Thanks for your script. I modified it to also block posts from StartsWithABang just in case he comes back

So you don't see any problem with people being made to pay for a copy of windows they don't want and will never use?

I sure do.

The details page for every piece of software available in the software center includes a "License" line which indicates the type of license, i.e "Proprietary" or "Open Source". If you care about whether your software is proprietary or not, you can just scroll down a bit to find out what license a piece of software uses. If you're the type of person who's willing to go to the effort of only using free-as-in-speech software then scrolling down really shouldn't be too hard.

Such as? I've never had any problems.

I adore the power of using sql queries on logs.

How does journalctl fare in terms of having a trigger set up to automatically do things with logs when they're inserted?

So you've never tried using rsyslog to log to a database then?

Actually, the real reason behind this is that they were about to get their asses handed to them in court by the ACCC. They've been trying to fight the ACCC's lawsuit, claiming that Australian consumer protection laws don't apply to them (they do). As a last-ditch effort to avoid massive fines, they've decided to mostly comply with our laws, and it's simply easier to have one policy for all steam users rather than only offering refunds to Australians. Their wording is 100% spin.

Hah, you're doing well. I've had them take over 2 weeks just to send an autoreply.

Apparently they were dealing with the same "backlog" 6 months ago. Or perhaps they just have a permanent backlog... which would indicate that they should hire more support gorillas, or maybe ban their support gorillas from playing DOTA 2 on the job.

There are known caves on mars, see here (has pretty pictures).

It's hard to get imagery of caves in the side of canyons from orbit, and our rovers haven't been down into the canyons much if at all, so we haven't seen them yet, but I would be suprised if there wasn't. Water/limestone is not the only way they can form - e.g there are known lava tubes on mars. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy has a habitat in a lava tube. And we know that mars had a lot of water in its past - what do you think formed the canyons? :)

Also the caves where we build habitats don't have to be in canyons. From a logistical point of view it's probably better if they're not, i.e it's difficult to land a spacecraft in a canyon and annoying to drive from your non-canyon spaceport to your canyon habitat.

I find it funny and sad how many people talk about how it will fail because it "wont find marketshare". This assertion demonstrates your complete lack of any understanding of what it is.

I assume that by "0.5 marketshare" you mean 0.5 percent? for that they'd have to produce more than a couple of hundred of devices. So, yeah, it's unlikely to ever get "0.5 marketshare". Which obviously means its a failure, because everybody wants marketshare, right?

Go back to drooling over your iphone, pawn, and just hope nobody's watching while you jerk off over apple's marketshare.

a guy named Martin Bryant is calling me immoral?

Lol.

If you've ever made a complaint to the ACCC you'll know that they're awesome but their responses always boil down to "we dont have enough resources to investigate every complaint". The system is working as intended, yes... where the biggest dodgy operators are concerned. But it took the ACCC years to actually prosecute valve, and valve has enough resources to drag on litigation for months and months. It's effectively possible to get away with violating these laws if you're only a small operator. The ACCC does an excellent job, but they could always use more funding.

Or you could just not build shoddy crap that breaks within 2 years. Then you spin it in the US by making ads which say "won't require replacing after 18 months!"

I'm dont know or care about PSN, but the ACCC disagrees with you where steam is concerned.

Perhaps you should inform them that the consumer laws don't provide the protection they think it does, since you obviously know better.

For those who can't be bothered researching, Australian consumer protection laws guarantee us a refund in the event of a product that is not fit for purpose. For example, a game that doesn't run. If an item I have purchased is not it for purpose, then I am entitled to my choice of a refund or replacement. Furthermore, it's a violation of our consumer protection laws to say you don't give refunds, because you're legally required to.

I took "consumer technology" to mean "consumer-grade technology", which most certainly could include the app, regardless of how limited its userbase is - my intepretation was that (s)he was talking about quality, not public availability.

If you read the article, you'll see that:

and:

That, right there, is consumer-grade technology and a consumer-grade fix. As opposed to well-thought-out, well-tested technology with failsafes and whatnot.

The article also says that the ipads "powered down", which would seem to indicate an issue with the consumer-grade hardware, too (assuming that's actually what happened).

I've been using xfce daily for over 3 years, it's great, I don't miss gnome at all.
I do tend to use "alternate" taskbars though - cairo dock and avant window navigator. :)