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  1. Spam Mimic on To Avoid Detection, Terrorists Made Messages Seem Like Spam · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.spammimic.com/

  2. Three out of four stars by Associated Press on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 0

    Three out of four stars by Associated Press:

    http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7935e58fe70b4b749b69b8e1841611ec/review-interview-deserves-be-seen

  3. Kickstarter on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 5, Funny

    https://www.kickstarter.com/

  4. Re:Ya know what's harder than lining up the pixels on WSJ: Google X Display Team Works Toward Bezel-Free Modular Displays · · Score: 1

    http://amzn.com/B009APMNB0

    For $90 bucks ...

  5. Porn... on Mozilla Is Working On a Firefox OS-powered Streaming Stick · · Score: 1

    Chromcast: no porn! http://gigaom.com/2014/02/03/no-chromecast-porn-apps/
    Firefoxcast: porn!

  6. Re:It's NOT a drone! on These Are the Companies the FAA Has Sent notices To For Using Drones · · Score: 1

    I thought the hexacopter had 24 pounds of thrust.

    See: http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/115123-affordable-hexacopter-drone-for-aerial-photography

  7. Rick Richardson's Linux tools for geocaching on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 2

    Happy New Year. Whose going to get the FTF?

    From http://geo.rkkda.com/. All are bash and awk tools run via a terminal. Lots of them build upon gpsbabel (e.g. geo-nearest), or ImageMagick (e.g. reverse-montage) or, you get the drift.

    Tools for accessing gc.com...
    (SO) : this program works only for gc.com subscribers

    geo-found List caches found (by you or someone else)
    geo-nearest List the nearest caches to a location
    geo-newest List the newest caches in a state
    geo-placed List caches placed (by you or someone else)
    geo-keyword List caches by keywords.
    All of the above can enter the waypoints into the
    GpsDrive MySQL database.
    geo-html2gpx Convert a gc.com printable web page (such as the
    above commands can produce with the -H option) to
    a GPX file.

    geo-count Count caches found
    geo-usernum Determine gc.com user number (used by geo-count)

    (SO) geo-gid Retrieve cache info by GCxxxx waypoint name
    (SO) geo-gpx Retrieve GPX file by GCxxxx waypoint name
    (SO) geo-demand Request an immediate pocket query email
    (SO) geo-gpxmail Process PQ email using gpx2html
    (SO) geo-gpxprocess Process PQ download(s) using geo-pqdownload and gpx2html
    (SO) geo-pqdownload Perform a Pocket Query download(s)
    (SO) geo-myfinds Schedule a Pocket Query containing your finds.
    (SO) geo-rehides From your found.gpx file, produce a GPX file of rehides
    (SO) geo-correct-coords Correct the coords of cache(s)
    geo-density Compute cache density of an area

    gpx2html Lightly hacked converter from GPX to HTML
    Originally by fizzymagic (v1.90). My version
    fixes issues with HTML in the cache descriptions, adds
    sort by latest log date for easy perusing of recent
    cache activity, and fixes bug in GC[1-9]xxxx.
    gpx-loghistory Print all logs in reverse cron order.
    geo-pqs Figure out what PQs to run to get an entire state.
    geo-state Convenience script; geo-state -? gives usage.
    geo-sdt Replace Size, Difficulty, Terrain from a PQ file
    geo-suffix Replace name with name/TypeSizeDiffTerr/gcid/LatLon
    geo-uniq Unique the tabsep database

    Tools for accessing opencaching.com...
    oc-nearest List the nearest caches to a location
    oc-newest List the newest caches in a state
    EXPERIMENTAL, subject to drastic changes

    Tools for accessing opencaching.us (and .nl, .de,...) ...
    ok-nearest List the nearest caches to a location
    ok-newest List the newest caches in a state
    EXPERIMENTAL, subject to drastic changes

    Tools for accessing navicache.com...
    nc-nearest List the nearest caches to a location
    nc-newest List the newest caches in a state

  8. NASA Satellite Falls On Car on GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTyiaDmytw

  9. Re:So what exactly are the phone numbers? on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/

    211 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-1700

  10. W. Richard Stevens writes: on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The last line of a right hand page should not end with a hyphen. This
    has been a style rule for many years, yet it is amazing that most word
    processors do not do this! I just smile when I pick up a book produced
    with something like Frame and you immediately find these errors.
    Needless to say, troff does this correctly, and has for 20+ years. A
    friend commented to me that normal evolution would have gone Word to
    Frame to troff, but instead, the computer industry has gone the other
    way!"

    -W. Richard Stevens, author of 7 popular technical books. [R.I.P.]

  11. Games run better on Linux than on Windows on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 1

    My son says:  "My Source games run better on Linux than on Windows by about 15% - once the majority of games get a Linux version I'm done with Windows for good"

  12. Re:Surprise! on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account · · Score: 2

    "Google Checkout is an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. Users store their credit or debit card and shipping information in their Google Account, so that they can purchase at participating stores by clicking an on-screen button. Google Checkout provides fraud protection and a unified page for tracking purchases and their status. According to a Google update[1] on May 2013, Google Checkout will be retired on November 20, 2013."

    Wiil be retired on November 20, 2013.

  13. AAPL After Hours on Apple To Launch Largest Stock Repurchasing Plan In History · · Score: 1

    Current: $406.160.01%

    Volume         High                       Low
    6,049,276     $ 429.90 (17:02:34 PM)     $ 398.1597 (16:13:10 PM)

  14. Watchable on Fedora 17 on Amazon Debuts Mixed Bag of Original Comedy Pilots · · Score: 2

    Watchable on Fedora 17 with Firefox 20.  No issues at all.

  15. Vacuum This! on Nano-Suit Protects Bugs From Vacuums · · Score: 1

    Me, I got the Sears Craftsman Shop Vac and vacuumed up all the Box Elders bugs I could find.

  16. Re:prior art on Ars Technica Goes Close Up With the Pebble Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/202/fuzzy-clock/

  17. Here is the list of senators... on US Senate Passes National Internet Sales Tax Mandate · · Score: 0

    Here is the list of senators... http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00062

    Write them and tell them what you think.

  18. Random Signatures in Google Mail on Ask Slashdot: Which Google Project Didn't Deserve To Die? · · Score: 1

    Random Signatures in Google Mail.  It was a Google Labs offering...

  19. run at startup??? on Hands On With Redbox Instant · · Score: 2

    System tools
    run at startup
    Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the tablet and allow the app to slow down the overall tablet by always running. Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.

  20. how-to-buy-land-on-the-moon on Property Rights In Space? · · Score: 1

    http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-buy-land-on-the-moon/

  21. mutt! on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_%28email_client%29

  22. Re:Won't somebody please think of the Ho-Hos? on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 1

    Ho-Ho's are 33 cents apiece (a "Ho").

    Little Debbie's Swiss Rolls (Ho-Ho equivalent) are 15 cents apiece.

    Little Debbie rocks! 

  23. Re:Good try, but not as good as Celestia on Visualizing 100,000 Stars In Chrome · · Score: 2

    Celestia plays fine on my Mesa DRI Intel G33.  On Chrome I get: "Either your graphics card or your browser does not support WebGL".

  24. The $99 goes to Verisign, not Microsoft on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html

    "The $99 goes to Verisign, not Microsoft"

  25. Bell Labs OYOC on East Coast vs. West Coast In the Quest For Young Programming Talent · · Score: 1

    I did Bell Labs One Year On Campus 1979-1980.  IF he/she came back at all: first year LOSS, second year BREAKEVEN, third year GAIN.

    Nothing has changed...