To massacre a bad pun, there's two types of people, the doers and the talkers. It doesn't matter what field you're in, the doers need math skills and the talkers will keep telling you math isn't that important.
Whoever gave that board member a BS (or any other degree) ought to seriously investigate them for cheating because he's got to have cheated.

Spot on !
Isn't that one of the rally cries behind the whole Android market, cheap standard memory, with a cheap OS, on (cost-wise) cheap hardware.

This is hardly news. Sony has always gone the proprietary memory format and they have always been much more expensive than the generic equivalent. Is Sony even all that relevant anymore ? I could barely give away my PSP (slim) and don't get me started on the current PS3 with it's ridiculous looking motion controllers is utterly lame next to playing Kinect games on the Xbox.
If the Vita also doubled as a decent phone, gps, and camera, I might take a look at it, but who really needs another web enabled device to lug around. My Windows Phone already ties in with my Xbox and has some entertaining away from the PC/Xbox games ... and it's a day away from getting even more integrated with my Xbox.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/05/xbox-companion-app-for-wp7-will-launch-alongside-the-new-dashboa/

USPS isn't on the verge of collapse due to any shortfall in business, it's recent changes in politics that have thrown a set of concrete slippers on a historically great swimmer.

from http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2011/09/h-r-1351-gains-momentum-on-capitol-hill/

There's a lot more to the Post Office than just delivering junk-mail. The Post Office has been the glue that allowed the US to exist almost right from the start. The difference between a 1st class nation and a 3rd world country is the Post Office. Can you imagine if your bills didn't arrive in a timely fashion or you weren't able to put a check in the mail. Sure there's a lot of movement towards electronic payments for everything, but there are still plenty of areas without broadband and getting on the modern web with a modem is painful. Odds are if you're older, the Post Office also delivers your medications safely and quickly regardless of where you live. Rain or shine, you can always count on the Post Office to deliver, Fed-up and OoPS, half the time when the package is in town, on the truck and out for delivery, it still won't show up for another day or two as they skip stops.

If I was a politician, I'd really think twice about screwing with retirees prescriptions or the people handling the ballots.

I don't know how this one made it through the slashdot filters to be published. Mikejuk's posting sounds like conspiracy drivel. What Microsoft did was clearly a good effort to try and show the worry-warts what they're doing, but to expect them to give away the source code to their operating systems is just crazy.. their whole business model is based on traditional closed source software.

Of course without the "internet" Greenpeace wouldn't have a means to complain about the internet. Sure they are a few Greenpeace rep's out in the cities when the weather is nice, but they're usually lost amongst the rest of the aggressive pan-handlers.

As usual, they're simply trying to make a statement in a controversial manner. The internet isn't it's own country, it's a communication medium. If they wanted to make a serious statement, they could focus on the waste involved in the manufacture of disposable (quickly obsolete) electronics or focus on the power plants we get our energy from. No-one's going to give up the internet to save the planet, arguments like this just continue to paint Greenpeace as a collection of sensationalist, attention-whoring, hippies.

While it's good that this was leaked on a Monday, choosing to release explosive documents (assumed) while Japan is facing a possible nuclear meltdown and one of the worst human crisis since the quake & tsunami in Indonesia, it will be lucky to make even a footnote on the national news.
This should have been released back in December, shame on Assange and Wikileaks for holding information like this for their own political and personal gain. IF this is the same batch of documents on BofA, stalling has made it a complete waste.

lmao
Title ought to be "Iran claims two new honeypots"
Their technicians ought to wear uniform white lab-coats with red targets on their backs..

I'm pretty sure his job is to encourage new David Koresh's so that Fox Tabloid can continue to find exciting things to report on. Beck's a win-win, scared conservatives tune in to watch his puppet shows and crazed rhetoric, then they go out and do stupid things. Just remember, Fox doesn't have to report the truth, they've already gone to court and argued they're protected as a tabloid.
http://www.philly2philly.com/politics_community/politics_community_articles/2009/6/29/4854/fox_news_wins_lawsuit_misinform_public

I'm not sure how Windows counts as proprietary. Microsoft provides an operating system that runs on a relatively large variety of processors and is compatible with more hardware than all the other operating systems available combined. The government tore Microsoft a new hole for including Internet Explorer as an integrated part of the operating system, meanwhile Apple... OMG where do you even start with Apples Anti-trust behavior ! Apple dictates every piece of hardware and software combination and their rigid control of the iOS goes way beyond any tax/money grab on developers ! Apple is continuing to push their marketplace control right onto the desktop.

If someone like Steve Balmer was to even suggest doing with Windows what Steve Jobs has done with Apple, the media and the government would be on him like he had a fist full of kiddie porn. Eventually everyone gets tired of the tyrants, even the apathetic consumers, no one really enjoys heavy handed taxation. Apple's gained a lot of ground by touting their products as flawless (Apple vs. PC commercials) and by association, their elitist position. In reality, for closed ecosystem products, Apples have a lot of flaws (lock-ups, bsod's, vulnerabilities,...) and that "I'm better than you" marketing is going to come back to bite them.

Who knows, maybe Apple will try to revive their image as being the friendly computer and replace Jobs with Woz ... lol ! There's a guy with a dash of genius and the charisma of a chipmunk.

Have to agree, the Halo series was a sad Tribes knock-off. To anyone that's played Tribes (1 or 2), it was a horrible let down. Jet packs and armor/equipment stations make FPS's awesome ! Team Fortress 2 takes the idea of loading into the game with different classes and equipment and does a nice job of it, but a rocket jump is no-where near as satisfying as flying your jet-pack while raining down spinning blue discs of death. Tribes was truly epic.

We bought my wife's at Costco, where they were only given 5 of the Samsung Focus' for launch and we stood in line to get it. Costco is definitely the place to buy one 'tho, best prices, they waive the activation fees, and throw in some extras (mostly junk, but it did include a car charger).
I'm just itching to see what the second round of hardware is going to offer, but after watching my wife play with hers for the last 3 days, I'm definitely trading in my iphone, the ads to not do the phone justice. I'm not a big microsoft fanboy, but I really hate getting lumped in with the turtle-neck-wearing holier-than-'tho douchebags every time I pull out my iphone.

I do, my somewhat technophobic wife bought the Samsung Focus and hasn't put it down for 3 days. The few games she has are much cooler than what I have on my iphone and it plays them beautifully ! The screen is WAY nicer than my iphone 3gs, the interface is very cool. I've pried it away from her a couple times and I am definitely replacing my iphone with a wp7 soon, I just wanted to wait and make sure it wasn't cancelled like the kin and I'd like to see microsoft get the cut & paste taken care of. There's also a bug with adding memory cards to the phones that can cause instability and microsoft is apparently working on a patch.

xbox live integration is very cool for us gamers, and I'm actually shocked at how well games play on the samsung focus, I have not been impressed with them on my 3gs. The official Tetris for the wp7 sucks 'tho, some idiot decided to make it all tap and swipe instead of having virtual controllers... It also seems like microsoft might have made a mistake in letting hardware-beta-testers leave the first reviews for most (then-beta)-apps. groundspeak's geocaching app sufered from some poor beta-hardware testers reviews, but the app and hardware at launch actually work better than the same app on my 3gs.
I'm torn between getting one now and waiting for even better hardware to come out, but I'm definitely making the switch, apple's "holier than 'thou" approach to everything just makes me nauseous !

Microsoft said their target was first time smart-phone buyers, which would include people like my wife and she was never sold on the iphone, but she did want the wp7 and she loves it... She was not interested in the Kin and predicted it would flop and die, so she has some taste... I think it'll be a success, especially once the xbox crowd discovers it, the integration w/ the xbox live stuff and the phone's gaming abilities are really cool.

I don't think rackspace is worried about "some muslim", I think they're worried about angry Americans.
The military, the secretary of state, and many others have pointed out how this (particular) action is likely to lead to more violence directed at the troops overseas.
While the troops are fighting to create some peace so they can get the hell out, you have idiots feeding the fire back home.

The church can always find another hosting provider, but there's no reason rackspace has to provide a platform.
In the same manner, if you start spouting hate speech on slashdot, odds are the moderators are going to close your account or ban your ip.

Suppressing freedom of speech would require the government to take some action.

eg.
"In Afghanistan, Abdul Hadi Rostaqi, a member of the cleric council in the country's largely peaceful Balkh province, said Thursday that if the burning goes ahead, "a big protest will be held" in the provincial capital Mazar-i-Sharif next Monday. NATO-led troops stationed in the city — one of the country's main centers of the Islamic teaching — would be the primary target." - Mitch Stacy, Associated Press

Since when does free (hate) speech outweigh freedom of religion. To be free from persecution. Burning the Koran/Quran is a form of intimidation, much like burning crosses in peoples front yards.