Educating consumers, I believe is a lost cause. Not for lack of effort mind you. In the words of the amazing Ron 'Tater Salad' White, "You can't fix stupid".

All we as a society can do is punish this guy (appropriately) and make sure we keep our laws up to date with technology.

Remember kids there is a sucker born every minute.

From TFA:

I don't think we should be selling ourselves short by making statements like this. Sure KDE and GNOME and to a wider extent Linux in general looks a bit more like Windows these days, and some of the administrative tasks have been polished or changed to be familiar to the huge pool of Windows users. I think however on the whole saying 'It looks like Windows' is a terrible thing and to imagine FOSS becoming more like Microsoft is even worse.

Can't we say something like, 'Linux now has a much more user friendly GUI' or 'Now with 100% more ponies'. Why should we call ourselves copy cats when we came up with it first or improved it significantly.

Please note I use the term we interchangeably with linux's developers and its community, not myself and Frank the hamster I keep in my shirt pocket.

I know how you feel. last night my local news featured a story about the new mural painted at a local school. It features hands and arms holding up the letters of an encouraging message.

My wife and I joked that they left the black arm out because there is no black children at that school (may not be true but in this area it wouldn't be uncommon) then the reporter moved and we could see not only a black arm but a near yellow one and another shade of tan.

I know its off topic but i will pose the question anyway. If the tables were turned how many 'white' people would be offended by advertising featuring solely other ethnic groups. (Mcdonalds' new campaign 365black.com come to mind)

"Reading this magazine may cause weight loss, uncontrollable vomiting and a slim sexy body" Really, serious? children doing hard drugs, parent beating their kids, corporate crime at an all time high and the world economy in the dump and the French come up with this? All I can say is please lets keep this law in France it's the only place I can think of wishing such junk legislation on.

Of course this is quality research headed up by a crack team of leading professionals. All of whom are tops in their fields I should add. So how did this not get turned down? From the poster...

Gee, I dunno...

had to scroll further then i expected to find this but good job getting it in here!

I call BS.

With a UID that low Lumpy you must be lying. No one with a UID that low who's still /.ing could possibly have a girl!

Jokes aside I am with you sex is and should be fun when its not you seriously need help.

As for the actually article as a FF3 user that feature alone got my wife to start watching porn with me once she started to see how much porn I was watching she confronted me and offered to do 'things' if it would make me stop watching so much porn. Gotta love the girl :)
 

Holy crap again? I still havnt regained my soul from the 60-70 grind!!! Blizzard stop the insanity only you can release SC2 please save us from our endless struggles!

Microsoft openly advertises there Bing! product as "The first ever decision engine." Why is anyone surprised by these results. From the very first stories on launch day about the tainted results of searching phrases like 'MySQL' or 'linux' to this.

At least this time Microsoft isn't lying about what the product does. They just left out the part about the decision having been made already for you, by them.

Ditto. As an avid hacker and purveyor of all things techie I end up supporting people around me all the time when Big Company X fails.

If it is not Microsoft trying to pry 100 bucks out of the old lady next door who accidentally turned on web filter for everything instead of just porn sites, or the guy down the street with a new HD TV trying to get his clock set it will be the other guy that can't figure out why his mower wont start.

All in all I, like many of us, don't mind helping at all I enjoy it and believe my karma will grow for doing a good turn.

However when they start pushing their service calls off on the enthusiasts perhaps we should make our own business based on good products and services.

Pretty much. My wife works at a CU doing all there ACH's, wires and such. Some of the stories she tells about running batch scripts to download files and how they have to make sure each day to delete the old files or they will just post all of yesterdays stuff again and my favorite, there bank actually has them use vanilla FTP to transfer check images...

No wonder the CU's took a billion dollar+ fraud hit this year

AP: Hello we are on course to collide with you.

Google: Well change your course.

AP: We are the AP you must redirect your ad revenue.

Google: We can not do that. You must adapt.

AP: We say again this is the almighty AP you must pay us or perish.

Google: We are a lighthouse, your call.

May set to see the lowest number of weather phenomena in 100 years. Researchers aren't scared.

But we can't expect greatness all the time. I for one would rather the other stories get more attention.

Keep up the reporting CT.

1: Design space station for the furthering of mankind's knowledge.

2: Bitch about who left the seat up.

3: ????

4: Profit!!!