But consider this: learning PHP and/or Ruby on Rails is a one-time investment for you I would argue against this. I spent the time to learn Perl back in the early 1990's for CGI development. That knowledge is pretty much useless to me now. I learned GW basic in the 1980's. Useless now. I learned some ASP back in the early 2000s. Not quite useless, but learning C#.NET was a new experience. I learned PHP a long time ago, and I'm having to go back and learn object-oriented PHP now. And, now I have to go learn Ruby on Rails if I want to keep up with the state of the art.
Tools, languages and architectures change. Maybe not as frequently as you buy new servers, but the cost of learning a new language is higher than the cost of a Windows installation. I'd say that the advantage isn't a lower cost of switching, even in the long-run. But, that you can spend your time and money giving yourself more tools to get the job done, even if the true cost is more or less comparable.
It's easy enough to make. Take a good fatty, but not grisly, cut of pork. Like the butt (which is the shoulder) or even some of the trimmings off cheap pork chops. Add chili powder. Grind. I've made it in my food processor and it was easily as good as any I had in Mexico. I use the Chili powder from Penzys spices.
I have a small software shop. I use nolapro. It's a hosted service and runs in any browser. I've used it a lot on Linux w/ firefox. The system is too complete for me, I don't use a quarter of it. It has everything you're asking for. I think they give free trials, so it's worth trying out.
It's funny, but I do this all the time. I'm a software developer. I've been using the Internets since 1991 (well, BitNet back then). I have a 4 digit/. ID. It's not like I'm some n00b. But, it's just easier for me to highlight a hostname, right-click and select "Search Web for..." than it is for me to highlight it, hit ctrl-c, open a new tab, put my mouse in the location bar and hit ctrl-v. So, I end up searching for fully qualified URLs all the time. *shrug*
I figure, if Google really doesn't like it, they can ask me to stop.
Someone had to say it. Submitter, your daughter is adorable.
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But that Wiki article says the Volusia error was corrected. It had done its damage when Fox announced Florida for Bush, but still, the final tally didn't include the -16000 votes for Gore.
I'd like to use it for browsing my recipes and playing music mostly, but being able to watch TV, even on a small screen, would be nice, too. But, I see it's an ARM processor, so the atrpms site won't have a precompiled install. Has anyone tried to compile mythtv from source for a Nokia 770 or this new 800?
No one cares what the democrats did forty or a hundred and fifty years ago. Heck, the Republicans will claim that Bush's State of the Union address in 2003, where he claimed that Iraq was trying to buy Uranium, is old news and no longer relevant. That was 4 years ago! So, 40 years or 150 years is definitely old news!
Besides, that's dodging the issue. Bringing up old history doesn't help anyone. What we want to know is when our votes will start counting again. Bush has now won the Presidency twice, both times under extremely questionable circumstances. Republican Secretary of States, missing ballots, voters illegally purged from the voting lists, voting machines made by Republican operatives. This isn't some interesting sidenote in a history book that includes references to the book of Genesis. It's real life, it's happening now, and this kind of mealy-mouthed dismissal of American freedoms is either ignorant to the point of criminality, or is a bald-face destruction of the American process.
Wasn't that the problem? Hastert and others encouraged Foley to stay and run for re-election.
Besides, Studds' relationship was technically legal. Yeah, I mean, he was borking a 17 year old page, regardless of the legality, though. Definitely immoral. The house voted overwhemlingly, 420-3, to censure Studds. Given that it was legal, besides asking him pretty-please to leave, that was about all they could do. But, they did it. No one covered it up.
Finally, this was 1983! There are voters nowadays who were not even born then! The Dems were swept out of the house in 1994 because of this exact sort of thing. Ancient history, get over it.
I've heard this a lot. Sure, both parties are full of politicians. But, take a look at what the Dems have done during the Clinton years. A booming economy, very few terrorist attacks (World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Kenyan Embassy and the Cole), the U.S. was respected around the world, we didn't start any unnecessary wars, our biggest worry was a stained dress. Clinton brought Republicans into his cabinet, worked with Gingrich on a variety of issues, and really reached out to the other side. It's simply not true that the two parties are equal (I know you didn't say that, but the implication is there).
I believe this attitude is what got Bush re-elected. If everyone is full of shit, then the only thing to judge who to vote on is wedge issues, like gay marriage, swift boat adds, and Terry Schaivo. Your statement implies that the Dems and the Reps are both *equally qualified and competant*, which is simply untrue. Destroyed monuments, destroyed cities, destroyed credibility, destroyed rights, destroyed country. The 2006 and 2008 votes should not be judged on trustworthiness, but on competance. Yes, Clinton, Gore and Kerry had faults. But, *sheesh* comparing them to a guy who let a city drown is simply inexcusable!
Obligatory on topic comment: Clinton used racketeering charges to imprison the people who bombed the World Trade Center. He used boots-on-the-ground to track Bin Laden and prepare a plan for war against him after the Cole. I thought, at the time, that he was too obsessed with terrorism when it came to computer encryption. I know I just said that it's wrong to compare the two, but if Bush can't fight the good fight, like Clinton did, we should impeach him now and get someone good. Al Gore?
There's plenty an end-to-end connection is good for. Sharing files through a P2P connection, for instance. SIP-based VoIP is a lot easier with a public IP (yes, I know about STUN, but it's just another thing to go wrong). Running game servers, web servers, etc. Yeah, that's not something your Grandmother wants, but there are enough people out there who know how to run Gnutella, but not how to configure their linksys router.
Though, I have to say I agree with your point about the firewall aspects. Yeah, a simple dumb $40US NAT firewall is going to be tons better security than a software firewall. I agree with your point, but I wonder if it could be phrased nicer.
I don't really have a solution to this, though. Perhaps it'd be best if we continue to use NAT-based firewalls, like my linksys wifi router, even with IPV6 and allow the gurus to do what the gurus will do.
Steven Colbert was on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, an NPR program. This was when we was still on The Daily Show. He and Terry talked quite a bit about why people consent to go on The Daily Show. Apparently, he tells his children to never to a television interview, ever, for any reason. So, I started paying attention to other interviews on more serious shows. A lot of interviewees come off just as poorly on normal news programs as they do on The Daily Show. I've come to agree with him. The Daily Show just makes it more obvious. And more funny.
With XML, you can return raw data that can be formatted much more flexibly on the client-side. For instance, I have a search that returns the data in XML. That way, I can update the status section, include the search results, and even zoom to the first result. If it sent back preformatted HTML, I would only be able to update the search results bit.
I haven't had a ton of luck with MythDVD. I've just been dropping to shell and running mencoder. MythDVD seems to go snarky when there's the little problem, and requires dropping to shell and restarting mtd. If I'm using the shell anyway, I might as well just run the damn command.
Even the MythDVD player, not the ripper, is sub-par. It just runs mplayer for you. I ended up changing it to xine, because xine supports menus where mplayer doesn't. Even that's simply not as easy or as foolproof as using the $40 dedicated DVD.
I don't have TV hooked into mine (no tuner card yet). I have a digital camera and we have tons of video and pictures of my kids. We also rip DVDs to the disk and play them later, and play mp3's. We're planning on getting a tuner card, so we'll also record TV. Plus, then we'll hook the camera into it and use MythPhone as a video phone. We've had the system for only about 2 months, but we're finding it very fun and useful. It's definitely something we're going to keep, even without DVR capabilities.
Okay, so I decided to take a look at Netbeans. I've been an eclipse user for a year or so and Emacs before then. The JSP refactoring in NB is very good. Better than Eclipse and even MyEclipse. But, I'm finding the CVS interface lacking.
MyEclipse allows you to see at a glance what directories/packages have code that has been modified. That saves me from searching through for the files that I've changed. NB shows you the icon on the file itself, but it the directory is closed, then you can't tell anything about the files.
Is there a plugin or a setting that I can change which will show more information?
Also, how do I replace a file with the latest from CVS? If, for instance, I've made a change I don't like? Do I erase the file then update the directory? What if I don't want to update the other files in the directory? Eclipse's "Replace With" and "Compare With" options are very nice.
Finally, how do I tell NB to collapse the names of the packages? In Eclipse, I have it setup so java.lang.reflect shows up as j.l.reflect, which saves a lot of real estate. My project's main package structure is net.reliableresponse.notification, which is a bit much on a 1280x1024 screen.
He doesn't always get the top guests, but he's had some pretty serious people. John Kerry, John McCain, Madeline Albright, Bill Clinton, Thomas Freidman, just to name a few. Granted, since the election, the number of high power politicos has dropped, but he still has a pretty high signal-to-noise ratio.
If I'm reading this correctly, the security of the system relies on the interaction between the clients and the server. When you receive an email, it checks the sender's cert's certificate fingerprint against the fingerprint list. If they don't match, then...um...something. It doesn't say what happens, but I'd bet there is a really visible error message. If either the server or the client is compromised, the receiver would know quickly, and presumably contact the sender so [s]he can fix it. In theory, an attacker would need to compromise both the client and the Ciphire fingerprint list.
A wy of strengthening this would be to allow multiple, redundant fingerprint list servers. The greater the number of servers, the more places you would have to attack. Eventually, it'd get too expensive/difficult. Though, there would be a problem with distributing new certificates, since an attacked would only need to compromise the master list. *sigh* As Bruce Schneier says, "Crypto isn't easy".
The Access interface is nice. I know the database underneath is awful, but the front-end is powerful and easy to use. The best use of it I've seen is to make reports based on data in your database. Sure, you can use Crystal or Hyperion or something like that, but Access is much easier for quick "show me the break-down of this set of data" queries.
Hey, come on now. There's no need to be nasty about it.
What you're saying is true, but there's some grain of truth to what hacker was saying. The states are not forced to read the provisional ballots, unless there is a clear chance they will affect the outcome of the race. With the race so close in some states, we should be counting them. But, since Kerry has already conceded, there is no need to count the provisionals.
Technically, you only need 270 electoral votes to win, and any extra don't matter. Lose like Gore or lose like Dukakis, it's all the same. However, the tone of the presidency changes. When Bush Sr. won against Dukakis, it was an obvious message that America wanted another 8 years of Reagan. Bush was able to invade Iraq with the backing of the nation and the world. When Bush won against Gore, he had an obviously divided electorate, which made gutting social security and attacking Iraq more difficult. Against Kerry, it wasn't a landslide, but he has a much stronger hold on the country. You can bet he'll feel more free to pursue a stronger Republican/Neocon agenda. (OT: my prediction is that he'll end up using nukes against either Iran or Iraq or both). Swinging, say, Iowa, which didn't report their tallies until after Bush declared victory, could mean the difference between a strong victory and a weak victory for Bush. Again, technically this doesn't matter, but it does set a tone. Of course, the strong wins for the Republicans in the Senate, House and Governors also sets a tone...more so than Iowa.
For an example of how Kerry's early concession changed things, let's look at Ohio. Kerry lost by 135k votes. There were 155k provisional ballots. If they (this is a big if) swung towards Kerry 2-1, he'd only lose by 32k votes. Now, we know one precinct, using Diebold machines, over-reported Bush votes by over 3k. That makes a 29k difference. If a recount is done, paying particular attention to the Diebold machines, there's a good chance that Kerry could have been our President. But, since Kerry pussied^H^H^H^H^H conceded, the provisional ballots won't be counted, and the Diebold machines won't be scrutinized, so we will never know.
People said the same about the One Time Pad. In theory, it is perfect. In practice, though, you have a huge key management issue. In general, new systems are beaten by factors outside the algorithm, not by actual flaws in the algorithm.
In quantum encryption, for example, you need to find some way of getting the packets to their destination without reading them. This means, AFAIK, that you need a direct link. That's a major problem. Maybe there will be some new system for routing developed, but maybe there will be other, practical, issues that arise.
I probably shouldn't be responding to such a blatant troll, but you have hit upon a vein in many of the ignorant's rants.
http://pages.prodigy.net/gaglenn/lawoffice/coffee/ truth.html tells about the McDonalds coffee case. The fact is that McDonalds had many complaints about its dangerously hot coffee and did nothing about it. The "stupid people" (well, in this case "person") opened her coffee in a stopped car and received 3rd degree burns for it.
It is a standard of US law to control products which are damaging to their consumers and have a high addiction rate. But, what the tobacco companies were sued for was consistently and knowingly lying about the damage their products caused. You may be a bit young to remember this, but the US recently impeached a President because he lied about a personal problem. Logic insists that we be allowed to sue those who lie in a way that actively damages a huge number of people.
"Anti-gun nuts", who think of themselves as "parents of slaughtered children", are not suing the gun manufacturers because their kids were shot. They are asking the US government to mandate simple, cheap and effective safety controls. These protections are just like the safety features now mandatory in cars, childrens toys, medicines, and packaged foods.
The only real difference in today's political climate is that 6-digit slashdot fanboys are allowed to shoot their mouths off in public.
I've found that business groups could really use instant messaging, but don't want to broadcast their IP over the net without some sort of protection. I think it's a better idea to run the IM server locally, but AIM requires no setup and has very nice clients. I can see, for instance, a sales team talking with the engineers using encrypted AIM.
I have a Trident Cyberblade/XP in my laptop. The 2D acceleration is decent, but I haven't been able to find any 3D acceleration. It's also a little disappointing that the 2D acceleration is closed-source/NDA. If I could swap out a laptop video card, I would have long ago.
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Tools, languages and architectures change. Maybe not as frequently as you buy new servers, but the cost of learning a new language is higher than the cost of a Windows installation. I'd say that the advantage isn't a lower cost of switching, even in the long-run. But, that you can spend your time and money giving yourself more tools to get the job done, even if the true cost is more or less comparable.
It's easy enough to make. Take a good fatty, but not grisly, cut of pork. Like the butt (which is the shoulder) or even some of the trimmings off cheap pork chops. Add chili powder. Grind. I've made it in my food processor and it was easily as good as any I had in Mexico. I use the Chili powder from Penzys spices.
I have a small software shop. I use nolapro. It's a hosted service and runs in any browser. I've used it a lot on Linux w/ firefox. The system is too complete for me, I don't use a quarter of it. It has everything you're asking for. I think they give free trials, so it's worth trying out.
It's funny, but I do this all the time. I'm a software developer. I've been using the Internets since 1991 (well, BitNet back then). I have a 4 digit /. ID. It's not like I'm some n00b. But, it's just easier for me to highlight a hostname, right-click and select "Search Web for ..." than it is for me to highlight it, hit ctrl-c, open a new tab, put my mouse in the location bar and hit ctrl-v. So, I end up searching for fully qualified URLs all the time. *shrug*
I figure, if Google really doesn't like it, they can ask me to stop.
Someone had to say it. Submitter, your daughter is adorable.
But that Wiki article says the Volusia error was corrected. It had done its damage when Fox announced Florida for Bush, but still, the final tally didn't include the -16000 votes for Gore.
I'd like to use it for browsing my recipes and playing music mostly, but being able to watch TV, even on a small screen, would be nice, too. But, I see it's an ARM processor, so the atrpms site won't have a precompiled install. Has anyone tried to compile mythtv from source for a Nokia 770 or this new 800?
No one cares what the democrats did forty or a hundred and fifty years ago. Heck, the Republicans will claim that Bush's State of the Union address in 2003, where he claimed that Iraq was trying to buy Uranium, is old news and no longer relevant. That was 4 years ago! So, 40 years or 150 years is definitely old news!
Besides, that's dodging the issue. Bringing up old history doesn't help anyone. What we want to know is when our votes will start counting again. Bush has now won the Presidency twice, both times under extremely questionable circumstances. Republican Secretary of States, missing ballots, voters illegally purged from the voting lists, voting machines made by Republican operatives. This isn't some interesting sidenote in a history book that includes references to the book of Genesis. It's real life, it's happening now, and this kind of mealy-mouthed dismissal of American freedoms is either ignorant to the point of criminality, or is a bald-face destruction of the American process.
Maybe that's why one night in Bangkok can make a hard man humble?
Wasn't that the problem? Hastert and others encouraged Foley to stay and run for re-election.
Besides, Studds' relationship was technically legal. Yeah, I mean, he was borking a 17 year old page, regardless of the legality, though. Definitely immoral. The house voted overwhemlingly, 420-3, to censure Studds. Given that it was legal, besides asking him pretty-please to leave, that was about all they could do. But, they did it. No one covered it up.
Finally, this was 1983! There are voters nowadays who were not even born then! The Dems were swept out of the house in 1994 because of this exact sort of thing. Ancient history, get over it.
>Both parties are full of shit.
I've heard this a lot. Sure, both parties are full of politicians. But, take a look at what the Dems have done during the Clinton years. A booming economy, very few terrorist attacks (World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Kenyan Embassy and the Cole), the U.S. was respected around the world, we didn't start any unnecessary wars, our biggest worry was a stained dress. Clinton brought Republicans into his cabinet, worked with Gingrich on a variety of issues, and really reached out to the other side. It's simply not true that the two parties are equal (I know you didn't say that, but the implication is there).
I believe this attitude is what got Bush re-elected. If everyone is full of shit, then the only thing to judge who to vote on is wedge issues, like gay marriage, swift boat adds, and Terry Schaivo. Your statement implies that the Dems and the Reps are both *equally qualified and competant*, which is simply untrue. Destroyed monuments, destroyed cities, destroyed credibility, destroyed rights, destroyed country. The 2006 and 2008 votes should not be judged on trustworthiness, but on competance. Yes, Clinton, Gore and Kerry had faults. But, *sheesh* comparing them to a guy who let a city drown is simply inexcusable!
Obligatory on topic comment: Clinton used racketeering charges to imprison the people who bombed the World Trade Center. He used boots-on-the-ground to track Bin Laden and prepare a plan for war against him after the Cole. I thought, at the time, that he was too obsessed with terrorism when it came to computer encryption. I know I just said that it's wrong to compare the two, but if Bush can't fight the good fight, like Clinton did, we should impeach him now and get someone good. Al Gore?
There's plenty an end-to-end connection is good for. Sharing files through a P2P connection, for instance. SIP-based VoIP is a lot easier with a public IP (yes, I know about STUN, but it's just another thing to go wrong). Running game servers, web servers, etc. Yeah, that's not something your Grandmother wants, but there are enough people out there who know how to run Gnutella, but not how to configure their linksys router.
Though, I have to say I agree with your point about the firewall aspects. Yeah, a simple dumb $40US NAT firewall is going to be tons better security than a software firewall. I agree with your point, but I wonder if it could be phrased nicer.
I don't really have a solution to this, though. Perhaps it'd be best if we continue to use NAT-based firewalls, like my linksys wifi router, even with IPV6 and allow the gurus to do what the gurus will do.
Steven Colbert was on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, an NPR program. This was when we was still on The Daily Show. He and Terry talked quite a bit about why people consent to go on The Daily Show. Apparently, he tells his children to never to a television interview, ever, for any reason. So, I started paying attention to other interviews on more serious shows. A lot of interviewees come off just as poorly on normal news programs as they do on The Daily Show. I've come to agree with him. The Daily Show just makes it more obvious. And more funny.
With XML, you can return raw data that can be formatted much more flexibly on the client-side. For instance, I have a search that returns the data in XML. That way, I can update the status section, include the search results, and even zoom to the first result. If it sent back preformatted HTML, I would only be able to update the search results bit.
I haven't had a ton of luck with MythDVD. I've just been dropping to shell and running mencoder. MythDVD seems to go snarky when there's the little problem, and requires dropping to shell and restarting mtd. If I'm using the shell anyway, I might as well just run the damn command.
Even the MythDVD player, not the ripper, is sub-par. It just runs mplayer for you. I ended up changing it to xine, because xine supports menus where mplayer doesn't. Even that's simply not as easy or as foolproof as using the $40 dedicated DVD.
I don't have TV hooked into mine (no tuner card yet). I have a digital camera and we have tons of video and pictures of my kids. We also rip DVDs to the disk and play them later, and play mp3's. We're planning on getting a tuner card, so we'll also record TV. Plus, then we'll hook the camera into it and use MythPhone as a video phone.
We've had the system for only about 2 months, but we're finding it very fun and useful. It's definitely something we're going to keep, even without DVR capabilities.
Okay, so I decided to take a look at Netbeans. I've been an eclipse user for a year or so and Emacs before then. The JSP refactoring in NB is very good. Better than Eclipse and even MyEclipse. But, I'm finding the CVS interface lacking.
MyEclipse allows you to see at a glance what directories/packages have code that has been modified. That saves me from searching through for the files that I've changed. NB shows you the icon on the file itself, but it the directory is closed, then you can't tell anything about the files.
Is there a plugin or a setting that I can change which will show more information?
Also, how do I replace a file with the latest from CVS? If, for instance, I've made a change I don't like? Do I erase the file then update the directory? What if I don't want to update the other files in the directory? Eclipse's "Replace With" and "Compare With" options are very nice.
Finally, how do I tell NB to collapse the names of the packages? In Eclipse, I have it setup so java.lang.reflect shows up as j.l.reflect, which saves a lot of real estate. My project's main package structure is net.reliableresponse.notification, which is a bit much on a 1280x1024 screen.
Thanks,
-Dave
He doesn't always get the top guests, but he's had some pretty serious people. John Kerry, John McCain, Madeline Albright, Bill Clinton, Thomas Freidman, just to name a few. Granted, since the election, the number of high power politicos has dropped, but he still has a pretty high signal-to-noise ratio.
If I'm reading this correctly, the security of the system relies on the interaction between the clients and the server. When you receive an email, it checks the sender's cert's certificate fingerprint against the fingerprint list. If they don't match, then...um...something. It doesn't say what happens, but I'd bet there is a really visible error message. If either the server or the client is compromised, the receiver would know quickly, and presumably contact the sender so [s]he can fix it. In theory, an attacker would need to compromise both the client and the Ciphire fingerprint list.
A wy of strengthening this would be to allow multiple, redundant fingerprint list servers. The greater the number of servers, the more places you would have to attack. Eventually, it'd get too expensive/difficult. Though, there would be a problem with distributing new certificates, since an attacked would only need to compromise the master list. *sigh* As Bruce Schneier says, "Crypto isn't easy".
The Access interface is nice. I know the database underneath is awful, but the front-end is powerful and easy to use. The best use of it I've seen is to make reports based on data in your database. Sure, you can use Crystal or Hyperion or something like that, but Access is much easier for quick "show me the break-down of this set of data" queries.
Hey, come on now. There's no need to be nasty about it.
What you're saying is true, but there's some grain of truth to what hacker was saying. The states are not forced to read the provisional ballots, unless there is a clear chance they will affect the outcome of the race. With the race so close in some states, we should be counting them. But, since Kerry has already conceded, there is no need to count the provisionals.
Technically, you only need 270 electoral votes to win, and any extra don't matter. Lose like Gore or lose like Dukakis, it's all the same. However, the tone of the presidency changes. When Bush Sr. won against Dukakis, it was an obvious message that America wanted another 8 years of Reagan. Bush was able to invade Iraq with the backing of the nation and the world. When Bush won against Gore, he had an obviously divided electorate, which made gutting social security and attacking Iraq more difficult. Against Kerry, it wasn't a landslide, but he has a much stronger hold on the country. You can bet he'll feel more free to pursue a stronger Republican/Neocon agenda. (OT: my prediction is that he'll end up using nukes against either Iran or Iraq or both). Swinging, say, Iowa, which didn't report their tallies until after Bush declared victory, could mean the difference between a strong victory and a weak victory for Bush. Again, technically this doesn't matter, but it does set a tone. Of course, the strong wins for the Republicans in the Senate, House and Governors also sets a tone...more so than Iowa.
For an example of how Kerry's early concession changed things, let's look at Ohio. Kerry lost by 135k votes. There were 155k provisional ballots. If they (this is a big if) swung towards Kerry 2-1, he'd only lose by 32k votes. Now, we know one precinct, using Diebold machines, over-reported Bush votes by over 3k. That makes a 29k difference. If a recount is done, paying particular attention to the Diebold machines, there's a good chance that Kerry could have been our President. But, since Kerry pussied^H^H^H^H^H conceded, the provisional ballots won't be counted, and the Diebold machines won't be scrutinized, so we will never know.
-Dave
People said the same about the One Time Pad. In theory, it is perfect. In practice, though, you have a huge key management issue. In general, new systems are beaten by factors outside the algorithm, not by actual flaws in the algorithm.
In quantum encryption, for example, you need to find some way of getting the packets to their destination without reading them. This means, AFAIK, that you need a direct link. That's a major problem. Maybe there will be some new system for routing developed, but maybe there will be other, practical, issues that arise.
I probably shouldn't be responding to such a blatant troll, but you have hit upon a vein in many of the ignorant's rants.
/ truth.html tells about the McDonalds coffee case. The fact is that McDonalds had many complaints about its dangerously hot coffee and did nothing about it. The "stupid people" (well, in this case "person") opened her coffee in a stopped car and received 3rd degree burns for it.
http://pages.prodigy.net/gaglenn/lawoffice/coffee
It is a standard of US law to control products which are damaging to their consumers and have a high addiction rate. But, what the tobacco companies were sued for was consistently and knowingly lying about the damage their products caused. You may be a bit young to remember this, but the US recently impeached a President because he lied about a personal problem. Logic insists that we be allowed to sue those who lie in a way that actively damages a huge number of people.
"Anti-gun nuts", who think of themselves as "parents of slaughtered children", are not suing the gun manufacturers because their kids were shot. They are asking the US government to mandate simple, cheap and effective safety controls. These protections are just like the safety features now mandatory in cars, childrens toys, medicines, and packaged foods.
The only real difference in today's political climate is that 6-digit slashdot fanboys are allowed to shoot their mouths off in public.
I've found that business groups could really use instant messaging, but don't want to broadcast their IP over the net without some sort of protection. I think it's a better idea to run the IM server locally, but AIM requires no setup and has very nice clients. I can see, for instance, a sales team talking with the engineers using encrypted AIM.
I have a Trident Cyberblade/XP in my laptop. The 2D acceleration is decent, but I haven't been able to find any 3D acceleration. It's also a little disappointing that the 2D acceleration is closed-source/NDA. If I could swap out a laptop video card, I would have long ago.