Curious how whether or not one person who has not seen complaints factors in here. Do you monitor bugs/user feedback for KDE? Is your personal experience of complaints relevant?

From the article, it uses hardware acceleration to achieve its look and feel. This is potentially awesome, but I wonder if that takes a toll on gaming, say via steam.

"the ponytail wearing Google generation" - that is a hell of a lazy shot in the dark. But such reporting is all too frequently the norm among the latest generation of journalists. "We need to give serious consideration to how the Press could combine the technical expertise of the "Facebook" generation with its more traditional journalistic skills" - said Worthington Alfredingtonshite, god-king of journalists.

If we get truly universal human rights, yes. But is that a given? In some parts of the world what you say can get you killed by the state, or by the church. Some parts of the world will pay for you to have that expensive medical treatment, others will watch you die. In some parts of the world you can have that life saving abortion, and in others you are doomed to die. The list goes ever on. So if we ever evolve to a point where human rights are truly universal, it sounds great.

Because if we do, we need to help more people use technical solutions (like the excellent ghostery) and work to put regulations on an industry that will do everything it can to weasel out of them. What we do not need is to blame users for not knowing enough to install tech solutions, say "this surprises no one", or "companies can do whatever they want" or "everything on the internet is public" or "if you are being tracked it is because you choose to be". Here's a thought - if you let companies get away with whatever they want it is because you are choosing not to be part of the solution. So change that. We can work to subvert tracking online and campaign against tracking (and for regulation) at the same time. Unless we don't really want privacy. But I hope that is not the case.

I'm honored! I came up with it from this thread (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/12/1251213/man-arrested-for-photo-of-burning-poppy-on-facebook) in response to:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

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and elitist snobs who dismiss it can not understand a whole panoply of human motivations

I feel like there's more you want to say here. Who are these "elitist snobs" you're railing against?

The UK is really reigning in on the content of speech. That's worrying enough for their citizens, but also troubling for how they may impact the rest of the world. What caught my eye is he turned himself in. Was he getting death threats? Or does it say something a bit scary about the UK that someone would tweet an offensive joke, erase it, and then turn themselves into the police?

As mentioned by Greyfox - low quality recruiters are a pain. Some who struggle to communicate, others who can't function without incessant phone calls. On the company side, there's an unwillingness to pay for experience (I've seen job postings for "senior" positions that pay junior rates). I've had plenty of phone screens with someone who has no idea what they are talking about, but even with skilled engineers who know how to code, but not how to ask technical questions relevant to the job they are hiring for!

One of the more frustrating things is the "full stack" creep. Full stack used to mean someone who could write server code and front end code. Now it also means being a sysadmin, a dba, an architect, a ux guy, and in some cases even a designer. I've seen companies hiring an entire tech department in one job description.

There's also where the office is located. Allow remote workers! If you're in Boston, hire people in New York, New Hampshire, etc. They can come in every so often for essential "face time", but code like crazy for you and in the same timezone.

If you're going to put words in your opponent's mouth, make sure they are coherent. I don't believe suffering is limited by economic class. If you are going to claim liberals are elitist (nice parroting of a GOP talking point), say *why* you believe that. Seriously learn to read. I didn't say it's wrong to call someone black, or jewish, or anything at all as a description. Just that some people like to *complain* (how did you miss that word?) about others, and hide behind "you guys are too PC" as a cover. Though more likely they just use PC as either a dog whistle, or as an alarm to raise a panic about liberals.

If for no other reason than I want the government to do as little as possible.

Do you object to anything specifically, or just what doesn't benefit you directly? Outside of something big like war, people who say this often object to social security or medical benefits for others (but not for themselves). Or they don't like funding schools in poorer districts (so long as their kids get a good education).

I'm not politically correct.

That phrase has little meaning outside of elderly people complaining they can't complain about black people, "the jews", "the gays", and women. Seriously, what do you even mean by that?

The U.S. is not Europe and we should be thankful, not embarrassed, for that fact.

How specifically? Do you not like their universal healthcare? Are you one of those fox news Republicans who are "scared of those Muslims"?

I don't believe in hateful divisions along lines of gender, race, heritage, education level, ... {insert wedge issue}, ... and I don't believe in a "class" system.

Are you saying you don't believe those divisions exist? That's denying the painful reality. Or are you saying that Democrats somehow divide people by acknowledging how some groups of people take advantage of others? For example how wealthy Republicans con poor Republicans into voting away their power by using wedge issues like gun control, abortion, and gay rights.

My life has not been so miserable as to make me long for "fundamental transformation" of the country I was born & raised in.

You basically just said "I haven't suffered, so to hell with those who have". This is wrong on two levels. First, it's selfish as hell. Second, it's short sighted and blind. You probably have suffered and just don't realize what you could have had. Imagine an America not held back by religious political football hindering scientific advancement. Or both parties greedily allowing the financial system - still in power - that wrecked the larger economy. When the economy tanks we all take a hit. Not to mention the cuts to education that might have already turned potential Einsteins into office drones.

Basically your prehistoric beliefs are holding the rest of us back, and we rightfully look at them as something to evolve past.

"Net Neutrality Campaign To Show What the Web Would Be Like With a "Slow Lane"" vs "No actual traffic will be slowed down".

It's a newsworthy and important topic that deserves a headline both inviting and accurate.

The discovery was made around June 22 by one of Mozilla's Web developers, Stormy Peters, Director of Developer Relations at Mozilla, said

Makes it sound like Stormy Peters is both the Director of Developer Relations and the developer who discovered the error.

This is entirely accurate. Full time jobs have in many cases given way to contracts. Then there are layoffs. It is a pretty cynical thing for a company to then turn around and judge people for being at a job for less than 5 years when a year or less is becoming far more common.