> Microsoft won't have to plant a trojan CEO
Who knows. Maybe they did.

gintonic.

Haiku answer.
Thanks
that one was
a most interesting read.

We were discussing the changes after a certain point in time (the birth of Chrome if you will) being all fuckups, I guess.

For people who don't understand what they are doing, they still are making a notable streak of disasters, with an odd distribution.
The average moron gets things right by accident sometimes.

Haiku answer.
Yet
that one too
is mostly floppy.

An alternative theory for the same conclusion, which I favour because experimental data is more accessible is:
Climbing mountains implies the increase of possibility of falling to great depths. Which means that, statistically speaking, when you go to the mountain you have indeed less mass beneath you than if you walked and occasionally fell elsewhere, where the depth is lower, or in the sea, where you float in mass denser than air.

Gotta love science.

Let's connect the dots.
Recently a study says standby appliances cost billion of dollars.
The energy companies then study alternative ways to waste energy, since possible regulation may come soon.
At one board meeting, the CEO asks "So how can we squander more energy?" and a young guy hesitantly raises hand and says "There is that thing called bitcoin mining, people waste electricity to solve cryptograph..."
  "OK, let's force consumers to mint whatevercoin NOW"

Nope, but a sudden increase of the time spent in the bathroom, or a decreased mobility, might be of interest for the medical insurance.

More accurate data is better data, and data is currency when mobile is involved, no matter if you believe in NSA plots or if you believe it's all about advertisement.

Of course Apple might be only in the process of refining the user experience. My optimum user experience would lie with a nokia n900-like fully programmable SDR with current hardware specs.

- What big GPS you have, granny!
- The better to track you with, my dear.

Don't worry, we still have nickelback and one direction.

"My sight is failing," she said finally. "Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?"

For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

We have a winner.
If you send Celine Dion and Justing Bieber up on an incoming asteroid, it will steer away on its own.

The problem is removal of responsibility, which puts everyone in their own fluffy bubble where they can't be hurt nor they can do anything.

You don't go to Spain because you heard about the Spanish flu? Your loss, and an advantage for those who use their brain.

I am not letting anybody dictate how I must express myself, how I must think. What I do can have social repercussions, what I think or what I say (most of the time) are not business of societies that proclaim themselves free.

First it's about national security, then religious sensitivity, then normal sensitivity, then whatever is deemed offensive for whatever reason, then the truth dies.