Move into the store with a smartphone labels are usually just as useless as salesmen when it comes to understand what a specific chip or GPU is.

I also have this theory that they really want to push for SSDs and are not interested in improving the prices on regular HDDs. I observed that 1 TB laptops are hard to find if the same shop sells high-end SSD-equiped laptops too. It may be anecdotal, I have observed that in 3 shops. Has anyone made the same observation ?

I don't know if this is a urban legend or not, but the story says that when some Russian pilots deserted with their airplanes, this was the first time when US scientists could look into a MIG. They saw that the electronics was made thanks to tubes. They first thought it was the sign of an obsolete technology but then learned that it was part of their hardening to be able to fly even in a radioactive atmosphere in case of nuclear war.

I still feel angry that Facebook managed to get 100 billions of funds this way. Their stock price can go down the drain, this money is there, in their bank account. This is the annual budget of Poland. These funds will now be put at work in order to screw us over.

I think that this day was a very bad day for our freedoms and privacy.

Zuckberg will stay a billionaire, even in the most gloomy scenario he will still be a multi-millionaire, I don't see any possible scenario as less than a success for him.

One half of the PC owners do not know how to pirate software. This is how I read this shocking news.

I've been using CScope in Emacs for about a year (in fact, I added the entry to ascope.el on that wiki page you linked to), and I've recently switched to Semantic from CEDET and GNU Global.

Sadly, the Emacs Code Browser (ECB) linked to from the CEDET page seems to be broken for recent versions of Emacs and CEDET and unmaintained.

While I dislike Eclipse for bloat and difficult extensibility, I have yet to decide whether Emacs has caught up with it for code browsing.

Edison was a patent troll that prevented a movie industry to appear on the east coast. Favoring this kind of profiles is a way to prevent innovations from happening.

I love how my bank makes me enter a numerical code through a keypad rendered with image buttons that appear in a randomized order. They must somehow think that this must prevent some kind of automated attacks. Except that one day I loaded it with no script, and instead of the keypad, I had a regular textarea to enter my code through the keyboard. It worked like a charm.

Security theater all along. The same bank is really confused about security, allowing some things to be done through mail or phone, disallowing some other innocent things for "security reason". Why is it that banking security became the joke that it is today ? Is there no one trying to crack them anymore ?

Money is the metric we use to point out where the human society has an interest. The fact that it is easier to finance a social network than a life-saving drugs shows a dysfunction in society but is merely a symptom.

If advertisement was less efficient, Facebook value would be close to zero. It would take a 4 hours class in every public school about advertisement awareness to make this kind of scheme moot.

But I know what you mean. I can make easy money developing AR toys for rich clueless clients but I can't find any funds to develop a tool helping epidemiology or biological modelling research. Makes me really sad about the state of the world.

I made a group of doctors seriously pondering if they should not stop using Facebook immediately. I told them "Maybe, you have friends that you got to know first as patients. You have friends on facebook who are not colleagues or working in the medical profession. Now facebook knows that there is a good probability that these people had a medical problem in connection to your medical specialty. Facebook sells personal data to other people without your consent. And I bet that insurance company would love to know your list of friends."

It got them uneasy. "But that would be illegal !" "Well, according to which laws ? Facebook does not operate from your country (It was happening in Japan)". One of the doctors thanked me for giving them clues about things they simply didn't know about how websites operate. Remember that facebook is one of the most successful phisher/scammer out there.