...is it's a slow death spiral of constant consumer disappointments and unmet expectations... with no obvious competitor to steal from.

Disney has been eying this space for nearly two decades, trying to find a way to monetize digital content streaming. Starz has been an impediment to content distrubtion, forcing content to go through pay-channel services first... Netflix has made a huge win here. The legalities of these contracts are insane too. They have release windows for TV, streaming, DVD distribution--it's all factored into these contracts.

People don't want to lug around DVDs to watch movies, and now they don't have to with smart phones and tablets and other media rich devices. Personally I want to get rid of my DVD collection altogether--it'd free up a closet's worth of space in my house. I want to be able to log into my favorite website and watch stuff on my flatscreen tv, that's connected out there to some cloud activated device, or better yet put it in the display, more than just a cable service and get rid of the old model altogether.

Hopefully Netflix can profit from this deal. Of course if they go under, I wouldn't be surprised to find a company like Disney buying them outright.

They should create a mannequin that morphs into the person it's observing, maybe it could just steal the face of the person since body sizes are so drastically different, but then you could "see yourself" in the clothes that the mannequin is modeling. That'd be cool, and super creepy. Just the sort of future we here at Slashdot prefer! :)

"Culture of Fear" has been the unsaid logo of HP for the past 15 years. That, and "Screw the HP Way"... So yeah, good guess... :)

It really is a triumph of human intelligence and there's a LOT of combined science and technology employed in this solution. It demonstrates the sort of ingenuity that happens in a highly cooperative intellectual landscape, when one puts aside their malicious intent, and thinks more on the need to protect rather than to kill. Combined, great minds can do great things. It's a shame too often great minds are wasted on revenge and retaliation, egos and avarice. Ethical intelligence is true intelligence.

I wouldn't know the majority of news sites if it weren't for Google's aggregation. So I wouldn't click their sites at all. This seems like they're wanting compensation for something that already compensates them by listing them and making their site more visible.

To heck with that... I just want to know where I can get paid for derailing discussions. I could make some serious D'oh!

Generally, in the US you're free as long as you're not into the sexual exploitation of children or not going to try to kill a bunch of people as a terrorist.

I'd want the first Weeping Angel version, not the type that turned you to stone, or killed you outright... but the sort that feeds off your time differential after sending you back in time... because honestly it'd be cool to be the smartest guy in the past. :)

It's clearly a conspiracy. Someone's trying to slander the president by making him look like a monkey that eats bananas. Don't fall for it!

You may not have identified yourself as part of a study group, but from what you've written above, you were part of one. Study groups don't have to be formal. They are not fixed groups of people. They are simply people getting together, discussing the assignments and coursework, and trying to figure things out together. This nonsense about not being the fastest one in the group and how that's going to somehow impede your learning experience is just plain wrong. I had groups in college that I met with to help with math, and most of the time i was pretty quick at figuring things out, and so I'd help explain it to others and I learned by trying to explain it, but we would turn the page, and there'd be some problem that I didn't get that someone else did. It's not about one person knowing everything. It's about a group effort, and generally everyone helped. One person would get it, then they'd share, and this could happen four or five times across the study material in a single assignment, from different individuals. It's very efficient. Further, when no one in the group could figure it out in a way sufficient to explain to the satisfaction of everyone in the group, we'd know that it was time to take it to the TA or the Professor. It's a very efficient means of digesting information. The numbers approx. 7000 students out of 1.3 million forming groups is pretty bad. I am tempted to question just how well the material is mastered if there's isn't more interraction.

There are a number of reasons scientists spin their work.

1. Science is quite boring. By nature it's supposed to be, objective, logical, and devoid of feelings. But Scientists themselves are not typically boring people, they're humans, and humans are emotional beings.

2. Scientists aren't communications experts and suck at making dry discipline accessible to the public. Never was this more obvious than when I was in college. How many brilliant researchers really sucked at teaching? Pretty much most of them.

3. Scientists want to think their work matters, and therefore are inclined to extrapolate applications of their science to the public. When those applications get reported as a sure thing, then an exaggeration is bound to happen.

4. And of course, Science that can be show to be of great public benefit gets funding. Cha-ching!

Even if this is true, and the tests are bad, your conclusion is entirely counterproductive to the point of the test. If the tests are bad, the IQ scores would go up the more you take the tests, because you'd know the tests, but Potheads IQ's went DOWN when they took the tests repeatedly over their teen years. So in a way even if the tests are bad, it only understates the problem that Pot has on teenage brains.

It is a common misconception to see a person seeking help through therapy as weak. This is a falsehood. One who seeks help, admits weakness, is a person of strength and should be praised. What's interesting about the story is how viewing the material affected how he saw the world. I applaud the fellow for sharing his experience. I knew these positions existed, but was unaware of its toll. It sounds like a real grind that no amount of free meals and cool corporate logos can really compensate for.