Fine, well if Musk's not going to bother making the IM Armor, I'll make my own! With embedded blackjack and holographic hookers! You know what... forget the suit!

I was honestly expecting it to say EVARZ instead of Ever. It would have fit the summary/story a lot more appropriately.

Its kinda sad that there are FB supporters on slashdot, shouldn't you know better?

Slashdot is open to all types of people, and even Slashdotters are prone to narcissism (which Facebook encourages, hence is so prevalent with).

He gave them directly to foreign nationals, end of story. He could have given them to members of congress, state legislators, or the mayor of his home town for christ's sake.

If the system is corrupt, trying to work within the rules of the system is going to lead nowhere. They're far too well-insulated against anything which should rock the boat, and for those who ARE part of the system but aren't quite corrupted yet, there aren't many people willing to risk their necks to rock said boat when it will just straight up again after they're gone.

Or worse, scrapes a question from a forum that I also want answered but no-one replied to, hence duplicating the amount of suck one has to wade through.

Look how long it's taken for people to abandon EA. It's been years since they were considered the worst company ever and they are just now starting to feel that wrath.

Hah! Really? There are previews for Sims 4 now and I guarantee you it will rake in the cash for EA once it's released - particularly since its main audience are generally not dedicated gamers who peruse gaming news sites and probably aren't aware of EA's behavior.

Not to mention, stuff like the latest Humble Bundle being all EA/Origin stuff, which is turning out to be likely the largest bundle in terms of purchases/revenue of all the bundles so far. You're right - gamers are stupid. But I think they're a bit more stupid than you think.

Nah, I get your point. Figured I'd just have a bit of fun at the examples you originally posted, but you're right, the previous poster was way too broad.

Nobody needs Instagram, Facebook of Twitter apps

If the world lost such apps, it would be just that litter bit nicer to live in I think.

People who run servers often have some idea of the ping time to them. I know the ping time to my servers from home even though I can't react at super-human speeds, catch bullets in my teeth, fire lasers from my eyes, or anything of that nature.

Wait... you can't do those things? And you call yourself a system admin? Tisk, tisk, tisk,

*raises hand*

It's $20 for a perpetual license and I had the money. *shrug*

I should probably ask, what's wrong with modern versions of Winamp? It's my premier player in Windows because it's brimming with functionality, various bits of which I do use from time to time.

The problem is the mentality that something is only worth doing if it makes you feel better right now. This "solution" only makes things worse. It's like a parent trying to get compliance by bribing their toddler with candy.

I'd like to connect your quote with something another commenter said:

Why do we object so strongly to the idea of teaching children the value of deferred please; that hard work and effort now can produce greater rewards down the line?

Both of you have the same concern as I do - that as a society we only seem to be interested in short-term efforts if they bring immediate rewards (with the exception of perhaps college, but only because so many people have to these days to get a half-decent job it seems). Long-term investment in time and effort is seen as a waste because the payoff might take quite a while to eventuate... and the problem is that not only is this true, it's also not guaranteed that a payoff will even eventuate after all that work.

Short-term effort shows the results reasonably quickly, good or bad. Long-term effort is a difficult thing to justify in our busy lives, so many people avoid it, whether that be consistent exercise, working on a hobby that will take months to produce something half-decent, or indeed, building any skills that aren't strictly necessary to survive.

I obviously survived

Let's not jump to conclusions. You might just be a ghost.

Exactly, and that's the reason I didn't mention cost in the list of benefits - while free stuff is obviously an incentive, in my case it's not because it's free, but because the product you end up with is overall better than what you'd find using legal alternatives.

If you've been pirating TV shows for so long and have become accustomed to its benefits (no ads, offline watching at any time and not just when aired/networked, encoded in cross-platform, DRM free formats for easy transfer to multiple devices, etc), it's very hard to go back to traditional methods of watching TV shows.