Broadcast TV stations charge tons for their programming and there is nothing a local cable system can do other than pay. They are not allowed to drop them.

Not exactly. A local station may classify itself as "must carry", or they may negotiate a fee for carriage. But not both.

If you reprocess, the waste that remains has a half life of around 30 years. After only 300 years you have less than 1% of it remaining. 600 years 1% of 1% remaining.

I think your math is off here. 300 years with a half life of 30 years is 10 half lifes. Wouldn't this be 1/(2^10), or around 0.1%?

From the summary, at least, it sure doesn't seem like this guy knows what he's talking about:

Padding drives higher costs in fuel burn, noise and CO2

Padding the schedule, alone, clearly can't change the amount of fuel that is used to get from point A to point B.

I know the twin cities have had Prime Now alcohol delivery for over a year now. I wonder how many of the other markets are actually new?

Recall he put in the names of friends with false details. Those are not FACTS, they are FICTION and therefore under copyright, which Google is now violating on a massive scale.

Well, unfortunately this didn't work for Fred Worth with a fake trivia question/answer that was copied by Trivial Pursuit:

One of the questions in Trivial Pursuit was "What was Columbo's first name?" with the answer "Philip". That information had been fabricated to catch anyone who might try to violate his copyright. The inventors of Trivial Pursuit acknowledged that Worth's books were among their sources, but argued that this was not improper and that facts are not protected by copyright. The district court judge agreed, ruling in favor of the Trivial Pursuit inventors.

It has been over three weeks since English-speaking parts of Cameroon [...] has had no internet connectivity.

So it's working then?

Something which controls heading and speed but which does not take complete responsibility for the vehicle. And do you know what we call a device like that? We call it an autopilot. [...] Buy a fucking dictionary, and spend some time with it.

I will if you will. Let's try Merriam-Webster:

a device that steers a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft in place of a person

Or, we could look at Wiktionary:

A mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system used to guide a vehicle without assistance from a human being.

It's Comcastic!

Obligatory xkcd.

It's why Apple Pay gets charged out at Card-Present rates, while Google Wallet only gets Card Not Present

However, the information I can find online seems to contradict this statement. For example, this FAQ:

Do merchants pay card-present or card-not-present rates for transactions made via Google Wallet?
Merchants pay card-present rates.

Whenever I see something submitted by theodp, I make a bet with myself about

Do you usually win?

Not in Economy on any of the international flights I've been on.

A number of airlines actually do have limited in-flight power in economy these days, such as Delta and Continental. A good website for finding out which airlines have this feature on which equipment is SeatGuru.

United states has one of the highest infant mortality rate in the world

You may want to check some actual facts. As of 2009, the US was 46th out of 224. This definitely isn't something to brag about, but it's nowhere near the "highest". It's not even 3x the lowest...

AND I see no way to turn it off.

If you have adblock plus installed (and you should, really), this filter will take care of the problem:

slashdot.org##div.chatter

Let me get this right-- you purchase this offset so that you can deliberately write bad code?

This model has worked well for cheat offsets, too.