lol - author has obviously never played half-life in the wee-night hours and lights turned off...i used to jump off the chair when a crab would attack me in the vents...

first of all i would like to applaud westerner's hypocrisy - while promoting social media outlets for people on the east, they are strongly opposing them at home.

secondly i'd like to note that all those people using social media to organize looting and whatever not through unrest in the UK - police needs no face recognition, while they have CDRs and other logs from telecoms. all they need is to see who posted to twitter at a given time, and what IMEIs and phones were registered to gsm cells in the looted neighborhood.

surely, forensics behind this are wee bit more complicated, but all in all - if i was member of the crowd doing malicious deed - i would never use my own phone and gsm card to organize / coordinate something against the state. perhaps pre-paid card with disposable/old phone, but never my own smartphone with my own postpaid number.

for any slashdot reader, this is just a pissing contest of two DE dev teams. In RL, this harms propagation of linux as a desktop. The best way would be to have it named Control Panel so the noobs feel OK. It is traumatising for windows user to move to linux desktop, same name convention should make it easier on those - and for them it matters the most. Very few people like changes. Having less to remember is better today, at least for the Average Joe that has no time nor will to remember trivial names for the same thing.

yeah, whats up with you haters and preposterous people? read what was written, not what you wanted to read.

"client induced retardation" meant that me, personally, was lead by my client into doing something really stupid, like paying 7 feet of cable - 80 dollars. I have never done anything dumber than this "per client's recommendation/request", since than I've learned to triple-check whatever my clients ask for. I've seen them throw money away, and that is their right and thing they do. However, since than, I've never taken their order for granted (or their word for granted, as well, until they've proven themselves).

Also, I'd never be comfortable working with engineers who cannot *confirm* that whatever they're troubleshooting is NOT caused by cabling. I would be very very disappointed into my team members if they are so dumb that they need to call Cisco and than let themselves be talked into "replacing your regular cables with Cisco cables, to make sure problem's not due to the cabling"....