IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 10/7/2013

On using pen and paper to formulate algorithms
A student works better coding in ink. Is that sustainable?

Ars readers react to Silk Road’s seizure
And Dread Pirate Roberts? He'll most likely hire a hitman to kill you in the morning.

Weird Science chooses its drugs based on their side effects
And likes its partners to smell like family.

Finland and Nokia: An affair to remember
The company that built a country has lost its aura and relinquished the controls.

How playing casual games could help lead to better soldiers
PopCap-funded physiology studies lead to potential military applications.

Rumor: Microsoft offering to drop Windows Phone license fee for HTC
Form an orderly queue for your free Windows Phone license.

Death by incompatibility: A Samsung Galaxy Gear review
Samsung built a smartwatch but forgot to make it do stuff.

Valve registers European trademark for Half-Life 3 [Updated]
Filing proves company is aware of mysterious numeral following two.

Internet lobs insults at FBI’s Silk Road Bitcoin wallet
"I THOUGHT OF SNIFFING FARTS WHILST SENDING THESE BITCOINS TO YOU."

Valve reveals specs for its prototype “Steam Machines”
Configuration options range from "impressive" to "insane."

NSA repeatedly tries to unpeel Tor anonymity and spy on users, memos show
Analysts grudgingly hail Tor as "king of high-secure, low-latency" anonymity.

Silk Road kingpin, shackled in court, pleads for time
"There's a murder-for-hire charge," said the judge, who still granted a delay.

Despite federal shutdown, MAVEN mission still blasting off to Mars
Key role as communications hub keeps probe on schedule.

Ban on most robocalls and text message spam gets stronger this month
"Prior express written consent" needed for calls and SMS to cell phones.

The 2DS, Pokémon X and Y, and Nintendo’s wavering commitment to stereoscopic 3D
New hardware and software expose how nonessential the "3D" in "3DS" has proven.

EA finally “exploring the possibility” of offline mode for SimCity
Company says it simply "couldn't achieve" larger city sizes, however.

Samsung denies boosting benchmark but fails to address the evidence
Samsung claims it boosts other apps, too, but the source code suggests otherwise.

Frisky male mice find youngsters’ tears a turn-off
Pheromone in tears keeps males from trying to mate with immature mice.

What science tells us about the safety of genetically modified foods
GMO foods are safe to eat, but they pose challenges in the environment.

Apple issues Golden Master build of OS X 10.9 to developers
A GM build of Mavericks means that an official release isn't far off.

Review: Kaleidescape’s $3995 Cinema One is everything except affordable
Fancy movie machine rips, downloads, and catalogs your disc collections.

Patent goliath Intellectual Ventures looks to raise another $3 billion
IV touts good returns, but one public source reports returns as poor as -70 percent.

US indicts suspected Anonymous members for leading 2010 “Operation Payback”
"We will not be merciful. We will not be newfags."

Report: Apple buys Cue, a Google Now-esque personal assistant service
The service pulled data from various accounts to offer suggestions.

Adobe source code and customer data stolen in sustained network hack
Theft could give hackers a new way to exploit widely used Acrobat, ColdFusion apps.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 10/7/2013

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