Try startpage.com - Google-based results, similar privacy to DDG, no-nonsense interface works fine in Dillo ('nuff said).

Just because it drives itself "during predictable, low-speed conditions" (quote from TFS) doesn't mean there doesn't need to be a human to deal with non-predictable conditions, and that's arguably when being sober matters the most. In a limo there's always a sober human (hopefully) in the front.

If you need that button you're doing it wrong.

I do think proprietary software sucks just because it's proprietary. I've never claimed it to have anything to do with security, I'm sure the Linux desktop will get malware too if it ever has it's year, just as OS X has now. Anything with a large enough (end-)user base and no totalitarian walled garden will - making security-wise perfect code is really hard and comes with tradeoffs many aren't willing to make especially in consumer software. I still wouldn't touch a totalitarian walled garden OS with a 6.096m long pole. Security becomes useless when it reaches the point where it prevents you from doing with your device what you wanted to do with it in the first place.

Ah, you have no idea how refreshing it is to see (read?) someone who gets it. Both this and your comment on the CLI article are spot-on. :-)

1. All the injuries with the mouse happen because of improper, unbalanced desk setup - as do all the injuries resulting from "computer usage". 2. Even now, the people with mouse-related injuries are few enough that I personally have never seen any. With the "wave your hands in the air" alternatives (including touchscreen) I'm sure the injuries would actually be many, MANY more.

Yeah, it's called the brain drain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_drain

I see Americans bragging left and right about the quality of Made in USA products without anyone ever questioning, but if I think about all the Made in USA products I've personally had which have been surprisingly many - and I make an exception for professional tools with which I've been satisfied but are not of a comparable category - I've found most of them to be sorely lacking in quality compared to similarly priced, sometimes even cheaper, alternatives made elsewhere. I have an American friend who is into guns (I'm not at all so excuse my lack of details) and has observed the same thing, he tells me everyone keeps bragging about $gunbrand that is Made in USA and not particularly cheap, but all the times he has tried it he has found it troublesome to operate while the "cheap Chinese ones" work just fine, and when he complains about this everyone shrugs him off as being "too inexperienced to appreciate the subtleties of $gunbrand". Admittedly the Made in USA things I've had are more of the "made of plastic"/"made of metal"/"made of ceramic"/"electrical-not-high-tech" kind of things but, while I'm sure Google has choosen much better partners for manufacturing, what happened with CircuitCo and the Pandora's PCB a few years back doesn't exactly put me at ease about this either. Hope to be proven wrong of course, but I, for one, have yet to see that "great American quality" everyone brags about in a consumer product.

No offense but, did you check that os-prober was actually installed? That one got me once in Debian. I've never seen autodetection fail other than that time os-prober was somehow not installed.

To paraphrase something I read somewhere: You don't have to support your own structure, you just have to implode less hard than the other guy. Unfortunately in this case it meant imploding less hard than Windows 7 which doesn't seem to have imploded at all and realistically most people will just stick to. I've not lost all hope though, I'm currently pretty happy with KDE to be honest, and both Cinnamon and Unity seem to be progressing at a decent pace and in the right direction (well, "right" in a bastardized sense in the case of Unity). I'd be worried if they were stuck in their current state.

On one hand, of course, we were just trolling. On the other hand I'm not really the right guy to tell that to, it was Vista that made me switch to Linux back in 2006. Then some would argue that Metro is a somewhat harder failure than Vista. Hey, it seems to have done it for Gabe Newell.

Year of the Linux desktop: This is how you make it happen.

I'm also loving KDE here. Mind you until 4.6 it did have it's quirks and 4.7 was actually a step backwards, but I'm finding 4.8 pure bliss. Then again, I was one of those guys in favor of having the desktop folder be "just a small rectangle on top of the wallpaper", aesthetically speaking it only makes sense, leaves well defined room for other widgets, and frankly if you have so much crap in your desktop that it doesn't fit within the rectangle you're doing it wrong anyway. Love KDE Plasma. Wouldn't trade it for a Mac if it was free.

Well, now it's time to nitpick on YOUR post. First of all, the ISO 226 2003 revision curve shows the peak right at 3kHz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lindos1.svg - the older version did use to have it at 4kHz, however... It doesn't really matter. at 60dB it's only a half-octave boost of about 3dB which is negligible as far as total loudness is concerned. Try it yourself: Get a parametric equalizer and boost any mid frequency 3dB with a "Q" of 2 and see how much louder it is (ie. almost negligibly so). Do also consider that real world sounds are broad spectrum, not particularly concentrated at their fundamental frequency. Finally, skull resonance doesn't have any significant effect on hearing as the meat it's filled with acts as a pretty good damper but, even if it did, "between 500Hz and 7.5kHz" means that a few frequencies in particular that happen to fall between those values will resonate, not everything between 500Hz and 7.5kHz, so yes, if skull resonances weren't damped, we probably *would* hear some particular frequencies significantly louder because of it. Now to wait for someone to nitpick on my post.

Floating point bitches?! Damn, and here I messin' with my integer bitches... Where can I buy?