However I'm told it is also illegal (at least here in Maryland, heard via a radio public service announcement) to leave the keys in the ignition.

I would hope that we'll work to improve/augment our own intelligence rather than create separate entities to make us obsolete. Then again I'll be dead if not close to it by the time this is relevant.

I think the bitching here is due to the popular choice usually being technologically inferior in some set of (rarely relevant to most users) specifications or benchmarks. Remember "No Wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."?

Sounds good to me. In that case, I'll be waiting at Terrapin Station.

I'm guessing that hooking it up to a big flywheel diminishes some of the miniaturization novelty

The point is not to use the legal system to enforce patents. The point is to use the *threat* of a drawn out legal case to extort a settlement, even if there's a chance that the claim isn't 100% applicable.

You're right and you're right. But even more generally,

OSs downloaded from the internet are never going to be mainstream. I'm running OSX, iOS, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, Android, Ubuntu, and Windows 7 somewhere or another on my personal/family machines, but I'm not even going to pretend that "The 99%" are going to ever go out of their way to install an OS. Most actively reject all but the most forced or hidden automatic updating. Computing devices are disposable, so if Canonical wants market share, they absolutely need to court hardware vendors who obviously can't put [i]OS[X] on it and don't want to pay for Windows 8. They're really competing with Android, and their choices reflect this.

The suits were right on reality shows, though - they may be trash, but they are popular trash that makes lots of money. Once a channel gets a taste of that sweet reality profit margin, they never come back. See also History Channel and its new slogan, "History: make it every day!" as well as "The Learning Channel" --> "TLC" and of course the MTVs, which don't even try to mask it.

Just remove "idle." from the url, and it loads the page like any other slashdot comment section.

I agree - RELEASE THE KAGAN!