Ubuntu is not dumbed down. It just got sensible defaults, so you don't have to configure everything.

Name one thing I can't do on Ubuntu that you can on your "un-dumbed down" Linux?

Progress Quest is the best game ever. I play it all day and night!

Efficiency maybe? Moving your hand from coding position to mouse/arrow key position hundreds of times a day actually takes a lot of time. Same reason behind most vi commands.

If a Facebook server goes down, you could possibly lose your friends!

Does anyone know about an open source alternative to Google analytics? Something that gives a more information than just webalizer/awstats etc.

Any FPS game will show what's the PC's good for.

It even messes with your EXIF data without you knowing.

The problem is that some of those actions that you can do to get "tokens" are just a scam. They say it's just a free survey, but at the end of the survey they ask for your phone number to confirm that you've completed it, and then they just charge you $9.99 a month until you figure it out.
Farmville did exactly that, and I bet others do it too.

Remember, that's $0.20 per incoming and outgoing message. So AT&T earns $0.40 for each message going through their system.

How do you get a guided tour at a data center?

So this is just a way to not having to upgrade their capacity at bottlenecks... Great.

I hope btrfs will get it. Or else you will have to add it :)

Why not just use a pass phrase? "The Lord of the Rings is the Worst Series Ever Written" is a perfectly good one!

The problem of course if bad handwriting. If my handwriting was like Dijkstra's, I would definitely write a lot... But most CS students have bad handwriting... so we hate to write. And we type faster on a computer too. So if we just could type formulas as fast as text...