See what new technology is available, THEN start planning what you will do! ;^)

ARE YOU SERIOUS???

By all means! Trust Mickey$oft, the NSA, and who knows who else, with your life and all your data! ;^)

As for me, as I say: "Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and all your data in your pocket!!!"

In other words, I will keep my data out of the so-called, "Cloud" and on my own servers, under my sole control!

Why would anyone allow Mickey$oft to spy on you even more they already do now through their O/S's, Bing, etc...???

Anyone who does deserves the results!!!

Not at all! Only the rules that would protect us that the AI system would not be alowed to alter or ignore.

Start with Asimov's "Rules of Robotics" and expand it as needed, and prevent the AI system from disabling the rules.

Skynet in real life would never be allowed to take over.

Bottom line, unless the AI system was written by Mickey$oft, I am not too concerned. ;^)

And this individual is obviously one of the worst! I was not familiar with the name before this, but am familiar with the projects he has worked on. Linus may have his temper, but he has good intentions, and is usually right when he does yell at someone! Poettering just rants. I don't advocate physical violence against anyone for any reason, even him. I have NEVER heard of physical threats against ANYONE in the Free software/Open source community until now. If he has been threatened, he brought this upon himself.

"I have no intentions to ever talk about this again on a public forum." Thank goodness for this!!! ;^)

If he feels this stongly against Linux, and the Open Source community, then perhaps he should leave Red Hat and move to Redmond Washington. He might be happier working for a certain company located there! ;^) I am glad I don't work for Red Hat, and don't have to deal with him, or listen to his rants on a daily basis, as I expect some have to endure.

I updated two of my systems, and yes, I ran the test. I don't know about the unstable version.

"So now we're proposing something even worse."

Why do you think it will be worse? Give them a chance and let's see the released version.

And 10 office furniture stores, and office chair repair shops in Redmond are closing down! ;^)

"civic contribution"??? ROTFLMAO!!!

"teaching" He teaches??? WHAT??? ;^)

I long for the good ole days when they actually send out paper invoices in envelopes! ;^)

And from the archives:

"In December 1999, Microsoft forgot to renew the domain name Passport.com,
and so rendered its Hotmail service partially crippled. A Linux
programmer, Michael Chaney, paid the $35 fee and promptly handed over
ownership to Microsoft."

It happened again in 2003:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

Will they ever learn? ;^)

was invented in Helsinki Finland, by an unknown Geek at the University (At that time!). Should we chastise him for moving to Portland Oregon???

Linux, all the computer languages, and tons of other software is currently being developed by individuals and organizations all over the World! Who cares where???

What happened in 1776 was an important event to all countries, especially those countries owned and controlled by the "British Empire" at that time. That one event led to a lot more revolutions, and constitutions based on what happened then.

C, C++, Perl, Bash, HTML, basic text files, whatever...

NO vi!

Flame me if you wll! ;^)