Linux.

Speaking purely hypothetically here, would flame throwers even work? I thought I had read that you can't "cook" Ebola out of the meat that easily...

I think what you're really getting at is that UX should not omit attention to the UX of the manual itself.

how do they work?

It pretty much goes like this:

1) Purchase ticket using unique email address.
2) Almost immediately receive spam to that email address from a spoofed source.
3) Realize Amtrack is (knowingly or unknowingly) selling your personal contact information to anyone who will pay.

It makes sense that if this Amtrack employee was selling the customer contact info database illegally to the DEA there likely were other buyers too that are much harder to catch in the act. Furthermore it makes sense that if the DEA would spend that much money buying the information illegally they'd have no qualms about reselling it once they purchased it to recoup some of the cost for other operations, or potentially even profit from it.

In this situation Amtrack is sadly hardly unique either. This is pretty much the name of the game with most companies that require you to hand over your contact info in order to do business, regardless of what their Terms of Service might say about it. At some level in the chain of command there is always a point where someone has access to customer information that is of a value enough orders of magnitude more than their salary that the temptation to do something dishonorable far outweighs the fear of getting caught.

... same as the first, a little bit louder and a whole lot worse.

Depends largely on whether you're the parent or the teacher.

For the LOLs?

Redefining "unlimited" to mean whatever the fuck we want it to mean. You think you're mad now, but wait until next month when we redefine "free."

the dirty secret is we all hate each other

this is honestly a great idea. i would also buy a nintendo smart watch in a heartbeat, over anything made by samsung or apple...

Next week: Nintendo miraculously saved from impending doom by the the slashdot effect.

Uh... sadly I'm afraid he's right. Its actually eating itself alive, and only the most experienced can see it. By the time none of us are left, it will be already too late to save the economy as a whole.

This shouldn't be considered flamebait. He's absolutely right. Black culture isn't the only culture that disparages intellect. Corporate culture and rural religious culture also both disparage it quite vehemently. Don't get me wrong though, ... at least if you're white you don't ALSO have to contend against the racism prevalent in both cultures...

Eventually the machines will start designing and building better revisions of themselves autonomously, at which point it will really become their world, not ours.