If both parties are against net neutrality, how do you explain the Senate vote last week where the Democrats voted against repealing it and the Republicans voted for repealing it? And Obama threatened to veto a repeal? Link

What? You didn't actually go and look that up, did you?

Have you ever tried doing a Google search for "Whoosh"? You might find it instructive.

"People are always attributing things to Mark Twain that I never actually said."

--Mark Twain

No matter. Your friends, who have no conception of any need for privacy and would look at you blankly if you even brought up the matter, took their own photos at the party. And you were in them. And they will post them for all the world to see, without it ever crossing their mind that that could possibly be a bad thing.

Weird. I did some checking and apparently his real name is Jeep Rice. Really!

Keep Rice was a typo, and that typo is now being propagated all over the Inter-Tubes by trusting bloggers and news aggregators who don't check their facts. (And speaking of Inter-Tubes, he works at the Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute.)

You must be new here.

If the U.S. Government suddenly announced it was eliminating 10,000 unnecessary bureaucratic jobs, Slashdotters would complain about how much of our tax money it was going to cost to do that.

All I see is people complaining about this. But isn't this a good thing? Didn't anyone read the first few words in the summary, "Citing fears over a lack of an industry standard"?

One of the biggest things people complain about with Microsoft (and other companies as well, including even Apple sometimes) is that they invent their own "standards" (or implement standards in ways that aren't in fact standard) and ruin the possibility of interoperability with products from other companies. That generates no end of woe. Isn't it the geek's dream to have IT companies adhere to industry standards?

And here a company is actually paying attention to industry standards! But this is Apple. Slashdotters are going to complain. If they did the exact opposite and invented their own thing, Slashdotters would complain as well.

he made anyone that came there take the batteries *out* of their cell phones, because they can record and transmit conversations even when you think they are off.

Wait a second. You mention this, and yet you're posting on Slashdot with a registered account???

Don't you know that right now Hussein Obama is personally readin' through yer post, cross-referencin' it with yer restaurant, and will soon pull you in for some gummint re-eddecashun??????

What's that, Mabel? No, I didn't take my Risperdal this morning. That's all part of a gummint plot too!!!1!

Hence the wording in the summary: "certain keywords . . . will no longer produce results with the Autocomplete or Instant Search features. The standard search feature, however, continues to display results as normal." [Emphasis mine]

Jeez, doesn't anyone even read the summaries anymore before complaining?

Slashdot has those too. You think 'kdawson' is the name of an editor? No, it's actually a flag that means "Untrusted content; may contain inaccuracies, misleading characterizations, and sensationalism."

I'm still trying to figure out what the flag for "Trusted content" is. I'll let you know if I ever find it.

He had a rare type of pancreatic cancer called "Islet cell neuroendocrine tumor" which is far less deadly than most pancreatic cancer.

Sorry to throw a damper on your smug little rant, but it's not unusual at all that he would survive that.