There are an unbelievable number of use cases for forwarding X. Even the web browser example you gave - perhaps I don't know how to tunnel my IP traffic (but srsly, ssh makes it easy) and i want to modify my routes at home....it's painless to just tunnel X for kicks.

Granted, most people that know how to do one can do the other, but it's extremely useful and I will be sad to see such an architecture go, if it goes out of common use. X is great.

We don't need to import the hardware. Just the bits resulting from the hardware's availability. Fin.

Is your bank really IE only? Browser spoofing with an extension doesn't work?

He was convicted of obstructing/resisting, not assault.

http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1193

I had the same problem, and I needed to fix it. I was a transcriptionist and got paid per page, so my typing speed directly impacted my pay. Typing properly will make you type faster, so I learned. You should use xletters. It's what I did. Just play the game for 15 minutes a day and do not allow yourself to use the wrong fingers to type. Done.

Am I the only one who was entirely terrified by this headline?

I absolutely wish I had mod points as well. We hired a guy one time that argued about design patterns with me every. single. day. He never produced a single fucking line of code we could ship. Took me three months to finally bother with firing him. But his professors all thought he was great!

Side note: when the fuck did it happen that someone could graduate college without being able to write a coherent english paragraph? I had at least 2 underlings that I had to ban from communicating with customers on account of their ineptitude with english. I hate that these people graduate, and hate more that I assumed someone with a college degree could write meaningful english. Lesson learned.

Bravo, sir. [slow-clap /]

I haven't run into a comment on slashdot for years that made me snort :)

They also work wonderfully with the nokia n900 fwiw...

I understand your skepticism. I will tell you, it's misplaced. I'm a professional developer (actually own a software co. now, but I still code much of the day). I've worked long days in text editors of all sorts (notepad++, notepad, Visual Studio, JEdit, TextMate, etc.). I did not grow up with vim. It took me ~3 months to learn it to the point where I was as effective in it as I was in other editors that I grew up with.

You mentioned that you haven't used vim enough to know whether it's true or not. I have. I've used almost any editor you can think of. Multimodal text editors are win. There's no possible alternative to this statement.

Anyone that's a vim/emacs expert can edit text easily many orders of magnitude faster than someone that uses something other than a mode-based editors. I promise I'm right. That's all.

Comments like this make me essentially certain that you edit text slowly and inefficiently.

I would counter that, while it inevitably would have happened at some point, it's not a given that the resulting OS would have been GPLed, and subsequently things could've turned out very differently. Happy Birthday, Linus!

It can't be laziness, man. Posting on slashdot in these AJAXy days is downright unwieldy. Lazy is googling.

My favorite part is waiting 25 minutes for the previews to show up. I can't even think of a way to write a web app that took that long for such a simple action, traffic or no. Other than posting, I actually like the ajaxy comment system.

Right, or understand local maxima.

True. But, given that domain specific knowledge, there's another vital component: the fucking data.