Sounds like a liability. "That car accident wasn't my fault. That particular robotic bartender always manages my alcohol intake perfectly, so it is the one at fault for screwing up and letting me drink a little too much, too fast. It was programmed to cut me off one drink sooner but a bug let it give me one more drink, and made me t-bone a taxi full of nuns on vacation."

I'll take the bartender I know, who pours me a beer the moment I walk in the door and makes sure I have a ride on the rare occasion when I allow myself to get carried away. He's a better bullshitter than any robot I've met, too.

So they turned a 4-year program into a 5-year program, with all 5 years at full price, I presume. If you need a year to acclimate freshmen, you either aren't doing it right, or you have the wrong students. Are the low-income target students dumber than high-income students? God help the low-income students when they leave school not only with bigger loans than their classmates, but now also an extra year's worth of debt.

Congrats to the Canadian Revenue Agency. You just forced all legitimate future Bitcoin transactions in Canada to either move out of Canada or be conducted in a manner that is technically illegal. Maybe a few large companies that are based around Bitcoin will submit to taxation (are there any in Canada?), but smaller companies and average citizens will either ignore this or circumvent it. Maybe they don't expect anyone to pay up and are just covering their asses, or even discouraging Bitcoin-based businesses from setting up shop there?

"Asps. Very Dangerous. You go first."

I bet that devilish hacker ate rice sometimes and probably used toilet paper on a regular basis, so why not push to ban those things, too? Surely no one uses those things, or Tor, for legitimate reasons. We have got to stop allowing comfort for the wicked.

Would perceptions be different if this hacker when by the name Kitten Lover rather than Demon Killer? Should we encourage people who apparently kill Demons?

Comprehensive, universal healthcare is an absolute must in my book. Senator Obama hinted at it, just enough to entice folks like me, then completely caved to the right once elected President. They love to pick on "Obamacare," though I am one liberal who is thoroughly disappointed in its scope and failure to ensure all are well covered in a truly affordable manner. Our watered-down non-system lags far behind those in France, Canada, and even England, both in terms of comprehensiveness and cost efficiency. I fully believe we have the greatest country in the world, thus we can do much better than we have.

Also net neutrality, copyright reform and greater consumer protection, severely limiting corporate political donations, and common sense and the spirit of laws being placed above loopholes. Congressional term limits have already been mentioned and are worth considering, as might be reforms to make it easier for non- GOP/Dem. candidates to get on ballots. Income tax reforms to close loopholes?

A reasonable living wage. Who can live without 4 roommates and raise a child on minimum wage or slightly above? The college kids my company pays $8-$9 an hour are surviving by taking on serious long term debt, and the older folks with kids rely on assistance programs and in some cases compassionate family members. Inexperienced and uneducated workers, or those with criminal records, too often seem to be doomed to lives of government cheese and perpetual poverty. Can't we do better?

We'd do that if we could in the US. There are just a few small unfortunate details that keep us from competing solely on cost, such as minimum wages, child labor laws, reasonable workplace safety laws, and relatively little currency manipulation. Work out those bugs and you can stop the Chinese copycats dead in their tracks.

There may be some good news in this particular case. For instance, we should be happy that a domestic company is involved at all in this. And OTEC, as it stands now, may only be a transitional technology in its infancy, meaning further development is necessary to make it widely commercially viable (so it isn't like China is stealing too much from us, if/when they copy it), and it is good practice and a chance for Lockheed to do science they and we can learn from. I don't think they expect this to become their core business, though they need to build OTEC plants (if they can do it while more or less breaking even, or better) to find out and to see what else they may lead to.

Do you want a 500E car to use all of that 100kph speed limit, too? If you want to use it all, you can't set prices arbitrarily based only on your own desires. I've driven on the Autobahn but was only wealthy enough to rent a tiny car capable of about 130kph. Too bad, I guess.

That's why the summary says it is inexpensive. $51 is almost exactly what I pay for 12Mb Uverse DSL in the midwest USA, which is making me a little bit sick right now.

ican haz fibre now??? NO.

No, you just because you suck at what you insist on doing despite considerable difficulties doesn't mean no one else can do it, or that you should be so bitter about it. Sorry you weren't instantly handed an awesome job immediately upon graduation, but maybe that is on you, not the world. Truth hurts sometimes, sorry about your crappy choice of a career path, and better luck next time.

I think this statement is very wrong, or at best inaccurate. "Linux" is not toxic to 90% of the population, because 98% of the population have no idea what the hell linux is and thus have no idea what to make of it. There is no stigma, just a severe lack of information that makes "linux" largely a useless, confusing and cluttering name for consumer-oriented electronics. In general, consumers don't care what the hell is inside their computers (for evidence, see the crap hardware Dell, HP, etc. put in their bazillions of machines), they just want them to work, and they know "Intel Inside" and "Windows" on a box mean they will probably be able to use what is inside.

I always say: If you find yourself in a BIG-ass hole, stop digging, or you'll look like a big asshole. Apparently Peter Moore disagrees with me, or just likes looking like a big asshole. Way to use an apology to make yourself look like an even bigger asshole, Pete.

What I read: "Our DRM is not DRM, morons."
Haha. Way to make peace with us, EA.

To rephrase EA's CEO's words into how customers see things, you get this:
"Yeah, you all know we suck, so we have to admit it, finally. We screwed you by shutting down servers we knew you were still rightfully using, some of our games were complete crap, we gouged you on price (and we'll continue to do that, duh!), and we totally fucked up with SimCity. But too bad, suckers. You can suck it. And oh yeah, stop bitching and buy the next game, cause we wuv you, or whatever. Where else ya gonna go? So like, sorry or something?"

I knew I should have taken the day off from reading Slashdot. Worst April Fools' Day prank ever, anywhere. Not funny, just very annoying. Good job whomever came up with it, and whomever allowed it. Congrats, you have erased any shred of a doubt that you are humorless nerds, and not intelligent geeks.