Comment Re:The decade isn't over yet! (Score 2, Funny) 313
You're a hardware engineer, aren't you. :)
Comment Re:Broad generalizations do not make good policy (Score 1) 467
So the real question is who should get screwed by the Pareto principle?
Comment Re:Please (Score 1) 213
festival! festival! festival!
Comment Re:On the plus side, (Score 1) 653
That'll happen. Look up the story of how we (Americans) got the Miranda warnings. Ernesto Miranda was a very, um, colorful guy.
Comment Re:When did CBS get the rights? (Score 1) 276
TOS was produced by Desilu which was bought by Paramount which became Viacom which became CBS.
Comment Re:Star Trek should be required in schools. (Score 1) 276
Kirk does have flaws. He just laughs it off every episode... Just like every other Trek Captain.
Microsoft May Be Targeting the Ubuntu Desktop 583
mjasay writes "Microsoft is advertising for a new director of open source strategy, but this one has a specific purpose: fight the Linux desktop. 'The Windows Competitive Strategy team is looking for a strong team member to lead Microsoft's global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.' For a variety of reasons, this move is almost certainly targeted at Ubuntu Linux's desktop success. With the Mac, not Linux, apparently eating into Microsoft's Windows market share, what is it about desktop Linux, and specifically Ubuntu, that has Microsoft spooked?"
Reader christian.einfeldt notes Microsoft's acknowledgment of the FOSS threat to their business model within SEC filings, and suggests that this job posting could instead be about maintaining Internet Explorer's market share lead against Firefox.
Comment Re:research in motion (Score 1) 374
citation?
Comment Re:You cant teach tact. (Score 1) 639
um, engineers? contractor? Biochemists? NSA consultants?
Comment Re:Oh waiter, my glass has something in it... (Score 1) 688
I prefer to think of the glass as half way to a new one
Comment Re:I'm amazed (Score 1) 337
I think it's cynicism combined with apathy that's gonna get us. There was only one man in our history who truly looked at the highest position of power as an opportunity to serve: George Washington. Everyone else since has proven that those who can get the office should by no means have it. Our system, as I understand it, is based on the notion that our collective cynical and hopefully well informed and mostly rational voices can temper the lust for power, but we have to keep talking to the right people and, yeah, keep the hope that things will get better.
Comment Re:I'm amazed (Score 1) 337
that's the way it's supposed to work. You are fine American. Not being sarcastic.
Linux Turns 17 Today 285
Meshach writes "Over at the Linux Journal, Doc Searles is noting that today marks 17 years since Linus posted to Usenet, starting Linux (post). As a Linux user at work and at home I say, thanks Linus!" The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Submission + - Birth of a new African Ocean (sciam.com)
Khemisty writes: "Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one few scientists have ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Africa is splitting splitting apart at the seams — literally. From the southern tip of the Red Sea southward through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, the continent is coming unstitched along a zone called the East African Rift."
