... infer that a Titanic II replica will be close to unsinkable. Unfortunately, laws of behavior of the masses infer that people that decide to board this ship on its maiden voyage will probably poop themselves once or twice onboard.

and I'm interested in this post but can't be bothered since /. is a dinosaur for old people and Mark is asking for a new hole in fb privacy to help him make more money, off now for my 4th coffee on my 21hr workday...

Being a student in London UK this all looks incomprehensible to me. I also find it extremely weird that you still like to call your land 'land of the free'. I'd be interested to learn more about this and other US "cartels" in education, media, health and commercial areas.

you assume they are rumours, you must be american, in other countries the question would be why would they bother if they are just rumours?

It's called LTSP. Linux Terminal Server Project. Just make sure you build fat clients.

Space exploration might have lost its appeal since no habitable planets were found nearby, but learning to live, breed, create food and energy upon a spacestation is the only way humanity will survive once we have to abandon this polluted planet.

And THIS is where you are wrong. You are forcing apple on how to do things whereas apple must tell you how to do said things. If said things cannot be done on apple, it means no proper way has been invented yet to implement said things and you should reconsider doing said things at all. Until of course said things are presented by apple in an new cool way, then your teen daughter will have vpn client on her iphone and the world will be a better place. Apple fanboi

youtube link plz...

You are me... you didn't post this, I did, in a parallel universe. This is the best, most insightful piece of information I've read this year on the internet. You are "indigo" my friend, a visionary. I think I've actually got further than that. I'm an avid gamer, but when friends and family asked me what to get me for xmas, even though I could ask for a dozen various games or other overpriced holiday gifts I asked of them to give me money instead, to save for when I really have a need for it, ie when my laptop breaks, or my mobile phone.

wow and this post got 5 for insightfulness? brb (moves on to type "slashdot alternatives" on google)

At least it will be remembered via "The social network". I was feeling quite old when my highschool students responded "napster?" while mentioning it in computing class until recently.

Come on, only the dust makes it difficult to enjoy. There is no comparing a cd with vinyl. But bringing vinyl back could be a great way for the music industry to make up for the lost money from piracy. Vinyl cannot be copied (not to another cheap vinyl "rewritable" anyway). Could this be another propaganda? I know the world is not going to switch to vinyl or anything other than mp3 for that matter but still, this 15yr old kid is a good example of why it could bring back some money, or to make us believe it is better. And since nobody in this forum ever mentioned a scheme behind this, the propaganda may already be working and some of you may already fallen for it and rushed off to buy the new vinyl releases that have "incidentally" popped up just in time with the "story" they just sold you...