Right. I've read in previous articles that the Chinese pirate huge amounts of software, much more so than in other countries. Furthermore there are plenty of free OSes out there.

So how does it start working if it gets all its power from flies and needs power to capture flies? If it has a power cord to plug it in or a battery, then that pretty much defeats the whole purpose of the "robot" to begin with.

I noticed in the gallery that the lamp had a power cord. If I were going to buy a powered device to kill bugs it would definitely be a conventional "bug zapper" -- a more entertaining option.

WTF is "the Tintin movie"?

Unfortunately pulseaudio has significant problems rendering sound from OpenAL apps such as the RTS game Glest. Sound is very choppy and maxes the processor making the game unplayable. Hopefully either pulseaudio gets its shit together or "mainstream" Linux distributions dump it altogether.

1. Grandma doesn't know what a web browser is.
2. the web server is disable by default.

Good thing I don't use the Internet.

This is the biggest thread I've ever seen that makes fun of a typo.

My school uses CCA and I run Ubuntu. I just have to log in using a web browser for network access.

Windows users have must use Cisco Clean Access Agent, Symantec Antivirus, and keep windows up-to-date or else no network access for them. Of course sometimes one of those fails and they have to reinstall windows.

Simple Syrup USP is actually 85% sugar by weight; so you're both wrong.

Yeah, but hasn't it always been in the back of your mind that nothing in Star Trek ever really took place?? *coughfictioncough*

*ducks*

I've been thinking about getting a whistle or maybe an air horn.

Getting the flu vaccine benefits everyone because if you get the flu you help spread the virus to others, including the young, elderly, and other immunocompromised people.

Have you been getting your yearly flu vaccine?

Hell yeah! I contributed to the wacom hotplugging.

My kids aren't getting anything like an iphone until they're high school freshmen (at the earliest).