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…than any other country, by both absolute numbers and per capita (with the exception of the Seychelles)

so they can listen over your shoulder instead?

I guess you mean while using earbuds…

How does smaller government help with sweatshops or unemployment or income inequality?

It's interesting because MapQuest discontinued their free OpenStreetMap tile server this week, leaving map app developers scrambling to find something else to use.

But if you're not a map app developer or a user of one of the affected maps, then it's probably not interesting.

No, it can't be a Debian-specific exception or it would violate #8 of the Debian Free Software Guidelines:

https://www.debian.org/social_contract

What browser are you using?

I see they set both visibility:hidden and visibility:visible but Firefox let's visible override hidden here.

Virtually everything here also applies to Debian. aide, postfix, and debsums are completely unmodified from Debian in Ubuntu. dpkg is virtually the same.

The only part that is different is that Debian doesn't enable either apparmor or selinux by default and selinux on Ubuntu is slightly different than on Debian.

After re-reading my comment, I think I sound rude so I apologize.

If you are going to use that catchphrase, maybe your site should explain how it's like 1999 because I don't think it's obvious.

Then why is your catchphrase "Blogging like it's 1999"? What makes your site anything like 1999?

If Manning is a volunteer, how wasn't Snowden a volunteer too?

Both signed strict non-disclosure agreements to work for the US government. Both gave up rights.

In one way, Snowden served more voluntarily than Manning did, because Snowden could quit but Manning had to fulfill the enlistment term. Had Manning walked off the job exactly like Snowden did, he could easily have been court-martialed just for that, especially as Manning was working in a war zone.

And Mageia is 5 times as popular as Red Hat too, right? ;)

Ubuntu also has a mini iso if you really want the net install. For most people, the net install will take significantly longer than a regular install as each package has to be unpacked individually.

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer...

or

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer...

You can still describe Ubuntu and GNOME as "we care about design, and we don't swamp the user with choices."

> I would love the non-evolution version of how we get good hunting dogs

Creationists believe that the 2 dogs from Noah's Ark contained the genetic material for all dogs and that it is easier to believe that than believing that all dogs came from a rock or an amoeba.

http://www.kenthovindblog.com/?p=542

…except that answering any questions at all by the police now means that the police can accuse you of some unrelated crime and use your silence at that point against you.

I found http://psiphon.ca/ to work pretty well when I was in the Middle East.

Without karma it's very difficult to submit links that anyone will see.

We've now crossed a threshold as there are millions of Windows 8 computers with UEFI by default which won't boot 32-bit operating systems by default.

Ah, Wikipedia says that comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has a cousin Simon who is an internationally recognized autism researcher.

What if the phone falls on its face instead of its back?

A case that provides enough of a rim so that the impact doesn't hit the glass front directly is useful.

Unity itself is GPLv3: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/unity/trunk/files