At which point I go elsewhere. Just because there's content out there doesn't mean its valuable. Most of the Internet is crap.

China has a growing middle class, and a growing class of perpetually single men. They need to stop the middle class from becoming so affluent so quickly (where do you park 400 million cars?), and they need to find jobs for the millions of sad horny guys who could easily become revolutionaries. If the cost of food rises a few percent here and there it bleeds excess capital out of the system, inconveniences a few on the long tail, but as a whole (remember, China thinks long-term, and like a single organism) the economy will be better off.

Also the pre-emptible kernel, but it's the same basic type of kernel improvement - creating a more fluid experience for the GUI user.

Who swaps anymore? This isn't WindowsNT or Solaris.

Thats the least of the worries people in Coachella have. It was a nice desert area and now it's turning into a smoggy, trafficky shithole due to farms, feedlots and Starbucks.

Every app seems to want access to your full memory, location info, camera, microphone and contact list. Why does a flashlight app need all this?

I carry a phone because I have to for work, and I need something to read while on the crapper, and that's it. People who use all these fancy apps are the product, not the customer.

+Mod points if I had them. I think we were talking about this the second semester of my freshman year. Stress vs. strain and all that.

The hospital had an Internet-facing router that was accessible via SSH or HTTPS?

If they were stupid enough to do that, then someone else had probably stolen all their data already.

At least they editorialize on the submissions, Slashdot just copypastas the first paragraph or two.

"This is a single politician in the german government trying to derail the project for personal gain."

A single German politician trying to run things in an autocratic way in order to further a personal agenda? You don't say!

After all, only criminals have anything to fear from the police, right?

nmap as a "hacking" tool reveals such an old mindset. Back then the prize was finding a service, which was inevitably not locked down or was easily compromisable. Nowadays even basic installs are secure thanks to sane package managers and distributions. The old "find an old version of sendmail and open a shell" tricks don't work.

First we had the smug "NASA is boring, Elon Musk is awesome" article, and now this. If we hit 3 articles in 1 day, I think it becomes a national holiday!

Since we're largely shielded from the negative effects of genetic entropy, where will the western world be in 50 years?

Cisco is cutting out the fat (literally) by shuffling out the older, more expensive (salary, 401k, healthcare) employees, so that they can bring in cheap new talent.