Next will probably be an application that records audio from the cell phone microphone and tells what you're typing from the sound of the keys. Or even what you're seeing on the screen.

Not to mention that these are MIT students. #1 computer science program in the world. Not exactly a representative sample.

Not that there even is an aids virus. I thought it was HIV.

Well, Comcast is subject to regulation because they're granted a monopoly on local infrastructure and have taken uncountable piles of taxpayer money to build their network on public property, so they can't just do whatever they want.

Unauthorized access sounds criminal to me. Penalty ceilings probably go way up too, and Zuckerberg's billions are probably starting to look tempting.

And it's not like the advertisers are losing money on it - you'd never buy anything from an ad.

I would never even click on an ad. They're not losing any business by me blocking ads, and anyway I'm not obligated to render every piece of data that comes in on the wire exactly as they want me to render it.

Google Chrome comes out on top and the writer seems to make a good case for it.

The most interesting conclusions seem to be:
-Firefox is the most memory efficient with multiple tabs (!)
-Opera uses a lot of memory
-No browser really has a performance advantage across multiple sites (for example Facebook is really optimized for IE for some reason)
-Even professional writers don't know how to use the word "faze"

When the summary is taken straight from the article, it's a good idea to at least link to them..

Maybe because nobody can figure out what it is with such a useless search term as "Go".

Not to mention easily confused with the game Go.

Nobody's posted the video link, so I'm top-posting.

This is the specific video he was ordered to take down.

The best thing he could do is stop studying Java for awhile and actually study algorithms or AI or graphics or whatever he's interested in. Picking up the syntax of a new language in a month is trivial, but unless you know how to do something with it you're doomed to write "Cat" and "Horse" and "Animal" classes forever.

Wrong

Wrong.

And - wrong again. Unless you are referring to UAC.

Hiding root inside a cryptic shell is a good security practice to rely on, and brag about over Windows' user-friendly elevation prompts?

Oh really? Windows approved drivers??

There's even such a thing as Linux approved drivers??

You forgot to preface your post with the "Emotional Rant" tag...

What. A lot of hardware like video cards and peripherals are supported only in Windows, and if Linux users want it they have to deal with second-best vendor drivers or reverse engineered drivers.

Please direct me (us) to this new research that supports this claim.

See my comment about X crashes

Does that somehow equate to a "crash"??

Yes, when X becomes unresponsive and I have to kill it with zap or alt-sysrq-k then that's a crash.

Spend a lot of time supporting Vista do you? Is Aero your dancing bear of choice?

OK then, share your experience, if you managed to upgrade enough machines in your Windows ME environment to have any.

Windows has many significant flaws, but these aren't any of them.

viruses and bluescreens aren't just "part of computers", but part of windows

Malware isn't just a part of Windows. If the user is stupid enough to run malicious code with elevated privileges then their computer is going to turn into mush like you describe, regardless of the operating system. Hiding root inside a cryptic shell doesn't really count.

Also, bluescreens haven't been a real complaint against Windows since XP pre-SP1. Any lingering problems are due to drivers, and Linux has much nastier drivers than Windows. Crashes are rare and Windows handles dying programs better than Linux. Badly written X applications occasionally cause my X to freeze up but I've never heard of such a thing on Windows.

Pushing the limits of engine efficiency is certainly productive research...

Just to put my voice in against the chorus of support for SUSE, I think Debian is the better choice. Packages, features, tools, and etc but more importantly it's free. The DFSG is aggressively enforced by the project. You can't say that with a straight face about anything Novell has touched.