Ok, let me try:

Dilanian has done some strong work and has at times been highly critical of the CIA. For example, in July 2012 he wrote a piece about sexual harassment at the agency that angered the press office. In reply to an email from a spokesperson, Dilanian said that complaints about his story were “especially astonishing given that CIA hides the details of these complaints behind a wall of secrecy.”

Hrm. Sorry, not seeing the "full editorial control" bit.

Newsflash: Reporter covering CIA does actual research before publishing. More at 11.

Actually, given the state of the current media, I guess this is pretty shocking. Most reporters just make up whatever they want, or interview "experts" whose sole claim to fame is having a blog with 10,000 daily visitors. Doing real fact-checking is pretty rare these days. It figures that Slashdot would see it as "suspicious".

Meh. No different than today.

That's why I said airfare costs half as much :p Obviously I don't expect the entire savings to be passed on to the customer, but we would see a significant drop in prices. Even without any drop in price, though, it would be a huge improvement. No more uncomfortable seats. No more awkward conversations with complete strangers. No more screaming babies. No more crappy airline food. Fuck, I'd be willing to pay them EXTRA for it!

There are other potential benefits too ... imagine being able to get a shuttle that picks you up at your door, with the pod on it. You lay down, go to sleep, and wake up on the other side of the world. You don't have to worry about parking. You don't have to spend 2 hours wandering around the airport prior to boarding. You don't have to strip down and be scrutinized by TSA agents. All the downsides, completely avoided.

Why the hell aren't we working on this?

I know you're joking, but I would absolutely LOVE that. We just don't have the technology for it yet ... but if we ever perfect safe and cheap suspended animation, this would be the perfect solution for everyone. Airlines can cram 4 times as many people on a single flight, airfare costs half as much, and your journey subjectively lasts a fraction of a second. It's a win-win proposition.

If your flight spends more than 24 hours in the air, you're probably the victim of some elaborate hoax.

Do people still use laptops on planes? I can't remember the last time I did. I bought a tablet 4 years ago and I'm pretty sure my laptop has been relegated to the cargo hold since then. I rarely see people with laptops on planes any more.

That's one way to raise money for the military. I'm not sure you'd enjoy flying in the back of a C-130, though.

This statement is bogus. 3rd parties cannot sue under copyright law. VLC is developed by multiple parties, some of whom wanted VLC in the app store & others who didn't.

Portraying this as Apple & VLC vs the FSF is a misrepresentation of the situation.

If their PIN was 1234, yes. Doubly so if they also happened to be a lucrative target thanks to the whole world knowing they were millionaires.

We don't yet know what exactly lead to these photos being leaked. Maybe it was a problem with the "bank", or maybe it was a problem with their passwords / security questions. Either way, celebrities should be far more careful about this kind of thing since they know (or should know) that their fame makes them a prime target.

I don't need a good reason. I don't have a good reason for eating meat, either. Or for mowing my lawn. Or for going to the movies. Life isn't about "good reasons", nor is it about making excuses to placate self-righteous pissants.

You're a bad person for commenting on Slashdot. You have no good reason to be commenting, and your actions directly hurted my feewings. Dick.

Cops don't either. In this particular case, there is an exemption to the law. Ergo his actions do not constitute a violation of the law.

He absolutely should, but what extent is that? Making an incorrect lane change? At worst they could charge him with lying about the accident, but even that would be unlikely to stick; people misremember details about accident all the time. If we charged every drivers who incorrectly described an accident, half the country would be in jail.

Funny; in my first hand experience, and in the experience of many other people with whom I have spoken, the vast majority of people who make such sweeping and bigoted generalizations about the police are scum-sucking narcissists who prefer harassing decent police officers over treating them like fellow human beings. That's my experience as a middle class white guy, and most people say the abuse is even worse if one is a middle class white cop.

Pfffft, screw chipped squirrels, I want Squirrel Chips!

Yeah; the dumb kids sitting at the back of the class eating their crayons, who didn't realize Orwell was referring to communist regimes which already existed at the time. In other words, the same idiots who make up the majority of the various Conspiracy Theory movements today.

Man, I wish I were psychic :(

I totally get your point though. If only we'd never invented the printing press and the telegraph, we'd be completely tyrant-free by now. These newfangled gadgets are always making the world more dangerous for us. Pretty soon we won't even have lawns for yelling at kids to get off of.