I realize this goes against the point of CLI, but I use mplayer because it's just a whole lot easier than messing with complicated GUI's.

At least the headline _pretends_ to belong on /.

I think you're misusing the term "free market". A (truly) free market is a market without regulation. This has nothing to do with the level of competition in the market, unless you incorrectly believe that a free market necessarily implies competition.

I think the term you're looking for is more along the lines of "competitive market".

No kidding. Why should anyone care about the treatment of such a shady character who dares to indirectly involve himself with politically controversial activities?

And for God's sake people--HE SHOULD EXPECT THIS TO HAPPEN EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE!

You make an interesting observation--I only wish you would have logged in so I could take you more seriously.

Yes. Data mining can certainly be fun, but it's silly to call it news until the link is investigated and solid theoretical evidence is found to support a causal relationship.

You don't have to call psychology science, but it sure as hell isn't art.

AOL just shouldn't be allowed to acquire anything from now on. They seem to ruin everything they touch.

I think you might be doing your math wrong:

1. The failure rate calculation you use should be 1-N*(probability of survival of one component).

2. In your signature, what is it about 1=-1 that implies 1=0? Anyway, I think 1=-1 is a good enough conclusion by itself.

One thing, of the many things, that bugs me about this is the idea that the electronics market should bear the burden of news print's failure. I could imagine reasons (if I really cared) for subsidizing newspapers, but that subsidy should come from a general fund.\n\n First, there's the obvious fact that a tax on electronics hinders the consumption of electronics goods. Screw that. But the second reason that really gets me is that the FTC is basically _blaming_ electronic print for the death of news (and newspapers). Not only has the internet done wonderful things for the availability of news in general, but the death of newspapers is at most the fault of newspapers for not being desirable enough. It's just how a functioning economy is supposed to work.\n\n So, in summary, this is ridiculous.\n\n By the way, how the hell do I separate paragraphs???

I've been using btrfs with compression for my root partition with kernel 2.6.33 for about 3 months now. As far as I can tell, it's been rock solid. I haven't noticed any significant changes in speed compared to XFS, so maybe it's not worth the risk. However, I do like the fact that it's so easy to create separate subvolumes for /usr, /var, etc. (not /etc) in the same partition. Not that I'd necessarily recommend other people take the plunge at this point...

This seems fairly ONtopic for a first post...

Since when do the (allegedly) unique characteristics of a set of human beings justify racism?

But more importantly, sample size is irrelevant when working with poorly collected data.

I've been running Exaile for a while now. It feels a lot like Amarok but looks great in Gnome. Plus it's written in Python, which in my mind makes it sexy.