In the United States obvious satire is not actionable. Basically, a reader of normal intelligence would have to expect to believe it, while the person posting it does not have a good faith belief that it is true(which is also required in the US for libel).

So, if I made the statement "Todd Knarr has sex with farm animals!" it would be actionable, because to someone who is farmilar with Todd Knarr it would be believable that he had sex with 'farm' animals, but I don't have a good faith belief that the animals he has sex with were raised on farms.

Windows 7 is a direct result of R&D for Windows Vista. It is being marketed well and computers have caught up with the extra overhead. They've made the UI pretty enjoyable and toned down UAC.

Even the money they wasted on vista, is going to show some pretty decent returns for them. They are going to be selling bits and pieces of Vista's code for, probably, more than a decade.

I know, "woosh". Of course the parent is being satirical, but that doesn't mean they aren't raising a real point.

I don't know, but Japan does a pretty good job of innovation. Most likely it is because individuality can never be fully suppressed. Germany has one of the most oppressive cultures in Western Europe, and they invent their asses off.

I don't think it's a big of an issue as you make it out to be. If they really need it, they can just pick a reasonably wealthy area(middle classish) and let it do it's own thing for a few years.

Bohemian districts will pretty much form on their own, and then it is just a matter of taking the already educated and now free thinking residents and finding them useful work.

Business, for most airlines, is a compromise between first class and steerage. It's actually pretty nice, but it isn't inexpensive.

That's pretty sad. I've met a lot of intelligent and articulate conservatives. I've managed to covert more than a few of them on particular issues, and the Republican Party has managed to drive plenty of people over to our side. At least those ones are demonstrably open minded.

You haven't met one? Your own bias may have a bit to do with that. Folks don't respond well to being insulted and they can pick up on prejudice in other people.

Well, it's kinda nice, you know, open minded liberals don't exist. That's a solid base. Conservative can be convinced to switch sides, and once they become liberals they can be counted on not to change back.

Your ideology seems to be doomed. I'm a little worried about what a lack of debate will do to our legislature, but all that progress will be nice if they don't destroy the country.

Do you have any understand at all of why Hulu blocks based on country?

I like that Hulu exists and is able to afford the licenses to distribute content. Unfortunately, that is not compatible with international distribution, due to the desires of the people who own and control the content.

That's more of a copyright issue than ESPN screwing you over. The league or federation that runs the sport owns the rights to how it is distributed. ESPN doesn't have the rights to distribute the content outside of America, so you get screwed.

Same thing with Hulu and Pandora and all the other great services available here. Y'all don't get to use them, because they would have to purchase additional licensing. Kinda like the BBC's iPlayer here in the states.

It pretty much is the same crap as regioning, and the same folks are to blame, big IP or whatever you want to call them. Not the folks who run the websites.

ESPN is being a bunch of greedy bastards, but that isn't why you can't see the site outside of the US.

So... you wouldn't be interested in knowing that Plasma works pretty good in Windows7, unless you use multiple monitors. Amarok is almost usable.

For a little while, I actually had my windows7 looking pretty much like the video. Biggest diffrence was 'document flip' looking different from the compfusion equivalent.

for the ac sibling: 7 does add some new UI stuff to XP. I actually like it more and there isn't too big a difference in performance. The new task bar and better integrated search(particularly for the control panel) really do make a lot of things easier. I deal with a lot of images, and the new preview pane in windows explorer is nice. None of this gets in the way of productivity, and once you get used to using them, they will save you time, energy and clicks.

Rdesktop is actually a dependency for VMware View Open Client. install instructions

They aren't reinventing the wheel or anything. They are just strapping some stuff onto to make it easier to use and a little more functional and using a different protocol.

It has never worked before. Ever. What it does do is create lawless areas.

Look at europe or asia during the middle and dark ages. It doesn't help, it just means they are more willing to fight against the police and will have more support from and ever more lawless community.

I don't really like the government being able to intercept and record any phone conversation that happens near a jail. However, if they were required to do a little blurb in Spanish and English that the call was being recorded and why, it would be alright. It would make it a very effective method of discouraging unauthorized use of cell phones, without egregiously harming anyone's rights.

Then users will need to know their administrator password, and will end up using it as an account.

Sudo prevents a certain large segment of the potential Ubuntu population from being retarded. It's a calculated risk, but I don't think they would change their position. It is not one they arrived at by chance.

wikipedia seems to thinks it has to do with the waves, mainly I just meant everything in the electromagnetic spectrum that isn't a laser(which don't spread and are coherent). From this description, and a the couple of physics class I've been in that touched on it, Coherent light doesn't spread because all the vectors and frequencies are the same.

If I could have purchased one for less than $400, I would have done so mostly for this feature. It seemed very attractive at a price of around $200.

I don't believe there are any commercial products out there with a similar display, which is kinda a shame.

not every foot or so. It quarters every time the distance from the light source doubles. This isn't exactly surprising behavior for a source of non-coherent radiation.