Dear Slashdot,

This is goodbye for us. You used to be a friend, with clever and interesting things to say. No longer. Your tired rants about the iPhone, your increasing inclusion of Idle articles in the RSS feed... it's clear that you have drifted off into a mad, lonely world. I have no interest in reading about some young pup on facebook, or about how people lose a bit of reception in some phones in some circumstances, etc. I hope someday you realize the mistakes you have made.

Take care,
mome rath

Perhaps you mean a huge failure?

If this is the case, why don't they ban the use of earplugs and books during takeoff/landing?

You and everyone else on Slashdot need to read the Language Log's post, "Begging the question": we have answers.

Try the contact: delete account page. I did this a year ago and my account is as permanently gone as it can be. Although, I read that

Serves them right for buying such a turd of a movie.

The summary is a verbatim copy of the article's first section. Shouldn't you give credit to the article's author rather than to "Anonymous"? Aren't reader-submitted summaries also supposed to be summarized by the reader?

Slashdot is merely hellish.

I unfortunately can't filter it out on my news reader.

I don't mean replace with paper, I mean get rid of bags altogether. Presently, you can see several instances of companies eliminating some service in the name of "green", and the fact that it will save them millions of dollars by shorting their customers is just a convenient benefit.

The funny thing about energy efficiency is that it saves companies money, but they get to spin it as being "green." [For example, when grocery stores eliminate plastic bags to be "green," what they really mean is they're eliminating bags to be "cheap."] If this new algorithm has no penalty associated with it, then it saves time and energy, therefore money and "the environment."

The original iPod wasn't bulky, but quite the opposite. The form factor was one of its selling points. It was the first gigabyte-order music player to be the size of a deck of cards, since it used a 1.5" drive instead of the 2.5" drives that other HD-based music players had at the time.

Thank you. Having to explain your joke, or at least making your joke look like it needs explaining, is quite the opposite of enhancing a punch line.

Once an xkcd strip is published, it and its alt text become "common knowledge" to the geek public. It should not be necessary to cite something that everyone knows about. (The number of mod points and replies to my post make it extraordinarily clear that the strip's alt text was common knowledge.)

The original post was about Avatar, and the xkcd post was barely a day old. Putting a link at the end of my post would have destroyed the comedic timing.

For completeness' sake, though: CITATION FOR THOSE OUT OF THE LOOP