Moving parts cost more to manufacture and test, and they fail faster, but y'all are missing the point. Your mistake was letting your phone become a text input device. Even with a mechanical keyboard, it's still an incredibly inferior experience to thumb out your words like a hunt-and-peck typist as your phone flails about trying to auto-correct your spelling. Type on your computer. Talk on your phone.

Perhaps "hostile" was unfair, but I appreciate that he said made it sound shocking. I am shocked when I learn people store secret docs unencrypted on Dropbox. Then they are then shocked when I tell them Dropbox is insecure. There should be a lot less shock all around.

"If you do algorithms, things of that nature, you can run on these systems."

Sold!

The problem with this question is that if honest, most people would answer, "Eat delicious food, play awesome games, and hang out with my friends." The best career advice out there seems decidedly geared towards the people who have the very good fortune of loving to do the things that actually pay the bills. That isn't common, despite what the motivational storybooks say, and if she had such a predilection, I suspect Dear Old Dad wouldn't be coming to slashdot for career advice.

You'd have a great point if there were any reason we could trust the NSA. They could be lying outright, or they could be doing it the DC way, which is telling the truth in a misleading way, by overlooking the fact that he approached them in person about it instead of in written form, which I certainly would have, as I'd be nervous as shit about writing an email like that.

He gave up his girlfriend and cushy job, he exposed clear evidence of violation of international treaties and the US Constitution by the world's dominant superpower, and then he endured being stuck in the Moscow Airport (there isn't enough Prozac in the world to make this OK) and is now stuck in Russia, which I assure you, is a severe downgrade from Hawaii. There's nothing cowardly about all that.

I guess I've already got an ox, don't need another. Points for quoting Thoreau in slashdot. :)

By servicing, I don't mean it was broken. I mean charging, paying a monthly premium for bandwidth, enduring dropped calls and poor reception, checking it like some kind of animal expecting a treat or an addict hoping to find a leftover hit in his pocket, getting phantom vibrations on my leg when it wasn't ringing, missing vibrations when it was, and then finally, noticing that I was getting angry when people called me out of the blue without scheduling an appointment. That wasn't my first relationship to phones. Before the internet, when the phone rang, I'd run to answer it and be excited to hear who it might be. It was communication from the outside world! They changed. I fell out of love.

Don't want it for the same reason I got rid of my cell phone. I was servicing it more than it was serving me, and it's redundant to my portable computer anyway.

How was the thief to know they called off the chase? For all he knew, he just ditched them and needed to keep going fast to keep them off his tail.

Hey, folks. Label links NSFW, please. I'm in a nice cafe, and those links weren't cool to open up on a 17" monitor.

I use vi for everything, currently c#, shader code, and my work log. If this fucking Internet thing weren't all about these God damned pictures and videos and programs it wants me download to my stupid fucking bloated browser, and I could instead glean the knowledge of the internet in nicely formatted text and download and view all the rest of that bloat at my leisure, I'd be a lot happier with that. I'd like vi to be my input window for this post. I find this whole affair uncomfortably removed from the command line.

You can sue the hell out of the government, too. This loophole unfortunately makes it so that you can't easily collect the evidence to prove intent or willful negligence, which is where big judgements come from.