I was comparing MS Office to LibreOffice, NOT Google Docs! Read what I wrote.

"Because LibreOffice doesn't do everything MS Office does?"

I keep hearing this, but I never see a list of the "10%" that MS Office can do that Libreoffice cannot. Plus, how many items on this 10% list are actually used by 90% of the MS Office users, including Google employees???

Show me the list!

I would have assumed that if they had to use any Office Suite, that they would have chosen LibreOffice over MS Office! My question to Google, is Why Not???

The problem ONLY affects the VERY O/S that it needs to protect the most??? ;^) How many MILLIONS of different malware instances are out the in the wild??? I'll stick to Linux! ;^)

Measure twice, cut once!

AND

Test, Test, then TEST!!!

So much for Free Speech.

Not everyone does think logically! We all can think of things we experience every day that were NOT logically designed or planned!!! ;^)

Anyone can learn a language and write some simple small programs, (many times badly, even by those WITH a CS degree!) but There is a lot more to programming than just learning the syntax. I myself am self-taught for the most part, but there is a lot missing that would make me much better had I obtained a CS degree.

Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of NYC is supposedly learning to program. I would be curious to evaluate his programs, whatever language he has chosen! ;^)

My apt. got broken into and my 10 speed was stolen. I never got around to replacing it. I do miss it, but living in NYC, I have seen too many cars hitting bikes, not at the fault of the bike rider.

Delivery and messenger bike riders are another matter however. Many of them deserve to have their bikes confiscated!

Why are UNIX and the C Programming Language NOT inventions??? Why does an invention need to be a physical object???

The world is a far better place for the "Inventions" that Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, with the assistance of Brian Kernighan have given us, along with all who have added their "Inventions" to these and all that have followed.

From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Invention :

invention
  [in-ven-shuhn] noun
1. the act of inventing.
2.U.S. Patent Law . a new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius, as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship.
3.anything invented or devised.
4.the power or faculty of inventing, devising, or originating.
5.an act or instance of creating or producing by exercise of the imagination, especially in art, music, etc.

I would suggest the following:

1) Contact the original owner of the drive offering to archive the data to a DVD, and send it back to the original owner of the drive/data.
2) Contact NewEgg informing them of the data breach.
3) Preserve the hard drive intact in case the original owner of the drive wishes to take legal action against NewEgg.
4) Contact your own lawyer to confirm the above BEFORE contacting ANYONE!

IANAL

I wish this had been more publicized. I just found out about this by reading this article. I would have preferred that there was more of a chance to do events locally today. A gathering in a pub, or a Linux fest celebrating his accomplishments.

As for the S.J. vs. D.M.R.:

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, Tim Berners Lee, Linus
Torvolds, ..., and millions of others owe their lives to the work done
by Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, with the assistance of Brian
Kernighan. The IT World would be MUCH different, and definitely not as
technologically advanced as it is today, without their efforts.

They deserve much more recognition, awards and thanks from the entire
world than they will ever receive.

Rest in Peace Dennis! You and your work will never be forgotten! Thank you!

Obviously is is part of an alien spaceship! Where are the remains of the pilots??? ;^)

When will the Air Force show us samples of a weather balloon??? ;^)

My girlfriend wants to know! ;^)

You all know women, and their obsession with size! ;^) Of Diamonds of course! What did you think I meant? ;^)

>> "A fish beat the crap out of a clam by hitting it against a rock? I'm not quite sure this qualifies as "tool" use. Now, grabbing the rock, and beating clam with it, or using it to pry open the clam... that would sound more "tool-like.""

From: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=tool [thefreedictionary.com]

"4. Something used in the performance of an operation; an instrument: ..."
or
"4. (Engineering / Tools) anything used as a means of performing an operation or achieving an end ..."

Show me any law or Engineering definition, standard, etc... that states or in any way requires the "Tool" to be held, or otherwise used against the material.

Seems to me it is no different than the Oyster shuckers at the Union Oyster House in Boston that have a cobblestone in the sink. They put the knife in the hinge of the oyster, then hold both vertically, and bring both down rapping the handle of the knife onto the cobblestone thereby forcing the knife into the oyster. Both the cobblestone and the knife are both "Tools", IMHO.

http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/Ruq91rmQNweZ78TzKylQMg?select=lOXM-kwLvrWp6zxw3KEKJg [yelp.com]

Not enough! ;^)

I agree completely! Why do they ALWAYS leave out such an obvious option? We should have a write in option!