btw, lincoln used alot of surveillance during the civil war.

So, what's the fix? Before, everybody could remotely open your car, now only BMW can do it? They call that a "fix"?

From TFS:

So, life possible on 10% of the galaxies means that those are none at all? What about our own one? This smells of clickbait.

Those things they plan to introduce -- web identifiers -- already exist:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/w...

And they wouldn't have doctor programs that can't sing. I mean they will have doctor programs that can't sing, but none that think they can in fact they don't.

Does anyone know whether the drivers for all those wonderful devices will be open source? Will they have open APIs at least, or will I have to install the app of the vendor instead, where some "extra features" cost money? Will I give every device connected to my smartphone basically root access, or access to a system bus which can be used to read and write arbitrary data to RAM?

KDE on wayland is not complete yet. There has been work for kwin, but one thing is sure: if you want to use it on wayland, you will need, as usual, systemd. Of course, the author points out that this does not imply you will also need to install a web server and a ntp daemon, and that the dependency is on the API not on the program itself, but then show me an alternative implementation i can use. You know, systemd brings nice new APIs and so on, but then I read about the next thing systemd broke. Its in the man page of the shutdown command that this should work.

Watch interstellar. Its future however.

does it support vi or emacs commands?

recently I saw a microsoft ad that featured a device that always has the most recent OS. Seems google gets some competition. lets hope it aint gonna be MS.

Then engineers build their systems so that they work with leap miliseconds, as otherwise they would fail more often. If your system fails only every 4 years and then only for a few seconds, you won't invest in fixing the problem. If the event occurs more often, then you're forced to.

or several million years, and add a second every day!

that decides the halting problem. :P

I'd like to see that too, unfortunately the walled gardens of the industry seem to make this impossible. For everybody wanting to have such an app, I'd suggest to only use non-walled-garden communications: app developers should be abled to develop compatible apps for certain services.