I half agree. Linux does not have to be "like Windows" to be suitable as a Desktop OS. It does however help people make the transition, and it could certainly use the market share in order to influence driver developers and video game developers to think of Linux. There is something to be said for keeping the things that make Linux lovers love it, but this is the beauty of having hundreds of distributions.

I could run a script to count the number of SSH login attempts I get daily but I can guarantee you it's in the 1000s. Windows is not the only system that gets targeted. In this case I assume they're trying to get in with weak passwords, but if there was some security vulnerability I bet they would use that instead.

Considering each of the questions is on a scale perhaps a more accurate conclusion is that we've become more honest about our own lack of empathy; maybe because such tests have become more anonymous and we are far less accountable for our answers than we used to be. Although that would mean that we've gotten better at measuring it...

The moral of the second game seems to be that if you (and this is an encouraged practice) dig through a potential date's belongings while they are busy preparing dinner for you, you will find all the necessary evidence to pass judgment upon them in a couple minutes. In fact, you really don't need to dig much further than the first piece of evidence because if they are a bad person, everything in their house will point to it! The situation is completely black and white, and hence the logical extension is that if you find yourself in such a relationship you aren't very smart because the signs were everywhere.

If creating a server that actually implements the save-game functionality is too difficult, then perhaps they could just save the process's memory to a file and reload it. Sure the save files would be on the order of gigabytes but disk space is cheap.

Is this a recurrence relation? Accidents in cars cause people ... more people in cars to cause more accidents.

I don't think training it to react to what you are thinking about is the best idea. It should be the combination of the words you're thinking about and the intent to write it down on the computer. This way you can still have mental tangents without having to worry about constantly turning off the device.

Not to mention some sort of a power source, unless they have ways of running it off of your body's energy.

Assuming that time in jail does rehabilitate, someone who is not predisposed to violence and has in spite of that committed a violent act is probably in need of more rehabilitation than someone who let slip their violent nature. Nevertheless, I believe all sentences should be equal, and exceptions like these allow for a corrupt system.

We all saw it, time to put out an affidavit for the arrest of Coward, first name Anonymous.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the technological "leap" here seems to be that any node can be the server of a wireless communication.

Seems to be suggesting that a Wi-Fi Direct device will host an access point for the notebook computer to connect to. Otherwise how could such communication with a non Wi-Fi Direct node be possible? There are already certain wireless cards that allow running your device in master mode (appearing as an access point) so that others can connect to you. Combined with a repeater configuration and wireless N speeds and you have the equivalent connectivity of Wi-Fi Direct. So is the leap here that it will be made easy and standard?

Yes but the vulnerabilities they studied were all over the network vulnerabilities which could be exploited without physical access.

All these robots need is a lightweight linux installation running an ssh daemon to communicate through. Then nobody has anything to worry about.

Who wants to come to my Windows 7 Ultimate Frisbee party? MS is supplying the frisbee.

I wonder how many people play WoW offline?

That may be so, but do you really think the value of that extra click is worth anything from a /. reader with this mindset. Next thing you know you'll be suggesting they should follow some of the ad links on the site, or buy some of the site's affiliate's products. This may even be enforced by having your affiliates track when each user visits their site or fills out some survey. Nevertheless, no matter what you do, people who believe that the web should be free will continue to believe so.

There's also a greater cause being supported. Paywalls are not conducive to an enjoyable internet. It's similar to the radio where I used to be able to enjoy music throughout the day. Over time radio air-time has been increasingly filled with ads to the point that it's no longer enjoyable to listen to. If websites require more forced advertising it will get to the point that you are forced to see more advertisement content than what you actually wanted to read in a day.