What do think the "hydro-" prefix in hydrocarbon means?

Really? Because data theft is actually quite a big problem and is legally recognized as a form of theft.

The legal definition of theft covers making unauthorized copies of intangibles such as data, intellectual property and trade secrets.

To add to your points, the big problem with taxonomy is that it treats two closely related species as if there is a definitely dividing line between them so that every animal can be categorized.

In reality, categorizing closely related species should probably be treated more like making a Venn diagram. Sometimes two species will have a definite dividing line between them, sometimes there's some overlap (especially when you get into tracing the evolution of species).

Google doesn't throttle or have bandwidth caps on their fiber.

From their network management page:

In times of acute congestion, Google Fiber Internet service bandwidth will be fairly allocated among subscribers without regard to the subscribersâ(TM) online activities or the protocols or applications that the subscribers are using.

Google Fiberâ(TM)s Internet services are priced on a flat-fee basis (plus taxes and government fees). Google Fiber does not charge subscribers a usage-based fee for Internet access service and does not employ volume-based data caps.

Most other large ISPs in the US, however, do have bandwidth and data caps.

That might work if 14 year old girls were making the rules, but they aren't.

And yet you'll see the actual post was put up by someone (samzenpus) who is a paid employee. God forbid the editors actually edit anything, though, right?

Nonsense. Every time there's a change in the tech sphere, Slashdot is one of the last sites to notice, much less voice skepticism and discomfort.

Not all of them

If there's a condition in the OHA contract that all devices that ship with Google Play Store and Google Play Services must also murder nuns, Google would be doing something illegal too.

But they aren't doing that.

Making up something that might possibly be in a contract doesn't make it so and doesn't add anything useful to the conversation. Save that shit for your favorite conspiracy theory site.

Except the FAA isn't doing any of those things. The guy who was nearly hit by the drone recovered the video and gave it to the NYPD. The NYPD found the pilot of the drone, arrested him and charged him with reckless endangerment. The FAA only got involved after all that showed up in the news and they're proposing a further fine for the violations that he committed.

The FFA is not trolling YouTube. The only trolling here is your post.

Don't forget the 75GB of text documents. Even if they're uncompressed, that's around 30 million pages of text.

It's the most impressive collection of slash fiction about Kirk and Spock getting it on in the known universe.

Rent-a-Center, Aaron's, Buddyrents, ColorTyme, Best Way, Rent-2-Own... there are dozens (if not hundreds) of companies that offer rent-to-own deals on virtually everything. They all have the same business model; relatively low payments that add up to ridiculously high prices for things.

The reason it works is simple; people love immediate gratification and will take very bad deals to get stuff now rather than being patient and saving up for it.

The whole point of HFT is to jump in and buy a stock when someone else is trying to buy it and resell it to them at a slightly higher price. Without HFT, that someone else would still buy the stock.

HFT has never intentionally provided liquidity to the market. Buying something that has no other buyers is exactly the opposite of what they're trying to do.

Let's call the whole thing off.

Congratulations! You have the most boring life I've ever heard of. The sad part is that you seem to be proud of it.