Ummm...are you saying that's a good thing? I strongly suspect that if I passed that comment by the few systems guys I know, they would start twitching.

Doesn't specify a time frame. And 25 years is still sooner than never if the Microsoft dev team don't catch it themselves.

Red Hat Linux

pwnt

I'm just tired of hearing people on Slashdot constantly misuse the term, Mr. Constantly Call Everyone on Slashdot Stupid with His Dunning-Kruger Effect Signature.

Ironyyyyyyy

Anyone who can't spell hypocrisy forfeits the right to invoke it in my book.

You should try something more exciting like "Velociraptor" or "Analrapists."

Good lord, that needs about 3-5 more vowels. Or a Kleenex.

Even a stopped clock...

ROGUE! Not the color red in French!

Hey, they're already paying a TV license for the BBC, right?

See, I can only see this going downhill from there. If "talks" start, the result will inevitably some sort of legislation the people (yes, the U.K., but I'm sure U.S. legislatures are creaming themselves over the idea of ~precedent) don't want getting rammed down their throats.

I really love this* SOPA/PIPA repeat stuff they keep trying every so often.
"Are you sure you won't let us--just a little bit over here--"
"NO"
"Okay, we'll come back in another 6 months when you're in a better mood."

* yes, yes, not this

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
"To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
"To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
  - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Yeah, because that never goes wrong.

Believe me, I am all for having a viable third party. Having a democracy with problems is hardly limited to the U.S., though. Maybe we're just the most glaring example of it.

France or Canada, sure. Russia? You really trust Russia to overthrow the government and then just pack up and go home, these days?

So they're choosing to be stupid already, might as well be stupid for science?

Can't argue there, I suppose.