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Before I yell "Get off my lawn", I'd like to remind what seems to be the main demographic here on HN (you know, the 20 something "me me me" short pants crowd) that people, businesses, start-ups, families, friends, entrepreneurs, new ideas, etc - all got along (and flourished) just fine before all this social media crap.

So stop using the social media drivel, there's many better ways of staying in touch - none of which are facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.

Now get off my lawn.

Shoot 22 horses - the last three left alive will be the fastest.

Obviously you've never driven a Porsche.

Except perhaps for the very bottom of Porsche's product lines, the Tesla isn't even close.

Tesla is for geeks and treehuggers - but anyone into cars takes a quick look and then laughs - it's definitely not a gearheads ride in any way shape or form.

"How to Write the Shit Out of Something".

Maybe write it so that people can understand what the fuck you're trying to say?

Does it help swearing in your writing - apparently so?

I have no clue what "Shit" and "Writing" have to do with each other.

Ironic that a article that in theory (I'm guessing) is about writing clearly and concisely, has a title that says NOTHING about what the article is about.

"Maybe this kind of expensive, high volume devices shows the limits of crowdfunding?"

Maybe having a billionaire with his hand out holding a tin cup shows that people aren't such big suckers as Shuttleworth anticipated?

Shuttleworth has a 2012 net worth of $500 Million USD plus - yet he wants the common Ubuntu fanboy to fund his latest project?

Um....no.

And the flip side, why coders can't do the simplest of sysadmin tasks.

I've meet coders who couldn't spell "DHCP" let alone tell you what it does or how it works.

They're two completely different job descriptions - why should one need to do the other?

Normally I'd be upset that another patent troll was winning in court - but come on, this is about a slimy patent troll that will be suing even more slimy advertising scum. I have to say I'm on the fence on this one.

What happened to innovation? At least in the States, it's been sued out of existence.

This is just another sad reminder of how broke the legal system is in the States. A simple fix, for this and many other types of legal bullying, make the protesting party pay ALL legal fees and a stiff penalty if they lose in court. Protects the clear cut owners who get infringed, yet weeds out bs cases like this one. Since it makes sense, is fair, and would simplify things - you know it will NEVER happen.

What I came away with from reading that drivel is - Kids today are stupid, and they're that way because they use a iPad. Did I miss anything?

Once you have an account with Linode, spinning up another node is quick and painless, and with way more options.

Plus they're up front with their billing - I need to send in a question and wait for a email response on how much it will cost to keep it longer then 30 minutes?

I'll pass. His concept is to SAVE TIME, yet with all the missing details, it will end up costing more time (and probably money) then it's worth.

This has as much chance of working as demanding the Whitehouse makes shit smell like roses.

"Take" - I'm more worried some BioTech will patent my own genome.

"Too many people think drinking and boating go together," he said. "We don't have a problem if people drink. Just have a designated operator."

Seems pretty much common sense to me - why is that so hard to comply with?

Oh that's right - she's famous so the rules don't apply.

Maybe a little more science for science's sake, and less science that starts with "how many patients and how much money will it make us" and we'd have a much better chance at beating cancer.

We're allowing gene sequence patents FFS.

Which is why I left academic science in the 90's and became an engineer - my brain is still stimulated but my blood pressure is way (WAY) lower.

Paying bills is stupid. Cleaning house is boring. Going to work EVERY day is stupid. Following rules is stupid. Doing what you're told is stupid. etc etc etc.

Bwahahaha - your kid is screwed. The world is full of arbitrary and down right stupid rules (assuming he ever gets a job, he'll love the tax codes that apply to him, but not to rich people or corporations).

You need to straighten out his young punk ass - and do it now.

Before you say "but what about his mad art/music skillz", I'm afraid I'd need an outside expert to qualify those before I believe they exist. I put my 8 year old daughter's artwork on my office wall and tell her it's beautiful - lucky (for her and me) shes a whiz at science and will get a real job later in life.

No one succeeds in life that can't even manage to get a measly high school degree from a "see spot run" public school.

You are the parent - NOT the twelve year old - what part of that escapes you?

Maybe it's time for private school, where the whole "leave no moron behind" concept doesn't exist. Obviously you and the kids present school system have already failed. Maybe it's not too late for the kid.

"Because right now, it's still behind the pack."

Um.. Active Directory run's pretty much every Enterprise and Corporation worldwide. From that, I'd say Microsoft "has got it right".

"Except for one little problem: the economics of cord-cutting simply don’t make sense, for neither networks nor viewers."

I think he doth protest to much.

Cord cutting makes PERFECT SENSE for the viewer.

We haven't had Cable/Sat in our house for over 5 years. Don't miss it (or it's outrageous cost) a bit.

Clunky at best, especially via Smartphone.

No clue why I would use this over Evernote - which has Android, iPhone, Web Browser, and Windows Apps - all pointing to the same dataset in the cloud.

This app keeps forcing me to allow Dropbox.

Might be cool after a few revisions - right now seems like Alpha stage work.

Seriously, they need to work on a decent elevator pitch. The video is annoying and too long, and their webpage goes on and on and on without clearly stating why they are better then all the rest. Should I try them - who knows? Will it make my work flow better/faster/easier - who knows? Ironically they dis dropbox, but everyone knows what dropbox is and does.

"Way better than a VM"

Why?

Like most government "partner" projects, this one will most likely end with the big corp sucking as much free money from the feds (i.e. us the taxpayers) as they can, then after the initial domestic project is built out, they'll dismantle everything in the States and ship it off to the part of the world that has the cheapest labor pool. The rich get richer, and the taxpayers get shafted once again.

Obviously the guy doesn't have access to any 7 year olds.

Besides being way (way way way way way) too long, it's way too complex.

Lottery, transaction, millions, security camera, online, indestructible, odds, all words that would need their own explanation in 7 year old terms.

This is just more bitcoin fluff trying to ride the buzz.

When a small fraction of one percent controls well over 2/3 of the world's assets - explain how the "current power brokers/structure" is ending.

This article is nothing but pie in the sky fantasy.

Upvotes/Downvotes are the bane of all discussion threads. What is this, Junior High? I can read and decide for myself if the comment is brilliant, valid, or just another jackass on the web. Just post the comments in the order they were made, and let the reader decide what to do with them. There's not a single website that uses upvotes/downvotes that hasn't turned into a huge circle jerk session of mutual back patting and popularity contests.

12 years since the article was written and what's changed?

Seems like business as usual for the music industry.

All those "We're going to change the world" artists have just stood in line those 12 years waiting for their turn to get screwed by the recording industry.

Doesn't feel a damn bit different to me.

So you got pawned by some warped social experiment - yeah, that sounds about right for the "best" that working at an apple store has to offer.

I feel your pain.

Once when I took a short break someone ran into my shop and painted all the beads of my abacus florescent pink.

What were they thinking?

Hard to understand the down voting.

Are people actually that stupid that they believe the story is true?