I swear, most of the funniest laughs I've had on /. came from those with 6 digit UIDs and lower, particularly under 500k. It's like your generation was simply more well rounded and clever.

Its only major fault was that it was one-process-at-a-time but that would have - IMO - been pretty easy to fix. But instead they came up with the non portable (to other versions of unix) dogs dinner called ALSA. Christ, trying to program with that API is like trying to cycle with your legs tied around your head. It works - just - but it could have been made a LOT simpler.

Personally I think X windows should manage sounds as well as video allowing networked sound apps and there should be just a single sound API across all versions of unix.

It is not Islam-specific. The equivocal attitude the US displayed during the Kargil conflict — when India was clearly the injured party — is not entirely unlike the attitude displayed this year towards Ukraine (where what few Muslims reside, all strongly resent the invader).

Though Obama (as Clinton back in 1999) talks the talk of supporting the invaded victim, the US would only help with "non-lethal" supplies — and only after a significant delay.

I don't think Apple or Google making phone encryption suck so criminals can find and abuse the law enforcement backdoor would improve public safety.

If it were to suck so badly, yes. But it does not have to...

That said, the paranoid cynic in me suspects, it is — and will be — recoverable already. And the government simply wants us to believe otherwise...

Theres an advantage to dropping graphical networking support (15 years after even windows has embraced it) and built in inter client communication? More like it made the coders job easier.

"Networked graphics? Hey , thats hard, lets not bother. No one uses remote X sessions in 2014, right? Right? Oh, they do... well who cares anyway. Our server is new and shiny, thats all anyone really wants"

Wish I had mod points. Canonical arn't really interested in Linux or unix in general other than how it can ultimately make them money. Its a means to an end and if that means dropping 30 years of experience because it doesn't quite suit them then they will.

X is far from perfect but its the unix display standard and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon. If canonical want to go their own way then they'll find their user base dropping away even further.

Why would you bring terrorism into this? I made no mention of it... FBI's ability to decrypt private electronics would make it easier for them to prosecute all sorts of criminals — from terrorists to corrupt policemen. At the expense of privacy of the rest of us, of course.

You should be careful about uncritically accepting the way a culture likes to present itself

That's the point. We like to present ourselves as Individuals — and that's why concerns for personal privacy ought to trump those of collective safety, however valid the latter might be.

That we don't always act the way — a significant part of the population thinks, they can force others to be as (and even more) charitable as they are, for example — but that's of no account. Not in this conversation...

In the full quote — in all its different permutations — the given up freedom (liberty) must be essential and the security gained — temporary. With such qualifiers, it becomes a little less obvious, does not it? For example, if the security gained is permanent (as long as device-makers cooperate with authorities), is it worth an essential liberty? Franklin didn't leave any guidance for such case...

I'll take my chance and live life, rather than cower in some hole.

Fortunately, no one — certainly not the FBI — are forcing you into "some hole". Excluded middle much?

That said, I like your spirit, because I too prefer the Individual over Collective...

it is just car dealer lobbyist having a stronger voice (and bigger overall wallet) than Tesla

A variety of new businesses offer a new way of doing things — to the chagrin of the incumbents already profiting from the old way.

Nice to see Tesla having full support of /., which Uber and other taxi-replacements, for some reason, do not get...

His blitz continues today with a speech that says encryption will hurt public safety.

I suspect, he is right — it will hurt public safety.

But it will improve individual privacy and America has always valued the cantankerous Individual above the glorious Collective, that other cultures prefer...

... I'm not really sure why so much effort is being put into fine tune browser performance when most browsers simply get used to display pretty static web pages. The number of people who actually play heavy duty games or anything that requires realtime performance in a browser is probably miniscule and any real gamer will be using .exe's.

Perhaps if browsers were kept simple rather than this constant effort to try and make them replace the desktop as a one-app-runs-all enviroment there wouldn't be so many exploits and they wouldn't be bloated bug ridden monstrosities.

40% troll?
Slashdot^H^H^H^H^H humanity is broken.

brush up on your facts

As an added bonus, they can start having babies when they're 45!

The effects on the babies (and mothers) be damned...

Seriously, this is a half-measure. If we really want to help women stay in the workforce, we ought to develop incubators. Facebook and Apple may have the monies to fund the necessary research and pilot programs.