Why would anyone want to watch someone else play video games?

Have you never heard of YouTube? Try searching for "let's play", sometime. Some of those videos have over a million views. Even the less popular stuff, like Minecraft, pulls in enough advertising money for these people to make a living from it.

slowing the rotation of the earth down or something

Actually, as far as AGW is concerned, wind power has two advantages: not only does it produce no CO2, it also removes energy from the atmosphere.

Just because the author asserts that the password system is broken doesn't make Randall Munroe's point about passwords incorrect.

That was the first thing I thought of, but I still thought the author made a few good points - especially the part about wanting to get rid of passwords, entirely - and I wanted to see what other Slashdotters thought.

http://www.skepticalscience.co...

Also, if you had any interest in actually looking, all the numbers you need to do the math are available on the Internet.

and this is EXACTLY what's wrong with programmers today!

I'd love to agree with you, there, but when I got started programming, VAXen were all the rage, and programmers were still taught to program as if CPU and memory were unlimited resources. Sorry, but this is one philosophy you can't blame on "programmers today."

What I want to know is, what ever happened to fuse-based proms, and why we can't use similar technology to store important data? I have to believe that, with current technology, we could create proms with a density at least as high as current usb keys, and since they're just microscopic wires in a hermetically sealed package, they'd last basically forever.

You missed a word: "officially".

you therefore find the concept to be so ridiculous as to be outside the realm of plausibility

You need to learn how to read - specifically where I used the phrases "slightly less believable" and "most people". There are definitely exceptions to that rule.

You're a perv.

One of the things I find makes the show slightly less believable is that Sheldon seems to be completely asexual. In reality, as far as I can tell, most people as smart as Sheldon are obsessed with sex. (Feynman and Hawking, for example.)

I find it interesting that Akamai is complaining about server vulnerabilities, when something like 30% of all the alarms on our IPS are set off by hosts they control.

I still can't get used to the 16 by 9 format.

I'm with you, there. Sadly, it looks like no one agrees with us.

Maybe that's the real reason we don't have it yet.

You're probably right about that.

While I don't really believe this, it wouldn't surprise me if, in the future, there was a big news story about how the cold fusion guys were right, all along. Why? Just think about how the world's power structure would change, if it was real. Demand for fossil fuels would drop to maybe 10% of what it is now, almost overnight... power companies would be out of business... and so on. Portable fusion reactors would dramatically transform the world, so there's plenty of incentive for the powers that be to supress such a technology.

Error messages, too, have disappeared

Wow, I totally agree with you, on that. For example, one reason I've always preferred Firefox over IE is that, when it couldn't get connected to a website, it would basically just say "I can't get connected to that site". My first question was always, "well why can't you get connected?". Were you able to find look up the name? Did you get a network error, like "connection refused" or "network unreachable?" Now, Firefox is doing the same thing. Holy crap, is that irritating.

Nowhere was this more obvious than right here on Slashdot where, a few years ago, some woman (I don't remember her username) who owned a hosting company in the Bay Area was whining that college grads were expecting to get $60,000/yr. I'd be surprised if you could even eat for that kind of money, there.