Absolutely, I did this for my brother's machine, compared to my parents machine it's remained extremely tidy and worry free!

The only issue is Firefox updating. On Windows XP, Firefox cannot update itself when running in a non-admin account. (Bugzilla:407875) Probably means my brother is running a months-old Firefox..

Makes me wonder if Internet Explorer would actually be safer for him, at least it would get updated automatically.

It's great how fast it is, but it also eats ridiculous amount of RAM. It easily can take 100MB per tab on popular sites. It's hard to notice on machines with 3GB RAM or more, but after I moved some people with more modest configurations from Firefox to Chrome, they started experiencing heavy swapping and constant PC slowdowns. And as we know, when your PC is swapping, any other performance optimization pales in comparison. Another major blow for Chrome is its plugin performance. Visiting a site with Flash is sure to kill any decent performance you're experiencing with Chrome, never mind your CPU or RAM. Even sites like YouTube, where other browsers have zero problems.

Or if Debian is not good enough, use Slackware

...6 months releasing cycles are a joke. Just look at how long Windows 7 has been tested before release.

I thought atheists defined $DEITY as localhost.

The "Pew Research Center" canvassed the membership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS publishes the Science journal which has a distinctly liberal bias.

Note carefully: I'm not saying that's a bad thing. However, it means that the sample is biased. I'm actually surprised that as many as 6% of respondents identified themselves as Republicans.

Today, a century and a quarter after its founding, Science continues to publish the very best in scientific research, news, and opinion. Whether you're concerned with AIDS, SARS, genomic medicine, Mars, or global warming, or just want to keep abreast of where the scientific world is and where it's going, you will find something worthwhile in Science.

tequila really burns when it comes out your nose.

Corporations wildly mis-underestimated how the internet would take off.

A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews. I was disappointed. I consider myself an audiophile - I regularly spend over $1000 on cables to get the ultimate sound. I keep my music-listening room in a Faraday cage to prevent any interference that could alter my music-listening experience. Sending any signal down ordinary copper can degrade the signal considerably. While ordinary listeners might not notice, to somebody with even a rudimentary knowledge of sound, the artifacts are glaring. Denon should have used silver wiring (hermetically sealed inside the rubber sheath to prevent any tarnishing, of course), which has a significantly higher conductivity than copper. Furthermore, Denon needs to treat the wires they use in the cable with a polarity inductor to ensure minimal phase variance.

Needless to say, I returned the cable and wrote an angry letter to the so-called engineers at Denon.