How is that different from any internet communications platform? If someone hops on a random public computer, they could easily anonymously send those death threats or other nasty messages via an email, some other anonymous website/service, or even through a payphone of all things. The only thing that YikYak provides is convenience. I don't think that if there were no death threats before YikYak, that any of the death threats sent through YikYak would have any shred of credibility. Someone isn't going to say "wow look at this app that I can send death threats through, I think I'll go murder someone that I wasn't going to murder before".

That being said, the installer will install systemd by default, so you either need to remove it after the fact, or monkey with the installer to force it to use sysvinit instead.

It's not being "forced" upon users. It's still entirely possible to have a Debian system without systemd. It's not Debian forcing it on users, it's Gnome depending on it. If you don't need Gnome (which you especially wouldn't on a server), then you don't need systemd.

The prolem is that it's difficult to allow access to just the top 25 sites when everything goes through CDNs and pages have scripts being pulled in from 30 different sites (if my noscript menu is taller than my screen, I generally question the developers if the site). How do you determine what stuff to allow access to when those top 25 sites require so many other domains to function?

I'd rather pay to have a little bit of nuclear waste buried beneath a mountain where it will never be seen again than have stuff burned and pollute the air, have oil spills, and have totally-not-related-to-oil wars. Who pays for all of those things? The public.

Well that is my name, because I don't post things on /. that I wouldn't mind having associated with my real identity. I wouldn't even think about posting something even remotely close to the things the people in TFA posted. Do I ever say things on the internet I wouldn't want attached to my name? Sure, but I sure as hell wouldn't attach my real name of all things to it.

I think the scariest part of all of it is that someone could easily just use my name, post bad things, and I'd take the blame for it.

Better question is how dumb does a troll have to be to actually be linked to their real-life identity without someone actually cracking their account security?

Shhhhh...you're giving them ideas.

So why not have it group only when the taskbar is full? IIRC that used to be the default, but now it groups even if there's plenty of room.

Windows doesn't care. If it ends with exe, it considers it a compiled executable, end of story.

What they should do is stop hiding the concept of the "home folder" from the user so much. It would be a lot easier than providing a bunch of library links to subfolders within the home dir.

Fun fact: They aren't actually called "My" Documents and such, they're just called "Documents" and explorer sticks the "My" prefix on them. Do a dir on your home folder and you'll see the actual folder names.

The main thing for me is the default taskbar layout. Why does it use unnecessarily huge icons by default (even before Win8 and it's touchscreen stuff)? Why does it group all the windows of one application into one button, making it take longer to switch to specific windows? Why doesn't it display names of the open windows by default even if there's plenty of space on the taskbar?

Microsoft seems to have a fetish for hiding as many words and buttons as possible from the user. That seems to be their definition of "user friendly".

Well, it doesn't really matter whether it's a script or a compiled executable. You run the file, and it executes. If you really need to know, you use file, but the truth is you can simply treat it as a black box executable file in all but a couple corner cases.

To the contrary, I love bloatware because it means other people are subsidizing my PC that I'm going to be installing a fresh OS upon receiving anyway.