I can't imagine anything more "geeky" or "stuff that matters" than talking about the effects of shutting down nuclear power around the world. Building nuclear power plants is the ultimate in nerd culture, where nuclear engineering used to be the hot college major that everybody with half a brain would try to enroll into and where you would find all of the math nerds who wanted to make money.

As for the consequences of nuclear power, it really doesn't matter what your political leanings might be, this is pretty interesting stuff and something that really does have a long-term impact upon human society. You might be at odds about the approach that should be taken and if shutting down all of these nuclear power plants is a good or bad thing to do, but it really matters to very ordinary people who receive the electrical power from these plants. It certainly has a major impact upon your day to day activities and your monthly utility bills, not to mention just about every other aspect of your daily life in the 21st Century.

That is also sort of the point of the article, that a bunch of people who should know better are missing an important story that is not currently a part of the national or international forum of ideas. It really does matter.

The fact that you would even state such abject stupidity means you don't understand the simple, salient point that has long ago been made. You would do well to avail yourself of the reams of tired, boring, and utterly meaningless conversations in the past where I eventually explained the simple point so that a moron like you can stop wasting all our time in the here and now.

If you want "maturity" as defined by some passive aggressive type of niceness that comes when you don't ever say what you are actually thinking, you are in the wrong place. We're here to get something done and you can take your sissy, pandering, liberal business-speak ethos and cram it into some corner that doesn't involve the rest of us who are trying to get something valuable done.

Ha ha! That's rich!

I mean, that's rich, and so's Linus, but you aren't. Rich, that is. Working from home in your bathrobe and getting rich doing it providing something of such valuable that it's used practically everywhere you turn is hardly the hallmark of a loser.

Now, if what he primarily produced was sarcastic Starcraft II commentary videos, that'd be a different story...

Oh fuck. The horrors. Oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Their website is almost a parody of corporate websites. Apparently they've won something called the "Corporate Compliance of the Year Award" for 2012. What the hell is that? The words are English, but they don't parse to anything meaningful to me.

How about if you take the pole out of your ass?

That was pretty limp. Get a new writer.

Anything is utter crap if you're a bad programmer.

Stop being bad. Then C is fine.

An article that decries all the valuable, important stuff that could have been brought up, but then doesn't bother to bring them up and/or discuss them in any detail?

This article was a waste of my time. I wish Slashdot had a thumbs up/down on articles.

Here in reality, yes, people get away with crimes. The point of a criminal trial is to look at the evidence that exists and determine if that evidence shows, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant committed the crime. If there isn't adequate evidence to prove this, the the defendant is acquitted. This is the desired outcome, even if some guilty persons may go free. The alternative (imprisoned innocent people) is a much much worse outcome.

Until we have sci-fi time viewers or reliable psychics or something, this is the best we can do. "Getting away with crime" isn't exactly a new topic of discussion, either.

Probably pretty easy. And really they only need to make a good-faith effort to keep EU data within the EU. But as you say, they really would have to be separate entities for this to work. There's just no way otherwise to avoid nations applying pressure to get their way.

That's dependent upon who is doing the tricking, of course.

And then you would still be in a position of reinventing things which people do all the time which are provided by Javascript.

C is cool, C is great, C is wonderful, C does not serve all purposes and it probably never will. But never say never.

The truth, though, is that now that the scope of the impact has been publicized, corporations who already knew that data they shared with U.S. corporations was being Hoovered into the government's databases are now having to deal with the backlash from their customers.

Exactamente.

When it comes down to it, as long as the system provides the means to demand courses be reversed if they are going wrong in a timely manner, even an insane population should still be workable. The trick is to educate them on the issues, not just ask really vague poll questions.