Four words: Gerald Posner, Case Closed.

This has happened before in Ohio requiring higher authorities to step in. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio

I parsed that as "Oily Tits" until I went to her Wikipedia entry. Birthers, Truthers, the idiots that think the military-industrial complex had JFK killed, now even people who think the Newtown shooting was contrived by Obama; the list of crackpots goes on and on. If I were this judge I'd laugh her out of my courtroom.

I got Warp 3 when it came out. Loved it. I stayed with OS/2 throughout the rest of the 90s, through Warp 4.5 Server. I loved it. I still miss the hipsterish, superior feeling I got lording it over all the sheeple using Win 95 (Get off my lawn!).... Sometime during that period I also loaded up Yggdrasil Linux, which was about as user-friendly as a brick to the head. Back then I was dual-booting by using removable hard drives that slid in and out of a caddy-type device. Good times!

No kidding. Yahoo's content on the home page seems to be squarely targeted at the Honey Boo Boo crowd.

Now they just play Lady GagMe

I recently went to SSDs. I had picked up a used 90GB Kingston SSD Now V200+, and a new 180GB Intel 520 Series. Both have been trouble free so far, but it's only been about five months. The machine has 16GB of RAM, so Linux hardly ever does any swapping; I haven't really measured it for Windows 7, but I'm sure it does a lot less than it would with less memory. All my important data still resides on spinning hard drives.

You know, I agree with you that NASA needs to be funded better, but your snarky "one percenters" comment just makes me think you're a troll. What in the hell does that have to do with its funding? The manned space program was shut down under the leftist Obama, after being neglected by the Republican GWB, and before him, the Democrat Clinton & the Republican GHWB. The last president to really support NASA was Reagan. This isn't (or shouldn't be) a left/right thing.

“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’ ‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.” Robert A. Heinlein

Popular vote is how Jersey Shore runs for six seasons and Firefly for one. It's mob rule; tyranny of the majority. The fact that the US is a republic protects you against that, or it used to.

Emulating W9x under qemu is tolerably fast but running even something like TinyXP not so much-- the latter boots in about 5 minutes. The main problem though, is screen resolution. At minimum you need a screen capable of 800x600 (1024x768 really), and that doesn't count the real estate needed for the onscreen keyboard most users will be employing. I have no doubt the wine devs can make this work, but people without sooper-dooper high-res displays on their Android gadgets will be disappointed.

I didn't read the article, just the Slashdot headline. I don't know who this woman is, whether she's good or bad or has any talent. That said, I'll launch into my rant. The days of selling millions of albums/CDs, or even downloads are long gone. The vertically integrated unholy alliance between the record comapnies and radio stations is imploding too-- It just too easy for people to find whatever they want for free. The one thing though that the internet can't do is physically put you in the audience at a live performance. Artists will have to make their livings the old-fashioned way, performing real songs, really singing, playing real intruments, in front of real people. If you're good, then you will always be able to earn a living that way; royalties from recordings won't disappear entirely (nor should they) but they won't be the main source of income. On the other hand, if you're some no-talent Autotuned gimmick like Lady GagMe then I hope you die and burn in hell for all eternity. I'm sympathetic to the artists who're really good, and I'm sorry the old paradigm has collapsed, but it was inevitable. Now go out there and succeed or fail based on your talent and merit.

I plan to just disobey it.

No. FTFY.

I was thinking along the same lines. Kudos and attaboys to Google for doing this, but what this gift unintentionally did was cause the schools to need to buy I/O devices for those machines. Why not 15000 OLPCs, which are 'complete'?