Troll mod? I'd love to know why - what was factually wrong in what I wrote?

Disgusting presentation. The guy spits on the efforts of good people who set the base for what he is trying to "re-invent, just better" now and what he was working on for the past years. He goes at great lengths to explain how this-and-that is "oh so 90-ies" bad in X (things I never actually had a real problem with, and I am actively using X since early 90-ies; some of them completely irrelevant details) and to laugh at it while not providing even a SINGLE DAMN SCREENSHOT of the "new and better" stuff. Forgot the cable, yeah. So convenient. A plenitude of extensions, some of them obsoleted by now? Well, guess what - YOU was a part of the team who designed and wrote them in the first place!!! Nothing but hot air. The guy is a jerk and a poser, who loves insulting other people - as far as one can say judging on this video. If his attitude is representative for the whole Wayland team, then I don't have much faith the project will ever succeed. Yes, there are some technical merits to what he says, but I don't have the impression that he and his like have the capacity to do it better AND to make it to a stable and useable product. It takes much more to do so than what he displayed here. I'll be happy if they prove me wrong (every advance in Linux world is a good thing) but I wouldn't hold my breath. I now understand Canonical much better.

In USA it's way more than 20 for government contracts.

Companies asking for FB (or whatever) credentials? As a part of job interview? I surely hope this is NOT standard behavior but rather something blown out of proportion. If somebody would ask me for my personal access data to ANYTHING, I'd consider it a bad joke and lough politely. Man, at some times it sucks to be European, but articles like this are a nice wake-up call, showing fellow humans in other parts of the world have to fight even larger idiocy. :-(

Wow, this is like first time ever I saw somebody sincerely and honestly appologize on slashdot! Nice!

Bah, wanted to mod you funny, but accidentially hit troll. Posting to take the mod back.

Edisson, indeed, was a brutal leech sucking the blood and inventions of other people who worked for him. He was succesfull at that, yes, but he was not the inventor you seem to be implicating here.

Since some time, I've been into remotely controlled planes. Started out by buying one, with a cheapo (but very "thinkering friendly") Turnigy 9X TX. Since then I'm building my own planes - MUCH to tinker with, the possibilities are infinite: shapes, materials, attaching gadgets, learning flight techniques, ... not to talk about the entire world of possibilities that opens up once you start designing your own planes. Maybe worth a try. :)

I'd even thought it was meant like "people not living in Norway" (regardless of whether Norwegian or not)

I wonder what that POKE did. It's not in the system area, it's not in the video RAM... is it some "get me more lifes" hack POKE?

Well, not THIS Spectrum owner (yes, I actually still own one... bought from eBay a year or two ago for sentimental reasons) :-) I never knew much about Ataris (were they not basically a gaming machines, with cartridges to stick in? How do you pirate THAT? :-) ), but Apple or Commodore were never an option for me not only because of the price, but also because of the CPU. Z80 assembly runs circles around 6502 (or was it 6510?)! And being a hacker that I am, assembly was important to me even at the young age of 16. :-) And as far as C64 goes... we had 50/50 distribution of Spectrum and C64 among computer owners in our class. Oh boy, what religious wars THAT were!!! :-) Turned out eventually that we ALL had equal amounts of fun and frustration with our machines (C64 tape loader speed anyone? :-) ), and also that we ALL learned A LOT about computers using that inexpensive and charming hardware. Pitty computers are so complicated these days. I wonder where to start teaching my kids from...

Man, that sucks, sorry to hear that. I most sincerely hope the surgery will improve your condition!

I wasn't sure whether you were joking or not, but it was fun anyway. :-)

BTW, it's one thing to parse it wrong on /., as you did, but an entirely different thing to actually COME to Austria, as a tourist, and then - with no joking - ask where all the kangaroos happen to be. I always thought such tourist would belong to a kind of an urban legend until I got a summer job as a front desk manager in a small hotel in Vienna. Boy, were I in for a surprise!!! :-)

Have a nice day mate, and no hard feelings. I like you US guys, especially since you installed your new president (actually, since you removed the old one, ok).

Hahaha, I am NOT Australian, man... AUSTRIA != AUSTRALIA, therefore no kangaroos here. And no shrimp bbq neither, unfortunately. Usually, we put up with grilling sausages and... stuff.

Now, for that guy calling me Troll - you see _now_ what I was talking about?

Let me guess, you are an US american? :-)