I keep saying this, but you don't listen. Both private industry and government organizations are run by people. Until we can replace people with something better, we're still going to have problems.

Maybe self-published music along with the RIAA stuff? That's how they do Books.

My book is $2.99. That's the scientifically-calculated appropriate price.

My book is $2.99, DRM-free, and comes in multiple formats. But it's about running, so there's limited interest on Slashdot :-)

If I could 'rent' a book from Amazon or my library or a publisher for a reasonable fee, maybe $1.15, I would. I might even pay a little more.

The trailer for Transformers 3 shows the Apollo astronauts landing, then Cronkite announcing that they're going into radio silence, as though if the moon landing site had rotated away from the Earth. In reality, as we know, and as they were careful to explain at the time, the moon is tidally locked, so the astronauts, once they landed, would never go out of radio contact. The Cronkite audio refers to the orbiter going out of contact.

This pisses me off a) because it's stupid, and b) because the idea of humans landing on the moon is now so far-fetched that they can make a movie about it with total disregard for simple facts.

We used to be awesome, extending our reach into space. Now we sit back and spend millions on fake space spectacles, allow the already rich to steal billions, and spend trillions on useless wars, but we spend next to nothing on real space travel.

"Most" Americans don't, which is why things are the way they are. Those of us who do wish there was somewhere better out there.

... if you imagine the narrator is Roy from "The IT Crowd"

Normally, it's the poll itself that's a waste. Now, with the new design, the size of the poll has grown enormously, so an appropriate of screen real estate is wasted.

The comment summaries delegated to grey boxes, y'know, because they don't rank high enough to be important, take up WAY too much space. Comment previews still take a disgusting amount of time to render. But at least I can cut and paste in comments now (using Chrome).

There were government thugs with machine guns at subway stations in Boston last night (New Year's Eve). How long before someone gets shot by them, or by a cop for "resisting" at one of these DUI stops?

I have a book ("Chasing the Runner's High") that's available from a number of venues, one being the iBookstore. The iBookstore has the crappiest presentation of any online bookstore, bar none. You have to use your device to access it - you can't browse on your computer. And you can barely find a book if you know it's there - browsing, even on the iPhone/Pad, is almost useless. Sure you can write a seperate app for your book, but who wants to do that? And even if you do, it gets lost in the mess that's the iTunes app store. Apple might be a player in eReaders, but eBook shoppers go to places that provide a better interface to actually buy books.

Just wonderin'. How many Slashdotters have written their congresscritters to encourage them to support real Net Neutrality? Posting on Slashdot might be fun, but it doesn't carry much weight with Congress. Letting Congress know what you think might do some good.

Are you all now happily distracted from the recently implemented tax giveaway for the rich?