No, the first link, http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1810231/experts-convinced-duqu-work-of-stuxnet-authors , talks about Duqu being related to Stuxnet, but offers no indication about what Duqu is or who it's affecting. Yes, I can google it and look it up on Wikipedia. The point is that an editor should do that. A simple sentence like "Duqu, the recently-discovered malware that's related to Stuxnet, which researchers believe is being used to log Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's porn collection...", or some other 10-word summary of what it is, is what editors are supposed to provide.

Editors, your job is not simply to click "post." Read the submission and see if it makes sense. I have no idea what Duqu is or what this is about. I had to dig down 2 links deep to see that this was related to an attack in India. Context: provide it.

Why didn't she simply limit the number of coupons that could be sold? I've seen other Groupons with limits. Sounds like she fucked up.

The thing that was demoed was not a "phone," but a bendable screen & chassis. They still need to develop bendable motherboards, processors, batteries, etc.

Was this app approved by the Android app store?

If you remember the late 90s and early 2000s there was an obsession with branding everything with an X. X-games, Gen X, Xbox. Also keep in mind XP was announced shortly after Mac OS X.

The point of currency in general isn't as a store of value, but as a way to facilitate transactions. Currencies are traded as a proxy for trading "stock" in a particular country's economy. When Japan does well and the USA does poorly, the dollar gets weaker against the yen. Bitcoin doesn't represent any country, so trading it seems even stranger. But until and unless there are merchants who accept Bitcoin for purchases, it doesn't seem like the system itself has much value, since as I said, the reason for the existence of currency is as a way to facilitate trade.

Block cookies in your browser from *.facebook.com. Problem solved.

(Note that this will prevent you from using Facebook as well.)

Probably because the severance is agreed upon when they're hired, not when they're fired. After firing one, it may be hard to find someone willing to lead - maybe they assume the board is prone to firing CEOs, so they're reluctant to take the job? - and the huge severance is considered insurance against that outcome?

I'll agree that it's sickening to think that a CEO who tanks his company and fails at his job gets a severance many times more than the lifetime earnings of probably 50% of the US workforce.

And removing the / shows that it's behind a paywall.

I'd argue Microsoft hasn't been Apple's main competitor for 4+ years now.

I started college in fall, 1997 and somehow discovered Slashdot around that time. I read and posted for a while, anonymously, and then finally created an account. Linux was new and exciting then, and I didn't really know anything about it, but I knew I wanted to play with it. Slashdot has been with me through it all. My posting fell off precipitously over the years, but I remember some good times, good memes. Signal11 karma whoring (did the term karma whoring originate here?)? Natalie Portman? Hot grits down your pants? Ascii art goatse? The controversies around moderation, karma, metamoderation, etc. The various "redesign Slashdot" contests, and Slashdot finally getting all Ajaxy.

For years, in the beginning, I took a sick pride in browsing at -1 and reading everything -- some of the trolls of yesteryear still stick out in my mind vividly as some of the funniest things I've ever read. But, as time progressed and I got older and more crotchety I bumped my threshold up to 1, 2, 3, and finally 4. I still check Slashdot often, though rarely contribute anymore. I don't know what "the community" is like, but Slashdot seems to have aged just as Linux has; become more mature and stable, more accepted, less weird. Like me, I guess.

Anyway, thanks Rob. Good luck.

In a world where a $200 phone is smaller, lighter, already ubiquitous, and has games for $1 to $5, pricing a new mobile system at $250 seemed out of touch with reality. Plus, 3D seems like a gimmick, though admittedly I haven't tried a 3DS.

$170 is better than $250; however, the DSi XL currently retails for $170, so presumably that system will get a price cut as well, which may simply drive more customers to the cheaper system.

I thought it was supposed to be a joke, but 365-18 = 347, so I guess not. If the story was titled "Office 347," well, that'd be pretty witty.

I have a trivial code on my iPhone, just there to provide a speedbump. If my phone were to be lost I'd change my personal & work email passwords. So what? Is anyone supposed to assume that the iPhone passcode provides any real security? If the phone auto-locks after 3 minutes, who wants to put in a 20-character passphrase? BTW, the iPhone passcode is not limited to 4 digits, you can use the entire alphanumeric keyboard, up to at least 10 chars.