Steve Wozniak Answers Your Questions; Quit Pushing Helmets to Encourage Biking

Editor's Note: It's official. Slashdot is 15! Come celebrate with us at our parties in New York, San Francisco and Ann Arbor or one of the several parties around the world organized by your fellow Slashdotters. Get the details. Don't miss a single issue of Slashback. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Steve Wozniak Answers Your Questions Quit Pushing Helmets to Encourage Biking What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? 'Innocence of Muslims' Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer Hot Comment: Official Statement of the Open Source Community From the Vault: U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? Watch It: A Honda Civic with No Gas Tank Poll Booth: Are you better off than you were four years ago? Steve Wozniak Answers Your Questions He co-founded Apple Computer, he's a programmer and engineer who invented the Apple I and Apple II, he's one of our most influential readers, he is known simply as Woz. To kick-off our 15th anniversary month, Woz answered a few of your submitted questions. Sound Off>> Quit Pushing Helmets to Encourage Biking U.S. cities are aggressive in bicycle helmet promotion. However, many European health experts say that if you force or pressure people to wear helmets, you discourage them from riding at all. The result could be more obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Sound Off>> What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? Bryan Lunduke recently blogged about the top three approaches he thinks are the easiest for new users to pick up Linux. One of the orders went Ubuntu -> Arch -> openSUSE. What's your distro use order from beginning to now? Sound Off>> 'Innocence of Muslims' Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man behind the film "Innocence of Muslims," may face two years in prison for allegedly violating the terms of his probation through his actions surrounding the film's production. Sound Off>> You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer Defense Distributed, which is behind a  project to create a 3D-printable handgun, has suffered a decidedly non-technical setback, with printer manufacturer Stratasys revoking the lease and repossessing the printer. Sound Off>> Official Statement of the Open Source Community "This is the Official Statement of the Open Source Community: The Open Source community is amorphous, and follows no leader. Thus, nobody is capable of making an Official Statement for the Open Source Community. This has been an Official Statement of the Open Source Community." --by Bruce Perens Read More>> U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? Eight years ago, USA Today ran an article that called U.S. programmers an "endangered species" expected to be "extinct" within the next few years and replaced by offshoring and H-1B visa holders. Read More>>  A Honda Civic with No Gas Tank It took Adam Blankespoor two years and $14,000 to convert his 1996 Honda Civic into an all-electric plug-in vehicle. So far, he's put about 2,000 miles on it and it has not been in need of any maintenance or tuning. He gives a walk-through of the various parts of the system. Watch the Video>>   Are you better off than you were four years ago? Yes, dramatically better. Better off, Yes -- reasonably, but not dramatically. Better off, but barely. Hard to say; sort of a wash. Worse off, actually, by a smidge. Moderately worse off. I'm dramatically worse off now. I will tell you below why this question is absurd. Cast Your Vote>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.