People who feel compelled to explain how desktop X (KDE SC 4, GNOME 3) destroyed their workflow/unhinged their view of the universe by changing the three crucial pixels on which everything stood are mad

Let's get this straight-you don't think OS UI is that important, and you scoff at the idea of a "workflow." Yet you call yourself "KDEUser" and think KDE is the best desktop ever? Schizophrenic much?

PS Yes, Virginia, a poorly-designed UI can inhibit your productivity and make you feel powerless. That's why people are pissed off about GNOME 3. For everyone that's "foaming at the mouth" about it on a blog somewhere, there are 100 more that feel the same way. But rather than whine, they just go back to GNOME 2/Mate/KDE/whatever. I guess that makes them insane?

Linux on the PS3 was a "great feature"? You must have never used it. The scene was dead for a year before Sony pulled the plug.

Maybe if you and everyone else who cries about it on Slashdot had used it and submitted code, they wouldn't have taken it away.

And what's this racist bullshit about "the Japanese"?

We all understand what Sony did. It's nothing like your awful car analogy. Everyone here understands what a firmware update is, and what you're describing ain't it.

You're free to hate Sony for any reason you want...but if you really used Linux for anything other than dicking around, you'd know that PS3 Linux was DOA for at least a year before Sony pulled the plug. That's on the community as much as it is on Sony.

Honestly, I'm much more concerned about the ability to lend games/buy used games than I am about Linux. I'm already disgusted by the lack of value in the console market (pay $60 for an incomplete game, then get nickle-and-dimed with DLC). I seriously doubt I will get a PS4 unless something drastic changes.

I'm sure all 13 of them will be heartbroken. PS Speaking as someone who makes a living using Linux, Linux on the PS3 was beyond useless.

The scene was stagnant for a year before Sony pulled the plug. If even half of the people who cry about it on Slashdot actually used it, maybe Sony wouldn't have taken it away.

When a 3rd-party platform gets popular enough, it is adopted by one of the major parties. See Prohibition, womens' suffrage, abolition, civil rights, etc. That is the way 3rd parties influence the political process.

Yes, it's a feature game designers always take out when people start to whine. Stupid majority. Most games would actually be more like games if they would allow permadeath. Or at least severe penalty for dying.

Games would be more like games if they included more of the least fun parts of reality? Did you develop "The Sims"?

On the other hand, if trained dogs detecting drugs on a property shouldn't allow the cops to obtain a warrant, what's next?

Dogs obtaining warrants? Why should we stop there? How about...dogs issuing warrants? Dogs sentencing offenders, dogs interpreting our laws. Yes, I agree that we should cede the judicial branch to the dogs! Screw the Constitution, something that drinks out of a toilet and licks its own butthole should have the authority to lock me away for life!

Great argument. Vegas was run by gangsters, thus we should continue spending billions of taxpayer dollars prosecuting victimless crimes! You've convinced me, master debater!

Remember, it's only a problem when unions screw over the public. When corporations do it, well, that's just capitalism, right Ronnie?

Sounds like someone confused their elections with their erections!

So the way Pakistanis showed they were OK with this was by arresting those who did it and publicly protesting the attack and praying for the girlâ(TM)s health.

Actually, they didn't arrest the perpetrators, who actually pulled the trigger. They arrested the "mastermind." The Taliban spokesman says that they warned the girl's parents multiple times before shooting her. And no, they didn't arrest him either.

Thank goodness those US telecoms stand up for their customers' constitutional rights! They'd never stand for unconstitutional surveillance on their networks!

The real reason the neocons wanted Saddam gone was that the no fly zone was expensive

Yup, so expensive compared to fighting a protracted 'police action' on the ground for decades! Those neocons, they're nothing if not thrifty. They also seem to have a real penchant for strengthening Iran. Heckuva job!

THIS IS WHAT NEOCONS ACTUALLY BELIEVE.

Yes, the US had to attack Iraq because a neutered dictator who couldn't even fly over his own country without getting blown out of the sky was an imminent threat to the most powerful nation in history. It was a matter of national security, dammit!

Certainly not a wasteful imperialistic adventure that bankrupted the country, killed hundreds of thousands of innocents and left us in worse standing than ever in the Middle East.

When Slashdot needs a meandering wall of text, there's only one man that can get the job done!

[female singers] BENNETT HASSLETON!

(A smart car vrooms through an intersection, crushing JON KATZ who is walking across the street at the time). BENNETT jumps out of the car and pushes his huge nerd glasses back up on his nose.

BENNETT: 'Sup, motherfuckers? I heard you needed some BORING-ASS NAVEL-GAZING! (winks at camera)

[female singers] BENNETT HASSLETON!