When I saw the word LockerGnome I was like 'wow, Gnome developers criticising Linux on the desktop', i didn't realise it was more a community circle jerk :o

It's a Livejournal period drama featuring Teamspeak, Gnomies and Google+ hangouts; a total mashup of the entire Internet.

It name drops, it backlinks, it links images with contribution, it bolds, "quotes", paraphrases and italics. There's even a google advert.

It just doesn't say anything at all. Which is quite impressive considering how long it is.

If only it was compressed down to 140 characters, might have been less painful to read.

Dynamic IP, new Internet connection, open WiFi, other, or is the site _really_ making a mistake?

Which one of those ISOs can i use to create an android VM in virtualbox or install on to a bare metal real x86 desktop / laptop please? Cos I can't work it out ..

Seriously, it's a form of voyeurism for a lot of us non-Americans. How badly can you fuck things up this week? Tune in 24/7 for as much as you can read!

The really scary thing is watching our own governments follow your mistakes after :(

We tried that last year.. everyone just nicked sportswear from Soccer World :(

It's a shit lunch loaded with refined carbohydrates, salt and sugar. But has a banana.

Keep the domain name, give the guy the site, code, database etc but just change the DNS to point at his webserver, but keep the MX records for yourself. Then move all your mail to a new email address as it comes in, then in a year give him the domain name when you're satisfied you're sorted.

What the parent said.

I don't know of many jobs who's specialist requirement is knowledge of random software available under open source licenses, other than maybe working for the EFF?

What skills do you have? What commercially used OSS do you have transferable work experience in that other employers want?

I googled 'linux sip job' earlier and got a shit load of relevant positions ...

I really wanted to watch Van Helsing the other day. I just wanted to watch it, not own it. I've recently had a cleanse and sold all my DVDs to a second hand store, only keeping my wild life documentary Blu-Rays as I got a bit fed up with having hundreds of DVDs cluttering up the flat.

After scouting around, on Amazon it is about £8 for the Van Helsing Blu-Ray, on iTunes it is about £8 to buy/download forever Van Helsing.

I'm not a fan of buying movies to keep like that, I just wanted to watch it once, not keep it on a HDD for the rest of my life, i figured to me it's worth £1 to download/stream and view once.

Lovefilms do PPV at £3.49 for most films, Van Helsing wasn't available and that's more than I wanted to pay anyway. They also do unlimited streaming for £5pm.

Netflix do unlimited streaming for £6pm but their site didn't seem to show Van Helsing and there wasn't a one off option.

iTunes only lets you buy, not one off stream and that's the same price as the Blu-Ray.

BitTorrent on the other hand had it readily available for free, but I don't pirate so watched my copy of Planet Earth instead.

Am I unreasonable in wanting to watch once an 8 year old film that had a budget of $160 million and broke $300 million in the box office for £1?

Is it unreasonable to not want to pay monthly subscriptions to a service that doesn't have the film I want to watch anyway which forces me to watch more films than I want in order to get value for my money?

Is it me that's broken, or their business model?

One of the scariest scenes I ever saw in the 24 tv series was the de facto camp built to house "suspected terrorists." We'd do the same... in a heartbeat. Sad and scary.

Er, you have dude .. Guantanamo and your President dude is quite happy to hold people there with out trial.

I can't really see the US changing direction though politics, policies and good will though unfortunately.

on steroids

cmd+space yo!

Bonus points: come up with five religions that could make the above quote factually correct.

Buddhism? I dunno, how about you go first..

The thing is, every single person vaguely familiar with the Tech world already knows this. It's everybody else that needs convincing, and I'm pretty sure neither Google nor Facebook, 2 Tech giants, are the right pick the counter this.

I'd say it's our/the tech community's responsibility to educate everybody else that needs convincing. If not us, then who? The papers? ........

Why should slashdot follow suit?

Strength in numbers. 'Smaller' sites like Reddit start the ball rumbling, Slashdot joins in, a few smaller sites hosted by webmasters that are part of these communities join in, the snowball gets bigger, then maybe Yahoo/Google/Facebook/Flickr get on board.

Everyone has to start somewhere.