Really? They must not be very serious geeks if they have time for such folly.

What's a checkbook? I don't think I've ever seen one.

Perhaps not, but then again nobody is suing them either. This is more about moral rules than the law.

A weak SSH user account/PHP script/whatever + local privilege escalation = instant remote root

...that sentence sounded like the PR department the moment I saw it.

Or if you prefer graphical software, gvim.

If "traditional schooling" means burying your desk/shelf/whatever in a lot of physical, printed books, yes. Otherwise, no. Physical books are the only thing e-book readers might replace, and while they may do that, that alone is not going to change education as we know it.

Actually I've never seen one. The information age has made checks obsolete and extinct in all civilized countries.

Funny. Here in Finland the back of the bus is traditionally reserved for the troublemakers. Just like the back of the classroom. Further away from the authorities (bus driver, teacher), less surveillance.

So am I to understand that "retina" is the new "HD"? I expected something better from Slashdot...