Interestingly enough, I'm fine with income tax, but property tax bugs me to know end. It makes it feel like there's no way to ever completely "own" a house or a car.

This is insane. There are only so many hours in a day, and I can't imagine being motivated AND capable to re-implement anything beyond a trivially simple application in my own free time. If you have the ability to create, I think just carbon copying something from work is too boring for 99.999999% of people (stats made up). The capacity for shitty employers to do shitty things is much higher than an employee, due to their greater resources. I would also wager that a greater percentage of companies than people are willing to rail the other if given an opportunity; profit motive and all that. At a previous job I signed an agreement giving all IP in a _very specific domain_ to my employer, regardless where it was created. I was okay with that. If I build a missile defense shield in my garage they can have it.

"Our software is good, so good -- infact, that if we had used it ourselves our software wouldn't have been hacked.". That's one way to preserve confidence I suppose, use recursion.

Perhaps what he's talking about is merely an interface that allows commands and things to be environment agnostic. A portable operating system interface, if you will. POSIX would be a good acronym.

I like .NET but ActiveX is an atrocity.

I have all sorts of ideas of things I'd create with an affordable device of this type and an API. Feels like this might be the next application gold rush, if we can get an affordable one that doesn't make you look like a mouth breathing neck beard.

Why is norway always ahead of the curve in nearly everything?

This story seems patently off theme from the typical slashdot story. This is garish and confusing.

Is that necessary? Is it just a metal tube or does it serve a more substantial purpose.