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>If only someone had invented a windowing GUI. At work I have to use a mac, it's a PITA to manage multiple non fullscreen windows on it. There is also a fair amount of screen estat…

And if it wasn't a government but instead a corporation, the only thing that would change is that you don't even get to vote!

Why Iran? Surely Russia is a bigger suspect, but right now, my biggest suspect would be the NSA/CIA, the timing of the Syrian escalation is just too perfect.

>Tor guarantees anonymity. No it does not, it is always best to use a seperate browser for tor because your browser & OS fingerprint is significant https://panopticlick.eff.org/ind…

Even with Patent trolls and week patents, patents still allow companies to license innovative technology rather than hide it away for fear of copying (ala qualcomm) Patents are a g…

Wayland alone might not, but MAC can limit access to file descriptors

1.4.2 is safe, 1.4.1 contained the fix for CVE-2013-2028

Why Oauth2? I've read about it being less secure http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell... but would like to hear the case for it.

Hurd has been in development since 1990, Tanenbaum–Torvalds was 92. The shipping and loading of drivers separately from the kernel was a micro-kernel advantage and Linux being able…

> Linux being as monolithic as ever Except for loadable kernel modules which is a pretty big move towards microkernel-like features from the original versions.

Wow people trust tools that don't have valid SSL certificates , it's no wonder groups like HTP roam free.

I'm sure there will be a GUI way to switch the default but I tend to use environmental variables when I want to launch a program out of a non-default device >Is it possible to use/…

Don't forget Samsung produce more than just phones, even if Tizen doesn't take off for phones, Samsung do a lot of other embedded Linux stuff. As for Tizen's success on phones, apa…