The average desktop user does not download tarballs and they do not apply patches manually.

They might occasionally download a package, but average users all use x86 so they just need to know their distro.

Technically true, but it doesn't do you a whole lot of good if you don't have anyone on staff who has the remotest idea what to do once they have physical access.

The added blue is for people with red-green colorblindness. Maybe it's a matter of degree. Or 90 degrees. Were the lights horizontal instead of vertical, by chance?

Off-topic, I lived in a city in the 1980s where some traffic lights were still on the side of the street instead of overhead. So many out of towners were running reds and wrecking the city had to put in the overheads.

This was covered last year in a BBC documentary; Oceans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/oceans/locations/redsea/

1) Point the rod at the nearest bystander.
2) Shoot and kill the bystander with a rifle.
3) Search the body of the dead bystander. If said body is wrapped in explosives - Congratulations! Your bomb detector rod has worked successfully. Otherwise if the body lacked explosives, this means your bomb detector rod is not properly calibrated. Return to step 1 and repeat instructions until your rod is calibrated.

Fastest way to organize a lot of infrequently used but difficult to relocate resources I've accumulated over the years. Hence, the improbably named "personal home page."

What does a work ethic have to do with making wealth for other folks? A work ethic is simply your willingness to apply yourself to a worthwhile task. It could be volunteering for open source. It could be developing yourself. It could be starting your own business. You have a narrow view of work ethic.

I agree with you. Funnily though, the Australian Attorney-General may not.

Well, yes. When they start growing hairs and running away from you, you probably shouldn't eat them any more.

Considering that the jury are bound by the legalese in their every day life, I would hope they understand it to the letter. If they do happen to encounter something they are not familiar with during the trial, it should be encouraged for them to become more familiar with what is going on. It is their duty as a citizen to know and understand the law, after all.

Ignorance of legalese is not required to judge trials on fact alone. It is quite easy for a normally functioning brain to separate the two concepts.

I'm not one to worry about shiny panels, glowing lights, etc. that are just going to sit unseen under a desktop. So long as it provides adequate cooling and airflow, and it's reasonably quiet, I'm in.

Well we know that people who post on Social networks have found their personal lives scrutinized. I don't agree with a juror having access to news print, electronic, digital in any form. This too goes for Social Network sites. The idea is to have an un-biased Jury. If jurors are circumventing the guidelines of outside influences by Googling or what not, then I think the juror needs to feel some re-precussion for his/her actions. Reverse the situation for a moment, you stand trial for a crime and while evidence may point in your direction, you're innocent, yet you've lived an adventurous lifestyle that some of the jurors may disagree with, would you want those jurors passing judgement against you based on information that is not relevant to the case? I certainly would scream MISTRIAL.

Conversely, if you were a really rotten stinker, Googling someone and finding out info that has not been brought to light may also help keep a really bad person from roaming the streets. Even though on a personal level I prefer the bad guys to pay their price, I'm not willing to watch those who are innocent have jurors manipulate the system when the information about isn't relevant. The bad guys will likely f'up again and pay their dues some how.

It's an interesting situation.

"preloaded" != "designed for"

There is a lot of hardware that is Linux compatable. Depending on the
luck of the draw, any particular device may be more or less compatible
with Linux depending what was included.

The likelihood that any PC was "designed for ubuntu" is vanishingly small.

How could they really have done this without Linux providing Unix on those cheap hardware replacements?

Thank you. I am a native bilingual speaker and was always confused by that. Probably since I grew up in South Florida, and so most (but not all) of the acronyms I saw were in English. EEUU always seemed to be the exception.