Yes but a Spymaster saying that they need to get data about the general population to fight terrorists is news. It's like a researcher stressing the importance of false positives.

Hint: concentrating on potential terrorists instead of amassing data about everyone should make agencies work less, not harder.

What about something like wagn? Not much tech experience needed to mess around with it, once you set it up.

web2py, multi platform, well documented, non mandatory web based IDE, good security practices, out of the box has a db admin interface and many facilities for auto generating forms, with relationships, that mind validation rules. It can use sqlite3, mysql, postgres, and a lot other db. It has an integrated webserver for low traffic sites. Backwards compatibility is a design goal, so upgrading is easy.
IMHO it is well worth the little additional work over an access like RAD tool because it has a web client/server architecture.

A distributed db that is very flexible and easy to setup on LANs is orientdb, it is based on java. Never tried it a lot, though, but it works as an http server so you can use it plus client side js for RAD apps.

Else some js + local storage enabled web client. Never ever began to explore it, so I dunno how feasible it is.

pfft, you bunch of technophiles.
5 years ago a guy who wanted his story published contacted an editor, got an appointment and showed them the manuscript:

100 handwritten pages.

The editor said SRSLY? GO LEARN COMPUTING. The guy did it, but of course chose the wrong platform, word on windows. He pulled it off after the expected pain, and he got published.

Exactly, this is a bad move no matter what. Because FF should have let third parties write a plugin and waited until it was inevitable before including it, if ever. With this move they threw their weight IN SUPPORT of it, from a practical point of view. Because now people will say: see this scheme is supported by all major vendors, let's go for it.

That it's a w3c standard, it is not relevant. In fact "we implement only the sane things out of w3c" would have been a marketing bullet point. No, not now: when remote wipings of DRM protected stuff start happening.

I would object that people who admin linux systems would not readily introduce cruft that makes their system more difficult to maintain.

But we are dealing with rather big companies that make bucks with supporting linux. And GNU/Linux, unfortunately for them, was getting easier to admin. When you used to compile you have packages. Even compiling modules into the kernel is automatic with dkms now.

So the linux support companies find themselves with a problem they share with the hardware companies. GNU/Linux works too well.
One solution is to bring rockstar developers to design the parallel of the windows registry. I say rockstar in an ambivalent way. One with outstanding coding skills but with a reality distortion field so bad that when his debug flag creates problems to the kernel devs he says "fix the kernel not my problem".
WHAT?
RedHat should have told him "Now you take a CS 101 course and relearn about namespaces and about not interfering with other people already established conventions, especially if it's the fucking KERNEL, you NOOB" - of course this would be the official public watered-down response.

So, everybody is happy. Hardware companies, support companies, and the horde of developers that prefer to roll out their own stuff instead to contribute to existing projects so they get fame and maybe a few bucks.
Luckily for the user, if enough clear thinking old school hackers exist, they will modularize or come up with drop in replacement for the systemd monolith. Else, better start exploring a plan b with genode, bsd, slackware, because the windowsification of linux won't stop here.

> Nintendo was pretending that their relationship with their spouse did not and could not exist.

This is your opinion, LGBT's opinion, maybe the majority's opinion but it is not a fact. Games ARE propaganda, but they are not as powerful as you imply.
If aliens visit us I won't hide behind a building and start shooting them, after all the coins I squandered on space invaders, not to mention gyruss xevious asteroids galaga scramble...

Finally a word to fagfags: instead of whining about the same mechanisms that all corporations employ to make their crap more acceptable, make your own mods, with blackjack and same sex hookers, if it is good, I will play it even if I don't feel particularly bothered by sex issues, because, you know, it's a game.

Skepticism is the safer choice, just browse past ideas.
And when skeptics are proven wrong by sales, they still might be right.
See the iPod, and iTunes. Refined UI, huge success, huge tech step back from previous mp3 players that could act as storage.

Maybe the answer is even simpler. A personal usb stick lets you use shared computers, without internet, without having to learn which apps reside on each pc. Linux distros already do that, so I'd customize one with some applications that are useful for sneakernet and backups.

Unfortunately we don't have the equivalent of read only floppies, which coupled with a write protection on the BIOS and on peripherals' firmware would make the PC very difficult to pwn.
Because even write protected sd cards can be written to, as you easily discover running some card readers under linux.

> How many overweight people do you know that cycle regularly?

I only know logrotate, you insensitive clod.

Microsoft is behind apache AND nginx for the top million busiest sites, nginx appearing to gain more than apache lost.

Science says you should be able to make predictions, so that the theory is valid. Matching observations in a model based on theories built to explain those same observations is circular reasoning.

This does not mean they are not on the right path, of course.

I understand global warming skeptics have good reasons, but I can't come up with a reason for funding anti-vaxxers around the world. If such campaign exists, it is the only anti-system movement of today, very curious thing.

Since I also don't understand how one can be pro- or anti- vaccines. Consider the ramifications of always trusting vaccinations because the principle is sound (you might as well ingest 2kg of pork meat every day because the principle of nutrition is just as sound) and the ramifications of always distrusting it.

What vaccine, for what disease, administered by whom, under which conditions, did the children of the doctors and pharma companies involved take the shots, should be good questions to ask. People make such fuss about changing telephone company, or switching to Linux, after all.

I miss the arcade in the late 70s first 80s. The whole assortment of electronic games, pinball, mechanical games, mechanical-electronic hybrids... If it reopened as a museum it would blow kid's minds.

But then, the kids would return home, look at the freshly-acquired-with-parents'-blood PS4 and think: "meh", so maybe those things are better forgotten.

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