The number of shows worth watching has remained consistent though they're spread over far more sources and paywalls.

Slashdot, much like alligators and sharks, is well-adapted to its environs and requires no modifications.

Or not.

Like the log in the swamp that suddenly opens its eyes, I've just discovered nerdcore and am content.

Hasn't actually changed that much. The RKoP private schools still open a lot more doors than the cake-eater schools. Another thing that hasn't changed is that some kids will get pushed through without actually learning anything. That's how it was in the 70s when I graduated and all the standardized testing hasn't changed that (IMHO). Not gonna pull percentages out of my ass, but I doubt the numbers are all that different.

Can confirm. I don't have a smart phone, and work on a computer 8 to 10 hours a day, but I spend most of my free time staring at the television.

Googled the phrase, "Caffeine is a nootropic" and the first link was 'Why Caffeine Isn’t a “Smart Drug.”' Not trying to be contrary or argumentative, I just thought it was funny. Until today, I had no awareness of the word nootropic.

make it illegal to try patent cases in Texas.

I read the book when I was ten. With a ten year old's memory, the main character was the awesome armor the troopers wore. There was no armor in the movie, therefore the movie sucked.

did you just conflate the words of two different people, or did you just strawman yourself? something's not parsing.

I'm wondering how they would secure against altered video that implicates the innocent or exonerates the guilty if they are not pulling the video directly from the source. It would break the chain of custody for the evidence. Even if only used in the investigation, the ease with which that investigation could be led off track makes me leery. That and the company proposing it.

you seem confused.

Baseball is about the least subtle game around. Almost everything comes down to individual players' performance. The team aspect is nearly nonexistent. That's why you can throw a bunch of baseball players together to have an All-Star game and it's a pretty good game. The Pro Bowl sucks because that doesn't work in football: the players actually have to work as a team. And your example is far from perfect. Sabermetrics predicts a particular positive value for the steal and a negative value for the caught stealing. A steal is clearly not a losing proposition. An *attempted steal* may be, depending on your chance of success.

I like being called a lib.

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Wikipedia claims that VP9 does/will support alpha channel

It already had that feel in spades. Adding the voiceover just beats you over the head with it. Which I guess is appropriate, because the voiceover itself just beats you over the head with everything else.