>If the DJ did indeed pay a fee to play said songs, then I don't see why another should be paid by the restaurant owner.

I doubt the DJ did pay the correct commercial performance royalty fee in the first place (in fact, I bet lots of them are not paying the correct fees). Although I don't see how that could make the RESTAURANT liable, it would make the DJ liable, if he was hired. I read the article and it is not well written and lacks key information necessary to form any real conclusions.

>"which results in victory for an unexpected third-party candidate.

What a silly fantasy plot to even think of something so impossible with our unfair voting system. Now, if the plot ALSO says we finally switched to some form of instant runoff voting, then it might be possible to have a third-party win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.fairvote.org/

>So, iPads with fans are not real tablets?

There is an iPad with a fan? That is news to me...

I also have a desktop without a fan... but those are not meant to be mobile.

To me the whole point of the original tablets were to be screen driven, light, long battery life, and fanless (and what made that possible was also not being X86, which also hurt Microsoft).

Deja-Vu with netbooks- the original "netbook" was invented by Asus (the original EEE lines), it was the first sub-notebook device to use an SSD. It was kinda one of the most important things about it to extend battery life, make it quiet, and lighter, and compensate for the slower processor; plus it ran Linux (another major component of the EEE concept). Then along came Microsoft on the scene which could not run MS-Windows on something so lean, and manufacturers stuck hard drives back in them- and I wouldn't call those device "netbooks" anymore. No Linux and no SSD defeated the whole point of the category.

>Laptop out performs tablet.

Yep, hardly "news". If it contains a fan, which the Surface 3 does, then it is not a "tablet" and in a totally different class. A quick Google on "heat" or "noise" or "fan" along with "Surface 3" returns a zillion hits about people upset with the noise, and/or heat.

My use for a tablet = very long battery life and low heat. I use it for simple browsing and casual gaming. And in no way would I want it to run any form of MS-Windows, either (of course, my laptops, desktops, servers, routers, and other devices all also run Linux, so I am certainly not the "typical" consumer, by any means).

I am sure microsoft-news.com will give all the accurate info about what was happening and why.... not

I doubt anyone on Slashdot believes any platform is invulnerable to malware. But if the shoe fits wear it- MS-Windows is perhaps more than a thousand times more prone to malware than Linux in the real world.

>"Are these the Germans that cut over to Linux a few years ago, saving a 'ton' of money?"

No, these are the Germans that did not and are now still suffering with tons of malware...

>"Mozilla has released a statement saying users like the integration"

I don't know any such users. In fact, most people I know agree that Mozilla needs to stop this trend of adding things to Firefox; it goes completely contrary to the Firefox mission (or what I thought it used to be, anyway)- to be small, open, cross-platform, and fast.

So please remove it. And then remove Hello. In fact, remove the developer stuff too (which 99.999% of users never use). Please use Addons/Extensions for these things. And while you are at it- LISTEN TO YOUR USER BASE who want full control over the UI options (Should I mention tabs-on-bottom? Or status panel? Or traditional file menus?). Stop trying to be Chrome!!!

Exactly.

>"It's the beginning of an amazing moment for our industry"

More like additional fuel to end the "owning" of anything. Streaming is great when you are connected, don't mind someone watching what you are doing, and don't care that you can be fed things you don't want.

Look at the reaction to even the CONCEPT of Netflix having commercials...

>"You gonna pass a law against sex?????????"

No, of course not. The person would need to agree to be surgically sterilized after having the allotment of children (presumably 0 or 1).

>"You can't tell people not to reproduce "

Actually, yes you can. You can make it a requirement to have only X children or less if you want age extension... make it a choice. It is already illogical for people to think they have the "right" to make as many children as they want.

Exactly how many dozens of billions of people does this planet need?

>"It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Linux is dying"

Let me guess, you are somehow related to Microsoft...

Your "facts" are very wrong by the way.... Linux is on many orders of magnitude more than 1% of servers.

Go away, anonymous coward...

>"First time I ever hear of Mageia. It seems like a minor project in comparison to Mandriva..."

Not really. Most of the Mandriva user base, volunteer base, and contributors moved over to Mageia already, which accelerated the death of Mandriva. And I expect even more now.

I believe it has all the same number of packages and features of Mandriva, just completely community driven instead of by a [small] corporation. It is almost 4 years old now. The now defunct Mandriva even started using the Mageia distribution as a technical platform for their Business Server product in 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

>"Strong? That's an understatement considering we're looking at +-1000 hits per day on average... compared to the 10s of thousand hits for Ubuntu"

Really? Because that is not what distrowatch shows. For last 6 months it has it listed as the 8th most watched distro and with 970 hits per day compared to Ubuntu's 1738 hits per day which is not even double.

In the last 12 months, Mageia is ranked 6th. And for the previous 12 months, Mageia was ranked 4th, with hits approaching Ubuntu. Mageia has longer release cycles, so when Mageia 5 hits, watch the current rank start to climb again.

Not that distrowatch is some type of scientific survey or anything, but it is something other than just wild rantings of an "anonymous coward".