A wise person (Douglas Adams?) once said:

"Robots won't replace people. When a robot breaks, it is the employer that must repair it." (but when a person breaks...)

"They believe it was a score sheet. This was the work of a video gamer."

What? No; gamers use unlockable achievements. You know who uses spreadsheets? Accountants. This was the work of an accountant.

I can change the density of hydrogen or helium by heating it up, or compressing it.
If I wanted hydrogen to be less dense than whatever aerogel, I just need to move the hydrogen to a bigger bottle.

Now that I'm using Google Plus, I don't get the Google Doodles anymore; I'm always shunted to a vanilla search page, with a small sign that cajoles me into using Google's Chrome browser instead of whatever else I'm using at the time. Attempts to view the front page or the Canadian *.ca search page senses that I'm a Google Plus user, and shunts me back to the "you would be happier if you used Chrome" doodle-less page.

If Americans are going to trust robots, we'll have to program religion into the robots.

I'm reminded of the ISPs that shut out their own customers who were playing Blizzard's "World of Warcraft".... which uses bittorrent to distribute software patches among their subscribers.

It's not a Slashdot tradition, but a rule about news reporting in any medium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines

It's tangentially relevant, but this is "news for nerds": there was a contest for building realistic space fighters. The winners were clearly function over form, which was nice to see. (Space Volvos?)

I worry that people labelled as "the Brilliant Jerk" are sometimes "the guy smarter than me who doesn't go along with what I propose."

If I were any more surprised by this information, I would be awake.

I see two scenarios:
(a) Assange gains political asylum in Ecuador. He never stands before a judge in Sweden.
(b) Assange is extradited to Sweden, spends 12-24 hours in custody, and then he's extradited to USA, where he is "allocated" to Guantanamo Bay or some other oubliette. He never stands before a judge in Sweden.

Either way, the charges made against him by citizens of Sweden will never be pressed nor resolved. Either way, anyone who wants to call him out for "justice for his sex crimes" will not see justice done.

How is Netflix Canada operationally from Netflix USA? And what does the government of Canada have to do with it?

I'm guessing you're upset that Netflix Canada has fewer choices in the media catalogue offered. That is not due to the government of Canada nor even the government of your province instructing Netflix to restrict its catalogue -- that's due to the movie distribution companies (usually members of the MPAA) who own the rights to these movies telling Netflix "no u can not haz cheezbrgr."

Don't yell at the sales clerk if you bought a product that doesn't work as advertised, and don't yell at the landlord for the store you bought it from -- yell at the manufacturer. That means it's not Netflix, your internet provider and not the government of Canada that is keeping episodes of Adventure Time off Netflix -- it's Turner Broadcasting refusing to release it to Netflix Canada.

> why not vote for the third guy then?

Because their election system is First-Past-The-Post. Voting for the third guy means the option you like less will get more votes.

Example: Your feelings about how to run the country are pretty indigo, but the leading parties are orange and yellow. You're sick of voting yellow, so you decide to vote for the third candidate, who politically aquamarine. People who prefer their politics in the infra-red are going to continue to vote orange. Result: orange has a wider majority over both yellow and aquamarine, which gives them a larger mandate for their reddish politics, and to ignore your indigo ideals.

I'm reminded of the newspaper envelopes around actual newspapers that are made up to look like genuine journal reporting, but they're actually four full-page adverts attached to the outside of the newspaper you paid for.

My mother and I each visit the local library in our respective cities. They have movies, documentaries, and tv-series boxed sets.

I recently found James Burke's "Connections" at my library, and saw they had some of the old campy "Doctor Who" on DVD. My mother's been watching "Deadwood," and she's on the waiting list for more DVDs in the series.

The proper one would be in the 5xx range, since the client's request is correct but the server is unable to comply.

503 - Service Unavailable is the obvious choice.

If we want to be cheeky about it, we could respond 305 - Use Proxy to hint that the client making the request can't come through here and must use some other path.