Beats all the other grumps down below complaining about how this has nothing to do with hacking or technology.
I think the grumps should start thinking about where they'd want the cab driver to drive them during those two hours.
'Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel...the mask of cruelty'
What we can't all agree on are absolute standards for excessiveness, spuriousness, or ostentatiousness. So what Baldwin wrote is irrelevant unless you first show how the article is an example of excessive and spurious emotion.
Otherwise, you're simply saying "It's bad because it's bad. Q.E.D."
1. The quote itself is not intrinsically question-begging.