That's why we have the power to vote. Vote those idiots out of office and replace them with folks who actually have a brain. My state prohibits this as well unless the city specifically votes for it and that vote passes. That vote failed the first time around where I live but it passed the second time. You won't find someone where I live who doesn't love their socialist internet service.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my municipal run internet. Gigabit speeds both directions, no data caps, excellent customer service, etc and all for less than I would pay for internet that's 1/20th the speed from Comcast and whatnot. However, how do you think the municipal ISPs hook up to the internet? Hint, it's not the government or a public service. It's just a bigger ISP.

That's just a waste of recourses needlessly complicates things. The fact that the poster is even asking this means he isn't exactly tech savvy and thus doesn't need overcomplicated solutions that will only make his life harder.

The poster only cares about one OS being secure. There's no reason to run his main OS as a VM as well.

You want a second OS? Use a VM. You want to keep your confidential files private? Encrypt them and only decrypt them when you feel like it's safe to do so. You don't like people trying to spy on you when you're connected to public wifi? Use a VPN. Everything you listed already has solutions readily available and that frankly are better options than booting into a completely different OS.

I evaluate my pay based on how I think I'm doing and how it compares against the rest of the industry. If I think I'm underpaid, I ask for a raise. It's that simple. Not only that, I come right out with it and say I deserve to be paid at least the same as "insert names of folks I think I'm at least as good as". I've done that my entire career and it's always worked out. These tactics only work if you can actually back up your claims and are a top performer. I can't help but think the folks who really "need" to know this information are folks who think they are much more talented than they actually are. Most people fall into this category. Nothing good would come of me knowing exactly how much my coworkers make.

The addition of CSS doesn't change anything. HTML and/or CSS are not programming languages.

All Microsoft is doing is making it easier for folks to have a limited Linux experience directly in Windows and I think it's great. I don't need Linux running on hardware nor do I want to due to its limited gaming support. Plus, I also don't want to dual boot because that's just annoying and a pain in the ass. I also don't want to run Linux in a VM (or Windows in a VM) because I want a more integrated experience. What MS is doing is perfect for folks like me who basically want to run Windows but want a Bash shell and all the typical command line programs that come with a *nix OS. It's like cygwin but much better. This will in no way kill Linux on hardware. There will also be a large community of folks who run Linux on servers and desktops. Besides, VirtualBox didn't kill Linux, why would what MS is doing be any different?

We did. The article is making the massive leap that discontinuing iTunes LPs will result in the discontinuation of iTunes itself, which is just moronic.

No, there still isn't any killer app. It's still mostly just a novelty. While I don't have a VR headset, I work with several folks that do and they all say the same thing. There are definitely some cool games out there but nothing that screams "every gamer must go out and buy one of these things!". In fact, none of them use their headsets much anymore.

Smartphones reached their peak several years ago. Today's phones are simply overpriced. There's just no need to ever buy a new smartphone for more than $400 or $500 dollars and there's certainly no reason to spend $1,000 on one. This is why I think the best new iPhone today is the SE, a $350 phone that's good enough for almost anyone who wants to use an iPhone. I'm sure things are similar on the Android side. I'll continue using my 4.5 year old iPhone 5S until it dies.

Back to front is not much better because it's still a serial process (i.e. one person loading their luggage and sitting at a time). The best way is when you can get multiple people loading their luggage in the overheads and sitting at once. That means loading people from throughout the plane at once. The best way to get that to happen is to not assign seats. Southwest's way is by far the best way to load an airplane.

Lots of airline do load back to front and it's not a very good method. Mythbusters even did an episode on boarding a plane. They determined the best way to board is how Southwest does it. No assigned seats and random boarding. Back to front is often times not much better than many other methods because because it makes boarding a serial process. In other words, only one person can put their luggage in the overhead space and sit at a time. Anytime you do this, it really slows down the boarding. With Southwest's method, for example, there's a much greater chance that several people can be doing that at once. If you must have assigned seating, then a good method is to load in zones where each zone has people spread throughout the plane, at least a couple rows apart. Then, you have a better chance of more than one person being able to load their luggage and sit at once.

Lots of airlines do load back-to-front and, contrary to common sense and popular belief, it is not the fastest way to board. Mythbusters did an episode on this. The fastest way is how Southwest does it. No assigned seats and random boarding.

They already do copy things. This happens all the time, especially in software. What's the small company being copied going to do about it? Good luck surviving a lawsuit against the large company doing the copying.

and can your company afford a long, drawn out lawsuit brought on from a much larger company? You think you can survive if Google/Apple/Microsoft/etc really decide to go after you? Patents are useless. If you're a small company, you can't afford to defend your patent against a much larger company. If you're a large company, you're big enough to not care because you know small companies can't afford to sue you.