Portal 2, CS:GO and Dota 2 are all recent Valve games.

More importantly, Valve is very much a major player in publishing - these days more so than in developing. They likely can keep their developing arm going on longer than the lifespans of current staff with the profits from their publishing arm.

The game library for Steam Linux will likely be Valve's titles and a wide library of 3rd party independent titles at first. Certainly nowhere near Steam Windows, but still nothing to sneeze at.

Should fully wiping out all your data be as easy as pressing a button?

On the relevant hand, my point from the beginning was "China being worse doesn't make the problems the US has any less severe". That's why I used Hitler and Stalin - you can argue one to be worse than the other, but even if you're successful, that doesn't change that they both were Very Bad People.

So, the black spots in US history... simply weren't?

Whitewashing the past and ignoring the significant problems even today and excusing them as "China is worse". Hitler was worse than Stalin.

So, a type of food notorious for the human rights abuses it's farming causes (and the amount of sugar and fat), fat, fat and a food that has animal abuse as a core part of it's production (and is full of fat)?

No wonder you'd need to eat vegetables to feel better about yourself. Or for that matter, to stop your stomach from screaming out for help.

It is a sad day when an AC calling people morons is the most insightful participant of a discussion.

You are using math valid only in a sub-FTL scenario to try to predict a super-FTL scenario.

Let's assume all trees are green. This tree is red. Your argument is invalid.

Woz has always been so geeky I would be more surprised if he didn't have an active Slashdot account.

All this lawsuits, copyrights and patents business probably annoys him, because it means it'll be harder to make the next cool toy.

I actually remember taking my cell phone with me every time I left home and wasn't looked after. I was under 10 years old, and this was well over a decade ago.

I also remember a time where my entire class - of 12 year olds - all had cell phones. And this, again, was well over a decade ago.

Ubiquitous cell phones have been a thing for about two decades by now. You mean 25. It's 2012. You didn't forget again, did you, grandpa? Grandpa?

Obviously the device is more to you than just a government tracker.

After all, you wouldn't possess the phone if you thought it to be nothing but a tracker - unless you actually wanted the government to track you, I suppose.

Who watches the watchers?

Turns out it's the secret police. They don't exactly keep that part a secret either.

I saw this headline, and immediately Betteridge's Law of Headlines came to mind.

Onscreen keyboards and screens you hold really don't mix with extended time spent writing anything, much less code. And you could add a stand and an external keyboard to an iPad, and at that point you have an inferior version of a MacBook.

Different human groups always have and always will interbreed to leave just the "human" race.

The species keeps evolving. It'll probably change in ways drastic enough that we wouldn't even recognize it as "human" anymore. Well, except for that interbreeding thing.

Given that the GP said "largest and fastest-growing" - no, it isn't appropriate at all.

You seem to have entirely missed the point of the comic.

And this affects me none as an iOS user - and I'm sure most iOS users have given it even less thought.

Apple wishes to keep this software out of their market as a CYA strategy. This is fine with me. They also keep emulators out for the same reason, which I'm less thrilled about but I can understand their position.

If I felt some other platform offered me superior choices, I would use that platform. As it is, I prefer iOS, because I value convenience over software freedom. My communications remain unimpaired by Apple.