There was a study some time ago in Austria that let a self-proclaimed healer (basically a quack in my opinion) and an actor "treat" two groups of people suffering from incurable cancer. The patients, being in a "real" study, of course got medical treatment as well.

The results quack vs. actor were really interesting:

In both groups nearly the same amount of people felt significantly better after a treatment. A lot of them even reported that the positive effects were noticeable for a few days.

Sad but true.

I recently talked to someone who is involved in brain research (in fact he does pain studies but that's got a lot to do with the brain) and he told me that still no one knows how brains work.
He told me that we may know a lot but, when it comes to "higher" creatures, we are using trial and error.

So for me it sounds a bit odd if someone predicts AI will surpass our intelligence in 20/40/80 years without even knowing what makes us intelligent or how to define means of measure to compare both.

Ctrl-C/V? I thought we were supposed to use the second mouse button after highlighting? ;-)

I hate focus-follows-pointer and disliked any tiling window-manager I ever tried even more. Users like me will have the **option** to enable a single-windowed interface as well as docking. If you don't like either you just refrain from docking windows or touching that "screw my GIMP up"-setting. But why am I telling you this, you read the article and just wanted to troll, didn't you?

Actually if clicky-button-people install the package gnome-genius (in Debian) they won't be very pleased.

Me too. My new notebook wants an "FN+F10, then release Fn" procedure to get a SysRq event, which was confusing at first, but still better than no SysRq at all.

"CSS support."
"Huh?"
"CSS support. The first CSS implementation that did not make us web-developers want to kill ourselves."

??? I do rimshots all the time for which I use a stick in my left or right hand or sometimes (for the sake of mere brutality) both together, but orifice? What orifice?

seed plz!!!!1

No, that's the "M-spot" (some people also refer to it as "bling bling").

May it possibly be that some women do call a certain area their g-spot and others don't simply because some physically do have that spot and others don't? I mean, that could magically explain, why scientists are having such a hard time with that boolean topic (or question).

My girlfriend seemed to have a couple of those myths a few minutes ago. And now there's that question in my mind...

As far as I know, what "they do on almost all other Linux distributions" is to ask for the user's password, because that's what sudo normally does if you don't add "Defaults rootpw" to it's config file. They must have meant that.

You did not really read my response, did you?

As someone who works with Linux-systems a lot I implicitly know that saving to pdf means you won't be able to edit it later. BUT, I call that process exporting. If they really wanted to make a difference between "export to bitmap" and "export to some other format" they should call it "render to bitmap" because that's what it does (IMHO you can't "export" an svg to png).