4chan?

Think of the naked 13 year old

Nice try, FBI. I'm not falling for that one again.

What the hell was going through these peoples' minds when they deemed a strip-search was necessary to determine if the student had ibuprofen? Did nobody involve think "hey, now, this isn't this somewhat excessive"? She said she didn't have the ibuprofen - since ibuprofen isn't really a threat to the safety of anybody (unless she deliberately overdoses), why are they searching her possessions solely based on the accusation of another student They're treating this as a Fourth Amendment issue, which it is. However, strip-searching a student is wrong and should be considered illegal, regardless of the Fourth Amendment. Doing it because you think she has ibuprofen is just ludicrous.

I liked Serenity not because of the show, but because it fits well with the other two modules Unity and Harmony. If this were the first to be named, I'd definitely advocate honoring a scientists, but as sysadmin knows, having a consistent naming scheme is nice.

Net Applications, the site that ITPro is using as the source of its numbers, lists Safari's market share as 7.42% - a decrease from last month, when it was at 7.7%. Am I missing something, or is ITPro just doing a shoddy job at citing its source?

This. Companies only care about my personal life so they can make a profit off it. It's also often in their interest to have a somewhat reasonable privacy policy, or customers might avoid them. I also have a choice not to use Facebook, host my own email server, and only use prepaid mobile phones. As pieisgood says, the government only cares about control and to restrict my liberties. I can't easily hide from or opt out of the government.

No anonymity on the Internet? China, North Korea, and other totalitarian states would love this.

Gnome has GVFS. It's somewhat recent, but it allows network transparency similar to KDE's. Unfortunately, since it is still somewhat recent, apps have to be GVFS-aware to take full advantage of it.

Even touching gconf is pretty much unnecessary these days. The only reason I've had to was to put the trash icon on the desktop.

To quote Firefly, "[The bible] is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."

I consider myself to be liberal. I place a high value on personal freedoms and rights, one of which (as far as I'm concerned) is the right to own firearms.

Really? I killed my roommate after he accidentally wiped out a year's progress in my game of Nethack.

One of the reasons for the 2nd amendment was to act as a safeguard against a tyrannical government.

Anyway, I expect the usual 800-post NRA/2nd Amendment gun nuts vs rational people thread.

Don't forget the people who think that every gun is evil. I don't have any need to own a handgun or rifle, but I support the right of people who do, provided they are responsible (as the father seemed to be, considering that the gun was stored in a lockbox). Yes, the kid used a gun to kill his parents. However, he could also have just used a butcher knife from the kitchen.

If Congress passes this, I am buying a roll of stickers saying "[citation needed]" and visiting local video game stores.