People are much more humane to each other once they have met in person.

This is a good point. People are also more receptive to criticism from someone they have met in person too. For some reason in the Gnome community there is this bizarre phenomenon where strange UI decisions are enforced on their users.

<RANT>Think: Spacial Nautilus. It was a terrible idea, nobody liked it except the developers who implemented it. The more users complained about it, the deeper they hid the settings to turn it off. I'm feeling this again with the Gnome 3 beta's. It's extremely hard to get used to this UI, and I wonder why they are trying to turn my desktop computer into a cell phone. For example they have this new "feature" called a hotspot which shuffles your screen into an "overview" mode when you move the mouse to the top left corner of ANY monitor. There are many ways to open the overview, such as clicking the button that is present at the top left corner. The hotspot more times than not happens as I click the button, so that clicking the button actually closes the thing that I wanted open.</RANT>

Its been my impression that things like this are driving the GNOME -vs- Canonical hostility. When Canonical does research to show that its users dislike a feature, they should damn well be able to turn it off on their desktop without pissing off some Gnome developer who thinks it's really really cool.

The wattage on the bulb is the power that it consumes. It doesn't say anything about its efficiency, how much light -vs- heat you will get. Just what it will cost you to have it running.

He also hasn't been an advisor to Harper for several years. Conservative Party MP, proclaims that she "doesn't know who Tom Flanagan is". I'm usually the first guy to jump in on a Conservative bashing.. But let's not go making stuff up.

I don't understand. Are you outraged that this guy spent $50,000 to support Prop 19?

Actually, This guy spent $20 000, and then another $50 000, and another Facebook co-founder spent $100 000. For a total of $170 000.

Marijuana legalization isn't just for the potheads, they already have easy access to pot. It's for the rest of us who are sick and tired of paying billions of dollars to tell people what to do with their own bodies, and are sick of the violence that comes from the black market which prohibition encourages.

If the RCMP can prove that what he claims is false, and for criminal charges the burden surely lies with them (but IANAL), then he deserves what he gets

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Chief admits 5-metre G20 security rule didn't exist
When asked Tuesday if there actually was a five-metre rule given the ministry's clarification, Chief Bill Blair smiled and said, "No, but I was trying to keep the criminals out."

I wonder why Microsoft does not try to revive WebTV?

Because the people who worked on WebTV at Microsoft work at Google now.

Can the banks and the patent office please get together with the trademark office and put and end to people calling things Qi?

Qi: The Bootloader
Qi: The Open Source Hardware
Qi: The wireless charging standard

Kthxbye

Who needs virtual desktops when you can have multiple monitors? Too bad linux does not support them out of box (i.e., without tricking with command prompt)

Welcome to the future. (5 years ago)

Prior art.

Why not just use Ekiga (formerly known as Gnomemeeting)? I've been using it for videoconferencing for years, and it's very stable.