Canadian here. I work 8:30 to 5:00 with an hour lunch. I'm on salary, and I while I am technically on call 24/7, I am quite sure to rarely ever work more than the 37.5 hours a week I'm paid for. I get 4 weeks paid holiday a year, and free health insurance. I have prescription, optical, and dental coverage through our group plan at work. Life here is pretty good. What I see on the news from the U.S. makes me shake my head some times. You guys just don't seem to get it.

I agree completely. Bill's podcast is funny. What kills me is that he botches up reading the ads so badly that they also become very entertaining. I remember one time he just stopped reading an ad halfway through and blasted the advertiser for selling a really terrible product. I think it was some kind of 'healthy' snacks or something. Needless to say, he lost that advertiser that day. Please nobody tell Bill that he could just record one 'good' take of an ad and just edit it in every week.

"Proven Liar" - citation please.

"Paid Shill" - citation please.

The graphs you two are arguing about are apples and oranges. One is a graph of temperature readings, the other is a graph of temperature anomalies. They also cover different time periods, and have different vertical scales. I should also point out that the anomalies graph quite visibly dips downward after the year 2000. Just saying. It cannot be argued that there isn't a 'pause' in the warming. It cannot be argued that temperature co-relates poorly with CO2 levels. What can be argued are the reasons why this is so.

Wheddon is an over-rated, talentless hack. Nothing he does really succeeds because of this simple fact. With the single exception of Cabin in the Woods, the bulk of his output is unwatchable, unenjoyable dreck. I suspect, for this reason, that Cabin in the Woods was an idea stolen from someone else.

It is entirely possible that trying to digitize signals above the hearing threshold will produce lower-order harmonic artifacts that ARE within hearing range, but it is safe to say that this is making the audio worse, not better. It is not humanly possible to hear or experience harmonics much above 20Khz, even if you are very young with fresh ears. Also, I'd love to know what audio sources you are using that capture these elusive unhearable nuances - since ALL recording equipment rolls off above 20Khz - you are claiming to hear things that aren't actually there.

You can stream to a Chromecast from your PC? News to me. The only thing it seems to be able to do is to show you stuff on your TV that you could watch on your phone or tablet. It's a pretty useless device.

Mine works just fine, thanks. I'm not really sure what people are comparing the Ouya to - it's miles better than any of those Android TV sticks, better than the Raspberry Pi at actually running things at speed. It's not particularly locked down - I've side-loaded lots of things onto mine. Sure it's only got 8Gb of memory in it, but I've got everything on a 128Gb USB stick shoved in the back of it. Right now I have a handful of Ouya games, lots of emulators, Quake 1, 2, and 3, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein on it. The controller is pretty good. I honestly can't work out what people keep bitching about it. For $80 I've had a lot of fun with it...

FYI, early seasons of B5's effects WERE done on home PCs - Lightwave and VideoToaster on Amigas.

A-fucking-men. A bunch of crying man-babies are currently the ones ruining this site.

So shoot me. I like the beta. It is my preferred mode of looking at Slashdot. All the bitching about it degraded the site far more than anything in the beta did.

I have a question for the no-javascript crowd. I've been wondering this for a while, so I'm really not picking on you in particular to ask this. But I'm really curious. If not javascript... what? As a web developer I encounter problems in web page design that can be solved in one of three ways: static delivery of content to the end user, with no interaction, can be accomplished with simple HTML and CSS. Dynamic content where logic must be applied to select and serve the right content to the right user can be accomplished with server-side scripting (my favorite tool for this purpose is PHP). Interactive content, where the user has to interact with page elements that appear, disappear, make logical decisions on user input, validate form input, etc. can only be accomplished on the browser with a universally available client-side scripting language. The only language that fits the bill, in my experience, is javascript. Don't get me wrong - javascript isn't my favorite scripting language by a long shot, but by being ubiquitous, its the language of choice on the internet. So, how would YOU solve the design problems of Slashdot without client-side logic and interaction without use of javascript? I'm genuinely curious. If you don't have a reasonable answer to that question, then I'm puzzled about your comment.

I'm sure eventually they'll dumb it down to the point where they just hand you a soft sponge, and the game will be to see if you can avoid poking your eye out with it.

I'm betting on Fox to bring us "Ow, My Balls!" first.

Maybe he should behead his opponent and then shout, "Are you not entertained?"

Going by the quality of their website and the various trailers, this Maia game looks pretty terrible. I'm not surprised not many Mac users have bought into it. Really lacks polish, frankly, unless the trailers are giving me a really bad impression of their product.