hobobaggins

It's always good to not slack when compiling.

Best Buy is actually one of the worst and slowest websites from any large retailer. I cannot believe how bad it is. It's like they set out to make it pretty and accidentally stepped in molasses.

Yep. Gaikai.

Canonical. at least they used to, although not a fan of the recent (last ten years) Canonical.

Saber rattling and nuclear threats always benefits someone.. who?

Phoronix is blogspam?!

The thing that prevents a TV mfg from bricking your device is that they'd be instantly (and successfully) sued. In fact, there have already been many such class actions, ie with printer inks.

The downside is that it's sometimes easier and cheaper to just pay off the class and keep doing it.

They didn't just outperform "normal" congress critters.. they also outperformed nearly every hedge fund on the planet. But they (meaning, of course, just one person and their spouse) are obviously geniuses.

you mean... like Linux? or gcc?

> Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities.

... followed by lots more words that don't support this premise.

You can always move somewhere else. It's a big country with different state laws for every type of preference.

.. and why it's even a problem.

If that's what you want, then just hold. The beauty of capitalism is that nobody's forcing you to buy or sell.

Be a Warren Buffet and buy for keeps, and obviously you can do very well for yourself if you choose wisely.

Too bad Userify is too expensive for a lot of VPS-style projects (free for less than five instances, but we blow through that pretty fast most of the time)