Surprised nobody has said they would buy this, though some could see the benefits. If it works as good as my electric (Oral B, one of those expensive ones with the charging base and the 30-second alert so you know to change quadrants) I'm all in. I hate brushing my teeth but do it pretty religiously, and if I can not do it for 2 minutes twice a day, sounds like a pretty good use of my money.

Someone else mentioned that they could brush easily after every meal and that seems a good idea as well. Also, whenever I don't brush it's because I'm late for somewhere. It's easy to say "Crap, I don't have time to brush" (even if it's a lie) when that time is 2 minutes sat in front of the mirror. Less so when it's 6 seconds you could presumably do while doing other things.

I just had the most hilarious webcomic idea pop into my head. Starts with a guy walking into work with a mustache and beard that exists only under his nose in a thin line.

It'd probably look too much like a Hitler 'stache though. Maybe if he was blonde. Hmmm.

For someone with no artistic talent, I'm giving this a lot of thought.

Other than that you're consuming hundreds of empty calories along with a drug that makes you want to sit around and do nothing...

I don't mind it with coffee, so why should it be any different with e-cigarettes? I think this is a great idea if there truly are no secondhand issues.

You know that any system where you ask common people to decide things will allow for stuff to happen by accident, right?

I'll just search for "site:slashdot.org how do I get to facebook without using google"

I am the same way.

I'm also far more likely to review something if I disagree with the collective opinion on the site. I figure the 47th glowing review is useless but the 3rd bad one adds clarity.

Yeah the day they announced they were dropping public support I downloaded RSS-Owl and other than continually forgetting to run it (because I'm used to a browser window opening up to my RSS feeds) it's working great.

Screw the cloud and all its uncertainty.

I pay ten cents a text you insensitive clod!

My phone bill is now 98 dollars and TEN CENTS. THANKS OBAMA.

Until you get so small as to bump into the realm of Quantum Mechanics, and then you literally can't say for certain - ever - if a specific thing is at one location or another.

The big difference is, slashdot chose their name, and it at least tangentially refers to what they do. Unless you sell military grade naval communication equipment, that name isn't very descriptive.

Because if you don't, a significant number of "dumb" people will complain loudly that your program "sucks" because it "broke the Internet" on their computer, and slowly the world's view of your software will degrade. It doesn't matter to 95% of the world WHY that web page worked in IE but didn't work in Firefox. All they care about is seeing pictures of their nephew's cat.

So long as NoScript and AdBlock work, this decision will not affect me or any other person savvy enough to care, unless there is a large contingent of people for whom NoScript won't fulfill their needs.*

*I'm not discounting this possibility, but I've never heard of it.

...for a modest fee, of course.

They ran 2 (or likely 2 million) situations through some great combonator. In situation A, they don't phone home every 24 hours and more people can buy the box, but publishers get mad that they can't impose draconian DRM. In situation B, they do phone home every 24 hours and less people can buy the box, but the publishers are happier. Situation B made them more money in spite of losing them customers, so that's what they went with.

What I think they may have failed to take into account is those of us who have broadband but won't buy the box anyway because of this.

Here too. I like the simple uncluttered interface. Much like I liked Google Reader's interface.