Speak or yourself. I eat according to the food pyramid, and at 40, with moderate exercise, I'm in incredible shape.

If this is true, then this is a really profound discovery that could help millions of people.

What I'm wondering, is why no other society, that we know of, has discovered this low-tech, yet seemingly incredibly useful thing previously?

What if you went to an Indian casino, exchanged your dollars for chips, and when you went to leave and cash out your remaining chips, they refused to exchange the chips for dollars, and instead decided to close shop. Would you still trust the dollar?

I think you've got your analogy backwards and upside-down. The correct question would be, "Would you still trust the casino chips?"

I don't know about most people, but if I'm driving more than an hour or two, I'm renting a car so as not to put the miles on my own cars. I would never drive my commuter long distances

It's a big deal because a year later, lots of people STILL think it's the best car on the market.

I see this as being a real problem on Android and iPhone, because one needs to download a relatively large number of "apps" to get the same functionality built into Windows Phone right out of the box. Windows Phone has a lot fewer "apps" because there's obviously a smaller customer base right now, but also because fewer are needed in Windows Phone 8 than are needed in an Android or iOS environment.

$19B is a reasonableamount of money to spend on defense to make a network that - internationally - is bigger than Twitter disappear as a risk.

It's so big that nobody I know has ever heard of it. That's pretty amazing.

I read the web site, and I still don't understand what this web site is all about. Is it really just yet another messaging platform designed to get around SMS messaging charges? Am I missing something obvious?

1. There are tons and tons of ways to send messages to people last I checked. Why is this one worth "$16B"?

2. Who still pays for SMS messages? I've had unlimited texting plans for the better part of a decade, and they're cheaper than most people's cable TV bills. Are text messages significantly expensive outside of the US?

The Beta of Slashdot is horrible.

Sadly, I'm going to be moving on from Slashdot, but I don't know of anywhere on the Net has such good discussions with such relatively intelligent people. The stories on Slashdot often suck, but the moderation moderation, I think, is what has kept it such a great place to have discussions. Is there any other site that has similar moderation?

Who cares if it "feels right" or not? What a silly question. If one is an contractor, paid hourly, then why should it matter if the project "feels right"? Unless the subject of the project is something like child porn or genocide, then just do the damn work and take the pay.

When I was a developer (and a contractor), and I saw a project that was a mess, I'd think, "Oh good, this project is going to require a lot of work. I should be able to make a lot of money from this contract." My "feelings" about the quality of the code were irrelevant.

Nintendo needs some fresh blood in the upper ranks of management. These guys are still trying to wring more money out of 20-30 year old stories, characters, and technology. The Pokemon-Mario crowd has outgrown Nintendo, and those that are left are insufficient to support an entire gaming platform. I think they're incredibly myopic at this point. It's time to dump the whole Japan-themed everything if they want to continue to be able to sell to the world.

everything you buy.

Speak for yourself. I use cash.

Google just folded up their Google Wallet service for merchants a few weeks ago. I think they've just finished up their venture into online payments to anybody other than themselves. I would think that anybody who actually had any real information about the current state of online payment stuff would know that,

Besides, the article is on Reddit, a website that currently has, as it's top story, "This actually happened on MSNBC today (youtube.com)"

This was a horribly uninformed Slashdot article, all around.

I think it's time they dump the whole Japanimation thing. The Japanese-themed content is stale, and a relatively tiny niche of worldwide console players. I think it's time to jettison the whole Japanese-themed content and move towards something a bit more appealing to the world at large. I look at Nintendo, as a lifelong game player, and most of the content doesn't appeal to me at all.

Windows XP has been out for 12 years and they just started to look into the problem last month?

Or you can look at it in another way: "They fixed a bug on a 12 year old OS?! Awesome!"