I know, but some people believe in all that stuff. Then again, that's all "UFO" is ever used for anyway, so there's no problem.

Please tell me we didn't send microbes to the moon, too. Just think of the consequences.

http://soylentnews.org/

If you're had enough of this sort of crap, why not hop over to Soylent News? It's like Slashdot used to be.

(They're voting on a less sucky name, but the site itself is sound).

> You really have to look at rich people who are convicted of burglary and poor people
> who are convicted of burglary before saying that the jails really just exist to punish
> the poor

No, you don't pick this or that crime and compare them; you break down the demographics by income, regardless of crime, and come to pretty obvious conclusions. There's no need to complicate things. Rape? Murder? Why would poor people be less/more likely to commit those crimes?

Well that's a powerfully stupid idea.

> On the other hand, if your site can only survive by being paid for with ads, you need
> a new business model.

Like Slashdot, you mean? Or is this site supported by the Bandwidth Pixies?

No, that's what you do when you're writing something easy any entry level developer can do, like most of the shit enterprise software companies insist on writing. It doesn't work when you've got a cutting edge console with alien technology and a limited number of developers capable of writing for it. This isn't exactly Stack Overflow "pls help i am writing anroid app but i am getting teh crash plz to give me tutorial" territory.

Assuming it's actually a crime.

Calm down. It's no different to YouTube anti piracy policies. The solution will likely be similar.

> Whenever you see "in the CLOUD!", mentally replace it with "using someone else's
> server"

Those of use in Europe already think "one of the US Government's servers". The difference is negligible.

> This is crap. A bug that allows remote code execution or even a DoS is a much,
> much bigger issues than fixing the user experience or minor stability issues.

You're not a security professional. You should have to put that in your sig file. The linux kernel is used in many different situations, and clearly some security problems only pose a risk in some of those situations. IE. a lot of embedded systems will never be vulnerable to this particular issue.

A bug is a bug. All bugs should be triaged and then treated accordingly. You don't pretend a bug is more important because security is the flavour of the month.

They're still alive?
http://www.theonion.com/articl...

Also, 4G isn't just about speed, but coverage. You can't call it 4G without a minimum stationary and another minimum if moving. 3G can be a bit naff in that respect.

If you're attempting to suggest that browsing the web, downloading apps and updates is no faster on 4G than on 3G then I'm here to tell you that you're very, very wrong.

It's because, despite the growth in tools, better IDEs etc, writing quality software, especially complex software, is hard, and the standard of development has gone down because people are chasing short term costs. Better to get some newb muppet to write something quickly and cheaply, throw a lot of tests at it to check it sort of does something without crashing (better hope the specs were ok), and cash the cheque before any changes are required (cheaper to start from scratch). Adding complexity just makes it more expensive so let's not offer the user any choices, shall we? You'll work *this* way, you won't have any options. The web is largely like that now (white screens with a single column of text in the middle - who needs 24 inch monitors when you can get away with a 17 inch one), Android apps with next to no options (thanks, Google) etc.