See Grimmelmann's post about the real situation at his blog, The Laboratorium.

I am sorry that I commented based on a reporter’s description of the filing rather than asking to see it myself.

I always thought that he should have made it a $5.38 wrench, instead...

> I switched away when they made the up and down arrow keys...

Didn't notice that yet. What's putting me on the verge of switching is Google's phasing out (or appearance thereof) of any kind of "hard" searching. Unfortunately, I haven't found any good alternatives with better "hard" search capability.

"issue | Snowden" ? What does the "issue" command output to stdout, Polonium-210?

> Who fucking cares?

I agree with the title but for a totally different reason, namely, that no official connected with the NSA who would have reviewed any such "concerns", who has also commented about the affair (and there have been several, already), has said that they would have done anything whatsoever (possibly except, of course, something about that suspicious/PIA Snowden character).

Wow, the whole first comment thread and no pro-NSA anti-Snowden posters. What happened, did the NSA budget for Slashdot dry up? Or is this a sign that even the NSA has given up on Slashdot and has moved on to other alternatives?

Ah, from other posts I guess you were planning on dual-booting... sorry, please ignore...

> With the amount of troubleshooting and driver research I had to do I could have
> purchased 10 copies of Windows 7.

Or, simply, a computer with Linux already installed, from the various vendors who sell such devices...

It's a tribute to how far Linux has come that you originally thought you didn't have to do that. Or, possibly, it shows a considerable amount of personal hubris. Without knowing you personally, I can't really tell...

Thank you for the anecdotal report. At least from your other comments I see that you're not like that poster years ago who kept on whining about Ubuntu not installing on a second internal hard drive and erasing his files (the details have, wonderfully, been erased from my mind).

It's a pity that there is no way to evaluate how significant your report is versus the question at hand. What percentage of experienced Windows users burn 20 hours trying to get Windows to work exactly the way they want (or work at all)? What percentage of Linux users? How dependent is this on the particular user (I know that I personally burn up lots of time being pedantic about any OS I use)?

> and loaded Ubuntu on VirtualBox for my Linux stuff

"My Linux stuff"? If you were loading Linux as a native OS in the first place, what "other stuff" were you planning on doing with the laptop? Was the original plan to run Windows in a VM?

People have already forgotten that the high-temperature superconductors were discovered, not by the power industry, but by IBM.

It's no longer called "Epiphany". In what seems like an epiphany, the GNOME developers decided that it's much, much, easier to search for help for a browser called "Web". Great idea, there, guys. Was this intentional, to prevent intelligible bug reports from less sophisticated users?

One wonders whether they actually "eat their own dog food", or if they do, if they understand that the average user of GNOME isn't a GNOME developer.

It's no longer called "Epiphany". In what seems like an epiphany, the GNOME developers decided that it's much, much, easier to search for help for a browser called "Web". Great idea, there, guys. Was this intentional, to prevent intelligible bug reports from less sophisticated users?

One wonders whether they actually "eat their own dog food", or if they do, if they understand that the average user of GNOME isn't a GNOME developer.

Might be good, certainly wasn't very funny... or does it need Javascript?

Anyway, 1336 was much funnier...

Didn't you forget some kind of reference to "my eyes"?

They would have been sued for infringement by the rightsholders to Asterix.

I kid you not... this is actually why we now have linux-laptops.net rather than the original mobilix.org (or mobilix.net, I don't remember anymore)...