I have exactly two non-stock apps installed on my phone - Chrome, and Adblock. I don't need a native client for my bank or Twitter or Facebook or Slashdot or anything, for that matter, that does nothing more than save me from opening Chrome and going to a particular URL.

I just don't understand the appeal of "we have an app for that" - Why would I ever want to give a company more access to my data than they already have, and let them drain my battery faster, when I don't need to?

The Rosetta mission operates out of Darmstadt, Germany.

And it also raises interesting questions about ownership [...] But what about things that aren't created with labor - that simply exist (e.g. water). Who should own the water?

Not nearly as "interesting" of an issue as you might want to to pretend. Does enough rain fall on your quarter-acre of land to keep you alive? No? fucking move!

Simple as that, really.

And yes, before you ask, the plants on my land make enough oxygen to keep me alive, and wood to keep me warm, and (hypothetically) enough food to keep me fed. Nothing abstract or "interesting" about it. Do you own a plot of land that can keep you alive, or don't you?

So we build desalination plants. And then it rains. Then what? Do you pay to keep those plants running--remember that those plants cost money to run.

Yes, you do! You live in the middle of a fucking desert! This drought will eventually end, but you will have another one. More importantly, even without the drought, you already had your neighbors to the North ready to tar and feather you due to rainwater collection restrictions and river passthrough quotas.

You choose to live in a place with no water. You have the fifth largest economy in the world. You bail yourselves out of your current self-inflicted disaster - And then yes, you maintain that solution for next time.

Most people die, prior to 67.

No, they don't. (National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 63 No 7, November 6 2014).

Over half of Americans will not only collect SS, they will do so for longer than a decade.

If that's your approach to buying things, I hope you're not in charge of purchasing anything expensive.

For the sort of things I do have a say in buying, SLAs matter a hell of a lot more than the pricetag on the box.

For half a million in maintenance per year (and yes, I realize that counts as relatively low), I don't care if you need to hire a minimum wage lackey solely to pick his nose and take my calls, just make damned sure someone picks up that phone.

Because women need "better" representation in fields that provide the potential to make "more money".

You don't know many nurses, do you?

If you were surrounded by people who assumed you were a money-grubbing sleazeball with no interest in the job, and who made comments like this about you, wouldn't you want to leave?

Why? That doesn't seem to have gotten rid of upper management yet...

Not everyone has IM

Everyone (relevant to this discussion) has email, though.

Because prospective clients are harder and more expensive to attain than retaining current clients. Obviously, you're not in sales.

If I call to buy some product or service from you, and get voicemail... I don't leave a message, I just move on to your competitors.

Obviously, you're not in sales either. ;)

At the least, they shouldn't be allowed forums to use as launch pads to harass every liberal, feminist or indie game developer that pisses them off.

10/10 - That sounds so reasonable, someone not familiar with the situation might have taken you seriously!

So to clarify for our readers - No liberals, feminists, hams, or Sarkeesians ever need to visit subs like TRP or FPH, etc. They can stay nice and safe in their aggressively moderated echo chambers like XX and SRS, completely avoiding any possible risk of exposure to ideas not fitting with their SJW fantasy world.

Instead, they actively make a point of pissing in other peoples' cheerios. SRS makes one of the best examples of that - "Let's link to things we disagree with so we can point and laugh - and of course, officially we don't want you to go destroy that person's karma, but if you just happen to do it on your own, hey, your choice!". Riiight... But we'll ban FPH for supposedly violating completely new rules that it doesn't even break.

FPH merrily lived in their own world, posting the equivalent of fat lolcats. We can't say the same for the likes of HAES.

If you always read Slashdot while logged in, you probably haven't noticed the problem.

When you click "reply" while not logged in, it opens up a comment block, but doesn't have a login prompt above it, defaulting you to post as AC. In order to log in once you've started replying, you need to open another tab to Slashdot, log in, go back to your comment, and re-preview it before submitting it (I say "open another tab" because if you don't, the page reloads on login and you completely lose your place and need to re-find what you wanted to respond to in the first place).

No, not exactly enduring the trials of Hercules, but entirely representative of why people hate it every time Slashdot decides to re-skin the site - If the single most basic function they have (replying to a thread) doesn't work, what hope do we have for the rest?

I'll admit it - I had the same thought on reading the headline. :)

controllers: YES

Huh, I haven't needed to buy any special-purpose controllers in a good 10-15 years. I don't even bother buying separate GPUs any more, since IGPs have become "good enough" for anything short of 4k twitch gaming.

That would certainly work a heck of a lot better... But where do you see 1,100km? Admittedly, I may have missed that detail, what with TFA consisting of single sentences interspersed with half-page flash ads. :)