The excellent map also comes with an excellent disclaimer at the bottom. A must read, especially before taking the comic as gospel in an emergency situation.

Indeed you deserve what you're signing up for: a familiar and usable UI. The Desktop has always been a contentious point between Windows and *unix. Windows likely wouldn't survive if it made flagrant UI changes because desktop users would be confused. At least there are alternatives. In this case alternatives to Gnome for those who do not wish to use it any longer. On a side note it reminds me of the damned ribbon bar introduced my Microsoft into Office products and no way to change back - people still have a hard time finding what they need, but then again they still use it, so that works against my previous point.

Oddly, most of those subpoenaed have long since gone blind.

Yep, you guessed it, wrong thread! Time to downvote...

Oddly, most of those subpoenaed have long since gone blind.

I don't think communism is a logical step in this thread of conversation; however good on you for railing against the OP's foolish post :)

Wow, you just unsuccessfully discarded much objective and insightful analysis with a single inconclusive post. Not to mention, ironically, you're effectively whining about Slashdot users. Did you intend to include yourself in that final statement? really really REALLY include?

http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/24220441399

Oracle owns it. This is less likely a Larry thing and more likely regular marketing dept changes. From a pure business standpoint (ignoring the technical issue for a moment) why is there anything wrong with a name change to bring a new acquisition in line with yourself? There's not. If you were to keep the original company name on every product acquired from every company acquired, especially when the size or Oracle, it would become hard to manage everything.

Whooaaa buddy! ... you can imagine thrusting the author in a sandbox all you want but let's keep this discussion clean.

You can't logically make the step from Microsoft wanting ARM in a job description to the company moving to ARM. The reasoning wreaks of either sensationalism or stupidity.

That took all the sensationalism out of it for me. Thanks.

It's not "broken" typing; it's conformist typing. Min 90 words per minute sounds great. Why do you want to conform to what everybody else does? Why do you need to?

Don't forget the facebook Friend Finder asks for your email account password to log into your email account automatically and match your contacts against the facebook user base. Although they promise not to keep that password, they could.

As soon as you start trusting a vandalism detector over manual monitoring a lot of stuff will start to slip through, gets through the news, then the detector won't be trusted any longer. It will have a short life but will be interesting to watch.

Sew m@ny things that can bee done to bypass mechanisms. Even simple euphemisms like cleaning the old rifle http://images.clipartof.com/small/5039-Man-Cleaning-Inside-The-Barrel-Of-His-Unloaded-Rifle-Gun-Clipart.jpg ...are sure to slip through. There are so many language mechanisms that can be used to fool automated tools, but that will be immediately recognized by people.