Comment Re:Bribery (Score 5, Insightful) 773
I would be willing to happily accept $1M in cash to never use Google again. It may be a bribe but I would be willing to suffer your scorn.
Comment Praises to Obama (Score 0, Troll) 1073
See if those little brats keep singing the praises to Obama after they find out about this...
Comment Re:Summary doesn't make it clear... (Score 4, Insightful) 624
He is also extremely popular with his constituents, who fully support the way he operates his office. The US Justice Department now has him as a target (since the Obama Administration came to power) due to his enforcement of Immigration laws. In Arizona he polls 11 points higher than Obama so he is popular statewide.
Comment Re:This is a good idea (Score 4, Informative) 143
I would point out that when Charlie Rangel and some other politicians started denigrating the volunteer soldiers as a bunch of lower class, uneducated people with no prospects, as study found that they were generally middle class and better educated than the citizenry as a whole. http://www.heritage.org/research/nationalsecurity/cda05-08.cfm
Comment Re:Well, now we'll know. (Score 4, Funny) 276
You guys with your wacky theories that the Sun may affect our temperatures..
Comment Prayer for Vista? (Score 2, Funny) 197
Any chance of Microsoft getting a version that would eat the bugs in VIsta?
okay someone was going to say it...
Comment Re:News Flash! Civil Servants Corrupt! News @ 11:0 (Score 4, Insightful) 1057
But he did give a speech last year to the media where he told them that it was past time to allow dissenting voices to be heard as they only confused people. He said the debate was over and those few voices from the other side were outliars (intentional misspelling) and must be ignored One wonders how many millions of dollars he has made as he flies about the world in his private jet, travels in his SUVs and lives in his massive mansions.
Comment US Educational System (Score 5, Funny) 316
Who knew that teaching kids that 1+1 can equal 3 as long as they feel good about themselves would turn out bad for us...
Comment Not Hackers? (Score 4, Insightful) 276
Not sure why the author phrased it that way. It should have read they are not criminals. They very well may be hackers. There is a difference.
Submission + - New failsafe graphics mode for Ubuntu (arstechnica.com)
ianare writes: Ubuntu Xorg maintainer Bryce Harrington recently demonstrated the BulletProof-X feature that is planned for inclusion in Ubuntu 7.10. It provides a failsafe mode which will ensure that users never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings from the command line. If Xorg fails to start, the failsafe mode will initiate with minimalistic settings, low resolution, and a limited number of colors. The failsafe mode also automatically runs Ubuntu's new GTK-based display configuration utility so that users can easily test various display settings and choose a configuration that will work properly with their hardware. Features like BulletProof-X deliver tangible usability improvements that contribute to a more positive user experience.
Submission + - Doom and Gloom for web radio (dailytech.com)
An anonymous reader writes: DailyTech posted interviews with the founder of Pandora and management from Proton Radio (and Proton Music) asking them what SoundExchange's latest rulings mean to them. A lot of net radio stations are dreading the upcoming changes in royalty rates, which are said to be around 400%... a number that would bankrupt most of the industry. An interesting read for anyone who uses online radio...
Submission + - Apple Reponds to NBC Leaving iTunes
amagine writes: "Apple has released an official press release with reference to NBC leaving iTunes. iTunes Store To Stop Selling NBC Television Shows
"We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase... We hope they will change their minds and offer their TV shows to the tens of millions of iTunes customers." Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes commenting on NBC's conditions to renew it's iTunes agreement
Apparently NBC has demanded an increase in the wholesale price of each episode by twice the current amount. Such an increase would have meant a substantial inflation of prices per episode for the iTunes consumer. NBC's current agreement runs out in December of this year. Time will tell if this is merely saber rattling or if NBC will find another medium for selling its episodes as lucrative as iTunes and spur other TV Networks to take similar actions.
NBC currently accounts for 30% of iTunes TV Show sales."
"We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase... We hope they will change their minds and offer their TV shows to the tens of millions of iTunes customers." Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes commenting on NBC's conditions to renew it's iTunes agreement
Apparently NBC has demanded an increase in the wholesale price of each episode by twice the current amount. Such an increase would have meant a substantial inflation of prices per episode for the iTunes consumer. NBC's current agreement runs out in December of this year. Time will tell if this is merely saber rattling or if NBC will find another medium for selling its episodes as lucrative as iTunes and spur other TV Networks to take similar actions.
NBC currently accounts for 30% of iTunes TV Show sales."
Submission + - Stealing Versus Sharing (kerneltrap.org)
An anonymous reader writes: KernelTrap has some fascinating coverage of a recent rift between the OpenBSD developers and the Linux kernel developers. Proponents of the GPL defend their license for enforcing that their code can always be shared. However in the current debate the GPL is being added to BSD-licensed code, thereby preventing it from being shared back with the original authors of the code. Thus, a share-and-share-alike license is effectively preventing two way sharing.
