While I completely agree with OS, the GPL and its enforcement. The question that I ask myself is what impact those lawsuits will have on the OpenSource model.

Will patent trolls become OS Trolls and will OpenSource become Open 'sue us'?

This may be the rise of a new business model...

Flying a plane into the Pentagon? Not terrorism

So racism is dead in America right? Until that happens of course it is still unacceptable to apply monkey parody to black public figures. You cannot ignore America's (or much of the West's) shameful history of racism. Do not imagine for a second that the people who create images of Michelle Obama that make her look more monkey like are doing it simply because they noticed the striking similarity between humans and monkeys. They are doing it because they are racists.

The problem with using Drupal for the White House is that it's a popular CMS and has lots of people looking for exploits and vulnerabilities. The second a proof of concept piece of code or an easy exploit is discovered, a few thousand script kiddies will decend to get their 15 minutes of fame. I'm not sure how Drupal fares with bugs and patching speed (I know Wordpress seems to get some high profile holes discovered) but even if all vulns are patched before someone takes advantage of it, you're still going to need an admin who's going to be constantly alert to patching it. I'm not arguing against closed source vs open, more about popular vs obscure.

While I agree they needed the warrant in the first place, proponents would argue that they wouldn't have known about these guys without the program. Given that these guys were arrested in the U.K. I don't know if the N.S.A. tipped off U.K. authorities, or if the program was entirely useless in this scenario. Regardless, the real question is was this worth the liberties lost?

Yeah, but then you run into the trouble where some government agency "convinces" one of the developers to put a back door into the encryption module.

Security works better when there's diversity. I've mentioned this in the past with regards to operating systems, but it's like evolution and natural selection. When disaster strikes, the more genetically diverse species will survive. Likewise, when some government agency gets involved, there's a better chance of emerging unscathed when there's more variations in security products.

I don't think that word means what you think it means. Given the context, I expect "gloating" or "crowing" or "celebrating" would've been a better fit.

Signed, Your eight-grade English teacher

YouTube will not offer both h.264, flash and OGG at the same time; too expensive.

No it isn't. Go have a look at it - meta mod is just "here's 10 comments. Wanna mod them up or down?"

Metamoderation is a second layer of moderation. It seeks to address the issue of unfair moderators by letting "metamoderators" (any logged-in Slashdotter) "rate the rating" of ten randomly selected comment posts. The metamoderator decides if the moderator's rating was fair, unfair, or neither.

Just as it was childish of me to mod your post down and bookmark your user page for the next batch of mod points.

Really with the development of better OCR technologies and such comes the elimination of e-mail security by obscurity. If you don't want spam either A) have a decent spam filter (I don't think I've had a single piece of spam pass through G-mails filter and only one false positive) or B) don't share your e-mail address. Those are the only two ways to prevent spam that will continue to work.

The problem with that is that a lot of computers that old don't support booting off of a USB drive. Plus, some of the computers might only have USB 1.1 leading to slower transfer times. If this is your goal why not try to have it be "sugar on a disk" thats going to be infinitely easier than "sugar on a stick".

Good lord people, do none of you actually run linux? Sugar on a stick is just a conceptual item, it is to show the versatility of the OS they built. A CD-DVD-hard Disk-Flash port would be trivial from here.

...if the old codebase is not maintained: http://dev.laptop.org/git/sugar/

and the original copyright owner switches to the new codebase:

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-May/024487.html