Stitch up your enemy? But seriously, programming is nothing like warfare. It is more like crafting a bespoke garment for a gorilla who believes himself to be a six legged, two headed flying dragon. And cleverer syntax and multiparadigm languages make it easier to confuse the gorilla.

Of course it is. Content owners can retract content. To hide and deny proof of wrongdoing, like a video of a copy shooting an innocent person. And more dangerously, putting content owners under pressure to retract such material. There goes freedom of 'speach'

Different opinions is just fine. But behaving as if opinions have the same value as facts is silly. As long as this is being done by a small minority, there is no real problem. Now there is a government making decisions based on alternative facts. This is outrageous.

Donald? That you?

Or you could add Donald T. to the Deaths in 2016 page. Tweet that it's true because people are talking about it a lot and even Wikipedia picked it up. Then watch the number of edits on both pages explode.

I'd propose Mac Book D'ongle.

I prefer a practical laptop over one that requires you to carry around a lot of adapters and dongles to get stuff done.

Same here. It requires a special kind of stupid to associate "new" with "good" unconditionally.

It's actually quite a common kind of stupid called 'inexperienced'. Never experiencing the fallout of bad decisions, makes the hipsters try any idea, good or bad.

After carefully analysis I found that 4 out 2 analysts misrepresent their facts correctly.

"The F-35 program has a proven track record of solving issues as they arise, and we're confident we'll continue to do so."

That's newspeak for "this program had an abnormal amount of bad problems."

Also good news that the total cost diminishes with time, 1 trillion to 0.4 trillion in two years time. By 2018 it will be for free.

I think you misread the logo as "HP" - it's "liji". And I'm convinced soon, they will actually make it look like "shit". Honesty in marketing, great idea.

Well after several thousands of years counting backwards, everybody knew it stood for "Backwards Counting" - it looked like a great idea in 5000 BC

That is actually the best argument to avoid such hardware. Rely on hardware that is open standards based, then you can reduce dependency on proprietary drivers

The reason they have to stay with XPe is because there probably aren't any drivers for Vista/Win7/Win8/Win8.1 So much for the benefit of reusing XP drivers

I'm not sure, but was the KDE 4.0 disaster in 2008 not started for the same ONE reason?

It made me switch to Gnome...

In this Belgian journal article (dutch), he mentions he is sorry his colleague Robert Brout can not share and celebrate with him. He died in 2011.

You fail to understand the problem, in a car YOU have the key, with UEFI, a great deal of organisations (MS, BIOS vendor, MB vendor, HW vendors like Dell/HP/Lenovo/...) have the key to your computer - we dislike the fact that as the rightfull owners of those computers, we seem to be the only ones NOT having a key.

If you want a car analogy, it is more like not having a "key" for the filler cap, wheel bolts, engine,... You can start, you can drive, but you can not replace parts, use other fuel supplier, do your own maintenance. There might even be restrictions on where you can drive to.