Well, this was cyclic, but then it wasn't for a while....

... are just the thing for rabid technophiles!

Revocation of /. membership? Certainly loss of geek card.

Now, now - that's just mean.

I agree with this to a point. I consider it dirty politics and voter deception, but not necessarily fraud.

It does, however, smack of some of the more egregious examples of cybersquatting, which I dislike on general principles - politics or not.

The conclusion, though, follows - if this is your campaign's example of ethical behavior, then you've just given me an excellent example to vote for someone else.

I'm ashamed to admit it, but yes.

I mean, the science on many of the stories in this universe is a little sketchy at times, but I can only paraphrase Napoleon from Time Bandits: "That's what I like... big robots blowing up!"

Or read "The Mouse That Roared" by Leonard Wibberley.

Q: Why does PETA get more upset about fur than about leather?
A: Because little old ladies make safer targets than biker gangs.

I have a laptop with Linux Mint, and I've been pretty happy with it. However, I did want to see what the shouting was about, so I downloaded the ISO for Ubuntu 11.10. I booted up with the Live CD, and I found myself dissatisfied with Unity, but I couldn't explicitly say why.

Your comment has put a name to my pain - which is to take a perfectly-functional computer screen and keyboard and turn it into an oversized smartphone/tablet screen. The changes that Ubuntu made to embrace the "just-like-a-smartphone" look and feel were what caused me to abandon vanilla Ubuntu, and look into Kubuntu instead.

... and making a hybrid Gnome desktop

Well, at least that's the polite term for it.

"We have met the enemy and he is us."