Keep in mind one of the two arguments to have regulatory authorities that make de facto laws without Congressional vote: "It strips it of politics".

We'll ignore for the moment this is a danger to freedom and democracy, and not a good "feature". Rather, realize these politicians could, to a man or woman, all oppose the regulation officially, to appease voters, while supporting it secretly.

None will ever lift a finger to repeal it (which happens only rarely) and will just stand there and say, "I didn't do it!" while leaders bury any attempts to change it.

Thanks to the butterfly effect, it's been calculated if you had a measurement every cubic foot of temp, pressure, wind, and humidity, you could only predict weather about a month in advance. Which you couldn't because of the computer wimpiness.

Still wouldn't solve the problem, StartsWith 'Windows 1". God help us when that legacy activates.

Well, my sense of smell is intact. I excercised it thoroughly but accidentally by going to a hobby store two Saturdays ago. and passing the gaming tables.

No, it means (go) suck an Imperial star destroyer.

The past few months, even searching for a porn star name yields no nude photos, even with safe turned off.

Google is becoming less usefilul.

Politics is religion in all the important, and evil, power-grabbing, meme-spreading ways.

This is why I'm libertarian -- the atheism of politics. You don't get to lord over others regardless of cool-sounding patter about gods or men, and leave others alone over it.

Oop, feel that rage in you as you read that? On their identicality, I rest my case, Zeus-worshipper.

That was part of their safe harbor protections Congress gave hosting sites -- you are protected from lawsuits over what your own customers put up as long as you respond in a timely fashion to copyright takedowns.

Now Google is good standing up to things, but dragging ass on these notices is not allowed. Either fight it as a claim or take it down.

Also, what idiot modded parent down?

House: Or, you're an idiot. (To patient) Are you a Slashdot user?

Patient: What?

House: Slashdot dot org. Do you read and post messages there?

Patient: Yes?

House: No human contact. The US is safe once again. Cameron, stop picking cases based on the bozos at the CDC.

"place a family's personal information at extreme risk by transmitting what a user types over the Internet to third-party serverswithout encryption."

Yes, that's what's the big problem...third parties might eavesdrop on sloppy, 1984-like government spying.

3rd parties.

General "Slashdot" Neckbeardson: And to mate with these females, would that require talking to them? Like reaching out to hold their hands and stuff?

Dr. Handlove: Regrettably, yes.

General "Slashdot" Neckbeardson: Yiyiyiyiyi

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.