I bought an expensive EVGA Nvidia Tegra 7 tablet based on promises that it would be receiving Andriod 5 (Lillipop) "real soon now". Turns out that even the KitKat "upgrade" was incredibly buggy and I'm still on Jellybean. Nvidia promised Android 5 for 2014. Then it slipped to February 2015. Then, when February 2015 came and went, Nvidia became completely unresponsive on the Android 5 upgrade.

I bought this tablet based on the promise of Android 5 from what I thought was a capable and well respected name in the industry. I didn't want to buy a Google Nexus tablet and reward Google for their short sighted lack of memory expansion and gouging the consumer for a small increment of internal memory. But at this point I expect that it is the last Nvidia product that I will ever buy.

No matter how reasonable promises of upgrades seem, believe half of what Nvidia tells you about current products and nothing about what they promise will be available soon in the future for the device, or expect to be treated the way past Nvidia customers have been.

or is it an end-run around constitutional protections that everybody in the legal system has just collectively agreed on?

The Constitution isn't perfect, but it is better than what we have now.

Idiot! We don't give foreign aid to the people of China. We give it to the government of China.

Media hound? Yes! Destroyer of Planets? Certainly! But astrophysicist? Really? I know he takes care of signage at the Hayden Planetarium, but what has he really done as an astrophysicist? I can't find any contribution that Neil DeGrasse Galactus has made to astrophysics.

Foll, we'll just borrow money from the Chinese to pay for it. Just like the money that Obama borrows from the Chinese and then turns around and gives back to China as "foreign aid".

and too busy deleting and hiding the e-mail that documented it.

You can't even officially renounce your citizenship without going to another country and renouncing it at an official government building there.... and you need to buy a U.S. passport to do that. So much for "Land of the Free".

That does it. I'm going to quit giving them my business.

I can understand and even support ad blocking for two reasons, Avoiding wasting data (particularly on annoying video ads) and Protecting Privacy (not sure why every site that I visit seems to need to contact Facebook, particularly since I'm not a Facebook member and never will be. The HOSTS file seems to be a big help with this on my desktop, but I don't seem to have access to one on my non-rooted Android devices.

So, with one of the concerns being Privacy, why in hell does the Adblock site say: "Join the Adblock Browser Beta Google+ community here (make sure you’re looged into G+ first!)" before letting me download????? I have no use for Google+ or any other failed attempt by Google to play social media games, or any other social media product (see the thoughts on Facebook above). Why the hell does a software app that pretends to promote the individual's right to opt-out of things demand that I be part of Google+ before I can download it????? Not going to happen and I've lost all faith in them.

Their crowdfunding goal has been far surpassed (more than $476,000 at this writing), but more can't hurt

With no clue what they would do with more, and the goal met more than twice over, I'm not inclined to contribute and not even sure that more will not hurt. I certainly don't want them giving the excess to NASA as was suggested, I can easily see politicians making proportional reductions in the NASA budget for every dollar given and spending that money on liberal social projects. Or the Planetary Society might decide that they have done such a good job in raising funds that their officers deserve a bigger pay check or a big party or other perks.

It strikes me as fairly obvious that this at least had the potential to greatly exceed its goal, and the honest and responsible thing to do would have been to spell out additional goals or what would be done with any excess funds. I don't think the Planetary Society deserves a big slush fund for failing to do that.

Some day we may have the technology to be able to post both parts at the same time.

True. We must all worship the son of God the father, born to a mortal woman, who traveled the mid-east several thousand years ago performing miraculous deeds and building a religious following. Lets all worship Hercules.

Or did you have some other silly myth in mind? You were not very clear on that.

It's a Muslim thing, you wouldn't understand.

Come on! An Amtrak train falls of the track again and this is news and of interest to the technical community? We might as well have an article about how the sun rose in the east this morning. Not only is it just as much news worthy, but it includes subjects such as astronomy (which is even gooder than playing with chew-cho trains.)

I see we are no longer even pretending that Slashdot is for stories of interest to it's target group. Why assume that geeks can't follow Google news or any other Internet news source if they have an interest in non-technical news?