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[Learn More!] [American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong] [Slashdot Asks: Should It Be Legal To Resell E-Books, Software, and Other Digital Goods?] [E-Cigs Are Exploding In Vapers' Faces At An Alarming Rate] [Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women'] [Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password] [Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps] [Android Is 'Fair Use' As Google Beats Oracle In $9 Billion Lawsuit] [Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time] [Adidas To Sell Robot-Made Shoes In Germany] [Get Ready To Be Bombarded With Ads When Using Google Maps] [FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers] [Tor To Use Distributed RNG To Generate Truly Random Numbers] [Millennials Value Speed Over Security, Says Survey] [Scott Walker Rents Out Email and Donor Lists To Pay Campaign Debt] [Consumer Campaigners Read T&C Of Their Mobile Phone Apps To Prove a Point] [IBM Cognos Analytics - A Bridge Across the Analytic Chasm] What is new in IBM Cognos Analytics? - In October 2015, IBM announced a significant redesign of the user experience (UX) of its flagship business intelligence (BI) solution, IBM Cognos BI, based on self-service design principles. The new solution, called IBM Cognos Analytics, promises to bridge the divide between ad hoc, exploratory analytics and IT-driven traditional BI. [Learn More!] [American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong] From the try-again department theodp writes: Over at Quartz, Globaloria CEO Idit Harel argues that American schools are teaching our kids how to code all wrong. She writes, "The light and fluffy version of computer science -- which is proliferating as a superficial response to... [Slashdot Asks: Should It Be Legal To Resell E-Books, Software, and Other Digital Goods?] From the digital-data-and-its-reselling-value department There's no one stopping you from selling the CDs and DVDs that you buy, so why can't you do the same with e-books, music albums, movies, and other things you've downloaded? Ars Technica reports about a Dutch second-hand e-book platform called Tom... [E-Cigs Are Exploding In Vapers' Faces At An Alarming Rate] From the e-cigs-not-as-safe department E-cigs are becoming increasingly popular, but are they safe enough? BuzzFeed News is reporting about accidents where e-cigs have exploded in vapers' faces. The report claims that these incidents are occurring at an alarming rate. From the report... [Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women'] From the surprise-findings department An anonymous reader writes: A study performed by researchers behind the Internet campaign "Reclaim," suggests that half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women. The campaign is designed to show the public the impact of hate... [Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password] From the 123456 department wiredmikey writes from a report via SecurityWeek.Com: Microsoft is taking a step to better protect users by banning the use of weak and commonly-used passwords across its services. Microsoft has announced that it is dynamically banning common... [Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps] From the whatever-happened-to-pay-less-promise? department Karl Bode, reporting for DSLReports: In a letter being sent to Comcast customers in usage capped markets, the company says that with the recent announcement of usage caps being bumped to 1 terabyte, the company is also capping the amount of... [Android Is 'Fair Use' As Google Beats Oracle In $9 Billion Lawsuit] From the jury-duty department infernalC writes: Ars Technica is reporting that the verdict is in, and that the jury decided that Google's duplication of several Java interfaces is fair use. Ars Technica writes that Google's Android OS does not infringe upon Oracle-owned... [Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time] From the there's-a-first-for-everything department New submitter maharvey writes: A woman in Pennsylvania has contracted a strain of E Coli that is unaffected by all known legal antibiotics, including the antibiotics of last resort. We have had bacteria that were resistant, but this is the first... [Adidas To Sell Robot-Made Shoes In Germany] From the that's-how-it-begins department Adidas, the German sportswear and equipment maker, has announced that it will start marketing the first series of sports shoes manufactured by robots in Germany from 2017. Deutsche Welle reports: The announcement came as Adidas unveiled its... [Get Ready To Be Bombarded With Ads When Using Google Maps] From the ads,-ads-everywhere department An anonymous reader writes: The chance to squeeze some extra advertising dollars is something rarely missed by Google. This week the company quietly announced changes to two of its most widely used services, offering businesses the chance to pay... [FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers] From the illegal-hardware department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: Two years ago the FCC announced its intention to fine a Chinese electronics maker $34.9 million and a Florida man $48,000 for respectively selling and using illegal cell-phone jammers. Today... [Tor To Use Distributed RNG To Generate Truly Random Numbers] From the no-order department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: Tor developers have been working on the next iteration of the Tor network and its underbelly, the Onion routing protocol, in order to create a stronger, harder-to-crack anonymous communications... [Millennials Value Speed Over Security, Says Survey] From the instant-coffee department An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Dot: Millennials stand apart from other Americans in preferring faster Internet access to safer Internet access, according to a new survey. When digital-authentication firm SecureAuth asked people... [Scott Walker Rents Out Email and Donor Lists To Pay Campaign Debt] From the do-what-you-gotta-do department An anonymous reader writes: In an effort to pay off his hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt racked up from his failed presidential run, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is renting out his email and donor lists to other candidates. Wisconsin... [Consumer Campaigners Read T&C Of Their Mobile Phone Apps To Prove a Point] From the absurdly-long-t&c department From a BBC report: Norwegians have spent more than 30 hours reading out terms and conditions from smartphone apps in a campaign by the country's consumer agency. 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