I get compliments about my ass from everyone too. "What an ass!" they say all the time. Starbucks, on the bus, in movie theaters, you name it. And what a fine donkey it is indeed!

Not quite. In my car (a 10 year-old Audi), if you put it in park, the handbrake is optional. Even if parked on a hill, putting the gearshift into park alone stops the car from rolling down the hill. It starts to roll a bit, but then you can hear the brakes being applied to stop it. I think the handbrake (which is still mechanical in my car, since it's old) is just a secondary "safety" brake, in case the main system fails. I'd venture to bet that it's even more so on modern cars (at least when the designers didn't screw it up).

As much as I dislike Apple, they are not wrong here. What's the point of encrypting *code*?! Sign it, check sum it - yes, by all means, so that it's not replaced by something malicious. But why would you need to hide the actual content of the code?! Haven't we learned that security by obscurity doesn't work?

There is no way for anyone to plug the "analog hole". Unless the media companies are planning to install DRM chips directly into everyone's brains, the audio signal has to be in unencrypted analog form at some point before it becomes sound.

In Russia robots escape from you?

You cannot be rude to a computer. It's not a human being. I've kicked a door once or twice before, and punched a fridge once (both in my own home), when I was angry and frustrated. I've never done that to a human or in public, and I will never do (excluding self-defense of course). Am I still a rude person? Also, that's a big part of growing up: testing boundaries and seeing what happens if I do this or that. Since computers don't push back and there are no consequences, I don't blame kids. They just need to learn the difference between when it's ok to do it, and when it's not. Also, parent are worried that Amazon is making their kids rude?! It's your fucking job as parents to make sure you kid grows up a decent human being. It's not Amazon's job. If your kids can't behave because you bought an Echo, don't buy Echo and stop blaming others for your own failings as a parent.

You mean funny as in retelling an old joke that was originally about Germans and Poland/France? http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/i...

Or you can be like Bernie. Fuck, for once, there is a worthy, honest candidate, who really stands by his principles, who is not in a pocket of any corporations, who has a long history of doing the right thing, instead of going with the popular opinion of the time, and a lot of experience with politics. And he is still losing to Hillary because of the rigged democratic party (superdelegates) and a perceived "socialist" boogieman bullshit.

Well, it's not that simple. Considering that high-voltage transmission lines don't use any copper these days.

It appears Microsoft assumes that only shitty programmers write code for Windows. MAX_PATH is a compile-time constant (#define in windef.h). Even if you declare char my_path[MAX_PATH] variable (surely, you mean char my_path[MAX_PATH+1], right?), you wouldn't just pass it in into some other function expecting exactly MAX_PATH characters to be written into it, right? Surely, you'll also pass in MAX_PATH as the number of chars you are expecting to get, right? Something like strncpy( my_path, other_path, MAX_PATH ) instead of strcpy( my_path, other_path ). Right? Right?!

So, your anecdotal evidence contradicts the other person's anecdotal evidence. And? Please look up the definition of the anecdotal evidence fallacy, in case this wasn't too clear.

Really, this is voted as +5 Informative here on *Slashdot*?! Comcast are not going to be laying OC3 lines all over the place. OC3 costs so much because it is strung directly to your office building or whereever. When you are talking about the cost of bandwidth to Comcast, it is the cost of IP transit. Right now you can get a 1Gbps (with a full cabinet for your equipment) for $400/month: https://he.net/special.pdf (I have nothing to do with them other than that I used to be happy customer for a long while). If you need just IP transit (no cabinet), it goes down to $0.32/Mbps per month. To transfer 1 Tb of data per month (i.e. their current cap), you need about 4 Mbps of bandwidth. So the data cost to Comcast is roughly $1.28 for each 1Tb. So please, let's stop with the bullshit indeed.

Yep. And spectacularly embarrass himself in the process. The sad part is that there will be millions of ignorant people who will believe the overpaid and entitled, simply because he has a pulpit to stand and a microphone. See the anti-vaccine queen Jenny McCarthy.

They dug up dirt on him, he dug up dirt on them. Seems fair. I can see it being a problem if he hired thugs to rough up a few journalists to silence them. On the other hand, bringing up valid lawsuits in a legitimate court of law, at least one of which 12 independent jurors confirmed to be valid, that's fair game. Free press (or freedom of speech for that matter) doesn't mean you can say whatever you want without any repercussions whatsoever. I guess some bloggers have to learn it the hard way.

I don't think "jump the shark" means what you think it mean.