Most software that returns results from/sends queries to an outside source is opt-in. You're asked on installation if you want to send anonymous usage statistics to improve later versions of <software_package> You're asked if you want to send a crash report to <software_vendor>.

Even Microsoft is asking you what search providers you want to use when you first run IE. How difficult would it be during the ubuntu installation to ask "Do you want to include results from Amazon in dash searches?" and only install the package if the box is ticket? Like Debian does with popcon?

Why Opt-in Marketing Matters. Point 1.b in the comparison in this short article seems to apply perfectly to what RMS is saying.

Canada's got one too, in Nova Scotia. BastionHost is based in an old nuke bunker John Diefenbaker's administration made. Link(Site 100% Flash.)

Yet at the same time, how far do we take it? Kill off gridiron football because it causes brain trauma? Where does that leave other contact sports, like Lacrosse, Hockey, and rugby?

All three of those cause concussions with an alarming frequency as well.

Really, Why weren't these accounts configured to expire on the first login, like most default passwords? If they were, why didn't they have some sort of policy in place in the system to stop people from using incrementing/decrementing numbers?

I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Other OS wasn't the only thing removed on the PS3 with firmware upgrades.

PS3 Users report latest Firmware disables some USB adapters

Map your genome, and license it as CC BY-NC-ND. Kids are a combination of genes, and therefore a derivative work.

If Unix ownership is going to be transferred to anyone, it should be transferred to someone who actually has some interest in Unix. IBM(AIX), HP(HP-UX), Oracle(Solaris)...

At least at one time, Novell had some hand in the game, as a co-developer of UnixWare.

Linux, as has been mentioned many, many times, is not Unix. There is no reason any of those organizations would or should be interested in ownership of something that doesn't benefit them in the slightest. It just doesn't make any sense.

You, my good sir, are right. From the DNSSEC FAQ:

You're absolutely right. They follow you during broad daylight.

I was thinking the same thing. Couple the ZFS-enabled system with an eSATA array, and you'd be golden for quite some time. Chenbro has some decent solutions for the array side of things. Only other requirement would be a PCI-e card.

Once you start working with a high volume of disks, things tend to not stay quiet for long, so hidden away is probably the best solution. I keep my hardware in a spare bedroom, with foam bricks underneath the louder(read: 1RU with wasp fans) and It hasn't bothered me or my downstairs neighbours.

The first one that really pops into my mind is Sun(or I suppose now Oracle). These guys definitely make more than 1 million in revenue, or profit. The Verilog for the UltraSPARC T1 and T2(The CoolThread family) was released under the GPL. They don't talk much about it, and apparently nobody else really does either, but they pull in big money, and the general consensus is that the GPL is Open Source.

That's odd. I was one of the Resident Technicians at a Staples in Nova Scotia until the 16th. At least here in Canada, the OEM systems are configured to run the factory restore image on first boot. The user then sets up the Windows update settings, language, etc. May be different where all of our systems are multilingual. As far as looking on the shelf goes, that's just a bad idea. Any yahoo walking past the system can flick over to the windows update settings and change them, or do any other number of things. One of the reasons we do a factory restore on the sale of a demo here. That, and to reset those 30 day trials.

Not making games for the PC to kill piracy isn't an approach to the issue. Case in point.

Pirate Bay Xbox360 Titles

If you look at the bottom, you'll notice that the page count goes all the way to 64(possibly further, but they cut you off at page 50 and tell you to search.)
Piracy isn't reserved to the PC. Its just we're the only ones that take any flak for it.