Thanks! I put it in the public domain, so share and enjoy.

Hence the saying that the Constitution may not be perfect, but it's better than what we have now.

You're engaging in this sort of collectivist thinking here. Neither sex cares about protecting freedoms. There are a few individuals of each sex who do, and overall probably more of them are men than women, but that's as close as you can get to your remark — which, in case you don't realize it, is more likely to be alienating than persuasive.

Yes, and Mongolia can claim to have conquered Russia...

just not lately.

It's not quite the cupholder call, but in the '90s I did phone support for an ISP that had a lot of elderly customers, and one time I really did get the "any key" call.

The problem here is that legislation and regulation doesn't come about for the benefit of you and me, it's designed to benefit the policy makers and corporate executives who work hand in hand for mutual advantage. And the only way to avoid that is for there to be less political power for them to grasp.

I'm in the same position. All my machines run 12.04 LTS, and since that will be supported until 2017 I have plenty of time to see how the UI situation shakes out.

Except that people do it all the time here, not just in this particular thread. "Why, I remember when Slashdot was great, and no one had a six digit ID, and people wore onions on their belts, and blah blah blah." Just shut up and leave already.

Maybe it's entrepreneurs you should be consulting. From the article: "One of the more interesting concepts from this period did not come from NASA but from a model company called MPC."

Interesting. I had been thinking of him as the Bradley Manning of the free culture movement. It would be better for those he leaves behind if he ends up being its Mohamed Bouazizi. Either way, RIP.

Maybe, but still... citation needed.

Running would suck, but it would suck less than thirty years in a medieval federal prison. It probably wouldn't suck less than six months or a year, though, which is what he was realistically looking at. And it would suck a lot less than being dead.

But that's just my opinion, and it was his call. RIP.

If everyone here thinks Slashdot is so awful, then what are you all still doing here?

"Teach a man to teach others to fish, and you feed the world." -- Charles W. Evans

Not when you control the education and the information.