This particular patch has actually already been fixed and superseded.

So, what's the big deal then?

Does Slashdot offer the ability to search out and read a user's posts going back to this site's inception?

I have a question about that. I noticed that MS did an update, and had already updated my AMD drivers to Omega a few days ago. I haven't noticed any problems.

Is this the kind of problem patch that MS will fix in a subsequent patch or do I have to go uninstall the latest patch even though I haven't experienced any problems yet?

Science fiction isn't fiction that has elements that aren't science but might appeal to geeks who like science....Science fiction is science that is fictional. Very different animal and naturally restrictive.

You are using a defintion of a term, which is at odds with the defintions of that term used by almost every other educated native speaker of English. This will probably make it hard for you to communicate. You might want to look to that.

It's my understanding there are places called morgues where fingers could be readily obtained.

heavy crude pulling here in Canada from the oil sands is profitable down to $20/bbl

Is that why companies pulling heavy crude in Canada lost up to half of their capitalization in the past few weeks when their stock prices shot into the crapper following oil's nose dive?

Talk to all the worried people up near Bakken or Marcellus. You don't want to be someone who bought any of those companies in early October.

Wall Street's bakers were given a pass on their global fraud

Are they putting sawdust in the muffins again?

Shale is much more expensive than any other form of energy except coal, when you calculate the true costs.

I hate iTunes, so it's been rockbox for me for years now.

I have music in my collection that Google Music does not have.

Oh yeah: create a publically funded news media BBC style, and train up a new generation of journalists biased towards the truth instead of bowing to the both sides are equally wrong god.

You want responsive elected officials, then eliminate private election financing and fund it all publically. Forbid any revolving doors between govt and business. Create a true civil service - you choose one track, no switching. Shut down corporate voting systems and go paper and pencil.
Thirty years too damned late now. We've lost.

There is nothing we can do about that anymore. The curtain is falling. The last police state, the one that cannot be fought.

Corporations invented fascism. The marriage of government and corporate businesses. Per Mussolini, who invented it.

There is no government that does not influence industry. If there was no government influence of business, business would BE our government.