Completely agree, they have lost sight of their mission. It is clearly not to help students learn. Studies show most learners retain more from printed materials. They are prioritizing locking out the secondary market over actually providing the best learning materials possible.

It's federal, state, plus medicare/medicaid.

I think there is a lot of misunderstanding of how much people with higher incomes actually take home.

I lived a good chunk of my life in flyover country and made way less than 100k/year. I lived very comfortably. Then I lived a long time in NYC and made well north of 100k, then north of 200k. The money doesn't go as far, but more importantly, you're taxed as if you were still in flyover country and actually rich, but you're not. You're barely making ends meet. And so many tax deductions (almost all of them) no longer apply to you because you're so "rich." Meanwhile, all of your take home pay is going to rent. But, you know, you got to go where you can get the work.

This is not remotely accurate.

First, cut the 150k in half to account for taxes. Then, consider that in the bay area, property taxes and insurance can run 30-40% of your monthly nut.

A 150k income will allow you to comfortably afford a $500k or so house. Good luck finding that in the Bay Area.

I have a GTX 980, so I immediately RTFA and looked for the task they referenced in the Task Scheduler. FWIW, I did not find the task referenced in the article or anything at all related to nvidia. I have the latest driver package from nvidia installed. YMMV.

Even so, the claim that "users remain totally in control" is false. When you have to download a third-party exe someone created in their spare time and just happened to share freely with others in order to rid your computer of microsoft malware and get it to stop nagging you about the upgrade, users are not "totally in control."

BS, we all know weight gain is a simple matter of calories in versus calories out. /sarcasm

Seriously, I know enough people who have weight struggles and literally try to starve themselves trying to lose weight. It's painful for me to watch. Meanwhile, I and others eat pretty much whatever we want, and while I'm not rail thin, I've never had a problem maintaining a healthy weight. It annoys me when sanctimonious people go on their "why don't they just eat better and exercise" rant. Maybe more studies like these will make people open their eyes. Obesity is more complicated than that.

Most informative Slashdot comment I've ever read. And I've been reading for a long time.

If kids are old enough to pick up on the comment about erections and ask the question, I think they're old enough for some very basic factual information as a response. Sex is normal, and kids shouldn't have to learn about it from internet porn and misinformed elementary school friends.

Typo: Does should be doesn't.

Privacy settings control whether the general public sees information. It does prevent Facebook from selling the information for profit (which it does).

Truth of a statement is a valid legal defense against libel accusations in the U.S. And many other Western countries, but not in the UK. That is what the poster was referencing.

Excellent question. I would add to the list above the issue of food sources, as in animals in factory settings not getting food sources that are natural for them and cause digestion issues (e.g., cows eating soy, and I'm sure there are probably even better examples). A lot of people think diet/gut health may have some relations to autism, maybe not as a cause but as an exacerbating factor that can make symptoms better or worse. With her close connection with animals, has she observed that eating certain diets has affected anxiety levels or other behaviors in factory animals?

I would also be very interested in her thoughts on large-scale (industrial) versus small-scale (family) farming.

I feel like you're probably just trolling, but I can tell you that my chickens definitely have a concept of social justice. One is the alpha female, and if one of the non-alphas starts picking on another chicken, the alpha will basically step in and do what needs to be done to restore order. Usually this just entails her standing up really tall and flapping her wings a few times right in front of the bully as a warning. And chickens aren't even very smart.

Apes and chimps also have established social orders and conventions within their groups that include concepts of justice and fairness. There has been a lot of anthropological research on this.

This is an absolutely fantastic idea. :)

Of course, there is no way the lobbyists for the publishers would every allow it to happen. :(