The problem is that a huge portion of the country feels that exploiting the sick and suffering is not objectionable.

Money grab is the correct answer. I will only be switching to IPv6 when forced to. My ISP only presents me with IPv4 here.

If Intuit, et. al. are afraid of this system, then they should build a better one that can do it better than the free solution. Remember, people still purchase Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS despite Linux being free.

Corporate culture needs to quit telling people that they have promotion opportunities when they don't.

This is a predictable pattern. Once you're on top, you don't have to care anymore. I've seen this manifest itself as a huge increase in damaged and late packages, and faulty goods.

He outright admitted that the WiFi is there for the manufacturer's benefit and not the consumer. I, for one, don't even trust a "Smart TV" to be on the internet, and sure don't like the direction some car manufacturers are going. Appliance manufacturers (you can bet on this) are looking to run to some sort of "subscription" model where a refrigerator owner is going to have to shell out bucks every year to keep their milk from being spoiled or be able to cook eggs.

I once worked for a company that had scheduled meetings first thing Monday morning and last thing Friday afternoon. THAT STUNK.

For this, they'd have to hire someone to pace back and forth to light the house. Energy in - waste = energy out.

These experiments are great for academic pursuits, but are the outcomes practical in the real world? All the articles I've seen in the last two decades that say "Hey! This thing can generate electricity!" always show someone producing whatever voltage, readable by a very high impedance voltmeter, but practicably nil current, or, it can power a load no more than a few milliamps, at best.

What -really- matters is not how much voltage you can generate, but how much current. The big secret to making it such that humans walking around can power a whole house, is to lower the current draw of the house to a few watts.

An olympic cyclist can generate a few hundred watts for a few minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The only easy-to-handle "anonymous" money I've found so far is regular cash.

The X-Files was one of the best shows made, and certainly the best network TV Sci-Fi of the 1990s, but it also has "accomplished" making lots of otherwise "normal" folks believe they're Fox Mulder, and it's not just with scientific phenomena. Not only are complicated scientific phenomena conspiracy theories the chic thing, as they've been for a while, but the outrageous ones are also now in style. You no longer need to fear being considered a kook if you believe that Romana Didulo is Queen of Canada and that Queen Elizabeth (as of this typing) is secretly expired, nor are you nuts for believing that there is a Satanic cabal of actors and politicians running a cannibalistic pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza joint that has no basement. But, believe in Bigfoot or Nessie and you're just crazy.

CEOs always have the most hysterical hot-takes on things. Maybe we should hold a seance and find out what Ayn Rand thinks of the whole thing.

This is another great gag from Mr. Cleese, one of the masters of humor. The punchline, as usual, is us.

This sounds like it'll lead to more accidental wipes than theft rescues.

Most people use Gnome / KDE, but I use XFCE / LXDE / Icewm. WHY STANDARDIZE? We already have several killer desktops. This "holy grail" of standardization of the desktop is not going to win converts. Why? Because people want Outlook and Quick(en|books). They buy the special app they need and the app (mostly) dictates the platform. The "killer app" is going to be .. the apps!

Back in the 70s, a dairy worker brought milk in a glass jug once or twice a week. We bought soda pop in glass bottles and would get a few pennies back per bottle upon returning them to the store. Back then, they washed and reused the containers. Today, automation is way better than it used to be. Why is it so insurmountable to automate cleaning glass bottles and bringing back a system that doesn't introduce so many plastic bottles to begin with?