Your two statements do not support each other.

Because new, and shiny, and Hong Kong, and Slashdot.

You're not missing anything if you don't see GoT. It's just tits and swords.

It's a term you made up, to apply to a made up industry which fastens, remorah-like, to socialist government crap.

Go where the sharks ARENT!

Please, people have enough of a time merely DRIVING their car, you can't expect them to recompile it as they hurtle down the highway at 75mph.

Some would. I don't own an iphone, I don't care about iphones, they're just smartphones, like any other. If it had some radical new technology like built in satellite or a teleporter, I'd care, but if Apple craps out another shiny brushed aluminum thing and Slashdot wanks all over it, it's a slashvertisement.

To quote Sam Kinnison:

Move where the tornadoes ARENT.

Q: "How do you know so much about key exchange?"
A: "I invented it in the 70s."
Q: "Fail, you lose."

-vs-

Q: "How can you prove this is prior art?"
A: "Blah-biddy blah blah legal legal blah."
Q: "Seems legit. Intuit wins."

I was starting to get worried, it had almost been 24 hours since the last Elon Musk post. Thanks, Slashdot!

Thanks Slashdot, for continuing to fawn over this guy, it had been hours since you last told me how awesome he was.

Why dick around with raising it or not raising it?

Ink may fade, paper may yellow, but should still be readable. Put it on a CD or USB drive, flip 1 bit, and you lose everything.

Custom NSA snooper/decrypter, running at the hardware level.

I remember the good old PAWL lab. Telnetting via NIM to one of the PAWLs so you could play TinyMUD, get on Connect or maybe even do school work. Bozing out on a snowy Sunday afternoon. Good times.