No one sells Vista anymore or offers it pre-installed. Everyone is selling 7 now and offering it pre-installed. /. is acting like this is some sort of race. Windows 7 is winning!!!! Winning against what? Vista is dead. Being proud that 7 is winning against roadkill is pretty pathetic.

It's like assembling a committee to determine if water is dry.

The Texas Rancher's Association has applied to their board of regents in hopes of changing the name of "Cow Patties" to "Cow Flowers" in hopes that people will think their bovine droppings smells good. No input yet from the manure retail industry but word is they're gearing up to put pictures of flowers on their bags to help enhance the new aroma.

While sad, it's been a smart business tactic for Microsoft. Let someone else take the risk first and do the legwork, then if it works out, bomb the market with a copy - albeit usually inferior, but often much cheaper. Nearly, if not actually, everything Microsoft has comes to being that way. Sometimes it bombs, most times it succeeds with Microsoft laughing all the way to the bank, even tho their consumers end up often wishing they spent a little extra and bought Apple. Apple is about creating neat and new stuffs. Microsoft is about copying and leeching off anything that appears to be making money in the market. All IMHO, of course.

...after all, our butts are simply not wide enough. We've tried hard to hold down the couch, hold down our desk chair and stuff our faces, but that walk from the subway to the office was really hindering our butt-widening project. The advent of the remote control put us well on the butt-widening path but this will take us into new butt-widening levels. Now, if they could put a movable walkway between our couch or desk to the bathroom, we will be complete.

...all I can say is, welcome to space exploration. Where if it can go wrong, it typically will and where tomorrow's missions hopefully are made better by today's mistakes - mistakes even the exalted NASA isn't immune to. At least you got the probe back - after landing on a remote asteroid out in the middle of nowhere which is a major success in my book.

They claim that we don't want to pay for music. And at the same time, their begging for donations tells us that THEY don't want to pay to litigate.

...and open-license it so we can make sure that we can still freely submit a purchase order by farting and burping without receiving a C&D letter.

Darn, someone beat me to the punchline. So. Did anyone check to see if it's still plugged in?

IIRC, it's source code was purchased from the license holders and made open-source thanks to this same sort of thing.

Thing is, if they could tell the difference, they why would they ask for their ID and paperwork? For AZ, 99% of illegals come in one flavor. And look exactly like the legals. How many blue eyed, blond haired, pale skinned Mexicans do you know? Just what does an illegal look like?

If there's an APB out for an African American male accused of murdering his wife, are the police supposed to check the ID's of every white and hispanic male too just so they're not accused of profiling? There's no such thing as color-blind. We have $1 dollar bills and $5 dollar bills. They're the same size paper, same kind of paper, but different markings. Do we give a $5 dollar bill for a $1 dollar item because we don't want to be judged for paper-profiling?

In order for that law to be enforced, a person has to look at another person and ask the question - could he be illegal or not? He won't know until he checks the papers. But if you've got your papers, what's the problem? Five minutes of your time while the officer checks? Hey, laws are not convenient to everyone all the time. When I was a little younger and still got carded for beer, I was flattered even. If I'm pulled over on the streets, I have to provide my ID and insurance proof. We all have times when we need to provide paperwork and the greater majority of us carries our paperwork with us at all times. How hard is it to stick something in your wallet and stuff that in your pocket? So what's all the hubbub? And who's feeding this hubbub? The biggest protest seems to be coming from those who will be inconvenienced the most - the ones that could be arrested and shipped across the border. And from their co-conspirators who support their illegally living here. And from ignorant bleeding-hearts who enjoy this greatest country's security and prosperity in spite of their mindless protests. And perhaps from a few politically minded folks seeing an opportunity to better their status and raise their soap-box up a notch on the backs of the illegals, profiting from them while giving the appearance of supporting them.

Rubbish. We have legal migrant workers who fit the bill perfectly. If you want to play in the kitchen, you gotta put an apron on. If they can't do that, they don't need to play in the kitchen. Legal and Illegal. Do you know the difference? Illegal as in breaking the law? Arizona didn't make illegals criminals - the illegals made themselves criminals the instant they shirked the proper channels and jumped the fence. Why is it that when a person murders someone - an illegal act - that everyone is up in arms to find that murderer and bring him to justice, or when someone is out there speeding past us, an illegal act, we're wondering why the cops aren't on top of that, but when we deal with illegal residents who are here... illegally, which is an... illegal act, everyone is exactly the opposite? "Oh those poor poor criminals, how dare we prosecute them!" And the people making the biggest noise are people who don't even reside there, who know nothing about having their property ransacked by illegal migrants for food and water. For instance, beehives in beeyards out in Tuscon area are knocked over and honey stolen for the trip across the fence. Beehives that are at that location... legally, which are illegally vandalized by illegal people who are criminals. You wanna play the game, follow the rules. If you can't get in, then make your own home a better place rather than running away. We aren't the greatest nation on the face of this planet by accident, donchaknow.

What kind of arm-chair reporting is that??? Just a few milligrams is enough to kill a human. It's a poison - one that works well as an organic OMRI approved pesticide too. What ya'll claim next? That strictnine is "safe?" Perhaps we should all start eating rat poison then? Rubbish.

Why is it that these companies profit wildly from the oppressive work from these sweatshops, then when they are caught red-handed profiting act all shocked and claim they're going to look into it? Greed. They've known all along. If not, then they truly are as stupid as a rock and blind as a marble.

Even so, with the XY chromosome - cutting off body parts and taking hormones does not make a man a "woman" any more than flapping one's arms makes one a bird. Mammals sex inheritance isn't as neutered as the interpretation of the article suggests - only that fowls goes a bit deeper into it than mammals.