Are you a scientist?

Somthing like this?

Apparently, everybody is supposed to love and support Israel. At least if you are a US politician.

Scott Adams has always been careful to note that his "political" ideas have no sense and that he doesn't know anything about the topics he talks about. He writes these articles just because he likes to write thought-provoking articles that make people discuss something different than the boring and predictable political bullshit that you find anywhere else. From TFA: "If you think my ideas for fixing the republic are ridiculous and impractical, you're probably right. If you have better ideas, this would be a good time to share them, because whatever you've been doing until now hasn't been working"

No one in their right mind would ship Pulseaudio (amongst other things)

Right, nobody in their right mind would do that.

Except that everybody is doing it, and it works just fine. But the dinousars who got an opinion about pulsesaudio several years ago and don't know that these days pulseaudio works fine and provides features that nobody else does will never change their mind.

Many people like it.

Sure, Kinect is going to make iPhone users want to buy a WP7-based phone...

That's a separate (and not very healty) project.

"The compromise of kernel.org and related machines has made it clear that some developers, at least, have had their systems penetrated. As we seek to secure our infrastructure, it is imperative that nobody falls victim to the belief that it cannot happen to them. We all need to check our systems for intrusions. Here are some helpful hints as proposed by a number of developers on how to check to see if your Linux machine might be infected with something"

No, LILO doesn't work fine. LILO always was incredibly unreliable, it needs to know the fixed location of the kernel inside the disk (if you move your kernel it stops working). I can't count the times my system stopped booting because of stupid things like that. GRUB in the other hand can read filesystems so it doesn't need to know where kernels are, only the stages are neccesary. Even if it fails to find a kernel it has an interactive editor where you can list the available files in the /boot directory, which is useful for recovery. Also, LILO doesn't support UEFI.

Except that most users actually love the awesomeba. If anything, it seems that Firefox is trying to do what real users want, at the expense of geeks.

ACPI was not designed by Intel alone, Microsoft was also there. And let's remember what Microsoft tried to do:

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
To: Jeff Westorinon; Ben Fathi
Cc: Carl Stork; Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
Subject: ACPI extensions

One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows specific.

It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work.

Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.

Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open.

Or maybe we could patent something related to this.

"Microsoft wrote an article about how they weren't making it harder to install Linux which described, in detail, how they're making it harder to install Linux. Here's my response" - https://plus.google.com/109386511629819124958/posts/GXc9y7E5uZX

That's not how the European Union works. Germany is not going to rely on France to provide them electricity, they are going to make plans to produce themselves all the power they need - and export to other countries, if they can.