interesting or not, and Gaga murder is justifiable.

Can anyone give me one provable example of a cat that would have lived but died because schrodinger opened the box?
If the industry is to be believed, new artists never got the chance because their seed money never made it through the studio into their hands. How can you prove these artists would have succeeded? The box was opened, and we went down a different path.
I believe don't believe for a second that the industry claims are true. But you cannot prove they are not because they cannot provide provable details of an alternate universe.

Buzz is no problem for me, unless I decide I WANT to add yet another email to my list to use it.
ETA on implementing it for Google Apps users is months away, and there may be questions on whether it is even implemented at all for those on the free plan.
I consider this odd. Google Apps users tend to either be schools/small biz, or geeks.
Sure, Schools and Small Biz may not provide Google with much traction for Buzz, but geeks are more likely to, especially geeks who obviously like Google Stuff (tm).
And yet, those are more likely to be the ones hitching a free ride.
Things that make you go hmmmm....

The sheer brilliance of slashdot is revealed in this post not by the poster (granted, good job though), but by the moderators who modded the post all the way up to +5 Informative instead of funny. If I could mod a mod, I'd mod that fucking hilarious.

By definition, a colony consists of more than one.

IANAL, but while you may be right about the lawsuit being legit up until now, the fact it continues seems frivolous.

Trying to check on the configuration of one of my switches using its built in html interface, I entered 10.0.0.101
Switch somehow had gone back to its default IP address, so it didn't respond.
Moments later, I was given a very helpful list of search queries for 10.0.0.101 by Bing.
Thank you Bing!!! Thank you for reminding me why I prefer Firefox over IE.

... but every time they call each other, the calls go straight to voice mail, as if the phones are never turned on. weird.

only on /. would this be considered informative instead of funny

Damn... I gotta go rewrite some code.

Seems I can edit many of the things you complain about?
Either you're looking about something I don't see, or you don't know how to do it?

Various parts of the US like to think of the other parts as different countries, and we would not be far from reality in doing so.

People in LA are only afraid of 4 things: Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water.

"A (good) normal paper book uses black text on a white-yellowish paper with a brightness of (completely guessing here) somewhere in the low 80s"

As I work at a book printer, I can tell you that is indeed a good book. Most books, and certainly 1/c (black) text or line art paperbacks which is the market we're talking about, are printed on the crappiest, least heavy, groundwood stock the publisher can get their hands on. And the filler materials the paper mills are starting to get into are getting less and less printable/quality oriented. Typically, the brightness ranges are in the 65 - 70 range, with only the highest quality books (with plenty of halftones, for example) going on 80 or 85 bright.

Still, your point is valid.

Sorry, I already applied for a patent on having the idea to patent the process of getting a patent.