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Comment Re:Looking beyond your echo chamber (Score 1) 2221

by vtscott on Thursday June 26, 2008 @05:58PM (#23958097) Attached to: Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals

If this discussion was well moderated you'd have a -1 flamebait by now. The parent poster in no way said that this court decision exonerated or excused any of the bad that Bush has done. You're just putting words in his mouth so that you can go off on a tangential rant. I think he had a good point and that was that if we want to have balanced discussions and be intellectually honest, we should give credit where credit is due even if it goes to Bush.

Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users 410

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 15, 2008 @12:07PM from the lather-rinse-repeat dept.

Echostorm writes with word that Windows Vista SP1, which began rolling out via Automatic Update, has left some users' machines unbootable. The update loops forever on "Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 — 0% complete. Do not turn off your computer." "Shutting down"... restart and loop. Echostorm notes having found traces of what sounds like the same bug in early beta releases of SP1. It's unclear how many users are affected. So far there is no word on a fix from Microsoft.

Motley Fool Writes Off Microsoft 404

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 25, 2008 @11:11AM from the limited-vistas dept.

The Vista disaster has caught Wall Street's attention before but I've never seen the popular press understand the issues like this argument in the Motley Fool. The opposing argument is a weak statement of faith, essentially "as it was in the beginning is now and forever shall be." "You don't need to watch the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' commercials to see that Microsoft is taking a beating. You see it in the company's financials where its online unit, incredibly, is operating at a loss; overheating Xbox 360 consoles find the company taking a huge warranty hit for a system losing market share to the Wii; and the upgrade wave of its flagship operating system has been more of a ripple than a tsunami. That last point is important. This was supposed to be Microsoft's final feast, the major last hurrah for its Windows Vista operating entry and its Office 2007 suite of applications before the inevitable embrace of cheaper open source operating systems and Web-based apps... In fact, even Microsoft will tell you that its fortunes peaked several months ago."

Asus Insider Claims Apple Tablet Is Real 358

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @10:22AM from the pleasant-fantasy dept.

CaptainCrunchyApple writes "According to cnet.co.uk the oft-rumoured Apple Tablet PC is actually very real, and on its way soon. CNET claims to have spoken to an anonymous tipster at Asus who claims to be working with Apple to produce the tablet. 'We're guessing it'll be based on Intel Core architecture, a tweaked version of Leopard, and have all the multi-touch, CoverFlow goodness we've seen in the iPhone and iPod touch. All this begs the question: Can Apple turn the Tablet PC into a success when previous attempts have failed? The short answer is 'yes'. Any company that can make a mobile phone with no buttons, no picture messaging, slow Web access and no video capture into the most desirable phone on the planet can easily make tablets popular.'"

Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial 148

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 05, 2007 @10:10AM from the rat-a-tat-tat dept.

jg21 writes "It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial from well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each in their own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare Osabanjo because in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized widget platform for the Web, actually isn't. And Don Dodge because his claim is that fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care.""

How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World 256

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday October 12, 2007 @05:11AM from the big-brother-is-listening dept.

slugo sent in this Wired story which opens, "A lucky coincidence of economics is responsible for routing much of the world's internet and telephone traffic through switching points in the United States, where, under legislation introduced this week, the U.S. National Security Agency will be free to continue tapping it. ...International phone and internet traffic flows through the United States largely because of pricing models established more than 100 years ago... The United States, where the internet was invented, was also home to the first internet backbone. Combine that architectural advantage with the pricing disparity inherited from the phone networks, and the United States quickly became the center of cyberspace as the internet gained international penetration in the 1990s."

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