Don't know who this guy is, but this is what developers are like. Maybe if they had a key sequence to do it, it would be easier for us. Then again I don't ever expect Mozilla to beat FreeBSD on an exploit.

But FreeBSD will protect you. I doubt Mozilla will ever catch me with a vulnerable version unless you say all Flash is vulnerable -- a point I won't argue. At least I have a 'kill script' to kill an annoying flash page.
While preserving the text I really want. For most viewing (video) I use VLC, clive and a script to glue them together. (written is sh -- hint tested with bash too) See the benefits of open source software?

BillSF

Sorry Microsoft -- you sold the only good thing you had -- Office. Lets hope the designers will revolt and force the source open. They are, after all the only known RealHackers(tm) in Microsoft!

So only 136 people in the UK file share? Sounds like it's not a very big industry.

Amigas, Macs and STs predate the advent of cheap PC clones by a number of years. It wasn't until the end of the 80s that sub $1000 pc clones hit the market and dominated it.

For some subjects, absolutely. I'm still wishing, however, that our local schools' science departments would emphasize the observation/experience connection to wonderment and hypotheses. Instead, we have a (very well ranked) system that focuses heavily on standardized tests (which is probably why they are ranked so high).

Indeed. Consider how fans of certain other OSs show off and brag about their computer platform all for free, anyway.

If Apple were doing this, there'd be nothing but praise.

Cable company DVRs come with an exrta rental charge. Also they dont skip adverts. That functionality is explicitly disabled. Also my mythbox is the core of a whole home entertainment system that has way more features than any cable company dvr.

The funny thing is...

Same here. Every few months I download a few of the latest free AVs and ASWs, run them and then wipe them. In over five years the only thing any of them has found is suspicious cookies.

A dangerous thing to say, as that not every child will necessarily have the ability to learn the subject matter in a reasonable period of time no matter how you present it. You may not mean it in that way, but easy phrases like that are easy to take out of context or misinterpret.

Are software patents suddenly OK when MS gets stuck? I wouldn't use their 'copy-ware' myself but still aren't /. readers against this abuse
of the patent system? There is a bigger story, but the press just haven't seen it yet. I think some of us know where the prior art is anyway for this idea that isn't patentable. Will Apple bring back 'look and feel' suits? Very bad idea, even if its just Microsoft.

Good point. There is a difference between how much data is contained in this file and needs to be transmitted if I mail/ftp/whatever it and if I store it on a flashdrive/tape/hdd. I would like to be able to access both values.

install hardware x, watch the kernel do a panic dance, ask the kernel people, they say its a issue inside a black box binary blob, ask the hardware people, they cant reproduce it on their setup, and the hardware is heading for extended "support" anyways so they dont care, but can sell you another product...

see how many people microsoft pissed off when they changed the driver system between xp and vista, and then try and tell me that it cant happen with linux after employing a stable ABI.

i am willing to bet that there is hardware out there that current linux kernels support, but that you cant find a windows driver for past win95/98, and said hardware may well be sitting in some corner doing something productive.

If people are using a free service and not your paid service, then a the least you can determine they don't see enough value in paying to receive your service than usign the free service. If you are lucky, that's because your prices are simply too high for your content, or your payment mechanism is too difficult, or something like that. If you are unlucky it's because your actual content is bad, in which case you have nothing worth charing for to begin with. I don't read much foreign or English news outside of Slashdot, but I get news on my phone in real time. There is the free Yahoo news service but I also subscribe to the Yomiuri which if I remember correctly is 63 Yen (like 65 cents US) per month and has a lot of good content. If your content is good enough and your price is cheap enough people will willingly pay for it, it's as simple as that.

The BBC is regarded as pro-Castro and pro-Chavez in Venezuela. And always keeps silent when the opposition is repressed or a local radio station is closed by the state. Private media is always biased, Berlusconi being the most notorious example of media abuse for political porpouses. I don't believe any media anyway, so I read as many different versions as possible and then guess and interpolate.

It's doubtful that Dell has a pre-bought stock of CDs to sell for the preloaded software that is the subject of of their brief. They probably pay MS quarterly or monthly on the number of copies they make. That would make any copies Dell preloads onto their machines new copies sold by Microsoft.