The experience has been over for quite some time. We used to have lots of reasons to go to the movies. Now we have absurdly crisp and huge screens with top notch audio right at home. Plus, no need to deal with rude or noisy people, I can pause whenever I want and bring my own scotch.

I'll wait a few weeks to see a movie if I'm getting all that in return.

Sorry, but no. ESXi runs a custom proprietary kernel called "vmkernel" and has been this way since 1.0. You may be confused by the fact that up to v4.1 there was a Linux virtual machine running on top of it dubbed the "service console". Since v5.0 it has been removed. But even before, the Linux OS you mention is not the one that runs on the metal.

Nowadays ESXi has no Linux running whatsoever, but there is a busybox shell that may make it look like so.

Please note that I am not taking sides on whether the GPL has been infringed. Just saying that the Linux kernel is positively not there.

Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all

From the original in Portuguese:

"O sigilo das comunicações dos usuários da internet não pode ser violado. Provedores de acesso à internet serão obrigados a guardar os registros das horas de acesso e do fim da conexão dos usuários pelo prazo de seis meses, mas isso deve ser feito em ambiente controlado."

which translates roughly as:

"The user's communication privacy cannot be violated. ISPs will be obliged to keep track of access and connection hours for six months, but this must be done in a controlled environment".

So yeah, I think it is pretty good. No URLs, no content, just connection times. Six months so your IP can be tied to a person in case the police needs to come after you, but no content and no invasion. Sounds fair.

My IQ goes up to eleven.

It is basically the same deal over and over. We need to reduce complexity in programming, so we build yet another abstraction layer. We hide the complexity from the programmer and deal with it in the infrastructure, thus creating more bugs and worse performance. The bugs get (very) slowly fixed and the performance issues are compensated by evolving hardware, which takes a few years. Such is life. If it were not for some initiatives like this one, SAP would be written in machine code.

That is not to say that this is the solution to all problems, neither that this is even the best alternative for anything, but it's just the way that software evolves, and as such, time will tell.

And an index. What the hell, give 'em all five fingers.

ROFL, I just spit my coffee all over my desk.

And here I thought that no one remembered that anymore.

Kudos to you, sir. Five-digit Slashdot UID megabonus included.

And not space travel, so unless you're already where you want to be, there's no use in being able to be when you want to be.

Especially if you're going as far back as to be in a time where long distance travel would be hard, time-consuming, or right down impossible.

If I'm nitpicking, please blame The Big Bang Theory, season 1, episode 14.

Not if the communication is not encrypted and there is any traffic at the time.