Are you really arguing against orbital solar by saying there's more clouds in space?

This is something I've never really understood. What is the rationale, if any, for making it so that the web browser updates the system? If you uninstall IE, can you still update your system?

The problem wasn't that a browser is really important and everyone needs one; the problem was that Microsoft had integrated their browser into the operating system in such a way that the operating system itself could not work without it, effectively making it impossible to uninstall it even if the user preferred another browser. Part of what makes other browsers more secure than IE de facto is that they don't have their tentacles as deep into the system as IE does. I'm sure someone will shoot back that it's not true, but really if you have a browser that's able to change system settings like IE can without asking for a password first, you're doing it wrong.

Nobody's really proposing that windows ship without a web browser; I think the current idea is to force them to give users a choice of web browser when they install it.

Nah it's a pretty standard UPnP system with well-documented open source programs you can run it on, like ushare (http://ushare.geexbox.org/). Like I said: pretty simple.

I am intrigued by your ideas, TheRaven64, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

As of last year or so the Xbox 360 plays MPEG-4 files just fine. I have mine play them over the network from my server.

Oh yeah. IE is a total whore.

How is that? Microsoft could (irony!) sue for anticompetitive practices. It's not like that stuff gets any less illegal when people other than Microsoft do it.

I've gotta agree with adamdoyle's post. If someone sent me a resumé with the reply address configured that way, I'd probably think it was pretty neat.

How do you handle the replies? This is cool enough I might just try to do it.

Oops forgot this is slashdot. How insensitive of me!

It's the highlight according to TFA.

I don't think many people in the US are willing to admit it, but part of the reason why the Russians beat us into space was that they were willing to accept more risk than us. The US has a space exploration record largely lacking in tragedy, and the Russians definitely have had more incidents, but as a result they were able to move forward slightly faster than us.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that as long as the people you are sending to their potential demise know the risks and know what they're getting into. No matter what the risk though there are people out there who would sign up for this without hesitation. I say there's nothing wrong at all with looking into it.

Don't hold Christianity up like it's so much better than the others, since in the US at least it's the Christians who are pushing through the most discriminatory laws. Them and godforsaken Joe Lieberman.