Looks like Slashdot's newest experiment is to pop an ad before you get to the article. Looks like I'll have that disabled in 5...4...3..

>> what's behind this data?

I think the grind of the crappy economy over the past five years is driving more people back into the arms of faith, including astrology because it has such an easy on-ramp. (Published horoscopes...) Anyone know any surveys that might confirm/deny?

So...the SlashDot community asks for "no more lame videos, ever" and the editors give us FIVE videos? What's next...keeping beta?

>> Para Bellum Labs might face the toughest job in politics.

Nah...I think that belongs to the folks in charge of presenting Hillary as candidate of change and reform so Obama's coattails don't kill her campaign before it starts.

There...are...four...lights!!!

>> Spectacular New Martian Impact Crater...formed sometime early this decade

"While I was working for Red Hat, I got very sick... I ultimately had to go to 10 doctors to be diagnosed. "

Good news, under Obamacare, you'll never have that problem again.

1) Are you connected to a political bigwig? Goto #8.
2) Set appointment for doctor. Wait X months.
3) Get appointment. Roll 1d6 and goto #5 on a "6."
4) Otherwise, learn you cannot see specialist now, goto #2.
5) Get appointment with specialist. Wait Y months.
6) Get diagnosis. If you do not like it, goto #2. If you go like it, get on list to be treated.
7) Die of old age.
8) Get approved for treatment.
9) Begin treatment.

Too bad this crappy new "beta interface" doesn't catch dups

>> "Misstatement," of course, being the favorite euphemism for "lie."

I though it was, "If you like your X, you can keep your X." :)

Or...just spend $60 for a GoPano for iPhone
http://www.gopano.com/store/

I'd say the price war is on - $200-500 bucks for this gizmo already seems too high.

"If you like your space station you can keep your space station."

Let's hope Obama wasn't kidding this time.

>> wrote his own software for the new device. Total cost: $50.

Sure, if the time to write the software was worth nothing.

>> And that means the prospecting of asteroids is likely to become a highly secretive commercial endeavor in the not-too-distant future.

Given the large numbers of even hobby astronomers, the chances of sneaking a payload into space are pretty small. (See also: X37).

>> Is it really so damning the Obama didn't consider Afganistan "his war"

I think it is, for a different reason. A lot of folks elected Obama to get us out our middle eastern wars as fast as possible. The fact that Obama's been dragging his feet on that front, even starting new wars (e.g., Libya), suggests (reaffirms?) that Obama has been a spineless president, bullied into more military action by his military advisers, Gates included.