I don't believe it's futile.

If I were submitting an article about an article in a scientific journal to slashdot, it wouldn't occur to me to look for (or follow) a link to the original article. Whenever I search for information on a topic online and there is a link in the search results to an article in a scientific journal, that article is almost always behind a paywall. Even more frustrating, it's usually set up as a tease so that it *looks* like it's a link to the full article but turns out to be a page trying to sell me a subscription to their service (or $19.99 for three days of access to just that one article). I avoid these links due to how frustrating that experience is most of the time.

You seem to be informed about this sort of thing, and given how astonishing and tantalizing the prospect of full-text access is to me, I would appreciate some suggestions. Is there a way I can change my searching behavior so that I don't run into paywalls disguised as the full article? Is there a way I can change my behavior in general so that more full-text articles are available for free online?

Such a policy would require the server to take the client's word for it that the private key was encrypted with a passphrase.

Agreed. If someone is removing the passphrase from their private key, there is some other problem that needs to be solved. Personally, I like ecryptfs for my home directory and LUKS for my backup drive with the LUKS passphrase inside my login keyring.

I can't speak for other people, but it trips me out to be walking through the supermarket chatting online. My inner ten-year-old is so happy. Other than that, I like using it as a music player on trips, an audiobook player, an ebook reader and a geocaching toy,

This is really cool. Now when one of these filesystems becomes stable in Linux, we'll be ready to go. Look out 2025--here I come!

I had no idea you could move the menu, minimize, maximize, and close buttons back to where they were in previous releases. I've been suffering with the new system since Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks for the tip!

I'll take your word for it that the ballot has been rigged so that other parties have to waste efforts trying to get approval to appear. However, the reasoning I have used to vote for one of the two major parties goes like this:

1. Either major party X or major party Y is definitely going to win the election.
2. Both X and Y are pretty bad, but X is better than Y most of the time.
3. I'll vote for the X, the lesser of two evils.

I'm certain this is the way I make the decision. I'm pretty sure this is the way the rest of my family does it as well. When I talk to people who are disappointed by the current two party system, this is the reasoning that they articulate to me.

It's interesting to note that each poll option falls into one of two categories: something that gives other people more power over children, or something that gives children more power over the world/other people.

I wonder which category will be more popular, and which category would have been more popular had the poll question been:

"What would you have wanted your parents to install inside of you?"

The could have budgeted some money for future updates to the Linux game. Just look at what happens to most closed source/commerical Linux native games:

1. The game is released. It may run well on most contemporary systems.
2. Time passes and critical libraries break ABI compatibility. (I'm looking at you, glibc).
3. The game no longer runs on modern systems.

For good longevity, a closed source game would need some kind of ABI shim between the closed executable and the multitude of unstable open source ABIs. For most games, this shim is called "wine" and that state of affairs makes me sad.

Yes, choice, variety, and competition are horrible things aren't they?

They have real disadvantages. http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/whenchoice.html

(Yes, believe it or not, there ARE other distros; although it is hard to tell since so many stories and postings say "Ubuntu" in place of the word "Linux" or "Linux distribution")

Isn't it great? I can't wait until the days of users asking, "So I should try Linux. Which distro should I use?" and getting useless or contradictory answers are long forgotten.