Your sig actually stopped me from modding you down, thanks for showing me the error of my ways. But I do disagree.
Richard Dawkins has written some interesting views on what the definitions of atheism and agnosticism are (check out the paperback of The God Delusion), but that's ultimately just his opinion.
In atheism, just as in agnosticism, there is no canon, no dogmas, no defined set of rules.
In the end atheism and agnosticism are much alike.
It all depends on how convinced you are that there is no God.

Here's my account of, excerpts from, and opinions about the interview.

It's 3,300 words long. (Yes, yes, I know, "TL; DR". :P )

Various statements on the website strongly imply that it is an all-volunteer project. I doubt tax money is funding it.

I don't like the idea of my tax dollars being spent on non-essential services either, but I really don't think that's the case here.

Hundreds of dollars per kg would be pretty sweet. You could put a bunch of people (bulk rate here) in orbit for less than a million dollars apiece at those rates. Unfortunately, current launch costs are somewhere between $5k and $40k per kg depending what you use (Russian vehicles for the lower cost, Shuttle for the higher cost) and how often you use them.

Regarding running config and saved config, some time ago I did an iptables script that would test a new rule chain for a specified amount of time, then reverting back to the previous one. It has saved me a lot of time many times, and actually a couple of times I locked myself out of the machine (that was a remote one, obviously).

Most non-tech people don't think that they need offline backups of what is in the cloud. Sure, they know that they need to backup their word documents, but most non-tech people don't think they need to back up things such as email or contacts.

Drive a wooden stake through ..... oh wait...

This may come as a surprise to you, but slashdot has readers that don't live in the United States.

Since this is slashdot, I should probably mention that it's free as in beer, not as in speech. It also only works on Windows and Mac (but most Linux distributions come with a VNC server anyway nowadays).

Mod parent up, Mikogo is great free software. Its main purpose is to give a demonstration or conference to one or many viewers, but the server can give any client of choice control over keyboard and mouse input.

I wouldn't even care if RFID chips CURED cancer, whether or not one goes underneath my skin should be my decision.
The very idea of mandatory chipping for people is revolting.

I agree with parent, encouraging people to take thoroughly tested vaccines that could stop a pandemic in its tracks is a good thing, but making it mandatory, that's a dangerous precendent.

I'm a linux noob, but wouldn't using SELinux eliminate the entire problem?
Only give the files and folders you want Wine to access the corresponding SELinux context and nothing Wine does can hurt the rest of the system.

If this were Google, most of you'd be praising them, for being such a great employer.

How about we judge a software company by their software and business ethics, there's plenty of things to dislike Microsoft for in those departments...

You've shown that there are only two degrees of separation between Don Davis and Don Davis.

Now how many degrees is Don Davis from Kevin Bacon?

Well, I can tell you from experience that men who run Debian don't get any action at all.