What is with the Starter Dot paper notebook ? Wouldn't it work on normal paper .... ?

>>Monsanto's property must be in there somewhere, right? There somewhere and then some flushed down the pipes ...

I think, it was Mahatma Gandhi who said, "Nature has enough for every man's need but not for his greed."

top crap patents ? IBM is a great company; but some of its patents are just laughable !

In a smarter planet only IBM and its patent mongers will exist ...

It would be great if Watson could filter out the frivolous patents. If it had a hilarious bone (chip ?), it would tickle (burn ?) till it hurt (smoke ?).

Patient: The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Watson : The wine is good but the meat is rotten.

Because it is proportionate to readership ?

Period.

I liked the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cobra_(novel)/.

ok, I am going to use type-writers and telegrams. Or, perhaps, I will just use pen and paper and communicate with postal mail or pigeons. No computers, just good ol' vintage commerce style. The wheel has turned full circle ?

...coming soon a Firefox add-on/applet/daemon/distro that is fingerprinting-proof.

So, which one - if any - would be a LTS release ? I am really bothered about it. I am so far away from bleeding edge, that I want to change from one LTS release to another alone; let alone six-monthly ! And how about software developed for a particular release ? "Tested on Ubuntu release Nov 24 2010, 11 PM GMT+5" ?

But, what about the carbon footprint ? How much of life supporting medium is required for a given 'computational' bacteria ?

There is an app for that !