The biggest issue for me is that the format hasn't kept up with the change in times. The comments are fairly useless with the articles, basically whoever does the first post basically directs the conversation. Compare that to Reddit where typically the most relevant comments make their way to the top.

Slashdot was great 10 years ago, but I get news faster, with more content, more focus(sub forums), and better comments on Reddit. The only down side is the extreme noise and heavy user bias of the site.

The bigger question is when will Google release their own version of Amazon's EC2.

It's come to this now? How bad does it have to get before the entire system is scrapped?

Not really. Online dating means a few women that photograph well are bombarded by the vast majority of men.

> Why not present the radio traffic time lapsed on the web?

Why not use the money you'd spend on something like that to hire another cop to patrol the streets instead?

They do NOT have to "prove" anything. This is reality, not a TV show court room. In reality the justice system has nothing to do with justice. You can and will be held in contempt for not being able to provide a password to decrypt your honeypot.

Use deniable encryption instead.

Energy companies don't have a choice in how their electricity is used.

If quick charging becomes the norm(big if), it'll happen at dealerships first. And yeah, it'll be cheap because they want to sell the cars, not the juice.

Other places will then pop up and likely focus on selling you other crap during your 10-15 min wait. Starbucks would be a natural client for this.

Your comparison of computer languages to human languages isn't a very good one. Human languages tend to have simple rules and concepts, but large vocabularies to memorize. Computer languages have very small vocabularies, but deep rules and concepts.

Those concepts are very portable from language to language. How a variable works, classes, pointers(or references), databases, networking, lists, switches, OO models, etc don't really change. C has pointers, Java has references. Java has hibernate and rails has active record.

Take a good programmer with a long history of work and they can learn new languages pretty much on the fly. Though big shifts(switching to OO or designing things The Rails Way) can take a bit of learning.

> Why did they not do a full on media blitz at launch?

It hasn't launched yet. As a biz account user, I wasn't even able to create a plus account until last week.

Shoving hours and hours of homework on your students doesn't make you a good teacher.

I live on my boat and I'm not required to have running water or electricity on it. Clothing.. I can live at a nude ranch if I want. Education, I can home school if I want. Social Security is true though.

Dude, dude. I ONLY have a camera and microphone on my phone, laptop, 10 inch tablet, actual camera and video camera. How the hell am I supposed to create anything if my e-book reader doesn't have them as well?

The interest is that it looks like the trunk is a dead end. This gives more press to MariaDB and could eventually mean distros drop MySQL going forward in favor of it.

This is completely bullshit. I've designed MySQL clusters that, in the initial rollout, needed to be able to handle 200k inserts per second and then be able to scale up from there. And we did it on EC2 for 1k a month worth of systems.

MySQL is an extremely powerful tool.

>Books with good quality content and good production values will then become a thing of the past, because quality costs a lot to produce, readers can't examine the books before they've paid for it the way they can in a bricks 'n' mortar book store, and not enough people will exercise any legal right of return they may have to make a difference to the policy.

This is completely false. Customer reviews are superior to publisher gateways for determining quality and you can already download samples of every book on Amazon's Kindle to see if you'll like it or not.