But your rant is not gonna sit well about a dead nearly centurian.

You don't have any idea if he ate his own product. He may have lived to 97 because he knew what was in Doritos, and so chose not to.

Try watching football on a DVR. Much more enjoyable.

...cause they've reduced the chance to miss school by 20%. Hey, here's a thought! If we go down to one day a week of school, they won't be able to miss more than one day a week of school! Attendance will skyrocket!

In fact, of course, they are mandating missing school. They should factor the extra day at home into their attendance as a day being missed by every student every week.

This is why Google+ will fail. FB understands this, Google doesn't. And I don't think most folks on Slashdot, do, either.

Really, Facebook is a more of a female social vehicle. If you're not female, I think you'll have trouble getting it. Women, as a general rule, are a lot less private than men.

Frankly--I don't get it, mostly. I work at Facebook. I was leery of the job offer. Then I realized that my wife spends all damn day on Facebook. And that there are lot more women in the world like her than there are men in the world like me. I don't care for people to know things about me, and if someone knows my birthday I wonder why they care. However, my wife wants to share. The more people that know more about her, the better.

The fact that FB was created by a (male) borderline Aspie geek is ironic, but has probably led to the deconstruction of FB privacy barriers too--he just doesn't understand why people would feel like they need to be private. And in the internet age, he has a point--there isn't much privacy left anyways, like it or not. G+ knew things about me that I hadn't explicitly told it, like which cities I've lived in over the last 10 years. At least FB only knows things that you have chosen to share of your own will.

$86M seems like chump change. I'm surprised that MS hasn't bid up the value of that real estate, except that they would have to eat crow to support an OSS browser. But I'd think that they'd make that $86M pretty fast back if they could redirect firefox to bing. Or at least make Google pay more for the privilege ;)

Maybe MS doesn't want Mozilla to have more financial resources, even if it would mean costing Google more money?

And btw, who accounts for the other $19M of royalty for that real estate?

+ babysitter? Sounds like, "no".

I wish that Hollywood would understand that making money of movies is not a god-given right, that folks won't go to movies just cause they're there.

I saw an interview with Favreau, where he said something like this movie "gave him a chance to experiment blah blah". Tip: movies that want to be commercially successful should not be seen as a director's playground of "visuals" etc. They should tell a story that the audience will be interested in.

If Favreau wants to experiment, he should do it on the indie circuit with $5M budgets. Or accept that his $100M experiments only demonstrates that doing something for his own enjoyment are not what others will enjoy as well.

GWB did. Did you raise a hue and cry then?

and pricing will be âoecompetitive"

Indeed, I'll bet it will. Competitive with AWS? They don't say that you won't need to have a site of your own, but if they're hosting you, why would you?

And it'll probably pay for itself, as the decrease in latency that you receive will improve your search ranking.

"Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people"

This section makes no sense whatsoever.

Which "American people"'s policy would they have to abide to, by law? In what world do you live that you think there is a common healthcare policy for all of the people across the land? If you want to be in the business of writing policy, learn how a basic contract works, first.

The 10th has been effectively trumped by the Interstate Commerce Clause. Which is probably the single largest reorienting of power in the country's history. If anyone realized what was happening at the time, it should have started a revolution.

I wonder if that was the intent of using the ICC, or if that's just how it has turned out; but the federal consolidation of power is absolutely been garnered by the expansion of that power beyond it's clear intent.

Water breaking is not the same as home birth. Are you 15? Talk to a girl sometime.

Water will break at the start of labor, but does not imply that the labor will necessarily complete in the home.

Or at least, they shouldn't be able to post questions on slashdot. God forbid they try to gain some understanding of things they don't know enough about.

And yes, I am an offended BA.

I daresay that 10% of the population is young enough to firmly believe in Santa Claus. That does not translate into the majority of the society believing in him.

What's the difference between "sunward acceleration" and deceleration?

I mean, isn't the probe generally traveling away from the sun?

So if you don't use the GUI, why not simply buy Linux?

I think the biggest advantage OS X has over the Linux competition is the GUI. If you're ditching that, what advantage does CLI OS X retain over CLI Linux? Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

I ask sincerely. I was a desktop Mac admin with an opportunity to go into Mac Server Admin. When intel Macs came out, I saw that there was no longer a competitive advantage of OS X/Xserve vs. RH on an HP, so got into cloud computing operational support.

Did I make the right choice?