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The Almighty Buck Stories

Monsanto Executive Wins World Food Prize 122
Microsoft Launches $100k Bug Bounty Program 50
Five predictions for (Bit)coin 136
HFT Nothing To Worry About (at Least In Australia) 146
BitCoin Mining, Other Virtual Activity Taxable Under US Law 238
Have We Hit Peak HFT? 464
Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton 584
Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) 297
Apogee Suing Gearbox Over Unpaid Royalties For Duke Nukem Forever 88
The $200,000 Software Developer 463
Genomics Impact On US Economy Approaches $1 Trillion 113
Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison 304
Demo Europe Hits Russia — and Start-ups Have To Beg 26
Google To Buy Waze For $1.3 Billion 151
What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data 238
Apple Files Patent For Digital Wallet and Virtual Currency 84
Banker Offers $1M To Solve Beal Conjecture 216
Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft 400
Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users 117
Fake Mt. Gox Pages Aim To Infect Bitcoin Users 74
UK Government Spending £6,000 Per Computer Every Year To Maintain Desktops 193
NASA Teams With LEGO To Offer Model Competition 34
Amazon Delivering Groceries? It's Coming, Thanks To Sales-Tax Politics 214
Ask Slashdot: With Grants Drying Up, How Is a Tech Non-Profit To Survive? 178
Will Users Get a Slice of the "Big Data" Pie? 123
Will Your Video Game Collection Appreciate Over Time? 127
Too Many Smart People Chasing Too Many Dumb Ideas? 376
Funding Open Source By Donations: Lighting the Path 56
Memory Gaffe Leaves Aussie Bank Accounts Open To Theft 69
The Case For a Government Bug Bounty Program 53
Google Maps Used To Find Tax Cheats 174
Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign 163
California Bill Would Mandate Open Access To Publicly Funded Research 105
Planetary Resources To Build Crowdfunded Public Space Telescope 60
Nasdaq Fined $10M Over Facebook IPO Failures 91
$30,000 For a Developer Referral? 189
Internet Payment Processor Liberty Reserve Accused of Laundering $6 Billion 205
BSA Study Demonstrates Open Source's Economic Advantage 87
PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug 318
LibertyReserve.com Shuttered, Founder Arrested In Spain 138
Apple-1 Sells For $671,400, Breaks Previous Auction Record 79
Google Unable To Keep Paying App Developers In Argentina 169
Xbox One Used Game Policy Leaks: Publishers Get a Cut of Sale 379
AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans 338
Drupalcon Attendees Come Together To Build Help4ok.org In 24 Hours 36
Twitter's New Money-Making Plan: Lead Generation 82
Bitcoin's Success With Investors Alienates Earliest Adopters 158
Kim Dotcom Wants Money From Google, Twitter For 2-Factor Authentication 122
Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early 446
Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds 716
EFF Resumes Accepting Bitcoin Donations After Two Year Hiatus 93
NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy 120
Yahoo Pinkie-Swears It Won't Ruin Tumblr 162
Yahoo Board Approves a $1.1B Pricetag For Tumblr 142
Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year 237
Amazon, Google and Apple Won't Need To Pay Tax, Despite Goverment Threats 327
After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs 120
UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors 193
Nintendo Hijacks Ad Revenue From Fan-Created YouTube Playthroughs 297
Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person 311
Swedish Data Center Saves $1M a Year Using Seawater For Cooling 78
Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar 507
Justice Department Calls Apple the "Ringmaster" In e-book Price Fixing Case 192
DHS Shuts Down Dwolla Payments To and From Mt. Gox 302
Rival Dell Buyout Plans Duke It Out 59
How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich 668
Data Leak Spurs Huge Offshore Tax Evasion Investigation 190
Elon Musk Quits Mark Zuckerberg's Lobbying Club 71
The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered 329
Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? 210
ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken 196
Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android 309
Btcd - a Bitcoind Alternative Written In Go! 150
Integer Overflow Bug Leads To Diablo III Gold Duping 160
Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software? 614
US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 678
Armstrong EKG Readings During Moon Landing Up For Auction 52
YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week 189
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? 202
Is Buying an Extended Warranty Ever a Good Idea? 329
Ask Slashdot: Would You Accept 'Bitcoin-Ware' Apps? 232
Google Ordered Back To UK Parliament To "Explain Itself" Following Investigation 176
Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges 312
Study: Limiting Bidding On Spectrum Could Cost Billions 140
One Bitcoin By the Numbers: Is There Still Profit To Be Made? 239
In Canada, a Government-Backed Electronic Currency 248
Pinball: a Resurgence In Retro Gaming From an Unlikely Place 107
Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions 297
Former Microsoft Managers Now In Charge of Washington State's Budget 126
Was Google's Motorola Mobility Acquisition a Mistake? 189
Chinese Court Fines Apple For Copyright Violations 102
WikiLeaks Donations By Visa Ruled OK In Iceland 55
Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Pays Money To Speed Construction 431
Two Changes To Quirky Could Change The World 103
FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It 720
Apple To Launch Largest Stock Repurchasing Plan In History 282
Tweet From Hacked AP Account Causes High Freq. Traders To Drop DOW 150 Points 314
Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade 953
Australian Mobile Phone Provider Sent 1000s of Fake Debt Collection Letters 82
Is Anonymous Going Mainstream Following Website Funding? 101
Microsoft CFO Quits 295
Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time) 326
Blackstone Drops Dell Bid, Cites Declining PC Market 137
Bitfloor Indefinitely Suspends Bitcoin Trading 291
Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money 692
Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study 476
Trader Pleads Guilty To Illegal Purchase of Nearly $1B In Apple Stock 174
OpenShot Close To Funding Final Stretch Goal: Video Editing Server 32
U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks 185
Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? 595
Some States Dropping GED Tests Due To Price Spikes 224
UK Gov To Investigate 'Aggressive' In-app Purchases 152
Crick's Nobel Medal Fetches $2.3 Million At Auction 53
Top Coders Tell Agents, "Show Me the Money!" 288
Crowdfunding Open Source Software Enhancements and Bug Fixes 46
BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS 605
"Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? 426
Sequester Grounds Blue Angels 341
No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? 631
Is $100 Million Per Year Too Little For The Brain Map Initiative? 190
Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion Dollar Business 54
Rackspace Goes On Rampage Against Patent Trolls 132
Mozilla Introduces Experimental Open Payment System For Firefox OS 68
Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth 893
Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline 388
Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares 587
Let Them Eat Teslas 461
Cyber-Terrorists Attacking U.S. Banks Are Well-Funded 83
Microsoft Makes Millions Renting Campus Space to Vendors 95
NASA Asteroid Capture Mission To Be Proposed In 2014 Budget 106
Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value 583
The Man Who Sold Shares of Himself 215
Lawsuit Could Expose Whether Top VC Firms Are Actually Good Investments 90
Geeks On a Plane Proposed To Solve Global Tech Skills Crisis 303
Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate 1121
Has Kickstarter Peaked? 156
Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? 266
PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones 128
Massachusetts May Try To Tax the Cloud 172
Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins 106
Two Outside Bids For Dell Threaten Founder's Buyout Plan 79
IRS Spent $60,000 Producing Star Trek Parody 280
US Senate Passes National Internet Sales Tax Mandate 297
Video Editor OpenShot Wants To Kickstart Windows, OS X Versions 55
MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees 260
Bitcoin To Be Regulated Under US Money Laundering Laws 439
Adobe To Australians: Fly To US For Cheaper Software 255
Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate 434
Microsoft, Partners Probed Over Bribery Claims 137
How a Programmer Gets By On $16K/Yr: He Moves to Malaysia 523
How To Bet Money On Your Future Success 188
CCTV Hack Takes Casino For $33 Million 308
Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds 409
UK Serious Fraud Office Probes Autonomy With ... Autonomy! 34
NASA IG Paints Bleak Picture For Agency Projects 73
H&R Block Software Glitch To Delay 600,000 U.S. Tax Refunds 104
Testing an Ad-Free Microtransaction Utopia 248
Canadian File Sharing Plaintiff Admits To Copyright Trolling 87
North Korea Kills Phone Line, 1953 Armistice; Kim Jong Un's Funds Found In China 330
The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk On Innovation 208
Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam 984
Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads 978
How the First Bitcoin Hedge Fund Approaches Security 124
DNS Hijack Leads To Bitcoin Heist 126
Tesla Motors To Pay Off Government Loan 5 Years Early 243
City Councilman: Email Tax Could Discourage Spam, Fund Post Office Functions 439
Rock Band Live's Second Act: Networks and Data Centers 52
Swiss Referendum Backs Executive Pay Curbs 284
83-Year-Old Inventor Wins $40,000 3D Printing Competition 146
State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 976
With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall 201
Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M 56
Cliff Bleszinski: Vote With Your Dollars 369
The Real Reason Journal Articles Should Be Free 193
How the U.S. Sequester Will Hurt Science and Tech 522
Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet 573
EA Building Microtransactions Into All of Its Future Games 303
How Paid Apps On Firefox OS Will Work 74
New Jersey Legalizes Online Gambling 62
Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? 238
For Sale: One Nobel Prize Medal (Slightly Used, By Francis Crick) 179
World's First Bitcoin ATM 437
Buying Your Way Onto the NY Times Bestsellers List 110
There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon 484
The Internet Archive To Pay Salaries Partly In Bitcoin, Requests Donations 181
Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? 770
Tech Leaders Create Most Lucrative Science Prize In History 147
Internet Poker Could Make a Comeback By Going Brick-and-Mortar 93
ATLAS Meteor Tracking System Gets $5M NASA Funding 104
Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts 126
Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network 848
Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012 307
Webmail and Online Banks Targeted By Phishing Proxies 50
President Obama Calls For New 'Space Race' Funding 291
Congress Takes Up Online Sales Tax 297
RIM Co-Founder Drops His Stock 114
Ask Slashdot: Making Side-Money As a Programmer? 257
OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office 361
£6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows 142
Home Server Or VPS? One Family's Math 380
Everything You Know About Password-Stealing Is Wrong 195
Adobe Bows To Pressure and Cuts Australian Prices 159
Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes 371
Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production 419
Eric Schmidt To Sell Up To 42% of Stake In Google 183
Email Trails Show Bankers Behaving Badly 251
How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation 129
Dell Going Private In $24.4 Billion Agreement 217
Researchers Demo Hack Against African Micro-Finance Accounts 52
Australian Economists Predictions No Better Than Flipping a Coin 290
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Patent Trolls Seeking Wi-fi License Fees? 347
60M Euro Smooths Relations Between Google and French Publishers 61
Online Narcotics Store 'Silk Road' Is Showing Cracks 330
$616.57 Three Strikes Verdict Cost RIANZ $250,000 131
How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry 410
The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time 470
Office 2013: Microsoft Cloud Era Begins In Earnest 241
Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA 732
California's Surreal Retroactive Tax On Tech Startup Investors 514
Tech Firms Keep Piles of 'Foreign Cash' In US 427
Microsoft May Invest $1B-$3B In Dell Buyout 151
MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings 268
PayPal Preparing To Address Frozen Funds Policy 175
Atari Files For Bankruptcy 127
Amazon Sidesteps App Store Business Model, Plays Back MP3s From Safari 114
Google Invests $1 Billion To Build New London HQ 132
Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing 457
Google Fiber Draws Startups To Kansas City 123
Foxconn Accused of Taking Bribes 51
Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games 350
HP Software Update Cancels Food Stamps 240
UC's For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students 177
AIG Contemplates Joining Stockholder Suit Against US Gov't 354
FBI Publishes Top Email Terms Used By Corporate Fraudsters 105
Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin 1059
Legislators: 'Spaceport America Could Become a Ghost Town' 143
Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013 362
Reason On How and Why 38 Studios Went Bust 227
That Link You Just Posted Could Cost You 300 Euros 227
A Subscription-Based Movie Theater 308
Russian Space Industry To Receive $69 Billion Through 2020 64
YouTube Drops 2 Billion Fake Music Industry Views 167
Autonomy Chief Says Whitman Is Watering Down HP Fraud Claims 117
Investing In Lego Bricks For Fun But Mostly Profit 98
Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Could Mean Missing the Next Hurricane Sandy 296
Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time? 433
Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money 113
Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits 592
Empty Times Square Building Generates $23 Million a Year From Digital Ads 227
Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents 167

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