Wow. What crawled up your ass and had the batteries die?

There's news, and then there's being given an advertisement under the guise of news. I just wondered if anyone else thought it seemed more ad than news article. There's a reason that 'slashvertisement' was coined.

Now have yourself a very pleasant enema :)

I'm using Windows 10, but I'll use whatever is in front of me if it does the job. I gave my father my Mac mini when it was no longer fast enough for me, and he's required virtually no tech support in the years since, other than doing a fresh install of Mavericks for him.

What I'd like is to have OSX on my parts-built PC without doing a Hackintosh. Apple should know by now that opening up the OS to other hardware would mean making even more off the App Store.

My only caveat for friends who look at buying Mac is to never, ever buy first generation hardware. Wait six months. There's always something wrong with the first generation of the latest "hot and sexy" out of Apple. But they figure it out.

That summary is worded distinctly like a press release. Slashvertisement?

There is already enough wealth to eliminate poverty and inequality. It's just distributed and horded in such a way as that doesn't occur.
No CEO is worth double digit millions of dollars while laying off thousands of employees at the same time to "cut operating costs".

Uh, they also have their own Linux distro.

The business opportunities wouldn't be in retail, but in manufacturing.
They would have a trained workforce available for pennies on the dollar.

If I put ads on a page, then I'd have to get around a thousand pairs of eyeballs on it to make a dollar with a lot of the CPM rates out there.

Yet Wired thinks that if you use adblock to protect your computer the amount of pages you read in a week on their site will be comparable. Or they just think that you should be subjected to a subscriber tax...

Shouldn't it be:

"Some software engineers just want to watch the world Halt and Catch Fire..."?

With Facebook backing them I expected it to be cheaper as well. I figured Facebook would have found a way to leverage the connection for mining data about the users to profit from, making the Rift a loss leader.

Flight Sim: DCS World. I don't think there's anything better out there for combat planes and helis.
Space: Elite Dangerous and Eve Valkyrie.

I thought it was kind of neat that for decades many toolboxes had a space perfectly sized for The Machinery Handbook.
I found a couple of digital copies for my curiosity :)

If you're a white, well-off, adult male in a population that tends towards those people being in power (whether in politics or business) then you're not going to be hurt by a lack of oversight in the day to day operations of society.

If you're one of the groups sidelined by whatever the majority believes (whether that's racial supremacy, religious nuttery, etc) then having state protections can be good.

Making sure that the political machine has safeguards in place to prevent any group that ends up sidelined or in conflict doesn't become a target for abuse by the state also has to be a consideration.

It's a delicate balance.

I'd rather have a degree of protection for my neighbors who have a history of being stepped on, than an illusory freedom that lets robber barons run amok over us as well.

If we didn't have such a problem with greed / material wealth gathering, a lot of the issues that trickle out from that would likely end up with a society that has a lot fewer rules.

As Snowden pointed out in his interview the data they collect isn't useful for stopping terrorists. It just lets them create a historical profile of every person so that when they decide you are an enemy they can pick through your life and get the dirt on you.

It's a database of dirty deeds and associations. A machine made to discredit one's opponents.

Linux is a kernel, not an OS.

A single bitcoin is likely to be a very common kind of transaction.
Remember the Ashleigh Madison blackmailers who were asking for very specific amounts, which allowed multiple transactions to multiple bitcoin addresses to be grouped together by those investigating?
It would be much harder to associate all those wallets if they were for an amount that's commonly used.