..they'd be spending most of their time in the left-most (slowest) lane.

You mean the right lane, pal. No wonder you're getting driverless cars so soon. UK drivers don't know the correct side of the road to drive on!

Nothing you read should ever be assumed to be true. It does not matter whether it is written on Wikipedia, on a dead tree, or some other website. Critical thinking and fact checking are paramount. Does it smell like BS? It probably is.[1]

[1] This statement was retrieved verbatim from a 6,000 year old marble tablet in the hills of Shangri La. So it must be true.

According to my ex-coworker, he received a one-year edit ban once discovered, which was increased to a lifetime edit ban when he appealed.

Now that's the kind of justice we need in the real court system!

"Bitch! I already told you you were guilty!"

This is a fantastic snippet to take out of context: "inaccurate posts aren't edited by moderators or community and are often supported by a circle jerk of clueless idiots". It's going to be my forum sig for every forum I belong to!

My computer isn't assembled right now, you insenstive clod!

No Stryker variant mounts a Bushmaster. So, either the vehicle was a Bradley or the weapons system was likely a M2 .50 cal machine gun or Mk19 automatic grenade launcher.

"Lead the way!"

And people said it was daft to build a corporation on a swamp! But we built it anyway!

Managing patches requires quite a different skillset from managing people.

I find it amusing that articles such as these that push the envelope of technology appear on Slashdot and then the luddites come out of the woodwork. Particularly amusing is the fact that we all entrust our lives to technology and computers on a regular basis, including in the airplanes that we have been flying in for years. The sad part is that the vast majority of you will meet your end in a dreadfully boring fashion or possibly in an automobile collision with a drunken slack-jawed yokel, but hardly any one of you will go down in a glorious, flaming plane crash.

I guess the joke will be on her when she finds herself on the "B Ark". ;)

And yes, Xmission is awesome.

Unfortunately Comcast and US West/Qwest/Century Link have been quite successful in keeping it out of some of the more major cities, namely Salt Lake City. I used to find this very aggravating but then I moved out of state. I still don't have fiber though.

More witches!