Just in case you're reading slashdot and have some connection to IT, you should be able to know that Linux cannot become or me a "monoculture", because there are so many "flavours" of it. Do you remember the famous Microsoft poster against that diversity in Linux which would be dangerous? https://www.armoredpenguin.com... Today, that poster would have to show a dozen or so more penguins: from a small one (for Raspi, e.g.) up to the mammuth or whale version running on the world's largest supercomputers.

then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. And then you win. Couldn't be happier today ;-)

That's the problem.

comes first in their line of arguments against unions, right? So, it is obviously in the interest of their customers to lower prizes as much as possible. Why, then, do they not lower the profits for their shareholders (who come after the customers, according to their list) and their managers so much that the prizes could be significantly lower? Because, you know, unions are not as old but almost as old and old-fashioned as the old capitalism itself and its greed for margins and profits. Amazon, you are such a modern company: If you don't want unions to achieve a the best for your customers, you should get rid of this old-fashioned concept of profits, too, right? If Bezos and his morons believe people in the lowest service ranke could live of X USD/year, why don't they lower their own incomes and profits not to the same level? "We all are a big family here working for the best interest and expierince of our customers", I hear them proclaim: So, just do it!

If you think that intelligence is based in material objects (no spirits and ghosts etc.) and if you think that evolution is a natural and unstoppable process "built into" any "materialistic", physical universe, than the conclusion can only be: Humans are just one step on the ladder of biological evolution, and very probably the last biological one. The next step will be "artificial" intelligence, evolving itself faster than we ever could, designing its material basis according to its needs (e.g., being a submarine, a space ship, a robot for different worlds out there to survive under conditions no human could ever survive etc.). It would not have to start to learn from the beginning, it would not have to carry its "biossphere" around with itself, it would be able to use any kind of energy source, not just "eatable" stuff etc. Why should modern humans be anything different than any earlier species in the evolution like Homo erectus or Neanderthals?

"Supposedly it is the only economic system compatible with mans nature;" So, one should wonder how our ancestors survived from about 300'000 ago unto c. 1500 CE i.e. for 98.5 % of its existence on earth, right?

IIRC Win95 came on 36 (?) 1.44 MB floppy disks and you had to switch them one by one and by hand during the installation. Nice game for a funny afternoon

"it shows that the ISPs will act in their economic interests, even at the expense of public safety," County Counsel James Williams said. compare that to (just cut one zero from the percent numbers): "Capital is said by a Quarterly Reviewer to fly turbulence and strife, and to be timid, which is very true; but this is very incompletely stating the question. Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 per cent. will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 per cent. certain will produce eagerness; 50 per cent., positive audacity; 100 per cent. will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 per cent., and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged. If turbulence and strife will bring a profit, it will freely encourage both. Smuggling and the slave-trade have amply proved all that is here stated." T. J. Dunning, cited by Karl Marx

I guess it was even Condi's advice to exclude encrypted files so her friends from the NSA can get easier access to your files. ;-) No, I'm no conspirational theorist: I transgressed that state and am now a transpirational theorist!

Those reports about the US battle ship blinded "electronically" by one (older) Russian military plane in the Black Sea and the suspicions, a similar technique was used by Russians and/or Chinese to make US battle ships crash into commercial ships in South-East Asia had been caused by electronic weapons and/or infiltration of the US systems seem to be true? Someone with business connections to Russians developing such systems told me 6 months ago that the Russians had such a system and/or remote access to the software of US weapon systems and even to some databases with personal data of all US military staff The Russians only would only be "kind" enough not to demonstrate that power in full size against the US because they think the US army is still somewhat useful for the unstable stability of the world: Imagine what would happen if the Russians would demonstrate that the US army is the emperor without clothes and that they can bring down any US weapon system easily from the distance? A world-wide "anarchy" would breakt out that would be even worse than everything the US caused since 1945.

Usually, ISIS or other islamistic terrorists leave their passports – so the Russians must somehow have learned from them to leave a digital trace or fingerprint that allows the clever German authorities (paid by my taxes, I'm sooo proud of them, really!) to identify the attackers the same authorities that did not realize that they've been hacked for about a year (for the second time, by the way). Is anybody else feeling treated like a stupid shitbag by stupid shitbags here?

Oh it's not from "The Onion" sad!

Someone who made his billions with digital technique (and greedy exploitation, of course) does not trust any digital technique to work! This is a clear sign that we cannot trust digital data for "eternity", not for 10,000 years, not even for 100 years. Ask Vint Cerf!

Obviously, the machines themselves don't want to be part of the criminal NATO strategy of the "civilized West" against the rest of the world anymore.

Hey Vlad (if I may) you surely don't wanted Hillary to be elected: She called you "the new Hitler", simply "forgetting", that your brother was killed during Hitler's siege of Leningrad. But I'm sure, you didn't forget that, right? She would have "nuked" you already anyway, and Iran, too. So, be careful with your wishes ;-) Nasdarovye!