","post_url":"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/04\/0146224\/Intels-Braidwood-Could-Crush-SSD-Market?from=rss","feed_url":"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/Slashdot\/slashdot","author":null,"date":"2009-09-04 05:16:00","summary":"Lucas123 writes \"Intel is planning to launch its native flash memory module, code named Braidwood, in the first or second quarter of 2010. The inexpensive NAND flash will reside directly on a computer's motherboard as cache for all I\/O and it..."}