There is no part of what you just said that I dont agree with. Fuck Yeah.

Is that somewhere out there exists a universe where beer is free and all the girls look like Natalie Portman, and here I am stuck with you nerds reading flaimbait on slashdot.

By that same logic, though, you can flush most of Einsteins work too. We do not posses, nor are we likely to posses in our lifetimes barring alien intervention, the technology to directly test and observe either the General or Special theories of relativity. The math works, its elegant, and is therefore the best explanation people can come up with. String theory tries to tie the quantum aspects together with the space time and forces described by AE. Its only as credible as the information that its based on.

The guy is out on the most feeble of limbs with his multiverse idea, since 'string theory' itself is little more than conjecture... but to take the edge off the 'not science' rhetoric here, the guy is a very well regarded theoretical physicist. Is it any less scientific-wild-ass-guess than Hawkings' notions about black holes? No. He at least has enough clout to get data access to the CERN supercollider experiments, so its not like its -me- throwing this crap out there hoping it will stick.

Wow... the number of Apple fanboys on /. is breathtaking. That this article is tagged sourgrapes tells me that many of the people on this site are not so much anti-closed source, anti patent troll, anti evil corp, as much as they are simply anti Microsoft. That is a beautiful irony. The opposite extremes of technology access.... Linux and Apple, have the same mouthpieces here. Any time I need a good strong dose of sobering disgust, you guys never let me down. Thanks assholes.

Julian Assange should be whacked, and the entire operation scrapped. It serves no purpose except to incite and inflame already unstable activist asshats. If you disagree, ask yourself this: How has knowing what diplomats say privately to one another, or the contents of army field intelligence reports, made anything, anywhere, any better? I wonder though, how many people have been physically harmed because of that crap. It solves 0 problems and creates countless.

So, you are implying that being comfortable with the syntax and instructions of VB precludes you from being an elitist fucktard curly-bracket programmer? I think not, it just means said ft's are insular and critical of anything that doesnt fit neatly into their own skillset. Oh, and the french pronunciation is even gayer, so Ill go with the alternate spelling you provided. Thanks!!!

My only defense of VB in general is this.... if you are programming for Windows and the .NET framework anyway, then its tomato/tomato (pronounce the latter like a french douche). I write for and maintain several enterprise level apps in VB, and others in C#. It does not matter one damn bit which you use, they are equivalent in every way. Anything you can do in C#, I can do in VB... and C#. People that bash one over the other usually cant code in either, or very well in any language.

This is about as flamebait as they get... dropping an review on VB, the most Microsoft of Microsoft languages, in this place is like dropping off your son to sell lemonade at a NAMBLA convention.

I second that. For fucks sake, the is /., do we need another excuse to tsk-tsk Microsoft? Now we know the truth of the thing, the closely guarded secret that they would have killed to protect.... the fact their accountants are bad people too! Intrigue! Drama! Petty! Self Serving!

Seriously? Unless Microsoft is cooking the books, who gives a rats ass how they account for the gajillion dollar revenue. If this is how FOSS scores points, by proclaiming "Ah HA!!!, they tried to trick us! The only sold 40 Million licenses of whatever, not 60 Million!. We... ummm, win?" This article is douchebaggery.

Sofware infection is one thing, manufacturers can claim ignorance, disgruntled employees, or, as in Sony's case, claim is was DRM. Designing a physical circuit for the purpose of intentionally harvesting information from a device is quite another. Let Dell ship machines to DOJ with hardware backdoors and see how much they bleed cash.

The flaw in this otherwise sinister scheme would be: What kind of effort would it take, on the part of the would-be bad guys, to ensure that the components in question found their way into machines that were of any consequence? And once discovered, the retribution to the manufacturer would be harsh and most likely final, as in going out of business final. I am not saying that it would be impossible, only difficult in the extreme. I imagine that this kind of scenario would be so improbable (and since we are here talking about it, not likely to slip under the radar of people who need hardened machines, ergo the NSA chip factory) as to be a huge investment of time for the would be attacker without any real chance of success.

Yes, because that is exactly what we need, all apps should be online, even the OS! That way we can just subscribe to the software we want, and they can just bundle us up with all the stuff we need. And really great ads. Cause the cloud is the future! And by cloud, of course, I mean the same, stupid, ridiculously imagined world were pc hardware is irrelevant and the almight internets holds everything we need, accessible from everywhere, no waiting, no outages, what could possibly go wrong? All my data is stored on someone elses hardware on a drive farm in Bangledesh? No problem! The people who imagine this very short-sighted 'utopia' deserve to get the 'All-you-care-use-it plan'! You get unlimited storage, unlimited email, unlimited search, office productivity apps, all for $89.99. Wow!!! -- The 'Cloud' is nothing but storage on the internet, new name, same shit... Stop being stupid.

WTF??? ... thats ... all ....crap. All that stuff you just said. That shit makes ZERO sense. Rituals from Social Studies? Religion from English class? I dont know if you realize this (apparently not), but you were most likely raised in a cult and schooled by its members, cause I dont think the vast majority of us recieved that brand of education. Now quit yer bitchin and go prepare for the purification, the time is at hand.