Yep. That's what it says. I for one had selected some 7 contacts (me stupid had allowed access to my address book). Carefully selected. A give-away was already, that there was no 'deselect all'; only 'select all', and I had automatically 153 contacts pre-selected. What a fun, without a 'deselect all'. So I deselected some 146, one by one. 7 left. And me scrolling to double-check if they were the good ones. So I selected 7. Do you know how many were sent? 584.

Another give-away of LinkedIn malicious undertaking:
1. I never had to confirm those invites being sent.
2. (Worse) There is no way to retract invites not yet being opened or answered. No 'cancel all my invites'

Now it's your turn to show any 'best practices' by LinkedIn to me.

No. Over.
I submitted a story some three weeks ago on exactly the same; miraculously (??) mine was finally not accepted. It was the sad and silly story of how 584 invites were sent, without me actually authorising the sending. Including to a good hundred addresses of people where I had applied for a job, but obtained a refusal. The funniest was my landlord, who got an invite on the same day when he received my resignation from the rental contract. Partially out of disgust with his 'business model'. And he knew I was disgusted, and he must have deemed me mad for resigning out of frustration and the same day asking him to become a member of my professional network!? Hahaha!
My story also contained the result of my search through the Forum at LinkedIn, and I found a thread started one week earlier, with plenty of people asking to retract their invites for similar reasons. And no answer from LinkedIn, at least by then.

Hahaha! I was totally tempted to send out to ALL my contacts (my list was harvested from my Gmail-account with my authorization). I spare everyone how I was snuggered into this - so partially I am to be blamed myself. But then I would have sent out a de-invite for some people that I had actually invited on purpose.

Enlighten me about that helicopter crash and ... ...wait, now I spoiled it, and can't give you my 'Funny' Mod point for at least the last 2/3 of your post any longer.

HHI used to be the world championship in optical signal transmission beating their own records as early as the late 1970 and early 1980. I myself had the honour to work there, at that time, though not in optical transmission systems. The time spend there has always been a great and endearing reminiscence.
I am proud of you, guys and girls! Congratulations!
(I really wonder if anyone from those days is still there!?)

I very much hope and think you targeted for 'funny' or 'flamebait' with your text!?
Yes, we humans are a bunch of selfish pricks. But do we actually laugh at cancer patients? I don't think so.
And euthanasia is not, usually, considered as alternative to treatment, but rather as a supplement when it doesn't get the patient where (s)he wants to go: into remission.
To me both are just human: a treatment at the best of medical possibilities; not the maximum profits of patent holders; and the freedom to call it quits as a pure individual decision; not dictated by societal determinants like religion and a criminal law disallowing helping the individual to fulfill her desires with regard to her life.

Dear Sri Ramkrishna, alas, your venerable and in here highly respected - if not envied - 4-digit User ID betrays your continuing efforts to click with the youth of this world.
Yes, and the old stuff is going to quickly go.

I myself am a culprit and lucky no plane crashed due my failure in following suggestions. :)
Recently, someone passed an old handy of his to me, I was travelling overseas, and for the first time didn't have to swap SIM-cards. So I plugged my Malaysian SIM card in the new phone and left the German in the old one. Ah, you can guess what happened. Sure, I switched off the phone I had in my pocket. Alas, one too few. Very sorry, fellow passengers! Luckily you and me survived.
Another scenario (aside from the multiple phones): I have an Android on me as well. So if it contains a SIM-card it needs to be switched off, though I am only reading or watching a movie; but if it doesn't, it is just a reading device? And what happens if I root a Swindle?
And what is actually 'off' on my Android tablet? Usually it kind of hibernates once I haven't touched it for some time. Totally shutting it off would be a procedure I usually don't do. Hibernation or whatnot is fine? Despite of me (not?) being able to make calls?
Personally, I consider myself a meticulous person. Not everyone is. And passenger Aunt Tilly will simply be unable to cope with the request in a 'technically correct way', and I wouldn't bet on her niece, an air-hostess, neither to differentiate properly.

This matter sounds as if a PhD in rocket science would be needed to follow instructions in a correct manner.

Look, if copying unimportant files crashes a system to unbootable, we ought not discuss and suggest other distros. We should beat the s***t out of that distro. because then they'd screwed up all ideas Unix and Linux beyond recognition.
Any *nix distro that is allowed to exist must not allow this to happen, ever. Over.

"Nokia's declaration to the IETF says NO to royalty-free licensing and also NO to FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing"

Good, NOKIA; just as you like. Shoot yourself into the foot or sign your own death-knell. From here on you are a NO-NO company, and I suggest to everybody in my circles to make a large stroll around any Nokia product and I will do so myself.
This calls for collective punishment.

DIE, NOKIA; DIE!

I leave out the screenshot of my System Settings, with all three boxes unticked, probably since the installation.
I have no memory of having set up mail accounts in Akonadi (how does one?), my only address book entries that I have deliberately created are in Thunderbird, and I have never opened Korganizer, as far as memory serves.

For these, I find quite some applications running here. ;)
$ ps ax | grep konad
  2261 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_control
  2263 ? Sl 0:01 akonadiserver
  2266 ? Sl 0:24 /usr/sbin/mysqld[...]
  2402 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_agent_launcher akonadi_akonotes_resource akonadi_akonotes_resource_0
  2403 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_archivemail_agent --identifier akonadi_archivemail_agent
  2404 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_agent_launcher akonadi_contacts_resource akonadi_contacts_resource_0
  2405 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_agent_launcher akonadi_ical_resource akonadi_ical_resource_0
  2406 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_imap_resource --identifier akonadi_imap_resource_0
  2407 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_agent_launcher akonadi_maildir_resource akonadi_maildir_resource_0
  2410 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_maildispatcher_agent --identifier akonadi_maildispatcher_agent
  2411 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_mailfilter_agent --identifier akonadi_mailfilter_agent
  2412 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder --identifier akonadi_nepomuk_feeder

$ ps ax | grep epom
  2412 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder --identifier akonadi_nepomuk_feeder

There is no Akonadi tray icon; and neither anything remotely named like that in the System Tray Settings.
The installation was done in Juli, Kubuntu 12.04

Again: where is the Disable button that disables these applications? You see how invasive this software is.

Kugelkurt, the information is valuable, thanks.
On the other hand, it is sufficient to put akonadi nepomuk into Google, and then the first 10 hits are either on what they ought to do (minority of hits) or how to disable them due to simply not working (majority of hits). And when you click on any of the minority hits, you'll find that all of those have a majority of people pointing out that these programs don't work. Effectively, I have yet to meet anyone for whom it does work personally.
And when you look at the dates, this debacle has been going on for more than 4 years.
Now don't come and tell me that I am just the unlucky one. This debacle has cost KDE a good number of its userbase. Where is the accountability? Where is the procedure in place, to kick out those applications as long as they are a pain in the lower back to > 90% of the users from the default settings?
Where, and that's the most obvious one, is the one button to disable all of those? No, one needs to fiddle with /usr/share/autostart/nepomukserver.desktop; with akonadiserverrc, and so forth. There is currently a good window in time for KDE to get things right; with the idiotic GNOME, the limitations of xfce and lxde. Why being dickheaded then and force down some crappy and useless applications? Useless, because there is no GUI (yet) to actually make sense of the data as collected.

I'll give you my version of "worksforme":
I am actually a bank-robber, you know, with a sawn-off shotgun, demanding cashiers to hand over money to me at gunpoint. Therefore I don't need to work, fortunately. I do understand that more than 80 percent of the bank-robbers are being caught and put behind bars. But I cannot fathom why!? I have never been caught. So why not try yourself, follow my example? If you happen to be caught, I'll say "I don't know what you did wrong? It simply worksforme!"

Pity you didn't get the mod points that you deserved.
Because the Akonadi-Nepomuk disaster is well known, and has seen plenty of bug reports over the years.Alas, the KDE-PIM people are block-headed enough to simply ignore them ("works for me").
Actually, come to think of it, the real culprits are the KMail-people. Because the idea of a semantic desktop is great. Had it worked, we would not have seen the Vista disaster, and had it worked on KDE the great thing would be the complete integration of all 'personal' applications. Not entering your contacts in the mail client, the messenger, address book, scheduler, you name it. Logically, the semantic desktop needs to come and will come. Sooner or later. Therefore, working on it is fine, in principle.
The idiotic idea is rather, to take a functional, if not mature, application of yours (KMail) and rip it apart. For the sole reason that you want to make it compliant with that futuristic semantic desktop. So that, once it arrives, some time into the future, in a year or three, eventually the next generation, then your application will work, again.
That's the downside of a so-called community-based development: There is no way to kick someone's buttocks. There is no accountability. And no way for the community to stop a project from going bonkers. Lesson number one from the development model of a community-based Free Software: There is no way of stopping an egotistic maniac. From ruining a whole project. GNOME stands even more prominent here.

I don't have mod points, alas.
Please, someone mod this up (and subsequently the others further up down). If only to set a signal, indicating that the discussion further up is - sorry - based on a lack of understanding. Nobody in their sane mind wants anything close to what we can see in the clip. Period. Not even the author. Over.

The alpha software is a demo for widgets, and interaction with shaders. Finished. Done.
It also shows the almost revolutionary aspects of Qt5, probably the only toolkit that allows to 'write once and run anywhere' of interfaces; which must by definition be based on something other than a geometrical construct of frame borders in a pixel-based sense.

Is this now an argument in favour of KDE?
Or is it orthogonal to the question of Desktop Environments?