Its a very sad state in the world that any article - even those who not even talk about global warmning - get dragged into that flame war by the deniers.

Actually the reverse is probably more true.

The fact that 25% of jobs are claimed to be dependent on IP does not mean that those job will get lost if no IP existed. There is alot to suggest that most of those jobs would still be in demand even if IP does not exists. Because someone need to program that software. someone need to write that music and someone need to write that book.

The business would change yes - but there still would be a demand for the products so how much loss in jobs would one see if all IP was no longer enforaceble ? And how many new business oppurtunies and new jobs would we not see if IP was abandoned ?

Removing IP can lead to a world with even more jobs available then before.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Bubblesort is a very easy algorithm to implement... and works well for a few entries.

Hominin a subtribe of homonids

Homonids is great apes thus humans gorillas chimpanzea orangutans

Homonin are all those related closer to humans than chimpanzees thus neantherthals etc

Well the cave could technically be in an mountain. Over ground level and inside the mountain thus making it a mountain cave.

Given the fact that the gain will reach 0 one day. Its built in that it will happen.
That day the bitcoins will slowly get eroded away and lost in the big bucket in the sky.

In the end most bitcoins will mostly be nothings - lost bitcoins that will never be recoverable and the total worth of the bitcoin market will be highly exaggerated without anyone knowing if they still exists or are lost.

The scammers behind it has just moved from country to country and when done in one they moved on to the next. When gone through all the worlds countries they are back in the same old countries again.

So its still ongoing - they have never stopped. The fact that not Interpol has managed to stop them is a sure sign of the fact that the police is nearly incapable of stopping common criminals who operate out of other countries.

Just upgrade to Linux Mint or some other Linux distribution. It should world on old hardware.

The correct answer are:

It's the new and improved version, they changed the name.

If you are right and comments are bad.

It's time to shut down slashdot.

The fact that open source projects accept code from others don't mean that anyone can enter code into a project. New code is checked by a maintainer before being added to the project to make sure its dont suck like closed source code often does.

Most of the old bugs are not in open sourced projekt. Most of the open source projects find that security problems is in new code.

The smart people like me are slow to change to new code unless they have to because of security reasons. Doing that
other have time to find any bugs and straighten them out before we use the new code.

Its a win win from a security standpoint to use open source. If you want - you can always do your own code review if you think something fishy is going on.

or maybe just one word to many - remove "No"

Its definitly a joke. Its a very typical Linus joke.

As everyone know the US goverment has created laws that forbid anyone to publicly admit that they inserted backdoors into the code.

Sadly the slashdot editors aint too knowledgeable today so they actually accepted this so called "news" story.

Since Microsoft bought out a big chunk of B&N from Nook to prevent B&N from destroying their "Linux" patents in a patent trial I presume this will be the new WP based Nook.

Thus who cares ? I don't, this just looks like another slashadvert for Microsoft in the making.