ls, cat, grep, sed, free, etc.

If you're not using these 3 times as much as you're doing active things, I don't know how you know what's going on.

Sure, you occasionally run into the odd file that's only readable to root, but mostly you can see things well enough without touching anything before you decide what needs to be done. Then you say sudo just so you're clear about what you're doing.

But we don't want the males to have a shortened lifespan. We want the females to have a shortened lifespan, while the males live long and productive sex lives. That allows the number of bad genes in the population to grow until there are almost no females left.

I'm going to feel a lot less sheepish about my desire to fork any project I find on Sourceforge and throw it up on Github after this.

Why should I care - the jerk store called and they are running out of you!

It's not reproducible. Even the reporter can't reproduce it. No shit it's not fixed.

I hate to be the cynic, but this looks really contrived. And phrases like the one in the abstract "we learned that science can be cool" (paraphrased) are so old hat and trite. I hear my kid come back from school programmed to say the same thing. It seems that this work could give the children involved what actual scientific work is like. I am concerned that the real reason for this work to further the career of their attention getting teacher. [Just conjecture.]

Another missing option - Commodore BASIC. I love that it was a language and an operating system. Same for the HP 85 and many others...

So it's OK to talk about her "panties" now? Not very civil. And we women just call them underwear nowadays. The 1950s was oh...about 60 years ago.

I think they moved it to the Firehose so you have to put in a little effort if you want to tag a story (presumably to cut down on tags like cyberwarfareisbullshit)

What's the point of a single-use patch? I had a tetanus shot the other day, and needles are so thin now, I literally felt nothing.

Now, once the shot took the spot on my arm was sore for a few days, but the needle was absolutely painless.

This just seems like a less controlled and more expensive way to do the same thing.

Acoustic triggers are, by law, required on all offshore rigs in Norway and several other countries. Norway is, quite simply, the gold standard for sea drilling, and you have no idea what you are talking about.

I'm not sure if you're ignorant or just a troll.

In any case, SSL is responsible for securing all updates, OS or app. Break Google's SSL, you've compromised all of the features, and you're not going to bother installing a crippled Android app, because you have root on a full-fledged Linux handheld.

The line between OS version and app is entirely arbitrary, and Google is working to move more of the OS functionality into apps.

From a security standpoint, if Google has access to this, they have access to the OS anyway, installing/removing apps is not a big deal. They already have root on your device (and you don't.)

If your solution doesn't work in the latest Opera, Firefox, and Chrome, you're not developing for standards. You're developing for whatever browsers you're developing for.

If you are in a situation where you can dictate what browser your users use, you can do that, and I think it's fine to say that it can't be IE until Microsoft gets their act together. But the other three rendering engines - Presto/Webkit/Gecko - should be supported 100%.

It's not a solution in that it doesn't create a wide market where app developers can target at least a third of majority of mobile phone users. People want too much variety for Apple to grab that much of the market with only a handful of models.