I don't remember ever having to pay a fee to my ISP to download a song from iTunes. Maybe my ISP paid a fee to SOCAN to let me download my song, but it wasn't visible to me. I also doubt that my ISP bill is going to be smaller next month, because of this ruling.

Amen. I read a quote somewhere, that said (paraphrasing) making money is a side effect of a good business, not the goal.

1/17th the radius of the Earth, actually.

Silly rabbit! Dinosaurs can't talk.

I read Dune when I was 14. Four hundred pages of "Dune" and 600 pages of "The Oxford English Dictionary". Great book, and I learned a lot of stuff while trying to wrap my head around it, but it's the opposite of "light reading".

Monica Hughes is what got me hooked on scifi, when I was about 10 or so. "Crisis on Conshelf Ten" and "Earthdark" were my first taste, and are still on my shelf somewhere. I devoured all her other stuff that was in the school library pretty quick after Conshelf. Easy to read, but there are some levels to it, that you start to notice as you get older. I don't know if her stuff is still in print though. FWIW.

Got any links to Wikipedia proper? Or do we consider sister sites under the Wikimedia Foundation all together for this discussion? (I read the summary as referencing only Wikipedia).

"Hugo Chavez's government states that the goal is to eventually disarm the citizenry."

Well, that was refreshingly honest of them. I was expecting something about having to protect the children from the capitalist dogs, or the dogs from the armed children, or something like that. Rock that iron fist, Hugo! (And to the Venezuelan People, Good Luck in your revolution, now that you know, unequivocally, where you stand).

So, this is the end of multi boot menus that include Windows 8, I guess?

I envision a box with two separate physical boot devices: one with a Windows 8 signed bootloader, and one with a bootloader that lets me choose another OS to boot. The second one may or may not be signed with the Windows 8 key. In any case, Red Hat's won't be able to chainload Windows 8, because only the first stage will be signed with the Windows 8 key.

Did I miss anything?

Yeah, I know what you mean. There's this guy who burgled my house 20 years ago. And 19 years ago. And 18 years ago, and so on. Even when the cops caught him, he was never punished -- just set free to burgle my house again. But he didn't burgle my house last year, so I'm not mad.

I wonder why people around here hate Microsoft?