Really, this story is just "Some idiot injured someone, and is now lying to try to dodge legal responsibilities." This happens every day; it's just "news" to slashdot because he used the magic word "hack."

Your sig is ironic since your opinion is quite bigoted. There is a great deal of pseudoscience belief on both sides of the isle. The left has irrational beliefs on nuclear power, GMO foods, etc. There was an article in the Washington Post about Democrats believing in horoscope and astrology more than Republicans/Independents: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Soylent News is probably a more realistic alternative to Slashdot than technocrat.net. One of the major problems with technocrat.net is that Bruce has already killed it a couple times in the past when he lost interest -- so why would people move there now?

Also, although Soylent News is using old Slashcode, it's still much more functional than the technocrat software.

Given that Bruce restarted Technocrat.net in response to the Great Slashdot Beta Uprising, this question is certainly not offtopic.

Good news! That already describes all of our astronauts.

Perhaps OKCupid should also use IP addresses to block anyone from the state of California too.

One thing that always struck me when I watched the episode was that apparently their language involves repeating one of a selection of a half-dozen sentences that reference this story. How could a species possibly advance to high technology if they were hampered by communication in that way?

The other thing that seems rather ridiculous is that the Federation has never met these aliens before, and yet the Enterprise's computer has the details of their mythological figures.

I actually like the episode, but the details of the aliens' language doesn't bear any sort of close scrutiny.

Already been done: http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Fred-Flintstone-Barney-Rubble-Car.jpg

Dwarf-like? Is this planet like Dopey, or more like Thorin Oakenshield?

Didn't we just go through this whole rigmarole of redefining Pluto as a "dwarf planet" so we could use that as a real term for bodies like this?

Well, assuming that you have a cell phone that matches the Ouya in power. And that you like having to tether it to your TV every time you want to play a game.

Also, while there's no fundamental reason why developers couldn't release a game that is optimized for controller play on a TV that runs on your standard Android phone, in practice that is not what has happened. They seem to be hoping to change that by allowing Ouya games to run on other Android platforms, but that's still on the horizon.

There were some serious mistakes made in the design and marketing for Ouya, but I like mine and have bought a fair number of games. It's not "redundant."

Apparently Bram has already said that he thinks it's a bad idea.

A lot of the proposed changes are apparently to remove support for "obsolete" systems and configurations. It's really doubtful that it would ever be merged into the main vim codebase.

Since nobody else is commenting, I guess that I'm not the only one that had never heard of Docker.

The story doesn't bother to summarize what Docker is. Or even give a link to an explanation. That may not be completely unreasonable, because it's hard to find any understandable information on the main website either. Apparently a "container" is a method of delivering an application that is geared towards VMs and cloud computing, but that's about all I got out of it.

And if you read the article you linked to, you'll realize that people's deposits didn't just disappear, even when the banks failed.

Of course, the response whenever somebody complains that yet another feature has been removed from Firefox is, "well, you can just get an add-on that does what you want."