great post. Does slashdot still offer karma points?

Has the Slashdot search box ever really worked well?

I remember on some one posted a simulator of guidance computer on a website for interactive use. Does any one know the website and if its still up?

This is touches on the heart of the matter when it comes to the issue of Health insurance in the United States and the quality of health care one gets. When did the idea "profit" come into the Health care industry? And can the United States ever turn this belief around? It looks like gene therapy and the dream of the "perfect cure" is the only solution.

Its nice to see an informative post by a dedicated Slashdot fan (a rare action now a days). I ran out of mod points but I thing I would friend you instead. Thanks Misagon.

I wish I had Mod points for you. Some one please mod the parent post up.

This was the link I was looking for. John Oliver's take on the subject of civil forfeiture is funny but poignant. "Its not you that stands trial, its your stuff!" If I had some mod points I would give them to kbsoftware.... Cheers.

If the Germans were not following the spirit of the law [number 1 auto engineers in the world], and the Japanese were not following the spirit of the law [second best auto engineers in the world], was everyone else in on this act of cheating too? Was this the deep, dark and dirty secret (no pun intended) of the entire auto industry? And if so how long has it been going on? Wow, thank you auto industry for pushing climate change closer and closer to the tipping point.

During the first week since the data breach I've heard commentators on public radio speculate that the numbers of Ashley Madison (AM) female subscribers had to be 40- 52% ("it takes two to tango", "women are just as bad as men.." etc). I've also heard the rhetoric of how people despise cheaters ("they deserve what they get.." etc) not taking into account that the service didn't use the typical confirmation/verify method for emails. You could have created a fake account with your worst enemy's email address and no one would have known! Leave it to the pros to examine the data so that they can properly inform the public instead of the media feeding the public F*uk-those-cheaters-they-deserve-what-they-get sound bytes and misinformation without the basis of facts to stand on. The only good that may come out of this is the closing of the AM scammy service and what the data on modern male sexuality could tell us.

Picture this.... Imagine point A being the day we formed first theory of Quantum physics and point Z the day we built the first functional Quantum computer. Does this invention represent a huge step toward point Z for quantum computing?

What are the by-products of this synthetic fuel? What comes out of the vehicle's tailpipe?

Look at it from this angle. Consider all the money that Sony Pictures has potentially loss. The completed scripts that were stolen may not be used or placed into production for legal headaches alone. The five movies that were downloaded and possibly pirated within days may never be officially released considering its in the wild and part of an FBI investigation (loss of hundreds of millions in future revenue). The Sony executives whose high salaries were exposed may lose their jobs when the stock holders get to them. The "Interview" movie was left untouched. This maybe the only item they could make any revenue on for the next few years. May as well distribute it thorough the Internet out of spite.

Does Slashdot still offer mod points? I wish I had some to give to Anguirel (58085). Human history is filled with periods of war (pick a Continent, any Continent). The Geneva Convention was created for a reason. If the US loses its "moral compass" and begins to believe the Geneva conventions can be set aside when its convenient, then we've taken a big step backwards instead of forward in terms of human progress.

Few fellow slashdot readers seem to remember (or post) the Feb 2014 news that a " Supreme Court decision lets the government seize all your assets before trial". Your property or assets can be sold before the outcome of trail. This is not a dream. Its actual fact.