Does it matter if it was malice or vigilantism? Over zealous or mean spirited, he still vandalized all communication around him, even passengers using their phones and other legitimate and safe communications.

That's a bit of a stretch... it doesn't even play Candy Crush.

"I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express."

I get nostalgic whenever I think about the cartoon version and especially the songs in it.

donning bunker gear

I got about halfway through the base SC2 (Terran Wings of Liberty stuffs), but then my kids got too interested in what I was doing, and it's a bit violent for young observers in my opinion... so it's been on hold for over a year. Hoping to get back to it within the year though.

Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment - How I've missed the slashdot comment system trolling me!

Better better, or worse better, or maybe better worse?

Here's hoping it trends to the positive anyhow.

I get tons of crazy JS errors when I try to go non-beta now, so beta only it is. Not too bad for me either honestly, just different.

Sore throat, daughter's having an asthma attack at the same time that a form missing a birthdate caused a temporary lapse in health insurance, customers at work are non responsive and then unhappy with progress.

But it's good sometimes too.

Seems odd, considering governments and corporations are simply made up of people, many of which are likely to be below average. Seems like you should trust them less, weakest link in the chain and all that.

Not that I can really compare, having never used Android Studio, but while it's a little rough in a few spots, I've found Eclipse to be a usable Android dev environment.

True - I would guess the logic of committees and redesigns, wherein an original idea gets so many parts replaced it appears Dadaist.

I don't know if this is what you encountered, but it sounds like something I've seen a number of times. Systems (web sites and programs) go through a redesign, included support for the older versions, and then when they finally deprecated the earlier versions of things they forget to remove the transition related code.

Agreed on the short comment posting limit being frustrating as an infrequent visitor. Though as JTS noted, without a feedback mechanism, we're stuck with just dealing with it.

On the internet?! Never! Oh, and we need more interrobangs.