The liberal Hollywood elite sold out to megacorp bean counters a long time ago. Now the studios are nothing more than subsidaries of large global conglomerates.

Oh. I will blame SCOTUS.

This isn't something that's an inherent part of getting to work. This is an extra burden specifically put in place by the employer. It is a REQUIREMENT demanded of employees. It doesn't matter if it is "relevant" to the job or not.

If your employer says you have to stand on one leg for 25 minutes before and after a shift, that's time that they owe you in compensation. They are stealing your time and the gatekeepers are allowing it.

I don't think the skeptics ever thought that the PI would make a good XBMC machine. I certainly had my own doubts before I tried it out for myself and confirmed my own suspicions.

We naysayers are more of a counter to those in the community that gush over the PI as a media center.

Although the WHOLE POINT of general purpose machines is that they get used for things that the manufacturer never would have imagined.

XBMC is really only a killer app for the PI if you are willing to make serious compromises just to get a bargain. There are any number of cheap (but not dirt cheap) low profile PCs that run circles around a PI both as a media center and a general purpose machine.

The PI really not powerful enough for XBMC.

An Asus chromebox is a much better choice. Makes a decent general purpose box too.

Temporarily disabling a feature is not the same as permanently doing so. It's like saying that you always need to run as root. You don't. You only need to enable root level access when it's actually needed. The same goes for outward facing network services.

Similarly MacOS doesn't enable the ssh server by default.

Your comments are a total non-sequitor. The myth that bushmen have a lot of free time is balanced against the fact that bushment live in what we would call poverty. They also live in their own filth and despoil their village untilt he point that it's uninhabitable and then they move on.

Being a bushman comes with some really severe tradeoffs.

> you'd literally have to starve yourself to death and/or use up 99% of your normal sleeping time.

If you think you've ever had to live like this, you are probably just kidding yourself. A spoiled spooner that's upset that you actually had to WORK at some point.

Even the IT sector benefits from the remnants of the labor movement.

You don't get to "control" your creations. That's not what COPYright law is about. It's about COPYing. "Control" is something entirely else beyond the scope and intent of intellectual property laws (at least in the US).

While I have personally suffered from the problems of de-supported Mac hardware, I don't think that's the real problem. The real problem is severe lack of choice in hardware. There is no Mac that a professional can take seriously. It's all novelty form factors and consumerist crap. They even did that to their "pro" line.

Running MacOS requires putting up with Mac hardware.

There's also d) create programs.

The simpler and quicker this is, the easier it is for you to do things that haven't already been pre-packaged yet.

People like to drone on about UIs and "design" but this is really just a fancy way of talking about turning the user into a slave to feed input into a device that really should be automating everything.

> How does pointing that out improve Linux in any way?

It establishes a baseline for comparion.

On the other hand, you can simply avoid the offending kernel versions if you want. There's nothing forcing you to use either of these versions of the kernel.

Free software is developed out in the open with total transparency and no secrets. That means it includes the ugly bits that the rest of the industry usually gets to hide.

You are at fault for the condition of your car regardless. This is true whether you maintain your own brakes, you let someone else do it, or you just ignore it. This is why you don't need "extra special anti-hacking laws". The laws from 3000 years ago already adequately address the "new" problems people are worried about.

Nonsense. The Odyssey 2 if anything demonstrates how other people should be free to improve upon the "inventions" of others. It was a poorly executed system with horrible games. I had one and didn't even want it. I would have much preferred a 2600 or pretty much anything else. The Intellivision in particular was rather sophisticated for it's time.

Baer's designs have the signs of being a little too ambitious and sometimes incomplete.

If Bushnell and others shamelessly copied him, then sure he should be held up as everyone's inspiration. His own work is kind of meh.

Yes, but bleeding hearts that insist that quarantine in "anti-scientific" may well kill me personally. The threat level of Ebola is proportional to how close you are to it. It's not just some random thing.

Most of the rest of the country can get on their high horse and pretend how they are smarter than those of us for which this stuff isn't a news entertainment product.

> Right-- so why is everyone pushing flu vaccines to non-old, non-young people?

Money. There is money to be made. This is Ayn Rand infected consumer culture we're talking about here. It's all about the money.

Yes. Lack of infastructure seems to be more of a problem than the disease itself. This is a disease that has no cure but can be managed through treatment of the symptoms. Except those are dire enough in the early stages that they require considerable resources.

Plus all of the fluids that have to be replaced are highly infectious and a great danger to healthcare workers.