You are suggesting you can provide a fiscal multiplier effect of 3000 which is not consistent with current economic estimates.

openSUSE has 4.4 in Tumbleweed OSS repo already.

A tiny bit of problem of HDD is that we don't see motherboards are being made with the connectors for HDDs made a few decades ago. Same thing might happen to the controller you might buy today in order to read that HDD in a few decades. So if "decades" is being the time frame then Optical disc might be better because the drives are usually made with some backward compatibility.

I thought you can just take screenshots and put them in paint. But then again, there was Aaron Schwarz

Those exact same adults will be signing their forms and marriage certificate using electronic keys. Perhaps we should teach these kids ECDSA before they hit the age where they need to sign things.

I wonder why the init system choices can't be configured to be more like Desktop Environments -- from the install media you choose which DE you want from a boot parameter and done. That way, even then default is systemd or gnome, people can still go on with their lives in a simple and easy manner.

who needs napkins to do calculations when you have slide rules?

Not to mention lead paint. What assurance do we have that they are not selling us lead ink?

This post means the police is busted about telling people encrypting their phones is a bad idea.

Natural selection?

It's not like they actually "earn" the money, so it's more like "I make money, you get fucked".

What assurances do you have that they are not patching the checksum as well?

The problem is not everything can be accessed with SSL. Which makes me wonder why aren't we checking the files and checksum from different exit nodes. I don't think all of them patches the same malware do they?

I thought "%500" means modulus to the integer 500?