So if their own AV kit is free, why, except of course to increase profits, does MS insist all MS boxes be sold with MacAfee? / Rhetorical question.

Sprint own Virgin Mobile as well - our days of suffering this c**p will almost certainly come.

It is necessary to get behind someone/thing in order to stab them in the back.

The 'next big thing' in HDD's was supposed to be Solid State...So what are these numchucks doing improving what's now seen as the past??

Getting your customers to pay $10 a month for the same ad-riddled service is perfectly logical...If you're hired as a suit at the networks. Remember, Hulu is owned by NBC - the same geniuses who thought hiring Jeff Zucker was a smart move.

With you 110%. When you underwrite an OS that is faster, lighter and more user-friendly than its monolithic competitor, the one thing you do -not- do is form or allow a clearly self-serving alliance with said monolith, whose sole motivating desire is to see you and your product implode and present no further threat. Novell is doomed, and perhaps so is Linux. All Suse users should start checking the alternatives.

That's my point, Paul - Most UK residents pay the license fee. Those who choose to use iPlayer would therefore pay -twice-?? DRM is repugnant, but instead of gouging UK=based viewers for two fees, let ex-Brits now abroad [like me - been in California since '97] who can't see the shows at -all- be the source of the allegedly much=needed income. The license fee is an inexcusable joke, but sticking those forced to pay it with -another- fee if they dare to then use other technology is abhorrent,

I agree - DRM is repugnant. No doubts. As for the license fee, I moved to California in '97 so that's not my angle = My beef is the thousands who are already forced to pay this legalized extortion, then have to pay twice if they miss a show and dare to try and catch it online. The BBC is a clueless, arrogant fossil, and the license fee is both insulting, and an inexcusable joke, That's all I'm saying.

So dear old Auntie Beeb has added DRM to all over their content so the dear British taxpayer has to fork over more cash to watch programmes they already paid for. Brilliant....Not.

Geek or not, no woman will never be happy until we come factory-installed with an 11-inch schlong that shoots out free money.

The scene is quite odd, but the result is hypnotic - and *way* more musical than most things infecting the Billboard these days! Where do we get the album? Will they tour?

If this change means Uncle Bill can no longer hijack the OLPC project, I'm more than good with the concept.
And I'd be surprised if I'm not one of a very large crowd.

It's a sad but inescapable fact that you're right, Gad_zuki.
Damn funny...but right. Let's face it, unless they merge
with NASA tomorrow, GM and Chrysler are screwed :(

...could be hired to work for GM or Chrysler, Toyota
and Honda would be the ones needing a bail-out.

If they want auto-booting they just set the Grub menu so the OS they want is the default. If that default is linux, they just enable 'auto log-in' and there's no need to be there at all.