NOT! Slashdot has gone downhill in the last few years.

Should have used the pipeline, but thanks to Warren Buffet striking a deal with his buddy Obama, he talked him into canceling the pipeline, in return for a HUGE campaign donation, it all goes by rail & truck...via WARREN BUFFET's own rail system.

Thanks for trolling! Saw the headlines, KNEW someone would jump on Fox. I gave up on all "talking heads" version of televised news about 2 years ago. I'm conservative (NOT to be confused with Republicans). I believe everyone should be treated EQUALLY, not one group elevated above another. I do not believe in political correctness, I do have faith, but I do not berate those that don't. I believe the government meddles too much into the lives of people. I believe it is good that government helps those that, for whatever reason, have fallen on hard times, but I believe those that are capable of working, should work. I think it is good that we allow people to immigrate to this country, to broaden our country, but, believe those that sneak across, should be sent back until such time that they come across legally. I believe that the "nation building" started during Korea, Iran, Vietnam, and through Iraq & Afghanistan, should STOP. I believe that that countries should defend themselves. I believe that unless one of our embassies is attacked, if an INTERNAL struggle in a country begins it is NONE of our business. As far as I'm concerned, WW2 should have been the last major war we were involved in, until Kuwait asked for our help in 1991. After it was over, ALL of our troops should have been brought back, as with the ones still stationed in Japan & Germany. I believe all of our elected representatives, including the president should adhere to the Constitution, period! As with any 24/7 so called news operation, Fox, MSNBC has a dedicated news program, with the rest of the time being filled with OPINION shows. THAT is the difference. I might watch a video clip of a NEWS show, but do not watch those opinion shows. They are always biased, and, set up in such a way, to try to force someone into saying something that will make a juicy 30 second sound bite. Both conservative leaning and liberal leading news organizations flood the world with their versions of news. Carefully editing sound bites, carefully wording stories, to drive opinion. As was said many decades ago...it's what they DON'T put in the papers, that speaks volumes.

to me...even as a 10 year old kid, I remember every NASA flight, save for the first 2. It may seem like a long time ago, but to me, it doesn't seem that long ago.

Wow! I thought I was looking at an Apollo 11 photo! I remember as a 10 year old kid looking at the photos on TV, and these look about the same...what did they use? An old Motorola Razr flip phone?

I was 9 years old when Apollo 8 flew to the moon. I remember that Christmas eve broadcast just like it was yesterday. I was a "space nut" from the first launch I saw, John Glenn (being too young to remember Sheppard, Grissom's flights. I had a standing pact with my mom who woke me up to watch the launches, no matter what time they took off. Saw every launch from Glenn, to the first few space shuttle launches. I remember that Christmas eve, opening presents, pausing to watch that broadcast on that black & white tv in the living room, and seeing those grainy images of planet Earth thinking how small the world was. Apollo 8, kind of closed out 1968. Being 8, I didn't understand but today I do, how important that flight, and that broadcast were to a nation that was tearing itself apart. In the space of a year, the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam, Martin Luther King Jr, Robert F. Kennedy were both murdered, the riots after King, the 1968 democratic convention riot in Chicago among the many problems of that year, that one little broadcast, helped close out the year, on a positive note.

Before the advent of time shifting, people were at the mercy of when broadcasters would air shows. When the VCR came along in the 70's, it was the beginning of the end for the major networks. With online shows, streaming and the like the monopoly that the networks, cable & satellite services had on how & when we watched television has changed forever. Ad revenue is going to continue to shrink, which might be a double edged sword. It's that ad revenue that helps offset the costs of televised shows. With it shrinking, how are they going to pay for the shows? Will we reach a point where everything will have to be pay for view?

Works like a champ!

Just walk into any black neighborhood in "the ghetto" and if they vote, see who they vote for. They vote for the liberal democrats. Why? Because they've been told for the past 50 years that Republicans want to take away their free stuff. What they fail to understand is that the democrats are the ones holding them in bondage. They are dependent on food stamps, welfare and the like, for basic survival. As long as the democrats & rino's in DC continue to give them just enough to survive, they will continue to vote for them. After all, why work, when someone will give you barely enough to survive on? Free food, free healthcare, free cellphones...they think life is good.

Hey, here's an idea. Let each flight figure it out. Get someone yapping away? Fly down to 15,000 feet, open the door and toss em out.

Everyone panic!!!

Crosstalk alone I would think would be an issue. Pumping that kind of data, even if it is digital, the amplitude on the line would introduce crosstalk I would think. Granted, it is analog, but a 33.6 fax over copper causes headaches. I just wish people would give up the fax machines, and use secure scan to email. Trying to get a V.34 modem to work on a VoIP line is a headache since most network guys (for obvious reasons) locate the ATA box in the equipment room, by the time you string a RJ11 cord all the way to the fax, the signal level has dropped to the point that there isn't enough current on the ring signal to trip the relay to tell the fax to answer the line. Then, introduce a little attenuation into the line, after the handshake signal, and you end up with it doing multiple retrainings trying to get a connection fast enough to send a document. I just wish fax machines would DIE DIE DIE.

I still remember her on Letterman and her giving him one of her nanoseconds :)

Bad as it is, the POTS still works. The nice thing about it, is during a storm that takes down the mains, if you still have an old style black dial phone connected, or you have a cordless with a battery back up, you can still use the phone. Some alarm systems still rely on the old telephone red & green wires. A lot of fax and dial up modems still use that, and pretty much any senior citizen still probably has a POTS line. It took me 2 years to talk my parents (80 & 79) into canceling their old pots line. My dad would say what about a power outage, but after I told him, you have what kind of pots phone? He responded a cordless....ok, and what powers the base station on the cordless? Then he got it and canceled it. The old copper pots lines, are why you see in a lot of areas, large tanks of liquid nitrogen strapped to the poles in an attempt to dry out the moisture in the lines. It's way cheaper than replacing a trunk line with hundreds of pairs of wires.

Yes, new blood is needed in any business, to foster new ideas, but, when you take the EXPERIENCE out, it can create problems. Here is an idea. If companies, government etc..."force" employees to retire at age 65/67 (USA), then by god every politician in the USA should be FORCED out of office also!