Lets see, I have a few weeks of vacation time, and $5000 burning a hole in my pocket. What to do, what to do. Oh, I know, I'll DONATE IT TO THE RICHEST FUCKING COMPANY ON THE PLANET. What a moron - next time take your time and money to your hometown's food kitchen and spend your time and money where it will actually help, you know, people instead of some greedy ass corporation.

Haven't they fucked up things enough already? Remember when an OS was just an OS and not a cluster fuck of Apps jammed down the users throat?

There has yet to be invented a microscope that could detect how little I care.

" I think they have some knowledge in this field."

Apparently they don't have any knowledge on how to fund their own project (or how you fund first, research later), something most PHD students learn right at the beginning of their studies.

Just out of curiosity, what's so special about your real identity that you have to post on Slashdot anonymously?

Give them a break, it takes time to produce CPU's with that many bugs, backdoors and loopholes and yet still mostly function as a CPU.

Those parents should be asking where the majority of Fortune 500 companies (and mom and pop outfits too) currently get their coding done, and then consider if they want their precious snowflakes to spend their school years learning a trade that is almost completely outsourced (and certainly will be in the next decade with various countries racing to the bottom bidding for coding and IT jobs). Does little Johnny want to compete with a foreign programmer that is perfectly happy making $50US a day?

" and can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world."

Like to the Sahara?

You're absolutely right. When I went from Centos 6x to Centos 7x I had to learn nothing to make the box go from 100% uptime to crashing 2-3 times a week. Systemd is great, for no known reason it took a perfectly working system and turned it into a metal case full of steaming shit. Systemd only helps DIstro builders, it does NOTHING for any System Admin or Server wrangler. I have real work to do on my computers, so fixing a distro's fatal flaw isn't (and never will be) on my todo list.

A sub-10 year old needs a computer (of any flavour) as much as it needs another lazy, remote, uncaring parent.

"Help you stop watching"? I thought that was what the incessant yammering about YouTube Red was for. Google is fucking crazy if they think people will pay $10/month for their useless content

3.5 years older after 40 years. OMG - EVERYONE PANIC. At that rate, new dad's will be 180 years old by the end of the century (ok, I didn't do the maths so that number might be off a little).

Pocket change from Billionaires - oh how generous.

Military Research? You mean like their Whale Research except with bigger guns?

Can't imagine anything going wrong with that idea.

Dark matter eh - Is that what China is calling Fatty Kim Junior's hair style these days?