Just felt like being a contrarian today?

Why does a religion have to use make believe? My God is a not a man in the sky, nor a being in an after life. My God is a collection of things that my physical and mental faculties are unable to properly process or appreciate. There is nothing supernatural or metaphysical about my God. My God is mystical the same way that human evolution is mystical. We may know the how, but we certainly don't know the why. And as science tells me that I am an emotional being long before my logical processes are able to fire, it makes sense that my God is a more fundamental force in my behavior than science.

tldr; Einstein:"science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

No opinion lives in a void. Knowing that someone uses a particular device or not, or even if they are preferential to a company or not, gives important information that should not have to be gleaned from an opinion. And no, you don't have to root for a team, but what's the fun in watching? Seeing some good fundamentals? Ok, we are nerds, that is a great reason to watch!

As far as I'm concerned, as an American, the entire point of reading the article is to give me a new perspective on my leaders. I have no context for how this affects Vietnam or it's people. I can make brash assumptions about Vietnam's Orwellian society or whatever, but I have no skin in that game. I do not keep track of the pros and cons of world governments, especially not one as unimportant to my life as Vietnam.

Where this does affect me is allowing my eyes to open to similar abuses around me. Where before I was not outraged at an Identity Protection Agency keeping tabs on Congress-critter Brightbottom's online persona, now I will be giving Brightbottom's people a sharp talking. This can leak into my psyche and change how I view an online persona. Perhaps I've had no opinion about this topic. I am annoyed by propaganda and begin investigating the topic. I read up on the Identity Protection Agency that Brightbottom employs and learn that such antics are generally unimportant, so I can ignore this as just another futile sign of weakened power.

I think you overstate your case. When I click the Windows Start button on XP it does respond. What I want of course must wait for the data to be available and rendered, but at least the Start button appears in a different state than prior to clicking. It gives me reason to believe the computer has acknowledged my action and will respond.

Often my interactions on my Android phone take time to give me any response. That is a failure and any app should work diligently to fix it as I am happy to use a different app. My phone is not a person, I do deserve to lord over it.

Given the GP's vitriol, I'm guessing he's one of those self-taught coders who has to deal with someone telling him his code is poor. My experience shows that self-taught coders do write a lot more code, but tend to write it without understanding how it's less maintainable. Us college learners try to write less code that does more, but often end up in the design phase longer than necessary.

You've missed the point. None of those things allow someone to know exactly where someone is located in real time. If a school administrator fancies one of the students, this system enables knowing exactly where a student is and if any other students are nearby. And then what happens when students start building readers. This goes downhill quickly.

A visibile id card is a sign of a place I'd never want to work. I've been at places that tried that. Thankfully unlike this poor girl I wasn't alone in my opposition.

Adding crazy to the argument does not prevent the general argument from being correct. Also, tracking kids in a classroom that is designated is one thing. Knowing that little Suzy is in the locker room by herself and late for class is completely different.

How about predatory school administrators with access to the tracking system? Why would we place so much trust in them?

You must be British or something, but you have it wrong. School is mandatory to 16 years of age as a minimum while some states including Texas are at 18. The one part that does fit your argument is that because it's a magnet school it's not the standard public school and she always has the option to attend there instead. However, the badges are likely to turn up there as well once the pilot program ends.

This was always said about Clarence Thomas. I hadn't heard we're more disgusted by Alito. Although that isn't much surprise.

No, we don't need those data centers today. We don't need near instant access to caturday videos. The amount of reactionary nonsense here is depressing. If the article placed blame on anyone, it's users demanding unnecessary access to meaningless data. They did an excellent job of explaining how data centers get to be energy hogs and frankly this article could be the catalyst that convinces CIOs to move to virtualized data centers rather than the one server one application wastefulness that many places still employ today. Better tech is around the corner and this is how we shift thinking.

Grasping for straw...

Reporting is bad these days? Was it better at some previous point? And at which paragraph does the journalist clue the reader into his superior tech knowledge?