Except the Swiss Army always trained for a defense against an invasion from the East.
There is clearly a change here.

I am baffled by the stupidity of the people.

In my town, Geneva Switzerland :the opposite would be done. It generates millions, lets build more of this.

A few years ago they tripled the municipal Police because they were generating millions in parking tickets.
There is now 1 guy for every 2-3 road.

And the speed/red lights cameras are multiplying like rabbits...

Are you enjoying...your American dream ?

Well some old dinosaur US companies or even universities own a full Class A.... do you think they need the address space more than a government ?

IBM CSC Dupont MIT Ford Apple USPS... etc.

see the list at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks

"Amazon has no confirmed there is no way to opt out of the ads on the new Kindle Fire tablets."

They no confirmed so its no sure there is no way out.

Yep I also have a Lenovo since more than a year, it was delivered with VeriFace pre-installed.
This shit is a bit slow to load however, Faster to just type the password...

Funny post.
I just watched some piece about a meta-study on hapinness in the last 40 years.
Conclusion :

Women are less happier than men AND less happier as they age.
The exact opposite for men.

source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWwQfwkutY&feature=plcp

I just checked my installation and it was already turned OFF.
I Installed Win8 two days ago. You just have to answer installation questions correctly I guess.

Slashdot : ads for nerds.

Slashdot : PR for nerds, Stuff nobody cares ?

The funny thing is that when i was playing The Elder Scrolls Arena on my ooold PC years ago (1995, that game came as NINE floppy at the time.), I was already seeing a near future with loads of players online in the same "world" and I was impatient.
few years after that in 1999, I was playing Everquest.

So they missed the window of opportunity by about a decade. Well done.

Some ppl really have life threatening issues.

News for nerds ?
Stuff that matters ?

Is this from the propanganda dept of slashdot ?

I first encountered WoW when I played the US beta, almost immediately stopped playing Everquest.
I then played the European beta, and bought the game as soon as it released.

I had tons of fun in the first years, then it slowly went downhill.
Arenas suck, resilience suck, extensions are way too slow and too small.
Microtransactions suck.
and worst of all, the community at least on french-speaking servers is AWFUL.