bleh who's the retard who modded this old news insightful? Besides, it is not like the OP mentioned Linux... regardless, even if the Linux kernel is bloated by Linus' standards, it is by far much, much lighter than the windows one. You wouldn't run windows in an ipod... and the only think preventing the linux kernel to run on ipods nowadays is the new encrypted firmware... Even if the Linux kernel was bloated. Your average Linux distro - even ubuntu - is magnitudes less bloated than windows. Heck, I can run latest version of ubuntu just fine with 512 MB of RAM and no swap... Good luck fitting even windows 7 on that...

1. Copyright infrigement == illegal != piracy != theft.

2. Whatever happened to fair use? Copyright law says I can use copyrighted content for educational purposes, satire and other things. Somehow, all copyrighted content but the digitial one is subject to this fair use thing. It is probably necessary to actually make knowledge sharing possible. DRM has no way of knowing and will often succeed on stopping you to exert this valuable right that is fair use.

3. DRM often affects real consumers, those who have already paid for the content. Ie I can't use new mp3 players as USB drives as before... I probably can't make backups of DRMed music. I cannot play some copyrighted work I paid for in some OS like Linux without violating the DRM laws. So I say fuck you DRM, you can burn in hell.

It is strange that while MS keeps making promises, Novell - which includes Icaza who is always eager to promote the idea of making moonlight gnome's plasma - does not seem willing at all to drop their exclusive shield that is the now infamous patent deal. For some reason, we second class users and also the "second class" distributors have to rely on all these promises and legalese which apparently are not enough for Novell which depends not on these 'promises' but on such deal...

she's an American displaying hate against Israel with her own personal belongings.

Is not supporting the Gaza bombings a display of hatred towards Israel? Then I am sorry, but I guess I am an anti-Semitic..

Let's forget the fact that the laptop did have a bomb. So the paranoia was not exactly justified this time. I find it interesting that you think terrorists would cross the border holding holding signs like "we hate Israel" ... I thought that if you were truly a terrorist you would be a little more subtle when crossing the border... but maybe that's just me.

I hope that when they destroy your laptop, you appreciate how they are working really hard to protect people...

Why do you hate freedom?

To paraphrase Schmidt, YOU DON'T.

It cannot be a retroactive change anyway. It would just force a GPL-only fork. Take a guess to which of the sides of the fork would the OS community send the patches if they had to choose between oracle's exclusive private fork or the GPL one...

What's worse is that he is attempting to make the EU commision require forcing oracle to change the license from the GPL I guess this will become typical of codeplex foundation members...

However, could it be that people with psychotic traits and their parents tend to be less likely to get an appropriate source of wealth?

I sense a disturbance in the force.

PS: Even if I had a magic cell phone with a 2 years lasting battery, it would still be stupid to have to take cell phone out of pocket just to figure what time is it...

At this rate , the day is close when we'll finally have a cell phone that can make phone calls!

Wristwatches - Want to know what time it is? Most people have given up on wearing a watch and simply use their mobile phone's clock

Are these people retarded? My watch's battery last years. I wouldn't rely on my cell phones completely random 1 hour to 2 days battery for this.

Bedside alarm clocks

I don't use alarms of any kind. But unrelaible battery would make me avoid cell phones like the plague for this mission.

netbooks

Is the author on crack? The first 7 inches netbooks failed because both the screen and the keyboard were too small to be of practical use. I can't picture people wanting a rectangular cell phone with a 10 inches diagonal...

Paper

This one will get replaced by netbooks.

Since by your own admission you miss the actual data, I wonder why you ever bother posting a list of countries that you think reduced/increased emissions.

It is just the Linux kernel. It is a very useful and a good software product, but it is just a kernel... It is not that useful without a compiler to compile the kernel, or a shell to actually use it. The objective Torvalds had when coding that kernel was just for fun, he wouldn't expect it to save the world or anything...He is not the guy to match software with ideology or good intentions.

Not saying RMS deserves it either - no, he does not. The whole FOSS thing depends on the contributions of a lot of people, and there is no real "founding father" that deserves all that much credit.

Oh well, at least Linus definitely deserves it more than Obama.

The inaccurate headline sounded like bing gained 10% more marketshare, reality was that they have done the big accomplishment of reaching 10% overall marketshare... You have to wonder, after all those efforts including attempts at generating media hype , the yahoo deal, the dows' machines suddenly using Bing and all the fanboys posting in sites like slashdot about how it is supposedly justifiable to change the search bar - This is all what they reached? Seriously, MS and all the devices and software they control and have set the default to point to Bing was not able to do much more than this? oh no.