Ha. I can't access the article to be sure, but I think they mean making the user feel like the computer is incompetent, not making the computer feel bad about its performance like Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Need Internet v2. :P

The last great recession was due to precisely this sort of spending pattern plus a collapse in payment. Banks may be healthy, for now, but they can't keep lending forever with no recover. This is not a good sign.

Cursive IS hand writing. I think you are confusing it with italic.

I think American schools should probably teach something. It seems fairly evident that they are not even doing that at present.

Microsoft to focus on the other things that matter too, such as stability and power user enhancements.

Hell has finally frozen over?

Am I going to have to start finding ways to make my OS do what I ask instead of what some marketer thinks people like me want it to do?

That won't be an option if MS gets is way!

I just really wish that the world could just pick one distro and go with it.

And you wish the only car on the market was a Frod F150?

If you thought that, you are probably American, and therefore badly educated.

In most of the world, an engineer designs engines - and/or their control systems. (Whether petrol, steam, or electric - or even hydrogen).

Been a while since I've flown a budget airline. On the normal flights I've taken, there's always a few people (usually older people) with paper boarding passes.

I completely agree.

Too much safety. Too much regulation.

Not enough creativity. Not enough dealing with the imperfect.

We really need to amp up freedom.

And how many /.ers have iPhones? :P

If nothing else they should not be allowed to call themselves a bank, including not a "trust" bank. Stick with crypto exchange or hascode pawnshop or whatever but not bank.

"The cake is a lie."

dissolve Hyundai and 130,000 people lose their jobs because a criminal managed to break into a database?

No. Because the company collected the data in the first place. "In a database" is a place where criminals are likely to devote enormous resources to stealing it, and which they are unlikely to be able to protect adequately. On top of which, exactly 0 customers want their details to be stored.