Hey, let's pick a minority group of people living with a misfortune through no fault of their own... what's something that will make it easy to play the sympathy card? Y'know, like it'll make everyone *else* look like the bad guys for opposing it? Wait... I got it... let's exploit the disabled!

Verizon has long been the poster child of corporate fuck-all-y'all evil, but I believe Satan just reserved a special place them in hell, probably as his right hand, to one day ascend to the fiery throne and command the world's evil, trident in hand.

The private prison industry, over-staffed militarized police departments and politicians/regulators/bureaucrats on the take would heartily disagree.

Outlawing protests, imprisoning journalists, instituting censorship...

In mere months, Australia has gone from as place that I avoided because every wild animal exists to make your life miserable or worse, to a place I'd avoid because the government is doing the same.

Ahhh, *now* it all makes sense.

That is the issue on which this case hinges: there is no absolute guarantee against self-incrimination in the UK. You *can* be compelled to reveal your secret encryption keys that exist only in your mind.

Seems the founders of computing as we know it have lost their way.

Looking like an idiot is not the way to do it

And thank the almighty FSM for it!

I can't even imagine getting up at 7:00am every day, spending an hour putting myself together, running some shit through my hair, putting on a stuffy and uncomfortable suit and tie... only to walk in to some godawful nothing of a job where I'm expected to spend all day not only performing menial, make-work, soul-crushing bullshit work that could be done by robots, but navigate the minefield of social nuance. After all that, I'd be expected to piss away my evening on some social gathering to talk about some meaningless shit? Fuck all that noise.

I figured out a while ago that "normal" people manage to fulfill themselves in soul-sucking non-jobs by feeding their social needs throughout the day. I have little-to-no social needs and such work would leave me completely empty to the point of contemplating self-harm.

I love that I can roll out of bed at 9:00am, make my coffee and jump straight into work in my pyjamas, do my shit-shave-shower routine an hour later, grab another cup 'o joe and code till noon, have lunch, have my workout, then take my laptop out to the deck if it's a nice day and hack away until supper ... all while not interacting with a single person, save for email and the occasional phone call. Maybe I'll the energy for some light social interaction in the evening, but that's all I need for a week.

Thank the almighty FSM for programming!

The hell it is.

There are more free, well-documented, cut-n-paste libraries than ever. Building a fancy website can literally be done using a number of Google searches for "$language library for doing $x" and a bit of know-how to put it all together.

Oh, you want it done properly without gaping security holes, bad usability, cheesy graphics and cookie-cutter design? Guess what, that requires skill and experience, just like accomplishing many things properly, quit your bitching.

And different people have wildly varying abilities by nature. To say that this is a crisis is officially today's biggest crock of shit.

Can you imagine how this would sound coming from any other company?

No-IP isn't shady any more than are steak knife manufacturers.

Instead, browsers should conform to standards consistently so that web devs can be reasonably certain their code will run properly across the board without the financially and practically unrealistic expectation of testing it on every imaginable browser for every imaginable device.

"Oh, battery's dead? OK, here's a power outlet."

How fucking hard is that?

Like I said, baby steps. I didn't say it wasn't a long way off.

General anesthetic is actually a lot more crude than most people think. It's essentially a short-term induced coma, that's why they need to jam a breathing tube down your throat and it feels like you just gave Satan a blowjob when they bring you out.

This sounds like the first baby steps towards developing a drug-free method of dropping patients out of consciousness, maybe even with little to no side effects.