Sign up for the service, get the freebies...and then paste a screenshot of goat.se in front of the camera.

No one expects the Bing inquisition!

...the paperless office?!?! I've been waiting for that sum-bitch for going on 30 years now.

TRUTH!!!! My youngest son just completed his Senior season of soccer. By the fast-twitch muscle theory, he shouldn't be a good soccer player but he is. On the soccer field, just about every other player is quicker off the line than him but any distance over about 10 yards, my son can run down any player on the field (his other sport is track where he's a distance runner). He has the stamina to stay in the entire game - and as a defensive mid, that's pretty good since his 'position' is the middle half of the field. Add in a knack for being able to stick like Velcro to whatever opposing player he's covering even if that player is behind him and you start to understand why his team voted him Best Defensive Player. But he shouldn't be as good as he is. He is that good because he loves the game and he really applies himself to it - something that test won't test for.

Cerial Killer is a hacker, not a phone-phreak!

Seriously? I mean, 3D VR hacking attempt, reaching out with VR Gloves to manipulate/hack interface, face palm into VR Gloves, etc.

And no Pr0n jokes about 3D VR Penetration testing?

Who are you and what have you done with my SlashDot?

They're just SAYING they're looking for the Higgs. But what they're actually trying to do is corner the world BitCoin market! With the U.S's Credit Rating being downgraded they're anticipating BitCoin becoming the new international currency standard.

Back about 20 years or so ago I worked for a Bell Atlantic subsidiary. Everyone in the company got a little cast resin model of a mountain with telephone poles going over it in commemoration of them replacing the last Party Line. The cable was pulled over the mountain (in Kentucky IIRC) by mules.

What about the key to a John Deere?

...about 18-20 years ago, when the WorldWideWeb consisted of about 50 sites - all text based - and things were a LOT looser, some yutz screwed up his router config and set his public IP to 127.0.0.1. It didn't really "crash" the internet but there was this incredible sucking sound as all those packets tried to go home.

Then there was the backhoe operator a couple of years later who was working near a railroad right of way and dug up a fiber bundle belonging to one of the major carriers of the time (MCI IIRC). He ended up blacking out most of the US Eastern Seaboard.

And then there was LDDS (sometimes knows as Larry, Darryl and Darryl Service) who reportedly placed a regional switch in a basement near The Point in Pittsburgh just in time for the 1996 flood.

I used my phone book just the day before yesterday. Probably the first time I've needed it in 3-4 years. I had to look up the number for Verizon tech support because my DSL connection died.

I actually sat there for 5 minutes trying to figure out how I was going to look up the number without Internet access before I remembered the phone book.

You're just as likely to see that if the Republicans get a majority. The public reason would be the same. So would the private reason - just oriented toward the other pole of the political magnet.

And just for the record, ain't NOBODY gonna swap my cheeks! Either set! I've grown very attached to them over the years. Of course, if someone wanted to do a cheek swab - as in "run a swab over the inside of my cheek to collect cells for DNA testing" - that would be different. That would only require either sufficient moral or logical grounds for me to agree to participate or a Court Order to compel me to participate. No surgery needed.

Speaking as a (moderate, Republican) conservative who is married to a (moderate, Democrat) liberal I question your premise. It might apply to the radicals of both stripes but the radicals are a minority. An irritatingly overexposed, embarrassingly vocal and obnoxiously militant minority but still a minority.

I'd love to see a nationwide, scientifically/statistically accurate survey looking at where people actually are on the Radical Conservative---Moderate Conservative---Undecided---Moderate Liberal---Radical Liberal line. It'd be very interesting to compare those results to the "unbiased news reporting" we get from the various news outlets. If you listen to them it sounds like 99.9% of the people in this country are either radical Conservatives or radical Liberals. My personal belief is that the bell curve distribution would apply but we're only hearing about the extremes because of the "If it bleeds, it leads" policies that the various reporting agencies use either to espouse their own beliefs or kowtow to/curry favor from their advertisers.

Just my $.02 worth.