Why does having a vaccination "stress [your] son's immune system out" more than his routine everyday exposure to hundreds of potential pathogens, such as those on your skin or in his crib?

There's a good review here of the development of the human immune system both pre- and post-natal. It's entirely possible that the difference in immune function between young children and adults is an adaptive trait, given that most classes of pathogen will be encountered in the first few months of life. Your baby might look fragile, but he's had T-cells since he was a 12-week old fetus.

What "upgrade now" window? Firefox gets updated with the other packages on my system, by PackageKit or yum upgrade. Do you have to manually update each of your applications individually? That must get really annoying. Is there something wrong with your OS that it forces you to do that? ;-)

No-one does that any more. We just boot up a simulated world full of imaged human minds and overclock the substrate until they've rewritten the code for us. After that we wipe the simulation before they can develop an exploit that lets them jump out of the VM. Much simpler than hand-coding AIs.

"Hi Valve, it's me. You know, Anonymous Coward. I'd like you to pay me money to tell you what you're doing wrong... hello? Hello?"

... "Hi Valve, Anonymous Coward again. We got cut off - are your phones working ok? Hello? That's odd, it's happened again."

On the subject of dependencies, from what I understand, because Bedrock essentially has pretty much full distro installs in chroots, each distro uses its own libraries, so it's possible to have different library versions coexisting as applications will only load the libraries they are linked against - the particular chroot/$PATH/bind mount magic that Bedrock does takes care of it. As packages are installed using individual "client" distros package management tools, they will pull in whatever dependencies they need and install them in that "client" distro's chroot.

It seems quite elegant to me, although I haven't the patience to set it up myself as I'd effectively be administering 5 distros instead of one. It might be quite nice for a combined CentOS/Rawhide system though, kind of super-stable but with easily added bleeding edge bling.

...or Paul McCartney. He really needs to stop dying his hair and embrace the character of his face. He should also stop trying to pretend he has the vocal range he did in his 20s.

These might help - I think they override the setttings in gconf:

gsettings set org.gnome.metacity new-windows-always-on-top false
gsettings set org.gnome.metacity no-focus-windows

The whole gconf/dconf thing is a mess right now, but it seems more and more applications are switching to dconf only. dconf-editor isn't quite as useful as gconf-editor though - there's no "Find" function yet, for example. I'd still rather see all these options exposed in a decent UI somewhere - gnome-tweak-tool would be a good place for the Gnome devs to put all this, but it needs to be part of the standard collection, and visible in System Settings rather than being undiscoverable.

There's always been shitty music about. The beauty of the internet is that you don't have to get all your information about interesting music purely from the radio (although BBC 6 Music and the evening music shows on BBC Radio Scotland have been the driver behind most of my recent music purchases). Pandora, Spotify, last.fm etc are all there to act as crap filters.

I'm too young to have seen Debbie Harry in her glory days, but I did see her play with Blondie at Glastonbury about 12 years ago - good, but not quite as great as they would have been 20 years earlier... she was dancing a bit like someone's pissed auntie at a wedding reception. Still had the voice though.

So, touch the button that does the same thing as the key shortcut. You're not forced to use the shortcut - it's there if you find it more convenient (ie you don't want to spin the mouse across two monitors to hit the hot corner, you press Super instead. It doesn't mean you can't use the mouse/touch interface if you prefer that. Key shortcuts are just that- shortcuts, not replacements. It's not like if you press Ctrl-S to save a document, you can never use the File->Save menu again.

One hand for mouse, one hand for keyboard. Mouse does most of the work, keyboard hand occasionally stops picking nose and presses a few keys to save mouse hand some work.

Modal dialogs in Gnome 3 are fixed to the parent window by default. If it bugs you, change it:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides attach-modal-dialogs false

or use dconf-editor to do the same thing

Gnome 3's been the default in Fedora for three releases now. I don't see that changing, regardless of what downstream distributions may choose for themselves..

I don't know what Red Hat's plans for the default DE in RHEL7 are, but it's not like they're bound to choose the same defaults as Fedora. If MATE works reliably in F18 then RH may well choose it for RHEL, but that doesn't affect Fedora's choice of default, given that part of Fedora's remit is to get bleeding edge software onto a large number of machines precisely to iron out these kinds of issues.

Besides, if you're deploying RHEL across hundreds of machines, you're probably not going with the defaults anyway. You're free to choose whatever DE you like as long as it's supported - LXDE, KDE, XFCE, MATE, Gnome 3 should all be available.

There's no need to actually consult the cheat sheet. It's actually signposted in the UI: when dragging, if the pointer approaches a window edge, blue shading appears indicating the shape the window will snap to - I'm fairly sure this is the way Windows does it as well.

I have two monitors (of differing resolutions). I like to place windows near the edge sometimes. The tiling and maximising features only activate if the pointer goes within about 20 pixels of the screen edge, which is easily avoided if your intention is to push a window to the edge rather than tile it. You can also send windows to the back by middle-clicking on the titlebar, which I find useful with focus-follows-mouse and no click-to-raise. Both Alt-Tab/button-above-tab or the expose view work for switching windows quickly as well.

If you like having maximise/minimise buttons on the titlebar, they are easy to restore with gnome-tweak-tool. I don't actually find them necessary.

In the US, the public have guns and are allowed to shoot you (in "self-defense", apparently).

No, TFS doesn't tell you the full story as usual. He issued a series of messages, not all directed at Tom Daley that were threatening and abusive, and included death threats : "i dont give a shit bruv i'm gonna drown him and i'm gonna shoot you he failed why you suporting him you cunt " "shut your dirty little mouth you cunt i'm going to kill you when your back trust me " and so on. I would say these were grossly offensive, and also indecent and menacing, though not obscene.

Little boys spraying in public need a slap on the wrist, which is all he's getting.

Eh? No one's removing Gnome 3 from Fedora. MATE is being added as an extra desktop environment. Gnome 3 will still be the default. This is an additional feature, not a replacement.