Well, last time I had to reinstall my work PC it took at least half a day, what with hunting down the driver CDs (without which even the ethernet port didn't work, so no downloading them), and figuring out which license keys to use, and where to download every individual software package.

Oh wait, got it a bit mixed up. Nops, Linux also works fine for me, last reinstall took at most half an hour to get the system running, which happily included office, and about another half hour to remember which other packages to apt-get.

For me Linux on the desktop happened several years ago, I'm not even bothering to install dual-boot anymore.

Possibly skip 2) though, as "clueless operators" might not be the best choice to obtain your "tools for the Systems Administration community" from?

Possibly their business plan is to have the MAFIAA bribe^Wlobby the US government into complying with the WTO ruling, then rebuild their gambling industry?

"Honestly, I wasn't browsing at all, just making random https connections to cnn.com"...

I switched from Ubuntu to Mint a while ago (before Unity), because it promised to be "Ubuntu, only easier", and stuck around because it was. I'm not saying that I don't enjoy tinkering with stuff (messing around until it breaks is the usual the reason for me having to re-install), but it's nice to have everything working right away on a fresh install, instead of having to go through the motions of setting up restricted-extras yet again.

Uhm, where do you think you got those coordinates from in the first place?
TFA isn't talking about sending geoip data back to browsers to store it in a cookie, it's about getting GPS data from visitors, who will want to lie about it, e.g. to get free beers for logging in at a specific spot several days in a row.

But wouldn't people be unable to find the fake stealth shops?

FTFA:

I always wonder how many of these worried investors recognized the scheme for what it was right away, and decided to try and make some profit out of it themselves.

That's the day you guys defeated the aliens, right?

Because determining which part of the keyboard lights up is much easier than OCRing a much smaller character. A video could easily be low-res/blurry enough to make reading that character impossible, while the blue flashes would still be recognizable.

Why would people even think nuclear-powered gatling guns were the path to truth?
At least those "Ultima Ratio Regnum." stamps were honestly admitting that it has always been about winning arguments, not about finding the truth.

Most people would just not buy from that person again. With the profit margins on drugs being as huge as they are, dealers make more money from only two sales than from ripping you off once.
Also, if your business model consists of consistently ripping off people willing to buy illegal drugs, my guess is it probably won't be too long before you piss off the kind of people that do believe in physical customer feedback. (Although obviously they won't be able to find you, as all the wire tapping is exclusively accessible to incorruptible people that only have your safety against terrorism, child porn, and crimethink on their mind.)

There's inSSIDer for Linux, although Kismet is nice, it doesn't output pretty pictures :p (Seriously though, the graphical overview of networks is a nice addition to just a textual list of networks and their strengths for each channel, especially for seeing the overlap if they're using something besides the three standard channels)

There's a difference between perfecting a UI design and inflicting completely new, experimental ideas on unsuspecting users. Testing which particular gesture would be best for each interaction might take too much time, but completely omitting menus (leaving the only way to accomplish anything to be guessing the right gesture) is something that should've been thought over (especially if your target platform ships with a physical 'menu' button).

You might not be able to convince them, but you are able to switch ISP.