It calls Microsoft's FUD 'irresponsible.'? 'Fraudulent' would be a better adjective.

Incorrect. It's approximately 2030 here at the moment. I left work hours ago. And I'm not employed by the government in any case.

Government agencies don't use hotmail etc. for official mail, they have the gov.au domain for that. They are talking more about denying public (civil) servants the use of webmail for their private purposes from government systems. A good move, I think.

I have bad memories of Yast. In particular the way it silently overwrites changes you have made to config files outside of Yast. Admittedly, I haven't touched it for ages, so this hideous (in my opinion) bug may have been squashed.

... as it is that of the browser vendors. As web developers, we NEVER should have coded to anything but the W3C standards. Browsers would have been forced to fall in line, and this fascinating banter would never have been necessary. While I have always tried to just code to the standards, I can understand the position other are in, with their PHBs squeezing them to do stupid things.

Though it'd never happen, I'd like to see W3C monitor all web content, and have the power to issue DNS deregistration notices to all non-compliant sites.

Dear Sir,

we have determined that you site, www.microsoft.com, is not compliant with the W3C 'xhtml1-transitional' standard it claims to implement. You are advised that you have 14 days in which to make the aforesaid site fully compliant. Failure to do so will result in the immediate suspension of your Domain Name registration, until such time your compliance is proven.

Have a pleasant day.

...is the only one that applies to me, as I don't do ads. FF/AB+/NS FTW!

I didn't even realise Facebook had ads, until a friend moaned about them. I put them on to Firefox and AdBlock Plus, and now they loves me!

All the good folk who are say they can "get a better machine, for less, and it's even got Windoze installed!" just totally miss the point.

There are many people out there like me who'd happily pay EXTRA to get a machine that is completely free of Micro$oft or Apple, and doesn't count as a sale for either of them. I will not contribute to either of these organisations in any way.

It always amuses me when people see M$ patching a bunch of vulns, and then make a comment like 'But Umbuntu (sic) is much worserer! It patched ( m$_vulns + 10 ) this month!'... or vice versa.

With Linux distos, you can pretty much count on the count being pretty much accurate, due to the defacto auditing that occurs as a function of the open source methodology.

In comparison, M$'s counts are basically meaningless, unless you are one of those gullible fanbois who believe M$ would never lie. Ever.

It's all about disclosure. Disclosure in open source is real, disclosure by the likes of M$ and Apple is pretty much based on what makes them look the best in the marketplace.
 

That kind of PVP is all and good, but for those of us in Oz and other far flung reaches, with normal ping times of 250-300 ms, we just can't compete with the LPBs in the US. So PVP, even if I liked it, would be a total waste of time. As for the game in general, the noob area was fantastic. Exquisite graphics, interesting quests with voice acted interactions, mature content. All this fell apart once you left the noob area. And the notorious 10k ping problem. It became totally unplayable. I left. Did they ever get that 10k ping issue fixed?

The things that spoil MMOs for me are mostly related to obnoxious player behaviour - 1) Griefing 2) Camping 3) Exploit abuse 4) Spamming and giving quest solutions on public chat channels.