Amen brother! I switched to Bitlocker a while ago and never even looked back at LUKS or TrueCrypt. The problem I had, though, was that I run only Linux on my machine. No worries. I installed VirtualBox, created a VM and installed Windows on it. That way I could make /home/lsllll as a private share available in the VM and have Bitlocker go at it. That is the ONLY reason why I run Windows. God praise the Bitlocker developers. They saved me from the NSA.

Actually you do not have to do a whole partition. You can do a file (created with dd on Linux) and use losetup to set up a loop device, which can then be opened in Linux. Under Windows it can be opened via FreeOTFE.

I specifically states that:

I don't think you understood what GP was saying. He just wanted to make sure that he wouldn't be held liable under any circumstances if A) he was not controlling the vehicle and B) he had all the required maintenance performed on the vehicle.

I can see his point. I wouldn't want to be sued for a "computer glitch" that may end up killing someone. I'm not even sure I want that on my conscience.

Not necessarily. There was a discussion of this on Slashdot back in 2006. Here's an article that explains the rationale behind removing street signs and lights: Traffic Management. What is boils down to is more driver awareness, not less (mechanical exercise)

I've gotta also disagree here. The day may come in our lifetime when computers can write better novels than Stephen King, but until then our intellectual capacity is king. Computers beating us at chess and in Jeopardy are one thing. A computer writing Romeo and Juliet, or composing Beethoven's Ninth is not around the corner. Hell. A computer which can do the menial programming tasks on do on a computer is not even around.

At the end of the day, I don't want a computer driving my car, because I enjoy driving my car. I like to keep it in third gear and hear the engine roar for a bit when I'm driving on the highway before I put in fourth. I just don't think I would get the same pleasure if a computer was driving my car.

Just curious, how did you find his/her posting history? The posting is from AC.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Except that kids have access to the nuances of the Internet at home and on their cellphones. As others have said above, education must start at home and be extended at school. It cannot just be pushed unto kids at school. Schooling and parenting go hand in hand.

I hear you, but sitting behind the computer and doing Facebook and Trackmania is not the same as peeking and poking your Apple II in BASIC.

Ummm, let me guess. Yes? Sitting in boring classrooms got us to the moon and got us the computers we're sitting in front of, so I think we must have been doing something right.

I am not saying that we got it all right before computers. Sitting in boring classrooms may not be the optimal use of time, but it sure beats wasting the same amount of hours sitting behind the computer. I am a computer programmer and I spend much of my time behind the computer, but had I been in school I would have thought it would be better to attend classes, whether they were boring or not. What TFA is saying is that children have lost the ability to concentrate and that multitasking and online social media has robbed the kids of their ability to relate to their peers in the real world. I have raised two kids and always attempted to curb their use of computers, not harshly, but sensibly. In addition, they were not allowed to have televisions, game consoles and computers in their bedrooms. This was all an attempt to get them to spend time on the first floor with their parents or with their friends around the neighborhood. I am fairly certain that now that they're in college and looking at their peers, they appreciate the way they were raised.

A part of life is actually learning to deal with the boring parts, since there are many instances in our lives that are spent doing things we really don't want to do. Calming down, taking a sip of coffee while looking outside the window and admiring the bird, passers by, and the clouds, is something today's kids do NOT understand.

They're only up because kids have been taught to game the test and solve for multiple choice problems. In real life, Math is not multiple choice. Salman Rushdie argued this on Bill Maher the other night. To really test a student's ability in problems, you need to eliminate multiple choice.

My wife works for a school district and their union sucks big Willy Wonka dick. Truly the union is looking only for its own best self interest. On another note, I worked at a corporation in California for a couple of years. When their NetWare server had issues, I suggested that they swap the NIC with another one that was sitting on the shelf above the server. They had to wait for a union guy to come in and swap the card. Seriously? Any half-brained twat could have replaced the card. I had done it only a thousand times before I was in the position to suggest so. But everyone was scared of the union and they wouldn't swap the card.

The issue with unions in this country is that they get in the way of doing things. But the downside without the unions is that corporations will fuck you with a steel rod if you're not part of a union.

Let me fix that for myself. Corporations will fuck you with a still rod whether you're in a union or not. Given the choice between union and non-union, I choose union, because at least some poor soul is getting some dough instead of the corporation.

We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

Seriously? I admit there are some thing that are just easier done in Windows than Linux, like my Galaxy S3's photo's being transferred to my PC. I don't evern recall not being able to open a MS Word document in Libre Office, no matter what the version of MS Word the document was saved in was. I also do not agree that the UI on Linux is behind Win XP, let alone 2K. I use XFCE on all my Linux boxes and have never had a problem doing anything graphically, although I'm more of a command guy to begin with. Both my daughters have been using Linux on notebooks (yes, notebooks, no issues with wireless or anything) for a very long time (4-5 years). The only time they had issues was when they used to save presentations when they were in high school (a few years ago) and had to make things work in Powerpoint.

At the end, it's not the few hundred bucks you're saving. It's rising against tyranny when it comes to the PC O/S. I hated buying Dell notebooks and having to pay for Windows. Even though those copies of Windows were already paid for, I elected for my daughters to use Linux on the same notebooks. I always thought of it as using a different language at home. They'd know Linux, but they'd learn Windows through their friends anyway and at the end would know both, which they do.

The ONLY thing Linux couldn't do well was gaming. One of my daughters wasn't into gaming at all. For the other one, she had a desktop that ran Windows so that she could play games, knowing that I would never help her with a Windows problem if she strayed and started to use the Windows machine as her main machine. She never did. She confined it to gaming, and I was happy, because I knew if she used it as her main machine she'd end up with tons of malware. She got the best of both worlds.

This is the second article I've seen from a few days ago which has NO comments. Tell me it isn't so?

Which is why I don't understand them not taking the 3 billion. It's just an app. It's not like it's a comprehensive social web site. I can't imaging FB having offered 3B for a simple app. You can't build a social experience around one app, so sell the app and use the money to come up with something entirely different, without the need for VC.