What do you mean, that kickbacks and loopholes are not part of "how money works"? Sorry to bust your bubble, but the world doesn't actually work as a Randian utopia.

Why the "if"? /. allows you to do just that.

S.H.I.E.L.D. technology released to the general public.

Finally, S.H.I.E.L.D. technology released to the general public.

If it applies to innocents as well as the guilty, taking a deal is completely irrelevant and unrelated to actual guiltiness. Thus, you can't use the number of deals as measure to estimate that a majority is guilty.

It makes you wonder if we technicians aren't creating a new class of 'codeless' people -like the 'homeless'- those who fall through the gaps of the system, in this case because they have their digital ID revoked. They wouldn't have a way to get in the system again, because lacking an identification they wouldn't be able to use even the basic communication tools.

I can't believe none at Slashdot knows the hilarious 2D Goggles a.k.a. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, a geekish steampunk in which Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage have actually built an analytical engine and use it to fight crime! (sort of).

It's more a one-day experiment running amok than a webcomic, as the update pace leaves us waiting for months, but what's already written definitely warrants reading it.

The only objective fact is that at the heat death of the universe, nothing matters. For everything else until that moment, human opinions are important; so I don't mind having a few subjective beliefs in consideration to some degree, even if they're biased toward my fellow humans.

The idea that we need the EU to be civilized democracies is rather absurd

Given our millennium-long history, we know that in Europe we need it to be civilized democracies. (This is how the Greeks managed to get along too, BTW).

"...we'll only RENT them for the duration of an ad campaign".

This post costed /. an extra $0.10.

Then they'll begin placing captchas in their advertisements, to ensure that you've read the ad before providing the real content.

And then developers will add OCR to AdBlock...

Why do you find disturbing that people can use computers without devoting their lives to learning them?

Wait I know the answer, it's because it disrupts the livelihood of the priests guarding the arcane knowledge.

Keeping tight control is a *good* think in user interface design

May I add, "as long as you have users that like your design and you keep listening to them to further tweak it".