They may have backtracked on this "convenience fee", but Verizon will still get their $2 from their customers, just not as obviously.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

RIP Mr. Jobs. He accomplished so much and will be remembered as a true American visionary in technology.

This post will likely never be read, buried under the weight of hundreds of other posts, most of them very similar in nature to my own. I was a late comer to Slashdot, picking up reading after I graduated from college and got my first corporate job. This job was a joke and I stayed there for far too long; the reason I did so was because it afforded plenty of free time to browse the web and, in turn, discover Slashdot. While not every story posted was a piece of gold, the community of nerds, geeks, and other tech people kept me engaged in reading the comments, trolls and insights alike. Slashdot will always be a daily visit for me and while Rob Malda won't be an editor in chief any longer, I hope that the letter and spirit of the site he created and raised, like his very own child, will continue to grow and evolve. Stagnation is the worst the could happen with any web site, tech related or not; hopefully this is the beginning of a new era for Slashdot, and I'm both excited and saddened to experience it. Best of luck to you, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda.

Development costs are not the only expense. There is writing the script, voice actors, expert consultations, etc. that could potentially go into the total cost of a great game. So, if a game is short, but sweet, the "normal" $60 cost could, in theory, be totally justified.

The data breach is more than a gaff, in my view. Much more serious of an event. That being said, the PR guy retweeting the key is the best and funniest.

Just posting in a historic Slashdot thread for posterity!

Now that is some science I can get behind. That is if I could stand up without falling over.

The IE team must have gotten that cake from a grocery store bakery, because it looks like crap. I'd rather have a shitty Hallmark card or a bunch of Mylar balloons than that awful cake.

That's modern parenting for you... plop your kid in front of the TV (in their bed room, of course), or Wii, or iPad, or whatever other gadget, and get them out of your hair for a couple hours after work until they pass out, exhausted, from extensive video screen stimulation.

One could use commas to help clarify that sentence, such as this: I had to help my uncle, Jack, off a horse. Then again, speaking and writing that sentence are two different things.

Those multi-gestures look far too cumbersome on such a tiny screen. I wouldn't use them unless the gestures ended up taking less fingers to utilize. The small size of the iPhone makes it a good one-handed device, and these gestures effectively turn it into a two-hand device. They are much better suited for the larger screen size of the iPad, that's for sure.

You could have at least formatted that correctly.

Just be glad that Congress is doing anything at all right now.

I think you mean genitalizing.

Just like the other 90% of us. Sad but true. What will it take for more citizens to actually do something? Take away our TV? Our Internet? Our books? What?