And there's plenty more. Genesis 19:30-36 (NIV; choose your own path at http://biblehub.com/genesis/19.htm, look for "Lot and his Daughters")

Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children--as is the custom all over the earth. Let's get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father." That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I slept with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father." So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.

While not as risqué as your verses, it involves both rape and incest, but still no outcry to remove Bibles...

I think it's more than that: By making a controller that can mimic keyboard/mouse to some acceptable degree of accuracy for all but the hardcore/tournament players, it takes the onus off of the developers to code/test for a regular controller, meaning it becomes much easier to design their game for a Steam Machine, improving the chances they'll do so over a Windows-only version.

For those that come along to these comments later, I believe the parent is referring to this: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/10/09/1551240/the-linux-backdoor-attempt-of-2003

And that is the issue of television and movies in Finland are all subtitled, and never dubbed. It seems minor but it's a huge incentive to learn to read. You can not be illiterate in Finland and watch the popular television programs or movies from America. Even Baywatch is subtitled in Finnish and Swedish. Not only do you have to read you have to read at a reasonable speed to keep up. So as a student if the rest of the children are talking about going to see Iron Man 3 and you can't read very well you now have an reason to work much harder.

Highly interesting. I wonder if they could do another round of tests, and this time have an indicator for how much time a tester spent as a kid/teen watching subtitled shows in America (I'm thinking primarily of Anime, especially for those that grew up in the mid 90s when the internet really started expanding but the American Anime industry was yet to see its heyday, or even things like Godzilla.)

And it's not just that, it's also about handling both expected average load and initial max load. If you focus on just max load, you'll wind up capacity that just sits around. If you focus on just average capacity, you run into problems like this (which is assuming they can get roughly the right estimate in the first place.) So a good plan needs to have something where it can account for max load (perhaps offload image hosting to CDNs and non-privacy-related data processing to AWS or something?) but not have a bunch of extra, idling capacity when the initial furor dies down.

I'm hoping that, while they allow anyone to use SteamOS for their system, they create a "branded" system by which to easily measure system specs for quick eyeballing of whether a particular Steam Machine can run a particular game. The way I see it, they have yearly specifications and a ranking system per year. It can be simple numbers 1-5, or tier like Start, Mid, Pro. Then it's a rolling designation, with the idea being that this year's Pro should be roughly equivalent to next year's Mid, then the following year's Start. It also means that games can target only that year's specs on their box; instead of having to say something like "Supports Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP", a game released in 2016 can list SteamOS support as "Supports 2016 Pro and beyond", so gamers that pick it up later will know it also works for 2017 Mid, 2018 Simple, and then everything after that. Maybe have it simplify it and have just a High and Low tier, or go even further and have a minimum hardware requirements to be "Certified SteamOS-Compatible 2015."

This is a lot like the Windows Experience Index, but easier to understand IMHO (their system is an addition one, in that they'll increase the max score over time as newer hardware becomes available; right now it's still 7.9 for Win8, which was the same max for Win7).

With this kind of system in place, they can have the best of both worlds: Those who want more esoteric hardware options or roll their own can do so (SteamOS would include a utility to give your system a rating, though it wouldn't be "certified"), and the major hardware manufacturers can target one or a few of a set of hardware specs in order to improve the price point through mass production. Depending on how high the "minimum" specs are, they could even make a cheap-o or super-small model by targeting a prior year that can still run the biggest AAA games.

If the synopsis had said "men", I might agree. But it says "males", to which the gender opposite is "female".

(No idea if the article itself keeps this trend; this is /., after all.)

A great deal of the (all negative) comments are about the fixed-width design, which is horrible--especially for wide monitors. And I agree.

But I think it's more insidious than that. I think this is Dice making Slashdot available for "Wrap Ads" (my term; I've no idea what the industry term for this is.) This is an advertisement that takes up all the white space around the site content (usually including some flash ad in the regular side-bar ad space.) I've only seen these in relation to video games and movies, but that might just be because I don't visit many sites not dabbling in those categories. Some sites that do this:
-IGN (they're running one right now for Final Fantasy XIV, even! Giant flash ad at the top. Load it in a browser without NoScript/adblock to see)
-Anime News Network (and what do you know, they're also doing it right now!)
-Escapist Magazine (home to the popular Zero Punctuation series of game reviews, but they're not doing it right now.)

Just like city buses wrapped completely for advertising, I believe that Dice has created this layout--which goes against best practices (I think?), especially where nerds and news are concerned--expressly for the purpose of selling wrap-around advertising. Most of us won't feel it, since a large portion of the community uses NoScript, AdBlock, and other such add-ons/services, but it still makes the comment section a pain and that's all Slashdot is good for now. Timely news? No. Properly edited synopsis that remove extreme spin/bias? No. Editing to check for dupes, sometimes within hours of each other? No. More-intelligent-than-average internet commentary with a user-ran moderation system that helps to bring the more useful comments to the front? Yes.

And this new layout cuts the space for that by half, wrap ads or no. So when the current Slashdot layout goes, so do I.

This is why I like to use one-time numbers for things like this. Discover (at least they used to, haven't had to do it in a while) will give you a generated number, and you say how much is on it, and it will deny anything over that. For something that's $1, that might still go through, but if all you need is a valid CC then you can make one for $.50 and they can't do jack about it.

A nice idea. The system could then remove any comments containing only "first/frist post" before displaying all of them, and display the remainder in a randomized order so even those who get around such a filter will likely not be the first to post, anyway. :) (It would also give the editors time to correct any probhahahaha sorry I couldn't suggest the editors doing their job with a straight face.)

Another option is to require a certain amount of characters/words for anyone to post anything. (I think /. already has something like this, if so perhaps the requirement could be made greater?) It's rare to have posts that are worthwhile that are also one or two words; most of these I've seen are "Funny". Make any quoted words count as part of the requirement and you can get these in, anyway (which is also handy because that post might be modded +5 Funny, but it's rare that the parent post will go as high, making it easier to understand the joke.)

(I've yet to hear anyone explain why they see getting FP as such a triumph.)

I'd actually like to see a side-moderation item, open to everyone all the time (limit it to X votes per article, perhaps?) that lets people rate a post with how much they agree/disagree (perhaps going Strongly Favor, Favor, Oppose, Strongly Oppose[1]; a color system would be more preferential to numbers, but then we get into the topic of how colors are seen across various countries...). This way a post can be rated +5 Informative, Strongly Opposed, where someone posts intelligently, uses plenty of (good) sources for their argument, but they arrive at a conclusion that many other readers disagreed with. I call this the Polling (as opposed to the Moderation.)

While this won't stop the most zealous of mods from using Insightful/Underrated/Flamebait|Troll/Overrated as their way of Agree/Disagree, it will decrease that. It will make the groupthink far more apparent, which I consider a good thing: since /. seems to be a more intelligent community overall, if a stance seems to take large approval it will make many take another look at their own views whether they agree or not. It also give a secondary way of filtering stories, so you can go to a story after the modding/polling has settled and see highly rated posts that were Strongly Opposed to get a better idea of the other side. (Alternatively, this can be used to find accounts that are "soapbox" accounts, where some group with a minority opinion on /. makes a post and tells their members, some of whom may have multiple /. accounts to try having mod points more often, to go rate up a post. Someone who only posts in relation to certain topics, like religion, and is constantly rated +5 Informative/Insightful but also Strongly Opposed might be an indication of this.)

And for those of us who love charts, it means you can place a user on quadrant graph in relation to their karma and how often their posts are Approved/Opposed

[1] I use Favor/Oppose instead of Agree/Disagree because the use of the latter as part of a rating display makes it seem more like the site is the one agreeing/disagreeing rather than the community, at least to me. There's probably a better term than "Favor", though...

Another large reason companies dropped Nintendo--and one that seems not well known--is that early on Nintendo had a requirement that if you wanted to develop for the N64 you also had to develop for the Virtual Boy. (Obviously this requirement dropped when the Virtual Boy was, but that didn't fix the lack of space and now-sour taste.)

Can't find the source to back this up ATM, but I did a report on this in college (I think it was a "choose your own history topic" in a writing class or something) and this was part of Nintendo's downfall with the N64. Their stranglehold on third parties made it exceedingly easy when Sony approached them with this new-fangled console they were going to put out called the "Playstation"... which, haha!, was the result of a failed partnership with Nintendo.

I will be forever amused that Nintendo's shortsightedness is what gave rise to their largest competitor and own downfall. (Nintendo stopped working with Sony and worked with Phillips instead--Sony didn't know this until it was announced publicly--before dropping their partnership with Phillips as well. But, hey, that agreement led to the CD-i Zelda games...)

Okay, so we're getting "hundreds" of pages. Even if they're heavily redacted, it's a start. But anyone thinking that the government's documents on this only number in the hundreds is incredibly deluded.

So even if this sheds light above and beyond the Snowden leaks (either now or future), I'm sure they have plenty of stuff about the NSA, FISC/A, and more that they are withholding us. Maybe we'll get an idea of what that is once the EFF and others finish reading through all this...

While I've no data to back this up, I'd argue that the reason traffic became more rough after the speed traps started was because the drivers were spending a far larger proportion of their time either watching their speedometer or checking for where the cops were, instead of focusing on the road and traffic around them with quick glances at the speedometer now and then.

But I agree with your conclusion otherwise.

Well, they've already tossed or are trying to toss the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th, happily ignore the 9th and 10th. So why not the first?

(Just wait until the first "Protective Action" of deploying a military unit to a major US city and we'll see the 3rd go, as well.)