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Yes, there is. You have to remember that the incident you link to above was over in like 2 minutes before anyone could react, but the hijackings to Cuba were continual and on the TV over and over and over again, so the default "hijacking" scenario was the plane goes to Cuba and then everyone gets released.

It was common enough that it was considered a normal thing to put on the TV as a sketch comedy skit.

For now.

They don't offer any with 10.04, and two of the four models they offer still have 9.04. Doesn't seem like they're too keen on it.

Maybe Dell isn't too keen on upgrading to the latest version of Ubuntu. Well, sucks to be us. And by us, I mean all of the people that put their money where their mouth is and bought a laptop preloaded with Ubuntu from Dell.

But that has just about nothing to do with the central point, or should I say fallacy of this article.

Here it is:

Linux: Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website

Well, I can sure see them on the website.

"Dell has stopped selling consumer PCs preloaded with Ubuntu from its website, and doesn't know when they're coming back.

Nope, it didn't happen.

Dell insists that it's continuing to sell Ubuntu systems, but only over the phone, and has no idea when — or even if — the Ubuntu PCs will return online.

Well at least there is that much, right?

A search for Ubuntu on the Dell UK website returns only one laptop — the Dell Latitude 2100 from the company's business range.

Now wait just a second, first people say that there are no cannibals in the British Navy...erm... I mean, they say that there are no Ubuntu laptops sold on the Dell website, and now you're saying that there's just one?

Now that's just taking the piss!

Speaking of the UK, I'll kindly point people at The FAQ that notes:

Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem.

Try again, editors. Try again.

Well, since they already passed on Mincing Mollusc, I doubt they will have the exoskeleton for it.

The "authorities" have now realised that the internet allows people to collaborate and learn openly whats really going on in the world, and how the puzzle fits togther. this to them is danderous

:) As in, "makes their scalps itch and shed flakes?"

I know, that's just a typo, but it's a good one. Almost Freudian: this kind of freedom of information makes their skin crawl.

Anyway, this comment (without typo) brought to mind a Monty Python sketch most apropos:

He's that most dangerous of creatures, a clever sheep. 'e's realized that a sheep's life consists of standin' around for a few months and then bein' eaten. And that's a depressing prospect for an ambitious sheep.

Let's hear it for dangerous sheep!

Wow. I never thought I'd get modded Troll for referring to the Argument Sketch. Doesn't anyone remember their Python anymore?

You, Sir, are apparently equipped with a sense of humour akin to a sloth that just went through the grandad's secret opium stash.

Monty Python was and remains a timeless work of satiric and absurd comedy, regardless if it is in written or in acted form.
In the future, I'd recommend that you stick with such comedic shows such as "The Friends", "The American Pie" series of films and "Collected and Abridged Works of Judd Apatow" connect-the-dots-and-paint-by-numbers educational books.
Such arrangements should keep us all far happier and in better mood.

Oh, and one last thing...

SOD OFF!

It's great that they're trying to reduce abuse but I had no problem posting about YouVacuousCoffeeNosedMaloderousPervert.com on my FaceBook profile. They sure do have a strange definition of what is & isn't abusive.

and no, 80 year old English grandmothers are not terrorists

Sure they are; Monty Python said so http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/grannies.htm

For the Monty-Python impaired:
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/bruces.htm
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_p0CgPeyA

I want my authentic "Crunchy Core"!

Sheeeesh! Even God fears the FDA nowadays! (Or Inspector Flying Praline of the Yard, anyway...)

"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious." (The Piranha Brothers sketch.)

pliCAAWW! (He's Right. It is Monty Python.)
qu'kcuUH! (They found me out. I'm NOT dead!)
chthkqWA! (I'm a Avian Ventriloquist!)

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/pet-shop.html
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/monty-python-parrot.html
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/dead-parrot.htm

I find this sketch particularly apropos somehow. (Or this while it lasts.)

Those who modded this Offtopic obviously don't know their Monty Python stuff!

does the Earth have a beginning and an end?

I have a new theory about the Earth.
Ahem.
My theory, that I have, follows the lines that I am about to relate.
Ahem.
The Theory, by A. Elk (that's "A" for Anne", it's not by a elk.)
This theory, which belongs to me, is as follows...
Ahem.
This is how it goes...
Ahem.
The next thing that I am about to say is my theory.
Ahem.
Ready?
Ahem.
The Theory, by A. Elk (Miss). My theory is along the following lines...
Ahem.

The Earth is thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end.

That is the theory that I have and which is mine and what it is, too.

Yes sir! We use only the finest baby libraries, softely coded and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality norton scanners, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent DRM quintuple secure treble virtualized rootkit envelope and lovingly compiled with visual basic.

Steve Milton Ballmer
CEO, Microsoft-Whizzo Corp.

Ha! That reminded me of:

Now over to the sign of the marathon for incontinent people.

There's an enormous entry this year: 44 competitors from 29 countries, all with weak bladders, ready for the world's longest race and just aching to go!

[The starter's pistol goes off, and the competitors all go for the toilet.]

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/neutron.htm

Voice Over: Mr Neutron! The most dangerous and terrifying man in the world! The man with the strength of an army! The wisdom of all the scholars in history! The man who had the power to destroy the world. (animation of planets in space) Mr Neutron. No one knows what strange and distant planet he came from, or where he was going to!... Wherever he went, terror and destruction were sure to follow.

(Cut to Neutron's garden. He has three little picnic chairs out and is having tea with Mr and Mrs Entrail, a middle-aged couple. The lady, a little overdressed dominates. Mr Entrail sits there rather sourly.)

Voice Over: Mr Neutron! The man whose incredible power has made him the most feared man of all time... waits for his moment to destroy this little world utterly!

Mrs Entrail: Then there's Stanley ... he's our eldest ... he's a biochemist in Sutton. He's married to Shirley...

Mr Neutron: (in a strange disembodied voice, grammatically correct but poor in intonation) Shirley who used to be the hairdresser?

• ample historical context which suggests that your claim is wrong, and
• pointers to authoritative soruces, and
• some hints that perhaps I might know a little more about the narrow subject of how many CPUs the Mach kernel has been running on for a very long time (more than 2 to 4, I assure you) than one might hope to glean from buying scrap iron.

(Please check yourself into to the Argument Clinic for further treatment regarding the mechanics of argument.)

One-off hot rods are not required. Apple could buy or rent large systems from companies that have them off the shelf, like Unisys, Fujitsu and otheres (Intel), Sun (SPARC), HP (PA-RISC) or IBM (Power) . At various times since at least 1992 the NeXT/Apple version of the kernel compiled on some or all of those hardware architectures. It probably still does in the labs, even if Darwin, the fork of the source that builds production releases of Mac OS X, may not. Steve Jobs has demonstrated that he values the portability of Mach, and is willing to devote resources to make sure that it remains portable. If market conditions changed, Steve Jobs could wake up one day and decide he wants to ship Mac OS X for SPARC and have it running on his desk by the end of the week if not the end of the day. In a few months, Mac OS X Server for SPARC could be a shipping product. People doubted this for years when NeXT Fanboys said this, but history has proven that this can happen. It can be running and ready to hand out a CD to thousands of developers before IBM even knows you're going to switch processors to one that has a roadmap that extends beyond 2003. You doubt such a scenario? What if Google one day decided they want to convert their data centers to SPARC because they can squeeze 64 cores into the power envelope used by 4 cores in their current data centers, and that they wanted to use development tools for Mac OS X to build a new service. Do you think Apple would be in position to take advantage when a member of the board calls Steve and says something like, "Hey Steve, I have an idea I want to talk with you about..." You bet your stock options, Apple could have a demo in front of Google ASAP.

This issue regarding Mach IPC that has your undies in a bunch is pretty clearly not a problem in the production kernel, judging by the SPECint and SPECfp and other benchmarks that Apple is getting on multiple CPU architectures. Don't take my word for it. Get a box yourself and put Linux , FreeBSD, and Windows on it and see if you come up with similar numbers. Undoubtedly you would. If the IPC inside the Mach kernel was such a performance problem with multiple CPU, this problem would undoubtedly be measurable in a dual or quad core system. The fact that the internet isn't abuzz with people posting bona fide exposes about this issue probably means it's not an issue. (Be sure to use benchmarks which are designed to measure performance on multi-processor machines like the Spec Int Rate benchmark).

Better yet, get a friend at a university or at some place that makes such iron, a

The Mozilla developers will be carried along a corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed.

For those who might not understand the joke - it's a Monty Python reference.

My head is stuck in the cupboard!

Good evening.

Tonight, on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened tonight, on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've...

Anyway, tonight on "It's the Mind" we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu, that strange...

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/dejavu.htm

RMN
~~~

Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived... through something before, that what is happening now has... already... happened?

*runs*

They can't commisserate with you when your favorite team lost again, share a laugh about the weather

MS Execs clearly took their strategy from Monty Python's "How Not to be Seen"

No, it's the Microsoft version of the Ron Obvious sketch:

http://www.orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/jump.ht m

Ron Obvious Jumps across the english channel ,Eats a cathedral , Tunnels to Java, Runs all the way to Mercury, and finally Makes the Xbox360 a hit in Japan

Call the Church Police!

And now, I'd like to conclude this arrest with a hymn.

... there's no time to loose!

(or is that "there's No-Time Toulouse!")

Whenever I think of AV software I am reminded of the Monty Python skit: "Army Protection Racket". In the skit, Michael Palin and Terry Jones portray a couple of mafiosos and they wander around the office of an army Colonel, casually pushing objects off the desk, the shelves, etc.. All the while they say things like, "You've got a nice army base here, Colonel. We wouldn't want anything to happen to it." They imply that bad things might happen like all the tanks might break or the squad of paratroopers might catch on fire...

"We can guarantee you that not a single armoured division will get done over for fifteen bob a week."

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/racket.htm

Do I trust the anti-malware companies??? Of course not...

Do I pay the protection money??? Of course I do...

Every spammer gets a "Spring Surprise."

CrunchyFrog explined. http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/crunchy.htm

M HOUNSLOW WEST: How about this, sir?

MR WEST RUISLIP FOR ICKENHAM: (TASTING ELABORATELY) Mmm... it's a slightly flinty breed... sharp and resolute, with a terse smokiness in the aftertaste... is it a Pouilly Fume... ?

M HOUNSLOW WEST: No, it's wee-wee.

As everyone knows, Scotland is the World's worst tennis-playing nation.. This can only mean...

Aliens mean to win Quakecon!

Actually, he got the quote a little muddled, too, it goes more like this:

.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....

See!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimania_stall man_keynote2.jpg

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/pics/tnlob2004-3.jpg

I'm just speechless...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimania_stall man_keynote2.jpg

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/pics/tnlob2004-3.jpg

I can't help but think of the Hell's Grannies sketch, from Monty Python:

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/grannies.ht m

If introverts have more brain activity, that would certainly make them not normal. I think it might be "wrong", too. Remember the Pythons: "He's that most dangerous of creatures, a clever sheep."

Crunchy frog?

Voice Over: What are they in it for, these old hoodlums, these layabouts in lace?

First Granny: (voice over) Well it's something to do isn't it?

Second Granny: (voice over) It's good fun.

Third Granny: (voice over) It's like you know, well, innit, eh?

Voice Over: Favourite targets for the old ladies are telephone kiosks.

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/grannies.ht m

I believe that he is an undercover spy from the silly party.

They would respond only marginally to any kind of stimulus and would not come when called.

Sounds like a job for the Confuse-A-Cat, Ltd.

See here, about halfway down the page

Ve didn't have much fun in Stalingrad... http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/nthmine.htm

Yeah, they are talking about the picture. It's the Kilimanjaro Sketch.

OK, I'll say it: watching drops splash or not all day: SILLY!!

We'll get some return on that government spending. Did you realize that in 1970, the UK was allocating £348,000,000 per year for Silly Walk research?

It seems like they need to watch this again. (In searching for an appropriate link, I also stumbled upon a strange amalgamation of Monty Python and JRR Tolkein. It's bloody hilarious if you know both.)

"No madam, I'm a burglar, I burgle people."

Obligatory Python sketch link for those who don't get the joke.

Thank you for totally not getting the python reference.
ass.