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  1. To be fair, $5M of it was to restore on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 4, Funny

    the XP version of Minesweeper. Apparently they get a lot of use out of that one.

  2. Pretty entertaining and ahead of its time. on 'Brain-to-Text' Interface Types Thoughts of Epileptic Patients · · Score: 1
  3. Best "nice try" was the guy in India... on 86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US · · Score: 2

    telling my mom that he needed to use logmein to help her, and if she hung up, disconnected or closed the computer that the Russian hackers were already in there and would destroy her computer.

  4. It doesn't matter if Snowden trusts Apple on Should Edward Snowden Trust Apple To Do the Right Thing? · · Score: 0

    or not. Apple isn't going to care what this one person thinks and Snowden only cares how newsworthy people think he is.

  5. It's a pity if you have any sort of claustrophobia on SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track · · Score: 1

    Perfect opp for side business. Buy/rent a Cardboard rig at the terminal and make pretend you're anywhere you wish.

  6. For $300 more it better outperform the iPad. on Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 · · Score: 2

    So a 20% difference in speed for a 30% difference in price. Good to know.

  7. Oy. Like how iWork apps have been essentially hob on Microsoft's Skype Drops Modern App In Favour of Old-Fashioned Win32 App · · Score: 1

    by the limitations of accommodating the iOS and web versions.

  8. Pythagorean Cheez-its... on Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment · · Score: 1

    Or Triscuits, Chex, etc... Spinning a giant wet LEGO gear as a top shows tangents...

  9. Bruces. on How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? · · Score: 1

    And Cheese Shop.

  10. Like watching two rabid dogs fighting. on Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    No matter who prevails, you still have to live with a rabid victor.

  11. This should pretty much make on Astrobotic To Take Mexican Payload To the Moon · · Score: 1

    John Boehner's head explode...

  12. Stanford? The one in Palo Alto? on A Computer That Operates On Water Droplets · · Score: 1

    Surely the CA state water resources control board will be paying them a visit soon...

  13. Great. on Chinese Doctor Performs Head Transplants On Mice · · Score: 1

    Now we know which nightmare many people will share tonight.

  14. OK it may be no ACM, on Cuba Forms a CS Professional Society -- It's No ACM · · Score: 4, Funny

    but I bet the coffee and sandwiches are better.

  15. Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin... on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stormtroopers don't come out the way they went in.

  16. Please clarify... on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    "you could get dragonfly's a meter long" So a dragonfly's *what* exactly would be a meter long?

  17. Barring that, solar PV and an e-Golf.

  18. Save money. It's the best way to look out on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 1

    for #1 - like Clark Howard (AM radio but he's often very good on practical stuff - Every hear someone old say "dammit, I ended up with too much money!" Didn't think so..). Learn what a deliverable is and deliver them. In fact, under-promise and over-deliver. Once you're sure you know EVERYTHING about something, take five and ask "what did I forget / not think about". Better yet, do that with someone else in the room. Get a mentor or friend whose criticism you trust. Better this get done by someone you like than someone who can fire you. Want to impress people with your individuality and your passionate feelings? Put them into your work. That's why you took X career in the first place. Feed your awesomeness into your work rather than making people think your true self lies somewhere else (cat / car / frisbee collection / mustache wax collection / etc. - this sort of thing is perceived as tedious and leads co-worders to first think, then hope you have much better things to do than force yourself to work with them). Learn to think like your customer and like your boss. They may but always be right, but you'll be less deer-in-the-headlights when the inevitable pushback comes. Focus. Multitasking is a cruel invention to test your character. Draw a line for work's encroachment into family and friends and make it plain that you will work like a dog for your scheduled time, but after that, crossing it will be done only in cases of a problem needing doctors or lawyers to help fix. Of course there will be exceptions, but you can always make exceptions, moving that line the other ways is an order of magnitude more difficult. Better yet, be the sort of person who lets colleagues share the good parts of your life - parties, get-togethers, etc. so they see the value of the rest of your life and you theirs. Talk to those above you and below you in an organization. Find out ahead of time what they see as absolutely necessary to define success and use that information to work with them. Everyone has different agendas and personal goals, but define the common goals as soon as possible and make sure everyone pulls in the same direction, they can spin off their own little pieces as well.

  19. At the risk of being mundane... on New Alloy Bounces Back Into Shape 10 Million Times And Counting · · Score: 1

    bed springs?

  20. Shoulda built it off a WRT54G... on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 1

    they reset spontaneously and could save this mission...

  21. At least the post used "hope" as a noun on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 2

    and not as a verb. Using "hope" as a verb in spaceflight hasn't always gone very well in the past.

  22. I'm going to mark this as facetious... on Computer Chips Made of Wood Promise Greener Electronics · · Score: 1

    please don't burst my bubble.

  23. Red Green would be proud. on Computer Chips Made of Wood Promise Greener Electronics · · Score: 2

    Now if they can just replace solder and thermal paste with duct tape and concrete patch....

  24. Or at least reduce the templates on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 1

    in number and complexity. I use Keynote, mostly because you have a freer hand in designing, which makes you think about what you want to do. I've seen countless presentations forced/stuffed/mangled into following the default PPT slide format *AND GRAPHICS* because people would sooner live with a bad default format than think for themselves.

  25. Thunderbolt2 ? If the traditional judgement of Ap on Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation Packs Thunderbolt 2, Quadro, IGZO2 Panel · · Score: 1

    any indication, Dell is doomed. You know, proprietary ports and everything...