I got bit by this one: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925308 on volumes with hundreds of thousands of small files. All who had a size multiple of 4kb were corrupted.

How can the author ignore the insane costs of a nuclear programme? Surely he realizes thousands, if not orders of magnitude more, will die due to starvation, poorer health services and forced labour while a government is busy maintaining an implausible status quo, is that just signed off as "acceptable loss"?

How would one boot Slackware then?

This is a well-known let's say 'urban legend', refuted several times throughout history but which keeps coming back as a way to stress just how dark the Dark Ages were or to make a Mayan discovery look more spectacular. Educated people over the millenia have always known that Earth is round, and belief otherwise is just that - a dogma imposed by some religions, methinks as a simple yet powerful way to describe how precious and rare life as we know is. See the "Myth of a flat Earth" page references for some amusement.
  There will also always be nutcases that deny common sense and science, some of them might even go as far as to negate Darwinism in American schools, but I do hold hope that humanity can work around those.

Once a provider has a large enough db, they can look for firstname.lastname@gmail.com or, knowing from the contacts distribution the region and language of the users, something like @free.fr or @yahoo.co.jp

Love to see it soldiering on. No advertising, no vendor lock-in, no World Wide Whatever Conventions, and yet there's no-one moving it off the top 10. Congratulations, to all the devs and monks.

I don't get this. Why was work and detailing involved in such a feature? Was I able to login before? Yes. Am I still able to login? Hope so, unless they botched something.
3 years ago, I had to patch and rebuild GDM to allow fingerprint authentication, with code from an IBM developer (awfully sorry for not remembering the name). Today - do I have fingerprint by default? Hell no, but it is "integrated with the rest of the user experience". Quite disappointing.

Is your name Billing? Sony Billing?

Why would that be? If everyone had a garden, would you dislike flowers? If most people around you were playing music, would you not enjoy dancing anymore? All the instruments available playing at the same time, or all the perfumes combined will quickly lead to saturation or even become hurtful, but with careful orchestration from capable/creative people you will get countless enjoyable moments.
As with anything else, the Internet experience needs a bit of guidance and restraint, but as a concept I find it nothing short of amazing.

..that almost 30% of the developers of such a huge and complex project are involved without direct benefits. Big thanks to all of them!

While the GP may be exaggerating a bit, this this study quotes frighteningly close numbers, and they only track up to 2007, while stating that

..there has been an "astounding" 36.1% drop in the wealth (marketable assets) of the median household since the peak of the housing bubble in 2007. By contrast, the wealth of the top 1% of households dropped by far less: just 11.1%.

Wikipedia has informations dated 2001, but with a later note mentioning the same trend.