Linux isn't tied to systemd, and you don't even know how to spell systemd (hint: it's not SystemD). Still, you're modded up by the muppets who know less.

The hatred is mostly due to internet communities creating circle-jerks where some really retarded opinions get reinforced due to their mere popularity. People who have no idea what you're talking about think your comment is "insightful" just because it's marked as such, and adopt them as their own.

Unlikely. I've got a Windows 7 install myself, running in dual boot for gaming. I believe it's from 2010, and since then moved first to an SSD and then from AMD to Intel (which takes a bit of time and magic, but is possible). It still runs just fine, but I almost only install software I need (i.e. games).

Come to think of it, I actually did end up with some garbage that took over my IE start page and search engine at one time. The problem with Windows is that it encourages bad usage, and that crapware is so much more readily available than good free software tools.

My parents both use Windows 7, and both computers have slowed to beyond frustration. Perhaps the reason why yours still works is that you learnt how to use Windows. Most people never do.

Slashbots seem to contradict this with pretty much every comment. Example: a circle-jerk of narcissist STEM-guys who believe they're better than everyone else because of their infatuation of IT.

Unless you've used the same password for gmail as for whichever site has been hacked, it shouldn't matter. I found my gmail address, but the password had never been used at Google. The problem is if you've reused the password on a bunch of sites where your email address can be used as login.

The incentive is of course to get a better map. I'm happy to report bugs in software I use, as long as it isn't too inconvenient.

Reporting errors in Google Maps used to be fairly simple, if you knew how, but the constant changes in the UI makes it difficult. When they first introduced bicycle maps, there were quite a few grave errors initially (up/down a stairway, along a motorway where bicycling is prohibited). They were fixed pretty soon after I reported them.

After messing around in Maps for a while (web version), I see that it's still easy enough to report errors. Just click the speech bubble.

Lots of people with high IQ are far from brilliant. It's only a test result, it doesn't tap into your brain. The supposed verification of an IQ test is actual academic achievement; when high IQ people have low academic achievement, it might just as well mean the test is flawed.

Wow, "2, interesting" for this childish nonsense. Slashdot really is failing hard these days.

England imposed hefty student fees quite recently. There were riots, of course, but they led to nothing (except the arrest of a number of looters).

Few adults can hear sounds above 18kHz. I remember making tone generators in Pascal as a kid, beeping out audible 22kHz notes that my older brother and my dad couldn't hear. Later on, I'd try similar programs on my mobile phone, but the damn device couldn't generate tones above 16.5kHz. Poor hardware, I thought, until I tried it on my 16 years old nephew.

Grasshoppers aren't nearly that high pitched.