Except a tattered community full of distros that aim high but accomplish nothing.

so much butthurt in this thread.

Yes, but that will never happen. It didn't happen in 1995, 2000, 2005, 2015, and it won't happen now.

And Linux users shouldn't expect to play AAA games any time soon. Linux was never meant for gaming.

I've been a stagecoach driver for 200 years and I have yet to come up with a reason why my wagon needs a combustion engine. They all seem to work just fine with a horse.

OR usher in the new age of high-frequency lawmaking! Though, with the way our congress is moving right now, it would likely get stuck in a recursion trying to pass and repeal laws over and over again.

Try this bookmarklet: https://gist.github.com/joepie... Don't set a precedent by walking away to another website. You have a right to keep your computer secure from unwanted scripts.

...then I must a sadistic communist, as I have a suite of self-made chrome addons that will identify Analytics platforms and trigger false events, among blocking specific ads. :-)

You are the underdog and the warrior that has stood the wrath of Nvidia! I will keep buying your products until the bitter end!

I think the NSA is doing what NSA needs to do. That being said, if they forcefully compel a company to allow backdoor into products, the government should be prepared accept all subsequent financial liability (that is, bail out the company) that would likely arise as a result of the would-be PR disaster. No private company should stick their neck out for the government.

From the article:

Why would medical professionals knowingly release a patient despite the knowledge she had life-threatening levels of alcohol in their body? Assuming they didn't diagnose her of the auto-brewery syndrome right away, you would think they would at least keep her overnight for observation.

I tried it. I love systemd's logging mechanism. I like that I can manage various services and peripherals from one central location. You neckbeards here on Slashdot are the reason why Linux *on desktop* has stayed largely stagnant. Change is good. Deal with it.

No, you haven't. You read it on a history book.
The process that led to the rise of the Third Reich could be, in part, attributed to a tired and fearful populace. At the time, they needed someone to tell them where to direct their frustration for the economic downturn following World War I. Hitler was that someone. He gave them a singular entity to fear. And you know what? People bought into the narrative.

If America was supposedly becoming a tyrannical state, it would be because America is marching towards becoming a tyrannical state by choice, not by the cunning action of a shadowy dictator. A choice made by voters unwilling to educate themselves on the issues and candidates, voting for candidates that bring the most bacon home to their district. That's why people like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump continue to lead several public opinion polls. Everyone has iPhones and iPads, but I'd wager the vast majority of the voting bloc do a great disservice to themselves by not vetting out their chosen candidates, despite access to near limitless information they could sift through. Tyranny by choice is not tyranny.

You know what I find amusing? For a country that enjoys a lot of freedom, American citizens complain a lot of about tyranny and oppression, as if they've lived through it. The TSA is an agency that has been mismanaged due to a lack of oversight. That is not a definition of tyranny. That's just the american public being suckered into voting for people who aren't interested in representing them. All of the problems that plague the political system in the U.S. -- all of it -- can be resolved if the masses can agree not to be swayed by thirty-second ads. Whatever form of oppression Americans think they are in, believe you me, is a self-inflicted one, as the power to vote and bring about political change still rests with the voters. I have lived in a totalitarian country. One of their ways of getting their kicks is killing your relative and billing you for the bullet and time. Perhaps I'll join the melodrama when I start seeing similar occurrences happen in the U.S.