There is a lot to criticize in life, but this study is not one.

Although most Slashdotters do not. Most "normal" users out there do however require as much handholding as they can get and it's a major selling point for commercial OS manufacturers. (They call it "user friendliness") I also switched the interface to "classic" (or whatever it's called) on my windows 7 installation which I hardly ever boot anyway.

The correct way to protest is to make a 'no vote'. This is where you tick all the boxes, or none of them, or you write a message voicing your dissatisfaction on the ballot, or smear faeces or stick chewing gum on the ballot, or you vote for a joke candidate.
Unfortunately this is at best not a very effective and at worst counter-productive in the US given our winner-takes-all voting system which results in a zero-sum-game. We saw this happen in the 2004 where any vote for Ralph Nader was effectively a vote for George W. Bush. Kerry probably would have won the election had Nader not been on the ballet.

Yeah, how dare the TSA overstep its bounds! Only real cops should be the ones allowed to routinely sexually assault and humiliate their victims.

While there may appear to be justifiable reasons to implement this now, the long term unintended consequences may be devastating.

Anyone who uses their own employer's email system to carry out conspiracy and fraud deserves to get caught.

"I assume it's part of the Patriot Act and I really don't mind,"
I guess it's ok since it's only just part of the Patriot Act.

It should have been called "Whimper".

I have just stolen all your comments.

Perhaps you should try to steal some of that good old English grammar? (Remember this is Slashdot.)

The plural of sperm is sperm.

The original intent was a good thing, but today its purpose is for nothing else than to give jobs and money for lawyers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpTPTQ3e0Jg

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/29/0336249/a-lego-replica-of-the-antikythera-mechanism

Yes the source is available and you can fix it yourself... But how many people have the time to do so.

You also have to ask how many people have the skills to do so. When I first started using Linux about 10 years ago back when I had no programming knowledge whatsoever every little problem I had was met with derision and the unhelpful response "RTFM" or "fix it yourself". Usually the manual was cryptic broken English and anything but helpful especially for newbies. Luckily things have improved drastically but these types of experiences are what gives Linux a negative image. And let's also not forget its proponents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ))

I really like the idea of the idea of Open Prosthetics Project (OPP)

If you don't like it then you're not patriotic and might be a terrorist.