...when their virtual boss tokens get hacked by their competitor or APT.

I always end up going back to a customized XFCE, but about every 6 months, I decide to try something else, and usually end up wiping my system and reinstalling before I'm done.

My wife has a mildly customized XFCE setup, and she loves it. It almost never gets changed or tweaked.

Out of the four harddrive failures I have had in the last ten years (I often replace smaller drives with bigger ones before they fail), 3 of them were Seagate drives and one was a hitachi. I will never by Seagate again. Meanwhile my other Hitachi drives and Western Digital drives still spin on.

Though this tool might prevent DOM traversal and node name referencing, it most certainly will strive to keep the website layout the same, from the user's point of view. Therefore, a simple bypass is to look for inputs via relative page positioning. That should completely bypass the anti-bot automation functionality. This type of check would be easiest to perform at a lower-level, but it certainly can be done via bot injected Javascript.

I got an older version of this: http://www.amazon.com/Cables-Unlimited-USB-2545-Eco-Friendly-Battery-Free/dp/B001EBJ9XS/ref=pd_sim_sbs_pc_1 (but without the idiotic double scroll wheel). Best thing I ever bought. No batteries to charge or replace.

Communities make laws that represent the majority in their community. They also commonly erect statues that represent something about their community. We don't throw out laws when one person's views are represented. How is it that a conservative community can't display a symbol with historical significance which represents the majority view? It isn't being "forced" on anyone (unlike a law). If you don't like the statue, don't look at it. There might be a case if tax payer dollars were used, but they weren't. If at some point the majority in the community no longer feels represented by the statue, then they can elect council members who will tear it down.

Wake me up when they have created the world's smallest graphene violin!

Each year it is a national joke some of the idiotic studies that get federal grants. If the federal government is paying for it, then it makes perfect sense that the grantee should justify why the research will benefit the country.

We should be intercepting the commie birds with lasers!

The passwords are very breakable as they used the same IV's and keys for every password. Thus any two same plain texts have the same cipher text. A little, simple statistical analysis will get you the keystream and allow you to get all the plain text passwords.

Bitmessage: P2P, encrypted, anonymous. The project is pretty new, but other than a couple scalability issues, I think this project has major potential. http://bitmessage.org/

I left Ubuntu back when they started making their own UI and doing it terribly.

I'd never go back, even if they had fixed all their flaws because of the inability to easily upgrade with each version.

These days I run Debian Testing with XFCE. Mostly painless, rolling upgrades.

See BlackPignouf's response for an example of why I think Ruby sucks. I never said it should be restrictive. There should simply be one right way to do something, not a hundred ways. Python, which is not perfect by any means, is pretty good about this. It is a very flexible language with lots of libraries, but there is a very limited way of doing any one thing. There is also plenty of guidance on the "Pythonic" way of doing any particular task.

A good programming language is not one that is full of fucking "whimsy". A good programming language has a clear, concise set of commands which are self documenting. It should be difficult to write the same, simple function in multiple ways. Ruby fails on all accounts. The wording is inconsistent, there are about 45million different ways to write any given function which also means it is hardly self documenting.

I've rarely met a Ruby developer who was employable in another field because they simply don't know what constitutes good, clean, concise code.

I've got karma to burn...

Um...Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)???