*fewer people are using Linux

is that you can't change your finger prints. It's like being locked in from birth with just 10 passwords. Unless you start scarring your finger tips to change them, but even that is not reliable.

Why not refuel? Would the cost of a refueling mission be greater than a whole new telescope?

Oblig. XKCD

Something I've always wanted is a killcode. "They" put a gun to my head and tell me to decrypt the device. I insert an alternate passphrase and it runs a command wiping everything of interest while purposely leaving innocuous files/folders to make it look like there was never anything there.

Linux the third major OS = HALF LIFE 3!

FTFY: You were missing the serial (or Oxford) comma in your sentence.

Does the average ubuntu end user care as long as it is free (as in beer)? The first thing most of us do is download the restricted media packages.

Well this is a great boon for VLC.

That's what most of my lectures in college were like.

Silver and copper are toxic to most bacteria and fungi. Would be a bit expensive and heavy to be making a keyboard out of, or even coating.

It would make for more interesting television.

The RIAA doesn't like the music industry in general.

Maybe a private company could take it over. Certainly would be a better end than it burning up in the atmosphere.

I'm pretty sure it was a feature, not a bug.