Try being a southern white male. With the notable, rare exception of Matthew Mcconaughey, a white male with a southern drawl is invariably portrayed in the movies as either a wife beater, a racist, a child abuser, a drunk, or as simply stupid. More often it's a combination of all five.

I guess Redmond's new business strategy is throw enough dirty pairs of underwear against the wall and something is bound to stick sooner or later...

We who run Linux can still pretty much be the masters of our own desktop domains. :-)

Microsoft hardware has consistently been good stuff. If they would abandon coding altogether, their company might have potential.

I would never, ever, ever pay a buck for a downloaded song. I used to say that once the RIAA backed companies that would sell the songs at Russian rates, i.e. 10-20 cents per song, that I would support them.

That was a couple of years ago. Now, i hate these greedy bastards so much that i would pay more for music just to bypass them.

Fortunately, as long as i can access mp3million.com, it's a non-issue.

Has he found evidence of CO2 levels rising? Actual numbers?

Get back to work on my 8" floppy reader!

Death rays don't kill people, PEOPLE kill people!

Affects Windows. And we care why...?

I used to make a steady 300-350 bucks a month from Adsense ads on my sites. My recent months have been 150-200. I figured it was because of the fall of IE and the rise of Chrome and Firefox, both of which are seldom seen without Adblock Plus.

At the company where I worked for 24 years, one dysfunctional nutcase of a family member with a veep position was responsible for dozens of good folks getting the hell out of Dodge.

I had an excellent boss, a very good one above him, and a decent one above him. Next came Loony Toons, who would do stuff like scan the internet records of every employee in the billion-dollar company looking for weather.com. If he found it, a stern rebuke was to be given to the unlucky soul who dared to check the forecast while at work.

I could list at least twenty-five more incidents that prove that this executive couldn't land a job as a box stacker at any company but his family's.

In my case, it was in the midst of an ice storm, and I wanted to know the prospects for making it home on my 25-mile drive.

When I was downsized, I laid into that fruitcake with both barrels. I know I'll never work for that self-righteous, pseudo-religious family-owned again, but it felt good, it didn't affect my finding another job, and maybe, just maybe, it will help the rest of the family grow cojones and pay that idiot to stay away.

SOP at most larger companies is to simply give dates of hiring and termination, nothing more. They're as afraid of lawsuits as anyone.

They do if they have it installed with auto updates. A 2001 XP disk doesn't of course, but if they've pirated an OEM with SP3 on it, auto-protection (until support stops)

ACH! Please disregard comment fired in haste. :-P

It's Tennessee whiskey, NOT BOURBON!