I just watched a tv program on a guy who was in charge of an annual exhibition (a home design/decor thing). He said "We had to make the displays better every year, so people will keep coming. This just wasn't possible, so we just make it *different* every year, and hope that people would think its better." I think the same applies to microsoft windows. They just move stuff around and hope people will confuse 'different' with 'improvement'. Really it just means people waste time and effort hunting for the new hiding place of the stuff they need to use.

What is the slashdot rage against body scanners all about anyway? Are you all a bunch of attractive young ladies who constantly have to worry about security guard perverts? When I was young i used to get body searched just going into shops in town (which was normal at the time where i lived), so i really dont see what the fuss is about.

This is all true... but... the previous poster is complaining about the lack of a live cd, and i agree with them. I built my LFS system from their live cd (a few years ago now), and i suspect a lot of folk would like to approach it this way. If you are starting with bare metal, a convenient livecd is exactly what you need.

I met the guy. I wasn't impressed. He gave sort of a general talk on his historic work (atom bombs etc). When a physics undergraduate asked him if he had the choice would he have chosen to become famous for something other than helping to create such terrible weapons, Teller took the (well meant) question very personally, and more or less shouted him down. Right or wrong, I didn't like his apparent absolute certainty that the work on the atomic bomb he did was for all the best. Later in the evening he gave a lecture on his ideas in superconductivity, but after a few questions from folk, it appeared that he did not have the maths/theoretical physics to actually put his fuzzy idea into anything that might be usefull. My impression was that this was a mediocre physicist who only got an audience due to his controversial fame.

According this this logic my fridge is also greater than 100% efficient, and breaks the 1st law of thermodynamics. Turned on again after a defrost, it generates more heat than the electical energy it consumes from the socket. (If you ignore the cooling inside the freezer)