The crackers are going to love breaking this in 1, 2, 3 ...

I'd ask the other round, why do they not have access to Facebook?

Is there any reason besides assholery to not let them use social media? Is the goal of the US prison system to guarantee that inmates become 100% sociopaths with no friends or acquaintances except for criminals?

Putin is a poison murderer and responsible for the death of many women and children. So yes, that qualifies him as an asshole.

That's the principal flaw of modern software development. Instead of fixing bugs features are piled up.

I'm making music as a hobby, so I use a halfway decent audio interface (UR-22) and KRK KNS 8400 headphones, plus some midi equipment and microfones. I guess that puts me in the low to mid range category?

Anyway, I wonder why built-in PC audio is such a horrible laggy crap (Realtek anyone?), if there are already reasonable external audio interfaces with midi in the $100-200 price range. Saving costs everywhere, I guess?

That's irrelevant for many people anyway, including me, it's a matter of psychology. I wouldn't even pay $2 a month or $24 a year. Call it irrational or however else you like, but one-time costs != running costs for me no matter what the end result is. I do not lease things.

But what's wrong with branching time? You go back, kill your grandfather and end up on a timeline on which you will never be born.On the original timeline you have disappeared.

Sounds no less plausible.

Bugging individual suspects is not ethically worse than pervasive mass surveillance of the population as a whole. The former may or may not be unethical, depending on the circumstances, the latter is always immoral and dangerous to democracy.

and taking quite some bullshit. Oh well, news at 11.

In most countries (though not the US) you have to ask for permission before photographing them.

Okay, next time I see you having a dinner, I'll point a huge directed microphone at you to capture everything you say. You fucking dumbass moron.

If you're in public, you do have an expectation of privacy as well, though of course not as much as at home.

Why dou think he is not concerned? Can't we just prefer not to be filmed at all?

What's wrong with (glass)holes like you?

Drones against drones seems to be finally the right way to spend military expenditures. Anything is better than continuing to use drones against innocent people in deliberate political killings on souvereign foreign soil conducted outside of police authority, judicial oversight and jurisdiction and violating ratified human rights chartas.

Yeah, nice systemd trolling attempt. I've been administrating a little NetBSD box for quite a while as a hobby in the 90s and believe I know pretty well what the difference between Unix and Linux is. The point is that as the hybrid bastard nonstandard Unix that it is, OS X is just enough of a pain in the ass that most people who actually need to install and use Unix tools will find it a rather displeasing. Especially if you want to compile and install scientific software with lousy make files in an academic environment. I speak from plenty of personal experience, as I've been using Macs from around 1992 to 2007 (in addition to NetBSD) and started using the underlying command line tools in OS X 10.0 and later Fink when it became available almost from day one.

If your mileage varies, good for you. After all, computers are just tools and nobody in his right mind would actually care about which operating system he's using as long as it does what it's supposed to do.

Somebody who writes with LaTeX or otherwise uses OSS tools for most of his work has no advantage by using OSX plus Fink or Macports. There is no advantage at all, from my experience the ports install in nonstandard places and introduce tons of configuration problems. Moreover, installing software that has not yet been ported is a major pain in the ass on OSX due to the highly nonstandard nature of its Unix.

That's the main reason why I switched from OSX to Linux. There are others. With GNU/Linux there is no need for paid software, Apple's walled garden, and the OS getting slower with each upgrade so Apple can sell their hardware. I didn't buy Mac hardware, though, but some of the Apple laptops might be okay for other people who don't mind loosing their eyesight due to glaring mirror displays.