" One could easily say that the capitalists are the greater evil, especially the owners big corporations, because they pollute the Earth, are utterly greedy, etc and have no concern for the distribution of resources among those who need them."
Really?
Wow I guess you have not seen what the old USSR did in the areas that controlled as far as the environment, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A....
Or the quality of air in China...
"and have no concern for the distribution of resources among those who need them."
Wow.. again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Yea... You need to read a lot more history.

So we will all buy new cars every 3 years to get the latest infotainment system...
Dumb.
Really the cars today all use DIN for the "infotainment stack"
The car makers should offer an upgrade path. For a few hundred bucks you get a new infotainment system and upgrade the car.

But most modern gas turbines use single crystal turbine blades to reduce creep. I doubt that DMLS material will work as well.

I know women in nursing that make as much as a STEM worker if not more. In fact a lot of science don't pay all that well.

You left out construction workers, electricians, plumbers, electrical workers, roughnecks, cosmetologists, interior designers, fashion designers, gardeners, and lawn care workers.
All of which are very sexists and or orientationist by nature.

Don't worry they have a picture of you buying it.

"How the service will verify the identity of the person doing the registration in the first place?"
With a photo id.

Calling 911 is not a private act. it is a request for public resources.
This is only for none registered phones which can only call 911.
Privacy has nothing to do with this since cell phones 911 calls are also geolocated.

70% are hoaxes.
A solution would be for the Cell carriers to be required to "register" those phones for free for 911 service.
Each must be attached to an id so you can bust people for swatting.
Not ideal but a compromise solution.

"I'll just refrain from much comment on that one - besides I have my afternoon prayers to nothing I gotta do this afternoon. Want to make certain when I die that I go nowhere, and the nothing that I worship is not pretty adamant about that."

Thank you for confirming that one completely.

"Nuc power can be safe. But not with that attitude. The power can be harnessed. The arrogance, politics, and contempt of people cannot."
Sigh....
No, Chernobyl was a disasters waiting to happen. It lacked a containment building and the design allowed for a thermal runaway reaction.
AKA as different from a modern western reactor as a 777 is from the Hindenberg.
BTW I live with a Western Nuclear reactor in my town. You are right that disasters just that a disaster and are not good. Fukushima was the worst case aka a total loss of cooling but did have the large scale results that many anti nuclear folks by.

"But making this somehow an equivalent between atheists and fundamentalists is almost an end run toward claiming atheism is a religion."
Funny but it sure does look like one more and more. The joy in spreading the belief system, sense of superiority, the joy of seeing more "converts" that is see in many replies to this all look like the worst behaviour of civil religious people.

No I am claiming that the spying prevented the Cuban missile crisis from getting out of hand. It is also many historians opinions that it also prevented the Yom Kippur war from getting out of hand.
It also saved many lives in the battle of the Atlantic during WWII and helped the Allies win WWII.
So "which is contradictory to _ALL_ evidence and historical data."
No it is not.

"But seriously? Trying to equate especially nuc power with religion is pretty silly."
No I am equating the anti-technology views of those that are not atheists with those that are.

"Don't like seeing anything you don't like, eh? Life can be tough."
I don't like the direction that Slashdot has taken. It is like NPR has been taken over by FOX News or MSNBC.
" Chernobyl and Fukushima and come up with a rational reason to be wary of nuclear power."
Actually being worried about Nuclear energy because of Chernobyl is as bad as fearing flying because of Hindenburg. Fukushima should actually make people feel good. The absolutely worst case situation happened it was not the massive disaster of everyone's fears.

"This is very important, because religious wackos tend to be the ones against modern science and technology."
Really? I see a lot of Atheists that are antinuclear and anti GMO.
Sorry but this just about does it for me and Slashdot. I have already turned off Politics on the my front page but the editors of slashdot still keep pushing politics into other sections.
Now they are getting into social issues. News flash folks Slashdot provides as much good information on politics and social issues as People magazine does with science and technology.

For those that want this type of crap on Slashdot. Fine just put into a section I can ignore. If not I guess I will have to vote with my clicks. It is a shame because frankly the community here is so much better than say CNN or Endgadet.

" Eventually you get to the point where the software was originally designed to do something so totally different to what it's doing now that it may make more sense to rewrite it than to keep adding hacks."

Adding new features to a system does not mean adding hacks. Every system grows in features over time. It takes a lot to make rewriting from scratch to be the best solution.
For example how old is Linux?