It doesn't seem all that courageous to me to declare you're gay *after* you've completed the climb up the corporate ladder to the CEO position. It would be more impressive if he did it before the perceived risk to his career had long-since passed. Doesn't set a good example for other gays - hiding the fact you're gay until it's safe career-wise to come out.

If it were April I would say that huge mount of boring text has a point hidden somewhere inside it. Let's hope there's a piece of chocolate attached to it as well.

Each writing its own kernel dump image :)

We now have two cases of Ebola being contracted by health care workers in developed nations (Spain, USA), plus the many workers who have contracted it while working with patients in the affected African nations. One wonders if the pool of health care workers willing to work with these patients will start to dwindle and whether the CDC call for calm is more direct at those workers than the general public.

Old function: GetVersion() and GetVersionEx() [for Windows 8 and older]
New function: GetVersionEx2() [for Windows 9 and newer]

Seems a less intrusive solution that jumping a whole major Windows revision.

Tell that to the community when an outbreak starts because some narcissistic celebrity didn't want their child afflicted with a disorder that make their parent look bad. Then we can talk about what compassion actually is.

Would have been useful to takeout all the mindless celebrities who don't vaccinate their children and thus assure a healthier society for us all.

To return the jamming favor.

Less cash means the company has more to lose if it fights and thus would be more amenable to greenmail. Plus there are insurance policies.

The NFL obviously paid off some group of politicians to achieve their non-profit status. Now a new set of politicians have their hand out for another sweaty envelope filled with cash.

Google has what amounts to unlimited resources, which they would assuredly use to defend this case because settling or losing would set a precedent that would cost them a lot more money in the long run.

Our government thinks we're a bunch of impulsive automatons that need to be instructed when and how we need to worry. They try to control panic by metering out information, first telling citizens "nobody on the plane is at risk" and "the chance of infection spread is near zero" and then slowly releasing information to the contrary, like how there are now home-quarantined individuals and 80 more under observation. FYI government officials: Your strategy has the opposite effect because it undermines our confidence in your information and leaves us to our own devices and imagination about how to protect ourselves and our family.

Saying the OS decays and slows down without any supporting data is about as informative as saying society is in decay. Btw I've never had this problem on any of my XP or Win7 systems.

We can do a proper ten-point countdown to complete irrelevance.

Science already knows that not all eruptions produce tell-tale precursors.