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That's a great response. You may have realized this by now (it being Saturday where I am) but the parent post was a copy-paste from a YouTube smartass known as venomfangx.

Here's a rebuttal someone posted in May:
http://talkingtotheists.blogspot.com/2008/05/story-thus-far-noted-youtube.html

The whole VFX story is interesting. He's someone who's intelligent enough to construct (what appears to be) a rhetorical argument, but is quick to make bad leaps in logic in support of his pet idea. But his errors are pointed out to him by many, and over time he tweaks the arguments. By the time this was written they were whittled down to what I consider to be three main misunderstandings:

1. That Darwin must be wrong since his writings may or may not pass Popper's tests

2. The whole "kind" thing...basically a statement that if we can find two organisms that appear similar, but prove scientifically that they are not of the same "kind", then evolution is false. Of course, the beauty of this is that you can play fast and loose with your classifications, and anyone who tries to give you an honest-to-god taxonomy lecture will just bore any innocent bystanders to death, giving you a win by default :)

3. The idea (not exaggerating here--he states it again and again in clear English) that disproving evolution in and of itself proves Christian creationism. Nevermind that there are other theories of evolution, and other forms of Creationism. Ironically, Muslim creationist "scholars" point to evolution as another ill brought on by the Christian West. Not a secular problem, but a Christian problem.

So, yeah, empty rhetoric. The interesting part was when one of his debunkers' videos were taken down because of DMCA violation claims that the kid made. The affected person scared him really bad with the threat of legal retaliation, and then made him read a protracted apology. Twice, in fact, because the first time wasn't sincere enough. Funny stuff.

Given that it's February now, I wonder if his arguments have gotten any better?

Exactly. Though I just used watch -n 1 to make sure I caught it

Cool. here's mine

My screenshot

I used 'watch -n'

A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and says 'Can I join you?'

From Tom Kyte's blog sql joke

In particular, I'm looking for something that goes like "IE8 implements x, y and z, but it implements y wrong, and still doesn't implement important standards a, b and c.".

I thought you asked for a rant? ;-)

Getting a comprehensive list of features support/not supported is hard given the scope of what a browser encompasses. You could use a tool like wttjs to test against the HTML5 WebIDL, but the output might be a bit more than you're looking for. From my perspective I'm worried about the big stuff that makes projects possible/not possible. So from my perspective, it's:

- No DOM2 Events support (Bug closed as "By Design")
- No CSS Opacity support (Bug closed as "By Design") and IE filter syntax is changed
- No SVG support
- HTML5 localStorage implementation is wrong
- Cross-Document messaging is wrong (lack of DOM2 Events here)
- A new Cross Domain XML Request object that incompatibly ignores the existing HTML5 work
- No Canvas support (not required, but pisses me off when they are supposedly adding HTML5 support)
- CSS is only slightly less borked. I defer to the earlier link for a description of this issue.

Here's a few articles covering these items and more:
http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/ie8-bad
http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/10/ie8-bad-update
http://annevankesteren.nl/2009/01/gettters-setters
http://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=333958
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/

As an aside, make sure you read this:
http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/office-sucks

I'd go digging for more, but I'm afraid I don't have the time right now. Hopefully those links will get you started! :-)

By the way, I see you're also using the ACID3 test to make a point. You shouldn't. While ACID2 was very relevant in how it tested standards everyone was asking for, ACID3 is content testing for little very specific rendering bugs in various rendering engines and CSS3 (which isn't even a standard yet!).

That's a fair argument. Mostly lack of ACID3 compliance is just more to be annoyed about. Other browsers have extremely high scores on these tests while IE manages a paltry 20/100. I wouldn't care so much if IE wasn't such a piece of crap in other areas, but it is. So if anyone brings up ACID3, I get to complain that it is also terrible there too. :-P

There's plenty that Apple could do that developers are having to do instead. This isn't just about the money -- it's about the control.

Sandia not in the news? Ha! They even fired people who revealed the chinese were stealing their secrets, getting hacked by pakistani script kiddies. When you consider that sandia is tiny compared to Los Alamos (which spans 47 square miles) you have to realize their rate of serious security breaches is much worse. Los alamos has not reported any break-ins during the same period. No wonder they don't let Sandia store nuclear materials.

Sorry to post a follow-up to my follow-up.

No, I'm not either -- you really need to see this post from the current LANL blog. It does a nice job of conveying the current level of morale there:

http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2009/02/larry-moe-and-kevin.html

The "Kevin" referred to in the post is Kevin Roarke, the "truth-challenged" official lab spokesperson.

They still do:

http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/

And morale is even worse these days. Bechel has been a disaster since they took over the contract for LANL.

That was then.
This is now.

http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2009/02/larry-moe-and-kevin.html [blogspot.com]

The "Kevin" reference is to Kevin Roarke, the "truth-challenged" official spokesperson for Loas Alamos National Labs.

http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2009/02/larry-moe-and-kevin.html

The "Kevin" reference is to Kevin Roarke, the "truth-challenged" official spokesperson for Loas Alamos National Labs.

These people disagree. Both say most Amish do vaccinate, and both agree that the autism rate amongst the Amish is lower than in the general population (though present). It would seem likely that either 1) the Amish hide/do not diagnose autism or 2) there is something else about modern society other than vaccinations that cause autism. Maybe the Amish have children younger (it's known that older fathers have a higher chance of autistic children), or maybe it's something dietary, or maybe it's something chemical. The differences between the lifestyles of the Amish and the rest of the country are so multitudinous that I don't know how you could immediately correlate any health differences with vaccinations.

I'm on the losing end of this argument, but I have long believed that special courts such as this one are unconstitutional usurpations of Article 2 courts which have "the Judicial power" and that power cannot be passed onto special courts whose purview is less than the entire judicial power. While this argument is perhaps a century or two too late, unconstitutional acts are still unconstitutional, despite centuries of adherence to them. The stack of people who will disagree with this comment is likely huge, but just because we've always had "Bankruptcy" Courts doesn't mean that their existence directly contradicts the clear meaning of Article 2 which stated that the judicial power would go to the Supreme Court and such inferior courts as Congress shall from time to time create. Yes, Congress could make no courts. But, ANY court created must possess the ENTIRE judicial power and not be a limited or "special" court. When you see "special court", read "unconstitutional court." Tunester

No, I think they're gonna print their own money.

Google is larger than a whole raft of sovereign nations. They have their own airline. They seem to be trying to be a bank. Printing money is next.

sure the datacenter thing is possible. Or maybe their ambition to outdo paper isn't going quite so well as planned!

Nothing is funnier about '25 things' than what Linus himself wrote in his blog, reproduced here for your convenience, in its entirety:

1. I get bored really easily.

I'm amazed, while somewhere like Cambridge University can come out with Xen, Portsmouth can only manage what appears to be a combinatio of MAME and another couple of pieces of open source software? I'd be more impressed if they came up with something like a language for describing and defining game emulators, or even an FPGA card that was dynamically reconfigured to play the given game at full speed. But this?

What a waste of brains, not to mention money.

AG

Actually, I've never seen Microsoft do this with any other version of Windows

Really? They did it with Vista:

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-windows-vista-upgrade-coupons-for.html

"Windows XP Users will be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows Vista if they purchase a Vista-enabled PC starting October till the time Vista formally hits the store shelves."

They did it with Windows 2000:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/WorkingGroups/Users/CUC/2000/csejan00.htm

"We have been told by our suppliers that a Microsoft technology warranty will apply to all copies of NT Operating systems bought after 1 January, 2000 and before the launch date (expected to be 17 February, 2000). So new system purchasers within those dates will have a free right of upgrade."

They did it with Windows Mobile 2003 from PocketPC 2002

"PDAs bought between 23 May and 23 September can be upgraded to the updated OS for free."

I'm having trouble digging up articles about upgrade rights or free upgrade programs from 2k to XP, and I honestly don't specifically remember there being a program for that one, but the point stands; while it might not be universally true, its certainly not uncommon for Microsoft to offer a free or 'cost of shipping' upgrades to people who buy a product in the weeks or months immediately before a new release is expected.

It strikes me as odd that Texas, a state many of us considered the "first and foremost in protecting the rights of its populace against tyranny of federal government", now seems to be on a rampage of trampling on people's individual rights.

http://your-philosophy-sucks.blogspot.com/search/label/gummint

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2324220,00.asp

http://www.infowars.com/texas-lawyer-takes-on-bloodthirsty-cops/

Not necessarily mean; the truly mean types generally end up dead or in prison. What you need is a sort of psychopathic ruthlessness.

Even then, engaging in regular criminal activity ups your chances of being murdered in the USA something like a 100X... Hmm... Let's pull up some figures...

I base this on this post, per the FBI 60-80% of murders are felon on felon.
This one suggests that there are ~1.6 million felons denied the right to vote.*

Going by the 300 Million of our population, and round up to 2 million felons(some states don't remove the ability to vote, so the 1.6 is an underestimate. Anyways, we're looking at a category making up .7% of the population consisting of OVER HALF the murder victims... By my calcs, that's 148 times more likely to be murdered if you're a felon. Ouch, huh?

As for the being smart part; many criminals, even if they aren't caught by the police, end up earning less than the average fast food employee. Being caught and spending time in jail/prison, legal costs, etc... Makes even many of the 'more successful' ones rather poor earners.

*I have to say that I wish I could have found better sources, but even if the magnitudes are correct, it points out how dangerous doing felony stuff can be.

I'm right about here:

http://www.conservativenannystate.org/cns.html

And here:

http://thelibertychannel.blogspot.com/

It's time to reframe the debate over economic policy.

Corn Ethanol? uses more energy to produce than it provides.

No, corn ethanol's EROEI, Energy Returned on Energy Invested, is about 1.5 or 1.6 to 1 or 1.2 or 1.5 to 1, about the same as oil sands. While it does make more energy than the energy required to make it, it doesn't even double the energy. Brazil gets from 8 to 10 units per unit of energy used from sugarcane.

PV

PV's produce as much energy in 5 years as it takes to make. PVs are warrantied for from 10 to 30 years depending on the manufacturer, so over their life they produce more energy than they need for manufacturing.

Wind - sure if you're lucky to live where it's windy and you use energy in the spring and fall (you don't).

Wind blows year round not just in the spring and fall. Wind also blows in a lot of places. As the Picken's Plan details the Rocky Mountains alone have enough potential wind energy to provide the 48 continuous states in the US with energy. That's not all though, the Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States gives wind's potential in other parts of the US. The Pacific Coast from British Columbia to Southern California has an abundance of potential, along with Southern CA eastward to Texas. In the east the Appalachias and Cascades have good potential as it does off the coast between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras.

Falcon

Ok, people need to save more instead of spending everything they earn. That's been true for a long time. However, savings accounts earn such a low rate of return that with any inflation at all it costs money to have it in savings.

Indeed, some believe that's the aim of the government -- by destroying everyone's savings with low interest rates (which are useless since normal people can't borrow at that rate) and high inflation (which redistributes money from everyone else to the government), they achieve their aim of preventing anyone from saving money:

http://burningourmoney.blogspot.com/2009/01/enemies-of-people.html

FWIW, I don't take this as a troll, but anecdotal. If you've held the same position twice, then you're not in a strong position to speak outside of that experience.

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/2244391
http://www.cio.com.au/article/68397/munich_government_chooses_linux_over_microsoft
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7008
http://linuxscorecard.blogspot.com/2007/09/this-blog-will-spring-back-to-life.html

Although I'm not citing "privately-owned" businesses, and I'm not sure how many of those there are that are multi-billion dollar concerns, I am suggesting that there are those with more than 10+ years experience making the Linux over Windows call - and leaving it as a exercise to uncover more.

As for number of attack vectors being wider for FOSS than Windows - please, try beer, it's better than the Kool-Aide - really.

Right, left, what the fuck ever. There simply is no problem for which more government is not likely to be the worst solution.

Oh, and Krugman is an idiot, along with nearly everyone who seems to have a voice in 'fixing' the economic mess that they themselves created. AFAICT, Krugman's whole take so far is that we haven't pumped enough money at the problem of pumping too much money.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/12/krugman-still-wrong-after-all-these.html

They do have support for SyncML devices.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-sync-beta-for-iphone-winmo-and.html

"For devices that support the open SyncML protocol, Google Sync will allow for two-way contacts synchronization. If you're a BlackBerry user, a version of Google Sync is already available."

They don't yet support calender syncing for SyncML but some support is there.

Freescale and Pegatron showed a prototype at CES:
http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2009/01/meet-pegatron-199-arm-based-netbook.html

Just as an FYI - AC ripped his comment straight from the transcript of a youtube video. Youtube transcript (and commentary) here:
http://talkingtotheists.blogspot.com/2008/05/story-thus-far-noted-youtube.html

Qualcomm has an ARM based processor (several links about it posted here). From the performance/power point of view I think these ARM based approaches is the future for mobile computing. I can see a big Linux future for it in small do-it-all always one home "IT" infrastructure.

Two seconds on google shows this is a copy-and-paste almost 9 months old. Original content, please.

http://talkingtotheists.blogspot.com/2008/05/story-thus-far-noted-youtube.html

Let's poke some holes in your argument though, even though I'm sure you won't be back, it may serve as an amusement for slashdotters and a deterrent for more of your ilk with their recycled arguments.

1)Your first argument that in order for a theory to be considered valid that it must be proven "not false" is patently untrue.

When a scientific hypothesis becomes a scientific theory it is because all evidence to that point provides overwhelming support for the hypothesis. Redefining what science is not a justification for an argument, and invalidates most of your following reasoning. A theory is a theory not because experiments prove it "true" or even "not false", but because experiments have failed to prove it false.

2) If your blue watermelon example were a proper scientific hypothesis, it could be disproven, because a requirement of a scientific hypothesis is that it must be disprovable (and not necessarily provable). Add in your hypothesis of why it turns red when opened, and you have a true scientific, disprovable, hypothesis. (I'd open it under argon because if that were the case, rapid oxidation would most likely be the cause).

3) Quote:If evolution be not true, the only explanation for the appearance of varied life on the planet is intelligent design.

A scientific hypothesis or experiment does NOT pose an ultimatum like this. Science is not an either/or endeavor. It is a pursuit of truth, with each experiment leaving a puzzle piece.

4) Quote:Evolution states by addition of new traits (new organs, new anatomy)....since detrimental or beneficial mutations are only alterations of already existing traits, and can not account for an increase in the number of traits any given life form possesses.

I'm going to take a red car, and over the process of 10000 coats paint it slightly darker red each time. At the end,it will be black. I will then show you a picture of the original car. Will they look the same?

I also point you to the origin of mitochondria in eukaryotic cells. Any microbiologist or decent microbiology text will show that they were obtained, rather quickly, by endocytosis, and altered by the cell to work for it.

4) Quote:Evolution theory would predict that the process of gradual change and increase in traits is an ongoing process, and therefore should be observable in todays living animals and plants

It is very convenient how you leave out bacteria, which have been proven over and over again to evolve on an observable timescale.

5) Quote:A kind is the original prototype of any ancestral line

I won't even go into how uncouth it is to define your own terms in an argument. However, as evolution is a slow process (and you use it in your argument and thus cannot come back and say that you disagree), where would you draw the line of a "prototype"? The transition of species from a common ancestor is a gradient, not a series of steps.

6) My final argument.

Quote:If no such common ancestor can be found and confirmed without bias

That one statement says more than enough.If someone's logic trumps your own, you will cry "bias". Quite simply, that makes it "not false" that you are not a scientist.

- Sol

well maybe we can see if it's true.
http://riaatoday.blogspot.com/
http://riaatoday.com/
If you want to be able to post here, send me your e-mail address. ramjet at sfdj.net

Killing MySql won't send people to MS-Access. It is PostGreSql (which was Sun's original favorite OSS RDMS) that stands to benefit from the death of MySql. I had predicted this a year ago.

This is not fuzzy logic. In fuzzy logic 'fuzzy' applies to the 'logic' of the decision-making process (ie, not binary TRUE or FALSE, but 'fuzzy' - somewhere in between). This and this are fuzzy logic.

Basically he uses probability, fuzzy logic uses certainty. It's a hard distinction unless you really like math but if you want to argue it's worth arguing.

This is not fuzzy logic. In fuzzy logic 'fuzzy' applies to the 'logic' of the decision-making process (ie, not binary TRUE or FALSE, but 'fuzzy' - somewhere in between). This and this are fuzzy logic.

Basically he uses probability, fuzzy logic uses certainty. It's a hard distinction unless you really like math but if you want to argue it's worth arguing.

http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/07/carbon-dioxide-and-temperatures-ice.html Another place to find info on past spikes.

FTA:

music that has not passed its âoerenew dateâ still works... music that has expired will no longer work because the DRM licensing server has apparently shut down.

Quick, listen to your music before it expires!

Also, the article suggests that Total Music (which recently acquired Ruckus, and was a joint venture between Sony and UM) still has some life in it, but this article (on the same site!) says otherwise and quotes the blog of a VP there. I guess these record labels are having a hard time with this stuff...

You already use this technology. In fact I remember encountering this for the first time when writing an AppleScript program in sixth grade to help a room full of students add up Giant Eagle receipts. I was very embarrassed to have no explanation for someone suddenly getting $54.2300000001 on the screen (looking back, our computer teacher probably should have been able to offer us an explanation.)

If you are listening to music on a portable media device, it's safe to say that you aren't going to be able to hear the difference between the lossy format and the lossless format.

It's like drinking from a well. Connoisseurs may claim to be able to taste the difference between it and tap water, but that's just the extra tang from all the bull shit.

If you float in the well, does that make you a witch?

Please don't confuse "lossy" media compression with whatever Krishna Palem's technology is going to do. First of all, you can definitely hear the differences if you own a nice pair of cans and a pocket-sized amplifier.

If the technology gets off the ground, expect to see encoders (or even entirely new codec formats) designed to take into account the nuances of specific probablistic computing machines. Personally I will be a little shocked if the notion that a probablistic general-purpose computational device can outperform any hardware specifically designed for decoding multimedia. So that's where you'll probably see the technology going: hardware media decoders (and maybe encoders, too, for real time applications like portable gaming.) Some computational scientific research takes advantage of probablistic analyses, too, so maybe we'll see a niche for these machines in the supercomputer market. Perhaps there is even a home for this technology in Hollywood CGI (raytracing is expensive, and there are already people using probabilistic algorithms to do it faster.)

But honestly, can anyone think of a potential application for the average PC of this technology that isn't media codecs? No, because there isn't one. When is the last time a new computer even batted an eyelash at the CPU power it takes to decode audio and/or video? I've been rolling with a 1GHz processor for years and I still can't make out the bumps in my CPU usage meter caused by my media player. If you can: you're using the wrong codec / decoder / media-player.

With regards to music, they're not talking about skips and pops, they're talking about extremely slight modulations in pitch or, in the case of video, a very slight difference in color.

With respect, you have no idea what they're talking about. I can promise you that if I ran an MP3 decoder on a PC emulator that introduced noise into the lower bits of every computation, before it horribly crashed the noise it put out could not be uniformly characterized by any "slight modulation" or "slight difference." You're probably asking yourself why this matters because surely that is not how anyone proposes to use this technology. Hopefully you're now realizing what this implies: if you'd want to take advantage of this technology, you would have to write your code to specifically tell the processor which operations and registers can deal with a little bit of garbage. Great. I can't wait to code for that.</sarcasm>

If I could get 30x the battery life out of my laptop by accepting imperfections in the video it displays and in the audio it plays (and I know it wouldn't, but this is a hypothetical), then I'd gladly go for it.

You can't. Sorry.

Rather than developing its own kick-ass multicore processor, Nvidia chose the lazy and, shall I say, stupid route. Way to go, Nvidia. FYI, the x86 is last century's dying dinosaur, soon to join the buggy whip and the cloth diapers in the trash bin of obsolete technologies.

We need a solution to the parallel programming problem. We need a new programming model and a new type of parallel processor to support the new model. We need solutions, not me-toos and hand-me-downs. We don't need no more stinking x86 processors. Please.

I thought you guys all got laid off.

indeed, that why i use some pattern to remember my password, like qwertyslashdot1234, or qwertymyspace1234. but, the problem is not on user side in TFA, it's the application.

So right, which is why the constant stifling of technological advance drives me nuts. If people want to shut down coal burning plants, let's build some nuclear ones. But other people keep bringing up the straw men of nuclear waste or Three Mile Island. At some point in time, you have to choose the lady or the tiger. No technological change comes without some risk. Take the automobile; since 1975, there have been 1.5 million deaths in the US from car accidents. This is only slightly less than the total of all American military deaths since the War of 1812. I'm sure if you went back to 1950 (couldn't find the list), car deaths would overtake war deaths. But, while many people protest against war, I don't hear anyone protesting we should give up cars.

And, if there's been one constant trend with technologies of all kinds over the last 30 years, it's the rapidly decreasing time from a technology's introduction to the time when it's adopted by a significant percentage of the population. Great chart here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XJseql2u5l0/R7H6Ocva9AI/AAAAAAAAB5s/_HcTnkO8xPw/s1600-h/consumption_rates_technology.jpg

So if the Chinese electric car and the Chevy Volt are actually introduced in the next year or two, I think we'll see a massive changeover, especially by commuters, in just a few years. Why pay for gas at $2-3/gal, when you can charge your car overnight at off-peak rates? And here's a free one for government - you can encourage the changeover by letting single drivers in e-cars use the carpool lanes. Cost - zero, but incentive to people to buy e-cars - huge.

From my perusal of TFA, I think the passwords were actually hashed in the DB, but the guy who cracked the site broke them: http://hackedphpbb.blogspot.com/

The response from phpBB.com seemed to indicate that the only passwords that were cracked were from those accounts that had been created in an older system, and had not logged in under the newer system. Given the large number of spam accounts on that site, I wonder if the majority of those cracked, not recently logged in accounts were spam accounts, and as such if the passwords are not representative of the userbase at large: http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29973

+1 , well said, sir!

They may not like the result...

The stuff carrying the Free Licenses would get an extra edge...

Some thoughts on a "Copyright Offensive" - http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/2007/04/some-thoughts-on-copyright-offensive.html

drew

Despite the GP's warning, I've just recently purchased a Dell 2408WFP (a couple generations/revisions newer than the 2405WFP) and I couldn't be happier. It's a 24" P-VA panel with 1920x1200 resolution.

The color quality is fantastic, especially compared to my previous (good quality) 19" LG TN panel. The response time is perfectly good and I haven't noticed anything resembling lag regardless of what types of games I've tried.

The viewing angle isn't as good as an IPS panel, but it is far superior to a TN. Also, even when the colors change as your angle changes, the difference isn't as dramatic as with a TN panel.

As far as extras, it's got a handy 4-port USB hub built in, along with memory card reader slots (one for SD/MMC/MStick and one for CF). It also has many connectors on the back: VGA, 2 DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, composite, component, and S-video.

The nice thing about all the connectors is that you can use it as a TV display if so inclined. There's no tuner, but it would be great for a DVR output. It also has two built in speakers, however I've not used them and I've read that they sound awful (which isn't at all surprising).

These two reviews gave me a lot of information before I bought the panel:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_2408wfp.htm
http://monitortest.blogspot.com/

See the writings of people like Matt Asay and others about upcoming lock-in strategies. http://asay.blogspot.com/2006/05/future-of-lock-in.html

MS is ready to yield on formats if they can lock up the data in other ways.

The key is freeing the data and keeping it free. Open formats and standards and software help, no question. But an equally important preventitive is to make certain you have iron clad contract language enabling you to move your data from that vendor's system to a competing system, at nominal hassle and cost, and, if the vendor really wants your business, at the vendor's expense if it turns out to be more than nominal.

Somone please mod me up, I know the subject I'm talking about through and through from painful experience but I have no means to self-mod and get this thought to the original poster. Thanks.

If you aren't a serious game or video editor this probably doesn't matter. I recently bought a new LCD for a dirt low price. Some of its specs are unbelievable (possibly with good reason) like the 15,000 to 1 contrast ratio. It claims a 5ms response time. I haven't tested it like CNET would, but I have seen no problems and am very happy with it.

Isn't the DOJ one of the prosecutors in the RIAA v. John Doe cases? Yep some change. And then there's this: "RIAA serves defendant with summons and complaint on January 20th" - I thought RIAA was supposed to stop this stuff? http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html#1448276563095039304%23links

And finally: "Terrorised by the labels" - http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18386

Britanny, 18, is not a fake RIAA statistic. In a letter to her mother and father, she writes, "Thank you for covering for me. I'm sorry I ask if the money all the time. I'm sorry that I got you and me into all this trouble with the RIAA. If I could do this all over again I would be a lot smarter about it. I feel like I've let you all down. I let myself down. All this stuff makes me feel like an idiot. I feel like all this crap is taking away from your lives and the rest of the family. I'm sorry. I love you, and I'm glad that you have supported me and basically taken care of all this crap for me."

"February 3, 2009, is the ultimatum day; the day the RIAA's extortionate demand to settle a file-sharing threat for $7500.00+ or be sued in Federal Court in the Western District of Michigan will expire.

"My daughter is the target of this particular attack."

Bastards. I now quote the Declaration of Independence: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..... He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."