What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read?; Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda Chats

Don't miss a single issue of Slashback. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? Meat the Food of the Future Could Extreme Weather Take Down the Internet? Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It John Carmack: Linux Still Not a Viable Gaming Market Hot Comment: We will get solar when there's a profit. From the Vault: Is Your Boss a Psychopath? Watch It: Chatting with Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? Sci-fi usually comes with happy endings. But 50000BTU_barbecue asks fellow Slashdotters: What story have you read that resonates years later because of some insight about human nature or society that's basically cynical or pessimistic? Sound Off>> Meat the Food of the Future BBC reports that rising food prices, the growing population and environmental concerns are just a few issues that have food futurologists thinking about what we might be serving up in 20 years. One prediction is that meat will be a luxury. Possible meat gap fillers: insects and lab-grown meat. Sound Off>> Could Extreme Weather Take Down the Internet? Natural disasters could tear down buildings, destroy infrastructure, and possibly even leave a city in ruins. So consider this: What would happen if one of these monster forces of nature were to hit a major cloud data center? We examine the potential impact. Sound Off>> Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It As Conceivably Tech reports, many Firefox users are in a love-hate relationship with the browser and it's Mozilla's passionate user base keeps Firefox dangling between constant ups and downs. What do you find most annoying or gratifying about Firefox these days? Sound Off>> John Carmack: Linux Still Not a Viable Gaming Market During his recent keynote at QuakeCon, id Software founder and open source advocate John Carmack said Linux is still not a commercially viable gaming platform and Valve's announcement about Steam for Linux changes things a bit, but it remains a tough sell. Sound Off>> We will get solar when there's a profit. "In a capitalist society, abundance is not a feature." --by fustakrakich Read More>> Is Your Boss a Psychopath? Seven years ago, creator of the Psychopathy Checklist Robert Hare applied his test "Is your boss a psychopath" to prominent businesspeople and found some disturbing results, including that they have no sense of guilt or remorse. Where does your boss fall on the psycho-meter? Read More>> Chatting with Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda Slashdot's Glorious 15th Anniversary is coming up in October, so Jeff "Soulskill" Boehm and Rob "samzenpus" Rozeboom decided it was a good time to have a chat with founder Rob Malda. Since leaving Slashdot, Rob has been doing this and that and the other, but we'll let him tell you in his own words. Watch the Video>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.