I can just imagine how unreadable such code would end up being, as any comments would look like they were written by some sort of AI tool.

and then use F2C to convert it to C code before I check in.. Try analyzing that!

They have prettied it up quite a bit, but the underlying protocol is still there. I can run X applications on my Ubuntu 14.04 box, and they display just like they used to 20 years ago. The colors are a bit different, but the basic protocol is still there.

In reality all this lets you do is reskin a standard car with any sort of body that you want, but under the hood it is still the same as every other car. Which is probably still a good thing - otherwise maintenance becomes a nightmare.

Java isn't at all immune to the 3rd party library issue and in fact the Java world seems to have it far worse when you start developing complex applications.

What I find even more appalling is that fact projects that use maven seem to want to hoover down half of the internet, and you have to trust that the bundles/jars that it is pulling down are all of decent quality, and that the repository has not in fact been compromised.

Maybe they were using it as fuel.

Something isn't adding up here, but it wouldn't have surprised me of the obfuscation filter otherwise known as the media has garbled the message.

Or the Turboencabulator. It sounds neat - whatever it does.

When I was a kid, I made a phone out of an old radio, a tape recorder microphone and a telegraph key. It didn't work well, but it was kind of fun.

Every time I look at things like Hulu I find virtually none of the programs that I typically like to watch. News? Nada. Have to stream it elsewhere if I can find it. Various Discovery/Science/History channels? Nothing that I want to watch. Documentaries? Minimal, and nothing of interest. Shows like Stewart/Colbert? Nope - have to go directly to comedycentral to get that.

Here is what I don't watch. Movies, sitcoms, reality TV, cop/csi or any other drama. Don't watch sports, don't watch home shopping, don't want/watch things like HBO.

I for one resent paying for very expensive programming that I never watch.

I suppose you could tweak the HVAC when you are on your way there so that it is comfy when you get there.

But other than that it seems kind of pointless. Yet something else to twiddle with just to say you can do it, and then curse the thing when something goes wrong.

Open the fridge door, HAL.

I am sorry, Dave, but I am afraid that I cannot do that.

I could see someone making a movie about this. But it probably wouldn't be Sony.

Well if you don't mind paying 50-100$/pound of coffee, I guess the Keurig thing works out for you. And I suppose if you only drank one cup per day, it might still work to your advantage.

That's not a problem that is unique to Linux however. Many commercial products have the same issues - the marketing and planning people want new features as that helps them sell upgrades and maintenance, and in the past those sorts of things were prioritized higher than things like a security audit which management concluded weren't something that one could sell.

It is only when customers demand security audits of the products that they buy that this will change.