You're a lemming.

My worry is that these people don't really know what they're doing, and that they're going to ignite a fusion reaction that will be self-feeding and turn our planet into a sun. This is one area of research where a mistake can really ruin the environment.

In 2009, Jane Silber became the CEO of Canonical in 2009. Canonical makes Ubuntu.

Jane Silber's previous job was at that military contractor, namely the C4 Division of General Dynamics. It turns out that at the C4 Systems division is all about using computers for spying.

From their website: "General Dynamics C4 Systems is a trusted leader in the development of intelligence and information gathering systems for national defense and homeland security. These systems are designed to receive, process, exploit and disseminate information -- in different forms and often from different networks -- and distribute relevant information to operators, both in the field and at higher headquarters."

I'd bet money that the NSA bankrolled these people.

The spooks want to put software on your phones and software in your household devices.

1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

I'd rather eat my own feces than use that (((awful))) fucking crap-language Scheme, or any variant thereof. ((OH) (WHAT) (CRAP) defun)

You're a perfect example of what's wrong with America. You apparently don't seek out contrary views, do you accept the popular myths as facts, even when they are logically inconsistent and proven false.

Most Americans still believe that foreigners perpetrated 9/11, that the 2000 election wasn't rigged before the Supreme Court decided it, and that a lone gunman killed Kennedy. The mindset is basic capitalistic utopian anti-intellectualism. Most everybody wants to get rich QUICK and flash the bling around. (In suburbia the "bling" takes the form of a big SUV and a big house.) Americans obsess over fantasy football and Black Friday and who the latest hot pórn starlet is but they don't realize that a revolution is happening in America -- in which globalist hijackers have taken over the government and plan to fly it into the ground.

I tried complaining to ICANN once. They told me ICANN fuck off.

All for one and one for all. I'm pretty sure those cops are doing something illegal -- they're protecting crooked capitalists after all.

Read the fine print for the hacker space before you spew your lame epithets.

You don't know, but you think you do, and that is ignorance.

In my experience, the complete absence of a stated ethical goal usually means the military is running it.

Even douche-bag start-up weenies will lie and say they're trying to do good for the planet.

The only people that categorically refuse to say they're hoping to do good are those who know they're doing bad i.e. criminals, military, etc.

Make sure you use Tor for that :)

You're right, some of them are merely misogynistic, homophobic, narcissistic dorks who learned social skills from WoW, and who talk trash about their girlfriends behind their backs. (I have witnessed this.)

I summarily summarize this as an exercise in douchedom by dumb policemen.

They keep trying to force nerds to be social and make them feel coddled and cool. I would be willing to bet money that any code or other intellectual property that is produced in "hacker spaces" and such is owned by the people who built the space, not the coders. Read the fine print -- you may be getting conned.