Mod parent funny. (But what I was looking for in the comments was time-based electricity rate considerations.)

But being a s-hole country explains why no one cares? However I'm still interested in how the stolen data will be used and abused...

Moderators voted Insightful which I'm taking as proof it should have been Funny,

I used to have a delusion that the moderation system could be fixed. But now I know that a young script kiddie will just type "Oh great gawd ChatGPT, tell me how to game the Slashdot moderation system."

"You have done badly, grasshopper."

I don't think it helps to feed the trolls and definitely doesn't help to propagate vacuous Subjects.

Have I guessed your intention properly? Or am I projecting my historical focus? I think the YOB is merely the latest in a series and there is probably worse to come. No, I can't imagine who could be worse than the YOB, but I couldn't imagine worse than Dubya and I therefore proclaim my imaginative powers have already been exhausted.

Quoted due to the sock puppets with mod points. The vestigial moderation system is not one of the best features of Slashdot.

With regards to the GPP, I'm curious about the age. Any easy way to map a UID to its birthday?

Should have also been modded up on a dimension for "accurate prediction".

Just the ACK, though I want to remind you that "you people" aren't listening.

Sorry, too tough of a question. I think I'd have a better shot at picking five nonfiction books... Even if the dimensions were clearly defined, picking the top SF would be really tough. And should fantasy be included in the consideration? Two examples did pop into mind in response to your question, though I don't think I could claim "top" status for either. I thought the style of Stand on Zanzibar was quite impressive, but perhaps it was merely one of the first multi-threaded books I read. In the humor category When Harlie was One comes to mind, but maybe that's AI overhang? Asimov wrote some great stuff and I was big into Heinlein for a while, but I think I grew out of his stuff. I already mentioned Banks as a more recent author whose SF work I mostly liked. Seems like I've mostly stopped reading SF now... Only four books last year out of more than a hundred... I see one from Vernor Vinge, another excellent author, a Frederich Pohl, and two from newbies Becky Chambers and Edward Ashton. Also nearing the end of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 without much liking any of it.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

I wish I could say I'm surprised.

However, this has been a consistent pattern that goes back to the 1930s and I wouldn't raise an eyebrow if you corected that to the 1830s. Companies know that you make the most money by selling to both sides.

That's not even vaguely what I said, so it's unclear if this is some kind of language issue or the result of a disability, but I'm just feeling worse and worse for you. You somehow believe the cold war was about communism?

I'd say Microsoft won that war, and everyone else lost.

Well, I'll have to admit, I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.

Seriously, the idea that we know all the practically important physics there is is the kind of thing only somebody who's never done science or engineering would believe.

Wow, I had no idea you were dumb enough to fall for the Red Scare.