First SecuROM, now SECURAM ...

Is this really an article about top models? Why is there no mention of Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and the like?

It is clearly written in the user agreement

"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"

> Wish there were a list of car makers which did this, and ones which valued privacy.

Here's the list of car makers which value privacy:

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
-- H.L. Mencken

(and this was before "think of the children" became widely used)

> I read that as an 11 Light Year sentence.

How many parsecs is that? Is it enough for a Kessel run?

The year of Linux on the desktop is here!

Enshittification
(Word of the Year for 2023)

> I have browser tabs that use more memory than that.

Hardly a thing to be proud of.

X-rays are the planet killer.

No, Krukal'Righ is the planet killer.

> Given the newly vacant positions, you are promoted to management.

Better invest in kevlar+helmet now

Cheap Slashdot editors can be easily duped

I'm waiting for a Doom port on a chainsaw. Are you listening, Husqvarna?

> Stick the key in the door, turn it, and boom you're unlocked.

I prefer not to have "boom" in a sentence involving my car.