Haha you've achieved the "troll density" achievement.

Your scoring breakdown:

claiming housewives took over /. = -20 troll
claiming suburbanites are on /. = -5 unlikely
claiming upper-middle-class cares about /. = -5 unlikely
bonus for Romney tie-in = -20 troll

Your total: -50

First off, Microsoft would see gross proceeds increase more than $300 million for the cost of winning the contract. So net win for Microsoft (if they could out-bid Google).

Next, even assuming Microsoft saw zero increase in proceeds, $300 million is nothing to Ballmer. He'd do it in a heartbeat.

Finally, where's the proof Microsoft actually caused the increase? An allthingsd.com story that says Microsoft was competing? Maybe they aren't bidding (very high) at all -- I'm calling the bluff over at allthingsd.com. Where's the proof that Microsoft bid something even close to $100 million?

I messed up my <blockquote> tags... sigh

Anyway, check out http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/no6b1/go_daddy_no_longer_supports_sopa_latest_blog_post/ for more laughs!

<nelson>Ha Ha!</nelson>

In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.

Busted!

Just took a look. They have 4 choices for a 16-core opteron listen:

• AMD Opteron 6262 HE Interlagos 1.6GHz Socket G34 85W 16-Core Server Processor OS6262VATGGGU - OEM $539.99
• AMD Opteron 6272 Interlagos 2.1GHz Socket G34 115W 16-Core Server Processor OS6272WKTGGGUWOF $539.99
• AMD Opteron 6274 Interlagos 2.2GHz Socket G34 115W 16-Core Server Processor OS6274WKTGGGUWOF $659.99 out of stock
• AMD Opteron 6274 Interlagos 2.2GHz Socket G34 115W 16-Core Server Processor OS6274WKTGGGU - OEM $659.99 out of stock

I'm going to keep looking, but I don't see any in the 300-400 range.

Excellent tip.

For even more fun, try sudo -s -H

-s is like your sudo bash
-H sets the home dir as well, so maybe you want to leave that out.

Both Xylinx and Altera have linux-native FPGA development environments. I admit I haven't used LabView to do it, but there's some linux support there too.

I feel your pain (I recently tried buying a Lenovo without Windows), but you can get Linux laptops: http://www.system76.com/. They're actually quite competitive.

Mod parent up.

Additionally, many other carriers are already seeing IPv4 exhaustion (due to their own wastefulness in the RFC1918 address space). They are co-opting DoD /8's within their network to try to overcome the problem. [source]

I'll skip the obvious stupidity of "stealing" IPv4's from the DoD. But instead of deploying Carrier-Grade NAT, they're divvying up the internet. In one place, 28.0.0.0/8 takes you to one machine, in another place it takes you somewhere else.

It sounds like the IPv4 internet is going to fall apart simply due to negligence. How's that for an IPv6 killer app?

Check out the System 76 laptops. 1920 x 1080 is the lowest res you can get on everything down to the $1,049 model.