If you read the article, you'll find that the article is in fact NOT about anything like 1984. Its about properly mounting EXISTING CCTV camera's so they are useful. As in, mount them in such a way to get images of the faces of the people breaking into your house, not just shots of the top of their head which are useless to everyone.

The problem is that you think slashdot articles aren't sensationalist crap, when in fact they are by default and only become useful after people actually pay attention to the story rather than the nut job lying summary.

Chrome is by definition, spyware.

It does everything in its power to relay information about your activities back to Google, right down to what you click and when, if you allow it.

Most of these 'features' require you to opt-in, but some just happen right out of the box.

If you don't realize that the entire existence of Chrome and Chromium is to get information about you, you're an idiot with your head in the sand.

Chrome decided to use a recent feature THAT THE CHROME DEVS SUBMITTED TO THE KERNEL ... and isn't in any distribution that matters ... nor will it be for some time to come.

The issue is that unless your running a dev/unstable branch, you aren't going to have this kernel feature and you're not going to have it in stable/LTS versions ever ...

The application dropped support for production kernels ... because it wants a patch that isn't yet in production kernels.

Googles foot ... they just shot a hole in it, fuck'em.

He dislikes Chrome BECAUSE it IS SPYWARE in the strictest sense of the word. It does everything it can to relay your habits back to Google's servers. Some of that you can turn off, some of it you can't, but that doesn't change the fact that it is spyware.

I'm off the opinion Google can fork-off simply because they were able to survive without TSYNC and make it 'safe' but suddenly they can't and they refuse to deal with older kernels. Fork Google, this ridiculous bullshit of constantly having to update just because they can't be bothered to do real software development life cycles for user software. Fork'em right in the ear.

I don't use firefox because they want to update 10 times a month, I don't use Chrome now for the same sort of reasons. Chrome managed to make it not noticeable longer than firefox since the Chrome UI doesn't change daily like Firefox but none the less, too many problems have resulted due to Chrome constant releases that its no longer supported in my organization.

Yea, the device is a pretty amature build. Way too large for any TLA organizations, and the build sounds pretty fragile.

I'm fairly certain I could do better with arduino shields from radio shack.

Innocent? We have different definitions of the word if you think your number is accurate.

Bush didn't had Iraq over to ISIS,Obama did, after people like you got all pissy that we were still there helping them to move on after hundreds of years of being run by evil leaders.

Saddam regularly and publicly did everything he could to make the world believe he had WMDs, mostly because that was the only thing he could do to keep Iran from over running him, so there was pretty solid reason to believe he actually did have them.

But hey, don't let your ignorance cloud your ignorance, go right ahead with your head up your ass about the way all that really worked

You have some fucked up mental block that prevents you from see the world as it actually is rather than the way your told it is by the politicians YOU happened to believe in.

Your friend was an idiot, not have an SSN doesn't make you exempt, it makes you illegal.

Uhm, Greencard carriers are bound by pretty much the exact same tax requirements if you earn money in the US, so the tax headache is the same ... you have to pay your taxes.

Deal with it or stop earning US money, freeloader.

Break backwards compat? They called that OpenGL 4.0 already anyway.

Yes, because you're making the point for him.

You linked to a story about things that can't actually be bought. Its got pictures of prototypes, but you can't go BUY a SteamBox or a Steam controller can you?

You can not actually buy anything in that article, nothing. The article is little more than a press release for Valve.

WTF are you smoking?

They're selling custom made PCs as a console, the didn't do jack shit other than design a controller to go with it, and the controller looks kind of lame too.

Didn't write the OS

They have essentially 1 title the make as far as games go, and then they sell some mods other people built for it.

So basically, you think that piggy backing on the work of Microsoft, Sony, AMD, Intel, nVidia, and all the other game developers and the groundwork laid by all these people ... that Valve is doing it all by themselves?

Vulkan isn't their work either, they are writing a driver ... Does that mean the Mesa team is a console maker? What about Linus? Perhaps RMS because some of the people involved use Emacs?

Where is the SDK for SteamOS that valve created? Whats that? They didn't make one other than an API library for access Steam?

SteamBox's are nothing like an actual console, its kind of retarded to even compare them beyond 'they both can run games'

And to be clear ... WHERE IS THE STEAM BOX? Its not like you can buy it or anything related to it, can you?

She shouldn't have went there, that would have been her mistake and when you enter that country you are going to have to deal with their laws, your a moron if you don't realize how stupid it is to travel to a country without checking up on how they behave.

What fucking hole have you been living in to not know the Middle East is full of HIGHLY a oppressive KINGDOMS a

For fucks sake, people need to take personal responsibility for their choices and actions. Americans going to the Middle East are just fucking stupid unless they happen to have the power of the military WITH THEM.

When that law applied to him ... He was in the jurisdiction the law applied to.

They didn't drag him from his Russian home to the U.S. and then go after him.

And unless he deleted all instances of the copyright violation he was STILL violating copyright law.

No.

You do not get to go to some Asian country to rape little kids because its legal there, then come back to the states and live your normal life. Sorry senator, we've already said no to that idea. You don't get to go to Europe and get stoned off your ass and come home to no worries.

People get by with it because they don't make it obvious and in full public view.

Wrong.

You don't get in trouble in New Jersey if you don't go to new Jersey and make it obvious you did something entirely against their laws. New Jersey will still arrest you if they find out you did something horrible elsewhere even if it wasn't technically illegal in that other jurisdiction.

If you don't like the laws of New Jersey, DON'T GO TO NEW JERSEY.

This guy is, frankly, a fucking moron for working pretty much anywhere in the middle east. And more than that, he's a fucking moron for posting it all over a VERY PUBLIC website and then being shocked when he found out when he got home. He's an idiot in multiple ways.

You're kidding right?

Neither of these things take more than a single standard method call to get an object filled with all the data you would expect.

Are you sure you're talking about the same thing as the rest of us?