If they do this, Bing will forever be charged for news. Not only from Murdoch's site, but everyone else will want in on the money.

What happens when it's time to renew the contract? Highest bidder? Stay with Bing? Move to Google?

MS needs to be very careful. Short-term gain (if any) for long-term pain it seems to me.

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FTA, "Jails are a sort of lightweight virtualization technique available on the FreeBSD platform. They are like a chroot environment on steroids where not only the file system is isolated out but individual processes are confined to a virtual environment - like a virtual machine without the machine part."

Not knowing much about FreeBSD and it's complementary software, what is the difference between FreeBSD Jail and Solaris Zones?
A Solaris Zone could also be described the same way.

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While not our Prime Minister, gay MP and cabinet members are already in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svend_Robinson

Just to add to your fears, we also have had a variety of faiths and disabled Members of Parliament.

http://www.muslimcanadiancongress.org/20040723.html

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