Since any opinion piece from any news group qualifies as solid evidence in slashdot political discussion, I submit The character assassination of Hillary Clinton (Washington Post).

Can someone tell us now that the CIA placed the blood clot in her head to get her out of this?

Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports that based on NetApplications current adoption statistics for Windows 8, the operating system is not achieving market share as fast as Windows Vista. At the 2 month point Vista was at 2.2% of all Windows devices. 2 months past Launch Windows 8 has achieved a share of only 1.6%. In a related note, Fujitsu President Masami Yamamoto has joined the chorus of PC OEM executives complaining of poor sales. Pointedly Yamamoto blames Windows 8 for Fujitsu missing their annual projected sales targets.

The voicefive.com script that's taking forever to load on slashdot these days is used for usage tracking. It's harmless. But the server is so overloaded that it's taking pages forever to load.

I thought the pudge-script was forever lost, but it seems someone has started it back up and targeted it at yours truly. I guess it's true that indeed some things never do change...

So the NRA wants every school in the country to have an armed guard, because in their fantasy world one guy with a pistol can prevent any number of nutjobs from coming in with a semi-automatic rifle.

OK, that is strange logic. Even worse, though, the NRA wants congress to pay for their fantasy. Some estimates have said that one full-time armed security agent could cost $80k per year.

Strange, I thought the NRA usually courted the people who want Washington to spend less money. Now they want how many billions for this little adventure?

... and set fire to something we don't understand

Wow, such a surprise that the president who has caved over ... well, pretty much everything ... has again caved in to republican demands . Soon enough he'll start another ground war in response to their demands as well.

Apparently, it buys you some nice paintings. I'm not one to usually propagate tabloid gossip, but this is a bit too amusing, really. And, of course, it is about the most overpaid athlete in the history of sport - who of course is a repeat steroid user.

Lately the journal entry spam:nonspam ratio has been a bit higher than usual. A while ago I even noticed one that was " ABC service" in "(town near where I grew up)" and looked to see if I could figure out who was behind it*.

Then today I was looking at new JEs (mostly spam, as usual) and thought I'd try the search function here on slashdot. Rather unsurprisingly, that didn't work, at all. Search for whatever you want, nothing will ever be returned from the journals.

Well done, guys. I guess you accidentally made it more difficult for spammers to find customers on slashdot, but not by much.

*the return was, surprisingly, mostly non-obfuscated. That said, it was not relevant, either. Registration was to some guy in Ft. Lauderdale FL (not even within 2,000 miles of where I grew up) with a hotmail address. Hardly even worth the bother. I also liked how the "mailing address" on the web page itself (not in the WHOIS, but rather displayed on the site itself) was itself bogus.

It's time to talk about the hard turn.

Change has been in the wind for a while now. The times, they are a-changing. We are going mobile. Windows PCs undersell mobile devices now by a rate of 1:2, and the change is logarithmic. This isn't some fad: real change is happening.

Some have read the weather well. Samsung especially, but Acer, Asus, Philips, Sony and Lenovo too. HP and Dell, not so much.

We're entering a new world now, that doesn't have legacy bindings holding us back. Let us make the most of it.

Earlier this morning there was a FP story here about a negative number screwing up the Swedish Stock Exchange (broken linky here). That story is now, nowhere to be found. Clicking the provided broken link gives a slashdot error.

Also interesting is that when it was up I wrote a comment for it which is also now gone. I'm not sure I've seen this before - I figured it would be like a JE where the post can be deleted but the discussion cannot, though that appears to not be the case here.

So what happened? Where did the story go? I've never seen this happen before...

Least Influential People of 2012.

No surprise that Romney is #1 on this list. I'm actually surprised that facebook boy isn't on there, considering how much his company's stock has tanked (I would bet money this list would have made the front page here if he had). Naturally, our dear Rob Malda - who was on a list of "people who don't matter" back in 2006 - is not influential enough to make this list of un-influential people.

I will hereby make a prediction that next year's iteration of this list will include Grover Norquist.

In the run up to Santa season I see dozens of 7-9" Android tablets in the retail market with Android 4.0, capacitive touch screen and decent performance. A lot of them now marked "sold out". I think it's amazing that so much technology can be made so cheaply in such a small package. This is awesome.

I recall back in the day there was at least one game for the 8-bit NES that required more than one cartridge to play. Likely it asked for the second one at some point along the way, you swapped, and continued on. I don't recall the name or objective of this game. Does anyone else? I tried searching google for it and instead the results kept directing me to various cartridges that had multiple games on them.

Perhaps one of the Nobunaga's Ambition titles? It seems like it would lend itself better to a game with highly linear play.

any questions?

I've generally been leaving this guy alone lately as I have better things to do than watch him shouting in his echo chamber, but I figured he'd give us something amusing on election day, and he did not fail. A few key quotes from him, with my responses that he won't reply to:

Wow, so very insightful. Can you elaborate further?

You forgot to mention which subset it should be. I presume you mean only people with a certain level of income or property owned? Since you favor the re-establishment of slavery, I presume owning people would count towards owning property?