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We're just getting started with it; if you'd like to something featured in the blog, email us at feedback@slashdot.org.    What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union?   |  Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet     Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees  Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union?  Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers?  Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet  Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012  What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer?  Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse  Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand  Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability?  Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise  The Survival Machine Farm  Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead  AMD Launches Piledriver-Based 12 and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Family  Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg     Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions From the listen-up department A while ago you had the chance to ask Bruce Perens about how open source has changed in the past 15 years, what's happening now, and what's to come. Bruce has been busy traveling, but he's found some free time and sent in his answers... Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees  From the popularity-contest department An anonymous reader writes "The state-by-state election outcome probabilities today on Nate Silver's 538 imply a 97.7% probability for Obama to win 270 or more electoral college votes on Tuesday. A site that allows anyone but U.S....   Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union?  From the coders-unite department juicegg writes "TechCrunch contributor Klint Finley writes that developers have shunned unions because traditional workplace demands like higher pay are not important to us while traditional unions are incapable of advocating for what developers...   Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers?  From the watching-the-watchers department theodp writes "Just when you think the cable TV viewing experience couldn't get any worse, GeekWire reports on the Microsoft Xbox Incubation team's patent-pending Consumer Detector, which uses cameras and sensors like those in the Xbox 360 Kinect...   Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet  From the all-used-up department First time accepted submitter jigamo writes "Microsoft's newly released Surface tablets are available in 32 and 64 GB capacities. The company has disclosed how much of that space is available to the user. After taking into account Windows RT,...   Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012  From the love-'em-or-hate-'em department Late Tuesday, both the 2012 U.S. election (the popular vote at least) and the 2012 campaign season should be over. Whatever your ability or plans to vote are (see the current poll for a peek at what other readers claim about their...   What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer?  From the ending-the-game department Esther Schindler writes "Why is it that young developers imagine that older programmers can't program in a modern environment? Too many of us of a 'certain age' are facing an IT work environment that is hostile to older workers. Lately, Steven...   Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse  From the so-business-is-soft department angry tapir writes "Japan's Sharp, a major supplier of LCD displays to Apple and other manufacturers, has warned that it may not survive if it can't turn around its business. The Osaka-based manufacturer said there is "material doubt" about its...   Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand  From the take-a-left-at-hawaii department First time accepted submitter damagedbits writes "So it turns out that Me.ga is only part of Kim Dotcom's resolution for 2013. Even though he's still facing extradition to the U.S. for alleged piracy, Dotcom has plans to resurrect Pacific Fibre's...   Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability?  From the who-you-gonna-call? department jenningsthecat writes "Public payphones seem headed the way of the dinosaur, as noted here on Slashdot 10 years ago, and again by the CBC earlier this year. Reasons typically cited for their demise are falling usage, (thanks to the ubiquitous cell...   Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise  From the fix-it-yourself department skids writes "MA voters face a complex technical and economic question Tuesday about just how open automobile makers should be with their repair and diagnostic interfaces. A legislative compromise struck in July may not be strong enough for...   The Survival Machine Farm  From the zombie-machines department pacopico writes "There's a 30-acre plot of land in Maysville, MO where about two dozen people have gathered to build a Civilization Starter Kit. As Businessweek reports, they're working on open-source versions of bulldozers, bread ovens, saws and...   Publisher of Free Textbooks Says It Will Now Charge For Them, Instead  From the get-with-the-times department An anonymous reader writes "In a surprising blow to the movement to create free textbooks online, an upstart company called Flat World Knowledge is dumping its freemium model. The upstart publisher had made its textbooks free online and charged...   AMD Launches Piledriver-Based 12 and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Family  From the launching-needs-less-wooing-than-unveiling department MojoKid writes "AMD's new Piledriver-based Opterons are launching today, completing a product refresh that the company began last spring with its Trinity APUs. The new 12 & 16-core Piledriver parts are debuting as the Opteron 6300 series. AMD...   Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg  From the holy-moley! department An anonymous reader writes "4 years ago I read about experimental targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) surgery on Slashdot. 3 years ago I crashed my motorcycle and had my leg amputated — at which time I had TMR done. Today I climbed 103...

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