The Almighty Buck Stories for 2012

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
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
Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change 156
Internet Archive Needs Donations, Has Matching Donor 58
Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam 221
Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold 248
Foxconn Invests $200 Million In GoPro 83
Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 325
Most Kickstarter Projects Fail To Deliver On Time 179
How Much Are You Worth To an Online Lead-Gen Site? 83
ISP Data Caps Just a 'Cash Cow' 353
Swedish Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade 234
EFF Spinoff Pools Donor Dollars To Prevent WikiLeaks-Style Payment Blockades 95
Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys 180
Ask Slashdot: How To Collect Payments From a Multinational Company? 341
Analysis of Dexter Malware Uncovers Mystery Man, and Links To Zeus 119
Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant 510
Japanese Police Offers First-Ever Reward For Wanted Hacker 63
Slashdot Story Helps Raise $43,200 For the FreeBSD Foundation In Three Days 84
Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks 306
Kickstarter Technology Projects Ship 100
Is Technology Eroding Employment? 544
Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS 724
Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap 368
High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech 395
Own Every SNES Game Ever Made For $24,999 199
Chinese Firm Wins Bid For US-Backed Battery Maker 183
Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt 132
FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% 245
Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion 327
Bitcoins Join Global Bank Network 84
Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers 163
Advertising May Soon Follow You From One Device To the Next 132
Republican Staffer Khanna Axed Over Copyright Memo 506
A Twisted Clean-Tech Tale: How A123 Wound Up In Bankruptcy 164
How the Eurograbber Attack Stole 36M Euros 57
Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business 320
If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? 660
Providers of Free MOOCs Now Charge Employers For Access To Student Data 40
HP Sues Over LCD Price Fixing 56
Nokia Selling Its Headquarters To Raise Funds 186
Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit 85
Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees 571
Even Capped Prediction Markets Can Be Manipulated 130
Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation? 386
Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? 943
Inside an Amazon Warehouse 206
German Copyright Bill Would Let Publishers Charge Search Engines For Excerpts 114
In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US 491
Swedish Stock Exchange Hit By Programming Snafu 136
Ask Slashdot: Will You Shop Local Like President Obama, Or Online? 430
Prediction Market Site InTrade Bans US Customers 260
Cyber Monday and Amazon's Online Dominance 174
US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom 609
Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve 600
Australian Govt Pledges Action On Google Tax Evasion 331
Fox News Parent NewsCorp May Face Corruption Investigation 145
Could Testing Block Psychopaths From Senior Management? 422
Pirate Party MEP Helps Draft New Credit Card Company Controls 129
Unresolved Issues Swirl Around Securing Mobile Payments 44
Legalizing Online Futures Betting 80
Coffee and Intellectual Property 198
Ask Slashdot: Data Storage Highway Robbery? 168
Star Citizen Takes the Crowdfunding Crown, Raising More Than $4M 123
Judge Accepts $22.5M Google Fine In Privacy Case 25
USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help 473
Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market 601
US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent 362
UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events 196
Amid Fiscal Uncertainty, Venture Capital Is Way Down In Silicon Valley 421
Foxconn Denies Plans For New US Operations 96
A Year After Thailand Flooding, Hard Drive Prices Remain High 214
New Credit Card Includes Display and Keypad 118
Australian Telcos Declare SMS Unsafe For Bank Transactions 42
Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars 336
Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System 368
Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? 358
Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event 134
iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD 260
Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? 761
Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead 156
Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse 284
Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling" 330
Apple Pays Only 2% Corporate Tax Outside US 432
Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet 190
European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin 301
Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest 555
$1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent 339
ITER Fusion Project Struggles To Put the Pieces Together 138
Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt and Toxic? 469
Cash-Strapped States Burdened By Expensive Data Security Breaches 58
Cisco Pricing Undercut By $100M In Big Cal State University Network Project 220
Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case 242
Amazon Overcharging Publishers For Tax 184
Visa and MasterCard Take Fight To Scammers 140
China's Yearly Budget For High-Speed Rail: $100 Billion 230
Below-Expected Earnings For Google Posted Early, Trading Halted 275
Vast Bulk of BitCoins Are Hoarded, Not Used 438
Google's Engineers Are Well Paid, Not Just Well Fed 342
Man Finds Roman Gold Coin Hoard Worth £100,000 With Metal Detector 249
Iran Running Out of Physical Currency, Satellite Broadcasts Dropped in Europe 480
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Paid For Open-Sourcing Your Work? 167
The FSF Adopts the Kickstarter Approach To Fund-raising 35
Japan's Softbank Buying Sprint, Creating Third-Largest Global Carrier 59
How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets 467
Amazon Kindle eBook Users To Get Refunds After Settlement 90
Tesla Motors Getting $10 Million From California For Model X Production 191
Seattle Police Want More Drones, Even While Two Sit Unused 144
WikiLeaks Losing Support From Anonymous 140
New Zealand Turning Hobbits Into Actual Cash 89
WikiLeaks Tests Donation Pop-Ups For Leaked Material 67
Ubuntu Asks Users To Pay What They Want 280
HTC Profits Drop By 79% 209
Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week 617
Facebook Tests 'Want' Button To Hoard User Data, Save Its Stock Price 98
Pandora Shares Artist Payment Figures 152
Post Mortem of GunnAllen IT Meltdown 192
Google and Apple Spent More On Patents Than R&D Last Year 119
Oatmeal Fundraiser a Success; Non-Profit Buys Land For Tesla Museum 67
Ad Group Says Internet Accounts For 5.1M US Jobs, 3.7% of GDP 73
Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco 125
Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit 402
Wanted: Hackers For Large-Scale Attacks On American Banks 77
Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte 187
Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings 558
Singer Reportedly Outbids NASA for Space Tourist's Seat 242
French Science and Higher Education Programs Avoid Austerity 139
How Noah Kagan Got Fired From Facebook and Lost $100 Million 236
BitCoin Gets a Futures Market 467
Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers? 468
Does Crowdfunding Work? 70
Air Force Foresaw Fatal F-22 Problems; Rejected $100,000 Fix As Too Expensive 232
Sexism In Science 467
Astronomy Portfolio Review Recommends Defunding US's Biggest Telescope 192
Microsoft Calls For $5B Investment In U.S. Education 257
Bitcoin Exchange BitFloor Says It Will Replace Stolen Coins 117
Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World 633
Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung 316
Google Could Face Heavy Antitrust Fines In the EU 292
When Kickstarter Projects Go Missing 86
How Internet Data Centers Waste Power 170
Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic 294
Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines 157
Man Pays For Cross-Country Trip Using Bacon As Currency 176
TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners 335
Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? 263
MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions 349
Paypal Users In Argentina Can No Longer Make Domestic Transactions 272
Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia 243
Ask Slashdot: Best Protection Plan For Your Phone? 225
How the Critics of the Apollo Program Were Proven Wrong 421
NASA To Face $1.3 Billion Cut Next Year Under Sequestration 242
BitInstant CEO Says World Operates "On an Inferior Monetary System" 185
Chicago Teachers Rip 'Big Money Interest Groups' 404
Elon Musk, an Industrialist For the 21st Century 89
Ask Slashdot: When Is It a Good Idea To Incorporate? 293
QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks 289
Chip and Pin "Weakness" Exposed By Cambridge Researchers 133
More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading 500
Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots 926
Look-Alike Web Sites Hoodwink Republican Donors 294
Recurly's Backup Mess Takes Days to Clean Up 21
Mark Cuban Blames Himself For Losing Money On Facebook IPO 186
Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook 149
Judge Approves Settlement In eBook Price-Fixing Case 242
Norton '12 Cybercrime Numbers Lower Than Last Year's — But Just As Bad 46
Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing 294
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On Stand-Up Desks? 347
Cash-Poor Sharp Mortgages Display Factories 111
Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim 836
Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? 250
Impending CA Sales Tax Sparks Amazon Buying Frenzy 259
Oracle To Pay Google $1 Million For Lawyer Fees In Failed Patent Case 97
BitFloor Joins List of Compromised BitCoin Exchanges 232
With 'Access Codes,' Textbook Pricing More Complicated Than Ever 400
US Particle Colliders In Need of Funding 133
What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance 168
Large Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Collapses With a Loss of $5.6 Million 327
Can Data Mining Win a Presidential Campaign? 124
Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? 601
Inside the Business of Online Reviews For Hire 121
The Oatmeal's Fundraiser Tops $1M Toward Tesla Museum 63
StethoCloud Project Diagnoses Pneumonia On the Cheap 55
Gartner Says Application Development Is a $9 Billion Industry 65
Paying Through Facebook May Become a Reality 122
BitInstant Continues Bitcoin Paycard Plan 152
Only English Final Fantasy 2 NES Cartridge On Sale for $50K 109
Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? 468
$900,000 Raised For Buying Tesla's Lab 123
AT&T Defends Controversial FaceTime Policy Following Widespread Backlash 220
Mastercard Denies Plans For BitCoin Credit Card 167
BitCoin Card To Launch In 2 Months, Says BitInstant 216
Apple Is Now the Most Valuable Company In History 398
Why Amazon Is Google's Real Competition 129
US Astronomy Facing Severe Budget Cuts and Facility Closures 157
eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items 295
Insurer Measures Driver Safety With Smartphone App To Calculate Premiums 345
Australian Watchdog Frets Over BitCoin, MMOs' Money Laundering Potential 134
Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? 288
Voting Begins For Canadian Digital Currency App 84
The Oatmeal Begins a Fundraiser for a Nikola Tesla Museum 134
Knight Trading Losses Attributed To Old, Dormant Software 223
Inside the Real Economy Behind Fake Twitter Followers 75
Hacked BitCoin Exchange Sued By Customers 361
What Happens To Google Employees When They Die? 170
Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software 267
Forbes Likens Instagram Purchase To Myspace Deal 105
Starbucks Partners With Square 145
SCO Group Files For Chapter 7 190
This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like 443
Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales 498
Vietnamese Bank Issues Fingerprint-Enabled Debit Cards 36
The Underground Economy of Social Networks 84
The Extremes of Internet Gaming In South Korea 152
Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? 275
Identity Theft May Cost IRS $21 Billion Over Next 5 Years 112
Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million 377
The Cost To 'Promote' a Facebook Post: $200 To $500 117
Swiss Bank Threatens to Sue NASDAQ Over Facebook IPO 147
Scientists Stage Funerals To Protest Against Cuts — a New Trend? 263
US Navy Admiral Questions Expensive Stealth Platforms 490
Star Wars: The Old Republic Adding Free-To-Play Option In November 135
Space Scientists Looking To Crowd-Fund Planetary Exploration 90
Internet Billionaire Creates Huge Physics Prize 192
IFPI Won't Share Pirate Bay Damages With Musicians 177
Did Apple Buy Fingerprint Security Firm For Mobile Wallet? 35
6 IT Projects, $8 Billion Over Budget At Dept. of Defense 113
Apple Reportedly Considering Huge Investment In Twitter 90
Is TV Over the 'Net Really Cheaper Than Cable? 285
Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake 418
Researcher Wows Black Hat With NFC-based Smartphone Hacking Demo 95
Latest Netflix Earnings Report Mixed 303
Senate Bill Raises Possibility of Withdrawl From ITER As Science Cuts Loom 180
Amazon Offers To Help Train Workers For Other Jobs 148
App Developer: Android Designed For Piracy 596
The Decline of Google's (and Everybody's) Ad Business 313
"G-Prize" To Recognize Innovation In Synthetic Biology 16
Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s 696
Lenovo CEO Gives His $3M Bonus To 10k Workers 267
Viacom and DirecTV Reach New Agreement 139
Microsoft Taking Heat For Five-Figure Xbox 360 'Patch Fee' 323
Microsoft Posts First Quarterly Loss Ever 327
Patents On Genes: Round Two 85
AT&T Introducing Verizon-Style Shared Data Plans 307
Why Junk Electronics Should Be Big Business 155

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