Product placement. It's advertising. I presume someone at Slashdot is smart enough to get paid for this, although that may not be a reasonable assumption.

Egg lig ibble? Really? Egg lig ibble?

I understand that the title "Slashdot Editor" is intended largely for comedic effect... I hope. Perhaps we could just get the place renamed to Slapstick.com ...oh, that's taken. How about Slapdash.com, that seems to be up for sale.

The U.S. Air Force, at least, is just fine with corrective eye surgery. It's been used quite a bit to improve the vision of prospective pilots.

I like the ergonomic style, pioneered by Apple (AFAIK), who abandoned it, then taken up by Microsoft, which has made ever cheaper and more bloated versions of an originally nice product.

The bottom arced keys on this thing are a complete horror-show, though. And all of the keys are the same size?

I've seen a lot of alternative keyboard designs come and go. I'm not sure this one will come before it goes. /cue Blazing Saddles sketch

...and if they were good enough for my Dad, they're good enough for me.

It's always "change for the sake of upgrades" with these guys. Microsoft went from flat icons, to 3D icons tilted one way, to 3D icons tilted the other way, and now back to... flat, yes, I'm glad we're continuing to improve by revolving around in circles. Possibly they got the idea from the "busy" cursor.

Prepare to buy new copies of all your software because they have old-fashioned icons but, not sufficiently old-fashioned icons.

Not to put too fine a point on it, right? Look, you need to base a model on something before you can even guess it might possibly mean something. World of Warcraft is a lovely model, but it doesn't predict the nature of life on other planets, it's just a game. This is not remotely news. Get back to us when it's been demonstrated to reliably predict the presence of life.

I'm on Verizon. Fark has been unreachable all day. This appears to be Verizon's problem, not Fark's, so... the fark is going on here? How does a major ISP lose connectivity to a major news-like site?

Slashdot doesn't have editors. That's just some sort of weird courtesy title, apparently not intended to convey any actual meaning.

The hell is wrong with your font?

Yup. Someone sneezed, everybody panic! ...this is not news.

You actually still look at your paper mail? I tend to assume it's all just spam. Then again, I tend to assume that of my email, too. What was the last year we had a communications system that had more signal than noise? It seems to have been a while.

I could get tired of these click-bait sensationalized titles. It's clear even in the summary that the bullet is human-guided. Ok, it can redirect itself in flight, that's cool, but that's not remotely what we were told.

I started with CFLs at least 15 years ago, possibly longer. I didn't mind the energy savings. What I did object to was my incandescents, which had made an annoying habit of going "pop!" and leaving me in the dark.

The old CFLs took a few seconds to start up, which baffled some of my friends. The modern CFLs are generally instant-on, although they'll get a bit brighter as they warm up.

I hardly ever lose a bulb any more. One of them failed last year, which was memorable, because it just doesn't happen. I had an equally old replacement for it, probably about 10 years old. Sometimes I knock a lamp down, which has doubtless killed more of them than just their age.

Every time I move, I just swap the landlord's cruddy incandescents for my CFLs. They've lasted me forever. I've only had to get new ones when the lamp had this ridiculous little Christmas-tree sockets.

Slashdot is like a Reddit thread several days out of date. The content is fine, sort've, but it's not current.