I never realized the Gap implied a country protecting rulers from the people. :)

So apparently it works for the one article you are looking at, but save doesn't actually save anything. Always nice to see a site become even less relevant and useful D'oh!

Or you could take the 5 seconds required to hit options in the userbox and disable slashboxes. It's still a stupid design idea, but if you're on a site claiming to be news for nerds, spending 30 seconds looking for tweakable widgets seems like a reasonable expectation.

I have had 100Mbps down and up in my house for over 10 years now, so the fact that Comcast & other monopolies are offering it now shows how slowly change occurs when there is no competition. An easy way to do municipal broadband would be for a public utility to run the infrastructure (cables, fiber, pipes, etc,) and bring connections to a central location where multiple content and connectivity providers could be available for customers to choose between.

The problem wasn't the debunking of the report, it was the well-written summary. We can't have those showing up on slashdot

ICE, FBI, and other law enforcement agencies can only seize domains that are managed by registrars or registries in countries in which they have jurisdiction. Very easy to seize a .com or a .biz (Verisign and Neustar are both in the US,) a bit rarder to seize a .cn (unless China wants to allow them to.)

It works out to 30 or fewer average 10G Internet links. Depending on where it hits it could take out a good chunk of many smaller peering exchanges, but any of the Major (Tier 1) ISP's run 80Gbps+ between nodes with 100Gbps links becoming more common, and the larger peering fabrics run multiple Tbps across their peering fabrics. Basically, it is large to many individual sites, but tiny for Internet scale.

Even better, plant it with 40% native drought-resistant plants and don't have an ugly eyesore of a razed-earth yard.

Nothing says the 40% must be water-gorging lawns.

This is a bunch of nonsense, there is no need for any electronics in vehicles,

Ok, driving an underperforming, pollution-belching gas-guzzler might be fun for a while, but ... no thanks. I'll stick with modern engine control and emissions control systems.

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    Well, they are cheap shots where due, and it appears you agree. :)

    I'm an American. The shot was at the "American" beers. In most places, you can get 2 to 4 selections of a pale something. For the most part, I could be given a cup of one, and wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

    I do know there are great beers, and awful beers everywhere. It's just that the bad beers are so heavily marketed that makes it annoying. I've gone to places where the choices were a handful of American beers, or water. I've chosen water. :)

We have that.

I clicked, half expecting Kermit doing goatse, but it's legit. Mod parent up.

For a second there, I thought someone was serious about getting to the bottom of the Pioneer anomaly:

The Pioneer anomaly or Pioneer effect is the observed deviation from predicted trajectories and velocities of various unmanned spacecraft visiting the outer solar system, most notably Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11.

Both Pioneer spacecraft are escaping from the solar system, and are slowing down under the influence of the Sun's gravity. Upon very close examination, however, they are slowing down slightly more than expected. The effect can be modeled as a slight additional acceleration towards the Sun.

The anomaly has no universally accepted explanation. The explanation may be mundane, such as measurement error, thrust from gas leakage or uneven radiation of heat. However, it is also possible that current physical theory does not correctly explain the behaviour of the craft relative to the sun.

Of course, validating the winning explanation is the problem since the heretical Enlightenment placed barbaric experimentation over civilized argumentation.

You just blew my idea. Thanks a million.