Net neutrality doesn't mean ISPs have to sell "unlimited data" deals. Put a 30 GB monthly cap on the lower priced service plan and let the people just looking for court information use that while the guy downloading ISOs all the time pays for a premium plan.

Originally, he needed that cache for security. At this point though, it's in the interests of all parties to leave him in Russia as a scapegoat rather than pointlessly give him prominence as a martyr years later.

The argument is that spies allow you to know that the other side isn't going to attack you first. In a tense situation, with rumors that your enemy is massing for attack, your spies tell you whether it's bluster or imminent war that warrants a preemptive strike. There's a small amount of truth to it.

Why do we need toilets and electricity? People managed thousands of years without them.

So 2015 to 2020 is the zombie period?

In fact, you should just steal money from all the fiscally irresponsible people around you because we know you'll manage it better than they could.

There's no way he'd be assassinated, if it hasn't already happened in Russia where there's no shortage of highly experienced local assassination contractors to pay.

News flash: single line C dictionary definition doesn't contain full scientific details of corner cases! More at 11.

That makes China drastically more efficient than the USA, since they have over 4 times as many people. Once the USA cuts it's emissions to 1/3 of the current level then maybe China will be the issue.

Every slashdot story is a few days out of date.

Well... used to. Plasma 5 went ahead and broke FTP file browsing and seems to have made sftp file browsing much more error-prone.

Hard to blame the distros for thinking that version 5.3 would be a stable version of 5.

Trains normally have a person there to make sure people pay their fare. But not all trains do -- for example, the Vancouver SkyTrain is fully automated (and regularly cheated on since there's nobody to check tickets).

There's never good reason to be afraid of anthrax in the mail, unless maybe you're a hated major public figure. Remind me how many people that killed?

I see it more as a simplistic children's picture book introduction to cosmology. It's good for that.