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For those who care more about the underlying OS getting security updates for a long time, 8.04 is still the 'most supported' even if 2 years old. LTS releases have 5 years of updat…

A not ignored nerd is not a nerd. How about this idea: if such people would not be constantly derided and ignored they may be more socially successful, start spending more time wit…

By ideal world I meant 'a better internet user experience within the next a decade or two' not 'all people are intelligent' as you meant. In the latter we would not be crouching ov…

Not only the http:// prefix but the whole idea of URL is a notion that should not be user-facing in an ideal world. Even the pretty REST ones are the internet equivalent of the com…

controversial != awful

They have a syncdelay parameter which you can tweak to flush to disk as often as you want http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Durability+and+Repair

Here's a comparison http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Comparing+Mongo+DB+and+C...

Actually: How an Ubuntu script which is not meant to be run manually, temporarily had a bug that deleted the file system when using the development version of Ubuntu.

From the first paragraph it seems the author is angered he did not witness 'an unprovoked massacre of unarmed civilians'. I think that could have been rephrased much much better.

Linspire has stopped existing for quite some time now.

I usually append an extra character to the To: email address so it bounces in case I accidentally send it

having kids in the title makes the article much more click-worthy. You have to stand out somehow among all the other polyphasic sleep experiment blogs, right? Prepare for 'Two kids…

Would be nice to have a similar dashboard for each country in the world.

why would one need a new refrigerator??? Having hunger solved in the western world is vastly different from having it solved globally and even more different from not needing food …

A very interesting topic for a study would be similarly testing groups of omnivores, vegetarians and vegans, to see if there are any detectable mental capacity differences. It shou…

Imagine for a moment that you do not need food, then see how many of the services you currently use you can do without as a consequence. Bankers? Really? What to use money for when…

Having the tech available would indeed not prevent anyone from using the old ways. I wonder why not answer this to all proposals in this topic as those problems being solved would …

Sigh. It's not only and indeed not primarily about price. What about the effects on the environment of growing and transporting that rice? Also I sure would like to go on a hike in…

Few voters will express their true preferences and will go instead with 'the lesser evil' when they fear their option will be in a small percentile and discarded. It is not unusual…

I don't think low turnouts are the biggest problem with voting as it is done today. No use in having 99% participate if the process remains easily gameable, influenceable and opaqu…

There are plenty of advances to be made for sure, there's not much science for it 'yet'. That is why I mentioned 'healty'. Not some super-food to get you through a short period of …

If not proper elections at least a whole population simulation before the polls. That way people could express their true preferences without fearing that their vote will not count…

That is a consequence of needing to eat, not that of needing to interact with others, and you do that because 'more important things' such as work prevents you from taking the time…

"Deprecate the base of Maslow's pyramid" Inventing cheap and healthy concentrated 'food' that would allow people to eat once a month or even more rarely. Almost all other problems …

the mongo shell above needs some Stop Eval/Reset button as it can get into a non-responsive state after a bad parse > db.scores.find({'sdf':) >> }) also no copy paste in the browse…