And they are immune due to their education and position? BS on that. I've had classes that could better be taught by a talking donkey. Sorry, you folks get the same bums rush we all do when technology hits us over the head. How much sympathy do teacher's unions typically have for auto workers or airline pilots when they strike? What goes around comes around.

The irony here is rich and creamy. Jobs and iTunes made the bluebox-like act of downloading music for 'free' an act of unspeakable violence, at least if you ask the lawyers of the RIAA or Apple. So, where will the next Jobs get the thrills needed to motivate them to greatness? Probably where we expect it the least.

It's density+cost per bit that will change things. PCM is still orders of magnitude slower than SRAM and DRAM and the Memristor (HP) may still beat it to market for the aforementioned parameters. Nice that so many irons are in the fire to retire spinning rust, can't happen soon enough for me.

You've lost that looovin feelin, Oh that loovin feelin.. ... Gone, gone, gone.

Amen. Since when do we get to select the location of our prison? As to the severity of the crime/punishment cycle, he selected his target based on her visibility, now he gets punished based on her visibility. Where's the problem?

Well, good or not, my reasons for subscribing to SyFy just ended too. Tired of crap ghost series and wrestling. Looks like there's just no interest in SCIENCE fiction in Hollywood anymore, just fantasy and occult. And wrestling. Oh joy..

I miss Sun too. I never thought I'd admit this, but HPUX is a pretty decent UNIX after all. Too much Solaris/SPARC koolaid for too many years, but I'm recovering.

I read and re-read tfa and just coudn't see Sun *ever* doing this level of crap. Larry may be a "great capitalist" but he's a failure as a human being. Bad Larry! Baaad! (smacks Larry on head with rolled up newspaper)

Amen. And wasn't Kernell's dad a bigwig in the local Democratic party? Wonder if he was put up to it and hung out to dry afterwards. "No problem, if he's caught, they'll just let him go because he's a kid.." Going through other folk's emails is dirty business - I know, I had to do it as a sysadmin many moons ago and about barfed on what I found.

I'm betting that Larry ends up taking the passive-aggressive path in that he makes all the right noises, divests some part of MySQL and completes the deal with Sun. Afterwards, he can do whatever he wants (he usually does in any case..) and his business plans are unaffected. He has to allow Neelie Kroes (EU competitiveness czar) her pound of (childish and unfounded) flesh if he want's this deal done. It's sad that this has devolved into a pissing match from what was a straight forward business deal. The real losers are the Sun employees worldwide and those with scads of Sun-related experience on their resume's. I guess this is how IBM gets their revenge for being cuckholded by Oracle. Pity.

Found my Wife of 20 years at a Mensa convention (yes, really). She was the one who looked like 1) she didn't really belong there and 2) she was easily as smart as anyone else there. 3 weird and wonderful children and 20+ years later we have happiness. I suggest you look for social activity among those who share the same interests/values - wherever/whatever that is. H8s

"..Character is what you are in the dark." -- Dr Emilio Lizardo