Crap article with no way to substantiate the actual dollar amounts. How much money would be lost if a large company simply had no IT department at all?

Props to MS for admitting fault and yanking the product. This is a good reason why outsourcing is not always cheaper.

Unless any of you were there and saw what happened or a video is released of the entire event its nothing but speculation. I like how immediately everyone jumps on the oppressive fascists bandwagon. Police officers dont run around randomly beating the shit out of people for no reason in front of numerous witnesses. Thats a bad idea. Unlike you axe grinding authority hating anarchists, ill wait to make judgment until all the facts come out. See in this country, we examine the evidence before condemning people. Oh wait, unless cops do something we dont like, then who needs proof? Theyre all rotten bully's.

"Linux came up a winner last month, returning to the 1% share mark for the first time since July. Linux's all-time high in Net Applications' rankings was May 2009, when it nearly reached 1.2%."

1% is a winner? Wow, that's quite hilarious. Linux is as the bottom- of the bottom feeder market and yet you think you are the winnar!

Sure there is, you just weren't aware of it.

Its how politicians gain control. "lets us inflate the danger of what you fear, so you will let us fix it for you" just give us the power we need to do it.

Yes its a big deal, when half a page is full of ads. There are other sites out there besides slashdot.

Yes. MSDN.net (been running RTM for many months) as well as general availability of earlier versions (RC1), etc. Many PC enthusiasts have been running some flavor of win7 for a long time now.

GG Firefox. IE8 has been out for a while. IE6 - Really? Playing games with statistics, are you guys politicians or what?

He's thinkin' of a triple-max prison. A no-daylight slam. Only three of 'em left in this system, two of 'em outta range for a shitty little undercutter like this one with no legs. Leavin' just one - crematoria. That is what you had in mind. Right Toombs?

"And they certainly could not have been influenced by american urban middle-class parents."

Are you implying screaming and yelling taxpayers can't get what they want when they try to hard enough? Ridiculous. Just because modern Americans are apathetic dont assume earlier generations were as well.

Then create your own IP and do your own thing? Moocher.

I wont pay for news content period. There's very little out there that I have to have right now, and somewhere, someone else will have it for free. I might pay for a value added website, but not for news, which really is just raw material.

You win the internet post of the day award. Bravo, well done.

Actually they tried, but couldn't afford it. The US defeated the USSR by outspending them and crippling their economy, and not just in the Naval arena.

Idiots? No, but they couldn't afford it, so they went to the next best thing. They do have one carrier now I believe, but could never afford to field as many as the US can.

I know this is the internet, were bashing Americans is what all the cool kids do, but if you're going to insult Americans, try not to do so from a position of ignorance. I know, its tough.