for "Anonymous/password1". Time for all the breast-feeding pics posting moms on Facebook to give up their dirty accounts.

Seriously, soon the catch-all term will be "moral offenders" and half of you foul-mouth slashdotters will have to give up your late-night pissing passion. What do you think our "legislators" do all day while their aids and lobbyist write and broker all the laws? How about "hmmm how can I appear tough on crime, create jobs (busywork), and squeeze more contribution from various groups?" Somebody's got to create a new system to track and maintain this secret info. Like the billion dollar data mining projects that has kept us safe and the wrong people from boarding planes (riiight). I'm sure a few db vendors and contractors are happy to hear the news. Surely none of those people ever abuse their security privileges to surf porn with company equipment.

Another fine example of open source advocates putting a lot of effort and energy all in the wrong places.

If true this should be yet another slice off Sun's stocks.

Perhaps we can create games that's not only entertaining but challenge the gamers to create things or find solutions that can benefit the society.

Whenever people say about Apple as having no real original ideas and nothing more than perceived "coolness", or at most compliment it as just a good design firm, I have to wonder. So the same people admire and buy Dell purely because they are cheap? Certainly not because Dell is known for the tech inventions they contribute to hi-tech industry nor for the award winning designs. And for coolness - if people really wanted cool wouldn't half of all computer users use Linux? Isn't it being tech savvy and the geek really cool nowadays with dotCom billionaires and CSI?....

Yeah, I guess having worked in Windows/Solaris world for more than a decade, and played with Linux on the side for about as much, it finally dawned on me that "coolness" was what I needed... Funny with all the engineers and engineering force behind Windows and Blackberry that I'm equipped with in my day job, working in those environments are 90% frustration, as opposed to the consistency, efficiency, and reliability I've found with my own Mac and iPhone.

So according to people who have nothing better to do except write about technology, Jobs' only talent besides song and dance is that he dares to make the right decisions in critical moments? Sounds like a rare leader that you don't find in 99% of industry.

Sure, Apple didn't invent anything, and Jobs just picked up what others neglected and overlooked (GUI, firewire, touch screen, digital content, NeXT...) and made winners out of them, and set trends others are forced to follow - that's why people can't stand him. When the mouse finally gets replaced by touch pads, and GPU and ZFS become household terms, others will say hah they didn't invent any of it - but so what? It's the first time I will find them practical and usable. Refinement is just as much part of engineering as inventing the initial concept and prototyping.

I think Worst Buy actually came after Circuit City and CompUSA, both now knocked off the block by it. When Best Buy started it sold crap selection that was no better than Walmart or Sears, but they did went for big warehouse locations. I guess they built on the Amazon model - staying in red and undercut all your competition until you you generate the volume. Once you have the volume you improve your merchandise and pricing structure. Then Profit! Still can't stand how they can sell a simple miniDV pack for $20 while the same product is $10 at Fry's. Guess the big bright yellow sign makes people trust them like K-mart or something.