Prove it. A trained monkey can click "I Agree", that doesn't pull me into a contract.

They don't require this necessarily. Make a decent enough AI that will fly to the place to take pictures, then fly back, and you don't need to communicate with it at all. At a little bit of image recognition and only have it take pictures of things that don't look like ${Background} then it can stay out their for a while search and return back to upload when it's micro sd card is full.

I know you said it was "beyond description", but I was wondering if you could please explain as if I were an eletrical engineer what it means to have a f.i.r. equalization over the "frequency and time domains" versus a standard f.i.r. filter.

this is true with many websites; I would not make this a high priority for slashdot. Why do you assume that some /. programmer is going to beat google at its own game? I guess they could simply put one of those "search this site with google" boxes, but you already know how to do that so....

hmm, how about a +1/-1, where you fill in the blank and simply describe why you upvoted/downvoted a post

this++
The login link from trying to comment should keep the postid around (Get/post style) so that when your login is done it brings you back to that post.

ahhhhahahaha, this

The charge is for their storage and organization. Any time you get a test done, you should also ask for a copy for your personal records, then you can already have it. They aren't hoarding information about you; you lazily didn't keep it yourself and are paying them for the service of keeping it for you.

Because my world is not as black and white as yours. I don't mind sharing some things about me, what I'm doing, and what I'm browsing with the world and a little more with my friends. That doesn't mean I want to share everything.

You say you don't understand this 'sky is falling' mentality, but your only suggestion to the common annoyance, "I wish facebook didn't track so much" is "UNPLUG."?! Your suggestion goes against your own complaint.

If what you said were true, then in K-12, there would never be homework, because homework is a form of learning something yourself. If what you said were true, then I never would have had lab classes in undergrad, and I never would have had TA groups in grad school. The reason that you spend more time studying yourself at a "University" is because you are growing up and there is more information, more quickly. But this is not a black and white thing, from K-12-Undergrad-Gradschool, it is simply a gradient of slowly being expected to learn more and more without the direct help of an adult.

Do I even have to say citation required? Or can I just scream "troll" as loud as I can and hope you hear it through the internet?
Your choice.

word is hilarious!

if you don't like wikipedia, but like a certain search engine like google, why not just filter it out like this: "http://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+-wikipedia"

I wouldn't be surprised if the patriot act made 'loitering' at a major airport illegal.
IANAL

We do not have choose your own taxes in america, and we aren't going to start it over the f\/ck!ng weather satellites.

"I'm sorry sir, I know you walk to the bus and back for work, but you are too poor to know whether or not it is supposed to rain today"