"It's not my fault that I grew up privileged, went to a nice school, had a computer at a young age, learned Hello World (not as fast as the other boys, but eventually you did learn it), and now stand on the shoulders of giants making great money in IT, which causes me to act like a petty, self-righteous, vindictive little piece of shit" FTFY

1. Guarantee privacy. This is something that Google et. al have been trying to wean the public away from-- wanting privacy. So many people simply don't think to ask for it any more. You can't do it just for those who ask for that to work. You have to do it for everyone.

2. Provide hard anonymity. One of the things that made email super useful and that we don't have any more is the ability to be reasonably anonymous. Law Enforcement or 'Public Firewall' officials world-wide have clamped down on the ability to use or reach the anonymous remailers we *used* to have. It's not just LEOs who will fight this tooth and claw, but also the 'think of the children!' types.

3. Enforce non-commercial communication at the user's request. Spam filters have gotten pretty good. Most businesses that want to contact you have to jump through hoops to get your okay. However, once you establish that one 'business' relationship, you're fair game. Buy one toilet seat on Amazon, suddenly you're deluged with 'Today's hot toilet seat deals!' and the like. You've got to dig through their website to find the 'unsubscribe me!' button, and a lot of the time it doesn't do what it says. The user needs to be able to turn commercial email on and off with a switch, and every 'rejected' email needs to get bounced back to sender at the mail exchange level.

One new webmail client or novel server configuration is unlikely to solve these problems. I do think that all of them are solvable, though, even though they'll require a great deal of re-architecting email.

Unfortunately, unless you can somehow invent a magic bullet that will keep world governments, law enforcement, and marketing types from ever being able to touch such a service, it won't stay usable long.

This is one of those... 'we've got something we really didn't expect. We've gotten it a few times now, and don't really know what to make of it. It suggests the absurd. Can anybody see any flaws in our methodology?' moments where everyone involved is very nervous about having to redo ALL their math to try to incorporate something NEW.

And yeah, the standard model is pretty fucky. A physicist at UT Austin once explained it to me as 'well, basically we just multiplied out all the particles we had into a matrix. It describes the phenomenon but offers very few insights into it, '.

Are Bats and Supes gonna kill folks in this cut? Do we get to see what few amazons survived get sexually assaulted by aliens?

The as bad as the JL movie really was, it was far and away better than 'Superman vs. Batman'.

The DCCU is just better off without Snyder.

I read this as 'both we and RMS need to leave abusive language, and toxic environments behind."

It could have used an implicit subject since the OP actually does call RMS out on his behavior.

and

"this is more important than the coddling of a whiny child who has never reached the emotional maturity to treat people decently."

I read this as a jab at RMS or any other individual who won't or can't grow up to the point they work in society-- basically anyone who feels its more important to complain about SJWs and political correctness and those who beat a drum and chant, rather than actually trying to address the real, underlying problems.

Both strongly connected to Epstein, Minsky through testimony and Ito through cash trails. I'm thinking that MIT may be about to have its very own Penn State-style culture of denial exposed.

The Necromonger in me warns you to stay away. But the Furyan in me hopes you won't listen.

Just the demo image on the homepage makes me break out in cold-sweat flashbacks to endless conference calls. Sure, there's Steve Carrel in the bottom right, but watching 'The Office' gives me a little too much work-stress-related grief to really enjoy it.

I think that folks aren't going to really be happy with this unless it contains a transistor-perfect emulator or a very-close facsimilie thereof of the C64, complete with c64 BASIC.

I'm not terribly familiar with the state of c64 emulation. I'm in the apparent minority of people who grew up in that era that went on to become techies that did NOT own a c64 or Vic20. That said, I know that newer machines do have some reference-quality emulators out there. I can't imagine that the c64 would be terribly difficult to handle if it's not already, especially if you owned or licensed the rights to the original hardware design.

The real trick, in my book, will be to allow the 'bare metal' coding that the c64 did on a modern architecture. USB controllers like to offer an enumeration and access to their terminals rather than bit-level access to the serial pins.

"So explain to me again how you broke your arm..." the doctor said.

"I was trying to get away from the creeper."

"As in a monster."

"Yeah. It hisses and then explodes."

"And you felt you had to run into moving traffic to get away from it."

"I had an entire stack of diamonds on me! I couldn't just let him blow me up."

"Uh-huh."

The police officer chimed in, "You know, some of the people on that bus that hit you were more seriously injured than this. You're damn lucky you *only* have a broken arm."

The doctor shook his head. "Last year this same time, it was a kid chasing a Gyrados pokemon into the side of a street-sweeper. He's still in halo gear. But this year, they've got virtual treasure to hide and monsters intent on taking it from them."

HP's 'Enterprise' blog.

Yeah, it's a fucking advertisement. Way to pay the bills, Slashvertisements!

'Store your data in the cloud so we can sell more server-room class hard drive arrays! Don't store that shit at home. You know you what happens at home? Mexicans. Mexicans break into your house and steal the platters right out of your cheap TB hdds. DO NOT STORE YOUR DATA AT HOME. WE'RE BEGGING YOU!'

Companies in the U.S. are vastly less honorable and loyal to their employees than they've been in a long time, and they're getting worse every year.

Loyalty and respect are a two-way streets. If you treat employees like mindless tools, they're going to treat the company like a tool-- in this case, 'getting fair compensation' by hook or crook. They know that a board-room full of executives are still going to be super-wealthy at the end of the day, even if they five-finger every piece of kit they can lay their hands on. That's not an environment that breeds loyalty or honesty.

>Another down side to this is that because I am in a music bubble of my own making and have probably been missing a bunch of new music that I would actually like.

I think you may be grossly overestimating the quality of current North American-produced music. There are only a very few tracks worth listening to.

Europop was getting *just* listenable again, but has suffered a setback in 'old steady' acts incorporating autotune. K- and J-Pop have become so bland over the last decade that it's like trying to enjoy the sound of pipes draining.

The big problems making NA pop music unlistenable are

a) a divorce between instrumental melody and vocals. The vocalists aren't just making the music 'their own', but are taking it home, microwaving it, and serving it as appetizers without ever listening to the rest of the song.

b) increasing repetitiveness within songs. Consider Fleetwood Mac, which is typically really repetitive. They typically have songs that consist of a few, repeated verses and choruses. However, they have solid instrumentals backing their vocalists up. Now consider a slightly more recent act like Imagine Dragons, which frequently plays tracks consisting of an imaginative idea, very few lyrics to go along with it, and what amounts to synthesizer, drum and bass to back it. There are frequent repetitions *within* the verse and chorus, with very little attempt at structure, rhythm, or aesthetics.

>but not enough pro media apps and games without WINE.

I couldn't really comment about the media apps. It seems like we've got a fairly nice selection of multimedia producers and photography workers - Darktable, etc... but I've not been doing a lot of media work lately.

However, the Linux gaming environment has changed dramatically over the last 3-5 years. Aside from the games that run well under WINE (WoWarcraft is a good example) There is a now a huge selection of Linux-native games on Steam and gog.com.

Frequently the 4A studios give Linux a miss. However, Steam has dramatically cut that number. The 'SteamOS + Linux' category has grown just as dramatically.

GoG focuses on bringing older and niche games to players that would otherwise miss them. There is a very wide selection of Linux games available on GoG.

Many, if not most, indie game devs want their games to be available to as wide an audience as possible, so frequently develop with Linux and/or Android in mind. For example, I'm currently playing 'Terraria'. Small dev team. 29th most popular game ever-- Linux native install with some help from Mono.

Now, in addition all to that, let's go back to WINE. Steam has, in the last few weeks, begun testing 'SteamPlay', which uses a custom build of WINE called 'Proton' that runs underneath steam to run some previously Windows-only titles with fantastic quality. In the last week or so, I've been able to run some games I loved, but abandoned along with Windows like 'MagicMaker' and 'PixelJunk Eden'. Steam is giving back to WINE, which just released a new version.

It's worth noting that the Java version of Minecraft has always worked on Linux and Fortnite apparently plays very well under Wine.

Right now, Linux gaming is in a period of Renaissance. If you've despaired of gaming on Linux, it might be time to give it another look.

As soon as we figure out how to torrent Higgs Bosons, Gravity will be the same kind of free that music is.