Netscape and AOL were not 80s tech. Those are clearly 90s tech. If you were on the net in the 80s, it was a BBS and you used CompuServe or your university account's access.

Tesla does a good deal of spot welding on 5000 and 6000 Aluminum for their S and X. Do you think Ford is evaluating Tesla's joining methods for future Aluminum projects? (ie F-150 is 100% riveted, replacing some rivets to spot welds will shave weight and production costs) Hell, maybe they just want to see the friction stir weld on the battery tray.

In principle, I am fine with the basic idea of systemd. I don't like the specific execution (binary logs? WTF?) and political maneuvering to put this into Debian mainstream and forces the users to use systemd. If systemd only replaced init, I would be more accepting but it forces you to also install all of its accompanying daemons. Replacing one part of the system? fine, sure. Replacing everything between the user space and the kernel? fuck no. Especially not from the project manager that so <sarcasm weight=strong>successfully</sarcasm weight=strong> managed PulseAudio.

I am an Ubuntu and Debian user. I am not excited by systemd. If I had a vote, it would be no. Not that I don't want systemd developed, but I would like it as a drop in replacement of init V, not a replacement of init and the forced replacement of the kitchen sink, stove, oven, counter top, refrigerator, floor, cookware, silverware, garage, patio, wall hangings, and spouse.

If I were to make a car analogy, I am replacing the old traditional key ignition with newer key-less FOB system. However, to make the upgrade happen, I have to replace the battery, the wiring, the computer, the dash, the steering column, the power steering system, electric windows and door lock controls, the air bags, seat belts, tires, fuel filter, and exhaust. And from that day forth, I will have to fill the fuel tank with certified organic peanut oil. Why? Well, cause it will make my car start faster. Isn't it amazing? The A/C and radio will start in parallel with the engine. I should be thankful.

I've moved on from the common 1337 substitution in my passwords and started substituting my QWERTY keyboard with a Dvorak keyboard. When it's time to change passwords again, I'll get a Cyrillic keyboard.

It is a mix between lazy, multitasking, and getting diverted. Usually I'll get on the PC for a half an hour to an hour to look up something or just read some news. Before I am finished, I get called away to take care of some non-computer things. (It seems to happen a lot when you have a wife and small kids.) And then it will be a few days before I get back to the computer; I will need to reference something again, so I will open new tabs or windows because I didn't finish what I was looking at before. After a few months, you've managed to accumulate hundreds of tabs. Bookmarks might be a good solution, but I'd have to be motivated to bookmark a few hundred tabs. And then I'd have to manage the bookmarks.

My point was a single page with some crappy javascript can bog down any PC, regardless of its age. It's also a well used infection vector. I'd hate to have one of my favorite sites so entrenched in javascript that I can no longer read it without disabling noscript. I will find it aggravating if /. laments the woes of javascript and preaches of its dangers and yet require me to enable it.

Its an Athlon from 2006, running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with 5 firefox windows--each with ~20 tabs, a dozen chrome windows also with ~20 tabs each, usually something open in wine, a few terminal windows, and who knows what the hell else. I don't tend to close windows, and thus javascript, java, and firefox tend to give me issues. Chrome tends to fail a little more gracefully.

I'd love it if Slashdot felt functional in lynx. I would love to read it through ssh at work on my windows laptop.

Since there's some constructive comments here, I'd like to add my own:

NO JAVASCRIPT!!!

Sorry for shouting, but I have old PCs at home that choke on javascript. I'd rather not resort to viewing /. through noscript if I can avoid it because I understand ad revenues are import to funding /.

At least have a light version for alternative browser like lynx as many users don't have access to graphical browsers where they work.

It is about the size of a Honda Civic muffler after the car has been converted into a rice rocket.

The missing option I would have voted for:

I'll let a computer drive the car as soon as I can upload my consciousness to it.

I personally like to take my latin american and McAffee news with a pinch of salt, a shot of tequila, and a slice of lime.

Some key features were degraded when upgrading from girlfriend to the wife license. However, all the features listed in the OP remained.

I have said device. I call her wife.
My previous device was called mother. She did all the wife could do, except she had difficulties communicating with the home computer and detecting odors.

I'm worried that if you tell Republicans there's oil in asteroids, they'd try to have them delivered to Texas.

You must not supplement your coffee with additives. My experimentation has uncovered sugar, milk, and some forms of alcohol may be added without absolutely ruining the drink. Future experiments with protein additives are planned. I'm not sure why, but my intuition tells me that powered bacon should be next.