This can only result in this:
1. PC manufacturers, not asociated by Apple will go full Linux;
2. Apple's security department will face security breach hell;
3. People will return to Windows or switch to Linux.

Mac OS X security is a joke. Not by design, but by practical reality:
1. It's based on free software;
2. It's not patches as fast as that free software;
3. Since there is no security through obscurity, cracker will only need to subscribe to various free software mailing lists and acces CVS systems;
4. Wait for holes in FreeBSD to be explained on the mailing lists;
5. Look at the CVS fixes before and after the patched holes;
6. Laugh their asses of while Apple's security responds team waits arrogantly for weeks to months on end to supply updates, since Apple doesn't appear to need a lot fixes, because Mac OS X is supposedly the shit;
7. Bye bye Apple customers;
8. Ballmer: "Missed me?";
9. Linus: "Don't go to the Darkside, Luke."

Rooting your device is difficult, so doing it yourself makes it so fscking easy for a cracker to use it?

And about that WiFi...
Laptop: "Is my SSID HomeRouter1337 around?
MITM attack script: change SSID to HomeRouter1337
HomeRouter1337~: "Right here baby 3"
Laptop: "I wanna connect to 9gag so bad"
HomeRouter1337~: "Not so fast, lolcats. I'v got badass security 'n shit, so why don't you prove you are not an evil scriptkiddy first?"
Laptop: Don't worry man, the password is 1234luggage"
MITM attack script: change WPA2-PSK to 1234luggage
HomeRouter1337~: "Amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!"
Laptop: "Give me bankofamerica.com"
HomeRouter1337~: "Here's your login page"
Laptop: "Here's John Doe, 1234password"
MITM attack script: detecting bankofamerica domain with ngrep; send to cracker laptop and give the laptop a fake bankofamerica.com maintenence page "We're sorry, but login an hour from now while we ensure our security stays 1337"
Cracker: "Lawl I can't believe people are so fscking stupid ^__^"
FBI: "Hello hacker criminal"

X.org is now pretty much implemented as a State Tracker for Gallium3D ;) 2D networking X11 stuff in Xlib doesn't work if compoziting and using 3D, so that's why X11 is being axed and replaced by HTML5 in the widget toolkits Qt and GTK, and also by Wayland. Wayland sits on top of what X.org now sits on, and is purely a Window Manager.

Xlib is outdated, even for X.org. X.org now uses XCB (X.org C-Bindings).

If you want to poke at the frame buffer, try directly talking to the Kernel Mode Setting driver ;)

This isn't the 90's anymore...

GPU drivers, today, aren't targetting hardware directly. It's not like one fires up Carmageddon, which talks to Glide, which talks to graphics card anymore.

Here's to illustrate what's going on, going from hardware to application:
0. Hardware: processes data;
1. Firmware: tells binary to go this way or that way;
2. Kernel drivers (called the Direct Rendering Manager): Memory manager buffers to time-slice between all kinds of GPGPU apps (like OpenGL, OpenCL, MPEG*-decoding, etc.), scheduler to schedule the apps and KMS for 2D shiny correct-resolution stuff;
3. Bytecode, aka IR (Intermediate Representation);
4. LLVM-driver to convert library (OpenGL, OpenCL, etc.) stuff to Gallium3D IR;
5. Library with routines from API to LLVM driver;
6. Apps/frameworks/whatever.

The driver for the UVD is called a state tracker (lib[5] plus driver[4]). Everything below [3] is graphics card specific. The rest is vendor-agnostic.

Since there needs to be a State Tracker, in this case a VDPAU implementation in the Mesa "pipe-video"-branche (merged with master), it's not AMD specific at all. (works with nouveau (Gallium3D nVidia driver) It is, however, called a driver.

Then there is the scheduler, memory and firmware stuff. They need to adress Gallium3D IR, by sending it to the appropriate driver.

So you will not, whatsoever, be looking at a single driver, to learn how AMD does their DRM. (as in Digital Rights Management, not to be confused with the Direct Rendering Manager)

It's like a Java VM, so with a correct LLVM CPU backend driver, one can run heavily threaded GPU stuff directly on the CPU, which is dumb as hell for end usage.

Or someone with a Core i5 laptop who wants dedicated playback to safe battery life.

Let's see...

Ouch... App Armour instead of SELinux.

No least amount of privilages (see app armour as well), making you exposing functionality one can abuse. Very. Stupid.

I hope it's not Adobe Flash? Take Gnash for DRM'd YouTube. Use this for everything else:
  http://youtube.com/html5
  And please don't tell me you need Flash for anything important.
Widely spread closed source crap that is internet-only. (plugin, right?)

Entire... sites? Not individual scripts? Not per-session or whitelist?

You did not actualy forgot to disable the file:/// protocol in use by your webbrowser, did you?

Hahaha no. And don't tell me you automatically connect to WiFi, with any computing device you have under full control. (as in not a complete DRM castle, like an iPad. And please don't tell me that you root mobile stuff... do you?)

That's only one part of the problem. Now imagine making GHB available to all rapists. Yeah...

BTW the biggest problem with illicit drugs is that the people who take them regularly for a reason, aren't helped with therapy and 'real' medicine. Seriously...

So the point here is that the drug problem, anywhere, is lack of education. Also; the people who die from 'relatively safe' recreative use (say; 1-2mg MDMA per kilogram bodyweight per 3 months), die because of te lack of education. And they don't even have a problem because of drugs.

So basically drug problem is a problem with education, which can impair the economic and politics, which in turn leads to more people who want to escape from reality.

Yeah sure... why not legalize all medicine? To anyone? Oh wait... yeah I remember; because if not prescribed it can lead to this thing called death and sorts...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility

People with higher standards; me for example.

Gnome 2 is horrible.

And to quote the PDF:

Now hands up who thinks that Canon will dump the consumer camera market?

Imagine you're Kim and this is the situation you are in:
1. You're smart and you've attended university in Sweden;
2. You survived a hit;
3. Your dad was butfsck psychotic and manic;
4. Your army wants you dead, because they are underfed;
5. The US wants you dead, because of your father.
6. All your aids are cut off;
7. Your dad's nuke can't reach the USA;
8. South Korea^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Everybody wants you dead.

This is what I think, Kim is planning:
1. Act as he does (happening right now);
2. Position 28.500 US soldiers in the range of your one nuke, inside the country that wants you dead;
3. Nuke the bastards;
4. Thereby making the US nuke your army (that wants you dead), along with the butfsck retarted and brainwashed population that is theoretically shit out of luck anyway;
5. Flee off to India to get a facelift that you pay for with the money that you acquired through your military industry;
6. Laugh your ass off, because the US can't even figure if you're dead, because they just nuked you, okay?

The perfect con... Seen the movie?

First make yourself look like an knowledgeable idiot, to hide that that you are not that stupid. By acting arrogant, nobody will ever even considder that you are smarter, not even a nanosecond.

Secondly, make your enemy arrogant (seems to work).

After that, hand your enemy your chess pieces, utilizing the trick that your pulled of at first. Make your enemy underestimate you.

Your enemy will be laughing his ass of, until he realizes he has positioned himself checkmate. He will not learn from his mistake, because nobody wants to question their own intelligence.

Lols...

Yeah this solution was known for years.

It's so fscking easy, nobody seems to notice it:
1. The song is looping, because it's something that loops, duh;
2. By engaging cognition into it, one can extend the loop and thus break past the trigger that keeps it looping.

So here we are, looking at the n-th rediscovery, posted on /.

Ubuntu is a great starting point. Not because it's exactly a clean Linux distro (more like hanging loose with duct tape and awesful customization), but because of the support community around it.

Once you get used to Linux-ing around, go to Fedora because it's new, clean and raw and thus learning material.

But before you shift to Fedora, watch the excellent noob-friendly Hacktip series from Hak5:
http://hak5.org/category/episodes/haktip