Why everything Torvalds says is so important to be posted on /.?

"you don't need any other distro". In the case of Slackware, "other" is a word too many in your sentence.

I think he would have to do this if Turkey had compulsory license provision in its copyright laws for Youtube video. And I doubt that. So I would not send them a bill for licensing, which would allow the other to continue to use the video. A proposition of settlement for damages would be better. Though I do not know if I would agree on the approach.

Interesting. In what way a certification from one country makes a project more or less serious? Do you have better arguments that do compare the realism of the two projects?

I would like to congratulate HADOPI for having made 150 euros. This obviously shows that this law was a total success.

Oddly enough, the page of "Irony" on Wikipedia cites Britannica. Master of irony, did you have the authority to modify this entry?

My grandma believed in anecdotal evidence and she lived to be 102.

Maybe you do not understand what placebo effect is.

The nice thing with Slashdot comments, is that if you lived in a complete seclusion for five years, and you come back to read them, you still understand the jokes.

Oh, so you can update MacOS through MacPorts?

I want the choice to boycott Monsanto by pressing farmers not to use their strain. Otherwise it causes an overuse of pesticides which is bad for nature, but also for the farmers and people leaving around the farms. The only way to do it now is to know whether there are some GMO in my food. And "popular suspicions", that's GMO's lobbies who try to make you believe that. Yes, sure GMOs by themselves are probably safe, there are no reasons they would be worst than other strains, if we just have the proper testing. I do not care about what hippies believe. However, there is "scientific suspicion" with proper peer reviewed literature about pesticides they sell with the GMOs. It is exactly like saying nuclear power is the cleanest forgetting about waste management.

When I read "regular porn users are more likely to report depression and poor physical health than nonusers are". Sure, what do you do when you are depressed? You watch porn. So depression cause people to watch porn. Though that is better than suicide.

Is it by using technologies that you become socially impaired, or is it because you are becoming socially impaired that you used technologies? If my so called friends were not that annoying to me when I was a kid, I would probably not be a software engineer today. When I see "the survey of 3,461 American girls aged 8 to 12 who volunteered responses", I think that does not mean much. If I read something like "the sample was randomly divided in two, the first sample was given new hitech gadget every year, the second not" maybe that would be different.

Are not the PID regulator supposed to stop the heater before it gets too hot?

Of course, their 12 year old engineers (because they assassinated the other engineers who were too old to be credulous) will clone it easily. Like their nuclear program.