More like New York to Peuto Rico or Guam.

Or is Viacom just suing to remove the competition. After all the sneezing panda video was way more popular than any Viacom show. They don't like being beaten in the ratings by home videos taken at the zoo.

The only American company China cares about is WalMart. As long as all the crap WalMart sells is manufactured in China, the Chinese are happy. If WalMart promoted all manufacturing by their suppliers to move elsewhere (like they promoted it to move to China in the first place), then it would severely damage the Chinese economy. China is a manufacturing economy, that is what they will protect. They give lip service to the information economy, but really can't abide by what it implies.

I thought having to buy Windows was the tax. After all it allows all the malware in the first place. Why not just make Microsoft liable for its security vulnerabilities to pay for this?

Seems to me that the only possible ways to develop a time machine or starship warp drive are from manufacturing and harnessing Black Holes. We need to poke a singularity in the fabric of the universe to get around some hard limits like the speed of light. The trick then is how to arrange them geometrically to get the desired result (and how to control them to do this). Seems like really worthwhile research.

It means bad traffic for me. Everyone comes back to work from summer holidays and everything will be snarled up for a few weeks. Everyone driving their kids to school, etc, etc.

I'm posting this in Chrome, so ChromeOS should be excellent for posting anti-MS comments on Slashdot. I won't need Windoze anymore. Can't wait. It's even spell checking this post (not that I pay attention to all those little red squiggles).

Add to the TCO, the lost productivity because computers running MS Windows, are so much slower because of the overhead of AV software, anti-spybot, anti-adware, popup blockers and such. Every packet that comes and goes from the network and/or disk is scanned several times. Its amazing how fast a Windows computer can be if you turn all these off (and how quickly it will become infected).

From this article, I couldn't tell, but my real interest is in how Google does massively distributed in-memory databases. That is the technology I'm most interested in. I don't really care so much about the other stuff. Is this what Google runs? Or just an academic side project?

Definitely sucks. Specially if you just want to back up all your digital photos. At least technology stays ahead. They passed the law on CDs and haven't got around to extending it to blank DVDs fortunately. Now we have a minority government so hopefully things will stay deadlocked.

Seems somewhat like the blank CD media tax we have in Canada. Supposedly this tax on blank CDs (which is about equal to the price of the blank CD), goes to musicians to compensate them for piracy. The RIAA still considers piracy illegal, but once something is taxed it essentially becomes legal since the government has recognized it as such.

Now I have an excuse to leave my sprinkler on for days on end. I'm not only combating global warming, but I'll have a really green lush lawn as well. Never mind all this water conservation nonsense, its just bad for global warming.