The government relies on TV programming to keep the people happy and satisfied, so that the people don't spend too much time scrutinizing the government's actions. If they did, they would realize that their rights are slowly being eroded, no matter which party is in office (warrantless wiretaps, anyone?). This makes it critical that the government address issues that might possibly cause people to turn away from their TV's.

Agreed! How can anyone in their right mind call Spirit "ill-fated"?!

Its the automobile version of Windows vs. Mac vis-à-vis viruses.

No offense to you or your wife, but if she wants to use a computer she needs to learn how. If she refuses, she perpetuates her frustration when things don't work as she things they should. If she really never *ever* refers back to old windows then tell her to hit the X instead of the _

Based on your statement, and since this is /., I will assume that you are an engineer, and not one who cares to adapt the things you make to the needs of the user. Rather, you appear to be of the type who gives consumers something you've designed and tells consumers that they have to live with the design, no matter what, because you, the engineer, designed it that way.

Wake up. There's a better way to design things. It's called being consumer-centric. Design things with simplicity and based on the way consumers actually perform tasks.

One of the things Apple does not do is place annoying stickers all over their products advertising what components are on the inside of the computer. There's no "Intel Inside", or Microsoft logo, or anything else. As a consumer who hates those stupid stickers, and the glue residue they typically leave behind, I appreciate Apple's approach.

I don't watch Fox News Channel. I actually tend not to watch any of the news channels, as I find they all have their particular biases, and I choose not to put up with their crap. If it wasn't for this Internet meme and all the news surrounding it online, I would never know who Glenn Beck is. Now, I have some idea of who he is, and I have a very low opinion of him too. This is the Streisand effect in action and at its best.

But what if Terahertz waves can also be used to kill a cancerous tumor? Think about this ... take to sources of focused EM energy beams, neither in the Terahertz range, and aim both energy beams at a cancerous tumor. When the two energy beams coincide at the tumor, through constructive interference, localized Terahertz waves are generated that disrupt the DNA of the cancer cells to the extent that those cells can no longer replicate. Since the energy is localized, damage to the surrounding body tissue is minimal and can be repaired by the body in a short time. As a result though, the cancer is gone.

Just wait until next year and 134

Isn't this sort of court decision nothing more than an invitation to hackers to break into the computers at the known IP addresses to discover which state office they lead to?

From your explanation, I now understand that the 12/100 score on the Acid3 test is a feature of IE8 that is not likely to be removed when it gets released to the general public.