I don't specially dislike Chrome other than the fact that I don't use it, but whenever something web hits slashdot it's almost always Chrome-only. Any explanation for this?
Come to Spain, the power bill is just ludicrous. Don't increase the cost of energy any longer, I don't even have AC or electric heating, I just run a computer, a fridge and a washing machine, and my power bill tripled in the latest few months. Gimme a break with taxing energy for more than its real cost.
Depends, games like Risk of Rain are much better off played with a gamepad, but your mileage may vary. You only list a minimal number of genres that have been traditionally mouse-driven, though. But as much as I like playing with pad (where convenient: fighting games like Skullgirls, sidescroller action games like Risk of Rain or Rogue Legacy, console emulation, etc), I wouldn't play, say... Doom, with one.
As for RPGs, depends. Skyrim with a pad is a bit of a pain, but there used to be games like Legend of Mana (say what you want about JRPGs, but that one sure isn't Final Fantasy crap, for sure) that played really well with a pad (by virtue of being a half-brawler).
Strategy games, mouse all the way, although the only example of pad-designed strategy game is Herzog Zwei for the megadrive/genesis, where your "hero" unit, a transforming robot, carried units from the base to wherever you needed them to be, or engaged in pewpew combat. (That game is considered the precursor to stuff like Dune that shaped modern strategy games, so don't look down on it for being console, Japanese and old. Just saying.)
Since nowadays console/PC gaming is kind of entering a singularity, and I believe all modern consoles have some form of keyboard add-on, I don't think you should worry much about this. It'll sort itself out eventually, I think the keyboard is going to win and the pad will become accessory for old-school genres only. Alas. Unless the steam pad turns out to be some sort of miraculous revolution, but I need to see it happen first.
I can't take your post seriously if the first thing you say about the device is "camera that streams data to the mothership". Get real now. Still you didn't address the battery/storage/bandwidth limitations, you only made a few remarks about google spying on you, the NSA spying on you, calling users glassholes, being unrealistic.
Also, your last paragraph...dude, that is too much fantasy to process. A guy filming me with glass in a "less common viewpoint"? Should I be seeing guys appearing from under my crotch now?
And you didn't even challenge my point of the device needing some form of visible activation. If I see some guy touching buttons on his glass or saying "ok glass, record" then I'll have reasons to suspect.
This is just a wearable HUD, why is people so obsessed about people with glass being on a 24/7 stream of whatever the user is seeing?
First, nobody has the mobile bandwidth for a 24/7 stream. Nor the storage space. Nor the battery. Second, you aren't that interesting when you are outside. No. Really, you really aren't. On the street every one of you, myself included, is as notorious as a gray pixel in a perlin noise image. Unless you live in a village where everyone knows each other, and even so, they already know you.
I have never seen a device creating such a level of paranoia and stupidity. You are supposed to be the smart guys, not the ones crying around like old men fearing something new. Stupidity like "hold your phone in front of them durrrr" or "punch them!" . Are you serious? Why not burn them at the stake, since you are talking unreasonable bravado, why not go the extra mile. Let's burn them all! Fearing that magical device that surely records you without any action from the wearer. I assume that to take a picture you gotta press a button or say a keyword aloud or something, it's not gonna read your mind and turning you into a magical cyborg spy.
Of all people the people of slashdot should know the limits of technology better. You are just disappointing, I'd expect this from pitchfork villagers, not readers of "news for nerds", some hardware developers or hobbyists that know how stuff is supposed to work. You know how much taking photos and video drains the battery of a cell phone. This is a mere attachment to a cell phone, and is subject to the same limitations. Imagine a Pebble watch.
Sure, consider me a troll for being realistic, I got karma to spare. But if you want to believe in the magical device that will record you indefinitely, with an infinite battery, storage and network bandwidth so google can specifically see you scratch your crotch at a public place, sure, go ahead. And, no, my privacy when I am outside doesn't bother me at all. I look my BEST when I am outside, please record me like that. I am precisely ready to be seen. And I am already being recorded at work, and my behavior is pretty impeccable.
And, besides, if google actually managed to produce magic to have a full stream of you talking to the glass user...you really want to be recorded being a little douchebag pointing your phone at him/her thinking you are making some heroic statement for freedom, but in reality just being a rude guy? I seriously doubt you do.
As for me, I like the idea, specially for potential AR stuff, but sounds like it will induce headaches easily. I might want to wait for an advanced second version or similar.
Nah, not related. In-game AI is written specifically with that game in mind, often knowing more than the eye can see. This is a general-purpose thing that attempts to learn only with visual input, without direct access to the program itself.
Put down the phone and go out! Come back before X, we dine extra early today because I HAD PLANS DAMNIT. Don't talk to anyone on the way back. Don't go shopping or anything, let me check your pockets for cash so you don't go out buying soda or shit. I'll call every few hours to check if you are alright. If you don't pick it up I'll call the police. Are you hanging out with David? I think he's doing drugs, better stay at home today. I told you you can't go out with David, so go to your room while I do mother stuff! And quiet!
Jokes aside, my mother didn't let me do anything until I was like 18. I could only go out for like one hour every week, always supervised and staying at home to play with my brother that was older and had more freedoms and thus didn't want to play with a kid. My father was more lenient but since he was also a pastry baker, his schedule wasn't very compatible with a kid's, so my mother was the one in charge. When social media came (well, the early version of it at least), it was a boon. I was able to talk to people without that witch monitoring me out. And of course I took it. I am a loner, but not that much.
This was years ago, some of my friends "enjoyed" similar treatments as well. But from what I hear from younger kids or adults younger than myself, it seems to be much worse now. Anecdotal evidence yeah, but I don't think I am some unique snowflake, it surely happened to many, many more.
That's why you always see politicians, CEOs and such wearing suits. Nobody would take them seriously without those. (There are very few politicians that look normal even by its country's standards, without the suit they usually look chubby, weak, unkept, and at times downright ugly. No one would trust them like that.)
I am a pastry chef. The whole draw is being handmade, fresh stuff. Robots already entered my field, and a long time ago!. And turns out there is demand for both humans and robots in this industry. It's Christmas season now, and there's work coming off my ears, trust me on this one. The demand is actually increasing since the last few years (m-my legs...ouch).
Food is quite a sentimental matter for most people, and a chef that takes his work seriously can make his/her employer rich, or at least a good source of income. It's a win-win situation. And technology is one of my hobbies, including robotics (although it's quite an expensive hobby, so it's done sparsely), and technology aids in my job, a lot.
Anyway...
My post sounds quite anti-humanity, but there are jobs that are better suited for something without emotions or an agenda. Robots aren't Skynet, they are tools, and they do help us. I could get a few automatons in my workplace. Hell, I think you can even consider the large stand mixers a form of robot. They are programmed to do a single task for a given time with a given power, with degrees of extra automation depending on model and brand. And that sure makes my work easier.
That stand mixer will never wake up pissed off and go "my boss is a dick I just don't care today", or get an emotional breakdown in the middle of a large service. That stuff happens in my field of work, and not just in reality shows. A work rush can get people pissed even when they are the nicest persons ever. The stand mixer doesn't have fights with its significant other and come out stressed to work, or are up to their necks in mortgage to the point of self-destruction.
I mean, I love fantasy robots. A lot. But I know what a real robot is. And it's a tool. Some look like people, some don't. They are still tools. And it's awesome we made them, it really is.
At some point I might be dying and unable to clean my own ass. And instead of subjecting a human being, or even someone of my own flesh and blood, to do that unsavory task of keeping my ass clean, a robot might do it, and it won't care about how pathetic I look, or how gross the situation is. It won't be content, it won't be sad, it'll just make that ass sparkle as much as it can. And it will be ready to do it anytime until it just breaks off. And even so, I'll probably be thankful towards that unfeeling piece of ass-wiping metal. Because we humans are weird like that. It can be a thing in 50 years, and there are prototypes for aiding the elderly now. They look as scary as a baby kitten, and it's going to get better. I'd rather have a silly-looking neon-colored robot with a goofy empty smile devoid of emotion that my own son or daughter carrying my dying self around. I don't want that for them.
And the solution is something that is possible, we have that capability. But people keeps going on and on about how we'll all lose our jobs or they will become sentient and destroy humanity, and that fear will hamper progress at some point. This is not a movie, and we humans hate change, but our power is that we adapt sooner or later, no matter how bad things go.
Let the robots rise. My job is not in danger, so I don't fear robots, and I am sure robots are easier to deal with than humans, who are stubborn, lazy, prone to lying and rarely friendly.
Firefox supports click-to-play for Flash since...I don't know, but feels like a long time ago, at least 6 months. One of my favorite things really, so convenient.
Ever tried Jaki Crush? It's the "japanese folklore" equivalent of Devil's Crush (whereas Devil's Crush is the medieval equivalent of Alien Crush). As far as I know it only came out in the SNES (JP), but it's a pretty solid pinball game by the same team.
It's funny, I love those games and never heard anyone else mention them, but for some reason it's the second time, today, that I hear someone praising Devil's Crush. Feels good when a good game is recognized.
Word. I thought the days of browser lock-in were a thing of the past, but apparently it's not. Stumbling into way too many Chrome-only things recently. I just don't want to need to have Chrome installed for such a thing, so I think this won't be tested anytime soon.
This is very true. I am also lactose-intolerant and I've noticed dairy or dairy derivatives in the places you'd least expect, one of them being chips, another being meat (!?), and even some sweets that, as a pastry chef, I know it shouldn't use milk at all.
That's a joke and I get it, but damn, those lists can take years and years. I once waited so much for a small operation in the..uh, private parts, and the problem ended fixing itself (painfully) because I waited like 3 years. Also 4 years to find out I had developed lactose intolerance out of nowhere. Medics were adamant on trying to pin it on diabetes, but I never gave positive, and every visit to the specialist took a whole year in-between. And 2 more years to find out why my hands hurted like fuck, turned out it was hederitary rheumatism and carpal tunnel coming in and out whenever they felt like it. And another 4 years having them diagnose depression when what I had was narcolepsy....it might be a joke, but you should be +5 insightful there...
Note that I also said that his post was *unmistakably* true if in terms of requiring that knowledge for a job. Also read the disclaimer at the very top of the post. But sure, I'll play along.
I also "lost" time learning advanced algebra and maths and music theory. That I don't need for anything, but look at me in the eye and tell me it's not interesting.
Anyway, geez, not everyone in slashdot has a computer-related job. I am a pastry chef, and my time is worth a lot...inside my workplace. I can't demand money for resting or sharing time with others because I want to, in my free time.
Anyway, the point is, I earn enough to live comfortably and keep my family running, and I am an artist at heart (which is good for my profession), there are lots of time consuming things that I do that you might find pointless, but they provide entertainment, practice, enjoyment and idea outlets (and you meet people and even get fans). I don't consider my "time not earning money" to be lost time at all. The only time I consider lost is when I pass out, because of my narcolepsy, and that makes me lose free time. Now that's a real loss of time, honestly.
No bad feelings or anything, but your post is kinda funny (in a good way). Just to be a bit of a dick and to play devil's advocate (in good fun, please don't take it personally).
Worked counterexample, myself and Linux.
Amount spent on licenses: Zero.
Amount spent on training: Zero.
I am the kind of guy that likes to tinker around, so I got to know Linux's guts pretty fast and without training wheels (the amount of times I hit the proverbial road were staggering, I am not gonna lie, but it was all controlled systems a backup away from restoring function). Then again it took me about a year of tinkering around to master the intricacies, if you were needing it for a job, or to obtain a certificate again for a job, then yeah, your post is doubtlessly and unmistakably true.
To get a government job in Spain, all you need to do is pass an exam and get lucky. Your experience on the field doesn't even matter. They also drop you directly into the job, with some more experienced coworker giving you the basic gist of things and where things are stored and such, and that's pretty much it. Sure, America has a lot of things to deserve bashing, but I don't think that specific thing is worse than here in Spain for example. Here government workers are the type of guys that can nail an exam, but aren't able to do the job, thus our infrastructure is pretty rotten thanks to sheer incompetence.
Still, those cars that caught fire were involved in messy accidents. This is an honest question now, can accidents be correlated to mileage, or is it a purely random factor that just happens? I don't know, I don't even have a car, and most likely won't be able to even afford a Tesla, but so much news about 3 cars that would have been totaled regardless of manufacturer, with the drivers surviving without a scratch, it...I don't know, sounds like too early and too little to make a scandal out of it. If someone had died inside, then sure, but they sounded pretty safe and sound, all of them.
A paid app means giving your dox for the crooks to steal, man! No security-conscious guy would do an online purchase, because it's one of the safest ways to identify an individual online. Just the receipts going into your inbox with your full name, ripe for google and the NSA to correlate to your person. There's no money to be made from those guy, unless there's a truly anonymous currency system.
Seeing the originating comment is pretty much a harmless comment made on an Ubuntu mailing list, I think you are being misled by the flamebaiting article wording.
All the guy said accounts to "this is a list of packages it won't update by default. I don't consider those choices very safe". How is this even newsworthy? And not only slashdot, other sites are making way too much of it. Also, notice this post so rich in Canonical evil ending with a ";)", I mean come on. This is news as much as somebody posting "lol ps4 sucks" on twitter.
It seems you jest, but zeitgeist by itself, since it doesn't upload your data online, is quite convenient if you don't share your computer with others (and then again you can blacklist your porn folders). I create documents, images and music constantly, and zeitgeist makes it handy to organize and locate them by date or such, or to have some statistics about my own work flow. I consider it quite convenient, really.
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I don't specially dislike Chrome other than the fact that I don't use it, but whenever something web hits slashdot it's almost always Chrome-only. Any explanation for this?
Come to Spain, the power bill is just ludicrous. Don't increase the cost of energy any longer, I don't even have AC or electric heating, I just run a computer, a fridge and a washing machine, and my power bill tripled in the latest few months. Gimme a break with taxing energy for more than its real cost.
Depends, games like Risk of Rain are much better off played with a gamepad, but your mileage may vary. You only list a minimal number of genres that have been traditionally mouse-driven, though.
But as much as I like playing with pad (where convenient: fighting games like Skullgirls, sidescroller action games like Risk of Rain or Rogue Legacy, console emulation, etc), I wouldn't play, say... Doom, with one.
As for RPGs, depends. Skyrim with a pad is a bit of a pain, but there used to be games like Legend of Mana (say what you want about JRPGs, but that one sure isn't Final Fantasy crap, for sure) that played really well with a pad (by virtue of being a half-brawler).
Strategy games, mouse all the way, although the only example of pad-designed strategy game is Herzog Zwei for the megadrive/genesis, where your "hero" unit, a transforming robot, carried units from the base to wherever you needed them to be, or engaged in pewpew combat. (That game is considered the precursor to stuff like Dune that shaped modern strategy games, so don't look down on it for being console, Japanese and old. Just saying.)
Since nowadays console/PC gaming is kind of entering a singularity, and I believe all modern consoles have some form of keyboard add-on, I don't think you should worry much about this. It'll sort itself out eventually, I think the keyboard is going to win and the pad will become accessory for old-school genres only. Alas.
Unless the steam pad turns out to be some sort of miraculous revolution, but I need to see it happen first.
I can't take your post seriously if the first thing you say about the device is "camera that streams data to the mothership". Get real now. Still you didn't address the battery/storage/bandwidth limitations, you only made a few remarks about google spying on you, the NSA spying on you, calling users glassholes, being unrealistic.
Also, your last paragraph...dude, that is too much fantasy to process. A guy filming me with glass in a "less common viewpoint"? Should I be seeing guys appearing from under my crotch now?
And you didn't even challenge my point of the device needing some form of visible activation. If I see some guy touching buttons on his glass or saying "ok glass, record" then I'll have reasons to suspect.
This is just a wearable HUD, why is people so obsessed about people with glass being on a 24/7 stream of whatever the user is seeing?
First, nobody has the mobile bandwidth for a 24/7 stream. Nor the storage space. Nor the battery.
Second, you aren't that interesting when you are outside. No. Really, you really aren't. On the street every one of you, myself included, is as notorious as a gray pixel in a perlin noise image. Unless you live in a village where everyone knows each other, and even so, they already know you.
I have never seen a device creating such a level of paranoia and stupidity. You are supposed to be the smart guys, not the ones crying around like old men fearing something new. Stupidity like "hold your phone in front of them durrrr" or "punch them!" . Are you serious? Why not burn them at the stake, since you are talking unreasonable bravado, why not go the extra mile. Let's burn them all!
Fearing that magical device that surely records you without any action from the wearer. I assume that to take a picture you gotta press a button or say a keyword aloud or something, it's not gonna read your mind and turning you into a magical cyborg spy.
Of all people the people of slashdot should know the limits of technology better. You are just disappointing, I'd expect this from pitchfork villagers, not readers of "news for nerds", some hardware developers or hobbyists that know how stuff is supposed to work. You know how much taking photos and video drains the battery of a cell phone. This is a mere attachment to a cell phone, and is subject to the same limitations. Imagine a Pebble watch.
Sure, consider me a troll for being realistic, I got karma to spare. But if you want to believe in the magical device that will record you indefinitely, with an infinite battery, storage and network bandwidth so google can specifically see you scratch your crotch at a public place, sure, go ahead.
And, no, my privacy when I am outside doesn't bother me at all. I look my BEST when I am outside, please record me like that. I am precisely ready to be seen. And I am already being recorded at work, and my behavior is pretty impeccable.
And, besides, if google actually managed to produce magic to have a full stream of you talking to the glass user...you really want to be recorded being a little douchebag pointing your phone at him/her thinking you are making some heroic statement for freedom, but in reality just being a rude guy? I seriously doubt you do.
As for me, I like the idea, specially for potential AR stuff, but sounds like it will induce headaches easily. I might want to wait for an advanced second version or similar.
Nah, not related. In-game AI is written specifically with that game in mind, often knowing more than the eye can see. This is a general-purpose thing that attempts to learn only with visual input, without direct access to the program itself.
Put down the phone and go out!
Come back before X, we dine extra early today because I HAD PLANS DAMNIT.
Don't talk to anyone on the way back. Don't go shopping or anything, let me check your pockets for cash so you don't go out buying soda or shit.
I'll call every few hours to check if you are alright. If you don't pick it up I'll call the police.
Are you hanging out with David? I think he's doing drugs, better stay at home today.
I told you you can't go out with David, so go to your room while I do mother stuff! And quiet!
Jokes aside, my mother didn't let me do anything until I was like 18. I could only go out for like one hour every week, always supervised and staying at home to play with my brother that was older and had more freedoms and thus didn't want to play with a kid.
My father was more lenient but since he was also a pastry baker, his schedule wasn't very compatible with a kid's, so my mother was the one in charge.
When social media came (well, the early version of it at least), it was a boon. I was able to talk to people without that witch monitoring me out. And of course I took it. I am a loner, but not that much.
This was years ago, some of my friends "enjoyed" similar treatments as well. But from what I hear from younger kids or adults younger than myself, it seems to be much worse now.
Anecdotal evidence yeah, but I don't think I am some unique snowflake, it surely happened to many, many more.
That's why you always see politicians, CEOs and such wearing suits. Nobody would take them seriously without those.
(There are very few politicians that look normal even by its country's standards, without the suit they usually look chubby, weak, unkept, and at times downright ugly. No one would trust them like that.)
Krusader is just plain excellent. Perhaps the best twin-pane file manager I can think of.
Unity3D custom environment with all the pizzaz? TTRPGs with "special features"? Playing for fun?
You, sir, are cool.
I am a pastry chef. The whole draw is being handmade, fresh stuff. Robots already entered my field, and a long time ago!. And turns out there is demand for both humans and robots in this industry.
It's Christmas season now, and there's work coming off my ears, trust me on this one. The demand is actually increasing since the last few years (m-my legs...ouch).
Food is quite a sentimental matter for most people, and a chef that takes his work seriously can make his/her employer rich, or at least a good source of income. It's a win-win situation.
And technology is one of my hobbies, including robotics (although it's quite an expensive hobby, so it's done sparsely), and technology aids in my job, a lot.
Anyway...
My post sounds quite anti-humanity, but there are jobs that are better suited for something without emotions or an agenda. Robots aren't Skynet, they are tools, and they do help us. I could get a few automatons in my workplace. Hell, I think you can even consider the large stand mixers a form of robot. They are programmed to do a single task for a given time with a given power, with degrees of extra automation depending on model and brand. And that sure makes my work easier.
That stand mixer will never wake up pissed off and go "my boss is a dick I just don't care today", or get an emotional breakdown in the middle of a large service. That stuff happens in my field of work, and not just in reality shows. A work rush can get people pissed even when they are the nicest persons ever. The stand mixer doesn't have fights with its significant other and come out stressed to work, or are up to their necks in mortgage to the point of self-destruction.
I mean, I love fantasy robots. A lot. But I know what a real robot is. And it's a tool. Some look like people, some don't. They are still tools. And it's awesome we made them, it really is.
At some point I might be dying and unable to clean my own ass. And instead of subjecting a human being, or even someone of my own flesh and blood, to do that unsavory task of keeping my ass clean, a robot might do it, and it won't care about how pathetic I look, or how gross the situation is. It won't be content, it won't be sad, it'll just make that ass sparkle as much as it can. And it will be ready to do it anytime until it just breaks off.
And even so, I'll probably be thankful towards that unfeeling piece of ass-wiping metal. Because we humans are weird like that.
It can be a thing in 50 years, and there are prototypes for aiding the elderly now. They look as scary as a baby kitten, and it's going to get better.
I'd rather have a silly-looking neon-colored robot with a goofy empty smile devoid of emotion that my own son or daughter carrying my dying self around. I don't want that for them.
And the solution is something that is possible, we have that capability. But people keeps going on and on about how we'll all lose our jobs or they will become sentient and destroy humanity, and that fear will hamper progress at some point. This is not a movie, and we humans hate change, but our power is that we adapt sooner or later, no matter how bad things go.
Let the robots rise. My job is not in danger, so I don't fear robots, and I am sure robots are easier to deal with than humans, who are stubborn, lazy, prone to lying and rarely friendly.
Firefox supports click-to-play for Flash since...I don't know, but feels like a long time ago, at least 6 months. One of my favorite things really, so convenient.
Ever tried Jaki Crush? It's the "japanese folklore" equivalent of Devil's Crush (whereas Devil's Crush is the medieval equivalent of Alien Crush). As far as I know it only came out in the SNES (JP), but it's a pretty solid pinball game by the same team.
It's funny, I love those games and never heard anyone else mention them, but for some reason it's the second time, today, that I hear someone praising Devil's Crush. Feels good when a good game is recognized.
Word. I thought the days of browser lock-in were a thing of the past, but apparently it's not. Stumbling into way too many Chrome-only things recently.
I just don't want to need to have Chrome installed for such a thing, so I think this won't be tested anytime soon.
This is very true. I am also lactose-intolerant and I've noticed dairy or dairy derivatives in the places you'd least expect, one of them being chips, another being meat (!?), and even some sweets that, as a pastry chef, I know it shouldn't use milk at all.
That's a joke and I get it, but damn, those lists can take years and years. I once waited so much for a small operation in the..uh, private parts, and the problem ended fixing itself (painfully) because I waited like 3 years. ...it might be a joke, but you should be +5 insightful there...
Also 4 years to find out I had developed lactose intolerance out of nowhere. Medics were adamant on trying to pin it on diabetes, but I never gave positive, and every visit to the specialist took a whole year in-between.
And 2 more years to find out why my hands hurted like fuck, turned out it was hederitary rheumatism and carpal tunnel coming in and out whenever they felt like it.
And another 4 years having them diagnose depression when what I had was narcolepsy.
Note that I also said that his post was *unmistakably* true if in terms of requiring that knowledge for a job. Also read the disclaimer at the very top of the post. But sure, I'll play along.
I also "lost" time learning advanced algebra and maths and music theory. That I don't need for anything, but look at me in the eye and tell me it's not interesting.
Anyway, geez, not everyone in slashdot has a computer-related job. I am a pastry chef, and my time is worth a lot...inside my workplace. I can't demand money for resting or sharing time with others because I want to, in my free time.
Anyway, the point is, I earn enough to live comfortably and keep my family running, and I am an artist at heart (which is good for my profession), there are lots of time consuming things that I do that you might find pointless, but they provide entertainment, practice, enjoyment and idea outlets (and you meet people and even get fans). I don't consider my "time not earning money" to be lost time at all.
The only time I consider lost is when I pass out, because of my narcolepsy, and that makes me lose free time. Now that's a real loss of time, honestly.
No bad feelings or anything, but your post is kinda funny (in a good way).
Just to be a bit of a dick and to play devil's advocate (in good fun, please don't take it personally).
Worked counterexample, myself and Linux.
Amount spent on licenses: Zero.
Amount spent on training: Zero.
I am the kind of guy that likes to tinker around, so I got to know Linux's guts pretty fast and without training wheels (the amount of times I hit the proverbial road were staggering, I am not gonna lie, but it was all controlled systems a backup away from restoring function). Then again it took me about a year of tinkering around to master the intricacies, if you were needing it for a job, or to obtain a certificate again for a job, then yeah, your post is doubtlessly and unmistakably true.
To get a government job in Spain, all you need to do is pass an exam and get lucky. Your experience on the field doesn't even matter. They also drop you directly into the job, with some more experienced coworker giving you the basic gist of things and where things are stored and such, and that's pretty much it.
Sure, America has a lot of things to deserve bashing, but I don't think that specific thing is worse than here in Spain for example. Here government workers are the type of guys that can nail an exam, but aren't able to do the job, thus our infrastructure is pretty rotten thanks to sheer incompetence.
Still, those cars that caught fire were involved in messy accidents. This is an honest question now, can accidents be correlated to mileage, or is it a purely random factor that just happens?
I don't know, I don't even have a car, and most likely won't be able to even afford a Tesla, but so much news about 3 cars that would have been totaled regardless of manufacturer, with the drivers surviving without a scratch, it...I don't know, sounds like too early and too little to make a scandal out of it. If someone had died inside, then sure, but they sounded pretty safe and sound, all of them.
Wait, are you chastising the poor guy for pointing a very large and obvious mistake in your argument?
A paid app means giving your dox for the crooks to steal, man! No security-conscious guy would do an online purchase, because it's one of the safest ways to identify an individual online. Just the receipts going into your inbox with your full name, ripe for google and the NSA to correlate to your person.
There's no money to be made from those guy, unless there's a truly anonymous currency system.
Seeing the originating comment is pretty much a harmless comment made on an Ubuntu mailing list, I think you are being misled by the flamebaiting article wording.
All the guy said accounts to "this is a list of packages it won't update by default. I don't consider those choices very safe". How is this even newsworthy? And not only slashdot, other sites are making way too much of it.
Also, notice this post so rich in Canonical evil ending with a ";)", I mean come on. This is news as much as somebody posting "lol ps4 sucks" on twitter.
It seems you jest, but zeitgeist by itself, since it doesn't upload your data online, is quite convenient if you don't share your computer with others (and then again you can blacklist your porn folders). I create documents, images and music constantly, and zeitgeist makes it handy to organize and locate them by date or such, or to have some statistics about my own work flow. I consider it quite convenient, really.