Free speech is not just speech you just like. It's any speech.

I like how things are shaping up, without the lockups of course.
But it still stands that if you want the most out of the card, the official drivers are still the only way to go.

Value creation is indeed a zero sum game, when the world it is in is zero sum.

That's about as likely as Microsoft coming through with their promise of removing the activation on windows xp when it reaches eol.

No. The last time that happened was only because Microsoft was not playing the regulatory capture game. Before the whole bundling internet explorer with windows antitrust case. Microsoft did not lobby that much if at all in Washington.

They have since learned that to not get targeted with any antitrust junk they must lobby the feds. They have done so to the point that many ex Microsoft, and possibly future Microsoft employee's* are running the needed groups that instead of targeting Microsoft for this 'clear' antitrust breach. They are running around trying to bring a case against microsfot's chief rival google over their text ad's.

If you want 'any' sort of antitrust regulation to apply to you. Move to Europe, their system is less corrupt.

*This is how regulatory capture works, People who leave company's lets say in this case a giant software company. Leave on good terms, they only left to work in the government because the government position while temporary offered a better deal. BUT to not burn any bridges, since they know and the companies know they will be going right back to working for them once their position ends. They will do NOTHING to anger them even to the point of doing what the companies say.

Regulatory capture.
The last fed lawsuit was less to do with them bundling i.e. With windows and more to do with them not giving the regulatory agency's $.

for post radeon 5000 series, all i have to do is 'emerge -v ati-drivers'. for radeon 5000 and before, the 'radeon' driver of xorg works just fine.

A teenager cracker, up for a thrill finds that the central server's are guarded by a weak password, have an open port they did not know about. Or exploit a bug that has not been patched yet. Causing millions of dollars in damages by causing cars to careen out of control into obstacles they thought were not there killing hundreds if not thousands in one stroke.

You must enjoy making an id thief's job easier. All that data and keys in one place.

As for security, putting all that in one place makes the 'risk/reward' scale skewed to the point that short of some obtrusive id checks. Maybe as far as blood & dna samples to prove its 'you'. It will be hacked, Hacked within months of its release, and something the size of google will not be able to stop it. Because there is no way you can make it secure enough that such theft won't be rampant AND make the process fast, easy, convenient enough to get people to use it.

I will never get why people think it's a good idea to put all that 'valuable stuff' behind one single lock and key, each having their own gives you a good degree of damage control. Sure it's a bitch for some people to remember(my mother does the dumb thing and carries a paper book with all her passwords and user accounts on them). But if you're unwilling to put up with the effort, you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Of course it would, I never did state they were rational now did I?
My second biggest fear is random mutation. Only the first generation of such a targeted virus or bacteria is certain to attack the intended target. Natural selection takes over afterwards, it might mutate to get at everyone. Or it might become harmless.

Yea, that's the biggest fear I have with this. Some of what you would call human ethnicities are determined by minor genetic factors.

It's not hard to imagine a kkk member with the knowledge making one that attacks people with the genetic code that is for dark skin and curly black hair.
Or a neo nazi that makes one that targets the minor protein mutation that is found to originate in the area of the middle east that includes Israel.(I remember reading a article on this but I can't find it now)

Or one of any number of 'hate groups' and their disliked ethnic groups.. Far more likely than targeting a single person.

Not really. It could be a 'specialty driver' made 'just' for use in chromeOS. chromeos though is 'not' linux if you're comparing it to linux as any available distro you can grab. it might share most of the same kernel, but the userland is different and thus drivers from it won't work on a normal linux distro.

too bad that there is no driver for the gpu in linux.. still going to grab one, eventually. i always wanted a arm system.

One of the main reasons why the united states is not well liked by a lot of countries.
Think for a moment, imagine say, China, Russia, or say Norway, bullied its way into other countries in such a way that non-citizens of these countries could be 'deported' to them to face punishment. Punishment for laws they did not know about, or are not against the law in their own countries but against the law there.

The kid had the 'guilty mind' and the will to commit a violent act. The fact that he took the time to send packages that could not be easily traced by the layperson back to him proved he has the will to cause harm. He just did not have the opportunity to do so. Given the opportunity I believe based on the information provided, he would of caused harm to them. The only reason I think he shows remorse is that he got caught and confronted.

He should of faced legal consequences of his actions, at his young age it would of not impacted him as badly as an adult but still would of shown his actions have consequences. As well to his parents to show them that they should be just a little bit more involved in his online activity.