> I thought the US was supposed to be a christian country and slashdot was supposed to be am mostly american site (I say mostly because I am actually british)?
Yes, but /. is also a site where most people refuse to RTFA (hell, the term was INVENTED here!) and generally misquote everything, so the few /.-ers who have *ACTUALLY* read the Bible still probably misquote it.

> And I don't think there are many people who would argue that the Old Testament was too lenient...
Challenge accepted!

openSUSE *does* provide a drop-down at login for the user to select their desktop of choice, and you *can* install multiple desktops at install time. (You just have to manually add them in addition to the desktop you chose in an earlier step.)

I think it will even remember the desktop you used on your last session and launch that one for you. (Although admittedly I haven't played around with that feature.)

I don't even think these features are specific to openSUSE - I think both the KDM and GDM login managers have them. If Ubuntu doesn't have them I think they were removed.

if($string = "100 percent efficiency"){
    printf("Bullshit!");
}

Our tax guy loves to say "Tax software is no substitution for tax knowledge." ...and how very true it is.

Software technically works fine, but it can't know *YOUR* personal situation and all the ins and outs of the many, many, many, MANY tax laws and how they affect YOU.

*Disclaimer* I did not read the article. (Anyone surprised)
By claiming that their 4th amendment rights were violated, they basically just pled guilty. The proper defense is "ZOMG some sicko hacked my WiFi!"

I don't understand these "bits" you talk about... how many punch cards is that?

This is actually a really good idea - take something that is designed to turn our kids into useless mush, and turn it around into a teaching opportunity on peaceful resistance and demonstration.

You don't have to be "trained in visual speed observation" to tell someone is speeding when they are doing 90+ in a 65.

Judge/lawyer: How fast was he going?
You: F***ING!!!

The fact that they announced this means 1 of 2 things.
1. The SR-72 has been in service for quite a while already.
-or-
2. Lockheed Martin proposed this to the military a while ago and they turned it down.

You really think *this* government would actually tell us about the latest and greatest?

Mod points! My kingdom for some mod points! Mod parent up! +10 Insightful!

You are making a pretty big assumption there that what you are plugging in is actually a storage device. It could easily be a device which shows up as an HID device and plays back a macro. "Alt-F2, 'xterm', Enter, 'rm -rf /', Enter" would be pretty devastating on your secure Linux box which doesn't run anything from removable media.

Just because it looks like a thumb drive, doesn't mean it is one!

Voice recognition technology is still poor. When the TCAS system says "TCAS Alert! Traffic! Descend! Descend!" you need to be CERTAIN that the drone will analyze that correctly and actually descend, instead of responding "I think you said 'Check my balance'. Is that correct?"

Half-Life was meant to be a trilogy of songs... Sadly the 3rd will never be heard.