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Food for thought: they cannot stop criminal behavior within the walls of our prisons, where tracking and surveillance are not only OK but required. Why would large-scale tracking and surveillance of people be any more successful?

The folk-wisdom (thus the saying) goes like: if duct-tape (explosives/violence) doesn't work, you don't use enough.

Rationally, it doesn't make sense: you are just temporary patching, not actually addressing the damage. But... living for periods of 4 years (between election), appealing to "rational thinking" usually leads not only to controversial but even to "courageous decisions" (in the "Yes, minister" sense of it)

As pointed out by James Ogley they had this on BBC Breakfast TV with a Gnome box :)

Of course the Gnome box was the one doing spoofing at the expense of the poor innocent Windows box user.

You can follow news leading up to the release, as well as blogs of members of the SuSE community as 9.1 approaches at Planet SuSE

To do a Bernard:
Wouldn't being in a backwater make them "litigation -crazed amphibians"?

Entirely more fitting too, as reptile is entirely too far up the evolutionary chain. ;-)

Slashdot is the wrong place to trot out the "a republic not a democracy" bit. Has the smell of elitism.

But I'm grateful for a chance to quote a joke from my favorite political TV show (bite me, Sorkin, you feelgood geek):

"We've done it that way for 350 years!"

"But is that really an argument?"

"It has been -- for 350 years!"

__________

The quote does indeed say it all, who knows, with a royal seal of approval we might manage to get GNU/Linux in places that hitherto have still remained very anti it (like my place of work, where we rather bizarrly have a Netware web server.

Oh, and in case she does read /., God bless ya your majesty. :)

RT