I actually throw mine in a bathtub.
How did this make it to the front page, especially with SSD prices being what they are?

Story was meant to refer to the submitter's description, not the source article.
I can see how you could have taken it to mean the article.

Welcome to Slashdot. I'm old here.

Registering for Facebook with a fake name hardly qualifies as hacking.
Surprisingly, the headline is more accurate than the story.

Why are conditions that promote life rarer than ones that prevent it?

When is he going to develop an algorithm to determine the most efficient way to pack cylinders into rectangular (cuboid) shipping containers?

I don't know how many manufacturers will customize their product for a single customer, especially when that customization amounts to a case that's embedded in a prosthetic limb.

The discoverability of these features is almost as important as their existence.
In place privacy controls let people make informed choices about what gets shared instead of having to correlate unclear descriptions from privacy settings page with the GUI and layout they're familiar with.
Previously, I bet Facebook was betting that the difficulty of implementing privacy settings as user intended would be enough to have them choose the defaults thinking that increased access to their content by friends, and the net total increase in accessibility to people's information, would keep users engaged.
They'd think that those users who would choose not use the network as a result or to lock their pages down into being mere mugshots wouldn't be useful to growing out Facebook, anyway.

I'm imagining the meeting of Twitter and the UK Government will look a lot like the animated scenes from Mary Poppins.

Slashdot, verb: to send a much higher amount of internet traffic to a website due to a link to it being included in a post on Slashdot, sometimes resulting in said site becoming inaccessible due to the increased load.
also slashdotted

I'm sure the decision to acquire Motorola was made algorithmically.

Those with no Facebook profile have the highest self esteem.

But here's a tweet of mine on the subject from a few months ago:
"I think Apple should FedEx Jason Chen the yet to be released iPhone 5 just to screw with him."

https://twitter.com/#!/JustinFreid/status/78269879458865152

DVDs don't need to be murdered, their lifecycle is coming to a close, anyway.
They're natural environment, the DVD player, has been shrinking for years.

Considering that holding the government accountable for official pronouncements it makes may actually be a more important legal value than strictly following the letter of the law, I believe the initial winners should be offered visas. Further, considering that the 50,000 person quota is arbitrary and that there's no distinct harm in allowing more people from this list to immigrate, the government should be compelled to both honor its initial announcement and then to run the lottery again following the court's interpretation of "in a strictly random order".

I think she should be put under house arrest, under round-the-clock watch of armed guards, at her own expense in New York until she changes her tune.