Could we have someone, maybe an editor, tighten up the summary a bit? Here's what I see:
idea : # times it occurs
"Let's mention this on /." : 3
"It's done" : 2
small runtime : 2
features : 3 (plus that laundry list of actual features)

Instead, let's try this:
"The Dao language has recently made its first beta release, and we think you Slashdotters will Eff'ing love it. Dao is an optionally-typed programming language that supports many advanced features (probably as many as Python ) with a small runtime (closer to Lua than Python). Besides optional typing, Dao also has built-in support for concurrent programming for multicore computers, very friendly C programming interfaces for embedding and extending, an LLVM-based JIT compiler, a Clang-based module for embedding C/C++ codes in Dao, and a Clang-based tool for automatic binding generation from C/C++ header files."

See? That wasn't so tough, probably took 5 minutes, and is much more readable....

+5 INFORMATIVE? What do you people do in your free time?

that Mr. Page was talking about!

Even if the farmer is technically a businessperson it's still clear that the SCOTUS ruled in favor of the large corporation (at the expense of everyone else), as they're now wont to do:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/business/pro-business-decisions-are-defining-this-supreme-court.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Whoops - this was funny but I accidentally mod'd it as "Overrated"

I can't seem to find a way to undo/change my moderation.

So I guess I'll do this, instead :/

Could I? Yes!
Will I? Dude - this is clearly an attempt to crowd-source something that would be awesome, but that I'm too lazy to do ;)

First, I want to say that XKCD rocks, and I do enjoy it when people post links from /. to there so I don't have to.

That said - can't someone come up with a script to do this for us? I'm thinking something like the UNIX fortune program (kinda like the one at the bottom of /.). We could even spruce it up with better and better AI/pattern matching over the years to provide better results.

Personally, I think this would be awesome!

Just earlier today I read on Slashdot that MIT is having trouble scaling up manufacturing here in the US (http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/02/28/2149244/when-its-time-to-scale-us-manufacturing-hits-a-wall) - it looks like they're already working on a solution :)

I can see Charlie Epps explaining how they'll model the mosh pit as a disordered gas, with the in it behaving in an ordered vortex-like state, in order to find the location of the killer!

I see an 'X' next to troll to tell /. this is not troll. "Nope, this is definitely a troll" I tell myself
flamebait? Nope, also accurate
politics, usa, education? Sure!

So where's my 'X' next to story?

I know that no-one RTFA's around here, but isn't it a bit much to simply quote the first couple of paragraphs of the article as the summary? Especially since the article is entirely opaque about why the ISPs will "have" to pay higher costs. It does a great job of beating the drum for it's chosen viewpoint, though.

And people wonder why Old Media News Services are going extinct - what's the point of "news" that uniformative AND biased?

*whoooosh*!

:)

This is awesome! My other problem is that I've got a number of AWS instances that did not begin life as in-house products. Will NetFlix release a tool to kill those off as well? Ba-dum-ching! I'll be here all week, folks :)

Given that the price of gas keeps going up, isn't every year a record year for gas prices?