You think this wasn't discussed? Read the lists, geesh!

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I'm still subscribed to the print edition of 2600 magazine. I moreso collect them than read the new editions. I get the DRM-free PDFs to read.

This book is great. My school used the previous edition for intro to Linux. It's a great distro-agnostic reference.

It just keeps getting more bizzare...

Owncloud 5 is out and it has a builtin RSS reader

So they're going to have one frozen release and a continuous rolling release... just like Debian.

So I assume touchscreen laptops will reduce battery life on all new devices?

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ... To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality. - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

So if this crashes into my house, would that be an act of war?

What I still don't understand is why Ubuntu/Canonical wants to invest in this (dash) "experience" when, if you hold them to their stated goal, there are tons of other worthwhile efforts to engage in that need help. Why not leave the "find things that are interesting and relevant to you" to the billion-plus profit companies who have been doing this for over a decade online. When it is an OS vendors job to innovate in this area, unless they are talking out of the side of their mouths? One can only logically conclude they are doing this as a source of revenue, which is totally fine, however this apology is just another instance in which they say one thing and do another thing.

Have you ever experienced what most would call "anti-semitism"?

All public tweets are archived in the Library of Congress, so why not...

Would you rather go with the GNOME foundation, a democraticly organized organization with multiple corporate and non-profit sponsers who welcome contributions or Canonical, who developed Launchpad for a year in private and who's solution to potential long-term issues is to blog about it then release some code and who's policy and procedure is a verbatim copy of Debian's policy just for the sake of having a referal document, and isn't even followed. At all.

How hard is it to manually count attendance? You have a degree in education but you cannot to the occasional headcount? After a week you should be able to look at your class and recall the *names* of the faces you do not see and deduct that from your total class size. Don't get me wrong, I love technology, but this sounds like another excuse to spend taxpayer money, in addition to other nefarious motives which will undoubtedly be discussed in this thread.