I content that emacs is a great Operating System, however it's still missing a good text editor. I'll stick with vi.

The parallels here are so obvious it is laughable. He is trying to take control of his life and you're saying that the control should be handled over to a corporation known to abandon support for it's products as people are still making use of them. All due to a broken business model. GNU/Linux and vi should be enough to get such a simple job done.

Heat Pumps don't work when it's below freezing.

I am not an Electrician, but I'm pretty sure that you aren't supposed to use incandescent lights in a closet because of the fire risk involved. An attic or crawlspace, which will have exposed insulation and other combustibles that aren't behind a firewall (Drywall) like the other parts of your home, probably shouldn't have those in there either. It produces a very real and tangible safety issue. House fires started in concealed places are the worst as you can be in your home and not notice until it's too late.
While you use these for a short amount of time, it is easy to leave one on. Just spend the $5-$25 for the remote possibility of saving a $100,000 - $1,000,000 structure.

All I know is that there is little left to talk about now...

Suffice to say that this is one of the times that, "It's not a bug, it's a feature" wouldn't apply.

You still have to rely on the trustworthiness of the NICs. Anything contacted to the Internet can not be trusted.

I'm not dead yet!

It's not just Computer Science that they are doing this to, a lot of American high schools are teaching kids welding and calling it Structural Engineering. All they are doing is lying to kids by showing them the high salaries of the top men in these fields, and then teaching them to be peasants. They used to show us how to get into Engineering while in high school, we called it Calculus.

Yeah, but learning the tools of the industry shouldn't be labeled Science, it should be labeled Technology. The courses should be called "Computer Technology", not Computer Science.

Look at what schools are calling Computer Science / Engineering to boast their names, and you'll find that it includes installing Windows on a whitebox computer and blindly running anti virus software.

These institutions are garbage and should be labeled as such.

You missed unstable price fluctuations, no roadmap for ubiquitous deployment, and shady exchanges. I'm sure that there are more.

I believe in reasonable, non discriminatory regulations. There are times when Corporate Personhood can favor us in this scenario, too. A lot of activities are seen as "restricted to businesses only", however, as they are a legal person, and you are a person, they cannot have rights that you do not have.

That being said, any regulation should allow an individual to engage in the same activities as a corporation would enjoy with a drone. I think that the regulations should be simple. If flying over private property which is not yours, or without permission, the vehicle may not fly within 150 feet of a structure. If flying over private property, video footage captured over the private property should not be retransmitted, sold, or stored for any duration of time, unless a crash occurs. If flying over public or private property, an independently-tested system should detect the altitude of the vehicle and whether or not it is in free fall. If it is detected to be in free fall, and the altitude conditions warrant it, the system should deploy a parachute which is rated for the weight of the vehicle. Such systems should have an independent power and sensor source. Think of something about the size of a hotdog on the side of the vehicle. This should reduce injuries and property damage, and such systems could be made and sold as individual units that could be fitted on existing vehicles. Again, they would only be required if flying over private property without permission or in public places that aren't parks, etc.

Regulations such as these should respect everybody's rights. Existing laws about stalking, eavesdropping, and prowling should take care of any other problems that could be encountered, and we shouldn't be too quick to create more complex regulations unless new problems arise that aren't covered by current laws.

I'd love to see a Petabyte-Scale Tape Storage System that looked something like this, only modernized: http://youtu.be/Nq3mNYKR7FM