I was just thinking about this exact idea a few days ago. Sadly, unless they allow the community to organize an Open Source project, a Linux based client can not be done with the resources that they have. If they offered the community a chance to go at it, I am sure they would find LOTS of volunteers... me being one.

I know, right? Most every device out there that has GPS, also has required navigation added onto it. I just want to know where I am, I can already figure out how to get to where I want to go as long as I know where I am.

Your vision is poor. It will return to the Antebellum economy but now, with no obligations to the individual 'slaves'. Sure, the "economy" will be smaller, but wealthy individuals don't need much beyond what 'slaves' can provide. All of the things that are being sold to you right now are not necessary to life in a pre-industrial society. The only industrial type things they will need are weapons, and nuclear bombs are enough to prevent an invasion (in theory).

I keep hearing this, and I have seen proof of this; however, that claim just does not sit right with me. I think debt is far more nuanced than a simple good/bad determination and the good sides are trotted out when they likely shouldn't be.

I am guessing you haven't heard of breeder reactors?

While there are some crazies out there yelling about frankenfood and such, the real resistance to GMO is the IP ownership issues surrounding it. Farmers have been sued for GMO grain from another farmer's fields 'infecting' their own. Most of those lawsuits were actually legit and the farmer was trying to skate by, but even one lawsuit against a legit farmer is WAY too much.

( CAPTCHA is evolve, this is ridiculous )

Do you really belong on Slashdot? He didn't hack the damned thing to get clean floors. He hacked it because he was curious about what it was doing (or not doing).

Have you fallen into 'old man who yells at the clouds' mode?

No. Conspiracy brought us here. Conspiracy by people with a LOT of money and power. None of this is emergent behavior, it was all pre-planned over 70 years ago.

ROFLMAO

(at best, they never lied about anything that was important to you, but they most assuredly lied)

You are an idiot. This is not an either/or situation. It is an AND situation. In other words, why not both? WTF is wrong with people like you?

I peaced out on all consoles with the PS3. I was in the middle of Iraq and bought a secondhand PS3 for dirt cheap. I went out and bought a game disc for it to play... and the game wouldn't even launch without getting an update. An update. In a combat zone. In the middle of the desert. From a freshly bought disc.

The disc was useless. It didn't have to have any data on it at ALL because it was programmed to download the game when you inserted the disc. They had no intention of all of providing a playable game from the start.

Fuck Sony and fuck Microsoft and fuck Nintendo. They can all lick my balls. None of them have received so much as a penny from me since that day. No matter how or what they change, I will seek their destruction for as long as I am alive.

Locks were perfected over a thousand years ago in the Middle East. The only thing new is the materials. The only reason the public does not have easy access to quality locks is that their governments prohibit them from doing so. I wonder why that is.

I know that anything that is called a straight line actually isn't a straight line, it is nonsense. A series of points that appear to be straight from our point of view.

There are points and curves. Curves are points that are spread over time with the curvature correlating with time. The shorter the time period, the tighter the curve. That is how Space is defined. If you examine it from a different perspective, the curvature of space describes time. (which is why gravity is always an 'attractive' force)

I still have no idea why spacetime exists. Just that it does.

Consciousness is 'merely' organized energy. Some amount of physical 'matter' is required to organize energy into useful 'groups'. Energy that is not constrained by physical 'matter' is chaotic, moving 'away' at the speed of light in our frame of reference.

Only if it is Type 1 Diabetes. Type 2 Diabetes is trivially treatable... for various definitions of trivial.

(no carbs or sugars for 3 months will reset your insulin levels, i know, i did it)