You don't get to "control" your creations. That's not what COPYright law is about. It's about COPYing. "Control" is something entirely else beyond the scope and intent of intellectual property laws (at least in the US).

While I have personally suffered from the problems of de-supported Mac hardware, I don't think that's the real problem. The real problem is severe lack of choice in hardware. There is no Mac that a professional can take seriously. It's all novelty form factors and consumerist crap. They even did that to their "pro" line.

Running MacOS requires putting up with Mac hardware.

There's also d) create programs.

The simpler and quicker this is, the easier it is for you to do things that haven't already been pre-packaged yet.

People like to drone on about UIs and "design" but this is really just a fancy way of talking about turning the user into a slave to feed input into a device that really should be automating everything.

> How does pointing that out improve Linux in any way?

It establishes a baseline for comparion.

On the other hand, you can simply avoid the offending kernel versions if you want. There's nothing forcing you to use either of these versions of the kernel.

Free software is developed out in the open with total transparency and no secrets. That means it includes the ugly bits that the rest of the industry usually gets to hide.

You are at fault for the condition of your car regardless. This is true whether you maintain your own brakes, you let someone else do it, or you just ignore it. This is why you don't need "extra special anti-hacking laws". The laws from 3000 years ago already adequately address the "new" problems people are worried about.

Nonsense. The Odyssey 2 if anything demonstrates how other people should be free to improve upon the "inventions" of others. It was a poorly executed system with horrible games. I had one and didn't even want it. I would have much preferred a 2600 or pretty much anything else. The Intellivision in particular was rather sophisticated for it's time.

Baer's designs have the signs of being a little too ambitious and sometimes incomplete.

If Bushnell and others shamelessly copied him, then sure he should be held up as everyone's inspiration. His own work is kind of meh.

Yes, but bleeding hearts that insist that quarantine in "anti-scientific" may well kill me personally. The threat level of Ebola is proportional to how close you are to it. It's not just some random thing.

Most of the rest of the country can get on their high horse and pretend how they are smarter than those of us for which this stuff isn't a news entertainment product.

> Right-- so why is everyone pushing flu vaccines to non-old, non-young people?

Money. There is money to be made. This is Ayn Rand infected consumer culture we're talking about here. It's all about the money.

Yes. Lack of infastructure seems to be more of a problem than the disease itself. This is a disease that has no cure but can be managed through treatment of the symptoms. Except those are dire enough in the early stages that they require considerable resources.

Plus all of the fluids that have to be replaced are highly infectious and a great danger to healthcare workers.

A PVR drive could easily see 17TB of writes during a year and that's just a very conservative estimate based on a small number of tuners and broadcast content.

Most people need to be kept busy or they will end up causing trouble. They will start causing trouble simply out of boredom.

Plus there's just the issue of atrophy. Both the body and mind need to be kept distracted or they degrade.

This just goes to show that "shredding the Constitution" has been going on for a very long time. The feds pretty much started as soon as they possibly could.

There's always some idiot that thinks a small dose of tyranny will be OK.

I really have no desire to do nothing but sit in meetings all day.

That's what's meant by a position that's not a "dead end". You get promoted up into management where you no longer do technical work anymore. You need those "social skills" because those are the only skills you end up using.

My first tech manager quit his manager position in order to move on to a purely tech position.

There are so many candidates that have such an obvious lack of any technical skill or talent, that companies really can't turn away people that are actually able to do the work. Perhaps this is part of the perception that there is some sort of "shortage". They want an ideal perfect fit but that simply doesn't exist.

If I could "do it all" I would not let someone else exploit my labor. I would work for myself and keep most of the value of my skill for myself instead of letting someone else take it.

As a freak, I have always found it much easier to fit in with the small companies. It's the larger companies with all of the political nonsense and high degree of specialization that push your tech skills to the back burner.

Smaller companies have fewer of the kind of people that require better social skills to deal with.