The only thing more annoying than a computer is a computer that tries to be helpful.

I'm glad to hear that someone is trying to out-stupid *my* country.

wherein we find out that Monsanto has known it all along.

Probably they were hoping no one would find out until they' ready to market GMO humans that are resistant to it.

A government strong enough to give you everything you want, is also strong enough to take away everything you have.

Look strawman: Even an incredibly weak government can take everything you have.

I guess everyone's getting bored with the war on drugs, so now they're looking for a new menace to protect us from.

He's considering changing his name to N. S. Sherlock.

Crime doesn't pay for everybody.

Makes me wish I be a Chinee pirate. Besept I don't need Wind O'Tain, and I don't know how to say 'Arrrr' in Chinees. And I hear tell their ships are all junks.
 

If you can't read about it on the internet, it didn't happen.

Also, in the Internet Age you're more likely to hear about it when someone does something crooked or foolish. I question the Ask-Slashdotter's assumption that things are getting worse.

(He actually asked the right question: why do things appear to be getting worse. But then elaborates on the assumption that the sky is actually falling.)

I'm surprised the feds haven't banned it. IIRC th constitution prevents the states from creating money other than gold or silver coin; surely they won't allow individuals more leeway.

All I can figure is that it's considered more like a credit card than money. Or else the hammer just hasn't come down yet.

Yeah I'd like some more meat to the story as well. Amazon Glacier achieves its pricing by using low-RPM consumer drives plugged into some sort of high-density backplanes; supposedly they are so densely packed that you can only spin up a few drives at once due to power and heat issues. Hence the delay.

I assume Google is doing something similar, maybe with somewhat better power or cooling since they're offering faster retrieval times which implies that perhaps they can spin up a higher percentage of drives at a time.

Except it turned back toward Malaysia, but then turned again generally westward and followed a crooked channel out to sea, along a path that a Malaysian pilot would know isn't covered by air traffic radar, but would not know is covered by military radar.

Foul play is beyond question. The questions are who and why.

I always wanted to copyright my name, do something outrageous, and then sue all the media that runs a story on it.

I suspect you could say that to all governments, on lots of issues.