apt-get install sensible-browser

> Everyone feels they are right, and everyone feels strongly.
> Is it possible for commenters to keep that in mind?

I'm guessing "no".

protip: just because the current Supreme Court rules that it's ok, doesn't make it morally or even constitutionally right. But don't take my word for it, four of the Supreme Court Justices thought it was wrong too.

I'm talking about real justice, not the outcomes of a fallible legal system.

[...]we have it in our power to be better than this.

I don't think you do. I don't think you ever did.

You make yourself a slave in your own mind.

And history suggests that we should worry less about the
surveillance itself and more about when the war in whose name the
surveillance is being conducted will end.

In other words, the ends justify the means, and historical
precedence makes it ok to do commit whatever crime you like.

I wonder if the author feels the same about the WWII internment
camps for Japanese? We won that war, so it's all ok, we can do that
again, right?

Or the way the Native Indians were treated? We eventually grew a
great nation on the land so that was all ok too, and we are
justified in doing the same in future for other lofty goals?

We define our nation by the society that we create through our
actions. Don't try to feed us this apologist bullshit two days after
the 4th, we have it in our power to be better than this.

While I agree with your other points the fluff up about Secure Boot is certainly not FUD. It's a looming problem which is deep and serious. Competitors are being forced into a position where a hostile entity is both becoming a sole supplier and a serious barrier to entry into the market place at the same time. Yes the door is still open for x86, but for how long? What happens with Intel's new low power chips and x86 tablets start becoming mainstream in the next couple of years? You really think that policy will stand still? And even now have you tried to install a new-release Linux on a new Windows 8 laptop as dual boot? It has become an tricky task even for a pro who knows what they are doing and knows what needs to be done.

It's the end of the first golden age of the PC, and you'd be crazy not to expect Microsoft to go down swinging with everything they've got. The PC market is going to get a lot uglier before it gets better. The big question is how much Taiwan needs to toe the Microsoft line. I'm guessing in the coming years not so much anymore. The marketplace moves more quickly than any one corporation.

It does not surprise me that people sell out their friends, families, and citizens they are elected to represent. I don't know if it is true or not, but they say everyone has their price. What continually amazes me whenever one of these people get caught red handed is just how low their price is. It's sort of disrespectful really, if you're going to sell me out, at least get a fair price for it. (to quote Saphie when Patsy sold her into the slave trade: "you could of at least haggled with the man!")

You can find the real "Synaptic" package manager in there somewhere.
(I was going to say in the System menu, but they seem to have misplaced it...)

`apt-get install xubuntu-desktop` helps too.

The market can not fundamentally fix this because the market can not create new Helium.
The market can only slow the bleeding as the commodity becomes scarce.
The only way to deal with it is by humans deciding to regulate it, and taking measures to enforce those regulations.
Fish stocks are in a similar market-failure category, but at least after we're gone they will regenerate many of orders of magnitude faster than the He will.

Glad to see the progreess, maybe the competion will eventually lead to better OpenGL support in OSX too.

Now where the heck is the OpenCL support for i7 on Linux ?!

Perhaps Intel could put a bit of effort into releasing (GPU) OpenCL support for their i7 Ivy Bridge line then? For the same chip there's a Windows driver, but not for Linux. But for Xeon it only works for Linux but not Windows. It has been promised for a year, still nothing.

Their efforts so far seem to have been shipped off to another team, who did something in parallel to the rest of the community, so likely a dead end.

As demonstrated here, surely they have the resources?

Get with the program guys!

> IMO archeologists know exactly diddly about historical linguistics

how about one who has studied historical linguistics for 50 years?

I've no idea about the guy you're talking about, but as a rule, putting people permanently into labeled boxes with solid walls is silly and reeks of tribalism.

This is why people are working on standardized exchangable slide-in slide-out battery packs. Packs slow-charge & self-check at the station. You pull in, slide your dead one out, slide a full one in, pay your money and off you go. Dying packs are taken out of circulation so you never see them.

apparently they flew over the top of everyone's head.

know Slashdot likes to confuse us with it's hyperlink placement, but I just feel like pointing out that puting the link to TFA on the text "a city that more closely resembles the real world" makes absolutely no sense.

It's part of their preemptive legal strategy, guaranteeing an aquital.

at $35 a pop this is sounds like a great chance for lots of people to learn how to use solder wick who haven't picked up an iron before.