Off topic, but what is even more surprising (or outrageous depending on how you look at it) is that when the current Nokia CEO took over, he abandoned the (amazing as it turned out on the N9) MeeGo/Maemo for the Windows Phone giving as the reason the fact that their MeeGo dev pipeline was only good for 1 device per year (it was actually 2, but he he decided not to sell the N950).

I don't understand why everyone is so pissed at the Crazy Lady and very few comment on GoDaddy's insane policy!
Who in their right mind would host a site on GoDaddy if someone can take down ALL YOUR SITES without warning just by sending GoDaddy a DMCA. Yes, in this case it was at least a valid DMCA, but a malicious person could send a fake one that does seem valid on first sight.
The OP did not abuse the DMCA (he could have sent a simple email to the site owners first - but the big companies send DMCAs en masse, why should a person wronged refrain), but GoDaddy is abusing it. Would it be hard to implement a warning, or to remove just the image/page? Or in the end take down just one site?
Imagine if you provide the sites for many clients and use GoDaddy to host them. If one of them gets a DMCA, all your clients will be screwed.

That's right!
If they were serious they would certainly start by having some whalers on the moon!

No, the universe is not out to get you, you simply can't fit a full keypad on a 15" or smaller laptop keyboard without compromising some other aspect of the keyboard, which would be more detrimental to business users.
I don't know where you come from, but no, "business use" rarely comprises of data entry so it is not likely any major resources are being allocated for solving the "problem" you describe.
I sort of feel you because I use the numpad a lot, but I don''t think that is the only thing missing of a laptop keyboard, so when I need to do serious work I have to have with me a full regular (and ergonomic in my case) keyboard since I don't think hardware should be slowing me down. Therefore, if you only need a numpad I suggest you get an external one which is less convenient than a fictional 15" laptop with an amazing fold-out full keyboard, but not much more inconvenient than the bulkier 17" laptops which have a numpad (probably not as good as an external) and could be an alternative for you.

Allow me to speak as one of the "silly" people.
3 years ago my company got me a 13" Macbook for $1300 and my wife got a 14" Compaq with similar hardware (both C2D 2.1GHz) for $600. The Macbook was heavier than the larger-screen Compaq, more than twice the price and overall it was a much worse experience than my previous laptops so I returned it in just a couple of months.
A bit over a year ago, my company got me a MacPro for 4500Euro (I was now in Europe). It would be over 5500 Euro if I had not bought and installed the 12GB RAM myself. A few months before that I had assembled a 1000Euro PC for myself. It turns out the PC was not only faster but also had USB 3 and eSATA, neither of which were on the MacPro because even though they are definitely useful to connect disk arrays on a professional workstation like the MacPro, Apple just had to wait for something they approve. And, besides, you would always spend more money to get an expensive third party esata card, right? Also the PC was more silent, yeah, if you get the proper hardware (Antec in my case) you can build better than Apple and much cheaper. Then, let's go to the "superdrive". It was so loud (vibrations) and slow that I replaced it with a drive I had around. Why put such a miserable drive on a high end machine? Oh, and the first time I had to do a video-conference I found out that unlike $100 machines, the only microphone jack was at the back of the huge machine and mine actually did not even work! Another yay for the 4500 euro Apple marvel.
So don't tell me Apple=expensive is a myth. If my company was not paying I would never spend all that money for a Mac. And the iphone is also way too expensive. It has gotten better of course. Remember that for the first iphone you had to pay an arm and a leg to Apple/AT&T when the hardware specs of the device were a generation behind the Dell PDAs of several years back (If you had an Axim X50/51v back in 2004/2005 you'll know what I am talking about) which were sold under $300 back in THEIR day. At least the 4S has good hardware.
The only real exception I see is the iPad. For the first time, with the New iPad (what a brilliant name...) I see Apple going after hardware dominance at a very competitive price, and they made the iPad 2, which was already not really overpriced and with decent hardware, even cheaper. I don't know, perhaps this trend will pass on to Macs as well so in the future perhaps they have top-specs and a competitive price tag? Or is it just an attempt to get all the tablet market share right now?

On the one hand, a, hmm, say, 5 million award to Oracle would seem fair, given the fact that Oracle is such a "nice company" with such a "nice CEO".
On the other hand, a huge award that gives Android trouble might finally make some people try out better and completely open alternatives like the MeeGo Harmattan OS that Nokia abandoned and pick that up...
Yes, I am daydreaming again.

Pedantic much?
They didn't have an argument that made sense or could stand in court. Which is usually what we usually mean when we say "didn't have an argument", sorry to confuse you.
Anyway, why don't you simply RTFA? There is a lengthy and satisfying description of the proceedings. I guess the policy you are looking for is "it won’t boot so we won’t repair it" (which is exactly what the flaw that needs to be repaired causes) - a policy similar to the one Yossarian was up against

Because they admitted in court that it would not cost them anything to fix it, nVidia was paying the bill, but they still refused and they didn't even have an argument on why they were refusing. They just wanted to make it hard for their customer. RTFA, the description of how the trial went is comedy gold.
I've had enough horror stories with with Apple products around me to not be surprised, it seems that for every iphone they replace no-questions-asked they void the warranty on a few iMacs just to balance it out. Since the average apple customer thinks Apple can do no wrong, these incidents usually don't generate any fuss.
Good for the OP!

It was just the US, Canada and Australia that had not signed it originally. Australia later did, so it is just US/Canada the ones that have not ratified Kyoto.

Hmm, it is not sarcasm? Interesting. Well, that is the exact reason the US is not willing to lower emissions, but they don't spell it out like that. I guess you are at least honest. Of course, you want to reap the benefits of civilization without caring about preserving it for future generations, so as far as human society is concerned you are but a foreign body, like, say, a tumor. Of course, you are in company of a large percentage of the population and I certainly cannot claim that it is for the benefit of the universe or some other grand scheme to preserve human civilization. Perhaps it is better if it just ends sooner rather than later ;)

For just CO2 emissions for example look here: http://www.mnp.nl/images/Top20-CO2andGHG-countries-in2006-2005(GB)_tcm61-36276.xls
For total green house gas emissions an example source: http://pdf.wri.org/navigating_numbers_chapter4.pdf

You will note that the US has over 5 times the emissions of China and over 10 times the emissions of India per capita. If you think about it it is quite crazy since most products that the US consumes, are manufactured outside the US! And yet the US is not keen on reducing emissions (or ratifying Kyoto).
And then comes the Slashdoter from the US who has not RAFA in his life complaining how the other countries don't care about emissions!

Actually this sounds like the equivalent of KERS. I am sure the FTL Ferraris will harness the breaking energy to gain a speed advantage (esp. over cars of lesser teams like the FTL Minardis and FTL Super Aguris) at the long intergalactic straights.

Ehh, you got it backwards, Paypal is pretending NOT to be a bank when they are one (they hold customers' funds and they issue lines of credit), to avoid regulation that would prevent them from profiting by screwing their users (most of whom can't help using them due to ebay being a monopoly).

What is peculiar is that if "poor" paypal got a complaint from a bank that there are many charge-backs that are costing them, they would not threaten to cut them off (they would lose more than paypal), but pass the carge-back cost to them and paypal could pass it to their customer. But paypal never does anything logical or good, they usually do whatever boneheaded move is the easiest for them and they think will not hurt their bottom-line, even if it screws some customers. After all, they have the online auction monopoly which guarantees them customers that have no alternative (the definition of anti-trust violation IMHO), so they never care about sounding bad.

I have several credit cards with no fees to use when I am traveling. In fact, using these credit cards almost always gives better exchange rate than anywhere else you could change your money (including the bank), so not only is it convenient, you actually save money.
There are many to choose from, I am surprised you know of the 3% fee and yet you did not do a simple search to see if there are fee-free cards - it is not like you have to be loyal to your CC if it is screwing you?
In general, the easiest ones to get are the ones from Capital One. All of their cards come with zero foreign exchange fee, and you will always be approved as long as you apply for the correct tier e.g. if you are a student/no-credit history don't try to apply to their intermediate or upper cards, the low tier still has no annual or exchange fees it just comes with lower limits and higher interest (if you care about the interest it means you don't pay the full balance, hence I suggest you avoid credit cards completely). Then there are better ones, e.g. I usually use a Citibank Thank You Premiere, but that one normally has an annual fee (unless you hit a promotion like I did).
And I think people who travel to Asia can also use Discover cards, which will not be accepted in most other parts of the world.
Be careful though, some countries have switched to the new credit cards with the chip that are not common in the US. So, research before travelling.

Call me when a woman goes into space...

Oh, wait...

The title takes women's rights back several decades.
Oh, yeah, its a big post, uncommon for the likes of the womenfolk ehh? Oh, that's not all, it is also *techy* eehh? Right, because we know how it goes with women and technology - har har!. What? Linux is involved? I' d never...! Wow, Congrats slashdot.

And this post would not be complete without some lame predictions of future /. articles - shall we?
-Fellulah Davidovic, first woman to load a file onto emacs!
-Regina Filange, first woman to live in her mom's basement well into her thirties!