Every day I go to my local coffee shop for a morning coffee. I hand them my cup, put my card in the machine and type in a 4 digit number. Done. The person ahead of me had to dig through their pockets to find the right change, then the cashier had to count it and sort it into the till, and then count back the change. Heaven forbid if some little old lady's change purse dumps on the floor.

I'll keep my secure (ish) chip and pin thank you
Why would I want to introduce the complete insecurity of near field silliness?

Ubuntu LTS

So in other words, the taskbar now acts like a very primitive dock, like OSX, or Cairo Dock in Linux...
Great theory, but it is still a cludgy solution that has been implemented much better on other OS's

I agree that Sony makes some crappy products, but their sensors are currently some of the best on the market. Most DSLR's, including the top Nikons (D800, D600) use Sony sensors.
GoPro cameras are actually pretty crappy image wise, but they are very rugged, small, and have a crap load of accessories for mounting on almost everything.

OK, I have not done this over 12 years, because I have changed a few things over that time, drives have died etc, but I have rarely had a problem upgrading my linux boxes.
I have had drivers break, hardware become flaky etc with windows. Hell, I recently had a new windows 8 machine bluescreen continually because the antivirus that worked very well in win 7 broke during an update.

I dare you to do the same with MS Windows, or even Apple for that matter.... Doing multiple updates IN ANY OS can cause problems.

um... no,
Depth of field has to do with the physics of optics. Lytro is using a large array of lenses then combining the collected data in interesting ways. Yes they are sacrificing resolution, but their depth of field "magic" could just as easily be achieved by taking a large number of images taken with a DSLR, but the images would not all be taken at the same time, and the processing power needed would be immense. You might be more correct in saying that Lytro is trading resolution for time...

At least now there is a happy face on the bluescreen...
http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/image23.png?w=640

Does this get the record for the longest TL;DR reply? It has to be in the running

or maybe the fact he was 80 years old, with a history of heart problems....

I have a small computer set up as a NAS (yes it is running ubuntu server, but any distro would probably work) I run egroupware server on it so I can get email, access files, and have a consolidated calendar (among other things) on all my devices. I tried owncloud, but it was a bit resource intensive.
works for me...

Best reply ever... My kingdom for mod points...

Slashdot has some very bright and intelligent readers who make some very interesting and insightful comments.....

And some real idiots....

if some psycho snaps and wants to go out and kill someone, chances are he doesn't have a gun if he lives in Canada. If he isn't thinking straight, he may not be able to get a gun.

Compare that to the US where if someone has a moment of road rage, they can reach into their glove box and pull out a gun to shoot someone....

That is the answer to that...

Did you actually look at the link you provided? For any given time period, the US has had more incidents than any other single country, including countries with larger populations.

Since 1982*, the us has had 6 incidents (not including school massacres, workplace killings, hate crimes or familicides, but the numbers still hold up)
China with its larger population has had only 4, Uganda, that utopia of peace has had 3 incidents since 1982...

*I chose 1982 somewhat arbitrarily as a cutoff to get Uganda up to 3 and it is a nice even 30 years...