And the implant for Linux is called SystemD!

I always thought it was called SELinux.

So post the names of NSA employees publicly, and let's start collecting heads.

Why bother with the hassle, effort and expense. The best way to deal with the NSA is to cut their ludacrious budget. Then watch the outrageous sci-fi super surveillance software projects subsequently implode.

The founder of the MIT Media Lab, which churns out nothing but useless ivory-tower crap, moved on to something more shiny?

Shocking.

OLPC was nothing more than a way to pay for travel to academic conferences and get his name into stuff.

" who could help cure cancer " BWHAAHAAHHA. I work in academia/research. The pay, compared to industry, is garbage. Pretty decent educational benefits, great paid time off...but the money coming in the door is, as I said, garbage.

not by Alexis de Tocqueville though:

``The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.''

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A...

earliest known occurrence is as an unsourced attribution to Tytler in "This is the Hard Core of Freedom" by Elmer T. Peterson in The Daily Oklahoman (9 December 1951): "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."

Car dealers are powerful in most states...

They seem to be influential in most countries. The part I cannot fathom though is why?

A car dealer is nothing more than a middle-man/sales-man. This dealership is literally a gift of the car company, which can be revoked at nigh any time. His capital base is pretty small next to even a moderately sized small business, he's very sensitive to shocks, and if he's in the used business he's deeply mistrusted and unpopular.

So where is this influence coming from? The cars?! Are they giving off some kind of pheromone that he absorbs by osmosis?

they frequently work under-the-table

Correction: Someone pays them to work under the table. The same person who won't pay you to work above the table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

In 2009, we were responsible for 40% of worldwide arms sales.

In 2012, we spend 18% of our budget on "defense", 7 times more than China.

Now consider that our "defense" department has been repeatedly found by the GAO to be unauditable because their accounting is so incompetent.

Also, I find it laughable that so many republicans are concerned about 'welfare' and 'entitlement' yet happily sign on for farm subsidy bills that cost trillions, to keep the votes from fat-ass, lazy, uneducated, corn-fed, bigoted midwesterners rollin' right in.

I saw this in college with the women who took CS seriously feeling like they had to work twice as hard because half of the girls were getting by, in their minds by "flipping their skirts and smiling the guys" to get them to do their work for them.

How would this even work? Most Engineering degrees are based principally on examinations. You can't smile your way out of solving a differential equation on paper.

Did you read the summary past the first sentence or so?

"In short, they wrote articles about themselves or their companies, then gave the WMF big donations and were not confronted about violating the NPOV policy."

That said, I've routinely come across articles on Wikipedia that were not tagged NPOV yet were clearly cut+pasted from marketing material or written in that unmistakable tone. It's especially common on articles that aren't very popular.

Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y...

The older you have become, the more exceptions you have encountered which shatter common stereotypes. By the time you hit 70-80 years of age, the whole of humanity probably seems like am unweighted random behaviour generator.

The relevant Quote:

The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

-- Jonathan Swift

using mirrors and lenses from disposable cameras:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thi...

I'm confident most of us can name at least one "superior" who held critical decision making powers in an organization who would print off their emails to read them rather than reading them on the monitor. Why are these people not being publicly shamed?

The joke is on you cyber-man. These guys print off the emails to make sure they have a hardcopy for everything they're read so that all their bases and asses are covered when its hits the fan. Those who rey on soft copies will be left flapping in the breeze at the first hard disc failure.

Can someone please explain why this is attached to a RasPi?

Among other things, the poor architecture and inability to run a standard distribution makes it a remarkably bad choice when you can get low-power x86 boards that will wipe the floor with it.

Interesting examination of that in the novella _Manna_ by Marshall Brain: http://marshallbrain.com/manna...