I saw the headline and I was really hoping to see that guy who always posts how linux is used to host tron fantasies. For once, that post would have been marginally relevant.

AKA Govco

anti mal and anti virus protection are not analogous to insurance. The faulty concept here is more like having a home with all your doors and windows wide open and then paying an anual fee to a guy named Norman Macaffeee to run around your house killing flies all day. Once the fly is in the house, you have already lost. You would be better off to just close all the doors and windows. RULE: once a malicious entity has taken up residence in your life, the extraction of such an entity becomes dangerous and expensive. The concept of antimal/antivirus protection is easily one of the stupidest idea our industry has ever come up with.

the most simple implementation of a wedge is a knife. Using a knife you can build all the others so you must pick a wedge

fixed that for you

no. I work for a bank. But I have had the pleasure of dealing with some of the spring source Engineers in conferences and what not and I have always admired the company. I have thought many times about sending them my resume. Maybe I should. Melbourne Florida is simply gorgeous most of the year.

I'm not saying that SpringSource is the IBM/MS Killer. I was just trying to give context to a company that was being written off as a non-player. If the Sun/Oracle merge has taught us anything, it should be that the technology landscape can change in almost an instant and any move by any company should be watched and analyzed for its potential impact on your product/technology.

Are you kidding? SpringSource is _THE_ standard IoC container for the Java Language. Their ideas have influenced a wide ranging array of Java-based products including hibernate (http://hibernate.org), google guice (http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/), apache tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org), just to name a few. Just because you aren't familiar with these technologies does not mean this is not a pretty big deal. Aside from that, the spring source company has successfully built a profitable company around their open source technologies while still providing the source freely to the community. Their influence can hardly be understated even if you have never used on their technologies directly. http://www.springsource.com/customers

more likely is iranians, syrians, jordanians and palestinians killing iraqis

We need javafx to be ported to linux and wait until gf v3 is ready for release.

it is one thing to steal music to entertain yourself (and we can argue all day about whether file sharing is copyright infringement or fair use) but it is a _completely_ different story to steal something and then try to resell/market it as your own. At least if you aren't paying for use of some creative work, you are at least appreciating it for its greatness. Trying to pass off someone else' IP as your own obfuscates the true brilliance of the creator, making it more difficult for someone else to recognize and purchase their work. Biden has absolutely no moral authority to talk about the theft of IP. http://www.slate.com/id/2198597/

  This is almost as annoying as hearing Al Gore talk about taking the initiative in "creating the Internet" I'd be amazed if Al Gore knew enough about the Internet to explain the difference between TCP and UDP.

Serial IP thieves should should never lecture the masses on the dangers of Filesharing.

blame the church if you like but the real problem here is a government powerful enough to regulate every aspect of our lives.

which distro are you using that makes it so easy to run this abomination?

Is it possible to perform 100% of your contractual obligations and your employer still fail? As long as none of the bonuses were tied to the COMPANY's profitability, then those employees are still owed their agreed upon bonuses for performing their contract. Besides, since when are private compensation agreements subject to the approval of the American public? This is mob rule at its worst.

OMG I am sick to death of hearing about this stupid company. Ok for you rabid anti capitalists out there, here's facts:
1) The executive bonuses were contractual obligations made by AIG to the employees long before any talk of a bailout started.
2) Government infusion of cash does not nullify pay contracts previously and privately made between employer and employee.
3) Even if an agreement between AIG Accountants and US Treasury officials could retroactively nullify the bonus agreements, it was never stipulated as a condition of the bailout.

How would you feel if you made an agreement to work for company A for a salary of X provided you were eligible for a bonus each year of Y if you performed L,M and N. Then you performed L, M and N and were told by yer boss, "Hey I'm sorry. We can't pay you the bonus we agreed on because the government thinks its too much" or "We need ed money so we took a loan from the government and part of our agreement with the government was that you would forfeit your bonus."

If I were told the above, my next phone call would be my attorney and I would bring a suit against Company A for breach of contract.

We as citizens should be at torch and pitchfork mindset over the government inserting its own judgment on private employment contracts rather than how much AIG pays its executives. If you don't want tax dollars to fund AIG's contractual employment obligations, DON'T GIVE LET THE GOVERNMENT GIVE THEM OUR MONEY. When they go belly up, the executives won't get paid and we can all be happy and get on with our lives.