In the 21st century, people are screaming for the government to regulate their lives in order to protect them, to provide "security", and to "make people feel safe". It's the fag end of the smoldering socialist experiment. Sadly, America's just getting on the end of the demographic tidal wave which will make this impossible, so the golden years where everything is perfect are going to seem really short.

Unlike any other social media site, right?

When you're SSHd into a *BSD based firewall in China, you can't just bring up some fancy autocompleting GUI editor. You'll get vi (not vim!) and like it.

Thank goodness, I was worried I wouldn't get my daily Elon Musk story from Memedot.

They're not wasting, they're buying power. Also, whether or not the town is small is irrelevant, unless you're trolling.

I'm not going to watch "Tauriel" or the Dwarves split into 2 parties, or the "black arrow" nonsense, or how Bard is really like Robin Hood.

The first movie was a stretch, the second was bullshit.

Maybe your own spy agencies need to man up.

I'm torn on this one. On 1 hand, anything a mother does has to be right by default, and all cultures and belief systems are equally valid, and feelings trump cold hard facts, but this seems pretty damning. How is a 21st century white guy supposed to react to this completely obvious news? Where do I focus my outrage?

Given that only a subset of Slashdot users are HBO subscribers, how is this relevant?

People didn't look, or think, they just reacted from their gut. Sounds like perfectly trained American voters/consumers.

Who's the villain here?

Of hosts, we could even call the file 'hosts'. Then, periodically, you pull a copy from the master to have locally. Simply set up a governing body to arbitrate name clashes (like 'mailserver') and you're good to go!

They can't do everything, which is going to lead them to doing a lot of things suckily.

How do they actually make money to keep those bazillions of servers running? Does anyone ever actually click on those ads?

It started when it became ok to simply "hate" GWB. You never needed a reason.

How are you going to create the atmosphere ON a human timescale?

That's the sound of you missing the point. TFS goes into great detail about facts of whats happened, then says "which makes the point" - but it never MAKES the point. It's just a groupthink argument that everyone must somehow naturally arrive at the same conclusion.