Chrome, without the excessively googly bits (if you don't trust that, there are several other builds of chromium that purport to do the same, though how much other crap they add differs).

As for

I can't even change my sig.

Given the history of this site, I wouldn't have jumped to the conclusion that it was my browser weirding out :)

I would guess the vast majority just want to watch Game of Thrones.

This evil must be stopped at all costs to freedom and liberty!

It is the local government that has made you into a slave.

Yep, entirely the local government's fault that nobody will hire a guy who sued his last employer.

I'd have gone with Osamu Tezuka, but I guess Stan Lee could do in a pinch.

If here were an originalist he would say that the law is unconstitutional because it's not among Congress's enumerated powers. It would lighten his workload quite a bit, really

The problem here is that using the courts to decide constitutionality of law is actually a bone-headed fucked up way of doing it, because you're not allowed to make use of the courts except in specific instances, and the government has decided that suing the government for unconstitutional laws is not one of them.

Will the republicans finally pull the jesus buttplug out of their ass and start being conservatives and start getting rid of all the inheritance bullshit they've built up over the years to protect their vision of what a family is supposed to be?

I feel that COBOL is the exact opposite of Perl. People call Perl a write-only language because you can write code in it that is really, really hard to read and understand. Meanwhile, statements like

MULTIPLY X BY Y GIVING RESULT

are easy to read and understand exactly what is happening, but I'll be damned if I can ever remember to write that twisted bit of English without looking it up in a reference (and I use this statement as an example every time I make this point about COBOL). For me, COBOL's attempt to be almost but not quite English has made it a read-only language.

So how did computing get as big as it did prior to the 1998 State Street Bank decision?

1. Eliminate the Doctrine of Equivalents
2. Especially with regards to "after-invented technology"

What 1 means is that if you come up with a way to do the same thing, even if you do it a completely different way, they can still sue you in court and you get to spend a million dollars proving that not only did you not infringe on their patent, you came nowhere near infringing on their patent.

What 2 means is that if someone invents something, and later someone else comes along and invents a better way to do something in the patent, it's still infringement because of fucked up court rulings that basically amount to "boo hoo the poor widdle inventors couldn't foresee this invention and shouldn't be penalized because they didn't think of it." Fuck that, if they wanted patent protection for it, they should have invented it themselves.

now its a discovery that sending the equivalent of a post card though the mail might be read!

LOL, this old shit again. The government isn't reading your post card in the mail, they're walking right into your house and picking it up from your nightstand and reading it while you're sitting there looking at them in disbelief that they can just come in and read it since it's on a postcard and it's been more than 180 days since you got the card.

The Newspeak is strong with this one.

Why not just say it would be better to let the NSA keep all your documents private for you, we can't trust you to do it for yourself when there are people like Snowden reading them.

And when that's done the statute of limitations begins, and they have years to sue people who were infringing on the patent before 2015

Part of it is the way most Americans are taught from birth to "clean your plate." My parents were more "take what you want but eat what you take."

I never really thought about why I eat the way I do. You may be right about that, I have an absolute aversion to letting food go to waste (but I also take the 2000-calorie-and-a-cup-of-salt second half of the meal home to eat the next day).

If we wish hard enough not only could we get smaller portions, they'd cost less too!

Has anybody thought about recompiling the source and seeing if you get the same binary?

The article says you can try, but you don't.

These days I can rarely wake up in time to make lunch and get to work, so I end up eating lunch out, not only is this cutting into my budget to the tune of about $200, my belt's been cutting into my waistline. Doesn't help that I end up sitting at this desk 10-12 hours a day. (Doesn't help that I sit here on slashdot instead of getting work done.)

About spicy food, I think there's a real aversion to "offending" people with spicy food, at least among restaurants that try to cater to everyone. Find one off a main street, patronized by regulars, and they're typically better (at least with delivering the spice when their menu says its spicy).