Comment Re:Gateway Pundit, seriously? (Score 1) 214
Comment Gateway Pundit, seriously? (Score 0, Troll) 214
Comment And who is saying this? (Score 1, Troll) 200
The Toronto Sun is part of Postmedia, an American-owned chain that exercises strong editorial control and is basically Fox North.
Canadian Civil Liberties Association seems legit, but the Canadian Constitution Foundation is part of the Koch Atlas network, slipping far-right American money into Canadian politics.
That doesn't mean that they're wrong, but what they say should be examined carefully for fish hooks.
Comment Re:foxnews is news under this right? (Score 1) 147
Comment Pay the man, Silent Bob... (Score 1) 94
I'm an actual Starlink user at my farm. It's head-and-shoulders better than any competing service.
I previously has used a cellular uplink... and even with a yagi mounted 30' up on a mast, I barely had 1-2Mb/s of bandwidth. It was truly miserable.
Starlink is a game-changer... give 'em the freakin' money. They've done something truly miraculous for rural internet users, who had previously only terrible/expensive options. As a taxpayer, I'm actually glad to see the money I contribute going to something useful.
Comment Decline of geek culture (Score 2) 79
Agreed. The last 20 years have not been kind to this place.
Comment Re:The Shaming has to End (Score 2, Interesting) 725
Hollywood has long been a wretched hive of scum of villainy. Toads like Weinstein should have been burned down long ago.
But throwing Kavanaugh in with Weinstein? C'mon.
Comment The conversation moved to Twitter (Score 1) 29
Yeah, a bunch of us here on Slashdot moved much of the conversation to Twitter. Unfortunately, Trump seems to get a bunch of the bandwidth there too.
Comment Re:Compliance through Annoyance and Irritation (Score 1) 98
Hallelujah, brother... preach it.
Comment Another water from air scam? (Score 1) 96
Comment Re:It makes the noise (Score 1) 220
Comment Suckage confirmed (Score 1) 344
I too remember the Old Days (TM). Slashdotting was an actual thing. We fearlessly rode the waves of the ether, and many a site trembled at the sound of our clicks.
I rarely post any more... but the passing of Rob is sobering reminder than none of us are getting any younger... RIP Roblimo
Comment No, but Google gradually updates them to death (Score 1) 133
It takes time, but it's lethal in the end.
Comment Re:Of the Century... (Score 1) 299
Of course, saying "of the Millennium" would have been ten times worse.