His birthday, apparently. Wouldn't know from the summary. Did anyone proof read this submission before posting?

His birthday, if you read the article, but the summary refers back to something that's not been stated. Did anyone even read this submission before posting it?

When did being able to distinguish these basic technologies slip away as the kind of basic criterion necessary to get a story posted on /.?

The summary was so infuriating that I actually clicked through and found an interesting article. Much more of this meaningless bullshit in my RSS reader though and I'll dump Slashdot out and go back to not visiting the website for years at a time.

I'm ready to take a 'redundant' to support this. OP, learn REST. This is a pretty good API. Sorry you haven't adjusted to the Web way of thinking.

So maybe we could have enjoyed an accurate submission saying that Berkeley have reported an advance over the already-reported finding, confirming an already-reported finding: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23581/

Not the first time it's been on Slashdot. Typical Sunday 'editing'.

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/27/2015242

People from Ghana are Ghanaian though

No, I still want to see 'hello, world'. Your link doesn't have it right either.

Actually, I believe the point is to print "hello, world".

I don't know where this 'hello world' everyone is talking about is, but it sounds awfully friendly.

Darknets are a concern. What is the link with the Deep Web? The only connection seems to be that they're both unindexed by search engines.

I thought the article might get to the point by the last page, but it was still talking about child protection and terrorism (in company databases???) I had wondered whether this confusion was down to an incautious academic, but the doesn't seem to suggest it: http://ai.arizona.edu/research/terror/

It's this thread again. Did something change since last time this was discussed?

"Having at last gotten Linux to run satisfactorily on my own PCs" - so you struggled and you want to foist it on others? Leave them using Windows. Hell, be nice and buy them Windows 7! Either that or get them a pretty looking distro (Ubuntu) and some unsupported hardware and have them build a driver from source, or better still recompile a kernel, then offer 'stick with this or go back to Windows'. Tl:dr: Ubuntu... for two weeks until they get pissed off and hate you for it

You don't need to get your friends to join Google Mail to send them messages from Google Mail. If you'd actually read and considered the OP, instead of jumping into the discussion with sarcastic comments, you might have understood this.