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Why this is not ‘the best selfie ever’

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First and foremost, because the photograph is not a selfie.

Somewhere along the line, the definition of a selfie – a photograph taken with one’s camera phone by oneself and including oneself in the image – has been bastardized to encompass any old photo of oneself, preferably with someone notable.

The photograph above, if you don’t know, pictures a 26-year-old British man, Ben Innes, right, and Seif Eldin Mustafa, who is credibly alleged to have hijacked an EgyptAir flight yesterday. During an ensuing hostage standoff, Innes asked a flight attendant to translate his request to Mustafa that they pose for what Innes and countless headline writers would later contend “has to be the best selfie ever.”

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Dump Trump! A Chrome extension to censor “The Donald” from the web

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Hackers have tried deleting Trump’s Wikipedia page and knocking his website offline. Now there’s a much simpler, and perfectly legal, way to erase Trump from the internet.
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NASA touts real technologies highlighted in imminent ‘The Martian’ flick

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The upcoming movie about a NASA astronaut left for dead on Mars in the 2030s features a number of technologies NASA says are currently under development.

NASA said the book and the movie, “The Martian,” merges fictional and factual chronicles about Mars, building upon the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and moving it into a future where NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to the red planet to live and explore.

+More on Network World: 15 reasons why Mars is one hot, hot, hot planet+

Indeed, as Matt Damon, who plays the central character Mark Watney in the movie says: “I have to make water and grow food on a planet where nothing grows” to basically stretch a couple months worth of food and supplies into four years becomes a modern day MacGyver in a spacesuit and uses some amazing technologies to try to survive.

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What to know for an entry-level interview at Amazon … and ‘The Tale of Two Packets’

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A visitor to Reddit’s section devoted to networking asks of the group: “I have an entry level Amazon interview coming up. Throw me all your interviewing questions and I’ll answer them without googling.”

It’s nice to know that our candidate isn’t going to cheat on his interview preparation.

We also have to trust the author of the top-ranked reply, who says that he works at Amazon and is using a throw-away Reddit account — called seattlepacket — “for obvious reasons.” He tells our interviewee:  

I’m over at the company you are interviewing with. Relax, we’re not trying to grill or destroy you.

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Network World Paul McNamara