If you read the post fully, the author offers "Bonus points for the best apt-get-able distribution that works with a tablet."

Thank you for pointing this out. Really interesting research.

Sorry if I am wrong here, but are you not just producing wild theories here? Surely you don't know what Stuxnet intended to do, so how could you rule that it could not have caused a nuclear catastrophe?

Not in my opinion. It is an appallingly misleading title. The tablet battle definitely implies the sales battle. This title would almost always point to Apple not being as popular as another brand. Most people reading that title would not expect it to mean they loose a court ruling.

You are confusing belief and faith. Belief does not imply logic or illogic. So, as in blind biker's case, you can believe something based on empirical evidence. Or, as with all creationists, you can believe something based on faith.

I would love to use Linux. Every time I install it I really like it an find it a massive improvement on Windows. I first started using it over a decade ago and it has come a long way in that time. Unfortunately, there are still very annoying things about it. I lead a very busy life which is dependant on my computer being reliable. Over the past few years Ubuntu and other distributions have got to the stage where you can use it normally and do just about everything you would like to do on Windows (bar high end gaming and certain applications like Photoshop) with ease. However, every single time the distribution has tried to upgrade itself, it has borked. I'm not kidding: every single time! Sometimes something silly and fairly easy to fix like the new entry in the boot loader not pointing towards the correct new kernel. Sometimes it is something a lot more difficult. At the moment I have an install just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 that lost all visual because of some clash between the new kernel and the current graphics drivers (and I don't have a crazy weird card). It is unacceptable. I realise this is not everyone's experience and I am unlucky, however I refuse to believe the success rate is at all acceptable. So every time this happens I find myself grudgingly going to back to my "faithful" Windows install.

A cease and desist order.

Exactly! Science has failed and this clearly means it is all false. What we need is clear thinkers like Bill who haven't muddied their head with fancy science degrees!

Incidentally, I believe it is clear this is an artificial star created by a cosmological super-race.

Anyone see a way of getting this clearance price in the UK?

"How can I have one of these when Stalin has an iPad!"
Brilliant.

Well, it has been going on the ages, but I think that it is fair to say it has blown up now. The issue had been swept under the carpet by the police and government until recently. The Guardian have been telling the Met, the Government and the PCC for years that they have all of this information, and if it wasn't investigated properly they would run the stories. Eventually they called time. I don't think it is necessarily the change of public mood that has caused it to explode in such a manner. I think it is implications of criminal activity perpetrated by so many powerful people in Government and the Met. They have had to all come out and start blaming each other for it, as opposed to leaving it in the long grass where they wanted it. The public reaction hasn't actually been that great, it was a massive media and Westminster reaction though. In some ways you could still call it a storm in a teacup.

Oh, BURN!

Err, this is just not true. Any public sector jobs have far stricter rules regarding the procurement of employees compared to private sector. If people try anything like what you have suggested, then they would be risking the sack. Not saying it doesn't happen a bit, but in my experience many businesses are hampered by family and other personal allegiance a lot more frequently.

Tell her to man up and get used to guys smelly feet.

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