If there's one thing we in America have learned over the last 4 years, and this week in Texas, is that leadership matters. So much of the day to day politics is infotainment, cheerleading our team to score points against your team on "issues" that are mostly imaginary and really have no bearing on most people's day to day.

But as they say, crisis will always find you, and will expose for all to see how well prepared, or unprepared, you are.

Who we place in positions of public trust says a lot about who we are. Events like this just hammers home the point that it is up to us to choose wisely, and our choices should be based on a whole lot more than just which team they play for.

Going back to the late '80s, he had an outsized influence on the creation and constant stoking of the conservative grievance machine. Which has led to its inevitable end with the rise of fascists, enthusiastically and unquestioningly embraced by so many willing useful idiots. Ready to strike down everything our country stands for, and for what? Just a bunch of lies. Good Riddance!

Not mentioned here, but the other big technology project for the trucking industry is to get rid of the drivers altogether. Autonomous trucking.

This reminds me when Blackberry hired Alicia Keys as some made up title like VP of Creative Strategy, or some other BS like that. Her first tweet went out extolling how great Blackberry is, and at the bottom the tag line said "Sent from Twitter App on iPhone". Oops!

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present today's winner for Most Typical Slashdot Solution-To-A-Problem Award! This one is:

* technically "correct"
* blames the user for others' technology failings
* and completely unworkable in the real world

All delivered in a patronizing, condescending tone. Well done, and thanks for playing!

Bzzzt! Wrong! You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. It is a 100% management decision whether and when to ship a product.

I have seen it firsthand when schedule rules above all else, and a half-baked product gets released to scathing reviews, and it's extremely frustrating to those who were working hard to make it as awesome as it might otherwise have been <cough> Blackberry Playbook </cough>. It is situations like that where I developed a begrudging respect for Steve Jobs, who would not suffer fools offering garbage quality, and had the spine to say "No, we won't release this, it is not good enough."

Welcome to Slashdot's longest running game show Blame The Victim! It's the zany show where technology experts try to explain why their products are too difficult to understand and use by regular people, and how it's all the users' fault. I'm your host Mr. McCrew.

Ha! Wish I had a +1 for you today.

Would it hurt to define what RGB stands for, either in the article itself or in the /. summary? Usually RGB is an acronym associated with graphics (red-green-blue). No idea what it means in the context of keyboard. Fail.

When it's satire, who says there is a requirement for balance? We are mired in misinformation in part because news organizations elevate lies and conspiracy to "balance" opposing views.

Spoken like a true Slashdot-ite. "There's no need to try and improve the technology we invented, we can just blame the victim. If he complains, we can just lock them outside the door so we don't have to hear how bad our tech is."

4. And comes with a pony

Aw Geeze, are you trotting out the old Slashdot blame-the-user straw man?

If you are suggesting that vendors should be held to much higher standards, then I'm on board with you. (and skip the rest of this)

What is it specifically that people are supposed to learn? That in order to pass their smartphone license Slashdot approved certification they have to put their lives on hold and become an expert on programming smartphones, loading custom firmware, writing iptables rules, and boning up on the intricacies of the chattr command? And what, only then are they worthy? Is that when they will have 'learned'?

As usual, phones managed by highly tech-capable people focused on security are more secure than the masses left to rely on the vendor.

Like Aerospace and Defense companies, Google is getting more political cover by spreading jobs across more congressional districts. Now elected officials who might have taken a more hostile stance toward Google will now be more willing to offer protections for a company that provides good paying, high tech jobs in their district.

I figured, hey it's the Smithsonian, they gotta have something on woolly mammoths. Started typing a query and it suggested "Woolly mammoth", so I selected that.

Got 3 results, all for some obscure plants in their Botany collection.

D- Needs massive improvement