http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015...

This option is exactly what TiVo is. You buy your TiVo equipment, and rent a Cablecard from your existing provider. Per FCC rule, the fee to rent the Cablecard is capped (IIRC, at $5.00/month, although Comcast charges like $3). One Cablecard can support up to 6 TVs.

Except for the Cablecard, your cable company won't be charging you an equipment fee because you own your own devices.

Well then you're dumb.

The family are devout Catholics. The Catholic teaching on refusing necessary medical care is that it is tantamount to suicide, a sin that gets you sent to Hell.

While the girl was in the hospital, the hospital authorities were preventing her from going to Mass with the hospital's chaplain.

The family reached out to Christian groups because they didn't have enough money to sue to get their daughter back. And because it is in fact BS, the (perhaps right-wing) Christian groups agreed to help. And then, years later, because it was BS, the (perhaps left-wing) Huffington Post reports sympathetically on the hacker.

Verizon isn't describing these plans as unlimited. That's something the Slashdot submitter pulled out of their ass. Verizon is calling this feature "Safety Mode."

Verizon's name for this feature is "Safety Mode" because it helps keep you safe from an unexpected charge at the end of the month. It's an accurate name.

The phrase "Unlimited Data" comes from Slashdot, not Verizon. Verizon is describing these plans as limited to however many GB of data are in the contract.

Huh? Terry Boella is an actor who is famous for playing a character named Hulk Hogan. Is Johnny Depp a liar because he's not really a pirate?

Univision, the new owner, intends to keep publishing all of the other Gawker Media blogs. It's just the main Gawker site itself that is shutting down.

According to Dreams from My Father, when he was in high school, Obama and his buddies were part of a group called The Choom Gang where they smoked pot regularly and used cocaine when they could get their hands on it. He was definitely a stoner in high school.

That's not a substantial criticism of President Obama (although there are many), because everyone does things in high school they later regret.

The reason Gawker went after Thiel in the first place is because Thiel was politically active in a way that Gawker disagreed with.

The "Hillary's lesbian lover" stuff that GP referenced is examples of transparent, dopey right wing smears that Slashdot isn't (and shouldn't be) reporting on. This report on Thiel is the left wing version of that. It's a bullshit smear, from a transparently non-objective source. And Slashdot is covering it as real anyway. Hmm.

Why would birthers unite against Hillary Clinton? She's the one who started the "Obama was born in Kenya" rumor.

So why did you bring up right to work? If it's not a union issue, right to work is a non-sequitor.

That's not strictly speaking true either. If the lifecycle cost of employing people (including training and benefits in addition to salary) is cheaper than the lifecycle cost of automation (including service and initial setup cost) then automation doesn't make sense. Cheaper employees have a lower lifecycle cost.

No they weren't. The new Hostess didn't lay off 22,000 people.

The 22,000 figure is from before the collapse, when old Hostess wasn't exercising its right to employ at-will and most of the employees weren't exercising their right to work. There were some layoffs at old Hostess prior to its collapse, but most of the 22,000 lost their jobs when old Hostess went out of business.

New Hostess didn't hire everyone that worked at old Hostess, but that's neither an at-will employment issue nor a right to work issue.

Rat, "Right to Work" means you can't be forced to join the union as a condition of employment. However, employees can waive that right by voluntarily joining the union. If you DO join the union, as nearly all Hostess employees did, your relationship with your employer (wages, whether you can be fired, etc) is governed by the union contract just like in a forced-union state.

The thing you're thinking of is "At-Will Employment," which means that the employer has the right to fire the employee without showing due cause (i.e. misconduct by the specific employee.) This right can be waived by the employer (and was waived by Hostess) by agreeing to a union contract specifying a grievance process.

Since Hostess waived its right to employ At-Will, and nearly all Hostess employees waived their right to work, neither were in play when the original Hostess collapsed. The Hostess bankruptcy went down exactly like it would have in a forced union state.

Neither of those statements are true.

Zuckerberg is a liberal. He gives big money to people with D's at the end of their names. He also supports liberal groups, notably (for the Slashdot audience anyway) FWD.us, an open borders and pro-H1B group.

None of that is an attack on Zuckerberg. He can vote for whoever he wants and use his money to support whoever he wants. It's simply inaccurate to call him a conservative.

As for the Keystone Pipeline being at risk of creating an environmental disaster, not even the EPA belives that. There's pipelines all over the place.

Wasn't it like a week ago that Facebook announced they were going to change their internal rules to stop their employees from targeting conservatives? And now the IRS, an organization well known for targeting conservatives, has sicced their dogs on Facebook. Very interesting coincidence of timing.