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I think this is Valve's answer to the chicken/egg problem of new platform/app availability.

Build it and they will come.

I would say that a lot of people are there already. A lot of developers are switching to linux as desktop os. Except the games everything in the toolchain works better there and windows tools work fine.

And the IT guys have long been the core of the PC gaming scene.

So ... it was not a chicken and egg problem but a demand that needed answering.

You'd think with everything Google already knows about most people they could just solve for x.

I'd like to know this too.

If the assumption is that they are marching to death prior to vaccine administration can it get much worse than that?

Considering melanoma is lethal, and the treatment (radiating away the entire immune system) bring very risky, this new treatment has the potential to both lower the risk and increase survival rates. I'll be very interested to see if the side-effects are of any concern, or if we're one step closer to a cure.

I guess it depends on the exact side effects, but if it causes more pain and suffering, then a more painful death is worse than a peaceful one, and on a per person basis - some may take the view they will die anyway and it's worth the risk as a last resort. But good question from the OP.

Reddit is a business, despite so many trying to convince themselves otherwise. Businesses don't like negative publicity. This is not new information.

After the Boston bonanza Reddit is going to squash anything that looks even remotely like it.

Canonical is probably primarily focused on recreating the Mir wheel and other Unity/Ubuntu Phone/etc. I doubt a whole hell of a lot of that goes upstream.

MAC filtering is trivially defeated by anyone who knows something about netsec.

MSCHAP is not good enough anymore either.

Maybe buy two hard disks, and back up one to the other.

It is only the linux kernel afterall.

*Linus' copy of the Linux kernel.

You don't need to boycott AT&T, although, that would be nice.

They, Google, Level 3, etc. all own so much of the network backbones...it's impossible not to route through an adversarial trunk.

The answer is now encryption. End-to-end, and everywhere. Email should be considered as dead as the landline. Secure-IM and chat...along with self-hosted data services[like Owncloud] are the future. Or at least they should be.

Information is power and your adversaries will not give it up, ever. The only way to take that power is to scramble the bits.

Two giants whose revenue streams revolve around knowing their clients' personal business inside and out are suing the government because they want to get paid for turning the information over.

Just like the money PRISM brought to enable the monitoring, now they want per-use or even better regular rents from the government to keep the taps open.

The nice little side benefit is the puppet theater for their customers who still labor under the delusion that they have some shred of privacy with either of these for-profit corporations.