I think you are being misled by the Slashdot headline. Notice the headline says:

"Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving"

But then below it is says:

"In 2009, 13 percent of motorists admitted that they'd accessed the Internet while driving. In 2013, that figure had jumped to 24 percent."

Finally, note that "surfing the web" and "accessing the Internet" are not the same thing. Surfing the web means viewing websites. But accessing the internet while driving can occur automatically by your car, when your phone is in your pocket, by listening to Internet-streamed music or by using GPS. All of these are perfectly reasonable to use in your car.

It makes a certain sense to me. Indeed, I suspect it made sense enough to Newton as well, since his notes discuss what a static universe would look like:

At the end of the 9th key.
If th' whole worlds nature were but one
Merely by one figure shown
And Art could nothing els invent
The world no wonder could present
Nor nature plainly be exprest
For which let God be ever blest.

Most people who replied to you didn't answer you and most of those people gave you the wrong answer. A number of people said that the Seiki will only run at 1080p with a computer attached, which is just flat wrong.

The 4k Seiki will run in full resolution with both the 39-inch and 50-inch models. The limiting factor on the Seiki's are the connector, which is standard HDMI. A standard HDMI cable cannot push more than 30 hz, which is a very flow refresh rate for monitors these days. Indeed, the Seiki itself supports 120hz, but because it only comes with a cable jack that allows 30hz, you need to use 30hz.

In the next year hopefully other companies or Seiki itself will come out with displays with HDMI2 or Thunderbolt ports at similar price points. This will allow higher refresh rates to be used, prevent screen tearing in 3d work and gaming and improve fast-motion scenes.

That's one of the first things I noticed. The strange thing is I noticed the same process in reverse when I switched to Mac's back in like 2003. Mac's color balance had a more white look and Windows was more contrasty.

After I upgraded at first I assumed it deleted the calibration profile and ended up going through the whole monitor calibration process only to end up with something close, but not exactly like what I started with and neither like how it looked under Mountain Lion. It doesn't really bug me that much, since I'm doing mostly coding and when I have graphical work I'm mostly previewing it on a mobile or a Mac anyway. You must be working in print. Blame paper. ;)

In all seriousness I hope they fix this and any other minor things. It was a much smoother upgrade than the last one though for me.

Grolar Bear

A strange response considering the easiest way to hack it is to replicate the fingerprint to use on the device, at which point who cares about hashes or what it does to keep the data secure after the fingerprint is used.

If your fingerprint is your passcode anyone can steal your passcode by taking your fingerprint.

It's not like any group has huge databases with large portions of the population's fingerprints anyway. Who would even want access to all the personal information kept on your phone?

Now, everyone calm down and go back to reading peaceful stories about how the NSA has hacked all internet cryptography.

I will tell you what would happen in that admittedly unlikely scenario of China discovering cheap fusion power.

Prices for oil, gas and other energy sources would decrease as China decreased its non-fusion consumption. Neighbors of China may also decrease their non-fusion energy consumption as China could sell them energy over any existing grids.

So, in the short term things actually improve for non-China economies as if they are still on fossil fuels at this point, they just got cheaper and if they are not then they are unaffected.

In the long term the technology leaks or is gained via espionage and the rest of the world gets it too. That also assumes China would not just license the tech in the first place and if they do that things work out fine too.

Sounds win-win to me.

"seven million lines of Cobol code that hasn't been updated" is redundant.

If they were updated, they wouldn't be in Cobol.

You are correct. The choice of Vulcan for a name was highly illogical.

Unexpected? You didn't think something 4.5 billion years old would have a few wrinkles?

You are clearly not in the United States. He actually meant "burglarized" not "burgalarized." "Burgled" is chiefly used in the UK and maybe Australia.

In the United States none of our homes are burgled, but sadly many are burglarized. However, they never steal our current generation Mac Pro's because the thieves all assume they are industrial usage cheese graters.

Yes, the Mac Pro's used to be rather upgradable. I upgraded my drives many, many times and it was much easier than any PC and I upgraded my video card by buying a standard Windows video card and flashing it to work with Mac.

While the new Mac Pro looks great, but I'm a little worried about expandability in this regard with the Mac Pro. I mean, I guess with dual GPU's you might not really want to upgrade the video card, as it would get quite expensive and they probably perform great to begin with. I can see not needing a CD-ROM. The only thing I use mine for ever currently is ripping music CDs to lossless. However, you are definitely going to want to add hard drives and popping on four thunderbolt connected drives, the same amount of slots as the Mac Pro had before, is going to get ugly fast.

What they really should do is offer a second version of the same case as another product, with a power supply and four or five hard drive slots. It should as an option automatically put them in a RAID and even include wifi so it becomes a NAS. Then you can just have two of these things connected together locally via thunderbolt or separately over wifi or LAN instead of a mess of external drives.

Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business? -- Bill Gates

Of course, what you don't often hear is the response to that question, where they decided through intensive bureaucratic meetings to compromise between the two positions and make a browser, but make it such a bad browser that it would slowly drive them out of business. The rest is history.

Completely true. The issue is many of the gripes in the article itself are not specific to agile development methods either. They are process problems that you could hit under various programming philosophies. "How do we estimate cost in a way that is simple for customers and accurate for programmers?" is a universal problem, not an agile-specific problem. My answers apply generically, because the problems are generic.