McCain Wants Ballmer For His Cabinet

While many people jumped all over presidential hopeful John McCain's wrong-headed view on network neutrality, few noticed his infuriating love for Microsoft. "[T]he 70 year old presidential hopeful also said that he would ask Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to serve on his cabinet to deal with technology issues if elected. He did not however say what position Ballmer might be hired in, but did joke that he might consider him for a diplomatic position, such as ambassador to China."

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AND McCain's cluelessness on software patents

[EccentricAnomaly]

Watch the beginning of the video on this link. Mossberg asks him if the debate on frivolous software patents is anywhere on his radar and McCain says "No" in a manner that is very dissmissive of Mossberg's nerd question. I was a McCain supporter before, but after watching this interview he comes off as totally clueless about technology. You'd think he'd get someone to at least brief him before going to this event.

erris == twitter

[dedazo]

The person who posted this journal and somehow got kdawson to get it to the front page is the same person posting under the "Erris" account. twitter thinks it's cool to shill his own submissions, probably because moderators have wised up to his twitter account and just mod him down on sight.

I think /.'ers need to see these stories, but kdawson needs to get a better source.

Re:Lies, not Truth, Appeal to the American Voter

[The One and Only]

Name one colony that is now prosperous that was liberated during the twentieth century without going through socialism.

Hong Kong. South Africa. Philippines. Canada, technically.