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  1. Zero Inbox on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Manage Your Inbox? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    No emails in my inbox, have folders @respond for ones I need to respond to that I can't immediately, @reference for anything I might thing might be useful later, @payment, then several other folders for filtering work stuff I need to keep or auto filter clients to for response later

    Emails that come in are dealt with immediately, responded to immediately and moved to @reference if I need to keep or deleted, read immediately if it's a mailing list or deleted if I don't have time (if I don't have time now, I probably will never have the time), @payment for purchases.

    By keeping my inbox empty, I can deal with email extremely quickly and I keep my time wastage down, I tend to deal with emails once in the morning, and then once in the evening, keeps the rest of the day free to get on with work.

  2. There is one passport not mentioned on Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The passport owned to Chuck Norris, it makes all over passports run for the shredder

  3. Re:As a vegetarian since 15 years... on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling this is going to be a wanna-be vegetarian's version of a gateway drug. :D

    Bacon is the only gateway drug

  4. Large Magellanic Cloud on One of the Milky Way's Fastest Stars Is an Invader From Another Galaxy (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not another cloud company, wonder what the latency is...

  5. Please no, I once tried my mother-in-law on wine, the results were not good!

  6. the problem is, the Great British Pound has devalued so much, it's no longer great :(

  7. Iframe/JS attack possible too on Scientists Prove Your Phone's PIN Can Be Stolen Using Its Gyroscope Data (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    This could happen on any web page you happen to have visited and left open, in some cases the browser can be minimised and screen locked

    https://link.springer.com/arti...

  8. Re:No matter the venture or idea... on Elon Musk Is Really Boring (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets get them out of the way shall we, here's a load of boring puns

    Elon is digging himself into a hole again

    He's going to have to dig deep on this one

    Hope he doesn't get tunnel vision

    He's going to a whole lot of trouble to go somewhere faster

  9. If only there was another copy of the repo on GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just imagine if git had some other magical copy of the repo somewhere, maybe even on the local machine you develop on, now that would save your data in a case like this

  10. I've seen how this ends... on Microsoft Formally Introduces Zo, Its Latest AI-Powered Chatbot (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Has it found the center of the maze yet

  11. Just hotels for bugs on Huge Ritual Arena Discovered Near Stonehenge · · Score: 2, Funny

    My daughter plays with stones all the time in the garden, building hotels for bugs apparently, all these stones are just some bored kids trying to out do each other a few thousand years ago, it started off as a hotel for bugs (probably big alien ones - I've seen starship troopers), and now the "experts of the day" decide it's a place of ritual or worship...

  12. Re:Whaaa? on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 1

    I demand my data is backed up before I've sent it to google!

  13. Start your own company on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Find Jobs That Offer Working From Home? · · Score: 1

    I did, 13 years of working at home, the odd contract in an office to break things up.

    I'm lucky to have found a few clients from the contracts who were happy to keep giving me work after I left, so you could try that route.

    One problem I do have with working at home, is the wife nagging that I didn't do any house chores - I'm always pointing out I'm too busy working to worry about such things ;)

  14. Re:Variable collections are a worst-case for RDBMS on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 1

    Or just use more than 1 query, sometimes making things simpler and following the KISS principle when selecting data works far better than a join.

  15. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some say, "he is actually the robot driving the autonomous cars... All at the same time"

  16. Arrrrggghh it's Creepy crawly thing with legs on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 0

    Nuff said.

  17. Re:Give the user an incentive... on How Do You Get Better Bug Reports From Users? · · Score: 1

    Like a cattleprod every time they don't submit a good bug report ?

    bzzzt! (in true bofh style)

  18. Re:I laughed... full version ;) on Proof Mooted For Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving, and get pulled over.

    Heisenberg is in the driver's seat, the officer asks "do you know how fast you were going?"

    Heisenberg replies, "No, but I know exactly where I am!"

    The officer looks at him confused and says "you were going 108 miles per hour!"

    Heisenberg throws his arms up and cries, "Great! Now I'm lost!"

    The officer, now more confused and frustrated orders the men outside of the car, and proceeds to inspect the vehicle. He opens the trunk and yells at the two men, "Hey! Did you guys know you have a dead cat back here?"

    Schrodinger angrily yells back, "We do now, asshole!"

  19. This says it all about wine testing on Chemists Build App That Could Identify Cheap Replacements For Luxury Wines · · Score: 1

    Turning white wine into red wine:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11044090

  20. Re:A beam in your eye on Palm App Catalog Glitch Locks Out WebOS Users · · Score: 1

    There are patches to turn email sideways and back again by rotating the phone.

  21. Re:iPhone appstore killer. on Google Revs Android, FCC Approves First Phone · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are plenty of phones out there that you can already replace everything on it, from cooked roms, to new dialers, new interfaces, you can even install android on some of them!

    For once I like my windows mobile powered phone ;)

  22. Another one for the UK on What are the Best Cell Phone Services in the US? · · Score: 1

    I can't live without the real time train timetable service that provides info on current running trains (e.g. if they are late), timetables and more.

    go to http://www.nres.mytrains.kizoom.co.uk/index/ enter your number and it'll send the bookmark to your phone.

  23. Install modsecurity on March To Be Month of PHP Bugs · · Score: 5, Informative

    I recently installed modsecurity http://www.modsecurity.org/ for apache along with the rules from http://www.gotroot.com/ and it's done a good job of blocking attacks on my server including a lot of the php mail() injection attempts, whilst it has shown up a few false positives like someone posting a message with sql keywords e.g. "select" "from", it is certainly worth installing even if you have to monitor the logs for a bit afterwards to watch for the false positives and alter the rules accordingly.

    Whilst it probably won't solve a lot of the problems with php and security it does help protect the server especially when you don't have control over what your users are uploading to their web space.

  24. Alternative way to install from upgrade disc on Install Vista Upgrade Without Preexisting XP · · Score: 5, Informative

    What you need is a copy of legitcontrolcheck.dll from any validated and activated copy of XP on a partition anywhere on your machine, then:

    1.) create \windows\system32\ on any partition you want (even extended partitions)
    2.) copy a validated 'legitcontrolcheck.dll file into the directory.
    3.) you might need ntdetect.com and ntldr in the root, (try without)

    (I've not tested this)

  25. 10 css errors on this page on Debugging CSS, AJAX and DOM with Firebug · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I've been using firebug for a while, it's great, shows up errors on pages quickly and easily. This page alone has 10 CSS errors apparently :)

    Between firebug and the html validator extension (requires html validator) http://www.htmlvalidator.com/firefoxext.php you can quickly pick up and find the errors on the page.