you are right. I'd add that its very disappointing when scientists credit "one" and "only one" event in human evolution being responsible for our humanity -- in the loosest sense of the word -- and no one can agree on what that "one" event was. Fire? Weapons? Warfare?
It seems art students are happier to not have to worry about all this... oh wait.

....replaced "Slashdotter" with "Gamer" in the title?

I think they replaced "Anonymous Coward" with Slashdotter, and then to Gamer

Have you looked at Wikipedia?

You can try some ideas from books already available in print as well as in electronic versions.
SICP
Stony Brook Algorithm Repository

I hope the crackers were polite enough to give it one....

Only in America....
Only on 4chan
Only at /b/

Yes, this is more of a "report" and not news.

By choosing one of these, they'll be exposing themselves to waiting for releases/bugfixes from 3rd parties. Plus it won't be a standardized choice for russia because all these distros are intended for a generic audience.

You can think of the russian approach as centralizing software releases for the country in the hands of one OS "Tzar"

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

You can also use it to crack passwords even Faster!

Windows XP by default only allows you to use upto 80% (or so, can't find the exact figure) of your bandwidth. A tweak can take care of that, start with Dr. TCP.

This shouldn't be news!

Obviously the troll is at the top of the foodchain.

Wrong! Infact a logical fallacy....you're assuming that anyone who drinks coffee cannot be mistaken about making first post.

A better assumption would be that a race condition exists between all coffee drinking first posters.

Baws: "Yea, but who's paying for it?" Welcome to capitalism.

Have you thought, maybe it has something to do with taxes? If you think of the kids, they'll grow up and pay. If you conspicuously think of the elderly, the tax paying public between 18-60 will notice and have something to look forward to.

If you hit the bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards, checkmate!

In 2000: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s146760.htm