Mice are for the weak. I can't understand why not more people use trackballs.

I wonder if he would put his MBA in good use by founding his own startup and what products we could expect from such a startup.

I have found typematrix a very nice keyboard for Dvorak lovers. I use it for coding and everything else. I have the PS/2 version, not the newer USB version, which has a few changed keys. I like it for its big Shifts, central Enter/Backspace, its small size, its matrix layout, and its built-in Dvorak/Qwerty support (so no OS modification is needed). The latter is important in case you type English in Dvorak and another language in Qwerty, if you share the keyboard with Qwertyers or you are just learning Dvorak.

Maybe a few residential courses from OU would be interesting.

In short, they re-invented the Flybook.

I really want them to implement this business model, because it would be a great push for greater GNU/Linux adoption.

I really wonder how they define a blog. So if the law restricts these discussions in blogs, does it mean that you can discuss these issues in a simple webpage, in a wiki, in a gopher server, in a file on an FTP server, in an email, over an IRC server, over VoIP, on a normal weblog operating on a port other than 80, on a password-protected blog, or through a technology not yet invented? Blogs could be obsolete in 10 years just as gopher is obsolete now (but still alive). Does it mean they are going to continue making new laws for every new technology? Good luck to them keeping current with a drive towards technological singularity that accelerates every year.

Do not give/rent/sell school-owned laptops to the students. Just let the students use their own laptops, bought by them or by their families/carers. You can help everyone have a laptop by giving the students gift cards/coupons, or making a special deal with a local computer shop and issuing a prepaid coupon that is valid only for laptops. You can get ideas on the specific implementation by studying how the Greek Government ran its own laptops-for-students programme (which is a special programme for good university students): the student can choose any laptop they want and are the owner of their laptops from the day of purchase; this works easily with the student just visiting a computer shop, saying they want to buy a laptop under the government's programme, the government issues a unique ID number to them which is then given to the shop (if I remember well), and the student gets any laptop they want with a 80% (up to 500 EUR) discount. In this way the student can get any laptop, even with GNU/Linux, with no strings attached, and it is their property. I do not know all the details of the programme, but at least that's what I remember when I happened to read about it.

Of course mouse will be extinguished pretty soon, because trackballs will dominate the Earth. I really cannot comprehend why people keep using mice when there are trackballs that do the job much better while helping you avoid wrist injuries, taking less space, and allowing finer control. And in case you are wondering, I have used touch interfaces and I hate them more than I hate mice. I certainly would not buy a touch interface device if it could not be used with a trackball and keyboard.

Wake me up when Firewire over UTP gets popular. THAT would be interesting.

Just ask yourself what destruction is going to happen to your life if you lose the data. If the answer is "no problem", then hit Delete or just let the data to rot in an old RAID-1 setup until both disks crash and then just stop worrying.

If, however, you have some data that you think are particularly important, you can rent a safe deposit box in a bank for about 30 EUR per year (for an A4-sized box) and put copies of your data in there, paying attention to choose a bank that is too big to let fail :)

Exactly why would we need a GNU/Linux version of Chrome? GNU/Linux already has very good browsers such as Epiphany, developed by dedicated free software communities.

Successful traders don't use higher maths. You can't beat the market with maths, because the market is a complex adaptive system that cannot be predicted. You can, however, find out some likely scenarios using your insight, which is what successful traders use.

If I can lock down my laptop, then how long until criminals and crackers find a way to lock it down as well using the same technology as a new DoS attack?

I think the problem of theft can be solved very easily by just not storing any data on any local machine, store everything on your own servers instead.

Most seasoned programmers can self-manage, so just tell them what the objective is and let them work in any way they like, preferably at their homes.