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Also, join today to enter for a chance to win a cash prize of $1,000, $500 or $200. Learn More!    Windows 8: A 'Christmas Gift for Someone You Hate'  From the not-keeping-it-all-bottled-up-inside department zacharye writes "Microsoft is no stranger to criticism these days, and the company's new Windows 8 platform is once again the target of a scathing review from a high-profile user. Well-known Internet entrepreneur and MIT professor Philip Greenspun...   Republican Staffer Khanna Axed Over Copyright Memo  From the don't-mistake-the-gop-for-free-marketeers department Bob9113 writes "Ars Technica reports that Derek Khanna is getting axed over his memo detailing the conflict between laissez-faire-oriented free market ideals and the regulatory monopoly that is copyright. 'The Republican Study Committee, a caucus...   Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Need a Phone at Your Desk?  From the dial-U-for-useless department First time accepted submitter its a trappist! writes "When I started my career back in the early 1990s, everyone had a 'business phone' phone on their desk. The phone was how your co-workers, customers, friends and family got in touch with you...   Virginia Woman Is Sued for $750,000 After Writing Scathing Yelp Review  From the sticks-and-stones department First time accepted submitter VegetativeState writes "Jane Perez hired a construction company and was not happy with the work they did and alleged some of her jewelry was stolen. She submitted reviews on Yelp and Angie's List, giving the company...   Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New?  From the revisiting-the-unary-days department New submitter thereitis writes "Looking over my home computing setup, I see equipment ranging from 20 years old to several months old. What sorts of old and new equipment have you seen coexisting, and in what type of environment?" I regularly use...   How Yucca Mountain Was Killed  From the actually-the-mountain's-doing-just-fine department ATKeiper writes "The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which was selected by the U.S. government in the 1980s to be the nation's permanent facility for storing nuclear waste, is essentially dead. A new article in The New Atlantis explains...   Facebook Says EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Would Harm Privacy  From the want-to-subscribe-to-your-newsletter department judgecorp writes "The European Commission has proposed a "right to be forgotten" online, which would allow users to remove personal data they had shared. The idea has had a lot of criticism, and now Facebook claims it would actually harm privacy....   Android Options Mean 'Best' Browsers Might Surprise You   From the an-actual-figurative-ecosystem department An anonymous reader writes with this quote from Tom's Hardware: "Due to Apple's anti-3rd-party browser stance, and Windows RT's IE-only advantage on the 'Desktop,' Android is the only mobile platform where browser competition is thriving. The...   Apple CEO Tim Cook On Apple's US Manufacturing Move  From the tim-who?-oh-yeah department We mentioned a few days back the "Assembled in America" tag showing up on some models of Apple's iMac. Nerval's Lobster points out that in a new interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Apple CEO Tim Cook offered some details on what that means:...   Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion  From the float-away department cylonlover writes "The dirigible airship, the oddball aircraft of another era, is making a comeback. California-based Aeros Corporation has created a prototype of its new breed of variable buoyancy aircraft and expects the vehicle to be finished...   Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk  From the but-lokium-has-its-own-risks department Capt.Albatross writes "Thorium has attracted interest as a potentially safer fuel for nuclear power generation. In part, this has been because of the absence of a route to nuclear weapons, but a group of British scientists have identified a path...   John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center  From the send-lawyers-guns-and-nitro department An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from ABC News: "Software millionaire John McAfee has been taken to a Guatemala City hospital via ambulance after suffering a possible heart attack at the detention center where he is being held. McAfee,...   McAfee Arrested In Guatemala  From the meth-is-a-hell-of-a-drug department Reports are coming in that John McAfee's on again off again relationship with various law enforcement agencies has finally come to an end. According to interior minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla, he has been arrested in Guatemala after trying to...   Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court  From the it-is-your-methods-we'd-like-to-reveal department New submitter d18c7db writes "Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom has won another court victory, today given the right to drag the secretive GCSB into the spotlight of a courtroom. Forcing the GCSB to be tied to the court action opens it up to court...   A Twisted Clean-Tech Tale: How A123 Wound Up In Bankruptcy  From the fallacies-on-display department curtwoodward writes "Advanced battery maker A123 Systems was supposed to be one of the marquee names of the U.S. cleantech manufacturing scene — it won hundreds of millions in federal grants, had operations around the globe, and supplied the...

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