While that may be true, the intention of posting such things is to induce some sort of amusement.

It obviously didn't work for you.

welcome our new blobular overlords.

Actually, steel-toed boots can be a liability if something really heavy happens to fall on your foot. I don't recall the exact weight required, but the steel can either significantly warp or snap and potentially sever your toes.

On the other hand, you'd just have severely smashed feet if you were not wearing such boots.

No, I do not expect a person to be treated as a murder simply because there is a body in the back of his/her car. I would reasonably expect that an investigation take place to determine if the dead person had indeed been murdered and if so, by whom. Only with strong evidence would I expect the owner/driver of the car to be treated as a murderer.

There's a phrase, you know. I think it's something like "innocent until proven guilty." Ever hear of it?

Alright. Even if it's not a dupe, it still would've been nice to use the original submission. What exactly makes the published story better than the one I cited? The answer: absolutely nothing.

Considering that the other one was posted first, I think that that poster deserved to get credit for the story.

Apparently Slashdot disagrees.

Way to go, Slashdot. You've done it again: another duped story.

Here's the first version of the story posted on /.:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1067553/Thieves-Clear-Out-Apple-Store-In-31-Seconds

While rolling steel door covers are standard in most mall and strip mall establishments, Apple has decided to forego their use. There's little merit for the argument of aesthetics, for the covers roll up within the structure of the building when the store is open for business.

This combined with the fact that it is not too difficult to lock up the most portable of these machines in a secure area makes it appear as if Apple almost deserved to get robbed on this one. The store has already been robbed once before, and it is located in a shopping center with several other upper-scale shops.

Fortunately, it appears that Temple no longer has quite as bad a problem with that as they did before.

Having attended that god-forsaken institution for some time, I hadn't heard about anything of the sort going on, either from students or the news.

Considering that gold is one of the softer metals, I'd say that it's not too bad.

Just be glad they're not stocking titanium or steel in the machines. Those would really hurt your teeth.

Some might say it's both pornographic and a significant piece of India's history.

Isn't India disrespecting a culturally relevant artifact by Microsoft disallowing such a search?

How ironic that a school without sufficient knowledge to protect its students from identity theft lectures the world on personal privacy.

A number of student Social Security numbers were leaked not too long ago.

Here's the article

I think you mean Neil Armstrongs. Louis Armstrong was a musician, not an astronaut.

Thanks for pointing that out. I forgot to mention that in my original post.

Taking this into account, it's surprising that M$ didn't at least make an effort to resist the fine.

Their motto is usually "pry it from my cold, dead hands" in regards to these fines.

Wonder what's with the change of heart?

That same reasoning could be applied to any story.

Take "Government mismanages huge sums of taxpayer funds..." for example.

Rinse, repeat. It's the same story, but occurring at a different time. That's why this is news.