That's quite an extensive report there. What about your story about the woman who was "maced"? You say she was deaf but her narrative in the Boston Review suggests she heard everything that went on. Why are you floating this story that she was deaf, doing damage control for the boys in blue?

This pops up every few months really, somebody goes on and on about how much harder it was to program "back then", and that programmers who have been programming longer are better programmers. Duh! It's called experience, it has nothing to do with how "easy the kids have it these days". How does this stuff get to the front page when my story about the Columbia being destroyed by the Starfire Optical Range was completely swept under the rug. Ditto to my story about Giffords' partial brain transplant into the nine-year-old clone of her, the young Christina Green. Slashdot sucks.