In my case they succeeded quite thoroughly. When I saw what Gnome 3 was going to be like I started looking around, and by the time it came out I'd migrated to Xfce and Compiz and never looked back. It's lightweight (An important consideration at the time because money was tight and RAM upgrades weren't an option.) easy to configure and lots of eye candy available if that's what you want. Most of that goes on my laptop so that I can show off to people still using Windows and ask them why their computers can't do that.

I had mod points yesterday... Shit.

My fear too... They have a history of this.

Who are the clueless idiots making this decision? Have they ever used Linux?

For now. Flash started that way too... Now I have VMs of old computers just to log into copiers and old network equipment.

This is the thing I miss most on Windows when forced to use it. I know we can re-enable it, for now, but if it ever goes, so will I!

>"Both GNOME and Firefox are considering disabling middle-click paste by default, arguing it's a confusing, accident-prone X11 relic that dumps clipboard contents without warning."

PLEASE DO NOT. How about having an environment variable and LETTING THE USER DECIDE. I use middle-click pasting all the time. PLEASE DO NOT use the stupid gsettings stuff. I don't use GNOME, and that stuff is annoying and confusing.

And this crap Firefox does with single clicking in the URL bar selecting the ENTIRE LINE is beyond annoying. PLEASE LET US CONTROL THAT AS WELL!!!

I guess Gold Plated Latinum was rejected as too long.

Hmm. I suppose you just has to supply your phone number, SIN, driver's license, residential address, email address and three social media account logins, to enable them to delete your data...

I don't know just what you think the term Tragedy of the Commons means, but whatever you think it is is wrong. It refers to the idea that if everybody has unfettered access to common resources they will, in time, over-use and destroy them.

Soon they'll make their vehicles so you can use two or more charging stations. In 1999, I told Carnegie Mellon world Lithium Ion Cars were the future, students laughed at me, professors said I was wrong and wouldn't look at my 3 lines of equations.

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I'm known as one of the top video gamers in human history, many call me #1, proof at Crystalfighter.com I discovered something in League of Legends known as POLITICAL CENSORSHIP QUEUE. China gives you all bad allies if you aren't all for their politics.
Don't laugh, it's scientifically proven by many... 8000 games, 80% bad allies, should be close to 15% or 30%... Other people with 3000+ games like this.
RIot even has a patent known as BEHAVIORAL BASED MATCHMAKING... It's just like the 1960s Soviet Olympic cheating scandals again.
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>>"We don't combat it, we die. That's why epidemiologists have been warning about the overuse of anti-biotics for decades."

>"Antibiotics do nothing against fungus"

Correct (and it is baffling why the article mentions "antibiotics") they are not used to treat fungi.

But what "sdinfoserv" was probably talking about is that bacteria often keep fungi in check. When antibiotics are used (and over used), it can wipe out all the "good" bacteria and the fungi start spreading out of control because they have free reign. This is a common problem for women with internal yeast infections after taking antibiotics, for example.

>"But what about the bedsheets and the chair cushions in the waiting room? Hmm...."

Yeah, that list, 100% of them are on "hard nonporus" surfaces. So apparently useless for carpet, clothing, bedding, curtains, etc... And then there are the spores which are probably in the air all the time, just waiting to re-establish colonies when conditions are right.

Old hospitals used copper and brass surfaces and fittings. New hospitals use stainless steel. The copper and brass surfaces kill lots of pathogens while stainless steel doesn't. Hospitals should revert back to copper plating.