advertising has nothing to do with commercialization ...

Agreed. Plus, I maintain dozens of servers with both consistent and independant user IDs. They belong to multiple companies and what with how I know BASH and git, I don't have any problems keeping it all straight either. Some people are incredibly underskilled at sysadmin life if they think 20 servers is hard to maintain.

LMAO you can't even argue the point that was made bu tyou cite latin. Jeez. The point was that the article isn't a review at all... Puppet may be the next best thing since sliced bread, but this review was supposed to be of the book and we all learned nothing about if its any good.

My thoughts exactly. Terrible review.

This has no correlation to politics. This is the software that you depend on every day to run your computer. Those of us who make an effort from a security standpoint to actually review source code realize what a real issue this is in the world. That medical device you'll depend on if you're in hospital, are you sure its not open to random worm attacks? Because some of them are. How would you review it? The answer 'make it open source' doesn't make it better if the article's points are relevant.

At no point did compiling the software himself fail in the article. I've only rarely had packages fail to build when I use distro source packages.

Actually no, its a real issue that people should understand when they go about their lives using software. Software may not be what you think it is on any given day, and the importance of that cannot be underestimated after the number of worms, infections, trojans and other malice computers have been exposed to over the years.

Thank God some of the developers still care. I'm half way through Naughty Dog's latest and I'm thoroughly enjoying it and glad I spent the money on it. I felt worse spending $5 on an RPG with sucky mobile graphics than $60 on a console game that's simply incredible. Production value matters to some people.

Sure, a very few games make good money on iOS. A lot of that I suspect is novelty. http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2012/11/07/guest-post-how-much-does-the-1-game-on-the-ios-store-earn-in-a-day-199k-i-think/ In the long run, I don't think its a problem for consoles at all. I think its a market issue.

My primary desktop has done 97GB in five days, so about 20GB/day and to be fair, I haven't done any coding or torrents on it this week ... which is why I only use an SSD as a boot drive.

I'm confused like you, if you're going to use SQL, use it properly. If you want a big flat file of data, just write it out as a pickled Python object or something.

Properly normalized data with properly maintained indexes is efficient and fast despite the people with crap drives trying to prove otherwise.

I see walking GPS and transit stop announcements ... other people see porn and voyeurism.

Sometimes I suspect the perspective reflects the individual more than the technology.

whooosh

Actually the stall isn't public, its private, it has a door -- you have an expectation of privacy.

If you're walking down the street you don't.

I see very few reasons to fix Glass and a number of reasons to fix the way we police ...