As for airlines, sometimes it cuts both ways. United's one-way price is sometimes less and sometimes more than round trip. Actually, often the same. Once, to use some flight credit for a pair of cancelled seats booked separately for the same flight, I had to book two one-way, multiple hop flights (at the advice of a CS agent) to use the credit, because it couldn't be combined in any way. The whole thing ended up being absurd. There was no price difference.

Here's the real problem...Dice bought a niche website catering to a non-mainstream audience and is frustrated that ad revenue is not commensurate with a mainstream website, so now they want to maximize revenue by pushing the site to a wider audience. In other words, dumb it down, white space and images everywhere, probably sensational headlines...a copy of every other website out there. Here's what Dice needs to realize about Slashdot... We are your content. You are otherwise nothing more than a link page. A cheap version of Google News, and on to delay at that. We come here to make and (more importantly) read comments from the audience we have NOW. A wider audience will just mean it will turn into the CNN comments section tragedy of the commons and your content (read, us) will wander off to greener pastures. Just leave the option to use classic permanently, or make beta nearly indistinguishable from classic from a functional and feature standpoint, or best yet, do nothing. Accept that Slashdot is not going to be a cash cow for you. Maybe, if you listen to your customers and are very careful, you can pay the bills with it. But alienate your customers and that will be the end of Slashdot, slowly, but surely. Just accept that the product you purchased is for a specialized audience and stop trying it widen that audience. Instead of trying to maximize ad revenue by bringing more users that will change the community, try to maximize your profits in less obnoxious methods. Sell Slashdot apparel more openly, maybe develop a line of printed matter useful to the maker scene, consider adding a dedicated reviews section in current formatting. If you want an example of a site I think has managed to squeeze all the life out of their original classic page design while staying current would be Photo.net.

You miss a valid point...while holocaust denial is obviously not taught by any reputable institution, a history teacher would be remiss in not pointing out that some topics surrounding the holocaust, such as whether the term should include non-Jews, are areas of legitimate debate within the historical community. But then...in history there is an acknowledgement that there is ultimately no one "true" answer, rather just the one most people agree is "most true." As a non-scientist, my perception is that science doesn't necessarily teach such nuances at as early of a level as most humanities. Probably I'm part because truth in humanities is harder to prove.

I grew up in Westminster. Bustling in 1984? It wasn't bustling in 1994, even, unless one was from say, Taneytown.

I'm impressed by how clever this particular animal is in relation to the others.

I'm sorry. Not interested. I don't want to waste fuel carrying around equipment I don't need, much of it will be reporting back on my driving habits, listening habits, and shopping habits. I deliberately picked my car to have as little cruft in it as possible with only the features I wanted. Even that was a huge pain nowadays.

I read this as a multiple choice question with a defined answer. I was disappointed when I figured it out, because I was hoping I had correctly picked D. Sigh.

Here is the actual article, not the article about the article... http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1089292_tesla-updates-software-to-cut-charging-if-wiring-may-be-bad

The number and capacity of the transit links may suck, but the maintenance quality on the bridge/tunnels between NYC and NJ were much better maintained for decades, largely because of the heavy independence of the governing authority, along with the tolls. While the difficulty of building new links is a valid point, it is somewhat simplistic to argue that political divisions between the states are the biggest issue in transit in the NYC metro area.

Read up on the Federal Do Not Call Registry. It is a useful tool, but you may also want to check if your state has its own registry. The Federal version is pretty toothless...but ours here in Tennessee actually has teeth. I reported a violation and the state not only fined them but followed up with me to send me the associated filings.

Yeah, kinda odd that was omitted as an option.

Anybody knows if this is a location tested by 23andme (or Ancestry)? I've got results from several providers and I'd be curious to see my results, as I'm a fairly negative person.

Mine is Al Gore, because he invented the Internet.

It really does depend on whether they mean he first computer we used or the first computer that was ours. The first computer I used was probably an Apple II (+ or E) with somewhere in the realm of 48k of RAM. The first computer I owned was a Macintosh Plus, with 1MB of RAM and a 20MB external hard drive. At the time it was already quite obsolete, so that 1MB of RAM was really a squeeze. If I remember correctly, it caused issues with some software and MultiFinder was either unavailable or restricted in some way. Since I was about 12 or 13 and it was a hand-me-down from a relative, I was still pretty thrilled. Played a lot of SimAnt and SimCity on that machine. Also fiddled some with HyperCard and Pascal. I can remember coveting a color Macintosh (or PC) with the something like 4MB of ran required to run SimCity 2000. It was about six months before we replaced the hand-me-down with a PC, and another few years before the Internet entered our home. I remember sometimes dialing in to the AOL sign-up server just to check if the modem still worked. ;)

I had to take a "developmental" class to catch up before I could start regular classes. It was a good idea, poorly executed. It was a purely computer-based class (we had to show up to the computer lab, however) and you could take the segments over and over without learning anything, because eventually you'd find the correct answer and move on. It was a waste of time for everyone in the class. Ironically, when I dropped out of computer science I still needed one math class for my History major. I took a basic college algebra class with a great professor over the summer. I learned more about algebra in that six week class than I had since algebra was first introduced to me in middle school. That should have been the development class.