Love 'em or hate 'em, Apple is a bulwark in this case by not supporting secure booting on Macs. As a major global vendor, enjoy using them as a base of operations as you oppose UEFI.

>I don't know of *any* company that would set up their HR staff for such a scenario.

Then they shouldn't use Skype, period. Skype is so notoriously unreliable, that for FB to not have a plan to reconnect a bad Skype connection is absolutely unprofessional.

I wouldn't hire someone who uses the word "whiner". It shows a lack of empathy and ability to recognize that situations can be improved.

My biggest thing with this is not that they found a drawing disturbing, but that somehow a drawing is probable cause for a completely separate building to be searched? I don't see how his family lawyer isn't going to have a field day with this.

Till you see their ridiculous FSF statement at the bottom saying they hate man pages and to check the info page... as if anyone would want to do that. I spent some time trying to find one just now but didn't. Sad face. The ln man page is close to what I was looking for:
The full documentation for ln is maintained as a Texinfo manual.

Absolutely. Sometime around 1999 or so I bought a RedHat 5.2 distribution. I had no internet. No existing friends base who also used Linux. Just my AMD K6-2, a 10GB hard drive, an unsupported video card, and the manual that came with RH. Now, that manual wasn't "bad" it just wasn't a great first time ever tutorial. I was stuck on things like "the root partition" - equating that to "/" took a while. Simple things like that, or simple now, took a while to figure out. But having no easily working GUI made me stick it out. Eventually I bought a Matrox G-400 which fixed that aspect of my user experience, moved on to FreeBSD and BeOS and back to FreeBSD and ever since then it has continually been Linux the easier way.

This whole thing has started to seem odd to me. (Back to initial portions of this sad event.) The US constitution seems to first grant/protect free speech, and then grant/protect the right to bear arms. These are both dangerous and can have consequences. At one point in time, they were deemed to be vital - so vital they were the first and second things mentioned when creating the written laws of the new country's government. Some are now using their free speech to redefine the extent to which others should be able to keep and bear arms. I really don't know how to go about this discussion. Guns are weapons, they can do certain things, and quickly. That is why they exist, true. But isn't that why they exist? Our forefathers used the most modern and powerful weapons of their day to revolt against a very powerful military force, public opinion seems to be suggesting we the people should not now have the "capability" to do the same as the "costs" while waiting till doing so are too great.

I played a lot of Carmageddon in high school. I had better just hand my keys in...

In this case, I personally believe that she was discriminated against by the jury, because she was a Native American. She was tried many many miles from where she lived and worked, and did not have a jury of her peers.

1. She wasn't "convicted" of anything; this wasn't a criminal case. She was found liable for copyright infringement by making copies through downloading, thus violating the record companies' exclusive reproduction rights.
2. She was also sued for "distributing" and "making available for distributing", but the judge threw out the "making available for distributing" claim, and there was no evidence offered of the "distributing" claim.

So yes, the only thing she was found liable for was downloading.

1. Capitol is but one of the plaintiffs.
2. The RIAA was in fact running the case, with the aid of the record company plaintiffs.
3. Capitol is a record company, not a music publisher.
4. The case was about the recordings of several different companies.

She was sued for downloading, distributing, and making available for distribution.

1. No evidence of distribution was ever offered.

2. The court held that "making available for distribution" is not actionable.

3. So the only thing for which she was found liable was downloading.

This position is no longer at all acceptable since they have been given (political) free speech rights. Thus, as such a "person", tax them.

AMD cpus really are dead, market place confirms.