Multi-monitor support has been rock solid for at least 5 years. Nice troll though!

"Already said I understand the point of it. "

You state that you understand it, but show that you clearly don't understand it, or you wouldn't disable it.

"As what I'd consider a 'power user', one of the first things I do is turn that obnoxious thing off."

Ironically, the first thing you do as a 'power user' immediate exposes you as incompetent.

There have always been a pretty steady stream of trolls (at least since around 1999 when I got here), but what has changed is the quality of the trolling. In general the mean skill level has plummeted so you tend to get a lot of really clueless people trolling a bunch of other really clueless people. The difference is that in the old days you could read a whole flame war and actually learn something, possibly even being amused in the process. That kind of high level knowledge exchange is not just less common, but almost non-existent on Slashdot circa 2105.

"Hmm...okay, let's remove all security with respect to airplanes. Care to fly now?"

Or we could go back to the pre-TSA scenario, which was by no stretch of the imagination "no security", but nice attempt at trying to re-frame the conversation to make it sound like anyone who is anti-TSA is a zealot who wants to allow submachine guns in the Airport lobby.

What does that make the guy watching the retard, happily focusing on the retard, trying to determine if he is happy?

Seriously? You think it is cheaper and easier to produce a semi-perfect circle than it is to make a square?

I predict, you either will or will not someday learn about Occam's Razor. :-)

iNo! You are more iLikely to work at Apple! iCanTell!

Let's go over the Google candidate checklist. Can't log in? Check! Can't use the shift key? Check! Yep, Google is feeling the hurt not hiring you all right!

"This means that new candidates who already have kids, mortgages, medical insurance needs, or even pet food to pay for are unavailable to complete the interview."

Or it could mean that they tend to hire a lot more people who already have jobs when they apply at Google? If you can't see that your assumption that everyone who applies will be unemployed and unable to secure temporary employment is absurd, then there may be a completely different reason why you didn't get rapidly hired by Google.

The danger of falling tools and spontaneous combustion is greater than the danger of just falling tools, so we should be seriously concerned about spontaneous combustion!

If you can't make a non-round one that will not be a danger in that regard you lack basic imagination and abstract / spacial reasoning skills.

If I were the hiring manager, I'd expect an employee to know that the question only applies to round manhole covers.

In the software development field we call being "pedantic" in that fashion "not making assumptions", and we "insist on being pedantic" because we know that is really a disorganized and semi-clued persons way of saying: "OMFG! He expects may to say what I mean and know what I am saying! I can't do THAT!!!," while you try to project your incompetence on us. (Next you'll be writing an ARM design spec and complaining because I don't assume a particular endianness)

IOTW: If I knew you would be my "manager" then I wouldn't waste my time showing up for the interview.

"You have no understanding what "mission critical" means. Mission critical means anything that causes a major failure if the component fails. "

There is no mission critical software in Halo you frigging idiot.

" Do you really think there is a place for Easter Eggs in mission critical software?"

Again, my dear moron, nobody is talking about mission critical software but you. Nobody is talking about easter eggs in Central Office firmware, for example. Just accept that you tried to re-frame the conversation in an idiotic way, hoping nobody would call you on it, and instead you exposed yourself to be the moron you are.

"Fewer software makers are willing to embed open source software due to the high risk of including wide open security holes in their products."

Well that certainly explains the vast majority of commercial embedded systems run Linux, then, doesn't it?

"Aside from the reduced security risks, commercial libraries often come with legal indemnification clauses, which bring extra business value."

Are you trolling, or just a moron? Point me to one software product that doesn't leave the onus on the developer. Just one. I can't wait to see your link. Show me just one commercial proprietary product that says "use us and we'll protect you in court when your/our code gets hacked"