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Luckily our Japanese friends were able to document this:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5700347/14933551

nah, the Devil was too busy making Flip Wilson's characters buy dresses to paint EM emitters on the Earth's planetjackerlike shell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMEDncCrNMk

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5326910/14043514

Some don't need extra blue and, in fact, could do with a warmer picture. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080520153359AARz3H0

I was weirded out by Google's results too, but Yahoo!'s seem to show some interesting volume spikes.

Note that there's one huge trade before things go pear shaped (2:32pm). It's a bit conspiracy theory, but if you wanted to dump a heap of blue chip stock to trigger panic selling, make some good buys in the ensuing chaos, and then rebuy the blue chip (2:49pm), it would look a lot like what happened yesterday...

The report says Robbins turned in his laptop with a broken screen and was issued a loaner on Oct. 20, but school officials quickly moved to retrieve it due to outstanding insurance fees. So the tracking program was activated from Oct. 20 to Nov. 4 and captured 210 webcam photographs and 218 screen shots, the report said.

So they knew who had the laptop (not missing). They gave it to him (not stolen). They didn't attempt to recover the laptop by using reasonable measures (asking him for it back, calling the parents). But some how, spying on him for 15 days, off campus, is reasonable for not paying a $50 fee?

Who would want to work for BP? They're non-profit,

Full stop. What? BP is NOT a non-profit. They never have been. In fact, not only are they a for-profit enterprise, they are publicly traded on the London stock exchange and have ADR's here on the New York Stock Exchange.

Well, from this article, it appears that problems with blowout preventers are far from unknown, even if BP want to bandy around the word "unprecedented" when referring to the failure.

Business doesn't like regulation, and

this is false because:

they often have more influence on lawmaking than "we" do.

It's called Regulatory capture. You don't have the time to study every effect of every regulation proposed by someone who was appointed by someone who was elected within a district where you can vote. But business-paid lobbyists do have that time. So you demand that something must be done, and when a new thousand pages of laws and regulations are created you're appeased, because what voter has time to hunt through those laws for corporate giveaways like $75 million liability limits?

Yeah, businesses hate regulation. "We'll write a bunch of lawyerese that acts as a barrier to entry for would-be new competitors, and we'll promise to bail you out at the expense of your victims if your risk-taking backfires - but watch out if it does backfire, because then the furious voters will demand that we do the same thing again!"

Until I read it to the end:

SOURCE AU Optronics Corp.

I'm not disputing the facts, but I'm damn sure a press release from AUO is not the best place to get an impartial view...

Well, I submitted the article. I guess I don't know what to do about the second link. The first link is by IDG and should be unbiased. Every single article I could find about that ruling linked back to AOU's news service. Granted I didn't search the entire internet but everyone's spewing the same thing. I couldn't find anything about this on LG Display's site. I couldn't find any court records from the super awesome District of Delaware's web site (holy sh*t, 1993 called and wants your site back).

I don't know what to say ... if you had offered a better link I wouldn't even be responding to this but I came up empty. I guess next time I submit a PR from a company I should put a disclaimer in the summary? It was meant to augment the first link, not be the focus. That was the only link where the patents were named. Any suggestions on how to make submissions better are welcomed. Suppose it's time I installed RECAP on all my home machines.

(And no, I'm not an LG sockpuppet).

I also certainly hope I didn't come off as an AUO sockpuppet ... apologies if I did/do. They do hold 16-17% of the LCD display market so I think they may be justified in this patent and counter patent suit action. It's not like they're a non-practicing entity patent troll.

For developers that get their software into bricks and mortar stores, guess what percentage they lose? Well on a average $30-$50 product, they'll net about $1-$2. In other words, they are losing >95% of the retail price of the software. You didn't know that did you.

I'm well aware of the retail margins - and no, the publisher doesn't get $1 - $2 on a $50. A buck doesn't even cover the cost of packaging and production. Look in the trades - $10 to $20 is the norm on a $40-$50 retail product. Why do you think the retailers are screaming about thin margins - they're the ones who only get a 5% to 10% markup.

Nintendo actually published their figures. Look around for them. ISTR that Microsoft also did for their XBox titles.

Still, this doesn't address the real issue - control. As long as people have to funnel through the App store, you have a chance. However, the iPhone is under serious attack, and the leaked next-gen phone doesn't hold up all that well against the competition - especially against the latest droid from HTC. Android phones might outsell iPhones this year - they already surpass iPhones in terms of web surfing activity.

And the leaked iPhone falls short when set beside the Evo 4g. I'm not a google fan, but this phone just looks NICE!

In the theater, instead of DRM gone awry you had hundreds of operators trying to get their chosen brands of 3-D systems to work correctly. There were various levels of success. I watched it on RealD and (mini) iMax--for the sake of science!--and it was out of focus the entire time with iMax (though interestingly one out of the two people I sat next two claimed that it was totally in focus). I wouldn't see any point in viewing it at home without 3-D technology, but by the time home releases support that (and I buy a Sony "shutter glasses" 3D TV) there'll be a movie with CGI as good as Avatar's and a decent plot as well that I can buy to demo it.

If this problem (mentioned in TFS) is really in the DRM, then it is unlikely to affect DVDs, which still use CSS. Key revocation is possible (apparently) with CSS, but the majority of DVD players don't support constant key updates over the internet so it is not used.

The "story" (Yahoo entertainment "journalism") doesn't mention DVDs at all, and instead speculates that the people affected did not download the latest updates to their firmware to get non-revoked keys (the centerpiece of the AACS system!). If you bought a blu-ray player not knowing that...you deserve everything you get.

The guy in TFA claims to have three BD players, two of which are standalone. Even if his standalone players aren't connected (or have never been subject to a device revocation before), surely his computer software will update itself. Perhaps he's putting in it upside-down...

The only information I could find about problems with the DVD was a Y! Answers thread indicating that "layer lag" may occur in scene 18 (with crappy DVD players, presumably).

There is no new news in this article whatsoever; it serves only as an excuse for everyone to bitch about AACS (again).

%spoiler Market cap: 166.53B %spoiler

HP are still that big? I haven't seen one of their products in years.

300,000 full-time employees. Market cap $125 Billion. Indexed in the Dow Industrials. S&P 100, etc. In the U.S., second only to IBM in computer hardware sales. Does any of this ring a bell?

HPQ Competitors
 

Apple sits at the STEERING COMITTEE of the cops in the raid; isn't that intriguing enough?

An antitrust case against Apple would really be fun to watch - all those fanboys squirming.

Fanboys wouldn't be the only ones squirming. Imagine how the inflated stock price of AAPL would collapse if an antitrust case with chances of success would be made against Apple.

Unfortunately you are wrong and Apple can indeed get a search warrant and send police to break down your door if you make them mad enough.

Good point, another point is CO2 is heavier than air, so it stays down, not up where it would be blocking the heat from escaping. That's also missing from pretty much every "Green" article.

It's quite a bit more complex than that.....

Google has declared over $30 billion in tangible assets for 2009.

They even paid more than your $1.5 billion estimate in income taxes in 2009.

Frankly, I even think that Google has enough money to develop a competing OS and eventually displace Microsoft from their position of control in the OS market, but I don't think that they're at all interested.

Google has declared over $30 billion in tangible assets for 2009.

They even paid more than your $1.5 billion estimate in income taxes in 2009.

Frankly, I even think that Google has enough money to develop a competing OS and eventually displace Microsoft from their position of control in the OS market, but I don't think that they're at all interested.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100409/ap_on_re_us/us_pope_church_abuse

I don't think people are arguing that he covered up the abuse, just that he ignored and/or delayed something that was VERY obviously a case of child molestation (the priest pled no contest and asked to be defrocked, THAT REQUEST WAS SUPPORTED BY THE LOCAL DIOCESE, and Ratzinger intentionally sat on it!) Sounds like a direct link to me.

Is he criminally liable? I would say not. Did he make a really big mistake, even an error in moral judgement? I think many would say yes. Not promising for the leader of a church with an official doctrine of "papal infallibility".

Good idea! They should require that the CEOs are on board the test flights.

The CEO of British Airways was on board was on board their test flight.

If it wasn't for sports, I'd consider canceling cable/sattelite and just watching content via the internet.

What sports are you trying to watch? heard of http://mlb.tv?
https://mdl.mlssoccer.com/mlsmdl/secure
/registerform
http://nfl.com/live
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/hockeynight
http://justin.tv/
http://atdhe.net/

Adding a little bit here. 8 billion US dollars is more than a fair price for the company when its current market cap is around 2 billion. If Apple is making a real bid, ARM's board of directors will be taking this offer very seriously as it will greatly benefit its shareholders.

BZZZZT! ARMs current market cap is $5.2bn. (1.311 billion shares at a price of 259p each, times 1.53 to account for the GBP exchange rate.) I know Google Finance says different; Google Finance is wrong. Get a Bloomberg Terminal or use Yahoo instead.

Uhhh...dude? You DO know that there are other search engines and video sites, right? And I would say some of them are BETTER than Google! When was the last time you tried Yahoo Search? Yeah I know they have allied with Bing for the results, but frankly their UI kicks Bing's ass and IMHO Google's too. Next time try a search on Yahoo and use the "more" tab (it is that little blue button below the search box) and see how handy that little sucker is. Once you use the more tab a few times you will not want to go back.

So while I agree that the amount of data mining going on at Google is a little scary, it isn't like we don't have plenty of alternatives. There are plenty of video sites, free email sites, the only one I can't think of an alternative on is the book deal. But if you don't like Google just don't use them! I haven't used Google as anything but a spam dump for a couple of years and I couldn't be happier.

And finally about Bing and their "long tail" horseshit? That is just what it is...pure horseshit. I spend my days repairing and selling PCs, and you know what site the VAST majority of them is set to as a home page? By a good 99 to 1? Give ya a hint, it AIN'T Google, it is this. We geeks may think it is cluttered, but average folks just eat that shit up. They check the weather, read the headlines, check their mail, and then search, all from that page. The average folks really have a shitfit if you don't set their browser to that if you switch them off IE. To them it is what the morning paper was for the older generations. So I would have to say Bing is full of shit, because if they can't get their shit together with all the searches coming from the Yahoo home page then they are doing it wrong.

Uhhh...dude? You DO know that there are other search engines and video sites, right? And I would say some of them are BETTER than Google! When was the last time you tried Yahoo Search? Yeah I know they have allied with Bing for the results, but frankly their UI kicks Bing's ass and IMHO Google's too. Next time try a search on Yahoo and use the "more" tab (it is that little blue button below the search box) and see how handy that little sucker is. Once you use the more tab a few times you will not want to go back.

So while I agree that the amount of data mining going on at Google is a little scary, it isn't like we don't have plenty of alternatives. There are plenty of video sites, free email sites, the only one I can't think of an alternative on is the book deal. But if you don't like Google just don't use them! I haven't used Google as anything but a spam dump for a couple of years and I couldn't be happier.

And finally about Bing and their "long tail" horseshit? That is just what it is...pure horseshit. I spend my days repairing and selling PCs, and you know what site the VAST majority of them is set to as a home page? By a good 99 to 1? Give ya a hint, it AIN'T Google, it is this. We geeks may think it is cluttered, but average folks just eat that shit up. They check the weather, read the headlines, check their mail, and then search, all from that page. The average folks really have a shitfit if you don't set their browser to that if you switch them off IE. To them it is what the morning paper was for the older generations. So I would have to say Bing is full of shit, because if they can't get their shit together with all the searches coming from the Yahoo home page then they are doing it wrong.

The article criticizing the dashboard has already been slashdotted but (oh irony) it was in my chrome cache.

The group also said that the Dashboard, though useful, is not easy to find.

“If they want people to use this, why isn’t there a direct link from the home page?” asked Simpson. “In other contexts Google likes to say competition is one click away. They’ve buried the Dashboard. The extra password verification is a good security measure, but why can’t you get there with one click from a Dashboard link on the home page?”

The google dashboard is cleverly "buried" at google.com/dashboard

Navigating to it requires the user to select the "Settings => Google Account settings" dropdown at the top right of the page when you're logged in. Maybe I've been around computers for more than a few minutes and that gives me an advantage, but that felt like a pretty natural way to find this.

I agree that Google needs to take more steps to make user behavior anonymous, but at least they're honest about that and have a means for providing dashboard feedback.

And FWIW I don't see anything in the Microsoft Online Privacy Statement about giving users a way to control their data. Nor in the Yahoo Privacy Center.

Maybe it's just too hard to find.

Apple's cash reserves ($41.7B) covers Adobe's market cap (18.38B). If Apple had to, they would buy Adobe with a checkbook. Besides, last I heard, 60% of Adobe's revenue is from Mac OS software. That would be a big plug to pull out of spite.

I don't think you're comparing apples to apples there. You're saying that the specialized skills that you learn from Contra won't help you with Quake 3, which I think is mostly true, though there clearly is some benefit to prior video game experiences help you learn new video games.

I think the real question is more like "does playing a game that requires you to keep track of lots of little jobs at the same time, help you get better at keeping track of lots of little jobs at the same time", and to me the answer would seem to be yes. That sort of these guys' philosophy http://cognitiveme.com/ but they do it with normal flash games instead of developing brain-specific games. The other thing nice about them is that they don't make outrageous claims like "we're improving your IQ" or pretend that the best way to measure the state of your brain is to give it an age in years, or anything else that's just so "out there" that you know it's not going to hold up under any scrutiny.

Certainly there are lots of "Brain Exercise" people out there who are selling snake oil, but it's just as stupid to paint the entire industry with a broad brush on the basis of a single study of people spending 30 minutes a week playing a brain game instead of surfing. Interestingly enough, if you look at the AP version who actually interviewed a scientist not involved with the study or the industry, you get a bit more nuance: http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/eu_med_brain_games.html

"There is precious little evidence to suggest the skills used in these games transfer to the real world," said Art Kramer, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Illinois. He was not linked to the study and has no ties to any companies that make brain training games.

Kramer had several reservations about the BBC study's methodology and said some brain games had small effects in improving people's cognitive skills. "Learning is very specific," he said. "Unless the component you are trained in actually exists in the real world, any transfer will be pretty minimal."

Instead of playing brain games, Kramer said people would be better off getting some exercise. He said physical activity can spark new connections between neurons and produce new brain cells. "Fitness changes the building blocks of the brain's structure," he said.

Still, Kramer said some brain training games worked better than others. He said some games made by Posit Science had shown modest benefits, including improved memory in older people.

I don't think you're comparing apples to apples there. You're saying that the specialized skills that you learn from Contra won't help you with Quake 3, which I think is mostly true, though there clearly is some benefit to prior video game experiences help you learn new video games.

I think the real question is more like "does playing a game that requires you to keep track of lots of little jobs at the same time, help you get better at keeping track of lots of little jobs at the same time", and to me the answer would seem to be yes. That sort of these guys' philosophy http://cognitiveme.com/ but they do it with normal flash games instead of developing brain-specific games. The other thing nice about them is that they don't make outrageous claims like "we're improving your IQ" or pretend that the best way to measure the state of your brain is to give it an age in years, or anything else that's just so "out there" that you know it's not going to hold up under any scrutiny.

Certainly there are lots of "Brain Exercise" people out there who are selling snake oil, but it's just as stupid to paint the entire industry with a broad brush on the basis of a single study of people spending 30 minutes a week playing a brain game instead of surfing. Interestingly enough, if you look at the AP version who actually interviewed a scientist not involved with the study or the industry, you get a bit more nuance: http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/eu_med_brain_games.html

"There is precious little evidence to suggest the skills used in these games transfer to the real world," said Art Kramer, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Illinois. He was not linked to the study and has no ties to any companies that make brain training games.

Kramer had several reservations about the BBC study's methodology and said some brain games had small effects in improving people's cognitive skills. "Learning is very specific," he said. "Unless the component you are trained in actually exists in the real world, any transfer will be pretty minimal."

Instead of playing brain games, Kramer said people would be better off getting some exercise. He said physical activity can spark new connections between neurons and produce new brain cells. "Fitness changes the building blocks of the brain's structure," he said.

Still, Kramer said some brain training games worked better than others. He said some games made by Posit Science had shown modest benefits, including improved memory in older people.

The story just hit ABC News, via the Associated Press: "McAfee Antivirus Program Goes Berserk, Reboots PCs" There are stories on the Huffington Post and NextGov. The story just broke into mainstream news in the last hour. It just hit the New York Times.

There's nothing on McAfee's home page about this yet. No items in their "News" or "Threat Center" or "Breaking Advisory" sections. There's supposedly a McAfee Knowledge Base article, "False positive detection of w32/wecorl.a in 5958 DAT", but their knowledge base site is overloaded. When it eventually loads, there's a download link to a patch. But there's nothing like an apology. All they say is "Problem: Blue screen or DCOM error, followed by shutdown messages after updating to the 5958 DAT on April 21, 2010."

McAfee has botched their damage control. They should be out there apologizing. Meanwhile, you can watch McAfee stock drop.

The link to that story about AllParadox is here for anyone who is smart enough to require them for a bold claim like that.

You can find other, independent corroboration of that from some poor sod who commented about it years ago, from someone who was briefly given moderation powers on Groklaw, and more recent examples on Jay Maynard's website which has some active discussions about how it's going down right now, with respect to those who don't think IBM was justified in how it intimidated TurboHercules SAS.

I've seen it personally, but you don't have to take my word for it. Their idea of "trolls" over there is anyone who disagrees too often. I think that anyone has been around Groklaw for long enough should remember how respected AllParadox was. She calls people who bring up this stuff "PJ moderates trolls" just so you know. Because nobody can think that sneaky moderation systems that don't show you when your post has been deleted, or silently editing people's comments are bad without being paid to think that by SCO, Microsoft or Satan.

I have posted about it previously, but there are very strong indications that googles account system suffers from one or more bugs. There have been dozens of reports of users who have accidentally been logged into other users accounts. It is definitely possible that crackers and spammers have figured out how to exploit the security holes by now.

See http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100321162016AAZnwCC, http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48382, http://www.google.pl/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=13d02f7a7404e5f6&hl=en, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4426cc7a854b727d&hl=en, http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/my-google-account-is-showing-someone-elses-adsense-account.html, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=65ca8c56386ded1e&hl=en and much more...

Did you read what I wrote before responding?

Not only did I read what you wrote, I even included the part you wrote, Honestly I have no problem with Israel relocating/segregating the Palestinians, I was replying to in my post.

As for the rest of your post, there wasn't the hatred you wrote of "The hatred they have for each other is ingrained from birth an cannot be resolved" was not there before or during WWII. It only cam with the founding of Israel. Israeli founders wanted to ethnic cleanse Israel. Don't believe me? Take the words of some of Israel's founders. Try for instance some of those quoted by Tikkun, a Jewish group.

"Shlomo Lavie, a well-known leader of the Israeli Labor Party, the Mapai, declared that the 'transfer of Arabs out of the country in my eyes is one of the most just, moral, and correct things that can be done.'"

Or another Mapai leader, Avraham Katznelson, who "felt that nothing was 'more moral, from the viewpoint of universal human ethics, than the emptying of the Jewish state of the Arabs and their transfer elsewhere.... This requires ... force.'"

Or take the Israeli massacres against Palestinians. Irgun and Lehi, who the British in the British Mandate called terrorists. No less than Ariel Sharon led Israeli troops in the massacre in the West Bank village of Qibya. Hell Lehi even offered to work with the NAZIs. Wiki and Google, that wiki article is the first Google result, provides brief lists of Israeli massacres against Palestinians.

Now tell me again how separation will end all the problems in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and that Israeli expansionism and ethnic cleansing aren't part of the problem.

Falcon

Well, for the record, Google's security system IS BUGGY. There has been scattered reports across the internet about how users accidentally have been able to login to other peoples accounts. The problem has been reported to google multiple times on their mailing lists, but google has never given a proper response to it. They are likely afraid of the public PR disaster that would occur if people found out how insecure their google accounts really are.

References: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100321162016AAZnwCC, http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48382, http://www.google.pl/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=13d02f7a7404e5f6&hl=en, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4426cc7a854b727d&hl=en, http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/my-google-account-is-showing-someone-elses-adsense-account.html, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=65ca8c56386ded1e&hl=en

The question is, though, how much ash is too much? And if it's safe to fly from Heathrow to Cardiff, as the British Airways CEO is doing tonight, or for the KLM chairman to fly to Germany from Holland, does that necessarily mean it's safe to fly across the whole of Europe?

AFAIK considering exposing the aircraft to the clouds of ashes, there's actually no big difference between flying across Europe long or short distances. Cruising altitude is usually in the high 30000ft and since FL350 is save according to these maps it's only after takeoff and before landing when the aircraft has to pass through the cloud of ashes.

Disclaimer: All I know about this I learnt in the last three days trying to figure out how are the odds that my flight will not be cancelled. - now I have settled with the "money back" option.

SCO acquires a new business partner - GNAA

Darl here, with another fine Fr1st P0st. After all -- SCO did

everything first, and the rest of the responses to this story will owe

their heritage to a foundation built on SCO's staff of talented programmers.

You may be wondering why SCO salesmen are not answering your numerous calls

while you try to order more SCO licenses. Well, we aren't answering the phones

because we're too busy celebrating our newest business partner. Rather than

explaining it myself, I'll let our formal press release do the talking. Take it

away, Mr. Reuters...

LINDON, Utah, Sept. 8/PRNewswire - FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group,

Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX [yahoo.com]

- News [yahoo.com]), the owner and

licensor of the core UNIX operating system source code, today announced its

second Fortune 500 clent for the SCO Linux IP license, the GNAA (Nasdaq: RHAT [yahoo.com] -

News [yahoo.com]), developer of fine

Slashdot trolls on irc.efnet.net #GNAA, also well-known for

revolutionizing small business development with its "Step 2: ??????" profit

model. The availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux

affords Linux deployments to come into compliance with international law for

the use of all 2.4 and future kernels. The run-time license permits the use of

SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux

distributions.

By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid

infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5

kernels and assure Darl financial security for the purchase of his second home.

Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply

with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed. Source may

still be distributed under the terms of the GPL, however source distributors

are held accountable for all violation of SCO's IP. Indemnification is provided

for customers of runtime clients only. Read that twice, dirty hippy. You're not

in the clear yet.

GNAA spokesperson penisbird said of the licensure, "coming into compliance

affords us a new competitive advantage with the other Slashdot authors. By

being in the right, we can thumb down our noses at not only the Windows users

and the BSD-thieving Mac Users, but also the unwashed Linux hippies running

stolen code on their parents' PCs." VP of anus enlargement goat-see added,

"fr1st p0st? damn i miss. how do i next story?"

Mr. Darl McBride concurred with GNAA's analysis, adding "We soon hope to

convince additional clients such as Trollklore and Cabal of Logged In Trolls of

the benefits of licensing SCO's valuable IP. Also, I <3 GNAA bunny. (@.@)"

JesuitX clarified the nature of the SCO and GNAA alliance, adding "We're more

than just a licensing client. We're also going to be helping to bring these

other potential licensors into compliance. We can break them in little by

little as paying sublicensors. The alternative is pretty horrible. Our lawyers

can take a reticent client from virgin to hello.jpg [figure

2 [yahoo.com]] in under an hour, and believe me -- it is not pleasant."

Commander Taco was unavailable for comment, however Cowboy Kneel was said to

ask for a print of [figure 2] for his basement apartment. Simoniker remained

British and unable to spell "color," while Timothy responded by posting the

same story six times, and Hemos reposted a seventh time, the submission

SCO acquires a new business partner - GNAA

Darl here, with another fine Fr1st P0st. After all -- SCO did

everything first, and the rest of the responses to this story will owe

their heritage to a foundation built on SCO's staff of talented programmers.

You may be wondering why SCO salesmen are not answering your numerous calls

while you try to order more SCO licenses. Well, we aren't answering the phones

because we're too busy celebrating our newest business partner. Rather than

explaining it myself, I'll let our formal press release do the talking. Take it

away, Mr. Reuters...

LINDON, Utah, Sept. 8/PRNewswire - FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group,

Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX [yahoo.com]

- News [yahoo.com]), the owner and

licensor of the core UNIX operating system source code, today announced its

second Fortune 500 clent for the SCO Linux IP license, the GNAA (Nasdaq: RHAT [yahoo.com] -

News [yahoo.com]), developer of fine

Slashdot trolls on irc.efnet.net #GNAA, also well-known for

revolutionizing small business development with its "Step 2: ??????" profit

model. The availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux

affords Linux deployments to come into compliance with international law for

the use of all 2.4 and future kernels. The run-time license permits the use of

SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux

distributions.

By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid

infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5

kernels and assure Darl financial security for the purchase of his second home.

Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply

with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed. Source may

still be distributed under the terms of the GPL, however source distributors

are held accountable for all violation of SCO's IP. Indemnification is provided

for customers of runtime clients only. Read that twice, dirty hippy. You're not

in the clear yet.

GNAA spokesperson penisbird said of the licensure, "coming into compliance

affords us a new competitive advantage with the other Slashdot authors. By

being in the right, we can thumb down our noses at not only the Windows users

and the BSD-thieving Mac Users, but also the unwashed Linux hippies running

stolen code on their parents' PCs." VP of anus enlargement goat-see added,

"fr1st p0st? damn i miss. how do i next story?"

Mr. Darl McBride concurred with GNAA's analysis, adding "We soon hope to

convince additional clients such as Trollklore and Cabal of Logged In Trolls of

the benefits of licensing SCO's valuable IP. Also, I <3 GNAA bunny. (@.@)"

JesuitX clarified the nature of the SCO and GNAA alliance, adding "We're more

than just a licensing client. We're also going to be helping to bring these

other potential licensors into compliance. We can break them in little by

little as paying sublicensors. The alternative is pretty horrible. Our lawyers

can take a reticent client from virgin to hello.jpg [figure

2 [yahoo.com]] in under an hour, and believe me -- it is not pleasant."

Commander Taco was unavailable for comment, however Cowboy Kneel was said to

ask for a print of [figure 2] for his basement apartment. Simoniker remained

British and unable to spell "color," while Timothy responded by posting the

same story six times, and Hemos reposted a seventh time, the submission

SCO acquires a new business partner - GNAA

Darl here, with another fine Fr1st P0st. After all -- SCO did

everything first, and the rest of the responses to this story will owe

their heritage to a foundation built on SCO's staff of talented programmers.

You may be wondering why SCO salesmen are not answering your numerous calls

while you try to order more SCO licenses. Well, we aren't answering the phones

because we're too busy celebrating our newest business partner. Rather than

explaining it myself, I'll let our formal press release do the talking. Take it

away, Mr. Reuters...

LINDON, Utah, Sept. 8/PRNewswire - FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group,

Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX [yahoo.com]

- News [yahoo.com]), the owner and

licensor of the core UNIX operating system source code, today announced its

second Fortune 500 clent for the SCO Linux IP license, the GNAA (Nasdaq: RHAT [yahoo.com] -

News [yahoo.com]), developer of fine

Slashdot trolls on irc.efnet.net #GNAA, also well-known for

revolutionizing small business development with its "Step 2: ??????" profit

model. The availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux

affords Linux deployments to come into compliance with international law for

the use of all 2.4 and future kernels. The run-time license permits the use of

SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux

distributions.

By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid

infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5

kernels and assure Darl financial security for the purchase of his second home.

Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply

with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed. Source may

still be distributed under the terms of the GPL, however source distributors

are held accountable for all violation of SCO's IP. Indemnification is provided

for customers of runtime clients only. Read that twice, dirty hippy. You're not

in the clear yet.

GNAA spokesperson penisbird said of the licensure, "coming into compliance

affords us a new competitive advantage with the other Slashdot authors. By

being in the right, we can thumb down our noses at not only the Windows users

and the BSD-thieving Mac Users, but also the unwashed Linux hippies running

stolen code on their parents' PCs." VP of anus enlargement goat-see added,

"fr1st p0st? damn i miss. how do i next story?"

Mr. Darl McBride concurred with GNAA's analysis, adding "We soon hope to

convince additional clients such as Trollklore and Cabal of Logged In Trolls of

the benefits of licensing SCO's valuable IP. Also, I <3 GNAA bunny. (@.@)"

JesuitX clarified the nature of the SCO and GNAA alliance, adding "We're more

than just a licensing client. We're also going to be helping to bring these

other potential licensors into compliance. We can break them in little by

little as paying sublicensors. The alternative is pretty horrible. Our lawyers

can take a reticent client from virgin to hello.jpg [figure

2 [yahoo.com]] in under an hour, and believe me -- it is not pleasant."

Commander Taco was unavailable for comment, however Cowboy Kneel was said to

ask for a print of [figure 2] for his basement apartment. Simoniker remained

British and unable to spell "color," while Timothy responded by posting the

same story six times, and Hemos reposted a seventh time, the submission

SCO acquires a new business partner - GNAA

Darl here, with another fine Fr1st P0st. After all -- SCO did

everything first, and the rest of the responses to this story will owe

their heritage to a foundation built on SCO's staff of talented programmers.

You may be wondering why SCO salesmen are not answering your numerous calls

while you try to order more SCO licenses. Well, we aren't answering the phones

because we're too busy celebrating our newest business partner. Rather than

explaining it myself, I'll let our formal press release do the talking. Take it

away, Mr. Reuters...

LINDON, Utah, Sept. 8/PRNewswire - FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group,

Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX [yahoo.com]

- News [yahoo.com]), the owner and

licensor of the core UNIX operating system source code, today announced its

second Fortune 500 clent for the SCO Linux IP license, the GNAA (Nasdaq: RHAT [yahoo.com] -

News [yahoo.com]), developer of fine

Slashdot trolls on irc.efnet.net #GNAA, also well-known for

revolutionizing small business development with its "Step 2: ??????" profit

model. The availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux

affords Linux deployments to come into compliance with international law for

the use of all 2.4 and future kernels. The run-time license permits the use of

SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux

distributions.

By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid

infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5

kernels and assure Darl financial security for the purchase of his second home.

Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply

with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed. Source may

still be distributed under the terms of the GPL, however source distributors

are held accountable for all violation of SCO's IP. Indemnification is provided

for customers of runtime clients only. Read that twice, dirty hippy. You're not

in the clear yet.

GNAA spokesperson penisbird said of the licensure, "coming into compliance

affords us a new competitive advantage with the other Slashdot authors. By

being in the right, we can thumb down our noses at not only the Windows users

and the BSD-thieving Mac Users, but also the unwashed Linux hippies running

stolen code on their parents' PCs." VP of anus enlargement goat-see added,

"fr1st p0st? damn i miss. how do i next story?"

Mr. Darl McBride concurred with GNAA's analysis, adding "We soon hope to

convince additional clients such as Trollklore and Cabal of Logged In Trolls of

the benefits of licensing SCO's valuable IP. Also, I <3 GNAA bunny. (@.@)"

JesuitX clarified the nature of the SCO and GNAA alliance, adding "We're more

than just a licensing client. We're also going to be helping to bring these

other potential licensors into compliance. We can break them in little by

little as paying sublicensors. The alternative is pretty horrible. Our lawyers

can take a reticent client from virgin to hello.jpg [figure

2 [yahoo.com]] in under an hour, and believe me -- it is not pleasant."

Commander Taco was unavailable for comment, however Cowboy Kneel was said to

ask for a print of [figure 2] for his basement apartment. Simoniker remained

British and unable to spell "color," while Timothy responded by posting the

same story six times, and Hemos reposted a seventh time, the submission

SCO acquires a new business partner - GNAA

Darl here, with another fine Fr1st P0st. After all -- SCO did

everything first, and the rest of the responses to this story will owe

their heritage to a foundation built on SCO's staff of talented programmers.

You may be wondering why SCO salesmen are not answering your numerous calls

while you try to order more SCO licenses. Well, we aren't answering the phones

because we're too busy celebrating our newest business partner. Rather than

explaining it myself, I'll let our formal press release do the talking. Take it

away, Mr. Reuters...

LINDON, Utah, Sept. 8/PRNewswire - FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group,

Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX [yahoo.com]

- News [yahoo.com]), the owner and

licensor of the core UNIX operating system source code, today announced its

second Fortune 500 clent for the SCO Linux IP license, the GNAA (Nasdaq: RHAT [yahoo.com] -

News [yahoo.com]), developer of fine

Slashdot trolls on irc.efnet.net #GNAA, also well-known for

revolutionizing small business development with its "Step 2: ??????" profit

model. The availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux

affords Linux deployments to come into compliance with international law for

the use of all 2.4 and future kernels. The run-time license permits the use of

SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux

distributions.

By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid

infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5

kernels and assure Darl financial security for the purchase of his second home.

Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply

with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed. Source may

still be distributed under the terms of the GPL, however source distributors

are held accountable for all violation of SCO's IP. Indemnification is provided

for customers of runtime clients only. Read that twice, dirty hippy. You're not

in the clear yet.

GNAA spokesperson penisbird said of the licensure, "coming into compliance

affords us a new competitive advantage with the other Slashdot authors. By

being in the right, we can thumb down our noses at not only the Windows users

and the BSD-thieving Mac Users, but also the unwashed Linux hippies running

stolen code on their parents' PCs." VP of anus enlargement goat-see added,

"fr1st p0st? damn i miss. how do i next story?"

Mr. Darl McBride concurred with GNAA's analysis, adding "We soon hope to

convince additional clients such as Trollklore and Cabal of Logged In Trolls of

the benefits of licensing SCO's valuable IP. Also, I <3 GNAA bunny. (@.@)"

JesuitX clarified the nature of the SCO and GNAA alliance, adding "We're more

than just a licensing client. We're also going to be helping to bring these

other potential licensors into compliance. We can break them in little by

little as paying sublicensors. The alternative is pretty horrible. Our lawyers

can take a reticent client from virgin to hello.jpg [figure

2 [yahoo.com]] in under an hour, and believe me -- it is not pleasant."

Commander Taco was unavailable for comment, however Cowboy Kneel was said to

ask for a print of [figure 2] for his basement apartment. Simoniker remained

British and unable to spell "color," while Timothy responded by posting the

same story six times, and Hemos reposted a seventh time, the submission

If you are trying to point out how fucked up the USA is about this kind of stuff, just remember there are worse prudes in the world.

Profit Margins, Revenues, Market Capitalization, Earnings, P/E Ratios, Earnings per Share, Revenues Per Share, Cash Flow, and most other measure of the "success" of a company are all significantly higher for Oracle (ORCL) than they are for Red Hat (RHT).

Unless you are a shareholder.

Try zooming out to something longer than 200 days. Over the last ten years (over two bubbles) Oracle is up 150%, and Red Hat is up 5%. There are other times (like the 200 days in your 'base' link) that Red Hat is ahead.

Generally speaking, I'd go with Oracle--at least while Ellison is around. He's taken the company from from a $4000 seed in ~1974 to $130B market cap. He's proven he can run things over a period of decades. If you're investing, and not speculating (to use the Graham & Dodd phrases), you're better off with ORCL (and no, I don't own any).

Profit Margins, Revenues, Market Capitalization, Earnings, P/E Ratios, Earnings per Share, Revenues Per Share, Cash Flow, and most other measure of the "success" of a company are all significantly higher for Oracle (ORCL) than they are for Red Hat (RHT).

Unless you are a shareholder.

Try zooming out to something longer than 200 days. Over the last ten years (over two bubbles) Oracle is up 150%, and Red Hat is up 5%. There are other times (like the 200 days in your 'base' link) that Red Hat is ahead.

Generally speaking, I'd go with Oracle--at least while Ellison is around. He's taken the company from from a $4000 seed in ~1974 to $130B market cap. He's proven he can run things over a period of decades. If you're investing, and not speculating (to use the Graham & Dodd phrases), you're better off with ORCL (and no, I don't own any).

Here's the more recent financial. 66% operating and 33% other income split in 2009. still 50/50 in 2008 and 2007 though.

Profit Margins, Revenues, Market Capitalization, Earnings, P/E Ratios, Earnings per Share, Revenues Per Share, Cash Flow, and most other measure of the "success" of a company are all significantly higher for Oracle (ORCL) than they are for Red Hat (RHT).

Unless you are a shareholder.

Profit Margins, Revenues, Market Capitalization, Earnings, P/E Ratios, Earnings per Share, Revenues Per Share, Cash Flow, and most other measure of the "success" of a company are all significantly higher for Oracle (ORCL) than they are for Red Hat (RHT).

Unless you are a shareholder.

Some might argue they are doing better than Oracle.

Yes, some might argue that. And those people would be idiots.

Profit Margins, Revenues, Market Capitalization, Earnings, P/E Ratios, Earnings per Share, Revenues Per Share, Cash Flow, and most other measure of the "success" of a company are all significantly higher for Oracle (ORCL) than they are for Red Hat (RHT).

Is Red Hat profitable? Sure. But they're not anywhere near as profitable or successful as Oracle has been, and claiming that a higher share price constitutes evidence that one company is "doing better" than another is foolishness of the first order.

Some might argue they are doing better than Oracle.

Yes, some might argue that. And those people would be idiots.

Profit Margins, Revenues, Market Capitalization, Earnings, P/E Ratios, Earnings per Share, Revenues Per Share, Cash Flow, and most other measure of the "success" of a company are all significantly higher for Oracle (ORCL) than they are for Red Hat (RHT).

Is Red Hat profitable? Sure. But they're not anywhere near as profitable or successful as Oracle has been, and claiming that a higher share price constitutes evidence that one company is "doing better" than another is foolishness of the first order.

if you cut it off completely after a certain point, you die from withdrawal.

Bluefoxlucid betrays his own ignorance. Alcohol is, in fact, one of the few drugs with lethal withdrawal[forgive the source, too lazy to look for respectable one]. Furthermore, I don't know any sane person who considers marijuana more hazardous than alcohol. And I have plenty of experience with alcohol, it is my namesake.

-- Ethanol-fueled

From the article... $2.00 for reading a book (in 2nd grade) and completing an online quiz about it seems more like "micro motivation" to me than "cash".

There's that guy who's not grading anymore, but instead is awarding experience points to his students.

Meaningful grades come only at test (not quiz) time and quarter/semester milestones. Experience points or cash are uniformly valued across the entire school term. Each is as important as the other and you can track your long term goals against these "short term rewards" every time you're given a short term reward. Traditional grades require more thought. Miss a homework assignment? "Oh well.. all the homework together only accounts for 10% of my grade so what's the harm in missing one homework assignment?"

Every year there's a new research story out on how kids lack the brain development to properly judge long term incentives and consequences. IMHO the traditional grading system requires precisely that same understanding of long term incentives to motivate the kids. Is it really a surprise that a grading system that provides short term rewards and is also aligned with the long term goals of education is more effective than the current system?