Who says this is the end of the story? Plurk can settle or sue for damages. All MS has done with this action is limit those damages.

Correct, and there was no beam in the machine when the breakdown occurred. They were just running current in the magnets. So there was no hole bored through anything. However, there will be a large amount of energy stored in the beams when the accelerator reaches design energy and luminosity.

There have been collisions at 450 on 450. This week, presumably, there will be a day or so of collisions at 1200 on 1200. Progress is being made very quickly now, but they are still proceeding cautiously.

Except for the millions of people, you know, using photo managers. F-Spot, digikam, iPhoto, Picasa, Lightroom, Aperture. Yup, no market for those.

I just installed it on my kubuntu laptop. It's an 8 MB download. I just installed Lightroom 3 on Windows the other day. That's a 120 MB download.

I don't generally watch, but my point is that on the web there is an ~infinite amount of content available, so I don't really care if there are idiot comments everywhere, I can choose not to read them. On the tee-vee, there is a fixed, limited, resource: time. And, barring skipping around, it's a linear medium, so if someone wants to get information, they have to sit through a lot of crap to get it.

I'd watch CNN if it was, you know, a "Cable News Network." It's a travesty that none of these 24-hour channels can get any deeper into a story than the 30 minute evening news can.

CNN, not CNN.com. They put these comments on the air all the time. When they should be, you know, reporting the news. Or better yet, investigating the news.

It's not an assertion, it's a finding of courts. I have no idea what criteria they use to determine what MS can bundle and what they can't and what they have to provide alternatives for, but browsers are not one of the things they can do whatever they want with. I believe in the EU media players are the same.

But Mac and Linux (all 10,000 flavors) are essentially free to ship or not whatever they want because they have such a small market share.

Yes. The word you are looking for is "Monopoly." Microsoft is not allowed to do things that other companies are because it is a monopoly.

When the article says "Some parts of Kenya" that means the good parts. The overall infection rate in 2003 was estimated at 6.7%. Uganda is the birthplace, as I recall, of the ABC strategy.

This article makes it sound as if DC is as bad as "Africa" when it comes to AIDS. Unfortunately (for most of sub-Sahara Africa, not DC residents), this just isn't true.

3% may be bad, but 3% with decent health care is a world away from the 15+% infection rate and poor health systems that some countries are dealing with.