The analog hole will never be plugged, because it wears sneakers and goes through your fridge looking for a beer.
Queue the sexual innuendo and/or constipation jokes...
US after it was found out that the rates of penile cancer among Jewish men were zero
Why not just cut the whole thing off then? Also, please provide source that this is a causal relationship.
They are trying to make Ubunutu more user friendly, showing console information on bootup is "scary" for a non technical user.
Whether they succeed in making it user friendly is another discussion entirely. However, you can disable the non-console bootup by removing "silent" from the grup parameters (as far as I remember, anyway, they may have changed it again)
sidenote: seriously slashdot? I have to format my comments in some pidgin html?
Or the experience of one of my friends, who prefers to remain anonymous. At a recent DEFCON, while leaning over to get her drink at the bar, someone slid his hand up all the way between her legs and grabbed her crotch.
I cannot believe someone could even remotely think that doing something like this would be a good idea. Someone else's body is not just an object. Jesus Christ people, get a fucking clue - this sort of attitude makes for a very poor environment all around.
Tablets use a touch screen because they can't fit in a keyboard and mouse, not because it's an even remotely good solution.
Woah, slow down there - touch screens are magnificent for an interface because they can change the interface and interactive component dynamically. A keyboard and mouse is fantastic for traditional input methods, but don't rule out touch screens yet!
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