This is all true, but I can imagine that high-current charger and battery connectors get standardized and everyone has one charger for all their devices at home and at the office. Perhaps even vending-machines that charge batteries? If it only takes 10 or 20 seconds, why not? Heck, if it only takes a few seconds, I can have a shared charger in the building, so me and my neighbours use only one.

Thank you, good night.

Sooo, what's the great fuss about cookies then? All they contain is some kind of ID, too -- right?

It's said in the linked forum thread that collected statistics are anonimized, but there's clearly an ID (id=htRWdGwwER-daEraerE) in the URL called. How is that anonimized, is beyond me.

1. Why would there be any connection between entertainment system and car's critical systems other than GND and +12V?
2. If RF interference from 1TB hard drive is enough to break car's critical systems, I don't want to know what happens if I plug my mobile phone to the lighter socket.

Absolutely! My car's tape player is WAAAAY more reliable, than today's mp3 players are!

"If any sentient life existed nearby, it would detect us years ago and run away to another galaxy by now" ...not mine, but I can't for the life of me google who said that or where I read it.

Nice. I'm from Poland and have ~145ms pings to Slashdot ;-)

Put the best of your thinkers on a single plane and shout about it in all the media in advance. No way the plane could be targeted.

Isn't this easy to solve -- just make an API in OS for requesting "temp" or "cache" memory. Apps using this memory have to be prepared that it no longer exists -- just like weak references in Java for instance.

And it's very easy to cheaply deploy Arduino-based projects. You don't need a 30 or 40$ prototype board -- just a few elements worth maybe 7$.

But I've decided that life without lies would be unbearable. You don't seem to appreciate how nicer life is when people have control of what you know about what they think of you. I'm not saying big lies. But those little, innocent white lies. What would be the value of constantly hearing how people hate what you just said, how awful they think you look today, how they don't care about you in the shop, etc. Sure, the absolute truth is that people often think badly of you. But they also think about undressing other people and having sex with them a lot. Or killing them. What makes us human is that we can CHOOSE not to act on these emotions. And we can CHOOSE to tell a white lie so our life with other people is less stressing. I wouldn't give that away.

And now, WHERE WERE I... If I only had a built-in compass :-))

Programming a machine to teach is not as hard as it sounds.

I hear you man, I probably had the same German teacher ;-)

Have you looked at Liferay's or Drupal source code? I didn't take 10 minutes to study both of them, but literally weeks. It's almost impossible, especially in Liferay, to develop anything nontrivial without going through its source code to understand how it's supposed to work - so I looked at it a lot. You can't go on without having source codes, because the documentation is fragmented and in many parts nonexistent, most forum threads are left unanswered and bugs unfixed for years. The code is not the only incomprehensible thing -- the product as a whole is.

I can develop web sites and applications much quicker in a much more enjoyable way using simpler tools that are documented well, do not get in the way and are not huge enough to become bloat blobs. I have this knowledge from experience in programming business that I've been doing for more than 15 years.

What you write and the way you write it, is the kind of attitude I've seen a lot on open source project forums. The "get to know it and/or fix it yourself or get the fuck out" mantra is OK as long as I don't pay for the enterprise license and support, you know. I'm glad to submit patches to open source projects that stay true to the idea and are worthy using. But if my patches are going to be used to sell "enterprise" version by an entity that can't get their product right -- I'm out. And I'm using different software as long as I have a choice.

Probably every big piece of s...oftware is the same. Messy, overengineered, slow, uncomprehensible... Such is Liferay and such is Drupal, only Drupal is also written in the PH "fractal of bad design" P.