Bleeding edge with respect to nightly releases of packages, no. However, Fedora has been at the forefront of distros as far as adopting major changes with its 6 month release cycle. Fedora was one of the first distros to adopt systemd (default in 15), the major Gnome 3 releases (17 has 3.4 and 18 will have 3.6), ext4 (available in 9-10, default in 11), btrfs (available in 13, probably default in 19), etc. I do agree that they could keep some packages more up to date, but I personally haven't come across many distros that are more current in this respect.

You can always find a more up to date Linux by manually updating software, but considering releases as a whole, Fedora is amongst the "newest" distros.

As always, YMMV, and there are packages that are good examples and packages that are bad examples.

I highly recommend you read the cheat sheet available here; it provides a good overview of the interface and all of the keyboard shortcuts. Once you get used to them, launching/switching applications, etc. is ridiculously quick.

There are also a ton of extensions available that will let you tweak the shell; they're installed/managed by pointing your web browser here (kinda non-intuitive, they need to work on that).

Finally, you can configure a bunch of the typical things you'd like to be able to tweak by installing gnome-tweak-tool. Just run

yum install gnome-tweak-tool

as root.

Fedora (my distro of choice) is about as bleeding edge as you'll get (and still be relatively stable). It is of course based around YUM/RPM, though. I honestly love Gnome 3 on it; it needs polishing, but I find it much more efficient for my workflow than Gnome 2/XFCE/whatever. YMMV

They have to pay for the ex-Google Mappers somehow. It's either that or convince people to start renaming continents.

There is a BSG mod for Homeworld 2, though I haven't had the chance to try it yet: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hw2bsg/

http://www.keepassdroid.com/ + Dropbox? Smartphones are essentially ubiquitous; taking your passwords with you shouldn't be a problem.

How long before we get a Tomorrow Never Dies-like situation? One would hope that the military models' encryption is sufficiently hardened, but given the security records of pretty much every company out there...

Um...yes, GP was correct to begin with, at least within the US, though you are no doubt just trolling.

from libertarianism.com

via wikipedia, with citation, though I did not check it.

By suing the W3C claiming that they violated look-and-feel patents? *ducks*

Posting to undo mis-moderation, sorry.

You are in fact correct. Was not trying to be anti-Apple, just misread the article the first time, sorry.

Great, so this will necessitate lugging around even more adaptors for Apple products in addition to the five (exaggerating) different video port adaptors? I find it unlikely that the 3.5mm jack is the limiting factor in device thickness, so it seems a bit odd to abandon the standard...

Your communication with the notaries is encrypted, however, which would prevent any editing of the returned certificate, assuming that the encrypted channel to the notaries is secure. Of course validating those keys is still a problem, but since they appear to be distributed with the program in the case of Perspectives, they can't really be hijacked, unless your initial download/install of Perspectives was intercepted, which should be able to be reasonably secured.

One possible solution to your posed problem is use of a Medea element. Professor Bruce Hay at Caltech has done some fascinating work developing genetic elements that ensure spread of an introduced gene throughout a wild population (see http://www.its.caltech.edu/~haylab/), specifically for the purposes of using it conjunction with an anti-malarial gene.

Just avoid holding it in that way.

Regards,
S. Jobs