This reminds me of the shit on Facebook where people like pages marked, basically, "I have never read a book in my life and I'm proud of it."

Western society is in a death spiral, and Idiocracy is coming far faster than predicted.

All right, tell you what, I'll meet you in the middle. Neither should be a scheduled substance (except with respect to regulation to prevent minors from getting at it, etc.).

My point was informed primarily by the overall harm of each drug. While I'm sure you may enjoy a glass of something now and then and are at little risk for falling into alcoholism and letting it control your life, not everyone can. Nobody's ever beaten their wife to death while stoned.

I'm not an alcohol drinker myself, aside from the very occasional treat. My grandfather was a not-well-controlled alcoholic, however, and that affected my father greatly, and that's informed, to a degree, my own attitudes on it. I've also personally seen a lot of stupid and harmful shit done under the influence of alcohol. But I'm not about to take it away from responsible users.

But let me grow a plant in my own private property if I want to.

I came here to say this, so good on you, AC. Alcohol should be a schedule 1 (or 2 if you're in Canada) drug, and cannabis should be regulated like cigarettes. ID laws, taxes, etc.

Neither Chomsky or Ayyadurai seem to have heard of RFCs.

Tell you what, Adobe. I'll pay for security patches to your near-ubiquitous software products if you accept criminal liability for any damages incurred if I get keylogged and my bank accounts emptied/credit cards stolen/identity stolen/network compromised as a result of an Adobe software flaw that led to me being exploited.

Deal?

As a Canadian who had his default bandwidth setting turned down to the lowest of the three options Netflix offers when Netflix did this, I can assert that you are correct, and you can still change the setting now. They sent everyone an email notifying of the change and instructions on where to change it.

Now if only we could get some sort of queue function (without the DVD by mail service, there are no queue options, so if you want to watch a movie later, you have to remember it).

Either your credibility in this post just went out the window with a loud woosh, or I've been paying for am imposter video streaming subscription claiming to be Netflix for over a year now. Pretty convincing branding and credit card processing for a fake.

This is /. and not /b/, you know.

You don't get anything done on a public imageboard, unless that thing you're trying to do is posting porn/shock and gore/kittens/stupid image macros. Any serious organization is done in IRC or elsewhere. I took part in the RL protests against Scientology, but I'm not particularly interested in joining along in DDOSing large organizations with lots of lawyers.

Direct contact with intelligent extraterrestrial live does seem to have a significant impact on society. In the world of Star Trek, sometime between the 20th century and the 'now' of the 24th century, and likely after first contact, society finally decided that there were better things to do than pushing spreadsheet columns around to make a profit for investors and making cheap, useless, overpriced gadgets imported from third-world sweatshops.

The Earth of Star Trek is also a post-economy society. Money no longer exists, and the entire society is built around socialism if not communism. This seems to evade a lot of people. Eliminate poverty and economic disparity and you free up an unimaginable amount of mental cycles that the global population was previously devoted to keeping up with the Joneses/acquiring wealth. Now, humanity lives (by and large, according to the show) to explore the universe and improve the world. The technology is just set dressing.

I believe you mean 662. Ray Bradbury didn't have the Internet; we do.

He's sticking to the technical, narrowly-focused truth, but using words that to someone not looking for pedantic technicalities would interpret broadly (and falsely).

VA: Here is my source code for the program I've written, "EMAIL." I'm registering copyright on it.
News: VA, inventor of "EMAIL," blah blah today blah blah.
John Q. Public: Huh, this guy invented email. I thought [AOL|Hotmail|their ISP|Google|Microsoft Outlook] invented email."
Slashdot crowd: WHARRRRRRGAAARRBBLL

I actually invented the Blu-Ray disc before I was born, but I decided to let Sony claim credit for it because the PS3 would've been an even more miserable flop for its first three years otherwise.

You got to drive a ZAMBONI?! AC, you lucky bastard!