Lies! That was only 9 years ago when /. had jumped the shark. Not 11 years ago when it was still perfect.

The developer wrote in his blog that he wants to add a "Y" to the end but can't think of something for it to stand for.

There are plenty of good options for a small laptop there. Personally I have a desktop computer that can do all the great things I want it to. For a laptop I wanted something small and light that I wouldn't have to worry about. A 13in Chromebook worked perfectly for that. I never use it for gaming or image development, usually just web browsing and email. Occasionally I'll do some development by SSHing into a Linux box, and if I really want to do something more intensive, I can remote desktop to my machine at home. It takes 6 seconds to boot, updates also take 6 seconds (and my windows are opened after), and it doesn't get loaded down with crapware. Worst case I can do a factory reset.

Now I realize some people want a mobile primary computer and this isn't the machine for them. Judging by the tablet market, people are quite happy to get machines that do one thing, so maybe it would be better if you saw this as a cheap tablet with a keyboard and USB ports.

In actual reality, I went to amazon.com, typed "Chromebook", selected OS: "Chrome OS", then sorted by price resulting in 14 models below the $200 mark

That case and point was already given in the second paragraph of the summary.

A more extreme one was the NYPD campaign for people to tweet nice things about the police. No idea who thought that wouldn't end up going badly for them.

I got a razer diamondback in a bag of crap for $1 several years ago and it's been going strong since then. Not that any of the other mouses I've used have failed either so maybe I'm just better at handling them.

But if they can sell a less frustrating product than their competitors then they might make more money

The experiment is a little strange. In both cases, they're trying to write a string to a file. In one case they're doing terrible concats as you guessed, then writing to the file. In the other case, they're just writing to the file. Shockingly performing the extra step takes extra time.

They even used a class called "BufferedWriter" to write to the file stream in Java - what did they think that might be doing?

Don't worry though, they did throw a flush() in there right before the close()

And yet their security process still takes hours to get through (but you can keep your shoes on!)

And the best part is the robot doesn't sit around waiting for a tip and look impatient when you look for your wallet.

Probably because Cisco doesn't want to move into the courier business.

Apparently it's foxen since anything that ends with "ox" it pluralized the same way

Hard winter and they all moved to sunny Reykjavík

The Snowden bill seems more fitting to a Pirate Party than the EU citizenship. The Pirate Party has been around on a global scale for quite a while now, even getting some members in the EU parliment. They typically take a stance for Internet freedom, against heavy intellectual property laws, and for privacy.

That's what people seem to forget to mention when they announce some great movement in Iceland. The US had 57 cities larger than Iceland so Wichita Kansas has more impressive stats than Iceland population-wise