Don't worry. Next year is the "Year of Linux on the Starship."
Now if this damned driver would just compile.

If any of those things are internet facing, we can forget about the terrorists. The idiots already won.

Not to fall into the trap of IT elitism but I'm not sure that a little fear wouldn't be good for the industry. I'm certainly not advocating that we start hacking reactors or power grids but given some of the horrors I've seen, a boogeyman might do us some good.

I think you've all been whooshed. Or at least, I hope that's what just happened.

They'd have paid out so much in "bug bounty" that he'd be broke by now. That's what GP is going for, anyway.

I thought we agreed on a 7'2" Persian.

The act of abortion may not be but having to have a wand shoved up your hoo-hah surely is. Regardless of how you feel about abortion, I think we can agree that penetrating rape victims and victims of sexual abuse is a Bad Thing.

Always a pleasure to find another Cracked.com reader.

Carry on.

Wrong. If people want to feed themselves garbage, they should have the freedom. I'll grant you that. But the second you start feeding the same garbage to your children, personal freedom is over. Having seen the kinds of lunches (read as: processed corn) children bring to school, it borders on child abuse in many cases.

I don't think $DEITY means what you think it means. I'll just get you started, the Judeo-Christian god has a lot of competition.

Anything found as a result of pulling you over would be inadmissible. Smelling your weed would be irrelevant because the officer would have never been in a position to smell it had the system not flagged you. In the States anyway.

Unless the officer was going to pull you over for some other demonstrable reason (which is likely where the LEO would push) anything found would be originated from the faulty stop.

You're confusing morality with how people will actually behave. Morality describes how people *should* behave and is certainly universal. Your nuclear Holocaust or zombie apocalypse may change people's willingness to perform bad acts but it does nothing to change the moral status of those acts. Cultural relativism is nothing more than moral escapism; a convenient way to ignore atrocities that happen a sufficient distance from "home".

Why not use any of the open filesystems and provide an Autorun driver install. There are existing ext2/3 drivers for Windows and even if there weren't, I doubt that a FS driver is beyond Google's engineering department. FAT wasn't the best decision, it was the easiest.

And before someone complains about usability, complex peripherals (which a phone really is) have been using this technique for ages. If a couple clicks to connect your phone to a computer is too much, then a smartphone is probably not the best choice.

The sweet, sweet irony of your username is lost on no one.

If I'd have known that knowing my way around a command line would make me more qualified than "many Windows admins", I'd have saved that tuition money.

For Sale: BS in Computer Science (Lightly Used)

I could definitely be wrong, but my understanding is that the Microsoft patent racket stems from patents on the FAT filesystem. Android formats its storage as FAT (to include compatibility with Windows, methinks) and MS saw dollar signs. Kind of incredible that the manufacturers are being charged for the "privilege" of maintaining compatibility with Windows.