Then the husband could go defend his own home and not put his family at risk waiting long precious minutes for police.

Until there's an electric car that has the same aura of awesomeness in visual appeal and possibly powerful roar of sport/super cars like my Corvette, some of us will never be tempted to downgrade.

This. At least all the soon-to-be-open positions and Amazon might just give those not-so-whiny a chance to work there instead.

I'm currently working on a Linux distro that is based around an 80s-style BASIC (but with modern additions like templates and OOP.) The plan is to eventually boot right into the fullscreen programming environment. Has been a pet project for awhile, so it's not far from completion. Hopefully people like you (and me) will appreciate that full immersion style of coding, even if partly for nostalgia :)

It doesn't matter what it tastes like or how much it costs, many of us (me obviously included) have no interest in ever buying one. Whether it makes sense or not, the idea of eating it appeals to me exactly the same as trying fried starfish or somesuch. Besides, what will become of the existing cattle? Just go extinct?

Isn't it nice when they change policies like that? The Switch is essentially worthless to me now.

It only takes one coder to program AI to do whatever he sees fit (given enough expertise.) Seems likely there are a few out there who would get a kick out of being the guy that created Skynet.

Self driving cars that can handle the roads in my area may just be impossible.

If code wasn't challenging, I wouldn't enjoy programming.

A slashdot nerd who is AGAINST video games? I don't think you belong here, turn in your card! :)

I feel your pain. I just had to upgrade from my aging Droid 4 (with a pretty nice hardware keyboard.) I ended up going with a bluetooth keyboard/case for a Note 5. Not quite the same, but apparently the only viable option for hardware keyboard junkies who also like modern phones.

Agreed. If her job depends on good reviews and no bad reviews, her days were numbered the day she started work anyway.

I was surprisingly happy with how well and easily it works. Streaming from my PC over LAN, as well as support for the well-known services like amazon, as well as many obscure ones . Not expensive. I used my Raspberry Pi with XBMC prior to getting it, but missing out on Netflix etc. is a big deal once you drop cable TV.
My Pi is still happy as an emulator platform though :)

I have never used the FB app on ANY of my phones, yet yesterday a person I met via craigslist (and had absolutely NO other connections to) appeared on my FB suggestions. In fact, that particular FB account has NO friends on it at all (just as an experiment.) The person never used my wifi or anything, and GPS is always turned off on my own phone. Creepy.