It won't turn people away. It will turn some slashdotters away. Comparing people to slashdotters is like comparing astronauts to troglodytes. Birds to slugs. Beethoven to rappers. Roses to Limburger cheese. Prime rib to McDonald's.

In France you are not innocent until being proven guilty. If you are suspect, you are arrested, jailed, and investigated, in that order.

The REAL trick to catching pirates is to hire Captain Jack Sparrow. use a pirate to catch a pirate...

Or possibly the A.pple

Racking your brains. heh heh. You had better submerse your brains in mineral oil or the bearings might start to smoke.

Hamsters? I want my internet upgraded to Hamsters. All I got were worms.

You expect a slashdotter to make eye contact? Yhay's just wrong on so many levels!

How about if we make all DUI drivers ride in driverless cars? That would get rid of the majority of accident victims right there, without killing anyone.
And if the car did crash, it would just be a drunk driver who was killed anyways. Who needs them.
The best thing google could do is drive these cars for lots of miles without an injury.
Does anyone know the accident rate per mile driven? The death rate per mile driven?
If google could better that by a factor of ten, that would help.
Better yet, they need to do driverless buses in all the big cities.
Bus drivers falling asleep, having heart attacks, texting would be a thing of the past.

Why would intelligent life visit earth? There's no intelligent life here for them to visit...

Te current myth oof the day is the gov can do good...

Actually, one of them is starting to look like Cmdr Taco, I mean Captain Underpants, I mean...
Oh, never mind.

We can't get the PAID time off work...

Smaller companies who cannot afford their own sysadmin should be renting space in a rack space.
Come to think of it, most companies, small or big, should rent space (outsource).

Corporations can lobby politicians, who ignore commoners. Money, power, fame are the only ways to get noticed by politicians. Corporations have all three.
And they really donate when the politicians are running for office.

Sony has to go after anyone who may be infringing on their patents, trademarks, or IP, or they will slowly lose their rights to it, IMHO. I am not a lawyer, but if they do not they will have a weaker case in court.