At the very least, this sort of thing is in remarkably poor taste. Its done in a very unprofessional way, which IMO sends the wrong signals and reinforces a perception of racism. Had they actually substituted in a real picture which had only whites, instead of just "hiding the Black Guy" it would be far less obvious that was the intent. Instead they've crudely modified a picture in such a way that its clear their intention WAS to "hide the black guy."

It definitely reveals racism somewhere, and Microsoft's (Poland Office?) concern about appeasing it, if not acting on internal racism.

Seriously. Its a professionally dressed dark skinned man. Is that so offensive to delicate Polish sensibilities? Why? Even if there's not a single dark skinned man in all of Poland, why should it be a problem?

If you'd care to offer one, I'd like to hear your explanation for modifying a picture to remove a depiction of a person of a specific ethnicity that doesn't fundamentally boil down to racism.

It can also detect the spirochetes that cause syphillis, Treponema palladium.

You seem quite behind. Not only have they dumped the "Spawn" feature, they've dumped LAN play as well. They announced it months ago. It's all Battle.net now.

I think you're confusing Ireland and Scotland.

Find me a case anywhere in the the first world where any of that has ever happened.

You also clearly have no idea what it means when hospitals refuse treatment based on inability to pay. Have fun dying unconscious in the ER because you were in an accident and no-one knows who you are or where your insurance card is.

Or are you planning on getting yourself chipped with credit rating and insurance info? Is that the free conservative utopia you imagine? A society in which the EMTs first action is to scan a potential patient for their income and social status?

Or we'd have to do something at least as difficult as adding an atmosphere to Mars, slam asteroids into Venus in exactly the right way to speed up its rotation. FYI, a martian day is already quite close in length to an Earth day.

The whole completely replacing the crust every half billion years that theorized to happen on Venus is a bit of an inconvenience as well.

Why don't they release it in the open standard PDF, with annotations for the handwritten notes, which I believe are in the in the standard. (I might be wrong.)

You know, there's a really profound point there. Whenever someone starts to make an argument about how the market, through the rational behavior of consumers will correct abusive behavior by corporations, they should be forced to work Customer Service/Support lines for 8 hours.

THEN, they can come back and tell us about how well the system works. If they can manage not to choke on their bullshit then, I would be amazed.

Wait, so Ghostbusters is the new Matlock?

WiFi support will be slightly better in 8.0. They have support for the Intel 4965 at least. I don't enjoy compiling though, so I'll probably continue to use Archlinux.

See there's a critical distinction there that you're missing (possibly intentionally). Liberals did not want the USA to lose, we believed the USA was likely to, and for that reason pursuing it was a bad policy.

The recent dramatic increase in violence in Iraq should serve as an ominous sign we may very well be proven correct.

Whether you want to acknowledged it or not, there is a real difference between the liberal fear (circa 2000) that George Bush would pursue policies that would prove disastrous to the United States, and the current behavior of the Right, cheering for Democrats to fail so they can regain power.

Most slashdot.org users including myself have screens that are at least 1280 pixels wide. Even you netbook users have 600 pixels. The New Yorker's website only use like 400 pixels, and leaves the rest to white space. THEY DON'T EVEN USE THE SPACE FOR ADS.

Correction: Most criminals that are known, aren't known for their foresight or intelligence.

*choke* *spew* *hack*

Bullshit. Just bullshit. Supports not there. And the integration isn't either.

I'm typing this on a Mac, but seriously how can you even claim that when every time Apple releases a new model, there's some (perhaps very large) portion of their existing base that gets screwed over and hung out to dry. Examples? Want to use one of the new machines with that super expensive Apple display you bought just 6 months ago? Sorry, the converters aren't out yet, or even worse they are, and they don't work. This shit has been going on forever, and Apple's track record about addressing it in a way that takes care of their customers is absolutely abysmal. That's why its standard advice to never buy a "Revision A." Apple product (And especially never at launch! You may be able to get away with it six months later, after all the suckers have found out what's going to be broken).

The OS is fantastic, but the hardware is hit or miss, and the support is fucking horrible.

That's completely unworkable. For one, SSDs are at least an order of magnitude too slow, and two, while the number of read/write cycles for DRAM is effectively unlimited, the number of Read/Write cycles for even SLC flash is not.

The ability of wear leveling currently to keep a Flash drive functional when used as Swap space is just barely there, use the flash as main memory and there is no hope. You'll constantly be killing cells.