IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 11/11/2013

Is it ethical to read programming books on the clock?
Your boss doesn't forbid it, but it still feels weird.

Weird Science tries to count its calories during Jurassic sex
And it finds it's generally (but not always) more fun than a treadmill.

Ars readers react to extinct businesses and imaginary IT projects
Blockbuster Video closes and LA wants a free gigabit network.

Ars Technicast, Episode 37: Maybe you should have read the book
Not all adaptations of books to film and TV are created equal.

It’s the little things, part 2: The importance of automation
The definition of insanity should be doing the same manual task over and over again.

Dating still segregated, but people cross racial lines once contacted
People more likely to respond to pitches from other ethnic groups.

Mom helped hide laptops from FBI in cabinet, gets 6 months probation
Barrett Brown's mother will also pay a $1,000 fine as part of guilty plea.

Microsoft’s anime Internet Explorer 11 promo is really rather weird
Inori Aizawa is an ugly duckling who now battles robots.

Do you want to pay extra for data? Then Comcast has a deal for you
Comcast’s data caps and overage charges expanded to more cities.

Tin Can app relays messages to phones without Internet, cell reception
New app delivers messages via phones' Wi-Fi, uses nearby phones as relay points.

Skeptics say LA’s free fiber plan as plausible as finding a unicorn
Will AT&T or Verizon build free citywide fiber and Wi-Fi? Unlikely.

Sony adds some freebies to PS4 launch packages
Early adopters get $10 Store credit and 30 days of PlayStation Plus.

Head over to your nearest Microsoft Store to take Xbox One for a spin
Microsoft stores have hardware to try ahead of the November 22nd launch.

Target of Silk Road murder-for-hire plot tells his story
47-year-old Utah grandpa liked Bitcoin, "never intended" to get into drug deals.

It’s official: Computer scientists pick stronger passwords
Landmark study says people in business school choose weakest passwords.

Two Retina MacBook Pro firmware updates chase away early-adopter blues
EFI updates fix graphics, keyboard, and trackpad problems with new laptops.

YouTube cofounder breaks 8-year absence on site to gripe about comment policy
Jawed Karim comments on YouTube's first video with a WTF.

Microsoft: Streaming games is “cool” but “problematic” for now
Cloud gaming works, but only on “the world’s most awesome Internet connection.”

Senator wants end to demand letters from “bottom feeder” patent trolls
The idea: create registry of patent demand letters to expose the worst trolls.

Babies’ eyes may hold early clues about autism
In babies that would go on to develop autism, eye contact became less frequent.

Hands-on with the Xbox One: Kinect, interface, and OS impressions
We give voice controls, multitasking, and even live TV a good workout.

Xbox One to introduce “media achievements” for watching video
"Rewards or badges" for using video apps are separate from Gamerscore.

Snowden may have persuaded 20 to 25 NSA colleagues to give up their passwords
Reuters says those borrowed creds helped Snowden get access to docs he later leaked.

Canonical “abused trademark law” to target a site critical of Ubuntu privacy
"Fix Ubuntu" site accused of trademark violation, asked to change domain name.

As deadline for drone rules nears, FAA issues roadmap for inclusion in the skies
Don't get your hopes up about being a drone ace just yet, though.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 11/11/2013

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