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That is the challenge you face when traditional load balancing solutions meet massive data workloads. Break through to full-speed performance with the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager. [Learn More!] [Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations] From the irrational-numbers department Earthquake Retrofit shares this article from the Associated Press: "An Ivy League professor said his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist... He said the woman... [Uber and Lyft Spend $8.2 Million To Lose Fingerprint Election, Vow To Leave Austin] From the keeping-Austin-weird department On Saturday voters in Austin, Texas refused to repeal a new regulation that requires fingerprinting drivers for ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft. In Austin's most expensive election ever, the ride-sharing services spent over $8.2 million... [Prisons Moving To All-Video Visitation] From the do-not-pass-Go department "A new system called 'video visitation' is replacing in-person jail visits with glitchy, expensive Skype-like video calls," reports Tech.Mic. "It's inhumane, dystopian and actually increases in-prison violence -- but god, it makes money."... [The Pirate Bay Now Blocked In Chrome, Firefox, And Safari] From the malvertising-suspected department An anonymous reader writes: Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari are actively blocking direct access to The Pirate Bay. Kickass Torrents suffered such a similar incident last month, because of the intermediary confirmation screen that appeared every... [Amazon Bows To Pressure To Bring Same-Day Deliveries To Poor Areas] From the Prime-numbers department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: After pressure from lawmakers, Amazon is revamping its same-day delivery service in response to complaints that it failed to provide service to poor, minority neighborhoods. The retail giant said... [Dropbox Cuts Several Employee Perks as Silicon Valley Startups Brace For Cold] From the cost-cutting department Not everything is working out at Dropbox, popular cloud storage and sharing service, last valued at $10 billion. Business Insider is reporting a major cost cutting at the San Francisco-based company. As part of it, the publication reports, Dropbox... [Are US Courts 'Going Dark'?] From the judge-dread department An anonymous reader writes: Judge Stephen Wm. Smith argues that questions about the government's "golden age of surveillance" miss an equally significant trend: that the U.S. Courts are "going dark". In a new editorial, he writes that "Before the... [Microsoft Will Stop Supporting Windows Live Mail 2012] From the you-will-be-assimilated department An anonymous reader writes: "Windows Live Mail 2012 users are on notice: Switch to a modern email client or lose access to any Microsoft email accounts they have," reports InfoWorld. In a Thursday blog post, Microsoft informed users of their... [Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe] From the answer-is-42 department Slashdot reader smugfunt shares a blog post from systems scientist George Mobus: "There is a fundamental language of systems that provides a way to describe both structures and functions that is universal across any kind of system... I am nearing... [Siri Voice Actress Doesn't Use Siri] From the does-Siri-dream-of-electric-sheep? department An anonymous coward writes: Susan Bennett, the actress who provided the voice of Apple's Siri assistant, says she "doesn't really" use Siri herself. "It's too weird," she says in a new interview. While she uses many Apple products, "I'm used to... [Kobo Customers Losing Books From Their Libraries After Software Upgrade] From the one-second-it's-here,-at-other-it-isn't department Reader Robotech_Master writes: After a recent Kobo software upgrade, a number of Kobo customers have reported losing e-books from their libraries -- notably, e-books that had been transferred to Kobo from their Sony Reader libraries when Sony left... [Lyft Plans Self-Driving Taxi Fleet By 2017] From the car-talk department An anonymous reader writes: Lyft hopes to launch a self-driving fleet of taxis as soon as next year, according to reports, arriving in the market years before Apple and Google. "There will still be a human 'driver' in the cars, as mandated by law... [New "Perfect Game" Donkey Kong Record May Be Unbeatable] From the now-Mario-retires department An anonymous reader writes: Standing in front on a Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, Wes Copeland set a new all-time high score on Thursday, playing Donkey Kong for 3 hours, 20 minutes, and scoring 1,218,000 points."It's how he took the title, though... [Linux Mint 18 Will Ship Without Multimedia Support] From the freshly-minted department An anonymous reader quotes this report from Distrowatch: Linux Mint 18 will no longer provide separate, codec-free installation media for OEM and magazine distribution. Instead, the distribution will ship without multimedia support while making... [UAE Bank Suffers Massive Data Breach] From the too-big-to-flail department An anonymous reader writes: Two weeks ago, Qatar's National Bank suffered a massive data breach at the hands of Turkish hackers. That data included details about Qatar's royal family and Al Jazeera reporters... 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