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Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked   |  Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax     Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone?  Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked  Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired  Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax  Nokia To Cut 10,000 Jobs and Close 3 Facilities  Ask Slashdot: Best Choice of Linux Laptops For Elementary School?  Online Activities To Be Recorded By UK ISPs  Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight  64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil  Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives  Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers  Listen to the RIAA's Appeal In Jammie Thomas Case   Study Shows Teen Gamers Like Tech, But Don't All Crave IT Jobs  Bank Robbing a Terrible Business, Statistically  Skype 4.0 For Linux Now Available     Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone?  From the gave-baby-to-dingo department First time accepted submitter occasional_dabbler writes "Reviews by 'commentators' such as this one predict certain doom for both Nokia and Microsoft on the basis of the OS being a failure, yet whenever the Lumia handsets are reviewed in the...   Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked  From the shades-of-kde-5-years-ago department An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from PC Tech Talk, which features screenshots of what is said to be something very close to what users will see in Windows 8: "One of the biggest changes Microsoft announced for Windows 8 was the...   Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired  From the take-this-data-and-shove-it department Gunkerty Jeb writes "In a recent survey of IT managers and executives, nearly half of respondents admitted that if they were fired tomorrow they would walk out with proprietary data such as privileged password lists, company databases, R&D...   Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax  From the cost-of-an-upgrade department First time accepted submitter Techy77 writes "Online retailer Kogan will impose a new tax on its customers that visit its website using Microsoft's outdated Internet Explorer 7 web browser, which means they will spend 6.8 percent more than...   Nokia To Cut 10,000 Jobs and Close 3 Facilities  From the role-of-management-is-to-suck department parallel_prankster writes "NY Times reports that Nokia said on Thursday it would slash 10,000 jobs, or 19 percent of its work force, by the end of 2013 as part of an emergency overhaul that includes closing research centers and a factory in...   Ask Slashdot: Best Choice of Linux Laptops For Elementary School?  From the while-they're-young department An anonymous reader writes "I work in the tech department of an elementary school and I am trying to show the tech director the world of Linux. I will be installing edubuntu but I am not sure which laptop to get. I know there are companies like...   Online Activities To Be Recorded By UK ISPs  From the like-y'-do department SmartAboutThings writes "The United Kingdom online monitoring law just got published, showcasing some disturbing facts. The paper is 123 pages long and is actually a draft of the Communications Data Bill. You might not be so happy to find out that...   Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight  From the at-least-the-travel's-free department Richard_at_work writes "After losing his appeal to the UK Supreme Court a couple of weeks ago, Assange's lawyer was given leave to seek a reopening of the case on particular grounds — the UK Supreme Court has now rejected those grounds and...   64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil  From the protect-and-serve department MikeatWired writes "We like to think of the drone war as something far away, fought in the deserts of Yemen or the mountains of Afghanistan. But we now know it's closer than we thought, writes Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai at Danger Room. There...   Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives  From the but-they-make-terrible-babysitters department sciencehabit writes "Chimpanzees now have to share the distinction of being our closest living relative in the animal kingdom. An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the bonobo for the first time, confirming that it...   Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers  From the we-call-this-area-d-block department itwbennett writes "Rockstar Games announced yesterday in a newswire post that the company has created a 'cheater's pool' (sort of like the populating of Australia with criminals) where players who have hacked the game to give themselves advantages...   Listen to the RIAA's Appeal In Jammie Thomas Case   From the call-your-bookie-with-your-winner department NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA doesn't really like free mp3 files floating around but here's one you can access legally — the audio file of the June 12, 2012 oral argument of the RIAA's appeal in Capitol Records v. Jammie...   Study Shows Teen Gamers Like Tech, But Don't All Crave IT Jobs  From the it-is-only-one-corner-of-technology department CIStud writes "If you think playing endless hours of Dungeons & Dragons will create a desire to get into the information technology, think again. A new study by CompTIA of teens and young adults shows that only 17% want to pursue a technology...   Bank Robbing a Terrible Business, Statistically  From the far-better-to-steal-by-printing-money department isoloisti writes "Three UK economists got access to national data on bank robberies. The conclusion is that robbing banks pays, but not very much. Average take is about $19k per person per robbery. But, there's a 20% chance of being caught per...   Skype 4.0 For Linux Now Available  From the free-and-open-calls department An anonymous reader writes "Anyone who uses Skype on Linux will be happy to hear that a new version has been made available today, bringing with it a host of essential updates and new features. Skype 4.0, codenamed "Four Rooms for Improvement," is...

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