Hey, I resemble that remark. I do have a 7 digit UID starting with 2, but a great thing about /. is that I have always felt my comments and posts were judged on the content of their character and not the length of the UID. That's also what I do when I moderate.

You've been reading The Circle too much. I'm sure they don't do that. (Heavy sarcasm).

I can't figure out how to explain to my 16 year old that one day, she will find an issue she cares about passionately, and will want to support that issue with her heart and soul. And if the government doesn't like her supporting that issue, they can find every and anything in her past to intimidate her, as has happened already to many. (And they can make stuff up of course). I'm glad these Congressmen are not cowed yet.

Trademark is the simplest and cheapest way to burn copycat apps. If a business that is not a copycat app uses "Candy" in its title, it has an excellent countersuit, so "Candy Crush" will be careful whom it sues (especially as the court could order the loser to pay the winner's attorneys fees). However, if "Candy Crush" only goes after "Candy Slots" and people selling "Candy Crush" pants, the infringers don't have much of a defense and I don't have much of a problem with it.

Yes, this is the point of the article. Your ability to look into the future may make you change your current preferences. You know the dark chocolate won't run out, so to maximize your chocolate intake, you eat the milk chocolate first. If your wife were visiting her sister for an extended period of time, you'd probably eat the dark chocolate first, because you like it better.

This is, of course, not nice (wife "I bought the dark for you and the milk for me"), but is probably rational.

Please don't foresage that Google Scholar is going away. I love Google Scholar. I have noted it's harder to find (if you don't have it bookmarked on your toolbar, as, for example, I do). Can I start a campaign?

We know the formula for a blockbuster movie, it's been published in a book called Save the Cat (and reviewed here).

The great thing about books, especially now, is that there is very low cost to publishing them compared with movies so you can be more experimental. Hopefully, no one will figure out the complete secret to their success in the same way movies are known.

Yelp know who I am. Yelp is installed on my Android phone and I can't take it off (without hacking the phone), so Yelp surely knows everything about me. Yelp could hand over that information. I don't see a problem with the judge seeing the information, or even the carpet-cleaner that receives the complaints, but I can understand not wanting the whole world knowing where I get my carpets cleaned, or where I go on vacation etc.

Limited disclosure seems a fair tradeoff, and Yelp (or any other site that publishes reviews) should set their systems accordingly so people who do submit reviews know ahead of time who will be able to identify them and for what reason - and this in turn keeps reviewers honest.

OK but there are ten times as many reported challenges (where someone, usually a parent, seeks to get a book banned from a school or library), and maybe four or five times as many total challenges. Actual book banning only succeeded 49 times, but that doesn't mean many many more people tried to ban books. ALA website discussion here

Thank you! The farmer is drunk.

OK if I had mod points, I'd give you one, but not many readers of the WSJ (yes, WSJ) play Doom. For better o.r worse, more WSJ readers own Ferraris than every played Doom. Ponder on that.

OK, I know they seem like the same thing to you, but RTFA, he retired from the WSJ, not the NYT. Would you confuse Apple and Windows? LA and San Diego? Washington DC and Washington state?