So get the ad companies to serve the ads over HTTPS... I don't see the big deal.

The summary is talking about survey results, and uses both "male" and "female" equally, which are common language in surveys.

Please women -- we'd love to have more of you in our industry, but claiming gender insensitivity where there is none truly just makes men afraid to even interact with you, lest they be labelled misogynist and slammed all over social media.

Of course, we have miles to go when it comes to better respecting women in technology; but the article summary isn't one of them.

Please do -- Anaerin's mockup is SOOO much closer to what a Slashdot redesign should look like:

* 100% width
* Familiar green headings on comment's, which give Slashdot its distinctive "Slashdot" feel
* Possible to read nested comments

Although it still misses comment filtering, and the comments don't start until half-way down the page, it's a lot more promising than the current unusable-comment-section beta!

Define "right" and "left".

Just because Europe has fallen to the leftists doesn't mean that both of our parties are far right. From my perspective, both parties are identically far left!

I've had great speed on http://www.hotdrupal.com/ (no affiliation, just a satisfied customer). I use them for all my freelance clients. But I'm too cheap to use them for my own small sites.

My back-of-the-napkin calculations show that Google Cloud storage to be around $100k for the first year at 2.5Mbps * 30 channels * 365 days. I suppose if the tuner costs $225k, that's umm.. reasonable? :)

Too bad I can't mod you up past 5.

And what does take mean? When your definition was penned, taking something clearly deprived the former possessor of ownership.

I'll concede that re-using the word "stolen" isn't a terrible choice for this new "take-a-copy" action, but let's not pretend that this is what its meant all along.

I like this idea, and think it can be made plenty efficient by decreasing the number of recipients that "share" a given inbox -- say 1000 users or so.

Yes, please secure email me at 3013@mailinator.com using my public key.

Hahaha.. I love statements like this.

How about a craft with mile-wide wings that unfold at altitude? How about solar power being beamed to the craft from a ground or satellite system (still qualified as solar powered in my book)? The old adage "never say never" exists for a reason.

You're assuming that you have to download the files. It's highly likely the data could be generated locally in JavaScript.

Definitely an interesting possibility for a Tricorder.

3D ultrasounds are already being done, in real time. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_ultrasound -- we had one of these done. It mathematically combines the 2D images into a 3D representation. Building a full 3D model (internal and out) of the fetus seems very plausible.

While I found the 3D view extremely helpful (and it makes great printouts for the folks!), interestingly the ultrasound tech could "see" much better in the traditional 2D ultrasound view that looks like a fuzzy blur to non-techs. A big part of this besides her obvious training/experience was that the framerate of the 2D view was much higher.