For any tangible reason or merely to justify the many hours you wile away in front of some game when you could be hacking instead?

I've been 'hacking' (in both senses) since 1976 but my gaming stopped when I realized it was more interesting to disassemble the games and see how they worked. (about 1980)

I had it when I was 18. That was 30 years ago. I was miserable for two weeks. I bathed in calamine lotion three times a day when the itching became irrepressible.. I was essentially holed up in a dark room the entire time with nothing to think about except for the itching. TV caused my eyes pain. I've been prone to getting shingles over the subsequent years of my life, usually in response to stress. The shingles are probably related. I still have marks on my body where I had pox.

I wouldn't wish adult pox on anyone.

A friend said "Give it a chance..." I think I stopped part way into the 3rd season.

I hadn't heard of Beats until last week. I was in a Future Shop (like Best Buy) with my son and he was all gaga over some of these Beats headphones on display... So I put them on and listened. It was like I was listening to music through a tin can while someone tapped on the can with a pencil... I'm far from a 'golden ear' audiophile wanker... I have a pair of mid-low end Sennheisers on my head 8 hours a day at work...

Thanks. I could never figure out what the big deal was with that guy? I sat through several seasons of his show and don't think I so much as cracked a smile through any of it...

I have a friend who, along with his wife, have also chosen to be childless. They enjoy the children of their siblings but choose not to have their own. Unfortunately, the two of them are very bright people and I can't help but think we need more people like them to breed than the mouth-breathers with 4 kids you see at Walmart.

I do respect their decision and have never brought the issue up with them... Doesn't mean I'm not allowed to have my own opinion.

A human can see a train approaching a level crossing far sooner than a self-driving car... If the lights at the level crossing aren't working; will the human be sitting there wondering if the car will notice the train in time?

Wrong. It's Control4, apparently. Regardless, I can see you're one of these know-it-alls that comes in and tears apart everything someone else has done and puts in his/her own religion... "It's ILLEGAL! OH NOES!" ... If your 'solution' requires the customer call you in order to change the controls in their home, then you're just the same level of asshole...

In kernel space, no one can hear you scream.

I'm glad you've been making a shitload of money... I'm glad there are people willing to pay it... I don't see the appeal either.. One friend of mine has such a system.. After the install, he asked the installer for the configuration software so he can change the 'mood' or 'scene' settings in his home and the installer said "well, technically i'm not allowed to do that. I license the software from the manufacturer and am not allowed to let the end-user have it. I can see you're more than capable of dealing with it so do you mind if I throw this old version in your garbage can here?" ... I mean, that was awfully nice of him but seriously? Get fucked. Another acquaintance of mine is one of these filthy rich folks... They had us over at christmas one year but the christmas lights on the trees out front didn't come on early enough so she got the installer on the phone and he made the changes remotely for her for only $150/hr... Don't get me started on the multi-colored light switches that no one else knows how to use except the home-owners. If I ever become so stupid that I can't hit a light switch in whatever room I walk into, I need a bullet to the head.

No thanks.

Exactly right. I have an offroad vehicle with air suspension... I can raise/lower the truck about 8 inches... At factory height; the truck drives normal... If I raise it just a few inches, the front axle rotates enough that driving it is like trying to hold on to a slippery eel.. It doesn't take much in terms of suspension changes to dramatically affect the handling of a vehicle. This is why there are properly engineered suspension _kits_ vs shoving blocks between spring/axle to make your truck look cool.

I drive around at factory height but raise the truck when I'm off road going 5mph.

yeah; I remember Mythbusters tried this out... It didn't start to actually make any difference until they were something like 18" behind the truck... I really think only a "Hypermiler" would be stupid enough to actually do that.

1000x this ... If someone thinks it's ok for an innocent person to be put to death or that somehow there is some acceptable false-positive rate associated, then they should be next in line to volunteer to be euthanized.

There are several issues here. I am offended that some operating systems have hijacked ascii characters to use for meta functionality... ie: ^C, ^V, ^S... ie: I want the same copy/paste key sequences in all of my apps, but I can't have that. I can't remap firefox to use Alt-C/Alt-V for copy/paste or Alt-T for 'new tab'... For those of us who live/work/survive in terminal windows, we want a consistant user interface... This consistancy is (for the most part ) on OS X.

But in terms of the article in question, yeah.. What I really want is more disconnect between my editing window and my compiler/debugger.

We don't encourage drinking/driving... We have a beer or two over the span of a couple or three hours... It's not about the drinking, it's about the socializing... I've been pulled over and blown well well below even the warning limit...