Thanks Buckaroo.

The alternative would be Watson talking about things like "The Shocker" (Google it, but not at work) - which would probably creep most of us out.

I thought Google+ is where things go to die. :-)

Exactly. As noted in the movie Volunteers

• Chung Mee: Speed is important in business. Time is money.
• Lawrence Bourne III: You said opium was money.
• Chung Mee: Money is money.
• Lawrence Bourne III: Well then, what is time again?

While certainly not "most", I'm having trouble defining Jamie Dimon as "the very best":

Sure, he got his pay docked by 1/2 to $11.5M for the bank's bad behavior - while he was at the helm - but then gets a a raise to (reportedly) $20M because, "Mr. Dimon should be rewarded for his stewardship of the bank during such a difficult period." -- a difficult period in which, again, he was at the helm.

Nothing but a boys club, patting each other on the back for screwing over the little people and the regulators...

Technically that would be Delaware for most (all?) banks, though those offices tend to be just shells for taxes/litigation. But I get your point for really big national banks, like BofA, and combined investment/savings banks. There are already smaller regional banks, like SunTrust, as well as state/local banks, which are *not* too big to fail.

Umm... "give"? Pretty sure those things show up in the sticker price.

That's adorable. The manufacturer has a vested interested if the recall/update costs exceed the projected liability costs from wrongful death/injury suits and/or negative publicity / shareholder response. /cynical

That simply will not happen - or not in any of our lifetimes (which, of course, may be determined by the lack of auto-update...)

... how much money does someone really need? I'm not against Capitalism, but seriously, does one person really need $100 million, or even $20 million as an (semi?) annual salary or bonus? Does a CEO need 500 times (recent figures) the average salary of his/her own employees - you know, the people doing the actual work?

So, the DOI is precise and you're asking if it's accurate? :-)

[cough] /. Beta [cough]

From HHGTTG, quoting from here: Infinite Improbability Drive:

Ah yes, Cop Space augmented reality in the book Rule 34. Hopefully, the future won't be like the rest if that novel - though even that would be better than /. Beta.

Just call it "slashcott.org" - satirical and political.

Perhaps because many (younger?) people these days have the attention span of a dog at a squirrel farm. Which, I guess, is good for glancing through ads designed for [insert profitable demographic], but not anything more serious.

I have only tried beta a few times (not logged in and in Private mode) and found the overabundance of white space, especially on the article pages, most egregious and wasteful as it horizontally compresses the comments so as to be difficult to read. I also generally agree with ost of the negative comments I so far read about beta. I've had a /. account since the late 1990s, but if beta is the future of /., that future probably won't include me.