It boggles my ever loving mind how people here are making excuses for this nitwit. HE COULD HAVE KILLED SOMEONE. How hard is that to understand?

I second this. SUSE is a damn great distro and gives the best KDE4 experience out-of-the-box of ANY Linux. It's easy to install and detects almost everything I've thrown at it (TV cards and wireless might be a problem) and is very user firendly. It gets a bad rep here in /. culture because of the M$ deal. For that matter Fedora's getting a bad rep because of their UEFI Secure Boot deal with M$. Slashdot culture is a funny thing. Criticize Apple and it's like kicking over an anthill. Now apparently ditto Ubuntu and Unity, & Ubuntu's practices. But it's okay to bash Metro and W8, whose lead Shuttleworth seems hell bent on following. Go on, people. Criticize away.

I'm running KDE on Mint 13. Runs fine.

I'm a Mint user-- Mint's downstream from Ubuntu-- so I can attest to the quality & hard work that its programmers & devs have put into it. My beef is with the direction Ubuntu is taking; drinking the tablet Kool-Aid, and as I mentioned before the adware. As for their revenues, the way to do it right is to make a jim-dandy OS, and sell the support. If I want adware I can get a Windows box.

I've always distrusted Ubuntu. It seems their programmers are being driven by marketers now-- Unity, adware crap, and so on. Kind of reminds me of another company... Good luck to them I guess.

Oh. You mean all those spies at the WTC. My bad.

Fine then. Bend over and take your espionage in the pooper.

Earth-sized planets are underrepresented because while we have the right technology, we don't have funding for spacecraft capable of detecting them.

Tax grab, plain and simple.

Also, this: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

Four words: Gerald Posner, Case Closed.

This has happened before in Ohio requiring higher authorities to step in. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio

I parsed that as "Oily Tits" until I went to her Wikipedia entry. Birthers, Truthers, the idiots that think the military-industrial complex had JFK killed, now even people who think the Newtown shooting was contrived by Obama; the list of crackpots goes on and on. If I were this judge I'd laugh her out of my courtroom.

I got Warp 3 when it came out. Loved it. I stayed with OS/2 throughout the rest of the 90s, through Warp 4.5 Server. I loved it. I still miss the hipsterish, superior feeling I got lording it over all the sheeple using Win 95 (Get off my lawn!).... Sometime during that period I also loaded up Yggdrasil Linux, which was about as user-friendly as a brick to the head. Back then I was dual-booting by using removable hard drives that slid in and out of a caddy-type device. Good times!

No kidding. Yahoo's content on the home page seems to be squarely targeted at the Honey Boo Boo crowd.