Sure, monopoly is bad, but I'd much rather have a monopoly that has to listen to the votes rather the one that doesn't.

We all now know that money==speech, so in fact it's a first amendment issue :)

Whoa, that's messed up!

Whipping up a few lame PHP scripts, leaving all the logs, using real name, your own static IP and a personal Dropbox account?! Is that what cuts for a hacker these days? With a million dollar payoff? I am starting to think I am not optimizing my earnings potential :)

No. They would instead invest into the company and then shove AWFUL service down your throat to turn profit.

DevOps is a niche. Get over it.

or just cover it with shrink-wrap to keep the dust out

And we could take solace in this, if not for the fact that this is now somehow considered a radical liberal agenda.

Finally, silly bureaucratic holdups will no longer preclude Mr. Archibald Buttle's addition to the terror list!

you forgot the part about bankrupting the country along the way...

That sounds familiar. These prescriptions can be a bitch to fill. My father was in a really bad shape after a fall and the doctor prescribed him oxycodone (I don't think it was pure, may be percocet). I drove around the city half the night trying to find a pharmacy that would fill that prescription. After the fourth pharmacy, seemingly innocent "oh, we don't carry that" excuse sounded really disingenuous.

I wish the penalties for trolling legislation would be at least half as severe ...

I was looking forward to using rift at work, but this looks like a guy is desperately trying to type in a "deploy parachute" command into the terminal while tumbling through the air at horrible speeds.

Every time I have to sign the receipt at an Apple store with my finger, I feel Jobs mocking me from beyond the grave. "Ha! Those guys would go back to living in caves wrapped in animal skins if only I told them it was cool!"

It's not the computers - it's you getting older!