Those single vehicle collisions are probably drunk people.

The war on drugs causes -
1. Money to be funnelled to cartels
2. Devloping countries to be in permanent states of civil war
3. Users' lives to be wrecked for a crime that harms only them
4. Users to die from impurites, unknown substances and unknown strengths
5. Billions of dollars that could go toward actual harm reduction to be spent on militarising the police
6. People with no relation to the drug war to get shot by those police
7. A myriad of other negative effects

'keep your head down, don't take the piss' is a great way to perpetuate injustice and murder. Just because it's not happning in your back yard doesn't mean much.

I'm not saying legalise everything with no restrictions, but there's got to be a better way than the way we're doing it now.

Maybe you're right, maybe the people that wanted a netbook already have one. I agree that they've just sorta stagnated since then. I partially blame windows for som of the market failure, they weren't really powerful enough for that. ASUS in particular failed hard at Linux too, the Xandros mine came with was horribly broken.

I've replaced nearly all the replaceable parts in the 901 too - more RAM (1->2GB), changed the webcam (ran it as a hackintosh for a short while, the original webcam in the linux model was not supported), larger SSD (16->64G), different network card, new keyboard... It's definitely past its prime though, compared to anything even slightly modern it really crawls. Can't even quite do HD video decoding, and the battery life is nothing special now. Maybe its replacement will be an ASUS transformer.

Well that sort of plays into what I meant. Instead of differentiating themselves by being damn small and damn cheap, they got bigger and more expensive until the point that low-end laptops became more appealing.

I loved the 9 inch models, which all but disappeared.

Could it be that a race to the bottom, cutting corners to reduce costs, ISN'T what people want? What happened with Netbooks again?

Except isn't this article saying that they're too expensve and not selling?

And what happened to netbooks is that they got more expensive and the specs stayed the same for multiple years. The manufacturers started adding bells and whistles and pushed the price up into the region of low end (but much more capable) laptops. Maybe they would have been a bigger success if they had focussed on budget. Also willing to concede that tablets ate their market.

(Typed on my eee901... )

Keep reading... Junior only starts bawling after a whole list of things are brought out and he realises the game is up.

Sociopath or not this kid needs to a full on psych eval, not just 'counselling'

DNT was a way to tell people not to track you. It's not only the ads that do that, but js plugins, analytics, even social networking buttons and graphics.

Not acceptable.

IMHO now this has failex we need a new set of ABP rules that block facebook and google (etc) resources from loading when not on their domains.

Indeed. I dont even mind if they detect that and block me. I'm not prepared to accept the implied contract to make my computer fetch ads over my connection. If they then want to drop their end it's fine.

I usually let text-ads through because they're just easy to ignore.

Err no. RTFA again. Trolled Dude talks to the parents and tells them what's going on, then arranges a meeting with Troll Mama, Troll Papa and Troll. After a polite chat he breaks out the file full of stuff and starts going through it.

THEN Troll boy cries.

Yes it has got quad in most markets, the US is the exception. The benchmarks I've seen didn't put the iPhone ahead either.

I don't think I ever understood the point in the first place.

A polite request to please not track you, made to an industry that exists solely to make money out of tracking people?

Yeah, that was going to work...

No.

Those are exactly the problems PA is supposed to fix. It does not.

They are problems it has caused on my systems over the last 2ish years. As I said, I don't necessarily blame PA, it may well be other software that is buggy and causes the issues BUT all problems go away as soon as I go back to ALSA. Sorry if that offends you, it's just the way it is for me.

I know it's no longer fashionable to bitch about pulseaudio, but...

Any time anything goes wrong wit linux audio, it seems to be because pulse has been brought in by some package dependency, and it's screwed something up. Flash can't play sound at the same time as another program? Pulse. Sound dies after a while for no reason? Pulse.

Now, I'm sure that in many cases the problem is other programs and their sound support being buggy or just rong, but in pretty much all cases I've encountered, ditching pulse and dropping back to ALSA gives me a more functional system.

They try to fix things using the best techniques we have, based on the best evidence we have. If that ain't good enough for you then please, please come up with something better. The whole world will thank you.

Alt med ain't it though. It's a mixture of ignorance and charltanry.

It's a tech site.

It's not a tech story.

This is happening more and more.

I don't come here for generic news, there are literally hundreds of places that do it better. I come here for tech news, I will not any longer. Enjoy your third rate news site.

We all know that self-described UI designers are never wrong when it comes to making things intuitive and easy to use.

*cough* *gnome* *cough*