Not only that, but nerds are doubly out of their comfort zone because it's a chick.

"Will be abused", it's a joke, a sacrasm, sigh.

We have no historical reason WHATSOEVER to believe an all-encompassing ability to observe everything we do won't be abused by those in power to maintain their power.

What's the matter with you people?!?!?

Thank you. Do not throw out the baby with the bath water.

When giant corporations can come in and steal ideas by small inventors, real, significant ideas, that hurts a lot more than these stupid patents do.

Too much blind guessing. Here's the correct answer.

The error everyone makes in assuming that because it's bad for heart disease, it's bad for everything.

Obesity is a problem primarily because of cardiovascular reasons, like heart attack and stroke. Otherwise it's loaded with nutrition and calories. This probably explains why "overweight" (though not obese) are the longest-lived segment of society. Thinner people are running more on empty, leading to under-performing immune systems and healing.

That's where I'd start to look anyway.

And on top of all this, high fat content is known to help neurons function in cases with epilepsy, so again it's not a surprise here.

10 gigabits per second! Sweet! I can run through my entire Verizon monthly 2 gig allottment in under 2 seconds, and run up $10 a second per gig in overage!

And this EFF request doesn't even include abandoned MMORPGs, yet, which would have to be a later step.

City of Heroes is one of the more egregious shutdowns that could have benefitted from this. It wouldn't rescue supergroup bases you may have invested hundreds of hours in in customizing (though there may be ways to record layouts) but to shut down a game that has been a hobby to tens of thousands for almost a decade is criminal.

If a model company goes out of business, they don't come into your home and smash your collection of ships in a bottle.

The simplest explanation is usually the correct one

Exactly. His post is +mod point fishing copy-paste boilerplate that has nothing to do with this article.

The FCC's control of airwaves is predicated on them being limited. A few sentences of sophistry later, and presto! The Peple's wavelengths are controlled for content in violation of the first amendment.

The same argument does not fly for Internet, as capacity can be expanded indefinitely, and is not based on a limited physical phenomenon.

Still, the same could be said of phone lines, which were regulated using...wait for it...interstate commerce clause...by conservatives against porn and swearing. Well, that was pretty much all politicians back then.

Some made feints to the newborn Internet in the late 1980s, that it could be controlled for content using the exact same argument.

Still, the amount of autistic knowledge he regurgitated vastly exceeds yours.

The fossils originally called Brontosaurus show enough skeletal differences from other specimens of Apatosaurus thatthey rightfully belong to a different genus

So, yeah! And Pluto's a planet, too, you bastards!

We mve at our own pace (and hence the resistance of the OP topic perhaps.)

I have just started Bester's The Stars My Destination for the first time, even though I've been reading sci-fi for over 40 years.

I remember setting that fir tree picture as the desktop patterin in Windows 95 and thinking, "Thank god that flat shit is over." Well here we are :(

And why not list top 10 changes instead of top 5?

6. Make Google default search engine.
7. Make Chrome default browser.
8. What's this Coppy animation? Nooooooooooo!
9. Fix NSA backdoors.
10. You may not name your virtual currency "Coin(r)"

This is an early warning sign of encroaching European federalism. Your grand children will think of themselves as Europeans, pay homage to that government, and turn to it for legislation rather than France, or Germany, or Luxumburg, the New York, California, and Rhode Island of Europe.

What state do you live in? "I live in United Kingdom!"

Here's a better April Fool's submission: "Slashdot reader has sex!"