Erm, by that legal logic, Hitler shouldn't be mentioned by name when talking about the holocaust either, considering he endured his punishment (DEATH). What kind of retarded law is that!

They only talk about the black hole being unable to suck anything in because its mass is to low, but what abbout atmospheric pressure pushing matter into it and growing it like that? It might be to weak to feed itself but if its forcefed matter deu to pressure in the atmosphere, it should still grow.

Exactly what I was thinking. Because 1 idiot used that as an excuse and others got wind of it, they are now all thinking thats what caused their accidents. Some people are just shit drivers. There's plenty of video's on Break and Youtube to show how bad some drivers are.

Leave, please do, if you can see yourself not doing IT, your not a real ITer (don't get me wrong, you might be skilled and good at it) but in the beginning, there was Geeks, geeks became ITers, they were few. Golden times for the geeks, they didn't care to much about the money, they just loved their work. Then, others saw money was to be made and an influx of people, who don't give a hoot about anything IT but the money that could be made, and were smart enough to learn some skills, started entering the industrie en masse. Golden days of IT were over, corporate bullshit took over, because these fake ITers took every chance they could take to climb the management ladder, creating management jobs if there weren't any, while the real geeks were left doing what they love doing, now getting bugged and annoyed by IT managers that shouldn't even exist. Now that there isn't as much money to be made in IT, only the real ones will remain, a real ITer, a real geek, is incapable of doing anything else, and would never change jobs for more money. They might change to go from unemployment to something else, but if they can then switch back to IT, even for less money, they will. Question now, are you a real ITer that has lost or forgotten his inner geek. Or are you one of the fake money wolves that ruined the business, and now that managed to ruin it, wants to leave for another industrie to ruin.

Ehm, WTF, I don't think customers wouldn't be all to miffed about all that data these chains collect on them being lost. I wouldn't care, I would actually love the option to have them NOT KEEP DATA ON ME. What customers would love to hear and need to be made aware about is if the hackers copied all that data, who gives a freck if it was lost.

Microsoft is one of the big forces pushing for Cloud computing ... Cloud computing is Microsoft's ecosystem. They are kinda betting their future on it. As for 106428, yeah, I did think about that, but then I said, who's to say the SAN they used was Microsoft based. It could well have been Linux based. A good SAN or NAS doesn't discriminate between the platforms to start with. Not to mention a really good SAN is completely hardware with no Linux or MS OS logic behind it other then the servers connecting to it for storage over hardware links and universal standards like iSCSI.

I don't think I said, implied or otherwise suggested its ok to steal stuff. I said its understandable and consumers aren't the only ones at fault in this situation. And the software list noted was only the stuff I have to pay for, other then the Windows servers, I have 6 Gentoo based Linux servers, 2 Gentoo terminals, 1 Gentoo desktop, several devices to which I installed a Linux flavor instead of the Windows CE or other OS that was on it, not to mention my phones, I'm working to get Android to work on my Touch HD and have a Hero which is rooted. Thing is, the software I stated above I pay for is Windows Exclusive and most of them have no equal in the Linux spectrum. And what I said about Music, Movies and games. You can run whatever wanabee Linux flavor you want, you still have to pay for those and your internet connection and several other professional and consumer apps available for Linux that don't have decent or any at all, opensource or freeware alternatives. You think that because you run Linux you can connect to WoW and download from iTunes for free all of the sudden? Man Its guys like you that give Linux a bad name, trying to bud into an argument with "blabla don't have to pay, blabla free, bla free, blabla free, blabla linux, yadayada" I say BULLSHIT, no matter if you run Linux, Windows or a frekin Apple, there are apps you need to pay for, period.

to have all legal software? The OS, comes with the computer most of the time and often its illegally installed, without the knowledge of the consumer. Office, if its pre-installed, is often illegal without the knowledge of the consumer. Both are installed illegally by the vendor, because, if Office and Windows were put on legally, the computer would cost double. Then, sometimes a low grade burner app comes with a CD or DVD drive, but for a good current version of Nero, you have to shell out around 70€ and pay that again and again with new versions (although there are somewhat cheaper upgrade versions for many apps). If you do a lot of photo or graphics editing, a decent app for that sets you back a 100€ easily. Which again is recuring for eacy new version that comes out. If you do some video editing because you have a digital camera or want to do quality DVD rips to watch on your PC, rather then overusing and wearing out the DVD disks, you can often shell out 100€ for a version of Pinacle. If you want to chat on multiple networks, AIM, MSN, YIM, ICQ, ..., a client like Trillian Pro is very interesting, both because of support, skin ability and full featurednes, it'll set you back 30€ for every major version and 10€ for an upgrade each time a new major version comes out. A virus scanner costs you anywhere between 40 and 80€ for a 1 year subscription on the AV software and that doesn't always include the initial buying price. And thats just the tip of the iceberg of apps people generally use. It'll come down to well over 400€ a year just for keeping your basic software up to date. Then we haven't even looked at payed video downloads, iTunes or other payed music downloads, buying games (which at best have a 40 hour play value), playing pay2play MMORPG's like WoW, where you have to shell out 70-80€ to get Classic, Burning and Lich King, and then have to start shelling out 15€ a month to be allowed to play those expensive expansions which come around about 1ce a year and cost you between 20 and 40€ just to be able to play the new content, while still paying the monthly subscription. I also have Autocad, ETS3, several professional apps I need for specific business related things, FTK, Acrobat Pro, 3DSMax, FL Studio, 2 Windows 2008 servers, 1 MSSQL server and a dozen other apps I use at least 1ce a week which set me back several 1000€. How is anyone expected to pay all that for both entertainment and in my case work related tasks? How is anyone expected to pay all that when old entertainment, television and radio, were so ridiculously cheap? How is anyone expected to pay that when your already paying atleast 500€ a year for an internet connection? Also, most software developers give out cheap Light or free Trial versions, but lock down that 1 feature that you actually need, and to get that feature, you have to pay for the whole thing. Most people will then opt to search for the software for free, and leave the app installed, even though they only used and needed it once. Its not only consumers that are at fault here, software is to expensive and IMHO, the Apple appstore has shown that bringing all that software together, creating true competition, drives the prices down considerably. We need that for all software. Now there simply are to many apps that people DO need to have installed, which cost them 50$ per app, per year, just to use their PC, which itself already cost anywhere between 300 and 30000$ Quit bitching and vilifying your consumers when you yourself are the greedy cause of the underlying problem.

The managers responsible for not implementing the backups or the techs maintaining the infrastructure? My bet is on the little people.

If google removes all News Corp links from its index, Ruppert will see all traffic to all of this sites drop to 0.1% of normal, in a heartbeat. He'll have no ad revenue from his sites at all, he'll have no visitors to mention. Dinosaurs like him don't belong in the modern media landscape, they, just like the music industrie, are fighting change, instead of embracing it. The problem for News Corp is that Murdoc is an old retarded extremist fart noone at news corp dares to go against. Its not that the company as a whole doesn't want to move forward, but that Murdoc doesn't want to go forward. And he doesn't listen to anyone. Remove that asshole from his position and half of the worlds media has a chance of moving forward, into the future and all the rest of the old media corps will follow.

The last few years its become obvious that the UK is using Orwell's 1983 as a play book for converting the nation. Where will this stop? How much more of this shit will the citizens of the great empire take. Problem I guess is that the general population of the entire nation is becoming even dumber then certain US states are well known for. They are the perfect sheeple with nothing more on their mind then the tele, sex, drugs and Paris Hilton. I've seen documentaries of british youth, girls aged 13-14 years old, that had no other interest in the world then being the hottest or coolest in school (translates to being school matrasses ...) and getting boobjobs or babies at their age. Sheesh

I have to say that I didn't like the concept and was (still am a bit) of the opinion that the series is doomed if they don't bring someone or multiple people from SG-1 or Atlantis into the mix to get the series started (kinda like with Atlantis, where we all knew Dr King already). I do think several caracters are seriously miscast. The leading scientist genious caracter is just wrong, not only have I never liked that actor, but his acting style, accent and looks are more suitable for a crazy MD, history professor or classic english professor. Not the science type. For the "geek" they just choose a goofy looking fat bloke, rather then a geek/nerd. I personally don't know a single geek or nerd that looks even remotely like that guy, most of them are actually skinny or well built. None of them are fat retards. The main soldier is cast ok, the military head isn't. I do however like that they put the military commanders wife in the mix, so we'll see a softer kind of military man. I think we should see where the series takes us and if it picks up as well as Atlantis did after a few episodes, I'm sure we'll be seeing at least 5 seasons of this. With an entire universe opening up, there's plenty of stories to tell. I also hope that they brainstorm seriously about all the kinds of biological and non-biological life forms the universe could theoretically produce, so that we can be wowed about the wonders of the universe, instead of being stuck with more Grey Aliens, Insectoids, snakelike parasites and killer androids. Oh, yeah, lets not forget energy beings .... I do have 1 question about the concept of the series. Is the stargate on the Universe ship bi-directional? The gate dials automatically and disengages at a certain time. How are the ones that go trough supposed to come back? And if the gate disengages, how are the ones that went trough supposed to know what adres to dial to get connected to the ship?

There goes the entire pushpoint and argumentation point for all the Internet regulation banter the lobbyists use ...

For all the people with 10 plus years in the industry, don't think that because it did work and go smooth for all of us way back, the current climate allows it as easely.