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In the US, freedom of association is enshrined in law, so no one would ever be arrested for belonging to a mob-type group. Most of what they do is still illegal, but the groups themselves are legal...

Yep. Sniffing air is probably some new way of getting high. :D

Okay, but this is anecdotal evidence of the highest order. Moreover, where I'm from, it's common to exceed the posted speed limit by about 10 mph on highways (American for motorways), but no more....

Speed limits have been pretty well proven to reduce injuries and deaths associated with motor vehicles. To me, a "stupid law" is something that is unenforcable or nonsensical, not something that you...

With all due respect, one dubious article (from four days ago) promising a tremendously underpowered netbook for US$100 and nowhere to actually buy it (even if anyone wanted it) does not support the...

[citation needed]

I appreciate their efforts, but if emergency services are unresponsive, while cellular data networks are up, it's not because the phones are down but because emergency responders are too busy to...

Well, "they" in this case is the OEM. Can't pin that on Microsoft.

It's just a link to Compaq's hardware sales, so you can be "certified" add-on/replacement parts.

Vortigaunts.

At least in Vista, it's not a combined score, rather it just takes the score for the weakest major component. For instance, here's mine:
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It's a GNU project:

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

Right, but spam is already against the rules, and rules against necromancy are no more of a deterrent for spammers than rules against spam itself. So, in the scenario you describe, the fact that...

Yeah, people tend to see the features they want as necessary, and the features they don't want as bloatware.

To me, though, bloat means an unreasonable amount of resources dedicated to a feature...

http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/231786-converting-pdf-jpeg.html

Or you could just use one of dozens of tools that converts a PDF to an image...

The "convert" tool in imagemagick is installed in Ubuntu by default, even.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but none of the possibilities strike me as practical.

Convert the PDF to an image. Easy. Email clients nearly all have the ability to display common image...

I'm still around, but not as active as I used to be. I've been on a gaming kick recently, too, so Windows has been my default OS for the past few months, though Ubuntu still has its share of the HDD.

Because it's not in Canonical's business model to charge for the OS itself, and it's too reliant on the community-driven development model for that to be likely.

I think Frak and Giant-Speck are...

The problem with this argument is that it is true of every single binary in the history of software. It's really impossible to know that a binary isn't doing something you don't know about. If you...

No. Chromium is the unbranded source code for the browser, Chrome is the branded binary that Google distributes on its web site. Same with Chrome OS vs. Chromium OS.

Chromium, as well, is only...

My current system does fine with games, and it cost me less than $500. The base system was an off-the-shelf Compaq, with an Athlon Dual-Core 7550 and 3 GB of RAM. This cost $320 at the time. I added...

More pertinently, you wouldn't be able to distribute your spyware/malware under the BSD license.


Well, yes, open source stuff *is* just as insecure as proprietary stuff. Security depends on the...

And yet, even the purist FSF folks consider that license to be free.

I mean, you CAN access the source code, right? Am I missing something?

Exactly. Corporate sponsorship of an open source project in no way amounts to charity, any more than local broadcast television is charity. Yes, contributing code gives your competitors access to the...

This question presupposes a premise which my observations deem to be false.