When did people not have the opportunity to host their own content?

For anybody that has ever hosted their own email server, Raspberry Pi is NOT the right platform to do this on. While you can easily set up an email server on any Linux distro, the reality is that you need something a little bit more powerful than Raspberry Pi to process the ten's of thousands of spam messages a minute you are going to get. And don't think that just because you are "clever" enough to set up your own email server that you will be immune to spam.

And it seems a lot the the Slashdot denizens seem to have forgotten the bygone era of the "Slashdot Effect", when people and companies used to try and host their own websites which couldn't handle a sudden influx of people that used the RTFA. Even a lot of corporate servers couldn't handle when hundreds of thousands of people suddenly jumped onto their websites all at once back in the day. This is why many corporations and consumers just started using hosted services which have a larger, dynamically scalable infrastructure to handle sudden jumps in traffic.

Finally, with things like Facebook and Twitter and a slew of other social networking services, these all but decimated the "personal blog". Nobody cares to go to www.myblog.com and read some mindless ranting from a conspiracy nut. The problem with "decentralization" is that you will be lost in obscurity.

So, aside from hosting anything more than a hobby website for friends and family to touch base with, good luck.

Not sure I want a version 1.0 designer baby.

But really, while I don't agree that buying a baby with specific beauty and vanity traits is the right application of this area of science, selecting an embryo that doesn't have some trait that will have a kid grow up with a hump or other genetic defect should be allowed. While many will scream abortion!, realize that 4 - 8 cells is not a sentient lifeform no matter how far you stretch your faith.

Because aside from the obvious sensational, "OMG a Tesla caught on fire" reactions, the reality of the situation is the car actually warned the driver that something was wrong and they should pull over immediately and get out, BEFORE the fire started.

Consider how many gas powered cars explode and kill passengers every year, I still think EV vehicles are a little safer, especially when the car is monitoring the battery and is kind enough to let you know you should get the fuck out.

I am going to do a Kickstarter project. Create an originality filter for Kickstarter.

Perhaps before you throw money at this project, realize this is nothing new or novel:

http://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/index.htm/Outdoor-Living/Seasonal/Outdoor-Lighting/Solar-Light-Sets/Warm-White-LED-Candle-Lantern/_/N-ntmjw/R-I3635216

Whether you are charging LED's or cellphones, the concept is already invented.

For some reason all the music sounds like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHydmVvxuXc

We all know the NSA is publishing these books so we build back-doors into our products without even realizing it.

I'd love to run a company with "distant" second numbers like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups

Why don't people just Wiki something first.

yeah, another ignorant green reaction.

First, Fossil Fuel is what comes from the ground after millions of years of biological decay. Nothing today will create "fossil" fuel.

Second, taking CO2 that we have released into the atmosphere and turning it back into hydrocarbon fuel will close the loop so that things will at least not get worse. It might not do a lot to remove 100+ years of excessive burning of fossil fuels, but at least will help to reach a balance where we might be able to remove as much CO2 as we put into the air from burning fuels moving forward. If we reach a balance like that, then nature can do the rest to remove the excessive CO2.

Abandoning hydrocarbons is not a solution. Hydrocarbons are a highly concentrated and relatively easy to transport and store form of energy and ALL other forms of energy production are a lot less efficient in the long run to create the energy we need. That isn't going to change, ever. I would even suggest that being able to hook in solar or wind energy and having them produce hydrocarbons using some process is better than simply abandoning burning "fuel" and relying solely on something that only makes energy when the sun shines or the wind blows.

A system to create a closed cycle where CO2 is released but then pulled back to create fuel is what our civilization needs, not an ignorant reactionary myopic solution like "fossil fuel is bad" so ride a bike bullshit.

Creating a closed system where the CO2 released is also then consumed by some process to turn it back into fuel. This is what is missing now.

Our problem is not that we burn fuel and create CO2, it's that we have ignored the responsibility to take released CO2 and turn it back into fuel with a process that might actually work.

The Pope says stupid shit all the time and is lauded for it.

Actually I would have to say this current Pope is a little more forward thinking, he is choosing to ignore the issues rather than outright dismissing them based on 2000 year old dogma. Given another 2000 years a Pope might finally say something intelligent and original based on current science and facts.

yes, I agree, the French would run out on the 3rd strike.

It's because tin-foil hat wearing reactions to potential privacy issues are trending high on Slashdot these days.

Please don't confuse the idiot masses with facts, all they care about now is that your phone can track your keyboard presses and will cry outrage about privacy rights and link it to NSA conspiracies while they never for once think about turning off their phone, or just getting rid of the phone, or changing anything that might affect their behavior or basic common sense.