I agree. Never tell any pollsters who your are voting for. It's what a free vote is all about. Not knowing who your neighbour is voting for.

Seriously, I think we need more. This is great news. Much better then bloodshed etc. Isn't it nice to get some good news for a change?

Why would you assume that your co-workers would act like a$$holes? The simpler solution is assume they will act like gentlemen, and expect them to act like gentlemen. If any are falling below acceptable behaviour, then take them into your office, and lecture them. Do not allow bad behaviour to exist. If it does exist and you are the manager then it is your fault. It sounds like you haven't had control of the situation in a while if your "woman in team" has had to defend herself with verbal slaps. On the otherhand "remarks, double entendres and inuendos" are not always a sign of people not getting along. Could it be that you are too sensitive to the situation, and that things aren't as bad as you think?

Understood. But with the IRS they are after money. With the homeland security, they aren't after anything, therefore anything will be/ and can be collected... I worry about the just-in-case mentality. After all, if 4 terrabytes costs $100 retail, they could easily have storage of every person in the country and stay within budget. (my keylogging program seems to be giving me problems. Cut it out!!!!)

The first amendment (from wikipedia) says:

The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.

Does giving the Department of Homeland Security affect this, by being able to collect information on it's citizens? Are people still able to peaceably protest when the minute details of their lives are in the government cloud?

but it casts a big shadow....

Sorry just had to say.

"What can we do with the Start menu to revive it, to give it some new identity, give it some new power?"

Git rid of it. That's what we will do!

Yes I pin applications that I use all the time, but for those applications that I seldom use, I like to use the start button.

Yes we poisoned the well of censorship.

Does this meant that opa can't handle a simple slashdotting?!!

That's like designing a high performance car with psychologists, politicians, economists, mathematicians and English professors. Not likely to work will on the track, but will have the proper attitude, be politically correct, will know why it's loosing money and won't divide by zero, and will use proper syntax.

There are probably valid reasons for not doing this, but it always seemed to me that ip addresses should be defined by physical location. Obviously there is still a need for roaming ip addresses, but what if, under ip6, a block was defined that specified ip via gps coordinates to the best resolution possible with the numbers within the block.
DNS is just a 1 to 1 lookup between name and ip address, so I don't think that would change much except you could do things like Name->GPS->IP.

Comments welcome. Am I totally out to lunch with this idea?

I too am a gentoo'r, and I have about 10 different windows managers available to me. I tend to go with the KDE because it is the most like windows. (Yes I'm bilingual!) but sometimes I go with Gnome or blackbox or the others just for a change.

KDE seems to handle the dual monitor the best, (or at least the closest to the way I would expect dual monitors to work)
I don't have a problem with the newest version of Gnome, seems very snappy. It took a while but now that it's here I don't mind.

I like having lots of desktops. I log in as different projects that I'm working on, and often will have one desktop setup for one project and another for another project.

The best comment I've see so far.
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You must be kidding. Windows 8 for ARM will need the biggest fattest most memory hungry ARM there is.