What do you mean by "evolved"? I mean it in the technological sense, like going beyond what nature offers you to survive.

You're right, I too feel for animals suffering, but would we be here talking about this if medicine had not evolved like it currently has, thanks (also) to research on animals? It's a sad choice you must make. And maybe you would not find a high enough number of human patients to experiment with.

A friend of mine working in a lab with rats, told me that rats live a very comfortable life there, at least until they are "used", arguably more comfortable than rats living in the wild. I know, this is not exactly a valid excuse.

I realize my post sounded cynical, but research on animals (or part of it) can contribute to save your life or the life of a loved one, so you have to choose, and it's sad to say but humans have evolved more than other animals, and exploit this condition to try to fight diseases and other problems. Maybe who knows, one day we will be able to save all the other species in exchange, think for example if one day a big asteroid will be directed towards earth and we will be able to deflect it.

Please everyone, let's draw a line with animal-right defense. It's rats here, the same rats we exterminate in thousands when they approach our towns. And we eat a lot of animals more intelligent than rats (we = majority of people). I would argue that curing lethal diseases and paralysis is as important as eating. Another thing I really hope for the future is having transpantable organs grown in pigs or other animals.

Really? Really? Tell us again when you'r really dying.

Obviously the average slashdot reader can always do better, be it rocket science or neuro science. Ask a paralysed person it this is good news or only "marketing". And why test it, risk some human lifes from the very beginning.

Not sure if you mean tuning each mirror, but as a minimum I expect the whole structure to rotate during the day to follow the sun, or you'd waste a lot of its potential.

People choosing Debian usually have a minimum of knowledge so that they can easily avoid choosing the default desktop from the installer, and pick another one later, usually by installing a single master packet that will manage all the dependencies automatically.

Uhm, you're talking about a tablet, so a slightly border-line system for Debian, even if from the specs it seems more like a laptop with no keyboard, not sure why they call it a tablet...

Talking about luck, I recently read that there are a tenth or more of "missing" nuclear bombs, lost around the world by both USA and USSR.

Really, from what you say they're so "illiterate" that putting them in front of a computer can only get damages. If their only need is e-mail, maybe they should use other forms of messaging, even SMS could be better. Otherwise, give them a computer with a very limited interface, email only, like e.g. those kiosks in the shops that allow you to print your photos.

Should read: "We want everyone to use Chrome. We even try to install it surreptitiously to your machine when you download other programs."

You just described the present!

Does someone know a trapezoid?

Please, stop those mantras "copying is not depriving the other of its copy, etc, etc". We're talking about not paying for something you must, and something that cost a lot of money to produce (movies, videogames). Period. Stallman's phylosophical nuances do not apply.

Mind you, I'm as "pirate" as average you, but people here costantly trying to *defend* it, I can't tolerate. And I'm a big fan of free software and Stallman's doctrine (a little less of himself), but I see lot of people trying to read it as the bible, and especially trying to extend it to totally unrelated fields.

Well, "thief" sounds worse... I'll stick with "pirate".