This 'Insightful' post has got to be the single most funny comment I've read in months.

Someone show this to Bill Murray!

No "long-term survival / Hawking" jokes yet?

Just beeing cautious, after all they've got the same signature on their paychecks.

But GP may be right, it's probably just my backdoor paranoia...

Not exactly the company I'm going to take my security advice from.

And can you tell me what exactly I do need a "screensaver" for in this age of netbooks and LCDisplays?
Disclaimer: all I use Ubuntu for is a convenient Debian installer...

In his rat-filled dungeon, behind a door with more locks than a major canal network, the Stallman of GNU lay back and grinned in the darkness.

Lets just drop the 'G' and call it 'Imp' from now on...

http://dresdencodak.com/

"News for nerds, stuff that matters."

I wonder how they compensated the libration in the timeframe they took the images.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration

And no, I didn't read TFA.

Funny, I threw my then called HoTMail account away when MS bought it...

Obviously you haven't read much from Neal; after having read three or four of his novels you come to expect oddness in the endings.

I thought it's called 'Mumbai' now?

from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_High_Court#History_.26_Premises:
"Although the name of the city was changed from Bombay to Mumbai in 1995, the Court as an institution did not follow suit and remained as the Bombay High Court."

Wikipedia doesn't explain why that is so.

"But, it's a bug, not a feature!"

Can I please have a version of Slashdot similar to http://m.facebook.com/ that utilizes all the horizontal width of my screen (not more and not less) for the essential stuff, e.g. the comments, in any font size?
Pretty please?