Actually, my initial comment was intended to be humorous, as the AC IMHO did a good job replicating the style of Mr. Beck. That Mr. Beck's way of speaking resembles The Almighty Shatner is a topic for another discussion :).

So responding to an AC is trolling? Someone needs to learn to moderate.

Glenn Beck, is that you?

Really? Have you looked at your thumbs lately?

Just wait. In a few years, they'll be applying for a bailout, too.

More than Half of the world count south and north america as 1 continent named America. So for some that jump would not count as intercontinental.

That must be the half of the world that doesn't know geology or plate tectonics.

Car seats of are so much work and yet for children over 2, they are no better than seat belts.

Well, until auto makers start designing cars with child-sized seatbelts, I'm afraid we're stuck with them. As a parent of a toddler with another child on the way, the amount of extra work a child seat represents is miniscule compared to trying to get a three year old to pay attention.

So you won't mind if your SSN, bank account number, or secret 'sheep sex' photos are taken?

That's awfully presumptuous. Unless you can objectively compare a Vonnegut story to a Niven story, it's all just a matter of (somewhat) informed opinion. I like Lucifer's Hammer more than Moby Dick. Is it better or even as good? Hard to say.

Seriously, how is a PC a unit of processing ability? And one thousand million GB sticks is an Exabyte (hence the name). Perhaps you can just say 10^18 bytes. This is slashdot, not msnbc.

Or even a billion GB for those of us not in the Commonwealth. Of course, not everyone knows how big an exabyte is, but a billion 1 GB memory sticks is a pretty good visualization.

I guess size really does matter.

...welcome our new mouse-levitating scientific overlords.

I doubt it.

This is getting quite a lot of publicity and Telkom won't like the implications.

I suspect that they are already hatching (sorry) schemes of which Terry Thomas would be proud.

Also, don't make the mistake of assuming that Linux is an organized, centralized movement with some form of control emanating from the center.

think herding cats. One of the reasons I love it. I use windows at work (because that's what we use), and linux at home. I tinker with linux cos I like to do so. An OS is simply a tool, and bashing one over the other and arguing about who has the best script-fu or biggest e-penis is an exercise in ignorance -- but can, at times, be hilarious.