...cannot be a good thing for his credibility, no matter what geopolitical issues it brings to the fore.

I wonder how many respondents are in the northern hemisphere (not to mention in a place with seasons). Specifically because, if many of them are, I'd expect Fall to be the choice right now. In Winter, I'd expect spring to get the highest number of votes.

Seconded. I'm probably going to use Feedly.

It's not like "not buying a vacuum cleaner because the electricity sometimes goes out."

It's like not buying a vacuum because you have to phone the manufacturer every time you want to use it... and getting busy signals when you do phone in because the phone bank is overloaded.

...IRONY

I recently read This (https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/chris-dorner-wrongful-termination) article. It leans towards social issues spurring violence, not desensitization. It's probably as biased as any other source of news, but I think it puts forward an interesting point of view that doesn't see much serious consideration.

This is a great point, and of course, I missed it completely.

Thanks for the insight.

"Or $7.61 billion (7.61 thousand million) per year."

You think that the average slashdot user is not equipped to appreciate billions?

Javascript is fine, it just give you enough rope to hang yourself. (and a little extra, as it turns out) The language itself has some patterns that allow for terrible patterns, and ambiguity, but all in all, I don't think it's bad. Waiting for someone to disagree...

Correction to my own post: In the ocean, off the coast of Africa

One of the fires is in Africa....?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I think that whether they vote for the same politicians or different politicians, the out come will likely not change. The illusion of choice, no?

I've heard that the reason Verizon is charging more than it should be is to cover creation of new infrastructure. I have no idea if that's a reasonable claim or not. Can anyone speak to this? They also mention bandwidth limitations... but this seems absurd to me, given that the data should have nothing to do with cellular communications after it gets to a tower.