Sure, for a basic data disc. It's not much harder with good ol' Xcdroast.

What does Windows explorer do if you drag music files onto it. Do you get an audio CD? (honestly I'm asking cause I don't know) If so, what formats, does it handle ogg?

Now lets see you drag a bunch of video files into explorer(it's family stuff you recorded with your cellphone right? surely i'm not talking about piracy here) Do you get something that you can pop into your DVD player and have a reasonable expectation that it will actually play?

Mixed mode discs? Finalized or un-finalized RWs?

My point is that there is a lot more to a decent burner program than just dragging some files onto a disc.

Well... for example, try finding a decent CD burner frontend that doesn't pull in either KDE or Gnome.
Or try getting decent support for fast user switching or laptop features like hibernation without getting a big chunk of one of them.

It seems like a lot of development that once would have been done as independant projects that run equally well despite desktop/window manager choice now get implemented as plugins to one of the big two desktops (usually Gnome). It's not that we can't still choose other things but where before it was a completely open choice that Linux users/developers took pride in now it feels more like swimming against the tide.

Forget file browsing. Try finding a decent cdburner GUI frontend that doesn't pull in a bucketload of either KDE or GNOME dependencies!

I was a long-time KDE user and about a year ago decidedent to experiment with banning both Gnome and KDE from being installed and relying on lightweight window managers. It was only mean to be an experiment, I didn't really expect to go more than a week. Today I am using StumpWM combined with the pager (and only the pager) from Lxde. The only thing I really miss is K3b. Seriously, why does a program that is just a front end to cdrecord, which is more than capable of finding my burner rely on some integral part of KDE. If I install it without KDE it tells me I have no burners! Gnomes equivalent program did the same thing.

I guess I shouldn't complain too loud though. Maybe someday I will take the initiative and write my own burner front-end and not require a bloated desktop to run it. You can write the file manager!

I use Waze (a navigation app) for every trip I make. Google owns it. I don't know what there EULA says but I'm sure they don't just throw away my position reports. And yet.. I use it for every drive, even when I already know the way. Sometimes I think about the fact I'm basically submitting myself to monitoring. I've even considered piecing together some solution with open street map and my own server to avoid this. But... I get real time data. I get warnings about accidents, traffic jams and speed traps up ahead. Countless times it has saved me hours by routing me around accidents on the expressway. On my drive to work there are miles between some of the exits. Simply getting off if the traffic stops moving is not an option.

I grew up in a small midwestern town, technically a village. As a kid I resented the fact that everything I saw on TV or heard on the radio was directed towards places that were as far away and inaccessible to me as the moon. Now I live in a city where this is not such a problem although on the iternet it still feels like some sites I frequent often forget that silicon valley and NYC are not the entire world.

Similarly there is browser tracking. I do share the concern of many Slashdotters that marketing firms know too much about our personal lives. But.. then again.. I consider myself to be a geek and a maker. I love the fact that 'punch the monkey' and 'little blue pill' popups have for me been replaced with ads for Arduinos, components, oscilloscopes and such. I also enjoy obstacle courses and now I see Tough Mudder ads all over the web letting me know when and where to find the next event.

Sometimes I think that I want to start being more private with my data... but.. I kind of feel like I have moved into a different world that I find more interesting and can better relate to. I don't want to give that up.

Well.. the premise of the actual article is that a cure, if possible at all is a really long way out. The author gives some pretty good reasons as to why this is so. Meanwhile, people are suffering today. Better treatments are possible but all of the funding and hype on finding a cure is holding them back.

The article seems pretty anti-cure to me but near the end the author does call for a balance between cure and treatment research rather than completely giving up on the cure.

I think it shows just how unreasonable the anti-gunners can be that they would use weapons export regulations against the sharing of 3d printed gun designs.

If I were in the Pentagon or Homeland Security (theatre) I would ENCOURAGE the export of 3d printed gun designs. Let the enemy blow their own hands and faces off with their plastic guns! Hell, let domestic criminals do the same!

Meanwhile law abiding gun users can just buy them or make them on lathes. Personally I may just try to 3d print a gun some day just to say I did but the only way I am firing it is with a long string tied to the trigger and myself ducked down in a ditch or behind a good strong barrier.

Plastic guns! They make the bogey man sound like a reasonable fear!

BOO!

You just might have a point there!

As underdogs Obama and staff were so fake.

Yup.. they will do well in Silicon Valley!stumpwm area out of bounds

Grab some popcorn and watch the trolls take this thing over
Or
Actively troll myself

Oh, yah, I don't speak Portuguese. Darn. Oh well!

Feliz Natal my trollish Portuguese speaking friends

Getting that OSX GUI exerpience without OSX is actually pretty easy!

First... chop off your dominant hand.
Also, remove all but one finger from your remaining hand.
Put a patch over your dominant eye.

Finally, to complete that Apple feeling get a friend to kick you in the balls every 5 minutes.

Voila! It's just like using the OSX UI!

Ad it should. But so should assuming the opposite! I just noted that a lot of commenters were taking her side when she very well could have been in the wrong.

Congratulations A/C. That's the most successful troll that I have seen since.. well.. since the article itself!

A lot of people are commenting about her deserving a fulfilling career or about children needing a parent around and all sorts of stuff like that. That's all well and good, but I am assuming a little differently.

The fact that he is bothering with this at all makes me think it is possible that the family simply NEEDS the money. Maybe he is just being the financially responsible one and she is not.

Sure it would be great if she could find a new career which she would love. But.. if they NEED the money now and she already has the job experience, knowledge and skill in a specific, decently paying job market then maybe the responsible thing is for her to just suck it up and take one for the team.

As for staying home.. Hopefully if he is considering talking her into going back to work he has already thought about who will take care of the kids. Maybe they have grandparents around. Maybe, based on when she worked previously he expects the cost of day care to be worth it.

BTW, as a working Dad I can tell you that you can have a full time job and still have a ton of influence in raising your child. It's all in what you chose to do once you get home.

Anyway, he could just be being greedy but we don't know that. Maybe they need some more income to take care of their family.

He hasn't verified that she really did that. She could have been a really crappy mother and housekeeper for all we know.

If someone decided to make a trademark today out of what had been your personal domain for years and they showed up, offered to promise not to sue you for a fee of $1 how would you feel about giving it to them?

Don't get me wrong, $1 is nowhere near worth going to court over. But come on... do you want to pay me a dollar not to market something under the name j-beda?