"Slow" being defined as "being passed by traffic to your right". If traffic is passing you on the right, then you should get over to the right. It prevents accidents and pileups behind you.

I don't know about South Africa, but here in the States, if you have people tailgating you all the time, it means you're driving slow in the passing lane.

The parties are different, yes, but they're also both full of criminals and they're both sold out. At least at the national level. It's impossible to get elected without campaign funding that is only granted with strings attached. We've created, and maintain, a system that practically necessitates serving the interests of industries and wealthy individuals first.

You can point out the differences in which party is sold out to better special interests, but arguing that one or the other isn't sold out to special interests (again, on the national level) isn't realistic. They don't get the funding without making promises, and they don't get reelected without keeping them.

Fair enough points. It's just that, over the years, we've seen so many predictions of what's going to happen next, and something completely different does. 20?? will be the year of the linux desktop; there will never be a 3.x kernel; Linux will never be an enterprise quality system; RedHat is going to die (back when people were calling Red Hat the 'Microsoft of Linux' a decade or so ago); etc. We once thought Linux would never be found in enterprise data centers, but I remember the first time we got a linux box in one. Then we thought it wouldn't scale. Then we had whole server rooms full of it. Everything was going to be resiser fs once upon a time, but that's far from happened. Hell, when I started, Slackware was the "most powerful" distro and no one would ever supplant it. Things change so fast, and so wildly, news of future maybes aren't really that moving.

I suppose a positive comment would have been more valuable. Don't mean to be negative right off the bat (and I'm usually not), it's just that "news" that someone is "considering" doing something with Linux isn't really worth reporting on -- unless it's a hell of a slow news day.

When I was his age, my favorite in-game tools were a leather mitt and a bat. But I had an aluminum bat, so it was high-tech. It's really off-putting to realize that people in college today were born after I wrote my first web page. Just reminds me that we're the 'old people' now.

Not really that interesting that they're "considering" it. Linux produces an endless litany of RSNs that never come to fruition. I've basically become numb to predictions about the future of the system. Everyone's been planning to do everything RSN for a decade and a half.

This is why it's so frustrating to hear people defend the Patriot Acts because they "only target terrorists", but almost anything can be called 'terrorism' if the government want to.

I used to follow them, but since Roberts took over as Chief Justice, they've been releasing all new opinions in ROT-13. Too much of a PITA.

I was thinking the same thing, go forward, find out what stocks to buy, use that to buy gold to barter with when you go back and buy a lot of (eventually) priceless relics to hide well, then come back and find them. After that I think I'd just be a time tourist.

Unless the robot maid was Caprica Six. That might make a difference.

As opposed to North Korea's official name, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. Yeah, that'll surely clear things up.

Sometimes we scare the crap out of ourselves.

I think SF's one of the safer cities, since they have a lot of bike lanes and, at least lately, drivers are more conscious of bicyclists. Compared to NY or Chicago or other major Metro's, at least. Whenever I'm out there I borrow a bike and do almost all my travel in the city on it.

For me, though, I live in the suburbs of Northern VA, where mass transit is a sad joke about a painful reality. So I drive everywhere. Super fast.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Take the existing social media scanning code, mix it with this type of language processing code, and let a group of psychiatric professionals define "problematic" personality profiles to build some kind of scoring system for. Like an MBTI for terrorists (or whoever the latest boogie man is, once they have it in place).

I think they would ultimately be looking less for specific threats than trying to profile individuals for follow-up snooping. Ie.: Someone who's politically extreme, associated with radical groups, uses aggressive language, obsesses over politics, FB "Likes" survivalist sites, extremist groups, etc. -- just to collect individuals names' to later use more focused forms of snooping. This kind of DB would be useful in spotting "problematic" demographic groups.