Another happy user of Gnome 3 here.

Ubuntu doesn't even come with gnome-shell installed by default, why would they profit (much) from this?

Could you clarify what you mean by this, preferably with a reference?

Eh, what the hell? You are complaining that his "rant" posted online isn't intellectual? Why would his rant need to be more intellectual than a simple statement of facts regarding the censorship (I use the term loosely here) of the video? And can you point me to where he ever makes the claim that being posted on slashdot proves that he won the debate?

Based on your comment I don't think you've bothered to read more than a few random words of these stories and the associated blog posts.

You'll be happy to know that this has been improved in gnome 3.2.

If his job were to - as you speculate - rely on him remaining intellectually dishonest in public, I don't quite see how that's a redeeming factor..

A good reason to get our act together and throw parts of our civilization out into space, perhaps? I mean, better do it now before something like this cripples our space-travel abilities forever and war for resources wipes out the rest of us.

You could argue about whether it matters if we survive as a species or not, but I would argue that we are almost obliged to try our best at doing just that. What else could be more important, if you at all care about anything except your short-term survival and enjoyment of life.

Wouldn't have helped in this case since the article too talks about opt-in. Maybe all you can wish from the slashdot editors is that they read the linked articles before posting a story (which would have cleared them in this case) but there are times they have obviously not done even this.

Replying to myself, it seems to actually be opt-in. Good thing I just answered the Slashdot reader survey with a complaint about misleading and/or outright false stories.

I would buy your argument if it was opt-in. Why does it need to be opt-out?

Can you see a problem with attacking the science just because you don't agree with the policies people are trying to push based on it?

I mean, if someone claims that the fact that the earth orbits around the sun means that we must adopt communism, the right thing to attack is the said "communism policy" by point out the step where they go wrong in their logic ("The earth does indeed go around the sun, but this is why I think this should not lead to communism.").

The wrong thing to do is to start to spew nonsense about how the sun is actually orbiting around the earth.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was left wondering what the hell this was all about.

The short story: "Mailinator is a free, disposable email service". Some site operators wants to block people with this service from registering. There's a way of listing all the domains used by Mailinator (by generating a bunch of new throwaway addresses?). Mailinator in turn has a way to detect when a script is trying to go through this list.

The amazing idea is to detect when a script is scraping this list, and feed it bogus data like "gmail.com".

I think you might have missed the whole idea with patents and how patent law differs from copyright law..

I am not sure if you are aware or not, but gnome-shell does have a menu organized by category. Activities->Applications.

I find myself actually liking gnome-shell once I got over the initial "shock". :-) I'm also using Unity (Ubuntu 11.04) on my laptop and, while perhaps looking a bit sleeker, something doesn't feel quite right.

I would have wanted a separate option for the in-ear type that doubles as ear-plugs. I guess the first option sort-of covers them, but they are (generally) a lot nicer than the loose hanging variety I would refer to as "earbuds"..