You just described LA and San-Francisco too, though.

Whole Foods has some very attractive looking produce, but it's 3x more expensive than any other store in my area, even comparing organic to organic. Their bulk granola was a good price for a while, but then it shot up, and now it's more expensive *and* has more sugar than the organic boxed stuff from the normal grocery stores. They do have a nice wine-tasting thing on Fridays, though.

Yes, Google, that has done everything it can to kill the microSD slot, physical keyboard, and removable battery now wants to swing back towards upgradable phones. Whatever.

Per the Wikipedia page, it's been offered since 1984. I took it in 2000 or 2001, and my university also accepted it to skip out of CS101 when I was considering switching to CS.

THIS is why I still come to Slashdot. Thank you!

I think that at some point society becomes inseparable from the creative works that influence it. A culture becomes so suffused with references and allusions to novels, music, movies, that they become almost essential knowledge. At that point (and this is what the expiration of copyright is supposed to enforce), the rights ought to go to the public. This concept where copyright could last for 90 years is a pretty new one. It was supposed to be much shorter.

Today's myths and legends and fairy tales and other cultural keystones were someone's creative "property," once, and it would be bizarre if one were, say, prevented from reinterpreting King Arthur, Robin Hood, Beowulf, Shakespeare, the Bible, the Iliad, etc. etc. Some things from a century and less ago like Holmes, Cthulhu, Superman, Mickey Mouse, and so on could be argued to be getting pretty close to a level like that.

From a highway, I've walked to where there is no cell service

This is ten feet from a highway in any direction, if you have T-Mobile.

I've been replacing my burnt-out bulbs with CFLs (provided free by the power company) for about four or five years, and every single one is mounted either horizontally or inverted. Not a single one has ever died on me.

Browse this thread at 0 or +1. Slashdot is not a microcosm of the country, but what you will read is pretty much a good representation of what the majority of Americans believe.

Yeah. The summary just highlights the bizarre insulated bubble that so many social media enthusiasts seem to live in.

OCZ's SandForce firmware was junky for a while and caused all sorts of problems, but AFAIK that was sorted out quite a while ago. I bought a Vertex 3 a couple of years ago, and had some issues for the first week--updated the firmware to the latest and have not had an issue related to it yet. Aside from that, I don't know that they have any actual hardware-related reliability issues that don't plague all of the manufacturers.

With the recent "revelations" (they're not), it would be obvious that xkcd was pretty far off the mark here. The NSA is engaging in a far-reaching fishing expedition that is not practical to conduct with wrenches.

In addition to the very good points made by the other people that responded to your comment, that's not actually the average cost to go to a university. That may be the average cost of a private school or the average out-of-state tuition for a school or something, but if you go to a state-subsidized school in the state that you are a resident, it's probably closer to $10k/yr on average.

Sorry, I went crazy there and cited the Congo number. The DR is 140.

Check out the number of deaths per 100k vehicles at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate for a slightly different perspective. 6000 for DR, 8.5 for the US.