Ditto, don't play much online anymore, tired of paying for a 6 hour single player campaign, there are better alternatives out there for single player games. Was VERY disappointed in Watch dogs :-(

The only reason they are "free" to speak what they feel like is because they have all been brainwashed by their own media machine into only speaking what they are trained to. Spend an hour or two on Russia Today to get an idea of how biased news reporting is (including RT, but it illustrates the point). I have feeds to several eastern and western news sites hoping somehow that the amalgamation of the two will be closer to the truth.

putting African TV manufacturers out of business
Wahahaha, that's real funny, we Africans get our TV's from the same place you do. China.

Sorry, but as a programmer different dates formats are a bloody pain in the ass. Say it like you want to (while putting a pancake on your head, I don't give a shit) but store it (ie. type it) in ISO format. YYYY-MM-DD

There are a lot of systems which transmit data as strings (xml, json, csv) which need to get parsed back into datetime and a simple thing like YYYY/MM/DD instead of YYYY-MM-DD can cause a cluster fuck of note. If everyone just used the ISO format my job would be a lot easier.
As a developer who helped fix the Y2K issues that would have happened at a major bank I am well and truly tired of different date formats.

lol, must be nice where you live, where I live (South Africa) a lot of the time the real criminals ARE the cops.

Been there seen that, trying to refactor a steaming pile of cr@p right now into something that doesn't fall over if a user farts.
Doesn't help that it's really old code, changed by people who could not be bothered to figure out how the underlying system worked and just hacked away at it like a drunken monkey in front of a keyboard until it sort of worked.
To add insult to injury, when they needed to add a table or a new report they simply used whatever was at hand instead of sticking to the framework or report generator the system was built on. So now it's a mishmash of four different data layers, three different report generators, and two different programing languages, all because figuring out how nHibernate and Crystal Reports worked was too much effort.

Some programmers should be shot.
Or at least made to maintain their own steaming piles of cr@p.

If you are pushing out a lot of traffic then you would typically offload crypto duties to an application delivery device like F5 so your farm does not have to worry about the load of decryption/encryption.

Heh, when I phone my land line company (we only have one) I have to enter the 10 digit phone number, then when you eventually get to living person the first thing they do is ask you for your phone number. Fvck knows why you have to enter it in in the first place. Fvck knows what happens to it afterwards.

When I see how much hardware and electricity is wasted digging chunks of hardened carbon out of the ground, I can only shake my head.

When I see how much hardware and electricity is wasted jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, I can only shake my head.

We humans tend to do things because we want to, not because it makes sense to you.

I worked for a bank back in the day, was told to make code changes to the online screens to add an extra 'service fee' to the clients account, had to add a checkbox so that it could be switched off if the client complained. Checked it a couple months later, not many people even noticed it or complained, netted them an extra half a mil a month.
Don't trust banks / bankers / insurance / sales people. They do not have your own best interests at heart.

80 000 lines? Come back when you work on a real system.

And stable, you can whine as much as you like about the death of the mainframe, but until there is a reliable solid alternative it will be around for many many more years. (And no Linux might be more reliable than windows, but it does not come close).

Let's also not forget the billions of lines of code you will have to rewrite.

I love the way it takes ages to load on my tablet, chewing up lots of my expensive bandwidth.
I love the way that instead of fixing existing problems they are just creating new ones and with the same existing problems!!!
How awesome is that.
I love the way that they are chasing their biggest asset away (the users) and that I can finally launch my alternative website !/. (That's supposed to be 'not beta slash dot', but the beta died)
Next I'll bet you won't be able to switch off adverts, get hounded by spam mail, and finally get infected by a CSS attack because the developers are clueless.

Could not have come at a better time :-)

Keep it up guy's, or more accurately keep your CV's up to date!
All things considered I can imagine that job interview going something like this...
Interviewer : "So you were the lead designer at /."
Job Applicant : "Yes, yes I was"
Interviewer : "So you were responsible for killing off one of the most popular sites on the internet?"
Job Applicant : "If only they had just tried it, they would have liked it eventually!"
Interviewer : "Yeah, that used to be my favorite site, don't call us, we'll call you"

Talk about burning bridges in the tech world, start practicing flipping burgers

clearly he only reads /. at work (instead of working)

I think you are missing the point, if it has less resistance there will be less lost in long distance transmission.