That is just as bad. You use your own account's password to get root access. If you want something that 'works just fine', use su (or if you want to run a single command, su -c)

Maybe we'll see the Rise of Linux. :D

I prefer repositories. You can't really be walled in, because you can just add some other repo in and have all those packages too. It's not like it's so hard to navigate either, it's just that most package manager frontends remain very technical, maybe excepting the ubuntu software centre(?).

I would rather have augmented reality glasses. Implants are expensive and require surgery, and contacts are annoying (not to mention how expensive an LCD screen+computer embedded into a contact lens would be...).

The guy who hacked Comodo is trying to break RSA, as mentioned in his Pastebins. :P

Wow.. um. I'm currently running a 4yo handmedown computer with a Pentium D. I have a browser running, xchat, gedit, and I'm listening to pandora. And the only thing I would need a new CPU for is so I can a: watch 720p html5 video, or b: compile GCC in a fraction of the time. However, if I guessed, the vast majority of the population only uses their computer for a web browser containing facebook and youtube. I know people who /only/ use their computer for facebook (and that's when they're not using their phone for it).

One running windows, obviously. [/bad joke]

I'm not sure about the G9, but the tablet is somewhat locked up in previous generations. But you can install the firmware from their site which unlocks it (and voids your warranty). I have a 101 G8

Oh, this seems interesting. Stuff your computer with semtex and booby trap the case. :D Although, upgrades would be a major pain. :P

I forgot where, but I had heard DDR3 RAM will last over an hour and still retain 99% of its data (although it'll be completely inverted after a certain time). I suspected something similar for DDR2 (which I have).

"Police say they are still trying to crack the password. ®" I think that'll take a few trillion universe ages given it's 50 characters long.

My /home partition is encrypted with a 27 character password. I've felt like it's not enough for a while enough, but apparently the police are a lot clumsier than I give them credit for. (I'm not a criminal or anything, it's just that I'm paranoid.) (If anyone knows of a utility that will clear my RAM on shutdown, I'd appreciate it...)

I recall reading that /dev/random will pull from any system modules that are capable of being noisey. Like radios or network equipment. It would make sense too. Also, network packets are not a very good source of entropy. Atmospheric noise from a radio is. Network packets have structured data being sent through them, often in the form of english text.