> As a result, during Yosemite's open beta last year, people we're complaining that the software
> "wasn't ready for prime time". No kidding!

Well, in an old school beta program, that would have been an alpha-release, at best!

No different to trusting Microsoft to not send your data to them when they do virus checks. You're already trusting the food chain, doctors etc.

You're confusing open source and free. It's open source. You can see the source, use it, change it, and fork it, subject to certain restrictions, such as not calling it Truecrypt. Seems fair to me. Whether this or that distro has decided to include it or not tells us very little.

How can they prove that I am not a member?

What "VPN industry"? To the extent it exists at all it's just tiny. And they're going to get legislated out of existence around the world in the next few years. No government - driven by the twin demands of the US government (ok, and their own security services) - and a reactionary, right wing media (following the rules of its wealthy, right wing proprieters, who've invested in and therefore benefit from large corporations who are all in bed with most western governments because they don't need to pay tax that way) - will allow people to communicate in private because "that's what terrorists do" (and people who want to challenge/change the above)

Wrong choice of word, surely?

"destroy utterly; wipe out."

If you did obliterate it then they've have zero chance of recovering the information.

Uh..you might not know it's upside down, smart arse. So you'd have to try it in both rotations. These people are probably smarter than even you; why not sit down, shut up and learn something?

Windows 10? IE? Did you miss the email?

except automation is getting to the point where the new job will be automated from the get go.

This is supported by a lot of data.
The easiest to grok is the decrease in jobs, but the increase in GDP. creating more, with less. Easy to look up.

Oh good ol hornwumpus. WHen you argument fails, always falling back on the tried and true ad hom.

"Or do you not understand the concept of "Artificial Intelligence"?"

actually, you don't understand that term.

It doesn't men self aware. YOU can have specialty AIs that make decision in the fields of expertise and that's it.

You might want to move past the 1950's version of AI.

There are Chess AI's that are better then almost everyone on the planet. WHen was the last times chess AI demanded a Union?

" $7.26/hour income to sit and play games."

Thats disingenuous. It's mot like the get 7.26 an hour because they have no option.

Except the 2 dollars will spiral down, like wages always do when there isn't a minimum.

"ou decide that is too expensive, and replace the employee with an answering machine."
well then, raise your rates. If you industry can't handle you raising your rates, well then the answering machine is good enough after all. Meaning the value add of it being a actual human is too low to bother.

We put that 'burden'* on industry because thats where the money is.
Maybe we should just tax at 90% all profit earned over a billion dollars?
Society and economics ONLY work well together when money is moving.

It's not like that money isn't going to come back to the corporation again.
Income is important for industry to grow on the market.

*as if striving for a balances and healthy society is some sort of burden...

So?

ANother use for the free time would be for you to actually learn government economics.