The abuse-of-monopoly and lock-in tactics are applied to Microsoft's enterprise markets, as has been repeatedly found by courts.

If they can't both exist and adhere to the law, then...

Concrete is much more practical than carpet, and often more attractive. I have parquet here, but concrete would work just as well. Carpet would be yuck. It's also not used in tropical climates (i.e. much of Mexico) because it would quickly rot.

Carpet is just an unintelligent bourgeois meme that got out of control, just like the personal automobile, TV, and cell phones.

If *ZFS* isn't proof against bad RAM, imagine how poorly conventional filesystems fare. ECC memory is advisable in situations demanding integrity anyway.

Just use it. Write in place filesystems are obsolete from an integrity point of view.

Didn't Seymour Hersh blow the lid off this in his book The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House? http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=hersh&sts=t&tn=power

Actually the serious crackdown on VPNs began as far back as 2005.

+1,000,000

It's that simple.

Anybody who has tried it knows this is true. I game on Pentium 4 (circa 7 years old) with a newer card (Radeon HD 5450 and GeForce GT8800). GTA IV, Crysis, Crysis 2 all play perfectly well.

Don't use SharePoint or CodePlex. Try this: http://github.com/ or this http://launchpad.net/ or this http://bitbucket.org/

I'm a Mac user for about 27 years, but I LOL'd.

I won't be buying any more Apple products (I have only bought used for years anyway; saves thousands) until they change their supply chain to be environmentally sustainable and not abusive of workers (a problem which is not unique to Apple, of course). Which is unlikely to ever be resolved in China. So...

Maybe they should worry about literacy as well.

It's a basic civilised social service.

1) You can't "bail him out" with money—he was convicted.

2) Reiser4 is alive and well, and should be in mainline "real soon now".

+50 Insightful.