"It's only censorship when the government does it."

No, it's only illegal censorship when the government does it. Everyone else can do it as well. However, just because it isn't illegal when a private company does it doesn't make it the right thing to do.

Wish I had mod points here. A local Fox affiliate's news team and Fox News are definitely not the same thing.

Also, even though it says Europe only in the list, this does hold true for NASCAR 09, since there won't be a new version of that game. Polyphony Digital has the NASCAR license now, and it's supposed to show up in Gran Turismo 5, if that ever sees the light of day.

Madden 09 came out in 2008. Madden 2010 came out prior to the start of the current NFL season. Madden 2011 will (presumably) come out later this year.

Lawyers.

Keith Olbermann...

I like him as a sports guy though.

Yeah, the Bing icon showing up on its own did kind of piss me off too. That I had a problem with.

I can confirm this is true. They pushed a Bing icon to my Storm that propmted me to download the Bing Mobile app, but Google is still my default search in the BlackBerry browser.

Nano? HA! I use ssh and butterflies for all my cloud computing experiences. http://xkcd.com/378/

"Who's" is a contraction of "who is". It should read "There's one thing stronger than all the armies in the world and that is an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo"

I'm an EMT. When I was first certified, we had to go through a practical test of asking the patient medical history, what happened, allergies, medications, etc. Through the course of the test, we probably asked "what happened" two or three times. I knew the ER would ask again. And again. I thought it was wasteful and said so.

The EMT who was training us explained that stories often change through those multiple askings. My experience confirmed her explanation. As another commenter mentioned, the truth GRADUALLY comes out. Though many people will answer "What's your medical history?" accurately each time, some will change the story based on who is there, how much time they've had to think about it, once they've calmed down, and whether something else you've said reminded them.

"Do you have any medications or history I should know about?" once turned from "No" into "I have a chronic medical condition and take numerous medications for the condition" based on some gentle reminders. "Could you be pregnant?" turns from "No" into "Yes" once family members are no longer within hearing range.

A lot of medical inefficiencies make more sense when the soft squishy human side is taken into account.

Right!

That's why you store a LaTeX document in git.

Oh, and get some nerdier friends ;-)

Ah... OK.

Well, my side of the argument still holds - just because someone is bound to ignore a stupid law, and hence mitigate its bad effect, this does not excuse the stupid law.

Or put differently, patenting math would have led to either one or few owners of everything in the field, or to (some) people ignoring the law and only letting those who do not get hurt.
In both cases, the better solution is not to patent math.

Same with software...

The fact remains that in most sensible implementations, the user is unable to run arbitrary code outside his own directory.

Firstly, that means none of the common Linux (or UNIX in general) distributions are "sensible".
Secondly, how does only letting users run code they've downloaded into their home directory add any meaningful additional security to the average computer ? The problem is they can run code in the first place - where it's located when they do a is minor semantic issue.

Unlikely.

Logic board http://www.powerbookmedic.com/xcart1/product.php?productid=17001 : $250.

+ drive, memory.

Or he could have spent a bit more and bought a (new) Mac Mini and had something nice.

Gee, case, PS, MB, memory, disk, graphics card. Et voila, look ma, I built a computer. Get your hands on a Mac Pro MB and the rest of the parts are the same as for any other PC.

Color me unimpressed.