Actually, no. I have plenty of mundane things to bring me down already. It's the end of cool as far as I'm concerned.

Common sense and reason have nothing to do with it. it is the law that if you are in public you are fair game for non-commercial photography.

What about when they ask for Slashdot account info? You may not think you're participating in social media, but you are.

"You will find that at a minimum 70%-80% grew up in poor, broken homes with dysfunctional families."

There's another possible reason for that. They're the ones who can't afford spiffy lawyers.

Well, it's not necesarily about deterrence. It's about accountability and keeping a criminal from doing the same thing again. That shouldn't be that hard to figure out.

"The presence of water on Mars in a geologic sense (as in what is needed to produce gypsum)..."

It would be terribly significant. Then if we found gypsum we would have a pretty good idea that drywall once existed, and of course finding the buildings would only be only a matter of time.

This is my favorite post of the day.

Yeah, but the only pattern he knows is producer-consumer.

" The headline is a fair summery."

And thus now is the winter of our discontent.

Thank you for reinforcing my point.

"Don't be stupid. Don't drive these companies away."

But is the alternative to let these companies be the de facto rulers, dictating their own terms?

Why is it that when CEOs are payed ridiculous compensation packages people say that "to attract the best talent you have to pay," but when it comes to teachers people say "they should be doing it for the love of it, not the money."

Well, your "take" is incorrect.

http://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0101/p83.html

I wanted to mod this but there is no "ew, gross" option.

"Having your computer have a globally routable IP address is a good thing, not a bad thing..."

Not from a security perspective.