Except that Ext and ZFS are in different classes. Ext provides few of the protections that ZFS does.

I'm only aware of two filesystems in the same class: ZFS and Btrfs. I'm looking forward to the day I can use Btrfs on production, but until then there's just ZFS. Ext is a non-contender here.

Most of OpenSolaris was under the CDDL, which provides protection from patent claims from Sun (now Oracle). So if you used OpenSolaris, they wouldn't have a case through copyright infringement -- it's an approved open-source license -- or through patents they hold. Reality is complicated, so it's always a good idea to read the license code is released under: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php

In other words: your concern about OpenSolaris specifically is unfounded. DalvikVM wasn't make by Sun and released under the CDDL, so there was no patent protection. This will still have a chilling effect on the Java ecosystem, of course.

In practice I would use Solaris for databases and storing other critical data. Linux has a long way to go before it has something as mature as ZFS, and I wouldn't trust important data on anything less. DTrace adds introspection that is wonderful on a live database as well. Operating systems are tools, so use them for what they're good at.

OECD data that shows countries with universal healthcare spend less and have better outcomes in quite a few important metrics.

Here's a summary for the US: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/2/38980580.pdf

Not to put too fine a point on it, but libertarians live in a fantasy land. They talk theory, when hard data has been available for years. Empiricism > Wankery.

It's called "forum shopping", and all litigants with a clue take advantage of it.

Whether your case is morally right or wrong, attempting to stack the case in your own favour is a rational action; nobody attempts to lose a lawsuit.

I, on the other hand, would like a stylus. I'd like to draw sketches during note taking. More importantly, I like drawing.

Stating that styluses suck only means you're not in the arts. This is pretty obvious, yo.

IIRC, Opera was actually the first browser to release a (alpha?) version of their browser that supported <video>.

For whatever reason they haven't released one since.

That was Beethoven, and for only part of his life.

Could you at least check facts you're not sure of?

Ah, the classic "I'm special, why are you so blind?" retort. Keep patting yourself on the back.

But you're special and won't screw up, right?

It's amazing the rationalizations that people go through. Stop coming up with excuses and pay attention to the road.

You're not special, and you're threatening people's lives with your selfish stupidity.

Talking at all on a cell-phone is a bad idea; studies have found it's similar to DUI. Knock yourself out: http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=cell+phone+driving+accident

Talking on a phone is equivalent to DUI: http://hfs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/48/2/381

It doesn't matter if you're using a hand-held or hands-free phone: http://hfs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/48/1/196

In other words, the danger lies in your concentration not being on the road. If you're writing text, you're not concentrating on the road. Therefore I'd be surprised if texting didn't have similar risks.

Please, do the right thing. It won't kill you to wait till you're at a destination to text. It might if you do (and others, unfortunately).

What decade do you live in, man? The 1980s? :/

http://www.xfree86.org/current/mit-shm.html

Also, I used to use X on a 486/66 with 16MB RAM -- and it worked comparable to Win95, which was quite good. My mp3 player has far more juice and memory than that machine did, let alone a netbook.

Please don't take about things you don't know about as if you do.

I don't. There are a lot of infectious diseases near where I live.

It's amazing how many people think that health care is an individual exercise. Tell that to an infectious agent.

Eight hour waiting lines?

This is big news to me. Maybe I'm not living in the same Canada you're hearing about.

*Starting* to get bloated?

Firefox left its original goal back while still in the milestone stage. Do a comparison between a milestone and the Mozilla suite -- which itself was a monster at the time.

The only thing leaner on Firefox was the interface. It's a great browser, but its also always been a pig.