My sentiments exactly. When did conjecture constitute a study? I've read sci-fi that made more plausible predictions than this 'study.' Someone give Ray Bradbury a posthumous Ph.D in Extraterrestrial Studies!

Try developing a sense of humor. The original post was an exaggeration and a joke, but a like any joke worth telling, it hinted at a truth: Microsoft is known to go out of their way to have nice things published about them. That includes bribing "tech writers" (I loath to call them journalists) and giving customers discounts to say nice things about them. Read all about it on Wikipedia.

You might have a decent point about how support in the FLOSS community can be lacking in a way that's off-putting to some and costly to some businesses, but your hostility is unwarranted and your whining about the moderation system is pretty pathetic. Personally, if I was using mod points on this article I wouldn't mod you troll. Your post is straight flamebait.

Kind of like the news.

Isn't it awesome that despite the extreme income inequality in the U.S. that we have bits of charity to placate the masses? Thank you robber barons for your wonderful bread and circuses!

Jobs and Apple represented capitalism in its idealized form. Adam Smith would have loved what Jobs did. Competition breading success for the players involved and increasing the quality of the commodities produced. Of course, if Adam Smith had lived to see the likes of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Hearst, Gates, Zuckerberg, Koch, and Murdoch he may have become a Marxist.

You assume that I think the Koch brothers are dicks b/c of a New York Times editorial? I think they're dicks because they're funneling money into local elections in places such as my hometown, where they've never even been to. Among other things, such as trying to undermine solar energy.

Stop viewing politics through your black and white -- or should I say left and right -- worldview. You appear to be overly concerned with labels -- Left, Libertarian, conservative, white, progressive, etc. The reason our government is so bad at governing is because it's filled with idealist jackasses such as yourself (just in case you're confused, that's an attack on both parties and there was no partisan motivation behind my characterization of the Kochs as dicks).

Here's another one: New Straitsville, OH

Yes. They're definitely dicks.

It sounds like you only read the summary. If you had taken the time to actually gather the facts about this situation you'd realize it wasn't even a case of sexual harassment. It was a case of an employee being more concerned with a crusade of political correctness than actually doing her job. Women like Julie Ann Horvath who intentionally antagonize those who aren't perfectly politically correct (and in this case, her idea of perfectly politically correct is one helluva stretch -- if you think the word 'meritocracy' is sexist then I don't know what to tell you) make it harder for other women to be taken seriously.

I don't think anyone here is saying that sexual harassment shouldn't be taken seriously. They're just saying this crazy bitch shouldn't.

Although I won't be trying this thing out because it's not worth the cost, I can see the advantages it offers. I think your haste to jump to a negative conclusion is a poor attitude, especially on a place like /. where geeks mull over novel ideas such as this.

Personally, I have my reservations about this idea -- it seems like it would be ideal for easy to split wood but the tough stuff not so much. Basically, because of the weight limitation the automatic rotation doesn't seem like it will matter so much. It still has the same limitation of a regular axe - weight. A maul/wedge combo still seems like it would be better.

I'd still like to try it myself to put it to the test. Perhaps if they go into mass production and show up at Lowes for ~$50 I'd pick one up. If it's the miracle axe the video portrays it'd save me a helluva a lot of time and energy. I have my doubts, but I have even greater doubts about your description of a "defective axe."

Strawmen are so easy to burn.

In my experience that's not true. Practically all cheap (i.e. not dedicated) hosting solutions have Python. I have a small site on FatCow.com and it supports Python without forking over extra for a dedicated server.

I can understand free hosting solutions lacking Python (and perhaps lacking any scripting whatsoever), but anything you pay for should be able to run Python scripts. Python is so common and easy to implement I can't imagine why any web host would lack it.

You seem to forget that Facebook and Microsoft are in bed together. I wouldn't really consider them to be an innovator, though. Facebook's like the internet's Windows '95 -- and they're buying up companies in a fashion similar to how Microsoft did in the 90s.

I disagree. I think kids should be given a good Linux distro and an internet connection. Why do they need Visual Studio and books?

There are tons of crappy open source GUIs but there's also XFCE and LXDE.

Anyway, the guy you're responding to never mentioned open source. A fair Apples to Apples comparison is OS X, which Microsoft hasn't been able to catch up to for almost fifteen years. It's pretty sad that there are open source GUIs like XFCE that are drastically better than XP, Vista, 7, and especially 8.

The church doesn't have a monopoly on marriage. The courtroom does. I know someone who was married in a church and then they never got around to filing the legal paperwork. Technically, they're not married (which was a good thing as it made 'divorce' that much easier).