jmcdiesel

"Racism is a cancer" is a valid use of the term, as well...

They simply have found issue with dense objects (like books, stacks of paper) hinder the xray imaging they use in the scanners... thats all. Nothing special here...

Im sure over some bad-guy communication network it was mentioned to attempt to get contraband on a plane by masking its location in luggage under some seriously thick books or something...

Spectacular light show, a good burn... yeah. Thats about it though... It wouldn't be worth a terrorists time... it would just be a light show and a smoke show, could start a fire, which would be bad, but honestly fires get suppressed pretty quick on modern airliners as long as they aren't started in the cargo area and ember for a while... in the end, any attack carried out with a LiPo/LiIon would just be an inconvenience...

I donate plasma twice a week, i have for years now. 880mL of plasma every donation... Whereas blood you have to wait 8 weeks between...

Not saying blood is less important, just important to understand there are options... all of it is important, and i think everyone should be donating something in their body like blood/plasma that is renewable and costs your body next to nothing to give...

The idea that you're entitled to everyone's content without even passively supporting them, the author, as they ask, is just a bit too much for me.

And an article starts with complaining that its not free (money) and not open source - it makes it very clear the level of bias right off the bat.

Linus is NOT as easy to install software into, its a different process for different distros... if what you want isnt in the repo of your choice you have to add repos (because politics matter in software apparently)... lets not even talk GPU driver issues...

I work on linux and mac, and I play on windows. Im familiar with all 3 environments (including various distros for linux). I'm not ignorant of any of the processes. And while linus is easier for me for the most part (I find OSX to be the simplest "plug and play" OS out there, honestly) - for the average user, its just not...

If you think that is ok, you're insane.

What the users are free to do, however, is use an operating system/stack that they CAN evaluate the source of.

If linux or any other open source alternative was a better actual product, it would find its way to the top of the market. In fact, it already has, on the server... by far. But linux wasn't made to be easy to use, to be quick and easy to install, to install other software onto, etc... and that has kept it back, and it kept it back long enough for microsoft to establish a de-facto standard on the home desktop market...

The closed or open source status of a product has no bearing over its superiority at all. Again, in the world of geeks, it may, but in the world at large, it doesn't, and really, it shouldn't.

More apt would be "The main doors are manual, but the electric garage doors will not function" ... which is actually a common case in buildings...

At least the car world is more sane than the aviation world. Here's a fun little side story.

Piper aircraft company - they make small general aviation planes - have been out of business a few times from being sued into the ground over absurd stuff. Here's the best one...

Drunk guy shows up to a glider airfield. Hes been banned from said field already, but hes drunk so who cares, right? SO he jumps in a plane, a piper, and starts it up. Owner of the field parks a truck on the runway to prevent a drunk person from taking off... drunk guy proceeds to attempt to take off with predictable results... smashes into the truck.

Then he sues piper and wins enough to bankrupt the company. Because the plane, which was made in the 40s, did not have a shoulder harness, just a lap belt. Because there are laws that say if someone is hurt in something you make, you are liable. This applies to cars too, but the absurdity of it seems to prevent it from taking hold there... Thats why aside from Cessna, there are very few plane manufacturers on the GA level anymore who deliver fully built planes. Most now, sell "kits" which you can assemble yourself (with their help) on-site at their facility. This way, you build 51% of your aircraft, and its not their liability.

This also leads to some crazy stuff. Like, pilots who have done a 51% build and a few years later becoming medically disqualified to fly, DESTROY their plane rather than selling due to the liability since THEY made it...

Gotta love the world we live in sometimes...

Tesla has been proven safer in crashes, and less likely to be in a crash in the first place. The driver crashed into a stationary object, sue the driver, not the car company.

And he sounds like a gross used car salesman.

And he epitomizes the startup CEO, delusions of grandeur and all...

What has changed, is a provider decided not to participate in giving away their services for free, which they should be free to do. FUD

Now we're feeling entitled to have someone deliver wireless content for free, or we throw a fit?