I've had people make the same argument to me against the WikiLeaks leaks in general, except with the Obama regime instead of the Mugabe one.

That embarrassing a corrupt government is going to lead to a crackdown is no real excuse not to embarrass them, as they're going to find an excuse to crack down either way.

If we're just talking about things being overpriced they could have given the spot to those bladeless fans from Dyson. £650 is too expensive, but the US price ($650-$700) is actually a pretty good deal, and the new aluminum unibody system is easier to self-upgrade than the old "stick a pizza slicer in the back until it pops" ones were.

Oh sure... humans digging up ancient badgers isn't news, but when its turned around suddenly its "oh the poor ancient humans."

haha... I had a similar experience in 2003, they told me it was because of "The Patriot Act."

Yeah we desperately need that or SOMETHING that can edit/save IRS forms. I had to do all my taxes on my netbook this year because that was the only 32-bit Linux I had left.

Is the new Nvidia functionality solely for the graphics cards or does it also mean improved support for Nvidia chipsets like the MCP78S.

I guess what I'm really asking is: is there any chance the next kernel will fix this, or will using USB microphones and CDMA modems on my Pavilion P6130F remain a pipedream?

452,000 is "new claims" not the total number of unemployed in the US.

America has unemployment over 10%, that amounts to 5+ million people receiving benefits and several million who didn't qualify or whose benefits have run out.

The line between professional blogger and professional journalist is an increasingly murky one (from day to day I'm not even sure which I am, but its definitely one or the other), and even if some of the major "dead tree" media sites haven't figured out how to make money there are a lot of others that do, albeit on a smaller scale.

But is that really a problem? I look at it like the OSS industry: there may never be the sort of revenues in the free software world that there was in the commercial software world, but plenty of open source projects/companies are profitable, and so long as the product is better, who cares?

Google isn't the problem here, and they're just being used as a scapegoat because they make money and other people don't. But I don't hear Canonical griping to HP just because HP is making a profit on their hardware and people just download Ubuntu for free, one of the few things that makes an HP system remotely usable.

The "old media" types have an outdated business model, but they also increasingly have a credibility problem. Most of their highest priced talent has gotten very sloppy in recent years, and a lot of them just pick their favorite politician or party and parrot the official line until told otherwise. Show me a well known newspaper columnist of the last ten years and I'll show you someone who has repeatedly claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Iran does not have nuclear weapons... the United States intelligence community has reaffirmed as recently as two weeks ago that Iran does not have an active nuclear weapons program, and the IAEA has certified within the last several weeks that NONE of Iran's uranium is being enriched beyond 5% or being diverted to anything other than energy production. The new facility is not anywhere near completed and Iran told the IAEA about it last week, more than six months before it is expected to be operational, which is the legal requirement.

This run-up to war is a combination of jingoism and sloganeering, and it would be completely farcical if the United States hadn't already started a massive war right next door on the identical pretext.

It's pretty trivial to set up a filter in gmail to autodelete all email from rmbank.com, and it might be a good preventative measure in case they send any more "oops" emails.

State subsidies for antivirus programs are going to have all sorts of unforeseen and undesirable consequences. Beyond the whole spending money they don't have thing, virii are predominantly a Windows problem.

By making anti-virus software a matter of public policy, the government will be encouraging people to use Windows ahead of alternatives, whose achilles heels are not being masked by government action. PSAs about the efficacy of free anti-virus programs is also going to further the illusion that Windows is (or at least can be made) a safe experience.

The only safe Windows experience is abstinence, and we don't need DC telling our kids otherwise.

Yup, I ordered a Mini 9 not that long ago WITH the webcam and I waited about a month too. I think Dell's just struggling to keep up with demand on the adorable little things.