"Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers! Ballers!"

*collapses on court floor*

"Ball... *gasp* ers. Bah. ha. hhhhhaa"

Right-wing lunatics like, say, Jamie Foxx?

Furthermore, one of the nice things about autonomous vehicles will be the ability to have ZERO passengers in some circumstances. Need to pick your dad up from the airport? Send the empty car. Kids need to be dropped off at school while you do a little grocery shopping? Let the car drop you off, take the kids, and then return to the parking lot of the grocery store.

No person should be responsible, because no person should be required present.

This is asinine, and is the single largest failing of the IO Slave mechanism.

Exactly! This is especially idiotic when opening a 1.4 gig (or 4.1 gig or larger!) video file. On my laptop with an SSD, where my /tmp is a tmpfs ramdisk, this is going to fail miserably.

That's great, if you're only using KDE apps. What about apps that are neither KDE/Qt or Gnome? VLC is the first that comes to mind. xmms2 is another. Or, what if I want to use WinAmp through Wine? All of this just works in MATE/Gnome/Cinnamon with gvfs.

The media playing apps should be file system agnostic -- they shouldn't have to know about URLs or network protocols.

I've teetered between MATE and KDE for the last couple of years -- they're both great, but I like KDE's interface and look/feel a bit more. Also, Dolphin is, IMHO the best file manager for Linux.

But, the thing that still pisses me off about KDE is the handling of cifs mounting (a la smb://). In MATE (or Cinnamon or Gnome2), if I mount a share with smb:// in the file manager (Nautilus, or the newer ones), I get an actual cifs mount. Now, if I open a file on that mount with a photo viewer, or a media player (like VLC), the file manager throws a locally-mounted and accessible file path to the application.

Not so with KDE. Doing the same thing from Dolphin throws the URL of the file (smb://server/share/file.ext) to the application, and the application usually has no effing idea what to do with this. So, I end up either copying the file to my local hdd and opening it from there, or adding an entry to fstab to get a real mount (which is not practical if mounting a new share on someone else's server.) The gvfs way is better than the KIO way.

Drill a small hole on the other side of the wall -- opposite the thermostat. Get a can of Freez-it, and periodically spray some through the hole to cool the thermometer. (An upside-down can of canned air will also work, and you might even be able to get the company to pay for it.)

The best scene release 3D TV? The opposite of a "nuked" 3D TV?

...but, don't look back. Look forward. Let's keep the freedom intact.

Pre-installed apps are configured as "system apps". You have to be root to remove them.

Anticipate all questions (smart or dumb), and create a howto/faq addressing each one.

They should also charge according to how close you're sitting to the screen, and how many speakers you have. </sarcasm>

On what data are you basing your statement? I thought it was interesting, but wanted to verify. Google search: "statistics death row executions race"

First result:
Race of death row inmates executed since 1976 (US).

Comparing the percentage of executions by race to the population data shown lower on the page, I don't think your statement is correct. More whites are executed, but more blacks have pending executions.

Yeah, you hear that everybody? If you're not privy to insect population control techniques (I mean, who doesn't discuss this topic regularly at dinner parties?), or you disapprove of Monsanto, you're a dolt. A DOLT! Mythosaz has you all on notice, and it's a good thing we have people like him or her to keep us all in check.

So, stop being *cough* dolts, and educate yourselves.

You inspired me to try installing my old version (5.08d) in wine to see what would happen. Works great!