Running software written by the lowest paid developer they could find.

Space constraints are already an issue, laying down is going to consume far more space ... and ...

Do you do this on an empty train/bus? Do you always lay down at home or at the office? Do you lay back while sitting in your chain in front of (insert whatever it is you do in your leasuire time)? Whats that? No, you don't? Because it isn't really all that comfortable unless you're sleeping? Oh, my bad, maybe you should leave the engineering up to engineers who put more than half a thought into ergonomics.

Bwhahahaha. Only if they work perfectly and you're strong enough to do so, its not power assisted And its always on the rear wheels ... even in a front wheel drive car.

And for reference, that handle ... isn't called an 'emergancy brake' its called a 'parking brake' and theres a reason its called the later instead of the former.

Bezos was in the right place at the right time with some great techies leading him.

Pretending amazon is because of him is like pretending Microsoft is because of gates. The CEO is generally not that important, he/she gets lucky and also picks the right people to do the real work.

Thats likely intentional, to cut down on cheating by relaying information from the stream being watched back to a player.

They don't buy the tech, they buy the user base and in some cases the contracts the company already has with others OR to prevent this service from being competition directly or in case another organization buys them. A lot of times its nothing more than stifling competition and innovation.

Ridiculous amounts of money for companies that clearly are entirely not worth it aren't because they are buying the company, they are buying company related assets, usually the most important of which is the existing user base which they then generally proceed to utterly destroy.

Google didn't buy YouTube for video tech, they already had their own, that very few people used ... They bought a bunch of users for the user base and content, which they now use to peddle their ads.

Why do they do this? Because they are such shitty companies that they are unable to innovate and satisfy any customers so they have to buy someone else's, which is also the reason they utterly destroy the user bases of the company they buy ... they don't know how to satisfy them ... hence the buying ... circle repeat.

Nice ... you think the methane from these vents contributes to global warming ... except that it doesn't.

I knew when I saw this made it to slashdot there would be a bunch of AGW nut jobs relating this to AGW without bothering to understand the slightest thing about it.

It dissolves into the ocean water and never reaches the surface, never becomes a problem for AGW.

It does increase the acidity of the ocean and the question is how well does it get dispersed before it breaks down, but that in and of itself has 0 affect on AGW and its unlikely that it has any indirect affects on it as well.

No it didn't. Android did. GNU/Linux is still pretty irrelevant outside of cheap servers (nothing wrong with cheap servers, I use them myself). There is no Linux Desktop market share to be worth discussing.

All of the distros you listed combined add up to 'doesn't matter on the desktop' and most of what makes Android useful on a phone isn't the kernel either, they could almost as easily run it on NetBSD.

There certainly is very little other than 'fanboy' that keeps people on Linux, there are alternatives that are competitive.

If you really want to get technical, Linux in general is not really 'old guard' UNIX and never has been. Well, okay, Linux may be, but GNU/Linux not so much.

GNU is a bastardization of SysV at best, and breaks all sorts of things that would work on most SysVs that came before it.

To pretend Linux has an 'old guard' is a joke in and of itself. Anyone acting like they're 'old school' UNIX based on Linux is doing nothing more than what you say, 'my Linux is better than your Linux'

Stop pretending GNU/Linux is UNIX. It isn't. Its a UNIX-a-like-but-only-just.

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The media DID redefine hacker, which is why it has the criminal overtones you speak off.

It stopped being a private arrangement when it started being facilitated by a 3rd party.

Better than uber, in this situation these people can easily squat and the home owner would have to go through the full eviction process ... Which means in some locations that you can't have them removed for at least 90 days! And no, changing the locks while they are out isn't legal either.

Yet its still done, often, for reasons that are obvious if you've got a clue and the right requirements.

ActiveX has no sandbox and no security issues. No more than a DLL does.

ActiveX is nothing more than a method for a DLL to self describe its functionality to an application that loads it.

Your statement shows you have no idea what ActiveX is or what problems existed RELATED TO (not caused by) ActiveX.

The 'security' issues you are referring to are the result of programmers blindly downloading and loading any ActiveX on the Internet. This is no different than blindly downloading and executing EXEs and its not a flaw with EXEs or ActiveX, its a flaw with the application that is downloading and loading/executing them.

At no point was there a 'sandbox' for ActiveX. Its not part of the design and never was. It was expected that they would be used intelligently, but no one on the IE team was intelligent.

Internet Explorer was broken, not ActiveX.

Please learn WTF you are talking about before continuing to spew this ignorance. Its been 18 years since this ignorance started, you'd think by now you guys would have a clue.

No, they don't. They stopped a while back because no one cared. They tried making some instructions for generic JVM like environments after that, but those too have been deprecated.

ARMv6 added support, but ARMv8 removes support for any JIT VM instructions with the removal of ThumbEE.

That was 3 years ago.

The 'CS population is a "women aren't fucking interested" issue' Stop trying to make it out to be more than it is. Stop trying to make it 'equal'.

People are different.

Genders are different, if you don't realize that, you need to take sex ed over again.

Races are different, if you don't realize that, take a look at distribution of races in sports (All of them from chess to basketball).

Certain groups of people have certain attributes in GENERAL that make them prefer, not prefer, or have some general level of skill above or below the 'average'.

NOTHING YOU DO IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT SHORT OF GENETIC ENGINEERING.

Stop trying to turn it into a fucking social issue, its a god damn evolution issue. WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME.

That doesn't mean any particular person of a race or gender CAN'T do something or MUST do something, it just means they are predisposed one way or the other and most people of that particular group will behave in a similar way.

Most women don't want to spend all day dicking with computers. FULL STOP.

... Really? Since when? What fucked up part of the world do you live in that believes such a silly statement? Who are the 'upper class' then? Blue collar workers perhaps?

Its more likely that you'll just end up not being exposed to new items that may be useful to you.

Profiled advertising seems like a great idea, except (as it stands currently) you end up advertising to people who are already buying your products, and hence, theres not really any point in them getting your advertisements.