Comment: Re:It's Oracle. (Score 2) 359
I'd love to pay $10,000 per processor for Oracle. List price for Oracle DB, Enterprise Edition, is something like $47,000 per CORE.
Federal Anti-Obscenity Program Comes Up Limp
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kotj.mf writes "The New York Times reports that the Federally funded anti-Web pornography campaign run by Morality in Media, a conservative religious group, has yet to result a single prosecution for obscenity, despite having generated more than 67,000 citizen complaints. The group, better known for its campaign to have Cosmopolitan removed from supermarket checkout stands, is pushing the Justic Department to more agressively pursue cases against what it sees as 'a prime threat to society, the growth on the Internet of sexual material involving consenting adults.'"
Dell to sell machines with Ubuntu pre-loaded
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kotj.mf writes "Cnet is reporting that Dell will shortly announce a partnership with Canonical to offer Ubuntu pre-loaded on certain consumer-oriented desktops and notebooks. The announcement comes after a groundswell of support for pre-installed Linux on Dell's IdeaStorm site. I, for one, welcome our new crapware free trial-pimping overlords."
