Another more or less failproof method is to post the entire video on /. and let the crowd decide. Thousands of slashdotters can't be wrong!

False. Everybody knows that it's called GNU/Linux, "Linux" is just an everyday abbreviation to make life easier, nothing more.

Credit to where it's due. Or, try to run your kernel without the GNU utilities.

Apparently Plutarch already knew this little puzzle called the ship of Theseus problem.
I'm highly confident that some US judges will finally put those those annoying logicians and philosophers to rest and give us the ultimate correct solution.

Success is not measured in terms of money.

Just to let you know you're not the only one, I absolutely agree with you and anyone I've ever spoken to about this also agrees (parents, partner, friends, colleagues). The accumulation of wealth ought to be limited, nobody with a discrete income of over a million dollars a year can honestly say he needs more money. The ironic thing is that classic economic theory supports this view as well by presuming the Principle of Diminishing Marginal Utility - which in case of money has been confirmed well empirically.

However, just forget about making such heretical remarks on /. You'll be modded flamebait or troll and can expect an extreme amount of irrational hate. (I don't know why, perhaps the majority of people on /. are super-rich? Then there are also some US Americans who think that every political position they don't know and don't agree with must be socialism or communism without having the slightest clue what they talk about.)

Nope. You can only copyright your own creations, not those of nature.

I finally got interested in Bitcoins (like always, too late) and wanted to buy one yesterday. :-)

Anyway, I wonder why this falls under the authority of the Orwellian "Department of Homeland Security". Doesn't such a matter belong to the FBI or the Secret Service?

What do you mean by that? I thought that the very idea of bitcoins is that at some time no more can be produced, thereby causing deflation.

You could try... but I don't have a TV.

Okay, I was exaggerating. Armed robbery is certainly a serious crime. I agree with that and was a bit too fast with my post.

However, I've come up with an easy solution: Just rig the cellphones with explosives that can be detonated by sending the right message to it. That way, if somebody walks away with your iPhone, just blow him up.

Sorry, cell phone theft is not serious crime. Serious crime is genocide, murder, rape, molesting children, kidnapping, torture, etc.

Exactly. People do not want dumb terminals, they want cheap netbooks with a good battery life.

A display that is readable in broad sunlight and costs less than $500 would also be useful.

Why don't they just let 3 different people push 3 different buttons but only one of them is working?

I hear something similar was done with executions and apparently this magically removed all the moral quirks some executioners might have had. (It wouldn't work for me, but then again I'm not planning to work as an executioner in the first place.)

You can bet your ass that I'd keep the money.

Why is it not a declaration of war. Hm, let me guess... because signals intelligence is not a declaration of war?