Lots of text editors are garbage. Notepad++ looks amateurish, or do you think that any professional program would name one of its tabs "MISC."? Sublime Text is not any better as it does not have proper configuration dialogues at all (a proper graphical program should have). Vim and Emacs have some cool features but the keybindings are unnecessarily unintuitive. If those two didn't have the hacker legacy and they were invented today, no one would use them. I surely am an angry man. :D

Okay, hold it right there. Here, this only took a second to find: "According to the American Bar Association there are currently 1,116,967 lawyers practicing in the U.S." - from a recent posting.

So, you baldly assert that more than twice the number lawyers practicing in the U.S. work for the government. How in the world do you expect anyone to take ANYTHING you say seriously?

Thats fine. Knowing vi 'because its there' is why I know vi.

Using it by choice? Retarded.

Because playing NES games on a touch screen would be so awesome ... NOT.

The original point stands, nothing you'd actually want remains.

I understand the 'because its my phone and I should have the fucking ability to do with it what I want' aspect, and its a valid one, but once you get past that theres no real reason to jailbreak.

They're in the business to find out your interests to sell ads.

Why is that a mysterious thing? This is the job of any media company: to find your weaknesses and manipulate you in order to sell you goods.

I don't understand why people have a problem with that? Sales and marketing is what society has been doing since life was invented. You brush your teeth in the morning to sell yourself to your personal audiences over the people that DON'T brush their teeth in the morning.

Everything that Google does is known and predictable. There is nothing wrong about what they do, and we should encourage them to find out your sales weaknesses in order to extract more money from you via the advertising they sell.

After all, you do the same personal sales and marketing for yourself. Everybody does sales and marketing. It's a fundamental life property, not just for humans, but all species.

We should encourage sales and marketing, over the objection of the libertarian douchebag princesses that are losing the attention-whoring war against professional marketers like Google.

It's always amusing when libertarian princesses cry about losing at attention-whoring.

yea, no need to get out of the stone age or anything.

What is it with people being proud of using the lowest common denominator? I can use it too, but why the hell would I given the option?

If I log into some archaic system that only has vi, sure, I'm fine, but given the option it just isn't impressive. Theres a reason I don't use those old archaic systems anymore. Its not the wheel, its not 'the best way to do it' its just the way thats been around since the beginning.

The electricity that goes in Bitcoin mining is essentially converted to 100% heat. So the problem can be avoided every time when the heat can be utilized somehow, for example to warm up a house. Which is, of course, almost never. ;)

The existence of Bitcoin still makes the world more interesting.

Are you aware of the scientific papers Folding has published?

Ah, of course!

Why is the recommended RAM clock speed for AMD chips significantly higher than for Intel ones? A modern i3 is designed for 1333MHz, but performance will be hampered for an AMD APU if you don't go with 2400MHz.

... Right, because they can't just recombine the data from their multiple taps back in their data center.

Because ... they don't do this already to correlate data from different single path streams or anything ...

Those agencies will have no problem for dealing with this particular issue.

Not really.

'The bad guys' have multiple options. Comcast will do DPI at the edge where you have only one path, so multipathing won't effect them and throttling your torrents will still be trivial. The NSA/CIA will just recombine the streams in their data center from the multiple taps they have. Its not really difficult if you have enough CPU and they have the budget to ensure they have enough CPU ... and if they don't have the budget, they have enough dirty on congress to get their budget upped until they do.

What lock-in?