Would it really be so bad having to justify your use of the internet to some bureaucratic authority figure? That would get rid of a lot of pointless content and return a lot of people to the real world.

I guess crime really doesn't pay after all. Unless you're already rich.

I hate hardware and for all intents and purposes it can go shove itself up its own ass. As a result I very much love the cloud, no matter how much of a buzzword it is. Let someone else worry about the tedious busywork it is to get one piece of hardware to talk to another. Oh what's that? A disk died? I don't give a damn because I don't have to drive 30 minutes each direction just to change it. Ha!

But why use a redundant unit of measurement that is, or is not, literally derived from the meter, depending on in which archaeic country you're in?

"Psah! The mile was first!" -You, in the future.

Yes, but your very own government decided in the 1950s to make an international standard, to which I might add only your government and country adheres, which defines a yard as exactly 0.9144 meters, and one yard gives three feet, and 5600-something feet give a mile (who the hell even bothers to remember such irrelevant details? Make it base-10 already). So your mediocre, confusing and derivative unit of measurement stinks. Go fuck yourself.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+...

149,597,871 kilometers. Please don't use miles in space.

Yeah, that probably should've been personal...

That's why you have Linkedin for your professional network, and Facebook for your private network. If your professional network can't handle your private views, then don't mix the two.

Do not discount our exponential techonological growth. The only thing that's going to stop us from finding life out there is ignorance and stupidity, of which there is plenty to go around to be sure, but science will continue forward regardless.

Yes and no. We may not be able to see the aliens right now, but you can't argue that we aren't getting more and more details. 2045 is still quite a while away, technologically speaking, and it's not unreasonable to think we'll have even better telescopes and measuring equipment by then.

That's funny, because I watched this TED talk, where the guy explicitly states his teacher-free environment boosted a rural Indian school class to biochemistry levels well beyond the most prestigious private school in the country.

https://www.ted.com/talks/suga...

One would assume at least some of the Slashdot crowd has been to college and knows what a scientific paper is and how research and experiments are conducted, but clearly a college education isn't enough these days.

Aren't these chips covered in Intels new thermal insulation paste? Maybe it's just insulating a bit too well?

Why do these mega corporations keep storing credit card information insecurely? Are they required by law to be stupid?

The guy was paralyzed enough to not be able to do any work on a computer in 2011, and yet he doesn't die until 3 years later. I know that Christianity runs strong in the blood of American politics and that this prevents assisted suicide from ever becoming a thing over there, but God damn it. That has got to fucking suck. Dibs on that not happening to me.