where are the people that bark google has too much power and are "intrinsically evil" because of it? where are the people crying that their privacy is being breached because it scans their email for context? where are the people claiming they have been "scroogled"? where are you naysayer of every change google makes to a (free) product? where is your vitriol toward google for perpetrating a clearly heinous act? then again, you could just mod me down for your bitter repute.

have you considered that google actually tries to follow their "dont be evil" edict?

it's fine for stock widgets but when it comes to custom gui elements, it's a cpu drain. the video/audio track representations are completely custom.

Python is not suited for every task and video editing is one of the things that should be exclusively in native code.

they gave the chinese gov full access to their (chinese) user identities and file access. i would not be surprised if their china gov approved system is completely contained within china.

there was a time when cars didnt have computers. there was also a time when the computers ran a single program instead of an operating system that executes other programs.

why do we have operating systems for the only important function of the car?

the biggest security threat to computers is the user. users improperly configure things, wont take security precautions (like using weak passwords) and will outright download viruses/malware. far too many users are not competent enough to tell the difference of a real popup window and a website claiming they have a virus and they need to install their trojan horse immediately.

why would those in power want to let that happen?

just sayin'

Oil and gas subsidies. Record profits and they are still getting subsidized?

priorities.

you forgot the other 24 companies that succeeded. a 96% success rate isnt good enough?

honestly, i would rather have something that is known to work in the long term and not need update to patch bugs or possible changes to the config file implementation. let's just use something that we know works.

on the other hand, couldn't it be an optional package (a package is required but there are multiple to choose from) with the default as systemd?

"We’re making our source code freely available on GitHub" and it's a promise they made good on... until the site launched.

so... is it time to post the code again... or ever?

in the north you have no rights at all.

what they are using is based on the same recognition semantics that the Kinect uses. bottom line: it's software that is inspired by how the Kinect works what uses their existing hardware thus saving oodles of money.

it's clear that the amount offered is very little compared to what you could get by selling the info. if you can get a browser hack that can highjack the OS then it's worth a shitload more than the pennies they are offering. they need to start offering real cash for these deep level hacks.

what if you just look at the chip contents under a microscope? i figure if you put that much money into the company that you should be able to inspect the resulting chip. seems like it would be a simple to determine if it's just a plain ol' IC or not.