I am fine with AT&T and Verizon charging Netflix for priority service...if they must list at the top of their contract with you, "We give you unlimited service for xxx dollars a month, except for when you try to use Netflix. In that case, we have threatened to slow down Netflix to irritate you unless Netflix gives us $2 of the $8 a month you give them."

Truth in advertising. Let's see how long these fraudulent extortionists last in their plan when their business model is dragged out in front of the face of their millions of customers.

- Ultra-premium AKA ultra-high-priced franchise, DC superheroes, check!
- Massive committees in charge, check!
- Done by Turbine, part of Microsoft, check!
- YADC (Yet Another DOTA Clone) in an aging genre with a saturated market, check!
- DC's move belatedly into "action" MMORPGs, and Marvel's into "action" Diablo-clones both flopped miserably, check!

What could possibly go wrong?

Bulbs used to last a lot longer in the US until the early 1970s. Electric companies gave out free bulbs for burned out ones.

Then Phillips sued claiming something, and a judge ruled for competition, the practice was ended by men with guns, and bulbs got shitty.

This includes government "groups". I worked for a large multinational with engineering sites in many countries, including over 400 engineere in Germany.

After a large round of layoffs about 10 years ago, the German office was proud to have laid off nobody, bragging about it, and being in accordance with German laws making it tough.

So they went to the German office and government and said, You can either lose 100 jobs, or 400. The choice is yours."

The government caved.

> "water va-pour"

Sounds like the name of a new DC comic character.

She's a cutie, too. Secret identity real name: Lee Quid.

With sloppy controls and logging, this can be abused by those in power to spy on their political opponents. I am convinced this is goong on in the US.

This is why there are supposed to be things like warrant requirements. If you can skip that with no alarm bells going off, goodbye freedom.

Translation: Holy crap! EverQuest Landmark has fully destructable landscapes, digging and tunneling, and construction that makes Minecraft look like, well, Minecraft.

"Advanced cell phone tracking devices known as StingRays allow police nationwide to home in on suspects and to log individuals present at a given location. But before acquiring a StingRay, state and local police must sign a nondisclosure agreement with the FBI, according todocuments released via a MuckRock FOIA request
. As Shawn Musgrave reports,it's an unusual setup arrangement for two public agencies to swear each other to secrecy
, but such maneuvers are becoming more common."

- Excerpt from the forbidden novel "1983".

$197 billion for a web site? "Really?"

> A near east farmer group, an indigenous hunter gatherer group, and an ancient North Eurasian group from Siberia

I knew German Summer Glau had some Asian in her!

Well, forcing it onto everyone's device is one way to avoid piracy.

Ahhh...the goal of continuous, direct-to-brain, high quality porn streams continue to be driven apace.

Excellent.

Hacking not in Slashdot's niche? Puhleeze.

And this is hacking on an industrial, major-state-actor scale.

Hmmmmm...should I?

Ok, you have been warned.

Since it's in Australia, wouldn't it be a bebodying?

Peple blame sugar when it's other carbs that turn into the bulk of glucose in your body.

Almost half the calories in a Big Mac are bun. Non-sugar Carbs, via calories, are why we are fat.Chips, bread with everything, buns. Seriously, watch what's on your plate as you eat for several days.

There was a study 40 years ago where they fed. prisoners two diets of a whipped concoction, with varying amounts of fat and sugar. The fatter you were, the MORE you preferred the. high fat one, and the thinner people preferred the sweeter.

The idea fat people are hooked on sweets is BS. They are hooked on higher-calorie, denser-calorie fatty foods.

I just read an asinine study the other day that incorrectly associated sweeter foods with. higher calorie intake because they were more calorie dense, the authors surmised.