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  1. Simple on Ask Slashdot: Why Are American Tech Workers Paid So Well? · · Score: 1

    Because American geeks do the needful.

  2. Ms or Mrs? on SurveyMonkey's CEO Dies While Vacationing With Wife Sheryl Sandberg · · Score: 1

    > and spouse of Facebook COO Sheryl K. Sandberg
    > vacation abroad with Ms. Sandberg

  3. Incomplete sentence on Big Vulnerability In Hotel Wi-Fi Router Puts Guests At Risk · · Score: 0

    An anonymous reader writes incomplete sentences.

  4. OMG on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 2, Funny

    OMG nu-cle-er radiashun in space! Think of the environmental damage!

  5. Re:510kph is airliner speed? on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 1

    "the average speed of an airliner" would be less than it's cruising speed.

    Add in ticketing, security, delays, boarding, taxi time and runway congestion and it makes a lot more sense.

  6. Dr. William Shaffner? on Survivors' Blood Holds Promise, But Draws Critics, As Ebola Treatment · · Score: 2

    What a great name. Sounds like what William Shatner would introduce himself as after a few drinks...

  7. DokuWiki on Ask Slashdot: Professional Journaling/Notes Software? · · Score: 1

    I used to use organized .txt files but switched to DokuWiki.

    https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuw...

    Now I can access notes from all of my devices and share them easily with associates as well.

    I tried Evernote, MediaWiki, Atlassian's Confluence and a ton of other options but DokuWiki is the only solution I have found that makes managing a notebook easy, fast and enjoyable.

  8. Attitude on Sons of Anarchy Creator On Google Copyright Anarchy · · Score: 1

    With an attitude like that it's no wonder the series got worse each season.

  9. Dangerous on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry but when an errant ad can serve malware (see Yahoo) it's just not worth taking a chance.

    Web site operators have the attitude that their revenue stream is more important than the integrity of their visitors computer.

    AdBlock + NoScript is antivirus for the web.

  10. Out of the frying pan and in to the fire on White House Reportedly Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor · · Score: 1

    A company so bad they had to change their name from Anderson Consulting to escape the stench.

    More appropriately named Assenter. Next up to the gravy train will be Toillette and Douche.

  11. When I find an interesting project still hosted on SourceForge it's almost a sure sign it's dormant and/or dead. It's become the seedy back alley of the FOSS movement.

    Combine it with download.com and let them die together.

    All hail to the mighty Octocat.

  12. HP Color LaserJet m551 on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    If you're in the market for a small workgroup color laser I highly recommend the HP LaserJet m551dn.

    It's around $800 up front but with a life expectancy of >10 years it's worth every penny. The print quality is excellent, it's nearly silent, and the JetDirect has tons of features for authentication. authorization and auditing allowing restrictions to be set on usage. You can even control who is allowed to use color vs monochrome.

    As for scanning the $100 HP OfficeJet 6700 works and is completely supported in Windows, OS X and Linux (with hplip).

  13. Re:The Surface is Wonderful! on Early Surface Sales Pitiful · · Score: 2

    Practicing for an Amazon Vine review?

  14. One mans treasure is another mans' trash on Early Surface Sales Pitiful · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jeff Atwood (of CodingHorror, StackOverflow fame) praised the Surface RT:

    I can't even remember the last time I was this excited about a computer.

  15. SCO on Groklaw Turns Ten · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wish someone would put together a final analysis of the fiaSCO and all of the players. There was a lot of underground activity that Groklaw did not cover fully such as Yarro, Robbins, the 'suicides', the message board trolls (Merkey?) etc.

    It would be great to see interviews from the perspective of the last rats off the ship and how they feel about the whole thing. By this time there has to be people ready to tell the real story.

    There's a book waiting to be written here.

  16. Speed? on SpaceShipTwo Tests Its Rocket Engine and Goes Supersonic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why is it taking Virgin Galactic so long for development? Is it a financing or technical issue?

    SpaceX was founded in 2002 and is already making re-supply missions to the ISS. Granted that's not quite the same as human spaceflight but it seems like there's a lot faster advancement occurring at SpaceX than at Virgin Galactic.

  17. Re:We did it! on AMD Says There Will Be No DirectX 12 — Ever · · Score: 1

    Didn't I hear this same rationalization about 5-10 years ago in regards to Internet Explorer?

  18. Seriously?

  19. Why not PostgreSQL? on Moving From CouchDB To MySQL · · Score: 5, Interesting
  20. Re:Backfire on Nest Labs Calls Honeywell Lawsuit 'Worse Than Patent Troll' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Niche locations like Slashdot consist of the type of early adopters Nest needs to build momentum in the marketplace.

  21. Backfire on Nest Labs Calls Honeywell Lawsuit 'Worse Than Patent Troll' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been thinking about replacing my home Honeywell thermostats (2) with Nests so that I can link, control, and monitor them more effectively. The news of this lawsuit has pretty much sold the deal.

    I don't think Honeywell thought about the Streisand effect.

  22. Motorola Symbol on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 2

    I wish Google would buy the Motorola Symbol division so we could see Android on their industry leading mobile computers (ie barcode scanners). The embedded Windows CE / Windows Mobile on those devices is garbage.

  23. Re:Office on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 2, Informative

    I thought serious students used http://www.lyx.org/?

  24. Beavercreek, OH - 39.73 N, 84.06 W on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 1

    Only a few bumps felt.

  25. Downloader for X on A Better FTP? · · Score: 1

    Downloader for X has some of the features you have requested.

    http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/

    - James