I suppose you can now workaround this bug. If you launch steam in online mode while you're actually offline it asks you if you want to use the offline mode. I can't really figure how a restart after a crash could be any different.
But well, I cannot attest of this as steam has never crashed on any of my computers.

Err, no. This is not needed anymore. Test it: disable your connection, you can then switch to offline mode.

Let's stop standardizing stories to get better stories on Slashdot.
First, we'll stop using tags and titles, it's a clear case of over categorizing
Then, let's stop using english as a standard. Letters were meant to be used freely, not rigidly as used in english.
Finally, we should remove links in stories, so that people can freely search these in the web.

True. Debian is mostly about rock solid reliability and reasonably long support, not about end users. Though debian testing is a pretty neat bleeding edge distro.

Now that javascript is fast, that HTML5 is everywhere, that games can even run on Flash, please Oracle, kill the damn java browser plugin. Sure, Unity uses it. Do J2EE developpers around the world care about it? No, we do not care!
Kill the damn thing. It's slow to start and it will always be slow even with the Jigsaw vaporware. I don't wan't Java in my browser. We are in 2013, ActiveX was crap, Flash is crap, java applets were, are and will always be crap.

Disclaimer, I am a java/J2EE developper and I am totally tired of the reputation that java is getting because of this damn browser plugin.

Quite amazing, 'cause where I work in France, I do around 42 hours (strict) a week, the lunch break is one hour, sure, but we get off work one hour later. In the daily work hour, we have a legal 15min break in the morning and 15 min in the afternoon. The lunch break must be at least 30 minutes, work laws say, but it's not counted as worktime.
Employers often try in France to suggest unpaid overtime, but I do only 3 hours a week as I want to keep a healthy life/personal life.
As a developper, I had positions in several industrial companies, and I have never seen those interesting stereotypes you saw. I do not say these do not exist, but just don't overgeneralize.

Man, you assume that if you implement that, you won't get people bitching about your inaccurate ETA. Keep dreaming. And this gaussian distribution of errors, for estimation bars? That's total bullshit. Why? Cause people will come complaining at you each single time your smartass algorithm just failed as utterly as linear prediction at predicting what will happen... the only deterministic change that this thing brings is that it will increase your product cost, even if only by a fraction and that your manager and team members will remember you created a not working solution.
People do not remember when a progress bar works properly. They only remembers the times it fails. If an installed fails predicting how much time it would take, it has always failed and people will complain and amplify they complains.I mean I can still remember my explosive laughter when a file copy progress bar just went back in time, in Windows 2000. I almost fell of my chair. It was 6 or 7 years ago.
Just leave the damn linear progress bar alone and do not put any silver bullet in it. It's simple, it's fine, it mostly works, as it already is.

DOSbox evolved much. And it's now used by all DOS based games on gog.com, with a nice windowed configuration tool.

I am French and, well, we should. This sounds amazing and definitely mouth-watering.
And BTW, ham, cheese and "bechamel" croissant is really tasty. One could easily replace the ham with crispy bacon.

The entire story feels like free fsf FUD. Or maybe the Replicant people trying to get more people on their project.

As massive licence buyers are heavily negotiating the official prices, we won't get a Linux landslide... do not expect those prices to be applied to governments or big companies.

Yup that how it works in my humble French town (as in most French towns and cities) and it does works. Every vote is counted twice by a two different persons, and anyone can look over the shoulder of the people counting. Anyone can participate, I did twice. And it works.
Of course, sometimes fraud does happen, but it's usually spotted quite early and the fraud scale is rather small.

On Android, most devices do not have app2sd. But some, like the HTC ChaCha/Status have it. It's a vendor issue.
You can install it if you root your device. Same goes for Windows RT, without the rooting part, you can use junctions to work around this stupid limitation.

Many commenters here oversimplify the problem. Do not forget that Google is in a monopolistic position. Deindexing newspaper web pages could be considered as Google using their monopoly as an advantage.
And then, it becomes much more interesting as Europe is constantly probing many companies for such evil monopolistic behaviors. Europe could force google to index these newspapers, and France has much more legislative influence over Europe than Belgium which attempted the same kind of tax, several years ago.

I should have made myself clearer: I am not American , therefore the potential backdoors may be harmful to my country.