So in Slashdot land, answering a rhetorical question always gets you more points than asking it? ;-)

I have been using SysInternals stuff starting from TCPView, which was pretty useful for me back then. But how exactly is DiskMon a latest treasure? It's been around for ages, unless now it monitors on kernel level.

Oh come on now, how can you ever hate anything of Apple? At least I can't..

I meant to say that if I had $600 to spend, I would rather buy a laptop than a tablet, let alone an iPad running iPhone OS.

I am assuming that the uranium you mentioned wasn't destined to get in a nuke, but still I am hoping that the next few generations will at least not be that interested in making stuff that blows other stuff (and people) up. There are an infinite number of questions and other stuff that can be done with improved education.

As far as the students and their interest go, It is Human psyche to be more influenced by something you admire and is unique in its way. So if they see their favourite game character talking about Baryonic Asymmetry etc, they'll most probably get on google for curiosity's sake.

If they are not answering, doesn't this mean that most of those functions are not available?

On a side-note though, I am still not getting the point of iPad. It's not an iPhone but runs its OS and its too big and expensive to just be an audio/video player to say the least. Probably I was impressed by Hitler, but still....

It is really pleasant to see more and more OSS projects which are being deployed at national level and large infrastructures.

Hopefully some less greedy company who benefit from such projects will start paying the volunteer developers. But then again, I have found that a lot of times if you are doing something as a hobby/interest/challenge, rather than because you were employed to do it, the outcome will be more refined and efficient. Though I have yet to experience the latter part first hand.

No no. I don't use GoogleDNS because I am paranoid :)

Doesn't ABP blocks any hostname queries of ad serving domains?

But I do use OpenDNS already, which is a bit faster than my ISP's servers. And I would have to be a lot less paranoid to start using GoogleDNS.

Don't you think its a bit early to be posting old April fool jokes?

They need a pretty big recoding to filter out non-genuine results completely.