The summary states:

The total sample consisted of 1,000 torrent files—a random selection from the most active seeded files on the trackers they used.

Clearly then the sample isn't a random subset of 'all torrents' but instead of 'popular torrents on certain trackers.' This does not justify the proposition in the title "Study Finds 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Definitely Legal."

That aside, fat chance I'm going to trust The Internet Commerce Security Laboratory to keep their science unbiased in this regard. Seriously, for whom would a sample size of 1,000 torrents seem even close to enough?

When most people see my Nexus One they ask if its a Droid. I'm a little tired of explaining that Droid is a hardware series (with an incredibly huge marketing budget) and Android is an OS.

This. I get very frustrated very quickly when I'm forced to use a mouse that doesn't have back/forward buttons. It makes navigating the FS a lot faster too.

Hear, hear! There's nothing to indicate that the reasons for my move from the iHegemony are now part of my mobile Linux experience. In fact, just last night I had an experience that indicates the reasons for my move were more valid than I had anticipated: I discovered a bug in some small corner of the OS, reported it on the public bug tracker, then started digging through the Android git on the off chance I might be able to fix it myself.

Logically speaking, a free and open Linux variant is simply superior to iOS.

"New Study Declares 'Uber Ultra Extreme' Gamers Play 48 Hours a Day"

Just stop allowing people to drive already. We'd all be amazed at the increase in fuel efficiency and road safety.

Yes, just like how we use way too much oil to begin with--estimated daily US consumption of oil is around 19.5 million barrels. It's kind of logical that utter reliance upon burning about 605 million gallons of fossil fuel every single day is problematic. If only the consequences were as explicit as dead wildlife washing onto our doorsteps...

If it really comes down to an issue of resources, two things: 1. they better get here soon or there won't be much left and 2. given the size of the universe and all the evidence that life is pretty rare, the most valuable resources our planet has to offer is our life, thus it wouldn't make much economic sense to eradicate us. This may just mean that we'll be sold as exotic pets, but at least that's bound to be one hell of an adventure.

Maybe it just took them a while to figure out how to add the name of an unnamed man to the list. Technically he has always been on the list since the empty set is a subset of all sets, it was probably just that the for the first check they made the mistake of querying "Unnamed Man," a different person altogether who has not yet been discovered to be a threat.

Let me know when the first successful full head transplant takes place.

Ignoring as much as possible the confounding composition of this summary, there's something very wrong with this bit:

"...but mechanical hard drives are still king when it comes to capacity. That was until the revamped Colossus LT series Solid State Drive came along this week. With up to 1TB..."

Given that standard desktop form factor hard drives with a capacity of 2 TB are readily available for purchase, it doesn't seem that the arrival of the Revamped 1 TB Colossus LT Solid State Drive represents even a slight advantage for SSDs regarding capacity. Furthermore, as others have pointed out, instead of this single SSD, 20 traditional 1 TB hard drives could be purchased with enough budget left for a server board, processor, ram and a few discrete RAID cards.

I'm surprised to see this publicly available, usually such premium-priced products are exclusive to industries with more dollars than sense--film and medical come to mind.

I was sitting in my computer architecture class a few years ago when an article I remembered reading suddenly became relevant. I told the professor about how this article had said that modern processors have gotten so small and fast that they are now subject to a quantum phenomenon which causes an apparent slowdown in operational frequency over the course of a few years.

I generally hate broadcasting incorrect information, regardless of whether I or anyone else realizes it, so, feeling suspicious about what I had just said, I started googling. Eventually I found the article and saw that I had apparently remembered everything correctly, until I saw the date it was published: April 1st. Even then, at least several months and probably more than a year later, the only indication that the whole thing was a farce was the publish date. And a good thing I had my skepticism turned to 11, because April 1 or 4/1 is represented in my mind as a normal date, not a specific date in which the objective foundation of modern society is arbitrarily abandoned by sources otherwise regarded trustworthy.

I'm no physicist, but from what I gather this will happen when decades of experiments that successfully verify relativity are explained by some other theory that allows faster than light transportation of information (quantum mechanics doesn't). Personally I'm not inclined to think this is absolutely impossible for the general notion indicated by something such as Newtonian physics being described as a special case of, and therefore displaced by, relativistic physics. In other words, I think only small minded fools are willing to call a thing impossible (no offense to the small minded fools). There's also some rationally justifiable hope a further layer of physics is available to be found, indicated at least by the problematic rift between classical and quantum mechanics. Otherwise, according to our current understanding of reality, the latency is limited to distance times the speed of light in a vacuum. Given the mean equatorial circumference of Earth, that means either 66.8 ms around the surface or 42.6 ms straight through the middle. Even so, seeing how a blink of an eye is around 300-400 ms, 66.8 ms is pretty ok for going halfway around the planet.

It probably depends on the environment, but I've always thought of IT as Internet and network tech. In that regard I put Linus at the top, not just for Linux but it as it was a (or the) catalyst for Apache, etc. Certainly the Internet would hardly be recognizable minus the influence of those two. Personally my respect for Linus is magnified by him being merely 21 when he started it all, an amazing fact made all the greater by the year 21 in particular--an age at which most privileged Americans use their arguably unprecedentedly extensive array of resources to spend every spare moment drunk. Also, I just love FOSS, it's amazing. Thanks Linus!