Thanks for that, but I'd rather show my disapproval by not giving them traffic. What I'd really like is an easy way to remove those results from my searches - experts-exchange, about.com, and a few others.

Ah, the infamous, "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page"

I blame Google for this more than Scribd. You might think if I took the time to customize my search by including words that won't appear on irrelevant sites then Google would actually check if the terms I've entered are there! When I search on a result page for a term and get nothing, only then do I realize I've been duped. I don't even see a way to work around this limitation. Using something other than Google seems to be the only solution.

Nonsense. One of the advantages of buying pre-installed OSes is that the OEM has done customizations and additional system testing with all the hardware configurations they are selling. Dell also sets up DVD playback and covers the license, which is one more thing that will "just work" when you buy from them. They do the same for Windows, but as a percentage of sales, it will cost more to offer a second OS, regardless of what it is.

That said, I do look forward to more people getting their distributions this way. So many of the Linux-not-ready-for-the-Desktop arguments fall flat on their face when it's installed properly.

When you start treating politicians like there's nothing they can do to you, they quickly remind you that you're wrong.

They found their middle ground, and now they're pushing back against the smaller group who didn't sign off on the compromise. It's called picking your battles. This was a wise moev for craigslist both legally and for PR - or hadn't you notice that they were getting a bad name from this one section of their site?

He said it's not worth the investment - without supporting the statement in any way. Even if we assume that's true, and everyone agrees with him, there is still plenty of people who would do it for recognition or just to prove it could be done.

Don't worry, there are still reasons to buy Windows. It's just that security isn't one of them.

Exactly!

This would be like installing Windows yourself and complaining that you couldn't even play a DVD, let alone burn one.

So they're only vulnerable to the hobbyist hackers... where are the successful malware examples from that group?

If the argument is that it's not worth anyone's time, then shouldn't you say that we don't know how vulnerable it is? I don't trust Apple implicitly, given how buggy early releases of many of their product seem to be, but this unfounded speculation does seem to be a popular troll that's used equally effectively against Linux. Try being a bit more responsible.

More so than anyone else: Kirk is an impression.

I didn't get that until the end, and I think they threw in that line delivered in Kirk cadence as part of their plan to make Trekkies happy. It was just one more favorite clichés that we got to see once more. Sure, we're going to replace all your actors, but we won't ruin the characters. I approve.

Now, McCoy was the impression. He was pretty good at it though. No complaints.

And that's not even considering that the eReader solution is more likely to cost:

$300 for the reader
still 50 cents for each newspaper addition.

I always expected on-demand cable movies to cost less than movie store rentals, since they don't have to spend money on the media and don't maintain a retail store, but I'm still waiting. It turns out that the cost of the content still has to be covered, and if newspapers still provide a print edition to some people, then they probably won't save any publishing costs at all.

The only sell here is convenience. Make it wireless. Make it reliable.

They probably just couldn't get behind the LCD to disconnect the camera at the source. That's as far as I got disassembling the unibody too. If you're willing to cut the cable you can keep Wi-Fi and just lose camara + bluetooth.

If anyone knows how to access the hidden screws in the unibody LCD, please let me know. I'm guessing that a special tool is involved.