While I know that you are probably joking, you can make the number 9 and include me.

For a half a day I suffered their new interface and noticed nothing but problems. I come here to read comments, and possibly write them. The new interface is much more difficult for me to read. It's not about it being different and jarring, it's about it being the worst coded piece of shit ever.

It's simple. If the interface makes it difficult, and they don't have the bugs fixed, and the layout isn't conducive to easy reading.... I'm just going to stop.

Slashdot won't provide me with what I come here to enjoy, so whatever, I move on and go someplace else. Stuff happens, stuff changes, and all sites die eventually I guess when the owners tank it.

I would love to see the list of problems and feature requests that made them create that abomination of code in the first place. ..AND... as far as the low amount goes.... you notice whole articles now like this where we are talking about this shit instead of about the article. That can't be a good sign.

What about monitoring the border like that violates the Constitution?

I'm very adamant about the 4th and privacy, but monitoring the stretch of the border with at most 100ft resolution does not seem to create mass violations of privacy.

We should be protecting our border.

Aside from this particular piece of tech, there are the Constitution Free Zones. That is a much bigger problem than some Kinect's looking for human shapes along side the border. I would choose the Kinect's at the border or over the Totalitarianism Zones in the US.

At least the border is small and doesn't directly affect over 70% of the population of the US.

McDonald's is atrocious. I'll give you that. Miley.... just looks weird to me. Seriously. Her body is just not shaped right or something.

But... if you're *gonna* nuke the Amerkins, do it for a damn good reason. We gots plenty.

I'll start:

Bush

If you're referring to Shatner's music, then yes, nuke Canada.

LOL.

I just saw the lines and remembered the tune. Didn't even see such a horrible pun in there at all.

Thought it was one of those constant crazy comments we get around here, and I do remember seeing it at least a few dozen times at this point.

I pretty much see politics as a single proposal to the working man.

Suck a dick, or take a dick. Either way, we're giving you Dick. It's whats for Dinner, and I'll give you a hint: Dick.

Shots Fired :)

I haven't heard someone bash MS and LA that hard in awhile...

Which is a very damn good point. It's called the Graft.

Same reason why you get more bang for your buck building your own computer. You get more bang for your buck by removing those very expensive middle men and old corrupt men (Senators) from the equation.

If only government was about efficiency and getting stuff done instead of creating complex projects, endless red tape, government contracts awarded through cronyism and nepotism.

I see the GP's point though. It's not a bad idea, but to do it for something that doesn't even have scientific value anymore is insane. Just reallocate the money towards building a bridge, or redoing an entire length of interstate. Literally, anything else.

That's the saddest part. We are so mired in our cronyism and paralyzed by our process that we can't just use the money for something else. Too many corrupt men upset that their unjust enrichment was put on hold. We can't have unjust enrichment stop can we?

I wouldn't mind the idea so much if it worked

Those rich greedy fucks caused this economic disaster. In part by allowing mortgaged securities in the first place, and then progressively playing with it like it was the Wild West. This is 100% the fault of Wall Street, and they need to be brought to justice. Even if it's in the form of the guillotines and French mobs.

It's a myth that the "job creators" are the rich people, and that money "trickles" down in this economy.

Where are all the jobs being created? They got bailed out. The uber-rich 1% have all the money.

Where are all the jobs? Where are the investments into small businesses?

The rich are hoarding right now and corporations are even worse with creating a race towards 25 hour per week part time jobs to bypass the requirements for job benefits. It's all about cutting jobs, cutting salaries, employees have to do with less and less. From removing the water in break rooms to save a paltry couple hundred bucks to eliminating group health care and putting everyone on 25 hours, or 1099's.

I'll believe the bullshit of trickle down economics the moment I actually see it happening. We need it more than ever right now.

Why do people get so mad about this?

It reminds me of the Golden Girls, a simpler time about geriatric women and their troubles.

Who doesn't wanted to be constantly reminded about that?

This has always confused me. If you know they are a moron, why would you let them near an ostensibly important piece of non-serviceable equipment?

You're a fucking moron. Stay away from my cock.

Now that makes more sense.

While I'm all for nuking England as the food is terrible and the prime export is nanny state totalitarianism, we would need to find a substitute for the art it produces. Canada gave us Beiber. England gave us the Beatles and Heavy Metal.

I really don't think we should legalize Visual Basic.

This is the stupidest and most pointless idea I've ever heard here. Who writes up stuff like that? I'd like to get paid grant money doing that. I can bullshit about things I've no clue about plenty. I even have a penis, which is like +5 skill modifier for bullshit.

It cycles. The end result is if you did a whole bunch of effort to monetize the part, and made pretty much what you would have got to sell it outright.

Car manufacturers would be screwed. Nothing says you can't take a component out of your car and replace it with after market. People would just sell them to exporters who send them to China to be "refurbished" into brand spanking new, superior, Chinese after market parts. I seem to remember there being a BUNCH of controversy over auto manufacturers voiding warranties and prohibiting customers from full ownership, so that has really good precedent.

If you never actually compromise the IP cop software on device itself, but choose to remove it, no violations of DMCA were performed. That allows that "black" market. Only way around that is to link everyone one of those devices together somehow and argue that the removal of any single part compromises the IP security of all parts. Beyond freaking ridiculous of course, but it's not like old men and old business models play fair.

Enforced how too? The OnStar is not optional? I have to be tracked? I'm warned and then sued if my car doesn't check in?

Which guy would EVER purchase a car like that? Not many.

It stands to reason that many people would opt not to purchase the feature, but still have the hardware in the car. Who pays for that? The consumer does, and probably at a discount price with service contract.

Either:

A) They need to find enough suckers to NOT figure out that the TCO has to factor in monthly service charges. So that heated seat will cost the base part price of $238.83, plus the service charge fee, credit processing fee, applicable taxes, monthly feature costs, discounts, arbitration support fee, lube fee (even though they don't use it and sell it again), general stupidity fee and end up being a $2,345.32 heated seat. This *must* seem reasonable to them.

B) Magically survive when their not-paid-for parts are being stripped and re-purposed as scrap.

Some people's kids man...

and the answer is readily apparent.

Whatever lines of code are used to draw boobies on the screen is the most often used code.