For example, if I bought an 8GB phone, I might have been told I could easily fit a movie or a couple of TV shows on it. Now, after updating to the latest version of the system software, I can no longer fit a movie on it. I updated my phone and now it won't do what I was told it could do and it never warned me that this might be an issue before I updated it.

Not that I necessarily agree with the lawsuit, but it might be worthwhile if Apple says to those people with 8GB phones, "Hey, you might NOT want to update your system software because you won't have much room afterwards."

Based on the mod, looks like someone got butthurt.

I'm not sure it would be that big a deal. Figure it's, what, about 2 or 3 seconds? Yeah, I don't think you'll be ducking and weaving things that are coming at you. But a humanoid robot could probably walk around (slowly) and pick up stuff.

Heck, the old Soviet lunokhod rovers were remote controlled.

Than how about they add some memory dedicated to the OS? The stuff is not that expensive these days...

Do I smell a troill? It's currently 65 years and the lowest it's been since 1950 is 58 years.

Maybe they can fuel it with vodka, the price of which has dropped significan;y in Russia: http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/3...

Oh please, there are so many billions of people living wildly different life styles and there's a considerable incidence of cancer all of the world. And we got cases of cancer that are 3000 year old, it's not like it showed up recently. And if you correct for increased lifespan there's no explosion in cancer, we only have a lot more old people whose cell reproduction system has had longer to develop a critical fault. Obesity is a contributing factor to heart problem, there's still normal weight/underweight people with heart problems. I don't know any rational basis to assume the default is almost no cancer and it all must be part of some conspiracy, but apparently the tin foil hatters are modding you up. I guess they can mix the cancer-giving stuff into the chemtrails...

Exactly. And does "Lin Industrial"? Probably not.

Who are these people? Are they more than a couple of guys looking for "venture capital" to spend for a few years? Any actual rocket know-how? Do they employ an office full of qualified Russian rocket engineers?

I can't find anything - English or Russian - about these people, who's backing them, what their experience level is. My guess is that it's a pipe dream of flat out a way to sponge up "venture capital".

Random boasting from people unable to carry them out... Well, they better not build it where all those time-share lots have been sold...

No, there was never such a time. When MtGox collapsed there was less than 13 million bitcoins total, most of which is being hoarded. Looking at the exchange trade volume there's maybe $5-10 million dollar daily liquidity. In order to sell out without the market crashing you probably couldn't sell more than 10% of that so it'd take years to cash out. And that's assuming you don't overdo it and spook the herd so they all cash out too.

That is dual homing. See my last paragraph about that.

Well.. I've tried to use kmail in KDE...

That was on an even worse machine but whatever. .. and then there's mutt. Or gmail.

It's the whole rest. The uniforms... ok, they are kinda cool, but that's pretty much where the cool stuff ends.

Getting up at some time when normal people go to bed.
Calling someone "sir" whose IQ matches that of my last bowel movement.
Going through tourette-like spastic twitches every time such a pea-for-brain waltzes by.
The food. Not so much the content (as if any hacker cares just what he shovels into his body) but instead of eating when you're hungry you're eating when you're eating. Why kinda sense does that make?
Various daily/weekly/monthly routines without any rhyme or reason (like where that oversized colorful hanky is being pulled up on a pole and everyone's watching like they're waiting for God to blow his nose or something).

And that's just what I remember of my time in that insane clown posse.

The question is rather, what kinda shit is he smoking and could he share some?

What technical expertise of the "Facebook" generation are you talking about?

The "Facebook" generation has no more nor less technical expertise than any generation before. They just adapted to using some technology that previous generations did not have while growing up, i.e. when you have the most time to tinker and toy with something. That's akin to admiring how the 50s and 60s generations can easily handle TV shows and how well they understand movie plots. It's something they grew up with and something that older generations probably don't grasp as easily.

What sets that "Facebook" generation apart is that they are probably the first now where the content generation and distribution is bidirectional on a large scale. But such people always existed. It's just that until recently only very, very few were lucky enough to get a chance to actually broadcast.