I find your faith in 150 year old paper technology disturbing.

Oracle DBAs demand a high price because they have to put up with this shit on a daily basis. Frankly, you couldn't pay me enough to deal with Oracle licensing - I'm all for migrating to PostgreSQL on Linux if it will scale and is stable enough.

I attended the InSync10 conference earlier this year. One of the presentations described - in colourful language - all of the ways that Oracle will "f**k you over" - if you let them. The only way to deal with Oracle is to fight back; migrating away from their products is one way to negotiate with the PFYs in sales (who apart from being under unrealistic quotas, probably view Larry as a god.)

And actually, these are very desirable genes, since they apparently also make you a world class football player, basketball player, soccer star, or golfer!

Or earn you a place on an Interpol wanted list.

In mafia state Russia, spammer kills you!

Unity is already deployed on Maverick Meercat notebook edition, so why not review it instead of a "preview"?

Yep - most likely fuel for a Gallium-68 generator, which is used as a positron source for calibrating PET scanners (article says "CT scanner" but meh, details - it's lost nucular stuff!)

I just don't agree that sound quality is that bad with on-board audio.

Yes, but what about silence quality? The onboard sound options I've tried over the last few years have all suffered from appalling noise levels. Installing even a basic but quiet sound card can make a big improvement in overall sound quality.

Interesting that China wasn't mentioned at all.

Of course not - they make the technology now, so you don't want to get them off side, eh?

"I invent nothing, I rediscover." -- Auguste Rodin

DC District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer is a he?

People are being encouraged to pick through the enormous quantity of online information to spot waste and hold ministers to account.

That's easy: posting enormous quantities of data online and expecting members of the public to audit it is a massive waste of time and resources.

The truth is that the security theater has been embraced by both parties.

Of course it is - that's politics. If the Democrats did The Right Thing(TM) and scaled back the security theater, they'd get reamed at the next election for being "soft" on terrorism. The problem is not the government, it's the voters (and lobbyists) who won't allow The Right Thing(TM) to happen.

Too late - China p0wns you. The shiny trinkets are there to keep the proles happy.

"You gotta tell 'em—iPHONE IS PEOPLE!"

"Whatever. Does it come in white?"