I gave up Windows at home a year or so ago. I use RHEL6 on the desktop, though I'll bet Ubuntu is a smoother "consumer" experience. My main problems are not "bugs" - and of course Windows is far from bug-free - it's that Open Office (and the various permutations) simply doesn't stand up to Microsoft Office, but fortunatly I don't use it that much at home. I'm not a "gamer", but it seems to me, that's one of the big hold-backs for the Linux desktop.

At work, it's still Office, mostly for Excel and Outlook.

Amazon wants to show specific products to people that might be interested in them? Shocking!

Also, Adblock Plus, and maybe shop at other businesses that don't have the objectionable practices as Amazon and Wal-Mart?

If you read the Wiki article, the vans referenced were used to detect over-the-air analog TVs. No details on any such digital ttv detection.

They were hosting full episodes. If the guy had taken them down, the forum could have gone on, but people mostly went there for the episodes, so that would have killed the site.

Also, 25000 users is "huge"?

The show was (has?) "jumped the shark" and they had to do something to revive the franchise. Getting rid of the Pretty Inturns is a great idea to breath life back into a show that should have been canciled several years ago.

Yeah, I could just see here bouncing up and down on Adam's enormous penis...

Many thousands of people are interested in such things, only a extremely tine percentage are interested in actually booking a flight to these locations.

For example: http://www.virtualglobetrottin...

Kindly remove your tinfoil hat before the microwave beams cause it to catch fire.

Not at Slashdot...

People seem to miss the point that this was a criminal activity for profit.

But of course here, entertainment that cost millions of dollars to create must be free.

Beyond My Ken

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...

Primary offender.

Satellites do not fall under this law's definition of "drone".

Well, yes, of course. When Microsoft throws that much software license cuts and maybe a few junkets for the mucky-mucks in exotic places for âoeconferencesâ, well, this is the way it goes.

Is there anyone who really thought it would go any other way?

Yes.

Here you go...

Oh they are "merely imagined" by a lot more than just the US Government. And that's why they have actual value.