I like Slashdot. Frequently, there's interesting, if not somewhat bizarre, discussions on this site. Plus there are quite a few highly educated people who hang out here and throw in some interesting comments now and then. But Slashdot is not (at least to date) a news site. It's more of a tabloid. Not to say that there is anything wrong with that but to use Slashdot as a source of serious information? Not unless serious vetting takes place for the stories posted here.

...is it too much to ask that submitters read the articles they submit?

Yes, yes it is.

Heh, that's our unoffical state motto "Don't [mess] with Texas".

Best reason I have heard for NOT sending money to the federal government. The federal government, in many many cases, is simply overhead. If it were a business (as our republican friends think it should be), it would be trimmed down and the redundant services between states and federal government would be eliminated (with the states taking priority as the Constitution implies). I'm not even a republican and I would support such changes wholeheartedly.

To send money to the federal government, only to have that money sent back to the states (with conditions attached), is wasteful, supports corruption at the federal level, and empowers special interests. It's time to start putting the federal government back in the hands of the citizens, don't you think?

New corporate motto: Do Some Evil

...the subsidies they have to pay Apple in order to carry the iPhone are drastically reducing their [insanely high, customer gouging] profits.

There, fixed that for you.

Siri is interesting, and probably a good start, but the noise filtering routines need work. When I try to use Siri in my noisy, diesel powered Jeep, well let me just say that the results can be quite amusing. I wonder, to improve the routines does the chip have to be redone?

And so the difference between writing it out on a piece of paper verses writing it out on a computer screen is...?

Granted, that is the crux of the issue -- where does it become self-incrimination -- and it's not an easy answer.

Google went from "Do No Evil" to "Amoral Megacorp" in record time. It's the age we live in (everything happens faster).

Doubt it will catch on as a summer vacation thing to do.