Where can I download Lackluster Linux, and how do I install it on my mediocre laptop?

Microsoft already had a tablet that would make employees potentially much more productive. It was called Courier, the internet was crying out for them to make it, and they cancelled the whole project.

How does copyrighting a previously public domain item even work? I mean, if someone copyrights, say, a book in the public domain, and I then go ahead and reprint that book, I can state that my copy is a printed version of the public domain version, and any copyright claim should be moot, since they can't prove I used the copyrighted version. Am I missing something?

Madness.

http://xkcd.com/927/

I actually agree, sort of. It's not that I have anything against indie developers getting their stuff out there, but the problem is that I find myself less willing to splash out on it. With the Introversion bundle and HIB4 in the same month, I spent less than $25 on both, but with the original bundle, I spent $25 for that on its own.

By far my biggest gripe though is the "developer specific" humble bundles. Again, I don't have a problem with indie devs marketing their stuff, but the Humble Bundle was designed to be something special that gave obscure independent developers some coverage, and also do something nice for charity. With the advent of the Introversion and Frozenbyte bundles though, the whole thing just seems to become marketing noise (and I'm not even sure that Introversion needed the coverage, Darwinia was a fairly highly rated game back in the day).

I've got just the thing for what ails ya: Chrome OS

Why does it always have to be about the money? Let's do it because we can. I mean, lets face it, that's the only reason we've ever been to the moon. It cost a fortune, and many lives, but at the end of the day, we put a man on the fucking moon. Can we bring back the woolly mammoth? I'm sceptical, but let's go for it, because it's science, and the lessons learned along the way could have all kinds of medical benefits, and let's face it, it'd be awesome to see one.

Why is it that the east just seems to be so far ahead of the west with this sort of stuff? I mean, we just seem so reluctant to adopt cool new tech. This stuff is the future, but (in the UK at least) we just seem to be getting left behind!

The dastard! He plans to bring illiteracy to Gotham!

Technically you're still downloading. ;-)

So let me get this straight... The BBC is deceiving the content providers, to protect the rights of it's consumers?

Do hamburgers eat people in the UK too?

Does all this not just amount to counter-intelligence against your own people? I mean, if the people you serve want to know, let them know! I'm not naive enough to think that everything should be available, but a lot of the stuff that has leaked has been really quite important, and evidence enough that if you think you can hide it, people will commit the most attrocious acts in the name of "serving the greater good". We're living in a time that is a horrible cross between 1984 and V for Vendetta, yet the western world seems perfectly happy to bend over and take it!

I'd say that in a hundred years, people are going to look back on this decade as the dark ages of the information age, but we already know that now. Wikileaks was only the start.