He shouldn't have too much trouble finding work. Alton Nolen, the guy that beheaded a co-worker in Oklahoma this morning in another incident that is also Not Terrorism had only been released from prison a year ago:

This guy will plead to criminal mischief or something, do 18 months and return to commit more non-terrorist crimes.

We've had evidence for years. The SEC records from the Madoff investigation showed the same pattern. The auditors and investigators carefully step around the turds, carefully do not look beyond a strictly limited scope of investigation. They do this because they report to corrupt bosses, appointed by corrupt politicians, voted in by an electorate pursing its narrow self interests.

None of the above has changed, so naturally we're doing it all over again. They're quietly loosening lending standards again, only this time they have the Fed to print and keep the banks capitalized while it's happening instead of after the fact, so the next credit bubble detonation will be even more violent.

Enjoy. You voted for it. And you'll keep voting for it as well because doing otherwise would involve correcting too much of the world view you been trained with.

But but but Drones! Government Drones!!!1

Nailing rich people though........ I bet this particular case of government drones gathering intelligence on citizens gets a pass. Because on Slashdot, the only thing worse than rich people are their corporations. This site came to mind pretty fast when I spotted this story.

This worries me. The "usability" folks are at the plate again, wanting to "simplify" things.

Just so you know, I regularly and routinely use advanced features in KDE. I have at least a dozen applications with very specifically configured window positions and decoration settings. The panel is carefully configured to behave how I need it; grouping control and changing the order of applications manually is absolutely essential. I routinely change pager options to suit my current needs at any moment. I have customized the crap out of key maps, file associations, Konsole, Dolphin and Kate.

Notice how I make zero mention of "activities," nepomuk, baloo or akonadi.

If you need to hide some of the "advanced" features behind an "advanced" button to satisfy your notion of aesthetics then that's fine. Two things: 1.) Do. Not. Remove. Features. 2.) Once I've enabled "advanced" features somewhere don't make me do it again.

That way the added burden I face is hitting each "advanced" button once, and only once, and never thinking about it again.

Done right I can imagine a gentle reorganization of configuration being a small benefit to KDE. If you indulge configuration hating zealots that remove capabilities and dumb down KDE you will breed an army of haters. You will live in a world of haters hating on your work for the rest of your adult life.

Keep that in mind as you "simplify."

Tax subscribers. Obviously. The funds will be pissed away giving Canadian cable executives better bonuses

Is Canada still taxing blank media to subsidize the "victims" of "piracy?"

Whatever. Enjoy your cable monopoly Canuckistan. You deserve it. As do we.

First Iran and now Russia. Pretty soon all these tyrannical hell holes will be cut off. Enjoy your fetid lives in your dark little backwater nations. We'll be careful not to be 'imperialist' and interfere with you.

Netflix has worked on Linux for a long time now. Any given Roku can play Netflix streams. Netflix streams play on Android as well. It's possible that most Netflix streaming is done using Linux, given that set tops and smart TVs are typically running Linux.

From UT Austin: On the Cusp of an Ebola Vaccine

Bush built that lab (Galveston National Laboratory) as part of the $5 billion Project Bioshield Act of 2004, one of two, the other being at Boston University Medical Center. These are the places where actual research on ebola, dengue, hemorrhagic fever, SARS and others has been happening for years while you perfected your Bush derangement syndrome narrative.

Ass monkey.

-1 Group Think

Guess the "overwhelming conservative majority" took the day off.

Or maybe you're delusional.

Here is a post from the Chromium Blog that explains how 64 bit improves Chrome. Incidentally this applies to software generally, not just Chrome. The key part of the post that explains the expected improvements:

While you may appear to be using more RAM because the 64 bit Chrome processes are larger than the 32 bit, the net memory usage should be the same or less because 64 bit Chrome will not pull the 32 bit stack into RAM to operate. ASLR is a security technique that mitigates vulnerabilities that appear in applications and libraries; lack of a form of ASLR is among the reasons Heartbleed became a thing.

So stop quibbling and use modern software. If you are experiencing a RAM shortage — as opposed to obsessing needlessly over monitoring tools and being difficult — then get more RAM or use a less demanding browser; Chrome use more resources than its contemporaries and makes no apologies for it.

They've already done that. It's right there in the summary; "the best performance in recent memory and, perhaps, in its entire 224 year history."

So obviously they are rigorously measuring their stellar performance ... otherwise how could they make that sort of claim?

What? You don't think that's credible? You must be one of those tea bag knuckle-dragger anti-government types. The rest of us know better than to question the noble creatures inhabiting our sacred government.

<sarcasm, you dolts>

Netflix told shareholders it's currently filming eight new and continuing series, two of which are big hits with fans and drawing subscribers by themselves, of which there are 50 million as of Q2 2014. I noticed in that list they omitted at least one Netflix property of which I'm personally a fan, so it's not comprehensive.

You're arguing with success here, for some strange reason. Yes, Netflix doesn't have Warner Bros. or Paramount profits. That's not a bad thing. Their operating income is ~$228e6 and they employ about ~2000 full time. It's a cost effective operation that can't milk its famously cost sensitive customer base and become another media behemoth. They're commoditizing media and I can't think of a single thing we're going to lose as a consequence that I'm going to miss.

No. It's only just recently that citizens could get their hands on this stuff. As long as cost mostly limited this hardware to government she and her ilk were fine with it.

They're being protested in Glasgow for their anti-independence bias in the Scottish Referendum. Lately they've had UKIP to rant about as an alternative to ranting about Israel.

Statist media. What do you expect?