The newer Mac laptops replaced that second Enter with another alt key.
Fn + up arrow = page up, Fn + down arrow = page down
The swapping of the meta keys makes sense because the primary meta key you use is Command on the Mac.
Don't really see what's wrong with more meta keys on the opposite side of the keyboard. My think pad has more than one Ctrl and Alt. Considering that Command is the Mac equivalent of Ctrl it's exactly equivalent. Except my thinkpad has that silly menu key.
And virtually every PC has a hard eject button on the drive. So what?
Yup Delete is Backspace and if you want forward delete hold Fn+Delete.

I think if you actually bothered to learn how to use your Mac laptops keyboard you'd like it a lot better.

What long history of advertising on Slashdot? The guy opened the account yesterday as far as I can tell. Apparently I missed the memo, people used to measure their egos with uptimes, no it seems to be the smaller your UID is the bigger your ego.

The ash from coal plants is radioactive. Coal has low concentrations of radioactive elements in it. When you burn the coal the radioactive elements are among the ash and are at a higher concentration of the ash than they are of the source coal.

http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/tenorm/coalandcoalash.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html

A lot of the commentary about radioactivity and coal plants come from this Scientific American article:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

Many people read the headline of that article and didn't really bother to read the article. The argument that Scientific American makes is that a coal plant puts more radiation into the surrounding environment than a nuclear plant. The nuclear waste is still obviously more radioactive than the ash. However, the nuclear plant carefully controls their waste and materials.

In both cases the radiation released is low and not a health risk.

Clearly the editors have a time machine and they knew that the 3rd explosion was going to happen. This also explains the constant dups due to editors becoming confused about the ordering as time as they zip around.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/asia/15nuclear.html

I don't know about the person you're responding too but I actually routinely get better latency via IPv6 tunneled via Hurricane Electric than IPv4 through my own ISP.

Fact of the matter is that IPv6 should be slightly faster since the routers don't have to recalculate a CRC for every hop. HE has multiple tunnel broker servers around the world. So you can pick one close to your network and the only CRC latency you'll eat will be the hops between you and the tunnel broker site.

Example:

--- leguin.freenode.net ping6 statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 205.932/215.147/262.156/16.624 ms

--- leguin.freenode.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 280.228/329.908/374.605/31.503 ms

And I just picked a random IPv6 host that I knew I could target the same machine via either network. I didn't dig around to find a machine that gave me better latency via IPv6 than IPv4.

Your analogy is nonsense. I deplore Apple's policies with respect to the iOS machines. So I choose not to use them. However, I do like my Macs. Apple has done absolutely nothing to stop me from using my Android devices. There are no bouncers trying to stop you from using your legitimate purchases from other vendors.

What the hell does Canonical have to do with this? It's not like Canonical invented sudo. They are hardly the only OS (Linux distribution or not) that prefers sudo over su.

At least pipe it to view: curl http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/14/2357242/ | view -

Or you could use -R on vim (but view is the same thing): curl http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/14/2357242/ | vim -R -

So you don't get bitched at to save it when you're done.

ICE hosts The National IPR Coordination Center. The vast majority of their work is related to tracking down counterfeit goods that come in from other countries. Thus the reason why ICE hosts the coordination center. However, a variety of law enforcement agencies participate.

http://www.ice.gov/iprcenter/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intellectual_Property_Rights_Coordination_Center

Built by Andrew Carol who is an engineer for Apple.
He had a website about his building complex lego machines at: http://acarol.woz.org/
And specifically information about this one at: http://acarol.woz.org/antikythera_mechanism.html

Unfortunately, the site seems to be down but Google still has a good cache:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:acarol.woz.org/antikythera_mechanism.html
http://google.com/search?q=cache:acarol.woz.org/acarol.woz.org

That's a fair critique. Perhaps he should have pushed harder for these things.

There is an equally valid counter argument to that though. He did get quite a few things done as of late. There's a risk had he pushed harder on the other things that he would have gotten nothing since he would have spent that time fighting for something his opponents would have fought equally hard against. I'm not in a position to say how strong the opposition to these initiatives were.

Has he?

He's trying to close gitmo but first he had the issue of figuring out where to move the prisoners nobody wants them. The nobody wants them issue exists on two fronts. There are the prisoners we want to release but we can't send them back to their country of origin due to likelihood of torture or that country doesn't want them. This group is likely largely innocent but nobody will take them anyway. Then there is the group of people we want to continue to hang onto. He's tried moving them inside the country but has met resistance with local governments as to location of the prisoners.

As far as stopping the tribunals, he's also tried to do this. However, Congress is trying to block funding for moving the prisoners out of Gitmo which makes it difficult to try them in a normal criminal court. This also makes it hard to close gitmo.

We're drawing down troops in Iraq. At this point we officially only have military advisors to the Iraqi's there. Even these advisors are slated to leave unless the Iraqi's ask us to stay. They've signaled they have no intention of doing that. So I think it's pretty safe to say this is largely a promise kept. Maybe it isn't on the time frame you'd like but it is in progress.

As to your last complaint about ending welfare for the rich, I'm not aware of where he promised that. Nor is it really clear what you mean by that. It could take on many different meanings.

Now if you want some legit things to complain about here are some things to point at Obama that he is actually responsible for:
Indefinite detentions using Afghanistan as opposed to Gitmo.
Ordering assassinations of US Citizens without trial.
Supported the immunity for telcos for spying (technically while he was a Senator but his administration is continuing to uphold this).

There are legitimate arguments to make that Obama hasn't been as great as many people would have hoped, but as far as I can see he has largely upheld his campaign promises to the degree that he has been able to carry them out in spite of active efforts on the part of Congress to prevent them.

Who is covered by FLSA is not just about the work they do. There are of course jobs that are automatically considered exempt.
Even IT guys can be exempt from FLSA.
http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html

They can hold their annual meeting anywhere they desire. Their bylaws say as much. That has nothing to do with where they are based.

I grew up in Kansas. I moved to the Seattle area. Identifying myself as a Kansan after living here for 13 years would be ridiculous.

If UPS still had major operations here outside of the same sort of operations they have anywhere else I think you'd have a case to call them a Seattle company, but they don't.

Boeing moved to Chicago, but a pretty good case can be made to call them a Seattle company in that they still have a very large operations here.

However, if 80 years from now Boeing has no production facilities here and only have a similar support infrastructure that they have at various airports around the country. Has moved their corporate headquarters 3 times since leave Seattle. Then I'd say you're just as absurd calling it a Seattle company as you are for calling UPS one.

If you're insistent on calling UPS a Seattle company, then I guess we'll just have to disagree.

UPS is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Atlanta. Except for history pre-1930 UPS has no more connection to Seattle now than they do to anywhere else they deliver packages.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NDU4NTF8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1