Administration policies are anti-tax? Really? The GDP suffers due to the heavy load of higher taxes and regulation.

The real story is that things like NASA, NIH, Roads/Bridges, border enforcement aren't important to dear leader, so the budget for those entities suffers.

Now make the case that NASA has suffered due to the anti-tax movement. I'm listening.

On which planet has the anti-tax movement won?

and it would be the final nail in the relevance coffin ...

Your argument would be more effective as a horse/buggy/whip analogy.

It is a great device and I know it has saved me money during long hot summers.

If you are worried about privacy, turn off your cell phones and computers. You've already been pwned.

I knew I should have looked it up ... Oh well. Thanks for being gentle.

All your bases are belong to us.

It used to be difficult to get an article posted on Slashdot. These days it is pretty easy to get posted as "anonymous reader."

The articles look like this, especially as we move into a new election cycle. Slashdot is on a long slow slide into irrelevance.

Should do a Slashdot Poll for Giant Mythical creatures/mutants likely to attack Japan during the 2020 Olympics.

umm, that was supposed to be "all the glowing comments about the athletes." First post ever, FWIW.

to allow the glowing comments about the athletes.

This is so ridiculous I don't even know where to start. Whoever is promoting this has no idea what is involved.

If you want to learn, buy a Xilinx demo board with a VGA or HDMI connector. You can learn something from it, and begin to see what a huge amount of work something like this requires.

Leave your high-minded ideas for open source (or free money from Kickstarter) and get a vague of idea of what you are proposing. The costs to fab anything are enormous. A $35 PCI-Express video card with no fan is a much better bargain.

Please don't "improve" slashdot. I quit scanning CNBC because the website is similar to this "new" look. I like a dense page with information and could care less what picture a bored mod selected to go with an article.

This look is not an improvement.

There is an early Bloom County cartoon about how the UI should hurt the user. It was funny. Leave it alone.

Let me simplify this for you since you may not have made through the first sentence before hitting reply:

Step back. Look at your surroundings. Find something else that deserves obsession. This isn't it.

Perhaps this wasn't visible on your iPhone display...