This sounds more like the usual slashdot front page material. Someone forgot to mention that it also gives him the right to eat your firstborn - regardless of their age - but it is nonetheless much closer to what we usually see here now. It isn't funny, but neither were any of the April Fool's articles.

It's easy to say that when the person doing it doesn't have much of a chance of becoming your party's next spokesperson (again).

However I recall that your last POTUS used a tragedy (that killed even more people) to justify a terrible mistake that killed over 3,000 Americans and unknown thousands of non-Americans. I have never seen you criticize that use of a tragedy.

Is that your idea of an April Fool's joke? I have never heard anyone reach far enough into absurdity before to try to connect those two events. You have the freedom to hate on people that far and further, but there is absolutely no logical support between those two events. It is preposterous to claim that people angry over a pro-discrimination bill in Indiana would protest there to distract us from the email situation that Hillary is having.

By tasteless, are you referring to her calling Lubitz "deranged", or something else? Her monologue regarding President Lawnchair isn't much different from much of yours.

And for that matter I just saw some guy on google plus trying to resurrect the birther hysteria over him recently with new "allegations" regarding the Hawaiian birth. I'm surprised you haven't jumped on board that bandwagon yet.

We frequently have more profound conspiracy theories on the front page of slashdot than this. This not only isn't interesting but it also doesn't encourage immediate removal of President Obama. I find this disappointing, and I'm sure other slashdot readers do as well (albeit perhaps for different reasons).

This story isn't far off from some of the stuff that samzenpus typically allows to the front page.

I'm not sure how it is in her self-interest to disconnect others from reality; she doesn't need to recruit believers to continue to attract attention. It seems pretty clear that her presidential goose is cooked anyways, she just needs to keep bringing in enough attention to pull in revenue from the tabloids so she can land the fox news or reality tv gig that she aspires to.

Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest. She's not disconnected from reality, she's trying to disconnect you and me from reality.

She doesn't seem to be very good at it.

Explicit language might modify what would otherwise be there only by an implicit doctrine.

In general, a licensor can modify their own terms. So, if you are using the GPL on software to which you hold the copyright, and you add some sort of exception, it applies. You can't do it to other people's software.

I would moderate you up if I could. This is worse than not doing anything.

That would be even harder to believe than an April Fool's joke claiming that slashdot still had readers before today.

I am still having a little trouble with "we don't need our spies to spy". Maybe we do.

I am also having trouble believing that the kind of encryption we use on the Internet actually stops the U.S. Government from finding out whatever it wishes although IETF and sysadmins might be kidding themselves that it can. Government can get to the end systems. They can subborn your staff. Etc.

MS language is potentially worse than the default. And there is room for litigation to surprise us.

Hey, it's hard work being a time-traveling Martian posing as the leader of the free world. Sometimes I'm bound to let go somewhere, I figured since nobody reads this site anymore it would be as good a place as any. After all, if someone else told you that I, the POTUS, read slashdot, would you believe them? Of course not!

Yes. The last stuff I wrote that I couldn't compile today was in "Promal" or "Paradox". My C and C++ code from 1980 still builds and runs.

All of my web development is on Ruby on Rails. That environment has had a lot of development and I've had to port to new versions. So old code for RoR would not quite run out of the box, but it's close.