So, it's six?

I'm a little disappointed at the number of comments and not one talks about Tony Stark's implementation of the ARC reactor.

Y'all should turn in your nerd cards right now.

Kudos to EditorDavid and Slashdot for performing some actual, original journalism and showing some technical capabilities in Slashcode that are infrequently visible to the users.

Implementation is a bit spotty, though, with the screenshot hosted on Imgur -- meaning UK 'dotters can't see it.

It means she's neither a hooker ("Are you done yet?") nor your mistress ("That's it, you're done?").

Dave Barry is deeply intertwined with the origins of Slashdot. The very pseudonym of our co-founder, CmdrTaco, is a reference to a Dave Barry column.

Unfortunately, the Miami Herald's archive does not appear to include Dave Barry's entire serialized oeuvre (Just most of it), and the only other citation I can find for "Commander Taco" related to Dave Barry is from his book, Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week, reportedly in an essay about the worst places to have a business lunch. Also unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the book to double-check.

Your point is valid; however, you've conflated two related but distinct concepts: Constitutional changes, e.g., amendments, and Statutory changes, e.g., laws and regulations. Constitutional changes have a rigidly defined process for approval and are expected to be difficult, time-consuming, and carefully considered before implementation. Statutory changes are much more flexible, although they are constrained by Constitutional limits. Copyright straddles these two concepts: it's an explicitly authorized Constitutional function, enacted by statute and regulation. The "limited times" is the Constitutional constraint. Legislation -- laws and regulation -- cannot legitimately override a Constitutional constraint. Therefore, Congress' continued copyright extensions, in some cases retroactively, such that they never expire are violating not only the unwritten social contract but also a plain text reading of the Constitution. SCOTUS has thus far punted on the question of what constitutes "limited" and where Congress should draw the line; but in my not so humble opinion, we crossed that line the first time Congress retroactively extended copyright on existing works.

The Framers' intent here was clear, and until we amend the Constitution, it must be respected in Statute.

This comment exemplifies why, after more than 20 years of the never-ending parade of dupes, a proclivity to encourage trolling, and several ownership changes, I still frequent Slashdot on the daily.

Thank you, Steve.

Damn. Now that just looks like a political attack. I was going for funny with ... are arrested in Boston... but I botched my link.

I had no idea the moon required station-keeping... What will happen if the Mooninites go on strike (Or are arrested in Boston and deported?

Every company associated with AI scams loses status.

This argument looks suspiciously like the classic, "She was asking for it. Did you see the way she was dressed?"

Consent can be withdrawn at any point prior to penetration. The legal standard is very clear.

I think I've seen that movie...

[C]onnecting the North and South Island of New Zealand, with 1.2GW capacity

So very, very close to achieving time travel!

The reason not to do this isn't technical; it's economic.

If you think the CryptoBros and AI Hypesters are bad now, wait until you give them free electricity, too.

UBI, despite being a direct grant of money, limits the damage that any one person can do to his or her neighbors, and is substantially more difficult to use to remove value from the overall economy. UBE, by contrast, would permit the wastrels among the Crypto and AI crowd to blow even more of a shared and limited resource on things that have no tangible expression and have limited or negative economic value to non-participants (and negative economic value to most participants as well, although they apparently think that the next sucker will make them rich, or that there really is such a thing as a free lunch).

(Spoken as someone who supports the idea of UBI, incidentally. Also, "UBE" has already been taken as an initialism: the spammers use it to obfuscate the evil of their electronic diarrhea with the technical-sounding "Unsolicitied Bulk Email" alias.)