The endless Gnome 3 vs 2 discussions are all very well (I ditched Fedora because of it), but in the end let the voters decide:

Apparently in 2010 Fedora was the 2nd most used distro (from http://www.pcworld.com/article/2021273/another-year-another-totally-different-top-10-linux-distros.html).

In 2011 it was 3rd. In 2012 it was 4th.

And looking at the latest Distrowatch page hit rankings (which is what that article was using):
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity,
it now is 5th.

I have begun to doubt my position and wonder if we don't have some responsibility to artificially 'cripple' the solution and in doing so protect the user from themselves

It tells me that at the moment he's on the Gnome 3 dev team.

after about 12 years of Red Hat then Fedora,
I switched to Fuduntu, and very pleased about it.

gnome 2, bottom panel the way I want it :)

(only thing still missing is the netspeed applet)

Back in 1992 I wrote a report called "Virus Detection Alternatives",
already describing all this "new" knowledge.
(problems with signature scanning, polymorphic viruses,
heuristical scanning, etc.)

The main conclusion at the time (of DOS 5.0 (!)) was that the
security of the operating system had to be improved.

Get a copy of the report at
http://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/text/virusdet.zip
(printed to text using WP5.1 :-)

My captcha (I'm running phpBB) has proven to be "spam-bot secure" as well: users have to solve about 3-10 smaller sized Calcudoku puzzles (i.e. score 10 points) before they can post.

I'll be impressed with the bot that manages that :-)

Man, there are a lot of bitter people on /. If you don't like Gnome, you'll be using XFCE or KDE or Mate or Cinnamon or something

No bitterness involved: the point is that now I can no longer simply upgrade to the latest Fedora: after every upgrade, I have to go through #!#@! uninstalling/installing steps to get a functional desktop back and restore my productivity.

has there every been a poll?

I'd be interested in finding out if there are significantly more lefties among slashdot readers.

There is no national plan to cover the whole road network in these cameras yet

The gaps are great: roads can be categorized as "approved" (with cameras) and "dark".
Law-abiding citizens will use the approved roads.
People won't use the dark roads unless they have something to hide. So it'll be easier to catch the bad guys.
Sounds like a win-win to me.

IE 34.19%
Firefox 22.52%
Safari 21.38%
Chrome 14.80%
Android Browser 4.42%

Here are my numbers for a number puzzle site:

Chrome 30.67%
Firefox 25.36%
IE 23.94%
Safari 15.87%
Android 1.45%
Opera 1.21%

(also over the whole of 2012 so far, 443,255 visits, the site is http://www.calcudoku.org/

So quite different obviously. Maybe a set of ~ 10-50 "representative" sites should be picked (e.g. a few news sites, a few tech sites, popular blogs, etc.), and the numbers averaged over those?

And I'd be interested in the numbers of Fox News vs. the New York Times for example..

If the Apple Retina display is already beyond the point a human eye can resolve - what's more resolution going to get you?

Larger filesizes, longer download times, shorter battery life, worse performance?

When a user enters a search in Chrome, the browser preloads an invisible tab not shown to the user, and these were being counted by StatCounter. Net Applications, another usage tracking group, ignores these invisible tabs and reports IE at 54%, Firefox at 20.20%, and Chrome at 18.85%."

Is this a slashvertisement for Net Applications? 54% for IE?? Did they grab their data from 2009?

Also, not all traffic is search traffic. The stats for the last two months at http://www.calcudoku.org/ (which has < 35% search traffic):

1. Chrome: 31%
2. Firefox: 25%
3. IE: 24%
4. Safari: 17%
5. Opera: 1%
6. Android: 1%

There's nothing worth censoring in that comment, a guy made a post,

Well, he did mention Google+