And that, friends, is also why "desktop Linux" has yet to make any serious inroads.

Let's see: There have been successful terrorist attacks around the world since 9/11. These attacks imply that terrorists are still active. Terrorists groups have re-asserted their ongoing desire to conduct similar attacks with in the US. Moreover, some such attempts have been made in the US but largely prevented. I'd say those might imply causation, douchebag.

My name is Cao Ni Ma.

I take it someone will start a Pedo Party and claim that sex with minors is part of their political platform.
"I know she's only 13, but this is a matter of political philosophy!"

Simple rename it D-ETOILE, and the real problem will be solved.

If this governor had let his pansy religion get in the way of pulling the trigger on this murderer, he should have been impeached and perhaps executed himself. Whatever nonsense he chooses to think about non-existent gods and their "mercy" is his business. It's not hypocrisy; it's blind stupidity.

Considering that the current occupant paid $740.6 million for a 4-year lease....

And if you're a Facebook user, sleaze-ball comes behind.

"Normal" kids piss in toilets; autistic kids piss in their pants or on the floor. Next.

If we start enumerating, I'm sure we'll have the 613 mitzvot soon!

You've apparently never written a trading system. Any such mechanism that is sufficiently stringent to catch the majority of such errors is by definition going to generate a number false positives--legitimately oversized trades that do need to be executed. Pretty soon the traders start clicking "allow" by reflex, and then the check becomes useless. Humans being visual creatures, the one mechanism I've seen work is to show the trader a graph of the stock price with the estimated market impact of the trade they're about to execute. When the image of that squiggly line suddenly going up or down 50% or more hits the trader's brain, it causes a reflexive "uh-oh" that makes them question what they're about to do.

Why not get Sanrio Corp to fund the mission and have it draw a Hello Kitty? Why not have the android look like Hello Kitty? If you've ever been to Japan and seen the Hello Kitty dildos, toilet seat covers, etc., you'll understand why this isn't entirely unlikely.

Just let me finish my burrito...

...because Microsoft isn't capable of even attempting something like Buzz.

In all seriousness, though, between Google's handling of the Buzz launch, Facebook's handling of privacy settings, etc., it's pretty clear that the users of these services are the product, not the services themselves.

That's a bad memory I'd rather forget. What's worse is that you paid top dollar for that crappy hardware, and it was far slower than Intel-based Linux systems. You'd also get sold on some HA failover snakeoil which would work great in some stunt test but not necessarily when you actually had a real hardware failure. The only thing that Solaris got right early on, in my opinion, was the threading model, which scaled well in comparison to any other OS at that time. Otherwise, my only thoughts about Solaris and Sun hardware are "slow, expensive and prone to catastrophic failure."