I can only think it's because they've severly ditched MSN to get Bing's numbers up.

I work in several PC labs on my college's campus. Some of them are "classroom labs" where they only have IE not both IE & Firefox.

IE's search bar used to default to MSN but now the minute they launched Bing that changed. At first I thought the search was being hijacked to some search site I'd never heard of and sent of a note to IT. Then I saw the commercials and felt silly.

Someone said MSN used to have 16% marketshare. Well if Bing is up to 10% I wonder if MSN is now down to 6% because of these kinds of shenanigans.

"Apple missed a golden opportunity to lock down Snow Leopard when it again failed to implement fully a security technology that Microsoft perfected nearly three years ago ..."

Sign of the times that I thought this might be a flashback to April Fools...and then I remembered. Slashdot doesn't hate Microsoft on GP and actually gives them credit where credit is due. Everyone's not an Apple or Linux fanboy anymore. But this shift to admitting that Microsoft has succeeded in an area Apple has overlooked...

Wow. How times have changed...

Just earlier today I was thinking that some of the bills I had smelled like marijuana. There were only a few them and they came from my banks ATM but they had the distinct odor of weed. I don't smoke or use weed and I haven't been around anyone that has in at least a few years.

I thought I was imagining things and then I come across this article. Which may not be news to some, but was definitely news to me.

The other day I found my mom & daughter laughing and playing Yahtzee on an old McIntosh circa 1989. She's a retired school teacher and it seems anyone who wanted were given them back in the day. She still has it plugged in & hooked up to a dot matrix printer.

It still has a start up disk. God forbid the disk ever gets corrupted? Where will she ever find another one?

Arm children in the areas with the most problem with magnifying glasses. Battle commences on all sunny days.

Problem solved.

Can I get an invite? From someone? Please? I've been wanting to try out gmail for so long. You can contact me through my blog on Blogger...

There is a possibility that people choose questions and answers that their nearest kin or friends could actually guess. In case of emergency or in the event of my death, there is the possibility that I would want my family to be able to access my main email.

Not all of my email, but definitely my main one...

One day I said to my 16-year-old daughter, "Hey, cute bracelet" and she says, "It's my flash drive."

I remember being amazed and a bit amused when you could get a Swiss Army knife with a USB drive. That was cool. But it's hard, and kind of interesting in weird sort of way, to see tech relegated to the fashion accessory of a teen girl.

What if someone bought it from the company and gave it to him as gift? Is he still under the same burden to prove it was purchased legally?

IMHO, I feel the company is being ridiculous. Refusing to sell people spare parts and accusing them of being a thief is, at worst, stupid and insulting and at best bound to lose them a customer.

Either the journalist is a product of the LA school system or the LA school system mandates that teachers show up late.

Oh what nitpicking.

The predicate of this fragment refers to the rule, ie., "showing up on time". The subject refers to violation of said rule. The way you would have phrased it, it would have actually read that the rule was showing up late.

This is not subjective. Your way would have been wrong and the journalist is correct.

If you took those well-off Asian-Americans and put them in the same situation as the perpetually poor in the U.S., the majority of them would eventually rise out of that level again.

How can you not see that ingrained stereotypes like this would foster them being able to rise out of that poverty faster?

Fighting overt racism is easy. Fighting BS like this is so much harder.

I cannot believe that this bigoted claptrap was modded insightful.

Saying that all of African American culture "rejects learning -- and rejects Western culture in general" is ridiculously false and insulting.

Where do you people get this stuff? Rush Limbaugh? Get a clue. There are far too many factors that influence whether or not people take advantage of being able to get an education. At best, race is a very poor determinant of those factors - at worst, your limited view paints a very wide & racist brush over people you obviously know nothing about.

Summary says: "...to hunt down uninsured motorists"
I've got no sympathy at all for uninsured motorists.

OK. I don't have car insurance.

This is not some slashdot hypothetical. I truly don't have car insurance and I honestly cannot afford it. My paycheck just covers basic needs. Groceries, utilities and yes, gas because I have to get to work and truly the bus system won't do.

Some people are poor. Very poor. Work their asses off and still poor. And you can blame it on life choices or whatever the hell but you can still do your best and still be broke by the American Dream standard or even half that.

Now OP and his cosigners with their self-righteous indignation - "I don't have sympathy for uninsured drivers" - cuz...what? They're the scum of the Earth? Or they simply can't afford what has become a ridiculous racket enforced by the government? Just like traffic fines these amount to a regressive tax on people who simply do not maintain the same standard of living you do.

Really want to post this as anon but can't bring myself to do that so wtf. Tired of the ridiculous notion that cuz I don't have the same ends as other people I should be ashamed.

You know, I never really wanted or cared much about a Kindle Reader til I just read your post.

As an, ahem, older returning student, I picked up my third term books the other day. They handed me the first book and I was fine. Books two and three I felt a twinge. By the time I was holding books four - six as well, my back was went completely "out" - I was unable to walk or move without severe pain.

This has never happened to me before and I've since invested in one of those annoying little roller bags but having all my books on a card seems quite an attractive option to spending two days incapacitated.