Not just dangerous, but outright poisonous in some cases. Like those cows that died after eating GMO grass a few months back. The problem isn't GMO's themselves, though, it's the lack of sufficient regulation and disclosure. Truth of the matter is that the public simply isn't being made aware of what they're eating, and how these food products were created. That's a huge problem, and I totally agree with you. Crony politics is another part of the problem.

For about five seconds. You can copy or modify a bank card. It's so easy, I don't know why nobody's up in arms about it. If it's a variation on the technology, the same is true here.

Governments don't like IP6 because it makes tracking people more difficult than IP4.

"They" say it's a sign of insanity, but I would argue that "they" have never worked in the Information Sciences.

Wait wait wait. If I'm reading this properly (hoping I'm not), then you're actually claiming that pirating a video game diminishes the value of a hypothetical blockbuster movie that's potentially never been pirated. How does that even begin to make logical sense? I'm not trying to be snide. It's an honest question.

Hey John,

Thanks for the insight. Great answer.

Yes, but then Mark Shuttleworth would need to admit that he's no Steve Jobs. I think the reduction in the size of his ego might cause the tides to rise, which would not be a good thing for the environment, small island nations, or marine life.

Has the definition of cloud changed so much that it can even be done now, with a single server?

I've seen what they study in school these days, and I think it's bordering on fraud to call anything in a computer science curriculum perfect. Often times, the code written for these courses is deeply flawed, written by people who have no real world experience at all. There's a big difference between studying a platform in a vacuum, and working on the same platform in practice. Is it any wonder that kids straight out of school are totally lost when they hit the production floor?

And then he goes on and on about things he knows nothing about. Sighting examples that other people have come up with. And then he has the audacity to talk about people being poorly trained when he can't even understand what the code in his own system is doing? Come on now.

Look, I get it. Programmers are an awful lot like mechanics, in that you'll never see one admire the work of another unless both of them have the same idea of what perfect is. That's okay. I also understand that we as programmers do this kind of thing to justify our own existence. I've done it. You've done it. Just the way it goes. But I think it's telling, that this guy is doing it in a way that his own technical shortcomings are readily apparent in the article itself. I hope he's using a pseudonym.

This is not true. This has never been true. It will never be true. You're an idiot for trying to sell this prattle in the first place, and it's the fourth such article to appear on Slashdot in so many months. If you believe this, it's fine. You're entitled to live in your own delusional little world. Leave us out of this. This is not news because it's not based in fact.

The community sites are great for the average user. Everyone still knows to search Google for things, and they do. Social media has not killed the internet. It's simply added another popular facet to it. Nor has it done anything to open standards. In fact, if you were paying attention (you're not) you would notice that open standards are more important than ever.

That's an awful lot of money to spend on 6 high drain 18650 batteries wired in series. You can pick up individual batteries like this on ebay for about $5 each, if you order them from china. These are the same batteries my e-cigarette takes.

It's easy to be wrong, but I wasn't off topic.

What color is the sky on your planet? I wish people would stop saying ignorant shit like this. None of that is true. PHP (or people hate perl) has never been Perl, and works differently than Perl. Similarities between the two are superficial at best. I would argue that Rails isn't really even Ruby, let alone Perl, which isn't Ruby either.

And that is why it's doomed. DOOMED I say!

They only look that way because you're looking at dollar figures. What you're not taking into account is the value of the dollar. If you adjust for that, IT wages have been in free fall for over a decade as the value of the dollar plummets. If you're making $60k now, you're making less than someone making $30k in 1997. $80? Not even work the $50k from that time period. Don't believe me? When was the last time you spent $40 for a cart full of groceries? Everything is relative.