I agree and disagree.

I agree because I have no patience for converting pdf shitillion times before I can read it on kindle (yea you can do it 'simply' they say.....) and any such nonsense - I expect things to work w/o need for fiddling with them. Even at work where I often use open source I am appalled by the quality and incompatibility and need to fiddle with each of the tools I use but that is work and they pay me so I do not care - privately I do as you do. For the disagreement: I do not trust the googles and apples to keep my data securely. I have to trust somebody but I do not trust big ones because they save all the titles of pr0n I ever watched on their sites to sell it to somebody who is going to use it against me one day. The private information has always been this way and it is going to stay this way. The exhibitionists, perverts and other brain damaged indihviduals including you may trust them I do not and this is a serious problem if you are forced (yes we are that far) to use certain services. On top of it the majority of the services you get are not exactly what I want even if I pay for them which is a serious nuisance. Now you may say I am (almost) alone but there are plenty of people like me even if majority does not even know better.

You dismiss the right of sizable minority to do as they please because you are just satisfied and to add insult to injury you claim that they have no rights because there are only few of them a claim that you did not even bother to prove. How nice of you. So looking at it from broader perspective - even if I agree with you some my disagreement is on the principle - so I'd say fuck you Sir!

I suppose your statistic can be right especially if you count car bombs as traffic accidents.

this is correct. At my engineering course we had a course on reliability of complex systems - this is pretty fascinating stuff by the way - using the same batch increases the risk in case of systematic failure i.e. something is built in incorrectly and has to fail in certain conditions which if they occur may cause all drives of the same batch to fail the same way thus landing you directly a massive problem instead of smaller one. This can be mitigated too - such systemic failures have also probabilities etc but the simples is to mix the devices from different batches if possible. The question about paranoia is difficult to answer - if your data is so precious you will have also backups as a secondary line of defense (first being your raid) but to have high availability you may want to remove/decrease the need to use backups too so mixing batches even if increases work load may be a good solution not a result of a paranoia. In electrical engineering and I am pretty sure any other type but IT (which somehow avoid being engineering and is science or craft somehow???) reliability calculations are made routinely and used to decrease not only cost of failure but also production. I still remember what they taught us on first hour of the course - how to produce torpedoes cheaply while ensuring that they still reach the target - you have to multiply systems but there is no need for any of them to be durable the way say turbine in an airplane engine must be - they must just work for the amount of time they are used an not much longer - to calculate this quite some knowledge empirical as well es theoretical is needed, and how you go about things that you build once only and you cannot use probes of a batch to determine the probability. Fascinating.

they should be hanged by the balls these criminals of yours. I hope jerking off is also a criminal act and police in the land of the free does something to combat this evil activity.

it is getting usually worse when you criminalize prostitution. To help those involved you can do a lots of other things than destroying lives of otherwise good citizens. I suppose comparing your victimized prostitutes with the lady in question is not really that good either....

Paid sex as long as it is consensual, does not harm anybody and should not interest anybody except parties taken part in it (and possibly IRS). How come you see no difference between that and murder is beyond me. It is frankly quite disturbing.

of course you are right. There is not one single bible even today as the gathering of books that bible is looks differently depending on for which version of Christianity the book was prepared. Even if you take the book catholics use now it is still a compendium that at some point has been accepted as a 'proper' version so that unified book can be promoted and used. This process of unification involved removal of some texts. There have also been different translations. All this means that the book albeit for some holy is just some sort of base for those that consider it a book of truths. IN reality all big religions have this problem that their canon has been changed over time. Some ignore this, some use this fact as a reason to dismiss the whole thing as a valid source of anything and for some it is just a good hint pointing them in the some direction. I guess Einstein was in the 3rd group also when he did not follow the direction as considered the whole book of christianity as a set of rather primitive stories. I guess one thing that we usually miss on this is that majority of humans living so far have been primitive in this respect independently what religion or not they committed themselves to.

What does being good actually mean? How does helping others become universally good? I am asking because you used word logic which to me means you have some nice definitions and better view on which basis you build your world view of among others god's existence or lack thereof. This is not even touching the subject of people being good sometimes but generally being assholes - how does that fit?

I find discussion on /. (and other internet fora) on any subject related to religion, (none) existence of god and such rather silly if sometimes entertaining. They inevitable end up in rants. I guess that is so because the subjects require quite some power in the brain that majority of participants in such discussions do not have. They also require quite some foundations - starting on definitions of good/ness, what religion is, sense of having organized religions or religious organisations and relationship between belief or believes, the origins of virtues in context of complex structures our societies became and existence or not of god(s). All this are interesting subjects that you can spend a lot of time analyzing and discussing by which I mean exchange of ideas allowing determination of truth not annihilation of the opponent which fun as it may be is not furthering our understanding of reality.

And if you shout symbianis dying and then kill it then it will die. Nokias's problems were not symbian but the way they worked or organized their teams. Autark teams where everybody can do anything (but does not) made efficiencies of scale imposible. Top it with CEO telling everybody our produts have no future' and you wonder why their credit lines are still open. I think it is difficult to destroy company fast but management of Nokia is doing quite nicely. In corporation I work for we took working frameworks Nokia used so successfully and guess what - our products start to fail. I guess we did not copy their good practices well enuff thou because we do not fail as fast - maybe we need more gurus?

the problem you describe is real but does not apply to all environments and application types. The web application i.e. single target (or cloudy crowd of clones) has different characteristics still if you release few times a day then your web page is not good enuff.

Somewhere above somebody claimed FB is doing it every day and that is a sign it is possible and good - well I dare say FB web page is one of the worst web.2.0 pages I have misfortune to 'enjoy'. Maybe their back-end is good maybe not I do not care because front end is crap - maybe they do not release fast enuff. Then again this is a single target i.e. they do not have to deliver to many customers, different configurations, ensure no interruptions during roll-out test roll-out and roll-back and all other things that you cannot always automate. This is of course not to say that it is impossible and not feasible. It is but not always or even usually not. That is my vies. ymmv and agile gurus know better anyway (but have not even tried to understand what the hell the word means).

Well it all depends. There are systems complex enuff and important enuff that need to have stability tests that run longer and are more complex than automated run attached to automated builds can do. This means they are decoupled from nightly builds. This also means that you cannot have full test for each nightly build and this affects of course release pace. OTOH if you work on maintenance branch you do not usually do whole stability tests which is justified by the size of the patch/set of patches you are releasing so your pace may be faster here. This said there are for sure systems where this much tedious testing is not needed and which are less complicated (one standard release no market releases, no market configuration branches etc) so you release one application with a basic set of configs - this is easy then and I guess you can just make your master branch available to customers to pick it this making the release cycle very short (say week or two). I do not think any serous software can be released more often unless you release internally to your back-end server. But even there I cannot imagine few releases a day as productive and sensible.

BTW: I work in the industry for quite a while and I have not seen one organisation that actually worked water fall. They did some silly planning sessions for projects predicting how many lines of code you may be writting 2 years ahead but actual design and test was done in iterative way which is as efficient as agile methodologies (ooops sorry I should have said frameworks) if not more efficient (in terms of combined quality, usability, project scope and time needed).

they do not have to - in majority of jurisdictions where such networks operate there are laws in place that force operators to:

• be able know where a mobile device is
• to intercept all standard mobile communications i.e. calls and texting

I believe in US this is called Lawful Interception.

if you sheets have round corners then there will be at least one company that would like to have some royalties paid on that idea.... so better leave all the spherical round etc and go for sharp edges - they will sue your arse for all the cuts and bruises but chances are their lawyers are not as well paid as this one bullying company ones are....

If it is really so that nobody picks the work after other people leave then I would seriously considering leaving too because they are just burning money.

As replaceability goes - everybody is replaceable that is true. Of course there are differences. If difference between you leaving and another one coming and moving along is small i.e. small cost then you were working in call center and being fired is not the way to think of it - you just got a new opportunity. Higher you go in salary and position more difficult it is to replace you but then hey - sometime they downsize sometimes you do not fit no more. Sometimes it costs lot if you live but company just deals with it.

So the actual lesson from this may be that marketing people are a waste of bandwidth and the articles about them are that too. TFA confirms this quite nicely.