and will head up into Rocky Mountain National Park around 7am tomorrow to hike around bear lake with my girlfriend.

Sorry, man, I was just messing. That sounds like a beautiful way to spend a Sunday morning. One of my life goals is to live on the edge of a National Park.

Since these articles get pretty much the same reaction on weekdays

I think you'll find that these stories are most likely to appear on Slashdot Friday and Saturday nights.

I was playing guitar but stopped to check the various feeds before shutting down and heading to bed. Snowshoeing early tomorrow.

Right on, brother. Tomorrow morning I'll be busting some broncos and then base-jumping off the Sears Tower with a parachute of my own design. After that, I'll be having sex with the entire wait staff of Hooters, one of whom is my wife, Morgan Fairchild.

Are you calling God a scumbag?

In the original, yeah, kind of a scumbag.

He was much nicer in the sequel when they had the dude with the long hair and beard play Him. I think it was Jared Leto.

the article says he's being sued for fraud and breach of contract

And they waited until the Oculus Rift is ready for release to file suit.

This is patent trolling by another name. They're trying to make money off someone else's work.

The comments section for a story like this is a great case study on who's home on a Saturday night and at their computers. Slashdot knows their audience, I'll give them that.

[I have an excuse: It's between periods of the Blackhawks/Ducks game]

Teaching is still seen as a woman's profession.

If you'd gone to college, you might have noticed that men make up 62% of faculty.

Nope, that has nothing to do with the issue, that's a parable about forgiveness.

Is there anything creepier than using the Bible to explain why child molestation isn't really all that bad?

Try reading in context sometime.

Considering the fragmented way the Bible came into being, "context" varies from verse to verse.

Here is the text of Matthew 18:6:

Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Now, the word that's translated here as "sin" is actually "skandalizo" (Greek): to “scandalize”;to entrap, that is, trip up (figuratively stumble [transitively] or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure): - (make to) offend.

So I'm sorry, there is no "context" about that verse that makes it any less about scumbags who would mess with kids.

Google is definitely the company I want making the OS that will be in every fucking electronic device in my house, because they're so serious about my privacy.

Patent trolls are like pimps without the cool clothes and '72 Riviera with fur-lined windows.

They both make their money off other people's work.

I googled the life out of this and could not find them. I did find a company by that name in Panaji, Goa, India, but I do not see how they may be related. I'm puzzled.

But they have a YouTube video, so clearly this is all on the up and up.

Their name is Total Recall Technologies. I've heard about them decades ago

And there have been references to goggles or headsets that provide virtual reality since at least the 1930's, so if you're going to sue someone for taking your idea, you might want to make sure it wasn't someone's idea since way before you were born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There is absolutely nothing in the Torah, Talmud, or Bible that condemns child molestation.

And right on time, the contingent from 8chan is heard from.

You might want to look up Matthew 18:6. It sure sounds to me like Jesus had some idea of what to do with people who mess with kids. Although I think dismemberment might be a little extreme.

The lesson for the US in this is one that New York, a very Irish and Catholic City and State, learned. You do this by legislative authority, not juridical. The use of judicial fiat just creates anger and inhibits the building of consensus. It isn't something WE did, it's something THEY forced on us.

As you say, New York did actually pass same sex marriage legislatively.

As did Illinois, Hawaii, Vermont, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware. Maine, Maryland and Washington approved it by electoral referendum.

There might be a good reason for the Supreme Court to make this uniform over the entire US instead of doing it by election referendum. You really don't want to have people voting on who gets Constitutional rights and who doesn't, and you don't want someone having rights under the US constitution in one state but not in another. We tried that once and it led to all sorts of trouble.

The way the US is doing it isn't about agreement, it's about power.

Well, maybe. It could also be about the fact that money has made the US electoral system no longer an accurate reflection of the will of the people.

And it's not even about referendums, because referendums don't even make it to the ballot without big money getting behind them. And candidates? Forget about it. There's a money primary that happens before you even get to find out who's running.

Today I was reading an article about how statistically, the positions of Bernie Sanders most accurately reflect the opinions of the American people. His position on each issue going down the line are supported by more Americans than any other candidate from either party. You think he's got a chance to be elected? Not as long as the superPACs are allowed to finance the elections.

To be honest, I'm not sure any US election will ever again be a reflection of the will of the people. Elections are just more reality television now. No matter who gets elected from either party, most Americans are going to hate them because that candidate has nothing to do with the will of the people.