Ulbricht appeared in court on Friday, and after a request from his legal team has a bail hearing scheduled for October 9th.

I see Soulskill was kind enough to update with how to turn off images. What about those of us who'd prefer never to see this abomination implemented in the first place?

Once it's up, that's it. Slashdot as we know it is over. Kill it: there can be no compromise with something so shallow, so poorly functioning, and so obnoxious.

That this has even been proposed is a sign of colossal ignorance on the part of the owners and staff. You still do not know what makes readers come here, which is itself dismaying. If you don't have the initiative to actually inspect your own website, I doubt any of you will have the backbone to admit this is a huge mistake and put a stop to it.

The British satirist Chris Morris authored 12 columns in the Observer, a British newspaper. He built up to a spoof suicide under the pseudonym 'Richard Geefe':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Class_Male/Time_To_Go/

Interesting that his satire has now become a reality for one journalist.

Even the humble home brewer is under scrutiny now.

Since human hands can be employed to lethal ends, I daresay these evil and completely non-essential items frequently found on a person's being could be next on the chopping board.

I personally am more worried about them banning lumpy fruit salad; there is no greater joy than at the start of a flight covertly emptying a plastic packet of it into a sick bag:

Halfway through the flight post-meal very loudly pretend to vomit into said bag, then proceed to eat the fruit salad out of it with a little plastic spoon.

As for those who notice...they'll remember you for years!

I read the title as 'Meth':

For once a misreading made perfect sense in the summary title's context: use of amphetamines throughout World War II on land and air personnel is well-documented. There's a phrase one hears infrequently that amphetamines 'won the Battle of Britain' - fending off constant attack from the Luftwaffe made necessary the use of stimulants as hiring and training a new pilot took too long. Whether it really did tip the scales in that battle we'll never know. As one would expect abuse orose within both Allied and Axis forces, and the spike in use persisted after the war. The Vietnam conflict saw American troops use methamphetamine very widely, and today the drug is popular amongst the poor as a relatively inexpensive stimulant.

If there's anything that isn't widely known by the public and merits publicizing it's history of drugs such as this in the context of 20th century events like warfare. What laid ground for a forerunner to the modern drugs situation to me represents a phenomena of greater gravity than the serial numbers of tanks which one would expect would be used simply through using good old oxymoronic common sense.

Presently there's a drug by the name of 'Modafinil' which mimics amphetamine but removes almost entirely the euphoric element and much of the crash that accompanies sudden cessation. It has been around for a number of years, and sees much use in modern conflicts. It also has much off-label use, and has even been used by astronauts to cope with heavy exercise regimens.