Rats. I was so looking forward to telling it, "Thanks. Now get off my lawn..."

Believe it or not, I'm still using Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, and I keep receiving kernel (currently 2.6.32-52-generic) updates along with libc libraries and other basic stuff. Still enjoying Gnome 2--everything stays where I want it and doesn't get in the way. I've been pleasantly surprised for well over a year that it still works fine. Don't need any new stuff, anyway.

(this comment could have been in the EOL XP article under 'refusal to upgrade'!)

Ahem. Geeks age too, or die trying. Bluetooth is a popular feature in hearing aids, although I don't use 'em yet, but will before 2050.

In theory, your pronouncement would seem correct. However, I've just tried to set up Amazon Instant Video and it does not work in Firefox 20 on Lucid Lynx 10.04. It throws up a progress bar which ends with an error message that my version of Adobe Flash is not up to date (not true!). I'm glad I tried with a "free" video (I was charged $0.00). Try before you buy.

I had unblocked all scripting, btw. When I tried the help button, it referred me to a page that explained why Chrome (-ium?) won't work on Linux and to try Firefox! Head asplodes...

YMMV.

No one's noticed the link to TFA is /. itself, "Business" something or other?
Aren't we s'posed to be complaining about that?

I don't know the mechanism that forms them but black holes that spin opposite to their accretion disks are called retrograde.

d'oh.. www.duckduckgo.com

Fear not. If you don't mind editing about:config, you can change the default from Google to any other you choose. I like www.duckduck.go for the privacy aspect, but it lacks the comprehensiveness of the big G, Y, or B. Like you, I don't want google hoovering up anything I type in the URL bar.

Here's the link: http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/01/13/change-default-search-in-firefox/

Detailed maps of valuable deposits would be proprietary, I should think. The US Geological Survey does provide maps of mineral resources.

Cute snark, but following your thought don't you imply that we the electorate can be effectively dealt with as if we were potted palms?
If true, I shiver down to my roots...

After reading this earlier Slashdot story, I wrote all three of both our Vermont congressmen and urged them to reconsider support for PIPA and SOPA. The only reply I received was from Sen. Patrick Leahy.

Here's a snippet from TFA with a relevant notion: contacting your representative can't hurt (emphasis added):

"[...]However, sponsors of the bill have heard concerns about its effect on the domain name system from fellow lawmakers, Internet engineers, human rights groups and "a number of Vermonters."," [Leahy] said.

After reading the earlier Slashdot story, I wrote all three of both our Vermont congressmen and urged them to reconsider support for PIPA and SOPA. The only reply I received was from Sen. Patrick Leahy.

Here's a snippet from TFA with a relevant notion: contacting your representative can't hurt:

If one reads to page 2 of tfa, they only claim the technique works well in this instance. They go on:

and

So yes, the article is a bit breathless, but if utilizing GPUs helps cure my potentially impending genetic disorder, I'm all for it.

After read tfa, I concede your and the AC's point. As bpjones sagely notes below, though, we need better design goals.