The FAA does not do anything important. I don't even know why that agency exists. /sarcasm

Stupid quote is stupid: "It was at the Xerox PARC labs in Silicon Valley in the 1970s that the Ethernet was developed to link different computer networks. "

Ethernet != Internet

Typing a URL? Piracy.

Science, chemical, and terrorism are all words with specific meanings. They also have "pretty much the definition of" whatever the writer meant, which is the issue at hand. Perhaps the solution is a little less of the latter and a lot more of the former?

STILSON SHOT FIRST

"H-y mom, today -- g-ogra-gy cla-- w- l-arn-d that Jack-o- -- th- ca--tol of M----------!

Support unicode in Slashdot tags and comments?

I would recommend:

http://www.howardforums.com/forums.php

When you visit a hardware store, and see a pack of incandescent bulbs that advertise 100% efficiency, you should thank the law of thermodynamics for obfuscating yet another specification.

In fictional settings, people retain enough dexterity to dial a phone while having a stroke.

If it looks like an apple, and it tastes like and apple, and if it turns into an apple tree after you bury it, it is an apple.

Language isn't that hard.

But I guess somebody's paycheck depends on reinventing the wheel?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3265

This is like requesting citation for the assertion that most traffic tickets are written by police.

If you don't know how to check the certificate chains that authenticate Regions, US Bank, Discover, TurboTax, E-Trade, etc, then Slashdot really isn't for you.

For comparison, TMo value plans offer that 200MB plan for $5/mo, or unlimited for $10/mo. If you can't give up your carrier subsidy, those prices double. Either way, you still pay too much. But that's what you get for contracting with the bigger oligopolist corp.

Common Sense just talked it over with Reality, and they both concluded that your just being a douche.