Mod parent up! I stopped using paypal anyway when they cut of Julian Assange donations. Scum.

How do I check my display resolution in Linux?

Linux is being used more and more by "unsophisticated" users like me and the group of elderly people I've helped by installing Lubuntu on their tired old computers. Please don't make assumptions for us about this sort of thing. As I understand it, good programmers (and hopefully that included people who make this decision, shouldn't make such assumptions.

Who on earth modded this up??? My Lubuntu runs fine on an old computer. I've been helping old people (another neglected segment of the population) install Linux on their machines. They are AMAZED by the things they can now do that they couldn't on various microsux iterations.

jeez I wish I had some mod points to mod you up. Couldn't agree more.

My experience was the powers-that-be in wikipedia are uneducated kids from the USA. They get their kicks from throwing their weight around. Yes they behave just like bullies in the school playground. I gave up a few years ago when most of the kiddies were anti-science and knew nothing about science. Hopefully that's changed but I can't be bothered "negotiating" with idiots and playing the role playing games referred to above. Their jargon is impenetrable too. As for the idea that the project is almost complete, I laughed so much I nearly fell of the chair. EVERY time I look at an article I find problems. Some areas are a huge vacuum.

I guess you meant "Security Theatre". Recently a rude TSA guy in USA ordered me go through the screen again - this time with my hands out of my pockets where he could see them. I asked him why and he said I could hide things in my hands (he did a scrunched up hand gesture to show me). Wow he was dumb - now I can tell the world how to fool the machine - just scrunch up those bits of metal in your hands.

Young kids should copulate geniuses, then they'd all be smart.

Neuroscience shows that rational and emotional brain functions are separate but interrelated (Ramachandran's take on the Capgras Delusion). Could you comment on this in relation to religionist thinking?

As a former indoctrinated religionist, a hard thing, after throwing religion away, was finding a meaning in life. I then realised there was no meaning and then I realised I should create my own as I go along. Would you care to comment?

nice to see

yeah right. As if I'm ever gonna trust a computer network as a voting system. Better spending my time advocating for real democracy. ie proportional representation, not that FPP junk that UK and USA have.

People who sat for eight to 11 hours a day had a 15 per cent increased risk of dying within three years. Research, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, tracked more than 222,000 people above the age of 45 in New South Wales over a three year period. Disturbingly, the increased risk was not offset by other physical activity during leisure time, meaning those who sat 11 hours a day had the same increased risk of death regardless of whether they jogged for one hour each day or not. BUT breaking up sitting time every 20 minutes with two minutes of light to moderate movement improved glucose metabolism.