>Sounds like a brilliant strategy, and an epic demonstration of what can go wrong with the cloud.

No, it's just an example of what can happen to incompetent people. There's no reason to believe that these people would not have also failed to have offline backup with local servers. There was nothing to prevent them from keeping backups locally or on another cloud.

Blaming cloud computing for this is completely idiotic, and about what I expect on the dumbed down Slashdot these days.

>Do device "owners" really want phones that "accept only applications approved by the company".

Of course they do. You may not have heard of it, but there's a device called an iPhone that's tremendously popular, and this feature is one of the reasons.

Locked down devices are not for me, but one would have to really have their head in the sand to not notice that safer to use devices are popular with many, many people.

No, we can't treat with a goal of normality, but we can shoot for the goal of maximising happiness and increasing people's ability to not only function, but to excel in whatever environment they're in.

Presumably IP bans if anyone is caught editing for pay without disclosure. The policy has to be in place before they can enforce it and get rid of the corrupt editors as they're identified.

Doctor Who fans have been building much better K-9's for decades now.

Why was this posted? Because Linux?

>Funny, I was expecting this crowd to have fantasies of crippling those apps' developers.

There is a lot of insanity and paranoia at /., But I haven't ever seen calls to cripple anyone.


>I mean seriously, $(app vendor), your app does not need access to my location and/or phone calls in order for me to do $(menial computation X)

No it doesn't have to, but a developer has the right to require whatever permissions they want in return for their (probably priced at $0) work. The user has the right to accept or reject those terms. This just got more complicated, but everyone still has their rights.

It's not at all bad once you install Classic Shell and disable Metro. It's still totally insane that we need to install a 3rd party tool to make the OS usable, but 8 is far superior to 7 once you install Classic Shell.

You got extremely lucky. At 25 the infection would normally have been much worst. I know someone who's basically physically handicapped and in pain for life due to nerve damage from the chicken pox virus. She went from healthy to moaning in pain all the time.

+ 1 Funny to anyone who's worked with ANY large organization, and here I am out of mod points. Sorry Impy.

>Is machine sentience not only possible, but inevitable? Of course not.

The only thing that would stop it is the fall of civilization. There's no reason to believe that only machines made of meat can think. You didn't think your thoughts were based on fairy-dust, did you?

Sucks that you broke your back and died at your first 20 foot jump attempt.

Aren't you tired of the Betteridge posts? Did you really want to be that guy?

Khasim nails it. We can all get back to work now.

I think you're projecting your own behaviour out onto the rest of us. Everyone I know who bought tablets uses them all the time. They're very useful devices. I don't need to carry one because I have a 1080p Galaxy Note 3, but I have three tablets in daily use at home.

Christianity was founded by dirtbag pricks who did rotten stuff (spread superstition) to get ahead. How is that a prediction?