The marketing bots are out of control and use science in ways it wasn't meant to be. All a marketing bot needs to do is look at one scientific fact anywhere that says something remotely positive about their product and voila, advertising angle. I seriously saw Lucky Charms marketed as a health food once because the oat pieces are made of oats which are known to be good for the heart. Science is supposed to be unbiased, but the results are being used in wrong ways. You can say something good about anything. "Why not try toxic waste for a facial cream? It will give your skin a healthy glow."

It isn't hard to get a virus on Windows. Many people can get a virus in their first week of owning a product. Going out and buying a 300$ product every week is not cost feasible. In fact there's probably a correlation between how gullible a person is for falling for Internet virus scams and their ineptitude for reinstalling windows... Call it the noob factor.

Conclusion: Everyone has different skill sets.
PS: I always think it'd be cool if they designed a car for the car heads to work on, but it'd be like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer bankrupts the company because people would get hurt working on the car, and then sue because the car was designed to be worked on. Every year it seems like cars get harder and harder to work on by a non professional mechanic.

I see so many people who go: Hurr, Durr, my computer has a virus, I guess I'll just store it or throw it away.

Generally it isn't hard to reinstall an OS. It is a pain, but it isn't hard. And if you get sick of it, install Linux because almost no viruses target Linux.

My dad knows how to fix cars because he grew up in a world of no computers and cars were cool to get into then. I can't fix cars because I got involves in programming and video games.

Am I really supposed to be fiddling with fixing a blender? That sounds near suicidal for someone who isn't trained in it. And how cheap blenders are, there probably isn't a lot of market for a blender repair man either.

Little guys like Indie video game companies can't afford studios. They make video games with an artist in one state, and a programmer in another state. The teams can get big, but they get successful software done. Telecommuting saves people tens of grand a year, and I'd take a job for 20-30 grand less a year if I could telecommute. That's the price of gas, time to commute and big time savings on housing. Meetings are even more productive than in face meetings because you both share computers with things like gotomeeting or join.me. You get communication via voice, and can share copy/paste buffers and write code together which is productive unlike face to face meetings where no actual code normally gets done.

Don't criticize telecommuting if you haven't done it yet. I know it is different(and people are afraid of change), but it is superior in many ways.

I'm not sure of an issue that has such unanimous approval as net neutrality.

Only a few vested greedy people who want legalized extortion websites for more money don't want them to be classified as utilities.

It should be interesting if even under the spot light of all the eyes of people that they willingly do the wrong thing.

If you could scientifically force God's hand to always act in a certain way, the engineers would have a field day with it. :) I'm a dude who knows God is real. I don't try and prove him. I just say he is real, and that we all should love each other more because that is what my Bro Jesus said. Just about everyone will conclude the world needs more love.

I need to stop being so work focused(in hopes of helping poor), and focus on loving the ones close to me.

Over 75% of the articles on Slashdot front page are all political in nature over tech/science related. There's even an article that is Pro-FCC which basically every geek knows is trying to shaft us.

I don't like this Slashdot beta. It was bad enough with all the sock puppet accounts trying to do political spin, but it seems like all the articles are now political. I'll give it a few weeks and see if it was just an anomaly, but Slashdot could be in its death spirals. I've been noticing a change, but you can do it yourself, look at the front page of approved articles, they're almost all political in nature.

Epyx: Summer Games for C64. Then we'd have someone going,"Oh you won the gold medal for diving? Well I got the gold medal for diving too, and pole vault, and 100m dash."

The UN disagrees with what you say. There are reports that come out every year that says World Hunger is going away over time. Every bit we can donate helps it go away faster. And if you think about it: Look at first world countries, the more wealth a country has, generally the lower the birth rates are.

I'm not faulting Notch. There's something about sending the message to kids that you can live large doing computer science stuff. But what you said are things that are tools to make more money. If you want to sacrifice your entire life to live for the poor because it is a noble thing to do, you don't simply give everything you have to live on to the poor. If you do that, you become a problem yourself and can no longer make money. What you do is live on only necessities to get by on and classify things as tools to make more money. One such investment is an education, you should always be getting one now the Internet affords it. The money and time you save in entertainment can help you get a better education.

1 Corinthians 15:19 GNT
If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more, then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world.

Thankfully God let me know he is real so I know Jesus Christ is real. He wants us all to be good to each other, and love each other. I think most people would agree that this world needs more love.

I'm a dude who knows God is real, so the older I get, the closer I'm getting to meeting my Bro Jesus and my loved ones that passed on.

I have an article I wrote about aging in light of God existing

Sure, we had Java at the time, but for some reason Visual Basic caught on big time in the late 90s. After going to school for software engineering, I had to completely remember how to program in subs. Subs are just like functions, except you need to remember to never use the same loop variable you used in the parent subs :P