$30 million dollars is why this is news. I've got two friends publishing Apps for their livelihoods, and combined they make half what I do as a typical developer.

There may be a lot of comments saying "this app is crap," but still no one has explained how he got $30million for it. You've theorized connections, others have theorized: anything that uses yahoo's typical interests.

Someone got rich and famous over a simple app, while all the app developers I know are scrounging by while producing much fancier apps. That is news.

Look no farther than the current site, that has long been known as slashvertisement.com.

Instead of publishing honest game reviews, let the gaming companies slip you bribes for better ratings and your attention!

Just don't let your readers find out; they are of the firm belief that all services provided to them should be from the charity of strangers' souls and free of cost.

Ok, I'm not a complete nutjob here, and I understand two parts of why they bother, first the agency is there to protect our own planet from samples coming back: if the moon or Mars supported life for a few billion years it might become horribly invasive when brought back into the paradise that is our planet, so there is that. Second, they don't want a bacteria covered microscope looking for Martian bacteria because that would kinda nullify the results.

But anyway, I care. I personally feel that we have a responsibility to do whatever we can to take life off this planet ASAP. What if earth is rendered uninhabitable by some unforeseeable cosmic event? As far as we know life is unique to this planet and it would be kinda a bummer to see it all get wiped out when there was a chance to let it restart somewhere else. I'm morally opposed to protecting other planets from ourselves.

The whole article they talk about taking care of the solar system for future research, but fuck future research; if we successfully dropped life onto another planet, that would be way more interesting than our typical: "this rock has more iron than that rock," and I really see no need to save those rocks for our great grandchildren at the expense of creating alien life.

Well, it all depends on how you read it. Accidents certainly happen ALL the time to gun nuts; here's a citation:
https://www.google.com/search?q=gun+accident

You don't even need a conspiracy to explain why. Now this guy isn't even using certified equipment; I certainly wouldn't be surprised if this guy met with an unfortunate accident.

No, it's not a celebration, it's more of a national sick day: 90% of the work force was up all night drinking way too much and if they come in, we'll spend the next week repairing the damage they did while trying to preserve their sick days.

I don't know if this is how it started, but I'm pretty sure that's why it is still there. I don't think Chinese new year needs to be a federal holiday, but if your company employs a good portion of Chinese New Year celebrators and they celebrate their new year with as much alcohol as I do, then I would recommend implementing the day after as a holiday.

Mandating these Holidays at a federal level; though, I agree that is pretty silly.

Slashdot stories seem to be rated on the number of comments they generate; a simple factual report will disappear if you don't generate 100 or so comments about grammatical errors.

Seems like a pretty sweet application of EMS though.

All of the housewives (and a couple husbands) I know have some sort of business started in selling crafts, writing, landscaping or other semi-talented labor, and most of them don't make what they could be making if they were employed/contracting, some lose more money than they make.

I know several friends who started businesses with investment and several unfortunate enough to use their own.

Basically, what I'm trying to say, is that I know there are success stories of a few people that are always held up in front of us as encouragement, but I have not yet met anyone who "got rich" from starting their own business, and I've seen many try.

I figured that was a good reason until I got to this part:

...wait, what's wrong with the original tube they've been cramming cheeseburgers down before hand? Going number four is OK for these people as they try to lose weight, but drinking water is still too hard a road towards health?

Been there, done that: Legos are cheaper, and they haven't thrown my girlfriend out the window because I spent too much time with her rather than them.

I could go on forever with this: they don't invite their mother over to take their side in disagreements; they don't not want to play for one week out of the month...

There is an easy explanation for that: Sorry, but I'm going to have to bash programming a bit here, but programming in general just sucks this year.

This is why I'm here; this is seriously geek news for us privacy/forensic perverts: this will be a rare opportunity given that our nations top resources will be put on recovering this data and the media is going to demand to know every shred that was recovered, we'll actually see this method tested thoroughly.

I also find it interesting that this guy is supposedly a computer guru, and yet few assume he DBANed (or whatever kids do these days) his drives before physically destroying them, just for good measure. Of course he was also clearly crazy, so there is probably no reason or plan behind his data destruction.

At the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily, of course! There, you can not only get a double-patty burger for $1 as advertised frequently on television, radio and the internet.

No, the statement started as, "The scenario is that"
Then after that was proven false, it became, "The more likely scenario is that"
Then it became, "I think the more likely scenario is that"
Then: "Maybe, but I think the more likely scenario is that"
Finally: "Maybe, but I _still_ think the more likely scenario is that"

Tomorrow: "Probably, but I still cling to the thought that today is the day that the scenario has finally become..."

My car got broken into over the weekend, everything removable down to my broken $10 sunglasses got stolen, but the thieves just piled my books on passenger seat. Glad I didn't bring my kindle that day.

"the robot is simply performing a preset action"
So the story would more likely be: Out of control avatar retrieves soft-drinks for 17 not-thirsty people.

The avatar idea here is pretty cool, but not even the author seems to understand why they don't just cut to eye-tracking, instead of the whole: reading the patients mind to determine what they are looking at. It looks to me to be an easy way to over complicate an already difficult project.

I wonder how disabled you have to be to get one. I mean, what if I just really don't want to walk all the way over to the fridge, could I get one prescribed?