To what benefit?

If you have to give your info to their marketing machine, it's not free.

Heaters usually last for decades.

Crypto mining hardware is usually obsolete within a year.

See the problem?

The same reason you don't type everything -- signing is (much) faster, easier, requires less education/skill, much more accessible to people with disabilities...

Having said that, it's interesting to see how *everybody*, including the hearing/speaking, are typing more and more to communicate -- even in person. As hearing society changes, so does deaf society.

Let's say that Slashdot has a million readers.

I'd guess that more than 10 of them read French.

Mais non?

"Simple. When you're in Germany, write it it German. If you're in China, write it in Chinese."

And when you're in India, with its many official languages? Or Belgium, with its three? Or the United States of America, which has no official language?

Or when helping the hundreds of millions of illiterates to not poison themselves?

"...choosing to live on a remote island."

"Choosing"? Really?

That's just ignorant.

"He does do a lot of experiments. A lot of them I don't fully understand, but I'm certain he's not making bombs," said the suspect's father, Allen Mason"

Oh? How are you so certain? You just said you don't know what he's doing. Ergo, you don't know what he's doing.

I know, I know... Slashdotters will all side with the "experimenter", because geek. But it sounds like the police are acting based on evidence, while the defense is acting based on blind faith. In such cases, I side with evidence.

The same place Germany got its money in the late '30s -- by arresting people and taking their stuff. They'll start with the homosexuals -- the identical legal structure is already in place.

Or maybe it's a sex thing.

Here's a link about Allwinner's GPL violations.

So says the man who recommended nuclear weapons in Vietnam.

Let's try those links again... Check out this project led by Caltech, which (largely) obviates the need for government-paid equipment: "Your Phone as Quake Detector"

1. Article in Communications of the ACM
2. Video I made about it

Check out this project led by Caltech, which (largely) obviates the need for government-paid equipment:

"Your Phone as Quake Detector"
<ol><li><URL:https://vimeo.com/98781340> (I made this video!)</li>
<li><URL:cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/7/176219></li></ol>

...one of the more frightening disasters of our time.

http://goo.gl/umm3MW

No bees, no food.