This is typical "doctor" talk. They are worried about ruining their day or malpractice suits. How about for a change think about not ruining a patient's life with your negligence !

What is wrong with learning using BASIC ? It worked for all those folks (including me) who learned how to program in the 90s. It was not difficult and was fun in its own way.

Actually, depending on how much floor space your friend has he can open a coffee shop first. Then add a Red Box or similar DVD rental kiosks. Maybe add other types of kiosks too thus forcing people to come in. With the volume of folks coming in your coffee shop can make some good money Another thing that can be added is kids stuff like book reading, movie watching sessions and the likes. Reinvention is necessary to keep up with the times.

But they also have lives... they might have cool toys at home like these headsets for playing video games...

shouldn't we be looking at ways to really build secure software around these devices rather than prevent people from using them...

it is a defeatist attitude where software folks instead of fixing their software say don't use it...

Finally a logical reasoning why Microsoft has multiple versions of Windows!

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/ Months ago the Onion came out with this news.. the EFF is just catching up to the reality of it.

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Or, an even more cleverly written "giggolos".

Why would you not use 9 instead of 6 ?

What a colossal waste of money !

Oracle and Google waste money on lawyers on such silly functions instead of spending the money on building more useful technology.

We as users are the only losers in this non-sensical fight.

Have you tried Brother's printers. They work pretty well, are reasonably priced and have Linux drivers that work. I have been using their Laser printer for the past 3 years now and it has never disappointed me.

How else do you think he came up with the theory of relativity ? If you have tons of relations, you get relative...

You're missing out on Java.

Well you seem to have a big foot (as per your slashdot id), so maybe you can kick him with it and find out.

Works in Safari properly. Your Chrome beta is exactly that, a "beta".

A couple of weeks ago there was this company called Bright Computing, that was pitching their software called Cluster Manager, which looked very cool as they had an excellent interface and could keep track of everything from machines, to routers, switches, power usage etc. Something to look into.

http://www.brightcomputing.com/

Obligatory: Microsoft did it to prove that IIS is more secure.