I'm just going to submit that there is a certain expectation by the public that their government not behave in a manner best described as... fucking silly?

Does the maintainer of dpkg deserve support? Yes.
But this isn't a request to support him, it's about drumming up some cash to translate a book he wrote seven years ago.

It's a small shift,just a few millimeters. That's comparable to walking in light snow. A tad more work to be sure, but I can't see most people caring as they get to feel "Green". Also, in case you hadn't read the article they seem to space the tiles fairly widely, so walking around them is an option in light traffic at least.

Why are you spending $20 on a caddy for 160gig when a new 1tb is $70? At that point it sounds more like keeping old hardware around whether or not it's purposeful. I agree that it's not worth completely junking decent drives unless you're extremely paranoid, or have been using them to store pirated content That said with new replacements being so cheap I just can't justify the increased risk of failure if they're doing anything important. I trust the old hdds for my minecraft/mumble/irc server, but definitely not with my backups or the box I do my day to day work/play on.

Yeah and when I was a kid I bought Scotch Bonnet based hotsauce that came in a flask with similiar warning labels, effective marketing for masochists, heh. In the end it was nowhere near the pain of eating a fresh habanero, and while that was painful it certainly wasn't dangerous.

Just more proof Paladins are developer favorites. When was the last time you heard of a Sorcerer or Bard becoming the central figure of a globe spanning religion?

The world is full of assholes, and at best giving them the attention they crave makes you an idiot, at worst it paints a target on your back. Just... throwing that out there.

Oh god I was waiting for one of these guys to show up.
" We're all a part of the Earth Mother, man. I'm like connected to all life when I breathe So you see it's like the same thing all over man, We're all just breathin'. "

...No.

What did you think the fit of pissing and moaning over DRM was really going to affect their bottom line? It's a bit of bad PR they can hand wave as propaganda on the part of baby eaters, pirates and terrorists.
This may shock you, but Sony hasn't crumbled under the weight of the rants about boycotting them yet, either.
Punishing shitty companies is actually quite difficult, unfortunately.

Uh huh. And the computer illiterate aren't going to just run what they're told to as root? or call for sudo rm -rf?
Education is the solution, Securing the OS is important, but you'll never cross that last mile without completely locking up the system unless you can trust your users.

Interesting, Looks like the legal drones in both companies need a boot in the ass.
No mod points though, unfortunately.

How many times have you seen this story on Youtube? I'd be willing to put money on this being a submission either by the kid himself, or someone close to him. What he did was cool but not at all newsworthy.

I don't mean to rain on anyones parade as I'd love to see more hands on experiments offered to kids but what do you think the chances are that a school could afford to reproduce this and a fair number of other experiments at even $20-30/pair of kids given how their budgets are being slashed lately? There are plenty of excellent experiments which can be performed on a shoestring budget but unfortunately some schools are finding that they don't even have that laying around.

It seems the argument he is making would be more akin to being forced to unlock your toolbox so that authorities could double check you aren't hiding those six missing people inside.