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All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True   |  Ask Slashdot: How Would You Convince Someone To Give Up an Old System?     Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers?  All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True  Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads  Ask Slashdot: How Would You Convince Someone To Give Up an Old System?  Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court  Buckyballs Throws In the Towel  Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone  NY Attorney General Subpoena's Craigslist For Post-Sandy Price Gougers  EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law  Ask Slashdot: Finding Work Over 60?  Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby'  Apple Stops Hiding Samsung Apology On Its UK Site  Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site  Motorcycle App Helps You Ride Faster, Turn Sharper, Brake Harder  Super-Earth Discovered In Star's Habitable Zone     Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers?  From the help-them-what? department jfruh writes "Among the winners of last night's election: marijuana users. Voters in both Washington and Colorado approved referenda that legalized marijuana for recreational use, though the drug remains illegal under federal law. There's been a...   All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True  From the panned-out-you-might-say department kkleiner writes "For the last few months, the political pundit class has been at war with NYT/FiveThirtyEight blogger Nate Silver. Joe Scarborough of MSNBC called him a "joke," while an op-ed in the LA Times accused him of running a "numbers...   Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads  From the let's-call-it-a-feature department MojoKid writes "Despite the fact that I've been using Windows 8 for the past three weeks, I somehow managed to overlook a rather stark feature in the OS: ads. No, we're not talking about ads cluttering up the desktop or login screen (thankfully),...   Ask Slashdot: How Would You Convince Someone To Give Up an Old System?  From the times-they-are-a-changing department First time accepted submitter Vanderhoth writes "I'm currently serving as a new member of a board for a not for profit organization. The board currently has a few other members, and a couple of vacant positions. One of the issues I've noticed...   Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court  From the ok-but-you-had-it-coming department concealment writes "During a pre-trial hearing in military court today, [alleged Wikileaks source Bradley] Manning's attorney, David Coombs, proposed a partial guilty plea covering a subset of the slew of criminal charges that the U.S. Army has...   Buckyballs Throws In the Towel  From the collectors-items-now department RenderSeven writes "As previously reported the immensely popular Buckyballs office toys have been targeted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Last week Maxfield and Oberton, the maker of Buckyballs gave up the battle and announced they...   Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone  From the depends-how-you-count department zacharye writes "The best-selling smartphone in the world is no longer an iPhone. New data released on Thursday by market research firm Strategy Analytics finds that Samsung's Galaxy S III was the world's top-selling smartphone model in the third...   NY Attorney General Subpoena's Craigslist For Post-Sandy Price Gougers  From the what-the-market-will-bear department TheSync writes "In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the New York State Attorney General has subpoenaed Craigslist, demanding that the site identify more than 100 sellers whose prices on post-Sandy gas, generators and other supplies were of an...   EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law  From the no-more-lists department Bobfrankly1 writes "The EFF sued to block portions of the approved Prop 35 today. Prop 35 requires sex offenders (including indecent exposure and non-internet offenses) to provide all of their online aliases to law enforcement. This would include...   Ask Slashdot: Finding Work Over 60?  From the speak-up-sonny department First time accepted submitter Hatfield56 writes "I've been in IT since the mid-1980s, mainly working for financial institutions. After 16 years at a company, as a programmer (Java, C#, PL/SQL, some Unix scripting) and technical lead, my job was...   Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby'  From the like-a-bad-movie department netbuzz writes "A Cisco vice president, who happens to have been a CIA operations officer in the 1980s, believes that the employee who recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated a 'family' trust....   Apple Stops Hiding Samsung Apology On Its UK Site  From the writing-on-the-wall department An anonymous reader writes "Apple has quietly decided that it probably shouldn't be using JavaScript code on its UK site to hide its second Samsung apology. While you still have to scroll down in almost cases, the company is no longer forcing it;...   Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site  From the post-jumping-the-gun department stevegee58 writes "The Mitt Romney presidential campaign accidentally launched a transition website the day after the election. Sporting a 'President Elect' seal and a catchy new tagline ('Smaller, Simpler, Smarter') , the site was up briefly...   Motorcycle App Helps You Ride Faster, Turn Sharper, Brake Harder  From the machine-assisted department Hugh Pickens writes "Alexander George writes about a new app that takes the data from a smartphone's accelerometers, GPS, and inclinometer to plot information for braking force, lean angles, speed, and on-track location onto Google Maps to shave...   Super-Earth Discovered In Star's Habitable Zone  From the big-house department astroengine writes "The family of planets circling a relatively close dwarf star has grown to six, including a potential rocky world at least seven times more massive than Earth that is properly located for liquid water to exist on its surface, a...

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