there is a lot of crap software that is really low quality that could possibly be spyware malware, trojans for data-mining for identity theft for credit card fraud, i really dont trust google android because of the low quality crapware on Google Play, it all needs to be filtered for quality and malware and signed so every consumer will know it has not been tampered with

politics is treachery

religion is brainwashing

they both have been controlling the population for millennia for selfish and divisive reasons which is usually profits and territory and resources, and both have been guilty of genocide or mass murder many many times

there are lots of shared object files in /usr/lib/[some-file-name].so

arent those the equivalent of dll files? or close to it?

Snowden should sneak out of Russia, find his way across the Ural mountains, in to Mongolia and head south in to southeast asia like Thailand or Vietnam, find some sleepy village where nobody cares about world politics and settle down in a little house in the hills, it would be suicide or at least a long prison term in Leavenworth by coming back to the USA

Don't you watch the X-Files?

Debian Wheezy on a i686, 2 gigs ram, 2200 intel core2, nvidia card using nouveau,and with Google Chrome latest stable i went to Youtube and the videos are still showing mixed results, some run smoothly without hitting the CPU much at all, others suck the life out of the CPU @ !00% even worse than compiling source code so my first impression of HTML-5 video is that i am not impressed

open the door not only for government snoops it will also allow criminals to steal identities, steal passwords, steal credit card numbers, and anything else of value, this idea that the government needs to spy on everything sets a bad precedent and is intruding where privacy is really needed the most

did Monsanto or Archer-Daniels-Midland or any of those other HUGE agriculture corporations ever consider what genetically modifying crops would do to its DNA? what if their GM crops DNA meddling is like chemistry where mixing foreign sources cause unexpected and unintended results that could be harmful to people and the farmland's environment in which they grow?

"Getting it right" goes against their business model, they make more money selling you an expensive piece of crap OS, because they know it will be obsolete in a few years and they can sell you another copy of a new version of the same old piece of crap OS again

Like shooting at a moving invisible target = ReactOS will never win trying to catch up to running windows

you've doubled your chances of getting laid

surface mount micro tech components is so small that human hands with a soldiering iron can not fix it, and those electronic gadgets and put together so tightly with hidden clasps that snap together that simply taking them apart destroys them unless you are a specialist with those gadgets

they sure put them on the front page front & center

not north korea, is slashdot becoming just another source for government misinformation and propaganda???

i refuse to buy books, movies and music anymore

Do you remember what it was like before you were born?

thats what it will be like after you die,

god is a myth created by primitive leaders of primitive civilizations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

take the time to watch these two videos and it should enlighten you