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  1. All three every day on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    A lot of us use all three every day. If they're like me, it's Windows for collaboration with business staff, Linux for development and deployment, Mac OS X for personal use.

  2. But that's ten cents!!! on Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can · · Score: 1

    Ten cents is ten cents in this economy...

  3. iPad taking off on United Pilots To Use iPads For Navigation · · Score: 4, Funny

    The iPad is finally taking off.

  4. This is why we can't have nice things on Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons · · Score: 1

    Next time, take better care of your natural satellites.

  5. Ten points if reading this on your second monitor! on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ten points if you read this post on your second monitor like I did!

  6. "Chemical" now a synonym for "toxin" on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Chemical" has become a synonym for "toxin" in modern vernacular. Regrettably.

  7. Handy feature! on China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sentence · · Score: 1

    So you can conveniently hang up the phone just by ending your conversation "protest, protest"!

  8. Mad Men on Is the Business Card Dead? · · Score: 1

    Handing out business cards makes me feel like I'm in "Mad Men"!

  9. Piracy on Ex-Microsoft CTO Writes $625 Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Destined to be pirated around the globe, just like his former employer's software.

  10. Can Pluto be a galaxy? on What Exactly Is a Galaxy? · · Score: 2

    Pluto's not a planet, maybe it's a galaxy!

  11. So how do they power their own facility? on Biotech Company Making Fossil Fuels With a 'Library' of Bacteria · · Score: 1

    So how do they power their own facility? Do they have a filling station for employee use?

  12. Or at least that's what the Wikipedia article says on Happy 10th Birthday To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    What's their source on the age of Wikipedia? A Wikipedia article?!

  13. Blu-ray not just for Clone Wars any more! on Star Wars Coming To Blu-ray In September · · Score: 1

    Nice to see the films joining Clone Wars on Blu-ray, currently the only Star Wars content available in that format.

  14. Laugh it up, kids! on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Laugh it up, kids! Your favorite language is next.

  15. Videoconferencing on Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems · · Score: 1

    So far travelers haven't swapped the airport shuttle for the videoconferencing studio en masse. So far.

  16. Mod me up, I'm applying for insurance! on Online Behavior Could Influence Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    Assuming Slashdot karma is beneficial.

  17. Compare to antique tractors on Our Video Game Heritage Is Rotting Away · · Score: 1

    Compare to antique tractors: requires dedicated hobbyists to maintain old equipment in working order.

  18. Stigma on The End of Forgetting · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd be appalled if anyone found out I used to program in Smalltalk.

  19. Mulder and Scully in agreement on First Direct Photo of Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Finally, an extraterrestrial revelation Mulder and Scully can agree on.

  20. Re:Few places... on Where Does IT Fall Within Your Organization? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Used to be under Facilities in a company I'm familiar with, but management found that most if not all projects had deep, expensive IT consequences. Elevating IT to the level at which strategy was developed improved planning a lot.

  21. Indeed.com trends on Objective-C Enters Top Ten In Language Popularity · · Score: 1

    Indeed.com finds many more job listings for Ruby than Objective-C, despite their relative TIOBE ranking.

    http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=%22Ruby%22%2C%22Objective-C%22&l=

  22. "Currently offline" on ImageLogr Scrapes "Billions" of Images Illegally · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "Imagelogr.com is currently offline as we are improving the website. Due to copyright issues we are now changing some stuff around to make people happy. Please check back soon."

  23. Sarcasm? On *Twitter*?! on Software Recognizes Sarcastic Tweets · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm? On *Twitter*?! Never!!!

  24. Re:Not Sure if You Can Call That a Demo on Beautifully Rendered Music Notation With HTML5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Firefox apparently lets you view or save the current state of a canvas element in PNG format. If you inspect the web address of the PNG, you'll see it's a data: URI.

    data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAA

    This capability doesn't seem to be present in Apple Safari; Chromium has an open feature request for it.

    http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19277

  25. carde: VNC and RDP via Apache httpd module on Open Source Guacamole Puts VNC On the Web · · Score: 1

    Searching for this capability a couple of weeks ago turned up carde, a project with similar goals. Nothing released yet, but they mention RDP as well as VNC, supported via an Apache httpd module.

    http://code.google.com/p/carde/