That'll do it.

He probably thinks he is a genius, coming up with a law that makes it financially risky to challenge a corrupt capitalist.

Ask that question out loud to yourself again, slowly.

That is the Gig man. People that are not willing to do 'menial jobs' read politically controlled shitty newspapers and say that the brown people stole their job, the job they would never take because they are a lazy fat fuck.

Nicely said.

With good enough Karma you don't get ads here, frankly the ads on Slashdot are OK, targeted at the audience and not offensive. A model for online ads if you ask me.

Between the wonderful explanations of evolution and DNA at the top of the comments and you guys making me laugh, I proclaim 'Slashdot not dead!'

I use a 3 point ir clip and a webcam to the same effect, I would be interested in the Arduino project with an accelerometer. Is it comaprible in accuracy?

My first thought was Run? Where to? However it occurred to me that if we're observing them 1500 years ago we still maybe have plenty of time to find somewhere to hide. If they are travelling at 0.5 light speed they are still 750 years away, they are probably only coming around to borrow a cup of sugar in any case.

Interesting point, could be a double whammy, you could build a partial sphere and then terraform Venus, getting lots of power and a new planet to fuck up at the same time.

Good points, but there then has to be a fourth option, something that hasn't been considered yet. With the prevalence of adblockers now online publications are going to have to come up with something. Whether that is sites managing there own ads and making them static and tasteful as has been suggested(after all noone gets cross at ads in the printed press) ,in other threads or something else, there has to be another solution that works for everyone.

If a site is up to make money then it has one of three options, 1 Ads,2 Selling your personal data, or 3 subscriptions. No-one really likes any of them but the trouble is that option 3 just sends people running in the opposite direction.

Only if you commented logged in :(

You hope that bad shit that happens is worse than it first appears so that you can be entertained? That's pretty fucked up.

True, but the distinction is almost impossible to detect when you are dead.