Teh google captchas are horribly browser specific.

(hopefully I have now waited long enough to hit submit)

.. yeah, so when will they be programmed to not blind oncoming drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. So far, any improvement I've noted in headlight technology is wasted by the fact that none of the new headlights seem to be illuminating the road, instead we're getting an illumination arms races because headlights are making it hard for anyone (other traffic, travelling in opposite directions) to see where and what they're doing.

So, can someone remind me why Amazon doesn't sell new cars yet? Or would that only happen if they had their own brand ?

I dunno, the HTML5 feature in my Chrome is so CPU intensive that html5 video stops & stutters constantly. I had to disable html5 in Chrome just to be able to use the utoobz HTML5 isn't old-hardware-friendly. Nevermind that Google keeps taking the useful (for me) features out of chrome.

How smart is it to essentially Privatize Currency? Electronic money isn't handled by the people for the people, for public good. It's private global corporations using proprietary *everything*, with what's essentially a local exchange rate rate to you/me/us that's always to their own benefit. Electronic money is just trading power for convenience.

Geebus, FORTRAN is a great language well suited for a specific job. Just deal with it and practice your FORTRAN programming.

What's with the "cloudflare" website middleman stuff? Kind of feels like someone's breaking net neutrality. I can't read the link unless I go through a middleman SSL & whatnot?

Saying the 1800s implies a date from 1800 to 1809. You should have said late 19th Century, or at least "from around the 1870s".

But I like *real* books! You don't need any hardware in interface with them! You just read them! Why add levels of abstraction & complication to something, in a short-sighted attempt to *ahem* re-monetize them? You don't even own e-books, you just lease/rent them. This is really just an attempt to kill the used book market, as iTunes is an attempt to kill the physical recorded media market. They want to take away your ability to own *anything*.

Well, it sure doesn't render worth a damn in my preferred browser (FF) and it eats so much CPU as to nearly freeze my computer. What's with all the scripts? Only renders correctly in Chrome, for me, and yet Chrome has so many functionality & layout design oddnesses that I hate to use it for anything other than utter necessity.

So. Why do website such as slashdot need periodic redesigns? I certainly see nothing that was absolutely necessary. And now the pages look like sh!t.