I agree with the ModernGeek. I'd love to have the polls back in the sidebar exclusively.

On some of your stories, the link in the title will wrap to two lines if there's a dash in the url. This results in an ugly, inconsistent look on the front page.
To see an example of the problem, go here: http://slashdot.org/?fhfilter=... One of the first results should be "Ruby 2.3.0 Released", and the green title bar is twice as tall as normal. Another example is here: http://slashdot.org/?fhfilter=...
I think I have a fix for you. In your app.css file, at line 720, simply apply the following to your "a.story-sourcelnk" class: "white-space: nowrap;"
Please make this easy fix and improve your site. It's only an extra 21 bytes (19 if you minify your css).

Maybe not a bad idea. How much is Slashdot media worth?

Thanks for replying. It's reassuring to hear that there are actual humans making decisions with rational thought behind them, even if I don't agree with the decisions.

You need new management. Who can we email on your behalf to explain what a foolish idea it is? Also, why won't the second video show without flash, but the first one is fine without it?

Here's a link to the actual blog post from Lenovo. At the end the author says, "If you think Lenovo should make the retro inspired ThinkPad, or have suggestions on how to make it better, please post your comments here. We're listening."

How do you stay up to date with tech news? Do you read Slashdot on a regular basis, or where else do you get your news from?

Essentially this.

I had a prof who would do all his lectures & demos from the command line.
Need to write a short C program to demonstrate forking? Boom! Into vim and coding up a basic example in a minute or two.
Typo in his LaTeX slides? Boom! Switch over to fix it, then recompile the slides, and on with the lecture.
Student asks a question about a command line argument? Boom! Man pages up on the big screen.

It was a little intimidating to see this CLI master hopping around typing crazy little combinations of letters and making magic appear on the screen, but at the same time it was inspiring. It was an example of what we could aspire towards.

I made a photo booth which was installed inside of an old phone booth in a local cafe for a new-media art festival this past summer. I used a Raspberry Pi, a usb webcam, a big red button connected via GPIO, a coin slot connected via GPIO, and an ethernet cable running to the router in the back room. People would insert their dime or two nickles and the button would light up. Pressing the button would take a photo. The Pi then uploaded the photos to a website which looped through all of the photos taken during the festival. People could visit the website on their own devices, but there were also a few screens set up around the town in shop windows displaying the photos. The program to do all this was a simple python script with a loop.

You can still see the photos taken here: http://donttakemypicture.org/
The site uses javascript to keep checking for new photos and to change the photo displayed for you every few seconds.

I just finished reading Gwern's guide to the Silk Road the other evening. If you weren't familiar with the goods for sale, or how it worked, this is a great article: http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road

Another vote for TekSavvy. I live in NB now, so they're not available, but if you're in Ontario, they're wonderful.

Actually, when it comes to Firefox, it's pretty easy to find 2.0, or even 0.8 if you really want. Mozilla has a page of every version of Firefox ever released: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

The Slashdot tagline used to be: "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters". I no longer see this on the front page, and it's not even in the page title. A conversation about what Slashdot is, what it used to be, and what it's becoming, notwithstanding, I would expect the 'Nerd' option to be the highest, as the site is (or at the very least, used to be) 'news for nerds'.