Assess Slashdot's core demographic (young white males with liberal leanings).

That's a bit racist and sexist. Frankly, everyone here looks green to me.

No, that should be "sudo get me a beer"!

Hell, yeah!

My brain just divided by 0.

Has anyone seen Rod Serling around here?

Anyone who has worked for the government, a contractor to the government and is/was employed by a company has had a background check done. You don't think said entities simply file away your personal information, do you? You've seen the many stories on /. about people not being hired or getting fired because of their Facebook/My Space/etc account. Well, you also invite the government/employer to use the rest of the information they collect from you to find out who you really are and not the prim and proper job candidate/employee that graced their doorstep.

Face the facts: Our world is a world where collection of information is a hot business and you are the prey. And your personal data that has been given or harvested WILL come back to haunt you.

Two bull sharks were spotted swimming past a McDonald’s in the city of Goodna...

Anyone else think we'll see a McDonald's commercial with an Aussie-accented shark?

And Steve Irwin was right: sharks WILL eat ANYTHING!

There are a few things I've seen in work places that really contribute to the bashing:
1. Suits who won't talk to IT staff
2. IT staff that won't talk to suits
3. Both sides bitch about the other behind closed doors and the grapevine still passes the scuttlebutt
4. Both sides having a superiority complex

I'd encourage the IT staffs to go and talk with your management. You'll be glad you did.

Hmmm... What you meant is "Countdown to breeding humans for large insect consumption starts in ..."

And I was looking forward to seeing the woodpeckers making holes in my house disappear in puffs of smoke.

Damn those woodpeckers!

All pencils and pens should be replaced with nice blunt magic markers. For math classes or other times when frequent erasing is needed, they can use an Etch-a-Sketch (tm).

Give kids the markers, they can sniff them to get high, then take their Etch-a-Sketch and bludgeon out the brains of the Math teacher.

I'm surprised that the map company won a case on infringement. If I protected my website like the map company did ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWg-mozGsU ), I'd expect my website to be pwn3d rather quickly.

and I'd like to know if this disabling happens when you get in the car, start it or put the car in gear. If you're in an accident, wouldn't you want you phone to work to call help?

Actually, we should take a page from Japan's rule book for CEOs. If you're CEO at a company that goes down due to your corruption, you are disgraced and have to commit ritual suicide. I know that some haven't, but those that are "in charge" should pay the same price. The responsibility has to stop somewhere and it should be on the shoulders of the person in charge.

Our "friends" at the newspapers like it when they're allowed to keep information from the public and then publish it for the sensationalism. To have someone else horn in on their territory is not to be accepted. In the last 20 years I've seen the "news" business go from fact driven reports to "newstainment". I'd rather read the information that Wikileaks puts on their website and make my own decisions based on the FACTS. Wikileaks is more of a journalist trying to put out the information they get so that we aren't keep in the dark by politicians, TV news monkeys, and the "We'll do whatever our government tells us to do" newspapers.

Apologies for the rant; I just get a little P.O.ed when the big guys are trying to squish the little guys who are willing to show us what's really going on.

...uses the sugar rich urine or elderly diabetics to make his high-end single malt whisky.

The whiskey is made of PEOPLE!

Now pardon me while I find a toilet.

I think the words "in our favor" were omitted.