Just in case you weren't aware, the full text of that beatitude is:

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth".

That does not sound like a cautionary tale.

To quote Queeg:
Chess

Even with the backlight turned right down? I have never seen this happen to such a degree that makes a redshifter ineffective, though I don't own a Kindle so perhaps it's specific to those.

On desktops and laptops I use redshift-gtk. It sits in the background and gradually adjusts the gamma of your screen based on your longitude/latitude and the time of day. There is an icon in the system tray that you can click to manually turn it off to see the difference or if you briefly have a need to see colour-accurate content.

I don't recall what one I have used for Android, though I have used Nightfilter in the past that works well (though manual).

What are you doing about it?

If you say "nothing" then as a citizen you are a major part of the problem.

Anyone reading screens at night should already have an automatic redshifter installed, unless you explicitly need to stay awake for some reason. I use them for all my desktops, laptops and tablets.

The difference on your eyes is, pun intended, night and day.

Terrorist group wants to legitimize their snooping activities.

News at 11

I have seen far too much of that sentiment. That someone with right-of-way is entitled to plough through whatever hazards may be present and consequences be damned. I have sat in a car and actually hear the driver, after taking part in a near-miss event at an intersection, say that it's okay because they would win if it ever went to court.

Little consolation indeed, if you have to go carless for four weeks while it's being panelbeaten back into shape, or six months in hospital.

If this sort of mentality ever finds you, a good counter-principle is this:
You never have the right of way until everyone else gives it to you.

That is all.

Look, if you really want the alleged convenience of basic appliances connected to the Internet then you're playing tic-tac-toe with power-hungry governments and greedy companies.

The only way to win is to not play.

That might have been true a couple of years ago, but now that it's common knowledge that your device is probably spying on you, people are suddenly interested in how to make their devices NOT spy on them.

This. A thousand times this.

Here's what I use at present. I consider all of the highly useful.

Status-4-evar because no desktop browser should be without a status bar
Tab Mix Plus for its excellent session handling and handling of unread tabs.
Tree Style Tab for its correct placement of tabs on widescreen monitors (on the left, not at the top) and its absolutely wonderful hierarchical tree of tabs.
One of the many YouTube video downloaders
Flashblock for obvious reasons
Adblock, for when ads get to invasive.
Disable CTRL-Q Shortcut because 'q' is too close to 'w' on my keyboard.

I'm just going to paste someone else's comment here to address this good question:

  by radarskiy (2874255) on 04:56 PM February 13th, 2015 (#49044679)

a) Vaccines make the chance of contracting the disease very low, but not exactly zero.
b) Carries of the diseases increase the opportunity of the disease to mutate into a form that the vaccine doesn't protect.
c) Some people are allergic to the vaccine and must depend on everyone around them being vaccinated.

I agree with you on nearly every count.

LCD touchscreens for a vehicle where the operator is supposed to have his/her eyes on the road is just stupid. Any feature that lets another party remotely disable it /will/ eventually be abused. An automatic update system will eventually download an update that has somehow missed one step of testing and result in unpredicted probably dangerous behaviour. And don't get me started on the folly of self-driving cars.

There are however some "modern" features that I actually like:

Parking aids. I'm talking basic sonars and cameras here, not self-parking mechanisms. No computer required. Although admittedly a fresnel lens stuck to the back window helps a lot too.

Engine computers. Massive power-to-weight ratio improvements and fuel savings have been realized in recent times by otherwise-dumb computers constantly measuring and adjusting engine properties such as air/fuel mix and injection rate. I don't enjoy wasting fuel.

Are you referring to Hybrid in the sense of electric motors and batteries that are charged by regenerative braking? That's something I don't have any experience with but I'm not aware of any downside to them.