In the US you can sue just about anyone for just about anything. It's just a question of whether or not you will win.

Hey can you fix the Slashdot CSS while you're here?

Wow, looks like you're the first one to get their wireless driver working.

"This way more users get to see how good $fanboysbrowserofchoice is too."

Well at least this will give Slashdot to justify their pirating ways.

And does Slashdot actually care? The patent was filed more than 5 years ago, is prior art and will be totally ignored. Oh boy.

The point of netbooks is to use them for whatever the fuck you want. Just because they are called "netbooks" doesn't mean I'm only allowed to access the internet with them.

On my netbook I can browse the internet, write an essay in OpenOffice, watch 720p movies, run an FTP client, play CS:S. Upgrading to Windows 7 makes all of these things faster.

Having run Windows XP, Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my MSI Wind U100 I can say Windows Seven has by far been the best OS. XP ran fine, but it wasn't particularly pleasing to the eye and had some issues running multiple programs at once. Ubuntu looked marginally better but performance wise it was terrible, I couldn't watch a flash video without it seizing up. Windows Seven looks pretty, runs faster than XP and is just better overall.

Don't game companies still need approval from Microsoft to distribute games in physical media? If so, how would moving to a downloads change that? You still need the same approval you did before.

So The Ensemble ripped bong with 4 minutes to go which gave them the creativity to squeak ahead by %0.01?

TechCrunch is citing AT&T is behind it, yet they have absolutely no evidence to indicate that. It is in both Apples and AT&Ts interest to keep the Google Voice app off the iPhone. TechCrunch is just blaming AT&T so they can keep their Apple fanboyism going.

All European countries? Spain is the only one, and lawmakers are trying to change that.

Living in Kansas is crazy cheap though. You can buy a legit house with a foundation and everything for 30k.

A couple years back when FireFox threw a security warning on every single freaking site, including legitimate ones you basically had to ignore it. It was either that or just don't get anything done. FireFox isn't that bad anymore, but because of that people are used to just clicking through without caring.

This is why there is a delicate balance between too much and too little security.

In second grade they taught us cursive, claiming that we would use it for the rest of our life and without it we would never get a job. When we switched over to middle school none of our teachers used cursive, and none of them would accept papers written in cursive either.