I propose that an excerpt from /dev/random must be appended to every post.

Perhaps our efforts can divert a substantial amount of government time and resources towards cracking the evul Anonymous cipher. You know, so they have less time to get actual work done. Slashdot is quite good at that in the general case, but in this case, these are jobs that nobody should be doing.

I wonder if this could count towards my community service...

I shall now reflect on the possibility of a caffeine intake that is arbitrarily close to zero

Trust is usually a four letter word to me, but my speling kinda sucks

On the plus side, it means everyone on Slashdot gets a discount by spoofing a cheaper user agent.

Morgan Greywolf,

Your friends at MediaSentry have detected numerous illegal downloads of your post from around the world! We have logged several hundred IP addresses accessing your content via the popular post-sharing site "Slashdot." We at MediaSentry take copyright infringement very seriously and would like to see every man, woman, child, and printer responsible brought to justice.

We accept all major credit cards and most souls (sorry, major deities only).

Wow...that's amazingly bad design. So, a vista laptop hibernating in some kind of hibernate-y place such as a laptop bag can decide to turn on. For updates. I wonder how far it will get before, fans going full tilt, it shuts off due to a scary thermal reading.

Idiots.

Yes

I noticed it on Intrepid but not Hardy. I assumed it was an isolated issue with my touchpad...

I'd like to see an incredibly stealthy virus - one that stays out of the way to the point that it isn't detected for some number of years.

Have it patch key parts of the Windows kernel to degrade performance in subtle but believable ways...
Lobotomize the scheduler so that context switches occur much less often than they should for responsiveness.
Kick up the swappiness from Ridiculous (stock setting) to We've-gone-plaid
Divide the given buffer length for each I/O operation so that CPU usage goes up and throughput goes down.

I wonder if we'd _ever_ notice.

...that they didn't use X in the first place. It's heavy. It'd also be a huge pain in the ass to get power management and wakeups under control

IMHO the biggest mistake with Android was the decision to invent their own (shitty) set of UI widgets. The interface designer is a joke. They should have ported the relevant bits of Qtopia.

Applets are second/third class citizens these days - the sandboxing is a joke now too.

But it's not dying on the server. Not anytime soon.