No. The problem is that Wolfe was the wrong guy. He's a Gossip Columnist who is most famous for lobbing bombs over the transom to see what he can shake up. To that end he will do or say anything. "The Most Loathed Man in Media," even CNN -- hardly a right-wing pillar -- describes him as "pugnacious" and "arrogant." If you were really looking for someone to lay into Trump and credibly dig up the goods to bring him down, Wolff was ABSOLUTELY THE LAST writer you would call. He's a self-absorbed gadfly party-boy more interested in making the news than reporting it. The cause would have been better served had he taken his notes and given them to a real journalist to byline. Whatever important stuff Wolff may have unearthed during his time as "a fly on the wall" at the White House is going to be buried beneath the inevitable exaggerations, un-truths, half-truths, mis-quotes and overall carnival atmosphere that permeates all his work to date.

It's a giant legal circle-jerk. Those filing the suit get to thump their chest, pose as The Great People's Champions of... something, tweet aphorisms, and pump up their resumes. The FCC, meanwhile, quietly warns the other side's lawyers to go away lest they be taunted further...

Out-Of-Towners may not know that NYC gossip columnist Michael Wolff has a bit of a deathwish when it comes to choosing his battles. He took on (in a weirdly, clearly fixated way) Rupert Murdoch with a previous "biographical" tell-all, seeming to have forgotten that Rupie owns the town's biggest tabloid The NY Post. THEN he began diddling one of his interns at Newser, escorting her about to all the city's hottest and most popular spots, because: Michael Wolff. (Those were the days when diddling an intern didn't get you automatically rejected from The Club.) The Post pilloried Wolff, whose columns for various publications always trended deeply into holier-than-thou moralizing. Even more suicidally, Wolff's wife at the time was the -- wait for it! -- preeminent NYC divorce lawyer! She took him -- and likely everyone within 2 square blocks of him -- to the cleaners.

His work has always been sloppy -- by his own admission he is not a "real" journalist. He's like the masochist who is always picking fights, just for the attention. Is it any wonder that he would -- loudly, grandly, with much fanfare -- try slapping around the world stage's biggest bully?

It's the NY Times giving credibility to the non-word "listicle" that I find most disturbing...

It's actually even stupid-er than that. Fagioli is bylined on the original Betanews site. He is using slashdot to essentially link to/promote his own site. If you look at his submission history, he does this regularly. Hopefully, slashdot is compensated for this promotion, and is not just participating in this pseudo-journalism circle jerk out of laziness, but I am not hopeful...

There are also these things called Lazy Millennial Buffoons who don't yet realize that writing articles online that require or encourage the reader to click away from the site of the article is both tedious for the reader and bad for the site's own sales.

Editors: Could you not once during the lame summary have mentioned exactly what Kodi is? It's like slashdot is being written by one guy sitting at his high school lunch table for the other guys sitting at the same table.

We do teach them why the Church decided to celebrate Christmas on Mithras' birthday, and honor St. Mary on May Day, Candlemas on Imbolc, and celebrate All Saints' Day on the day after Halloween. It was part of our Embrace-Extend-Destroy strategy. See people celebrate a pagan feastday, put a Christian overlay atop it, gradually shift focus to the Christian deity and demi-deities, wait a couple of centuries, and Poof! All the pagans and witches are polishing crystals in New Age bookstores struggling to make ends meet, and The Church has become a multi-billion dollar enterprise.

We think about these things way more than you give us credit for...

It was big in the 90s. The Late 10s? Not so much. Guy's got a custom-made dungeon in NYC, I am sure there's a disillusioned young lady lurking somewhere downtown waiting to pull the pin on her #MeToo grenade. The Alphabet Board did the only thing they could do.

The large tech companies like FB have already made arrangements with Comcast and the other pipe-owners. They will happily pay a premium for their bandwidth, as it will make it harder for newer, less flush rivals to compete against them. What good is an Old Boys' Network if you can't use it to squash the young pups?

It's not necessarily product placement. Some artists believe that by referencing a real-life brand, their work will take on a patina of authenticity or 'grit.' Look at any William Gibson novel from the past 15 years.

...but the summary is incomprehensible.

>>Having a version of Mint using KDE was redundant and confusing.

Right, because The Linux Community will absolutely not stand for any redundancy and confusion in our distros. Sure glad those chuckleheads at Mint got with the program. Man, what were they thinking...?

There's a generation of writers and editors today who believe that the inclusion of a boat-load of hyperlinks obviates the need to provide any background for the reader. Slashdot's cradleful of content-curators are among the worst offenders. They say, "I don't have to explain anything, just clink on the link and you'll understand!" I say, "Learn to write, you lazy sons of bitches, before I remind your ad sales guys that you are intentionally driving your readers off your site."