For if we don't pay taxes you better be prepared to pay Vinny down the street a bit of money to make sure that you don't get mugged, robbed, or killed.

Hey, at least Vinny is a true patriot.

Let's be honest, the majority of Republican voters cheer for billionaires who skip taxes, from their trailers, in red states that accept money from blue states.

You have to love the success story of a party that convinces people to fight for the right to push their own families to the back of the bus in order to patriotically benefit the rich.

Agreed. Most users are not even made aware they are being spied on by default or that there is a way to opt out.

Canonical has done some good for Linux so I will give them a chance to fix this before I ditch them, and by extension all the computers I manage. Let's hope they have a change of heart on this one.

XFCE isn't "shiny" enough for my tastes - it feels like stepping back in time about a decade.

Add XFCE's lightweight compositing option + Cairo Dock and you have a very shiny desktop which is still lighter and more responsive than most.

From your post I am now realizing it was only one person. They turned down the wishes of the majority for only one person.

So I can answer your question. It was me.

And Adobe has certainly done well with HTML 4 authoring tools. This should be a natural step for them.

(Sony's eyes darting left and right) Enemies, enemies everywhere!

The only failproof solution is for Sony to jail everyone in existence so nobody can purchase from them and thereby potentially do them harm.

Because it certainly sounds like the only way to harm Sony is to purchase from them.

You'll see this stuff in episodes of Hawaii Five-O and other TV shows that have a technical aspect, but it'll never make it off Surface, and Surface will never make it to the rank and file. It's too bad, really.

Microsoft is a major sponsor of Hawaii Five-O. This interface should look familiar to watchers of the program.

Probably the first crime fighting show I've seen that regularly includes advertisements for an unpopular smart phone in the dialogue.

History repeats itself as Asians beat Caucasians to North America by quite a margin.

Of course, once the Caucasians arrived on Mars they would claim to have discovered it and give the Asian descended natives generous Martian reserves to live on.

Yes, because Hatta is the only person in the entire world with this sentiment. No one has ever seen or will ever see again, anyone on any Slashdot thread speaking up that they put their $ to hardware with open source drivers.

There was a time when GM was happy to lose one customer to Toyota.

Happliy choosing to operate under another's absolute dictation and control is often useful, but it is still servile. That doesn't mean it's a bad thing, but it is what it is.

What's with the annoying music autoplaying in Chrome and Opera? Don't they test Gmail features in Chrome?!