Given how many programs I've used over the past decade that have required unreasonably high amounts of RAM, and/or were subsequent releases of software that solved a particular problem in earlier iterations but required 1/10th the memory to do it, I wouldn't mind a handful of these guys getting their desks back. Adobe is a great place to start.

I'm by no means a programmer, but from the handful of times I've seen what you're talking about, I'll say this: if it's possible to save 10% of RAM by shifting the ease-of-use burden to the comments instead of the actual code, then as an end user, I'm 100% in favor of commenting the everloving hell out of difficult to read code that saves RAM when users are running it.

Wrong. Use as much as necessary, but no more. I might have 12GB of RAM in my laptop, but it's not all for you. It's for EVERYTHING I do, and when I start adding VMs or large After Effects projects to what I'm doing, 12GB starts to get pretty cramped. Some RAM usage will be inevitable, but wasteful RAM usage is wasteful.

I most certainly have plenty of admiration for the Demoscene.

Judging from my local road construction, I don't think time factors into government calculus.

Having a flight-attendant sit in for a two-person rule may not have saved the plane, but at least the co-pilot would have to work harder for it.

See, that's a serious image problem right there. Since absolutely no self-described socialist or communist government in the world is considered "true" socialism or communism by those philosophy's respective defenders (who then go on to praise "socialist" European nations that are, in fact, simply capitalism plus robust welfare), it leads the rest of us to believe that those philosophies are simply impossible to implement in reality.

"This isn't right. You only paid $20 for this hammer? Bros, do you even bureaucrat? Here, lemme show you..."

Would it kill you to read the article? Its not even that long.

1) No, SSL and incognito not included.
2) It does what just about every other "data saver" of this type have always done (BES compression, Opera data saver, I believe safari has an example as well)

What are you doing that's writing ~100-200TB / year?

For a do-nothing pc you should be using any of the hundred sub-$60 128GB ssds.

Man, all you did was throw red meat to the dogs. Customer service departments exist because all your most well-intentioned communication can do give angry people a chance to exact revenge for your company's perceived slights against them by attacking you. At long last, someone they can blame. You really need to let your customer service dept. handle this.

FWIW, the Magic Mouse is two button (errr... two touch?) and swipable not just up and down (for scrolling), but side to side also (does not, however, support the three-finger swipe of the Magic Pad). It's weird; I didn't like it at first (predominantly PC user), but after a while I really, really dug it and wish I had something like it for the PC.

SELinux stops all memory exploit mechanisms? Thats AMAZING.

TIL OpenBSD has built in anti-trojan tools, and the ability to secure browsers from their own memory corruption holes! WOW!