Ditto on the space pens for blobbing, and it should also be noted that their points are nowhere near the fineness the OP asked for. But as a general use pen for writing, the Fisher AG-7 is the best thing i've ever found, and I'd recommend it to anyone.

It shows that they can be touched, that the MPAA, despite however much power they may hold financially and politically, still can't even protect their own website. It's symbolic justice for those of us who would wish to see these bully organizations stood up to every once in a while.

If only the media industry hadn't gotten that money from us in the first place!

No sarcasm at all! I'm a poor grad student in the humanities, so fancy tech toys are not something I can afford, but when I find something that I like, I stick with it for a long time. With my last phone upgrade, I went with a Palm Centro because it was cheap, and I needed a new device to put my eReader software on, since my old Palm z22 had finally kicked the bucket a few weeks before. I'll probably continue using the phone until the battery starts to fade, but for now, I'm still getting a comfortable 3 days worth of use before it's even lost half of its charge.

This can't be right! My phone still runs PalmOS v5, and I refuse to be statistically insignificant!

Clearly he doesn't have any--otherwise he wouldn't feel that way.

It seems to me that, yes, it would be appropriate to call the whole operating system 'GNU/Assfuck' to distinguish it from your Assfuck kernel alone. 'Assfuck' without 'GNU shit' would be pretty lonely and boring, and most uninformed computer-dumb users (with tech knowledge levels as low as my own) would wonder what the point of Assfuck is if there's no shit to play with.

It's refreshing to see so many other prodigies expressing their opinions on this matter. That's one thing that I like about slashdot--everybody is smarter than everybody else, and it's one of the reasons I love reading everything everybody else has to say.

However, I feel that there is an underrepresentation of the majority at work here: the stupid people, and being one of the token few who make it to slashdot, I feel obligated to express my opinion so that all the smartypantses can understand the perspective of the child's peers. If you stick this kid in too many classes with dumber, older students, you'll de-motivate and humiliate them, which will provoke us into retaliating through socially ostracizing the student. This will deplete his social resources and inevitably drive him to a future of loneliness and depression that will be the cause of his burnout.

I recall fondly the many nerds I de-pantsed in the hallways during my sixth year of high school. Sure, I may not be able to install an operating system without a GUI, but I CAN throw rubber balls in gym class with enough force to smash a kid's plastic frames in two after she makes me feel stupid in math class.

The threat of death won't stymie the flow of low-level underlings and lackeys who peddle drugs on street corners. There will always be somebody jobless and hungry, and whether you're stealing a loaf of bread at the threat of your hand getting cut off or selling drugs at risk of getting killed, the severity of punishment is a minor factor in the decision making of these people. Yes, maybe you'd kill off a lot of awful people and social pariahs by doing this, but you'd be killing a lot of momentarily down-on-their-luck normal people, too.

Just because there aren't drugs to traffic doesn't mean the problem will be solved. Organized crime will not vanish, but merely shift its business to some other form of social exploitation. There's a lot more than just money involved in this trade, and the cartel members aren't just going to go get normal jobs if the demand for drugs diminishes. It's clear already that they know threats of violence can be used to extort money from teachers--and I hate to think how this might escalate if it became their only source of income. But I do agree with you on the legalization issue. We gotta get tax money from somewhere, and I think drugs would provide a wonderful source of funding for social programs.

Hey, I will have none of this 'retarding-it-down' nonsense. I may have mental diffabilities, but being a semi-literate computer user, Gnome is even a bit too simplified for me.

It was a great place to start learning, though.

google needs to convert the Ogg Vorbis files over to MP3, which is neither free nor better. What is the reasoning behind this? Would implementing basic support for Ogg Vorbis be beyond the magical powers of google, or did they have to strike up some evil pact of exclusivity and goat sacrifice with the people who own the MP3 patent in order that their product would have a familiar/attractive format de/compression capability?

Why are responses to pranksterish antics and merrymaking always so boring?