whistle Yankee Doodle Dandy while eating a Big Mac

Inadvisable, it makes a terrible mess.

I don't know this word. Is this some obscure language? Can you give me an English equivalent?

Yes: "colour".

Latex was a good if awkward choice when decent word processors and DTP apps couldn't handle scientific notation, but really, those days are long gone.

As if. (La)TeX is still the best choice by a considerable distance, and "those days" are certainly not "long gone".

I am not aware of tons ever being used to represent force?

Well, in a system of units where g=1...

Ha! I cannot stand them and never understand why so many 16-19 year olds go crazy over a bar of soap..

Oh, it's only a phase. It normally ends once they go to university.

How can you chop up Tubular Bells?

Any number of ways. Off the top of my head:

• Hacksaw
• Angle-grinder
• Oxyacetylene torch

Have you been to Detroit recently?

Does that count as post-apocalyptic?

Man and machine can now be linked more intimately than ever

Er, well this is Slashdot... but still: I'd rather not, thank-you very much.

The kernel is only responsible for initializing, suspending, resuming and lately modesetting of the hardware and it seems that is possible now.

Plus managing GPU memory allocation. But yes, this is probably something to be added to XRandR, or some other protocol extension. (What would happen to normal, non-X virtual consoles, though? This might require some more stuff in the kernel.)

Multitouch significantly increases the number of simple gestures that can be created.

Does that include Flipping the Bird?