I like the new redesign. I just wish that you would leave my font and size preferences alone. I set my display DPI to get the best looking font shapes for my main task, which is programming. At this DPI (100, by the way), the slashdot physical font size is small and I have to compensate by setting the browser base font size to 16 or bigger. This apparently doesn't work any longer.

I have two 1680x1050 monitors in portrait mode. Works great. Lets me see long blocks of code nicely.

Keep the set of keys next to your front pocket so when they get too jingly you can just swing them into the pocket.

Same here :-) There should be a poll so we can see how the popular methods compare.

That's the way I keep my keys. Hook to one of the belt loops near the pocket and I can swing the keys into the pocket if they get too jingly.

1. It's a theme. If you don't like it, use a different theme, or edit it to do what you want it to do.

2. I agree with Shuttleworth. If everybody is allowed input into the process, the result will be like this one,

"What if a corporation created the STOP sign", linked to at various places, like this one

http://www.directcreative.com/blog/stop-sign

We used to go out to Death Valley regularly. It's not a big deal if you carry enough water and food, and don't take silly risks (or do, if you carry spare parts and tools). My five year old son went out to DV with me when he was nine months old. Camped out in the old Indian summering ground at 9000ft :-)

I didn't see where they actually said you can't drop off the grid, but they do ask that you list five activities or so that you would commit to, without spelling out what those activities may be.

The three things I can't live without? Easy, air, water, food :-)

I'm with you on the wilderness trek thing.

disappearing into Death Valley for a month. Good luck finding me :-)

He could have made the copies but retained the DRM. Or, he could have made exact DVD copies with the DRM in place. OK, so it's not possible to make exact copies of dual-layered DVD but that's a technological issue, not legal.

I don't understand how the two laws are contradictory.

and then it's every man for himself. You want to protect your own butt so you might want to be the first to call the BSA. You'll want to do this so the people at previous company doesn't frame you for it.

when something goes wrong, roll back to pristine VM image. Keep the host running something sane, and not use the host to browse the web at all. This should reduce your Family Tech Support workload drastically.

Now instead of one easy target, your sploits have to work on 32- and 64-bit kernel, as well as on SPARC, ARM, PPC, MIPS. Where does one find the time?!?

But no time (or presence of mind) to push the selector into neutral? How about turning the ignition off? What?

The stupid, it burns!

We tend to go to places where cellphone reception is next to impossible (Death Valley, Moab, out kayaking on on open waters, etc.) You really need standalone GPS with proper maps for this sort of activities.