I'm afraid you are mistaken. Antibiotics have long been linked to weight gain. This is something that has been common knowledge in the livestock industry since the mid 20th century. As farmers it's something my people are quite familar with. If you want something more recent my first google search pulled up: http://www.nature.com/nature/j... I'm sure there are other studies.

Socialists do not spread their own money around...

It's going to be about original serialized content I think. You can't watch all the latest movies on cable for free either and Amazon does have pay per view options. I mean, they're bringing back The Tick http://www.salon.com/2014/09/0...

As a prime subscriber for the free shipping already I'll be very happy with just a few new 'TV' shows in genres that I enjoy.

Nah. You just have to get your foot in the door with an entry level position of some sort then prove yourself. Build a resume for a year or two. At least.. that is all I did.

They should probably make an effort to get their instant video app into the google play store if that is the plan. I use a chromecast and an android phone to watch my content. Can't do that without jumping through a bunch of hoops with amazon instant video.

Is carpooling illegal in Germany? If not and I make an app that lets people meet others going the same place and also provides an escrow service to share gas costs is this illegal? I'm honestly curious where people think the line is here.

Equal opportunity for the sexes rarely leads to equal outcome. This is like complaining that yoga which has a similar 'bias' but in favor of women needs to be reformed. I'm a man and I don't contribute to wikipedia because I'm not going to invest the time to write something that somone else can tear down with the click of a mouse. I'm guessing for one reason or another most women feel the same. Combativeness can be a good thing to have in a field and the Wikipedia project has definately been a sucess.

I'm not sure offhand how you'd achieve what Wikipedia has on its scale with a different format for contributors.

I agree with this generally. I know some folks that work in the military doing wetworks type stuff and they're always being deployed and doing things I never hear about in the news (they never tell what or where but there is a LOT of crap going down day to day we don't hear about) -not when it comes to the no-fly list though. The judges request is reasonable. If we can't trust our judges at least as much as we trust the unelected folks administering the lists then we're in trouble.

It might be tough to measure. Obama certainly tweets more than past presidents but the answer to why is obvioius with the internet and maturity of social media. He also has had more sit down interviews apparently but both of these are mediums he controls completely with the questions known beforehand. I prefer the potentially adversarial relationship with the white house press corps to these but I could see from his perspective why he'd prefer to simply 'broadcast' his message without interference.

Well one metric might be number of press conferences. This is just in all presidents first term. I believe the impression is that he's having even fewer second term but I don't see anything breaking that down. I'm sure there are a lot of other inputs that could be included as well to test this. Subjectively.. he does seem less open and conversational in these as well compared to past presidents.

President Obama - 79

President George W. Bush - 89

President Bill Clinton - 133

President George H. W. Bush - 143

President Reagan - 27

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

I'm sure the UN response will be well intentioned but I highly doubt Putin will be losing much sleep over any action the UN might take and the US doesn't exactly have much credibility when it comes to threats of force at the moment at least until the next election. I'd exect any dem or republican elected to be a stronger presence that the current president so I'm sure that will change eventually but add to all that the EUs dependence on natural gas from Russia... The message we're sending Russia is "act now".

Like kill puppies :( http://www.businessinsider.com...

People are just getting into the office in Europe so all the moderation and comments may be skewed at the moment toward them. Europeans to a much greater degree seem to interpret regulations and protections as a blanket keeping them warm and safe. In the states we get the same 'blanket' but our interpretation is different. Maybe we were cold maybe we weren't but we never asked for a blanket, can't move very well and what kind of weirdo just walks up and tries someone up in a blanket? Any moment the blanket will probably be secured with duct tape, crammed into their trunk and we'll end up driven to a remote location for a little "it puts the lotion on its skin" action.

It will be interesting to watch and see if the slashdot moderations and opinions swing back as the more libertarian leaning US users wake up and begin to login.

I believe that generally this only holds true for the poor kids with but it's a valid point. Upper middle class kids actually take a hit as 'astonishingly' it seems they learn more not attending school in the summer than they do when attending year round. Makes one wonder what they might achieve if unshackled for the rest of the year...

This is not news. Verizon, Netflix and customers all already know what the problem is. Routing around the bottleneck (saturated interconnect) by using a VPN will obviously avoid the bottleneck... I don't understand why this was posted as a story.