Do you even have to ask? Do you never go out on the internet?

ALL websites are more loaded than last year in JavaScript, and this is not a new trend. GMail was just pioneering (in the webmail space that is) the webapp that has only one page and everything you do is driven by JavaScript and the DOM.

Or not... Or your e-reader can go berserk, borken or otherwise unusable. Shit happens. Having 300 books around is *much* better than nothing.

I believe the proper term is now shocked and awed.

Many more than all other platform combined, at least on the desktop.

It is only in your dream. The version of Android sold on 98% of all phones worldwide is well locked and closed, thankyouverymuch.

Non removable battery isn't that much of a problem really. I've had plenty of phones (including iphones) and never changed a battery on any of them.

But the performance crippling OS updates.... I have to say I don't know what you're talking about.

It has a screen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

It's not English nor does it has English roots, so they don't like it. It's simple really. You can apply that to many things Americans don't like.

With which hand?

Please replace XXX by any kind of job title. Cook. Car repair. Teacher. CEO. Anything fits, really.

If you learned anything from Stuxnet, you would no that no data is secure whenever it's online. No data at all. Stuxnet had zero-days for all OSes that noone knew about before it was discovered, and not just one of them. Chances are your system is already compromised and nobody even knows about it. And if it is not, it could be at any time. We closed a door with Heartbleed, but there are countless doors still open, just waiting to be discovered.

I honestly don't know what you're talking about. There's been a vulnerability disclosed. Fixing it is trivial. Regenerating your keys is (or should be) trivial. End of story.

Yes, this vulnerability is scary, and even more scary thing is that there are probably other vulns that bad in the wild, and most likely plenty of them. But this is over.

When I first saw Stuxnet and the extent of this shit, I lost all confidence in online data, for good. Heck, Stuxnet even infiltrated an offline network. Heartbleed is shit compared to this. The point is that everything that is online can be breached. End of story. We closed one door yesterday, I'm sure there are still 100 others open. So you see? No big deal really.

Ubuntu did provide apt patches for all affected versions, including those not supported anymore (12.10 comes to mind). They did it right. If you had configured your security patches to install automatically, it was even transparent. I don't see a problem there.

If you care so much about all that windows crap, why are you running Linux at all?

I'm not saying it's a bad reason, I'm saying the odds of that succeeding in a reasonable timeframe - say in the next 50 years - are just nonexistent. What I'm saying is that there is no way anyone would convince enough people to make this project even examined, hence the project is doomed. The adventures of the last millenium are vastly different - I think you'll give me that, after all they had air to breathe and water to drink - and so the comparison is at best irrelevant. Also, I didn't imply we would need to carry everything there. What I said is that the project would need support from earth for dozens of years (and a lot of them) before the colony could survive on its own. During this timeframe the whole thing could fail at any point and the goal of self-preservation would not be met until then. Those are the reason you will have trouble convincing anyone of doing it.

At last, my example of humans being unable to preserve their own climate is just here to illustrate that if noone (or let's say not enough people) cares about our planet, how are you going to convince them to care about another?