I keep windows on my box only for games. I purposefully switched off all network in order keep the viruses out. So now I will not able to play. Thanks. And to think of it, I've legitimatrly bought all C&C series games.

There is a punk rock group in Russia named "Hairy glass" (translated from Russian of course, original reads "Volosatoye steklo")

You say it as if slashdot cannot be an abomination. Lately it become a nightmare. I'd already leave the site if not for community. I use opera css feature to disable slashdot horrible design and use my own.

Just ban all air transport already and be done. I don't know which is worse, diing in a terrorist bombing or being humiliated on boarding.

Alzheimers or cancer? What is better? Any ideas?

If you were looking from a hotel window I assumed that you lived close to Moscow center with narrow streets and heavy traffic jams. No need to add to that more heavy vehicles like snow harvesters.

In Nazi Germany suicide was punished by death.

Luzhkov implemented a lot of crazy and unpopular projects. I'm glad he couldn't ruin our winter.

I can not believe how many hypocrites there are on slashdot. He was wasting agency money and time, I don't argue with that. Is porn worse that facebook or twitter? Hell no.

Will it work on bed bugs? On mosquitoes? Houseflies?

...and demand that the principle "ignorance of law is not an excuse for breaking it" must be abolished.

That is an issue between good programs and poor programs. Take Firefox and OpenOffice, they win on every occasion, because they are good. And they are open source. Some other programs appear to be bad, so they lose. Period. The seeming significance of "openness" of the source comes just from your preference. You like open source so it's interesting for you to see how OS products fare. If you take some firm CrappySoft Inc, and take the survey of their products you will probably see that their bad products get dumped in favor of better competing products and vise versa.

I don't get it. I can type very fast on a QWERTY keyboard (although I didn't learn touchtyping), and I can type almost as fast on Russian JCUKEN keyboard, and there was time I had to use russian YAWERTY keyboard and I was typing faster than average (and I am not a genius, either). Given that, I am sure I can master Dvorak too and add it to my arsenal. No need to XOR it is a good old OR, guys.

I don't get it. Why anybody would want it? I mean, ok, I tweet that I'm having a party, so my friends would know. But why would I want my friends to know if my washing machine has finished doing my laundry? I mean, yes, it's useful to make me know that, but that can be done much much easier and without twitter.

They managed to break some basic functionality in the release. For example, <a ... target="_blank"> doesn't work as expected and opens the link in the same window. The funny thing is that was okay in the betas. Oh, and they dare speak about some acid test or html5? Ridiculous.