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I do not care about windows but I have to agree that these icons aren't even modern, whatever that means.

... To their own opinion.
Get off my lawn

Extremely well said!

And your qualifications for telling me what not to do are...?

Gtk3 is a fine, general purpose, toolkit that helps you solve a plethora of problems quickly. In addition, Gtk3 is used extensively behind corporate environments' doors to deliver good quality software for its users.

Thanks for the advise but I reserve the right to make my own choices.

I say let them at least try. This is good for Earth in so many fronts and especially is good for the human gene pool as a whole.
The first ones to reach Mars will be laureated with Darwin Awards anyway ðY

... "Offline". Meaning, have the wombs be stand-alone.
That would solve the 1mm people on Mars dilemma

You're not missing anything. It's a scam. If you have friends overseas you can't send them free SMS. You could use one of those services you mentioned, but they all require that all your friends have an account and are tech-savvy. WhatsUp works like SMS and for them is free.

I'm sorry but this is horrible .ini-style code. Poorly thought out and easy to make a big mess. What if you say "execStart" or "execstart" instead of the specific case you used here? I really dislike when we step backwards in time. This should be elegant and extremely simple. Upstart is that for now. I have no complaints with upstart.

well said

I'd allow this if the price is cheaper and they give me free hardware to do it.

I'd still keep my network on a different VLAN (just like I do now with my cisco WAP)

"Look mom, I got these 2 pet snails from our last trip to Africa"
Mom: "Oh my, throw that stuff away!"
Kid goes to nearest pond and dumps them... no natural predators around, fast-forward a few months and boooom! Huge agricultural disaster, yaddah yaddah...

Neil is that you? I didn't know you were a slashdotter :)

something for geeks to wear on a t-shirt as the pattern has some geek creds ;)

Well, perhaps that will put a stop at the number of folks who simply went back to Debian. I'm considering that myself, but I'll wait and see...

I accidentally became a Linux security expert by being in the right place when hackers attacked.

* /me gets job as Network Engineer
* Evil hackers attack network
* FBI calls us (we were an ISP)
* Boss gives me full access to all Linux servers and firewalls

The rest is history.

I do not believe in certifications. People should study the material and use it on a daily basis.