Yes, but it's appeared again, thanks to a bug.

Not only that, but is that XKCD reference implying that British police are beating the teen with a wrench to get his encryption password?!?

No, over here, we'd hit him with a spanner.

It was January 2009 for me. Actually I should have switches long time before as I lost memory of when it has been the year of the Linux server for me. Compared to now it was a pain to use a Windows client to develop web apps running on Linux. I finally switched when I realized that all the software I was using was available on Linux, from office applications to development tools. I made a check for existence of drivers for my scanner, printer and webcam and bye bye Windows.

The article poster lists several favorite games of his that he wants to play, and your suggestion is to find older, different games?

nope, buy plasma TV. with highest resolution and smallest size.
if you get a game to run on LCD in 'native' resolution it will probably be terribly 'blocky'

The ScummVM emulator for running classic Lucasarts games like Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle and the Monkey Island series also has a nice set of scalers and graphics filters.

Windows OS quickly losing market share? What did I miss?

Libel is not a crime. It's a civil tort. The 1st Amendment does indeed protect false speech, to the extent that it protects you from the government itself. Private individuals, not so much.

I have two you can have for free. They're here in Germany though... shipping might be a bit expensive ;)

Don't understand why they are still using CRTs at Google!

and produce enough documentation that they can fire me when I get too expensive and hire a homeless guy to replace me.

Or find someone who can quickly pick up the work, when you inevitably die horribly in a plane crash on New Years, when the commercial airliner experiences a catastrophic failure and both sets of stabilizers snap off, causing it to crash right into your living room.

It's terribly precise, I know, but hey - you were being overly paranoid.

First, It was $6B of Yahoo Stock, not $6B cash. I'm sure there are laws on how much you can sell and when.

From Broadcast.com's Wiki.

Second, it may have been 'pure luck' it doesn't look like this was his only venture into entrepreneurial endeavors.

Finally, that's still $2B dollars. From what I've read and the brief interaction in the time I met him (IU vs Purdue Alumni Rugby Match. Flew up in his personal Jet.) He has to be hands down one of the coolest Billionaires I've heard of.

He supported Grokster in the MGM vs Grokster case. He buys random companies and starts random websites. Like bailoutsleuth "a grassroots, online portal for oversight over the US government's $700 billion dollar "bailout" of financial institutions."

Not to mention he spouts off to NBA refs and other players. And shrugs his shoulder when they fine him. "Cuban has been fined by the NBA, mostly for critical statements about the league and referees, at least $1,665,000 for 13 incidents". (Matching each fine with a donation to a Charity). When he said something against Dairy Queen, he voluntarily worked at a DQ for a day.

You can't honestly tell me if you came up with some idea (no matter how stupid) and convinced someone to buy it at the height of a bubble. You wouldn't take your billions and have a ball. Spending the rest of your life drinking, flying around in your jet, yelling at professional sports officials, supporting any cause you thought was cool.

Hell. You could have a "Chyeld Day" on slashdot. Pay off Taco to change banner at the top for a few million.

I don't buy the myth that Linux has poor hardware support. I have a network-connected HP C7280 living in my basement office. It comes with a nifty little Windows-only CD for auto-detecting the printer on the network, installing the drivers, and slathering a layer of HP proprietary crapware all over Windows. The CD is useless. Can't find the printer to save its life. I have tried manual configuration with varying degrees of success, but no XP or Vista box in my house has ever printed to it without major aggravation.

On the other hand, I can tell Linux to go find it, and it does. I can tell Linux to print, fax, and scan to it, and it does.

Various Kodak, Olympus, and Canon digital cameras just work when I plug them into one of my Linux boxes. Attach my camcorder via firewire, and I'm ready to go.

Wireless network dongle? I have a SMC EZ-Connect (G) USB dongle that works fine on Linux with minimal configuration. Actually, the dongle itself didn't need installation or configuration, it was the network SSID and key. Still, as easy or easier than the same setup under XP.

Why in the world does the summary list to some stupid guys take on Mark Cubans blog post instead of the actual post?

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/13/google-murdoch-madoff/

Not that it answers any of your questions, other than maybe he is a publicity hound.

$1M isn't peanuts to everybody. The regular public can't see Google's site rankings, but assuming they're similar to the Alexa rankings, there are some sites that would probably jump at a million dollars. The porn sites, a lot of the bloggers, and some of the shakier social networking sites would probably take the money and run.

But there's something else odd about that list. Many of the top-ranked sites -- 3 of the first 20, for example -- are Microsoft. Again, that's not Google's ranking page, but MS sites are still findable via Google. If MS plans to 'kill' Google, shouldn't they start by taking their own sites off that search engine first?