I guess they finally completed a GUI for GNU/RMS/Hurd so now RMS doesn't have to use netcat to view gnu.org

I think the following phrase should sum up any police objection to her efforts: "If they aren't doing anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about"

RMCP: o hai!
FBI: i can haz your citizens informazions?
RMCP: here r ur recordz of bill mahr arar, many lulz
FBI: free trip to syria courtesy of Club Fed.
RMCP: o rly?
FBI: rly!
RMCP: kthxbye!

Um... is anyone aware that in Canada we send sensitive and CLASSIFIED information on our citizens to foreign goverments, and no that information does not get deleted on user request. I think if the policy is good enough for Facebook it's certainly good enough for the CIA/FBI/State Department. We also let foreign government's run experiments with illicit drugs on our citizens, but I'm sure it's far more important for the privacy commissioner to investigate voluntarily shared information with another company than to investigate that. Remember folks: corporations = bad, government = good.

Actually that is the best way to keep a secret, and it works for more than just Facebook too. Seriously though, if people don't like Facebook's policies just stop using Facebook.

You have more than 128GB of ram?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_xp

May I suggest using a server version of windows?

It's funny that whenever linux or FreeBSD removes a Giant lock it's hailed as major news here, like the transition from 2.4 to 2.6 because they are actually huge leaps forward. However, when MS does it it is just regarded as a bug fix. Essentially, all code is just a bug fix then, as it's all written one line at a time and relies on the the years of work to the code base that preceded it.

There are huge improvements on Windows 7, like multitouch support, etc. It's a really nice OS akin to XP. The problem with the zealots is that they create a list of complaints about MS and then when they fix it, you guys complain even more. MS actually pays their devs salary so they have to charge for their OS. Suck it up, if you don't want to buy it don't.

IMHO, the RC is more stable than Vista. I've been using it as my primary dev platform since a few weeks after it was released, and have had no BSODs yet even running mostly Vista drivers with it. It's rock solid and FAST and the new features are definite improvements.

But the commitment to quality that is present in Win7 and was sorely lacking in Vista should be applauded by all.

If anyone in the dev community has seen further, it is because we stood on the shoulders of giants.

Is there any other kind of government besides big government?

What a surprise that it's posted by kdawson. I wish you could filter slashdot by admin who posted.

Politicians who won't cave to lobbyists.... Have you ever thought that the reason MS is being sued in the first place is because the other side had better lobbyists?

Because its after the fact. Hence, ex post facto.

From wikipedia:
An ex post facto law (from the Latin for "after the fact") or retroactive law, is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law.

You do know that the US penetrated the Soviet pipeline system and has caused industrial accidents with that right?

So a better use of the money would be to provide bridges to unprofitable companies?

Actually if you have a debt in Canada you ARE forced to accept Canadian dollars as repayment.

Recycle the fuel in a CANDU reactor then it's just fairly harmless depleted uranium.

Also, who says we can't just take the fuel out and put it into new containers in 100 years?

So that is why Taxi's use a medallion system? Because the city regulators intimately know exactly how many trained cab drivers there are in a city? Surely, it is not for protectionism of those established business so that margins can remain high and wages can remain low. We license cabs so that the owners of said operations will not face competition.