Trading ownership rights for bling not normally affordable. This is caused by stupidity.

I'd never let my systems run on dead man switches like that.

It will be used as such whether the public sees it or not. Better for them to see it. The media already censors and op-eds too much as it is. Dont' justify their behavior just because you believe it might slow powergrabs by a corrupt government. Media that tells the truth without reservation is the only media the public can trust.

The reason the public might think that is because they've been mislead about terror all along. It's a threat alright but not the threat we've been told justifies the powergrabs... If it was, we'd've declared war by now.

False equivalence.. Showing occasional footage is not equal to 'turning yourself into isil's publicity arm.'

Well, when you have a culture that encourages censorious attitudes like that, you end up with a society that refuses to acknowledge reality whenever it's unpleasant. That is never healthy. I think the media shoudl show more of the horrific stuff of war. The cleansed, sanitized, politically correct, jingoistic heroism (or, depending on the politics of the outlet, criticism), is NOT the reality of war. It's impossible to have a free society without free flow of information to make informed policy, and I'd rather not live the alternative, even if it means the weak minded omg the children sorts might have to toughen up a bit.

So while it is the right of the owner to decide what is said with his resources, I still think they should be encouraged to support free speech. I mean encouraged, not forced.

Keeping truth from the public only helps reinforce ignorance.

That's what fairy tales are for. Shielding your kids from reality just turns them into weak, spineless passive aggressive adults. You're the typical parent who thinks it's everyone else's job to shield whatever it is you don't like from your kids.

However, it's also good for the public to have all the facts..and pictures can send a much more accurate description than dry, politically correct speech from some anchorman. Give them the media exposure.. It just shows how degenerate they are.

..and who says what should and shouldn't be said?

The for the children excuse is the most abused one by tyrants. If your kids can't handle the internet then maybe you should be teaching them about the harsh realities of life instead of your own fantasy world where everyone is a loving hipster.

Because there are those of us who'd rather use our ram for work rather than for a heavy yet inflexible UI that doesn't do much but does it splendidly. There's no reason for a typical UI to take that much ram, that's why. Same goes for cpu and gpu.

Perhaps the real question is whether you can justify an OS taking 2 gigabytes of ram while sitting idle at the desktop.. It's really not justified no matter how much ram the system has.

Compared to today's fisher price interfaces, it is.

Actually, it would be great for such installations.. It's stable, relatively lean, and mimics common desktop conventions.

Oh believe me I've seen quite a bit thank you. Lots of wasted white space, huge fonts, useless menus, pop overs, useless animations, abusive ads, fixed sized window requirements (no I don't want to run my browser full screen just so your site looks right), ugly drop shadows, pointless bevels, ugly borders that waste more space, sluggish performance even on quad core intel cpus, all housing limited functioning freemium garbage. Of course that doesn't hold a candle to the seemingly entitled attitude of the web 'designers' who built all of this. They think they have a right to dictate what code runs on my machine, and how their shit is displayed on my screen. Why would I use any of their shit for my work? Their code was written to serve their interests, not mine.

I think most people who claim entrapment mean that it SHOULD be considered as such, not that it is, legally.