Micro$oft have for long now been patent trolls who don't do much anything useful. Vista was a disaster, Seven was an improvement, but Eight is totally fucked up. I was sat before a computer with a starting view that looked almost exactly like a Windoze phone's display; but this one wasn't a touch screen. Go figure.

This is going to be quite interesting, when two of the biggest software monopolies have it out with each other. I hope they both get cut down to size. The typical Micro$oft patent trolling is against a startup, that they figure as competition, that they cannot undercut or buy out, so they try to starve them by litigating the hell out of them.

There is a possibility, that I am just a little bit partial here. But I'm still left with one question: WTF? M$ believe these patents entitle them to royalties over Android phones, but from whom? Google or every fucking smartphone maker including themselves?

Here's why I don't like U.S. system:

• Double Standards everywhere you go.
• The Justice Branch is based on bribery, just like the Legislative Branch. Where else can you have a judge deciding a case for the [plaintiff | defendant] just after an election, where the same spent almost a million to support his election. Not that this case was like that.
• The Jury is usually cherry-picked, and bribing judges works here, too.
• The Verdict is usually based on a decision by a Jury, who know nothing of the subject's background (thanks to an education that's totally fucked up. And bribery works here, too.

Ergo: Justice is for those who can afford it. Don't kid yourself about it.

How in the name of everything that is fair and just can a maker of equipment, that can be used for smuggling drugs, while a makers of guns, which are used all the time to kill people, have no liability?

Double Standard?

Democracy works, when you have a well-educated (good high-school level general education, that covers stuff like world history, ecology, languages and math & science), confident and a relatively well-off electorate. People who are scared and ignorant make shitty decisions, such as electing Dubya. Thus, the Executive Branch is elected by people who know nothing.

The idea in TFA was that the built-in wipe, IOW "erase all content settings" was used, and much was still there.

Sometimes, one could perhaps RTFA before inserting foot.

Does it make you feel any better that a large percentage of those masks in Europe are "pirated"? ;)

I so wish I'd have mod points. Because this is what they should do. The fuel + the ecosystem are worth the hot-tapping, and that amount of scrap metal must be worth some dough.

The latter especially since a ship like this contains quite a bit of metals somewhat more expensive than iron/steel.

It's true that Win 7 is a step ahead for windoze systems. It' practically workable! That is if you happen to like the way it works, because to tweak it even just a bit, you need to either be an expert or then buy a customising software.

But "Trustworthy Computing" has much more heinous objectives than making your windoze box more secure. It wants to make UEFI standards so that no other OS's can be run on a machine that uses M$ OS. It wants to make listening to your own music dependent on the presence of a TPM chip that takes care of all the critical security stuff, like Digital Rights Management. I guess it's in their interest to suck up to MPAA, RIAA and book publishers?

If George Orwell had had the vision, he'd have Micro$oft working for the Big Brother monitoring the people they don't like. I'm sorry, but I'll never again give M$ direct access to my hardware: it will always run in a virtual machine. I need to do it now and again to make sure that my stuff will also work with M$, specifically Internet Exploder. Granted, there are some pluses in IE9 over IE6, but they're negligible, basically eye candy.

Get behind FOSS or get left behind, is what I say.

Believe me, it's used frequently enough for any fluent speaker in conversations, let alone native speakers. It's an old one, besides, I found it in a dictionary from the 1950s.

It does seem to me that SeismicShock is not silent; he is telling the world about this thing and this is more about the Sizer fellow using his relative popularity among his followers to get on the airwaves and in the consciousness of the couch potato class, whose main source of "information" and "news" is "Reality" TV and such (e.g. Big Brother and such).

The sheep will fear even more and hold on to their "guns and religion" whatever they may be for each. (TV Remote, that is used to block all inconvenient information is the gun, and the most popular show host's opinions are the religion.)

Again, submit was clicked too fast; this reduces the http requests, because so much of the functionality is built in.

What would be its real-world problems? Anybody?

I'm afraid you didn't answer the question. I was working with a web2py setup last the other day with a friend, and it had very little code with a lot of functionality. For most 'nixes, there already is the python and httpd (naturally some network functionality...0 needed to work and test.

To put it simply, the Python engine does everything on the server; it writes queries and validates input etc. On the web page itself is very little code and very little to process on the client, also very little traffic, compared to how much actually happens in the back room.

Naturally, this takes a bit more from the server than serving up static HTML pages, but still it's nothing like an ASP server, that is a nightmare. Any machine that has Python from 2.4 and up will run it without additional installs.

Seems to me it's worth a look. I sort of agree what you say about Rails &co.; they make building a web site easy; they also make overloading a server easy, but that's not the software's problem. It's better that you have stuff happening in the server rather than having to send lots of info to the browser for it to figure with JavaScript rendering.