Agreed. I was expecting something like "Mice got wet and little hairballs popped off and became baby mice."

I just have to put a big Thank You out to Linus. This uproar over MS putting out this code is ridiculous. MS sells programs to make money. True in the past they have not been the friendliest of companies, but point me to a major OS vendor that has. The fact that MS even wrote this code so that virtualized Linux machines will work better under its HyperV is fantastic! Not only are they recognizing Linux as a useful OS, but they are participating in the community appropriately. They wrote code for the OS that used GPL'd code, so they released their code. As Linus points out, this is how the GPL is supposed to work! You need something added? Write it and release what you wrote. What else do you expect from MS? "Oh, I see Gnometris is using 10 year old sprites, I'm going to be nice and upgrade it to vector based graphics"?

MS deserves hate for some things, but when they play by the rules is hardly one of them.

Now I'm imagining Jason Howell reading this story in his hot breath voice.
Oh.. I'm a big believer... in Technology... over Politics...
...in the chatroom

Nevermind on that, I just googled it and found images of jupiter taken by the Hubble. Now to hunt down that science teacher that said the blasted thing couldn't see anything within our solar system.

All we have to do is put an astronaut in a chair near Ballmer and then tell him Google just hired Gates!

Isn't Jupiter too close for the Hubble? It's a deep space telescope and Jupiter hardly counts.

Heck, combine this with a cuttlefish fabric and boom, dynamic camouflage. All it has to see is what it's up against and change the colors of the fabric on the other side.

Can we get a White Flag? One that just allows us to surrender? How about a bloody pirate flag? One that shoots cannons at the other flags. I would like at least one device not try to screw me over. (Full Disclosure, I own a Kindle 2.)

You know, I've found a kill switch to be particularly useful. I've installed one on all of my machines. It's even a third party switch that chooses which programs are good and bad for me. It's called AVG.