Besides: In a billion years mankind probably has evolved to something different. I don't think a species has ever made it that long with only slight alteration, save for some microbes maybe. So, technically, "mankind" cannot be wiped out in a billion years, because it does not exist anymore anyway.

I forgot: The Linux desktops were not in place in 2004 and the report seems to refer to that year.

Well, at least the city of Munich: http://news.cnet.com/Munich-fires-up-Linux-at-last/2100-7344_3-6119153.html

I am sure, though, that there are others.

Not quite wiped out, but it may make you happy for a while: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/13/AR2009051300590.html?wprss=rss_business

Actually, you can also estimate based on sex, nationality and other averages. Imagine making a regression of many people, randomly sampled, with different heigths, sex, nationality and so on. The resulting coefficients would be called "estimates". Based on those, you might try to make a prediction based on the variables you know of a person apart from the name, like sex, nationality, and so on. Since this prediction is based on estimates, it could also be called an estimate.
What I am trying to say here is, that as long as you have a method which objectifies (yes, according to my professors that's a real word) your results, it is not guessing, but estimating. Pure guessing would be without method and therefore unscientific. However, that does not prevent an estimate from being wrong and a guess from being right.
Based on this, a guesstimate would be something, which follows a method up to a point, but is thrown together with something guessed, like assumed data (bad!) or a theory based on guesswork (acceptable qua falsifiable).

The list is not accesible, as it says somewhere up here. That however, creates problems, too. So either way: Stupid.

Well, that's what previews are for.

There, fixed it for you.

If ideals do not matter and expansion is the driving force, then tell me why do European politicians always cite human rights violations as a reason for not accepting Turkey as a member?
Even if that was not the true reason, the EU would not have to pretend it was, if expansion and not other concerns were of foremost importance.
My point is: It might be more complicated than you make it seem.

DO NOT CLICK the link in the parent. Especially if you are at work. :-(

That's what Stealther and guest accounts are for. ;-)

It is a term summarizing all programs that enable (drawing of)the panel, windows and other stuff which you directly work with when you use your graphical user interface. Well known DEs for Linux are Gnome and KDE. Although in MS Windows it is technically possible to change it, the DE is quasi-synonymous with the operating system here and is (relatively) hard to detach from the rest of the programs that make your system run.

Actually, they did have the permission of a judge, at least according to this: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Hausdurchsuchung-bei-Inhaber-der-Domain-wikileaks-de-Update--/meldung/135147
Although you are right that police can enter the domain without judges under certain circumstances, evidence might be forfeit if they did it for the wrong reasons. It is not as easy as you depict it, even if it would apply to our case here (which it does not).
I too think that the German police has too much power (especially warrants like these are a bit fishy at times, not to mention copyrights, demonstration rights, etc), but we are still a democratic state with a halfway decent judicial system.

Again someone who misses the point: What do non-technical writers do that never wrote a line of code and therefore would never think that way?
Say, an economist, like me.

Uh, Mike Rackhabbit strikes again!