I only saw the weird "open a new window" mode once, I think it was on Solaris 10. Ubuntu, Opensolaris, etc all seam to have configured gnome to use the normal "browser" mode. If the distros set the gnome configuration, does it really matter what the default is?

I was under the impression that the evidence of SSRIs being effective at all was pretty small, and that whatever effect they may have would be on mood. Chemicals that effect Dopamine, like amphetamines, do more for motivation.

If you want to be happy, straighten out your life...maybe check out SSRIs....if you want to be motivated, driven, not lazy, amp it up...(just remember to time it right so you can still sleep).

I'm reminded of Sun's inability to shift to commodity processors.

Sun has sold systems with intel CPUs for years. They also kept making SPARC systems. This is good because having their own platform allowed them to have something to innovate with and also gave their existing SPARC customers an upgrade path. Commodity x86 processors may have the best initial purchase price to performance ratio, but Suns T series UltraSPARCs appear to have a better TCO to performance ratio. Since the T1 and T2 have better performance per watt and higher throughput, I run them in my servers instead of hot inefficient x86 CPUs. Sun is years ahead of intel on massively multicore systems.

Your analogy really isn't fair. Intel is the big monolithic "GM" with the inefficient but powerful and popular engine. Sun is the import. The smaller but more modern company with an engine design that uses less energy. Guess which one is the way of the future?

Bah...meant to title it smaller != cheaper...o well.

I find many aspects of smart phones compelling, with one exception: the cost of the phones, which typically exceeds that of a traditional box. I understand all of the benefits of smart phones (and the downsides, thanks) but I'm very hung up on spending more for less.

You have to pay more to fit all that technology into a smaller package! If you don't care about space, just run a virtualized desktop on traditional desktop hardware.

BTW I would recommend diskless workstations for thin clients. They may not be the cheapest, but they are full featured, fairly affordable, and well supported.

If you total up all the productivity lost to fighting spam and time wasted getting spam, it's probably cheaper to just put the spammers out of business by giving every male on earth free Viagra.

Why were you wasting all that time trying to censor students?

Part of growing up entails being educated about society. People need street smarts as well as book smarts.

Porn is a huge part of our economy, has enormous impact on people's personal relationships and sexuality, and even effects politics.

Not letting young people know about porn seriously shelters them and cripples their understanding of the world.

When an application can make the soundsystem stop working for all other applications, than there is a bug in the soundsystem, not just the application that caused the problem.

Who here runs Linux on anything with more than 16 cores?

My personal server. A debian based distro of Gnu/Linux is much easier for me to admin than Solaris. Massively multicore is the future. I wouldn't buy any new computer with less than 16 cores/hardware threads. Well, except for laptops and embedded systems.

[video] games 'function as crucial gatekeepers for interest in science, technology, engineering and math,' and that without these groups represented properly, 'it may place underrepresented groups behind the curve.'"

Bullshit on that one. I know a lot of boys think they are "good with computers" because they spend a lot of time gaming, but reality rarely lives up to their self perception. The more the white male middle class and upper class potential professionals and potential elites spend their childhoods addicted to games the better. They'll give up their places in the socioeconomic order and unconsciously undermine their own privilege. Let the spoiled pale brat boys squander their minds. Let the female, transgender, people of color, etc feel alienated by corporate developed video games. Maybe they'll pick up a book, join a discussion group, or code their own self-empowering games.

Zuckerberg may be the cute face to front Facebook, but we all know that the (only) two other board member's Peter Theil and Jim Breyer are humanists of the highest degree.

Yes! because Thiel's extreme vision of capitalism where corporations control the whole world is 'humanizing'. TheVanguard.Org and 'The Diversity Myth' are humanist projects, not neoconservative? Support for the rich using offshore tax havens...that's the ethical human thing to do!

Jim Breyer's time on the board of Walmart, why, I'm sure he's helping Walmart become more caring, personal, and humane.

Greylock Venture Capital's ties to the CIA are also of no concern, I'm sure.

Can you make money out of friendship? Can you create communities free of national boundaries - and then sell Coca-Cola to them? Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway.

I think It's pretty insane that people present their personal details in public via social networking. This same type of connectivity could be implemented with end to end encryption, signatures to verify everyone, and secure deletion. Social networks could be a p2p, open source, empowering service. Instead, people just upload their entire lives to the web, and use services run by some of the most extreme right wing members of the ruling class. WAKE THE FUCK UP!

Court also ruled that the individual school officials could not be held personally liable
If the courts won't hold them liable, than the people must! If the administrators responsible don't quit, than the students need to go on strike. How can anyone consent to their peers being abused in this manner?!?!? It's time parents, teachers, and students stand up for each other and demand that the administration step down. These pigs are either power hungry megalomaniacs or contributor to sexual assault (or both).

OK, lets say you are out in public. You can't bring your desktop out in public, and you can't trust any public dekstop to be secure. So therefore if you care about security, you are using your laptop.

Unless you are some expert in optics, you probably aren't going to calculate what angle people (and any CCTV cameras) can see your screen but not your keyboard. I guess you could put a piece of cloth over your hands as you type, but that would be weird and cumbersome. The smart thing to do is to completely hide your laptop from view.

Again...it's hard to imagine a situation where your screen is visible but not your keyboard. Remote displays are the only situation that comes to mind.