I'm inclined to say econ, but that's not everyone, just political science majors.

In reality I think the most important 101 course would be a real, serious reading comprehension course, this is more than statistics, which you dont really need to take to understand how they can be manipulated. Being able to pick out what is really going on in a paragraph and what the writer is trying to hide from you is an incredibly important skill in our society, whether the writer is a lawyer or a blogger.

In the same vein I would say that a Critical Thinking 101 course would be equally important and get people to.... wait

Scratch all of the above. A real, serious course about the structure of american government, our laws, and the importance of civil society and pluralism. Forget any specialized knowledge, if they understand that corporations dont control government and have an appreciation for rule of law it really doesnt matter what else they do in life.

Its easy, all you need is to already know what information it is going to send!

Those of you who are married surely have large amounts of data on this FTL communication device!

Haha, right now we're having a hell of a time getting other human beings to be friendy and they are quite a bit smarter and more dangerous than any robot, so until the meat is less dangerous than the quartz I think it is a grand waist of resources to try and make robots "friendly." To tell you the truth there are certain things that real intelligence should be unfriendly towards.

Another government money waister that should go tits up, how fitting.

Thats all well and good Mark, but see there is this little problem, which is that 99% of all governments in the world (and probably 90% of all users on the internet) cant distinguish Internet from IRL and in fact are actively pushing them together in ways which should be quite alarming to long time net users. Lack of privacy would be fine if the government couldnt punish you for it, but they can. Every single legal system extant today has not sufficiently dealt with the realities of cheap and fast information, they were all constructed over hundreds (some times thousands for those of you living in countries following in the tradition of Roman law and Cannon law) of years where the basic assumption was the certain physical facts about the universe protected individuals from each other and from their government. That is no longer the case, and until it is we should all be very very cautious.

God did it! God teir troll that man is.

From my own experience its not so much a specific constant frame rate as it is the fact that the frame rate fluctuates. If all game developers made sure that their games NEVER dipped below 30fps during major action (fps obvs) that would be fine, but when 30fps is the average between 45 and 15 fps we have a big problem. Heck, even a drop form 60fps to 30fps is noticable and disconcerting. I bet if you were to hook players up to a machine that could measure emotional responses you would find that sudden drops in framerate elicit strong negative responses which negatively effect performance.

What the hell is a nettop that does not use local storage doing with a 64gb SSD harddrive!??!??! Also what the hell is it doing with 2gigs of ram!? I'm calling bullshit until we get some real info. If these are real they could cut the cost in half by using a 16gig ssd and 1gig of ram and see zero performance hit this isnt a gaming rig ffs.

ISOs? Who needs those when you can install your whole system with any arbitrary livecd and an internet connection?

Oh look, my namesake. ^_^

Some day they will find out that we've been faking it. Don't EVER let them find out about "first order approximation" or we will be sitting around trying to explain Taylor's theorem to them for the next 150 years >_.

Try to call anything else a "pie" and I will show you cheese and crackers with a layer of tomato sauce inbetween.

See, linux is great because it means your hardware is always cheap. That is of course if you are smart and only buy the 4 year old parts that actually have kernel support. Go go ATI drivers.

Sadly I've had to resort to playing L4D2 at (holy crap wikipedia doesnt even LIST this) 732x458 or something since my gtx8800 cant keep > 60 frame rate for anything larger than than >_.

The real badguys already use proxies, so way to go google, punish the stupid wannabe badguys >_. Well I guess social darwinism is still in. Also, they may say it, but they still index it. That said there are ways for google to really increase privacy but then the wouldnt get their precious data and they would fall behind so its a damned if you do and damned if you dont. Also, after reading the old somethingawful leaked AOL searches I think we can agree that sometimes it would be better if you could just call the police when you saw search logs.

I personally have found that you can use fluxbox's keys file to bind just about anything, so I have keys bound that launch a script which calls xrandr with the right options and modes for my monitors, works prefectly.