when I run something as root I always triple check. One of my dumbest mistakes was a typo in a script (that was completely stupidly written anyway)

rm -rf $PATHTYPO/*

...yeah... luckily I was not root but if I were... boy...

If you have good provisioning (cobbler+puppet FTW) you can cruise control as root ;). The main reason to use users+sudo is in environment with multiple administrators. you have better control and log over who runs what. if everyone logs in as root through a certificate/shared password you have a recipe for a disaster.

I prefer using ghostery to block some ads/trackers/beacons

however viruses require "active" cooperation of the user. you don't have good attack possibilities to infect servers. Windows servers are not a huge part of botnets, it's the windows workstations (and a lot of them are using illegal copies so they're not properly updated). Targeting linux workstations would be "easier" in that regard however desktop usage of linux is still not high enough (and the users tend to be more computer literate) to be feasible. add the diversity to it and you'll realize you have much better chance of success (and larger possible profit) targeting windows or android...

and you completely free to use noscript. but don't expect my source code. no, you're not entitled to it, period...

If software (and generally computer) business worked like Richard Stallmann envisions it we wouldn't be even half way where we are now. Still waiting for GNU Hurd...

Or, you know, you can NOT use my site if you don't like my javascript... that's the only thing you're entitled to...

Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Slashdot, and then Slashdot goes out... and the corporations sit there in their... in their corporation buildings, and... and, and see, they're all corporation-y... and they make money.

enjoying a tv show/movie/band - ok

being obsessed with a tv show/movie/band - not ok - and it doesn't matter whether the show is MLP or Star Trek. I don't see a difference between a brony singing the MLP theme song in public and a Trekkie going grocery shopping in full Klingon mask...

yeah, because alcoholism isn't destroying families every day...

While I don't use linux on desktop anymore I still check linux compatibility on all the HW I buy - you never know when you'll need TRK or backtrack. Not to mention if steam for linux/steam box kicks game producers into providing linux ports I might even return to linux desktop some day (in the time of lots of ram and multi-core CPUs it's not such a problem to run windows in a VM for win-only stuff).

I have a NSD powerball (250Hz) and a Prohands Pro medium finger exerciser (tension of 7lb per finger). I use the powerball when I feel my wrists are getting sore (after all day behind the computer or playing the guitar) and the finger exerciser when I'm thinking at work (I'm a programmer so I do a lot of that :) ).

> It's not blocking foreign businesses. Don't do bad things and you don't get to pay fines. So if I own a restaurant I should promote the menu of the restaurant across the street to avoid antitrust cases?

it's not just the no numbers. the way the hours are marked, the hands look EXACTLY the same... Not to mention it awfully looks like the clocks we used to have at school that was built during communist era in Czechoslovakia (except the red second hand - it didn't have the circle at its tip)

> Seriously though, if you didn't set up your Grandma's machine to be remotely administered by you when you installed it, then you probably aren't qualified to be using slashdot. yes because my time is abundant and I can take care of a wide network of computers for friends and family... I'm always thrilled when I see the linux crowd oscillating from "it's for everyone" to "but not so much". > Windows crapware But I remove the crapware at the beginning, give her limited user rights and am set... The crapware on windows computers is usually "value-ware" from the manufacturer of the computer. Clear install of windows 7/8 has no crapware and mainly, windows DOESN'T install crapware as part of a regular system update...