Kirk: [Explaining Spock's odd behavior] Oh, him? He's harmless. Part of the free speech movement at Berkeley in the sixties. I think he did a little too much LDS.

Watch out Mormons. A new LDS is in town.

While there are downsides to the 'internet mob mentality' when it comes to senselessly threatening someone's wife and kid (if that actually happened), the benefits of invoking the 'power of the internet' are more often a powerful force for good.

Consumerist.com makes a living out of giving internet-sized visibility to bad customer experiences. The result? The offending company usually learns a lesson and the customer often gets respectful treatment and accommodations. The customer just harnessed that same power and contacts to get increased visibility. Sure, he probably could have been less aggressive. But from the Kyle Orland interview, it doesn't seem like Paul Christoforo learned anything at all.

Hell hath no fury like a customer scorned (at least on the internet).

Violate this rule at your own peril, Mr. Christoforo.

XP will only be upgraded to IE8. IE9 isn't supported on XP.

Corps won't be upgraded automatically. Corporate admins will always have the option to accept or decline a new version of IE just as they always have. Loosely managed PCs (those who aren't managed by a Microsoft solution like SMS, SCCM, WSUS Server, Intune, SBS or SCE) can use the blocker toolkit that they likely already have in place to block the original IE9 update.

They caught us with our pants down. Asking for it back is just showing how weak we are to the Iranians.

Since the the self-destruct mechanism wasn't thought of (!) or used, we need to blow it up ASAP wherever they move it to. We can't care about how much of an 'incident' a stealth demo job might cause in the international community. We need to pull our pants back up and punch the country we were spying on in the face for everyone to see. It's the only thing middle eastern folk respect.

It's called the American Policy Institute (API)

Didn't these guys watch the last episode of the updated BSG?

Computers in the classroom prepare the students for real-world experiences and environments, not necessarily improve test scores. If they do, that’s a bonus.

While you're outfitting these classrooms with new technology, can you drop the mandatory year of cursive writing, please?

The source of Global Warming on Mars.

You're kidding, right? What expectation of privacy do you think is in force in the transaction of her leaving the message on the company's answering machine? What about her openly recorded rant is copyrighted?

Score one for the good guys.

Seems we'd have answers to a lot more questions if we could get a printed history of President Obama and his past.

Seems we'd have answers to a lot more questions if we could get a printed history of President Obama and his past.

Mike Judge was right. Fast forward 30 years when all but a few will be too dumb to use a computer that requires a setting change or troubleshooting.

The two founders of WordPerfect, Bruce Bastian and Dr. Alan Ashton were looking to retire and sell off the company. WordPerfect produced GroupWise and WordPerfect. The soon-to-be released versions of WordPerfect 6.1 (Windows) and 6.0 (UNIX) were getting rave reviews. As soon as they were released, they were sure to take MS Word by storm, put the last nail in WordStar's coffin and secure WordPerfect as the de facto word processor on the planet.

At the same time, Novell was having a hard time showing the value of NetWare-connected machines. Companies were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to install NetWare, but weren't seeing the value of 'networked' machines without an application to showcase NetWare-connected PCs.

Novell approached Alan and Bruce with an offer to purchase GroupWise. But Alan and Bruce were unwilling to split the company into two. Novell insisted and pushed. Novell finally agreed to buy the company (WordPerfect + GroupWise) - as a whole - for the negotiated price.

This all happened right before mass production of the new and highly reviewed WordPerfect products was to begin. All that was needed was for the 'Golden Bits' to be delivered to the factories for mass production, duplication, packaging and shipping. The channel was primed and the companies were waiting with bated breath to purchase the new WordPerfect.

But that never happened.

As soon as the company was purchased, Novell ignored WordPerfect (the product) like an ugly stepchild. They wrapped all of their energies and marketing muscle around GroupWise and bundled it with every sale of Novell NetWare. As a result, people were finally able to see the value of 'networked' machines that you allowed employees to collaborate calendars and share intra-office email.

But it was Novell that killed WordPerfect. There is no one else to blame. Novell killed a cash cow that was handed to them for nearly nothing. In the resulting vacuum, Microsoft Word slowly made inroads that eventually established Word as the word processing standard for the majority of companies around the world.

If the facts come out, it'll be clear Novell has no one to blame but themselves. And not just for WordPerfect's demise - but for NetWare as well. They've failed to capitalize on so many opportunities it's a wonder they even lasted as long as they did.