Well, I'm sold...just transferred my godaddy to namecheap. Ad campaign or not, it worked. Nothing follows..

Seconded Just installed Windows on another drive at home for the first time in many years just to play BF3 seeing as how the console's version pales in comparison.

Thirding the VirtualBox subject, even if it's ninjaing the thread. I have enjoyed VirtualBox for a couple of years as my solution for virtualizing my Windows systems. As far as I know there is no better (free) solution exists and would hate to see it go.

I want to succeed in life, but I don't want to put in the requisite hard work that others puts in. Thanks

True...and we'd never lie about how Patriot Act usurps basic constitutional rights. Ever nation's politics has its gray areas, no denying.

China's population - 1.3 Billion, 30 strong commando unit = 0.000002253% of population using real pop. #'s. In America, as a CISSP working security for govt. where there are FAR more of us than that....I must say in the numbers game...we got this one in the bag, for once...just sayin.

Tried it, and hated it...but still forced myself to stick with it for a couple of days in the hopes that I would understand why Canonical made this decision. Maybe it was just me and it really was a good UI. I am not happily back in the gnome environment and can safely say that if Unity is the only choice in 11.10, I will be switching distro's after many years of enjoying Ubuntu. Just a damn shame IMO.

Exactly right, anyone that has dealt with SMTP and looked into header information realizes the many hops involved through relays just to get a message from one place to another...however instantaneous is may seem at times. To require each relay point to agree on a shared key...or better yet have PKI involved for encrypted data transfer is just ridiculous for overhead. my $.02

no loss

Yet another Firefox vs. IE article. (note that either browser in this statement can be switched out with yet another competitor)

So many "In Soviet Russia..." joke opportunities here!

The instinct is there, just in a broader sense. We (and other animals) instinctively do what we can to conserve our life and survive. In his case, he needed to stop/slow the bleeding and he happened to use fast food in place of a bunch of gauze. Personally, I think I would have opted for my shirt or something before food, but it apparently worked out fine for him. Although, using something more obvious probably wouldn't have made the news.

While interesting, I don't think I would deduce that smart phones are, in any way, "replacing" computers.

Smart phones are probably replaced much more often than a PC simply because of the additional abuse they take. They're tossed around, carried everywhere, every day, dropped, etc. Even the average laptop has it much easier. On top of that, more and more smart phone choices are available now than when that market was younger (not only physical devices, but different OS' too). I don't know the last time I saw someone with a new non-smart phone.

I also have to wonder what their numbers for "Personal Computers" consist of. Meaning, are they only counting pre-built machines? I'm sure there's many like myself (especially here on /. ) who buy separate hardware and build their own computers, which is much harder to account for in terms of computer sales.