I think that was one of the points to the people where crying foul. Sure you can customize it or disable it... FOR NOW. Down the road this might not be true once they have their foot in the door. We're down the road now, and lo and behold devices appear where EUFI can't be disabled. Another example for us to keep in mind when we label people/organizations like the EFF as "too paranoid".

What exactly does Marshmallow Fluff has to do with this? Is this some granular currency measurement that relates to libraries of congress? This is also based off of arbitrary pricing off Amazon. There is a LOT of stuff worth less than a Used Ethernet Cable by that measure. What's the sample size anyway? If 2 people do this, is that considered "enough"? I can get two people to sacrifice their privacy for free by sticking a pop up window in front of them saying "naked chicks if you click here". This is non news really, and you can get people to sacrifice their privacy for far less than $20, especially if you give it to them in gas rebates.

While I completely agree with you, this requires many if not most people to basically admit that they lack the skills to drive effectively, for the speeds and conditions many of them drive at. Especially in context of the capabilities of their vehicle. If we really want to decide who should get insurance reductions, I'd like to see people navigate a coned course with their car in a time event - not necessarily in the aggressive "racing" sense of a course, but just to determine how well people can break and understand where their car is in relation to the road.

Damn, that's a great application. I've heard of it but never given it a shot before. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yeah, non rectangular boundaries doesn't sound like an improvement. It just sounds like it's making things harder to click. You should already have a good indication if something is going to run by the icon highlighting with a mouse hover, so I'm not sure why reducing the click area is a benefit.

I've been ok with the KDE4 changes (not ecstatic but ok with them), but I haven't been happy with dolphin. For some reason I've found it very clunky. I've tried various settings, but nothing seems to work better for me either. Multi column view seemed promising but the implementation is rather bad. If you have a file with a very long name, the column can stretch all the way across your screen and you have to manually scroll back to click on the next directory. Directories aren't highlighted either, so you have no idea what directory a column is actually shown. (that seems very basic mistake that hasn't been corrected).

Considering all the different implementations and ideas floating around in file managers, I'm surprised that dolphin hasn't implemented some of the better ones... well, better.

Space is like a car so big that you can't comprehend it.

Those are almost different issues though aren't they? Copying music and movies is already illegal. This is like giving a cop an AK47 and telling him to open fire on a crowded street every time there's a purse snatching, instead of having him do his job in a reasonable manner.

This is going to be the deal breaker for me. I'm a bit annoyed that I didn't get a PS3 with PS2 compatibility, but then again I didn't expect that to be removed either, and it was more than I wanted to spend when released. Now I've got a PS2 and a PS3 on my shelf. Aside from Valkyria Chronicles, all the other games I have for the PS3 are only ok at best. My library of games I LOVE for the PS2 is a fair size, and it seems more and more likely that it will be bigger than the list of must have games for the PS3 and PS4 combined. If I had to choose between them, I'd stick with the 2.

The problem is that this expects the person who reads the code to inherently understand your mentality and logic. There are batches of code which look screwy, but eventually you can "figure out" what the person was thinking in what they were trying to do. But often this isn't the case. If solutions were as easy as describing them, then anyone could program. I don't believe in obsessively commenting every line, but having a simple commented explanation of what something is supposed to do can make it vastly easier to see why or why not their solution is right or wrong.

I've got a similar firewall doing a fair amount of work and running at about 17mb. However that's apples to oranges with a desktop environment which can consume orders of magnitude more ram. If you're going to maintain a modern system on old hardware, you're going to have to get your hands dirty with an involved setup. That's always been true for FreeBSD or Linux.

Also, why are people talking about using ZFS on a desktop? Do people have too much RAM?