Even Watson is not "intelligence", it is only the illusion of it.

Sadly, this is also true for most of humanity.

So it seems they basically obtain their speed levels by redirecting writes to /dev/null and/or /dev/random? ;-)

Every programmer should read code. Bad code and good code. To learn how to do things and how to not do things.

What about the freedom of hundreds of employees to feel uncomfortable working for someone who is advocating against you?

I'm sorry, but this is just the way life is. You don't always work for nice people and if it bothers you -- usually YOU switch jobs, not them.
In my opinion, Eich stepping down is quite honorable even though I might not agree with his world view.

Unless you're from a country that only gets "we don't want your money because you're not from USA, UK nor Germany, go fuck yourself" message.

I second ownCloud. It's got a decent dropbox-like desktop syncing tool, too. Just buy a cheapo VPS or root server somewhere, install ownCloud and be done.

How ironic that the quote at the bottom of Slashdot says now

Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.

Why isn't up rated insightful...

"declining quality of the Linux desktop"? Funny, I've been using Linux as my main desktop OS since 2004 and I've noticed a tremendous betterment of its quality over these years.

I'd love an online service that I'd charge occasionally with some money and when I go to a site that pays its bills via ads, it is paid from my account that $0,001 and all the ads are hidden.
Since no one seems to want my money enough to come up with a solution like that -- I keep using AdBlock. I won't buy anything because of those ugly ads, anyway.

And Clementine is what Amarok USED TO be. Simply the best.

I don't think they have just one monopoly product. Sure, search is huge. But what about Android. What about advertisement potential of data gathered through Analytics. What about Apps and App Engine? Or even the infamous Plus. They have numerous products that are quite successful and that not all of their products are like that? It's a good thing they're trying new ideas out.

Probably the same place, I land with one land and one for boats.

So... ultrasonic 3D displays soon?

20GB per 100000 objects is 209kB per object. Don't know what resolution each image was, but I think 200kB is quite small.