They didn't just feed the troll. They gave him all-you-can-eat steak and caviar, catering for a party of five, and coupons for tomorrow's main course.

One of the draws to these revenue generating sites is being able to comment. I suspect that when push comes to shove, many anonymous commenters won't bother to comment any more, nor visit the site and read the articles. This will affect the HP's bottom line.

...unless, of course, the big guns of the social-marketing complex are making up for that lost revenue.

"Hey, mind if we throw ya a bit o'greens here and there? Oh, you're very welcome, we just need to see those names of yours so our real customers can use them as, y'know...volunteer endorsements for TV commercials. 'Organic' advertising, y'know, totally not fake or unsolicited or tracked down by the government. The *nudge* 'viral' web. *wink*"

Looks like it might be time to donate again. There's something ridiculous about the need to buy decent government by donating to a charitable organization, but hey, they're doing better than most, and most of "us" (Slashdot readers) can probably afford it. Normally I'd suggest the option of doing it by way of the Humble Bundle, but currently they don't include that option...

...probably because it would conflict with the interests of EA (see the Bundle's current front page).

Speaking of EA...WTF, Humble?

Too big to fai^Wrepair.

I'll just put this Mark Twain work out there...

A real Obnoxious System, as opposed to a real Operating System.

The real reason for those guidelines is so that people can be certain your App Store software is 100% proprietary.

If they cared about viruses and privacy and safety and all that, then Facebook wouldn't have been approved.

With the UK's (and undoubtedly US's) despicable attack against Greenwald (the sort of lover-detainment that's quite simply the "evil" of good-vs-evil stories everywhere) I'm now highly convinced the budget stuff is a distractive sideshow, or even exactly what Obama wants of Congress. (If a budget is never submitted, then there's no budget to scrutinize for, say, certain secret departments' expenses.)

They are screened. They only select the finest social networks to send their spammy users here.

This is probably not needed for their drivers though. The use of middle fingers and "FUCK YOU!" appears to have caught on just fine as an industry standard.

"I don't get it. How do they call it "in the cloud" if the servers are located on-site?"

Carefully. Microsoft believes any sufficiently nebulous implementation is indistinguishable from something patentworthy.

Exactly the same as it currently is. Microsoft would make the workers quit, and those that somehow do get fired won't get unemployment status (and benefits) for various reasons.

I always thought "Ridiculous Tragedy" myself.