The tool "atomic bomb" is bad.

You can't use it for anything but destruction, killing, maiming, poisoning and MAD power play. The tools to build the raw materials for the bomb are agnostic, but the bomb is not. And, yes, the two are separable. Manufacturing the raw material for the "heart" of an atomic bomb is not equivalent to engineering said bomb and testing it. Nor is engineering this bomb a requirement to engineering any other tools that are based on the scientific discovery of radioactivity.

Who needs spyware running on the application layer if firmware is a valid attack vector. You're fucked as soon as you plug in your computer or insert a charged battery.

> forcing them to upgrade by not releasing directx12 to win7

If you haven't upgraded to win7 yet, DX12 is the least of your problems.

I'm also not sure where this fairy tale about "only allowing installs from windows store" comes from. It's definitely a lie.

Nobody cares about everyday apps in Linux vs X. Linux solved that years ago with major DEs like KDE or Gnome without utilizing the web.

It's still about peripherals and special apps. Every peripheral you pick up at $electronics_store runs with windows, as long as you avoid those marked with the apple. Doesn't work like that with Linux. You still have spend time for research to find out what versions run with Linux. You have to compromise in either the quality, feature or money department (or a combination of those), because your selection is severely limited. No homo oeconomicus wants these compromises. Hell, even I don't want them. And special apps is what really broke the LiMux initiative. Now that Windows 10 comes with a Linux subsystem for devs, there's even less incentive to not pick it over Linux.

Linux owns the mobile and server markets. But desktop? No, absolutely not.

Pops up in so many Sci-Fi stories like that. And it's rather fitting with all our cloud services.

Just keep reversing polarity on the warp coils and you'll be fine.

Are you renting or leasing that TiVo from the cable co, or did you buy it outright?

If the latter, then you aren't paying a monthly fee for the box, you're paying for the piece of hardware which you own outright to be able to use the TiVo Service, which is a combination of a month by month license to use the proprietary part of the software, and the listings service (unfortunately not as good with the switch from Tribune Media Services/Gracenote to their new overlords Rovi), and some other "intellectual property" type stuff.

Do you have to pay anything for the cable card or is the first one "free"?

(and yes "the first one is free" *is* classic pusher technique)

Google's main product is our eyeballs, which they sell to the advertisers.

We don't pay anything to Google the way a new Chevy rolling off of the assembly line doesn't pay anything to General Motors. They get their money when someone buys the Chevy.

So she got the nomination of a major political party by being weak and incompetent?

...and search engines to be search engines, and both to know that neither is the other, and when I'm typing something on the screen I expect it to remain on that part of the screen and not jump somewhere else.

And I'd really like to be able to right-click on a link and have an "Open with..." option that offers my choice of all the browsers I have installed, and I'd like to be able to highlight and right click and be offered my choice of search engines.

If you were in Chicago, would you say you were on the Dan Ryan or that you were on Dan Ryan?

Orient was used a a verb long before orientate came along.

http://www.grammarphobia.com/b...

Frankly, orientate sounds like someone was trying to make themselves sound more educated and important than they were.

Sort of like what's happened to the language used by police departments at press conferences over the last 4 or 5 decades.

I've got no problem with the Los Angeles colloquial highway naming style, though. Some things should have regional flavor.

11/8 Clinton/Kaine

11/9 Bernie 2020

The scheduling of the debates was designed to limit exposure to the public of all the Democratic candidates, thus denying them free publicity early on, leaving HRC with the then superior name recognition she already had.