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1. Comment - Microsoft Wants More Search Share

   (Oct 28, 2006 - 12:33 PM)

   LOL. You are too hilarious, and I agree, probably at least get odd stares and raised eyebrows.
   
   Just like people ask for Kleenex and make Xerox copies, even if Google is no longer the leader, years from now the majority will use Google to mean do an internet search using whatever search engine you want. Google was the first to do it better, and had a catchy name to boot. The name will last. The name "Windows Live Search" sounds neither innovative nor catchy. It's too much to say. Why do you think Ask Jeeves went to just Ask. It may not sound innovative but it's no mouthful.

2. Comment - Microsoft Wants More Search Share

   (Oct 28, 2006 - 12:22 PM)

   LOL. Thank you for my first really good laugh of the day. I must have laughed for five minutes. You are so right about this headline.

3. Comment - Governor Warns of Crisis in Wake of Diebold 'Repair' Revelations

   (Oct 28, 2006 - 12:12 PM)

   Al Gore did not say that paper voting was unreliable he said the punch cards were and the election proved him right. We never had all this controversy when we used the mechanical lever voting machines either. So I vote for either paper ballots or the mechanical machines.

4. Comment - BitTorrent Admin Gets 5 Months in Jail

   (Oct 28, 2006 - 12:01 PM)

   When BitTorrent started the law was different. The Act in question was specifically lobbied for (considering this administration, they probably wrote the law) by the entertainment corporations (RIAA & MPAA among others) to protect only themselves from a perceived threat. Even their own research does not support that any of this is costing them any revenue, except maybe by losing paying customers who are fed up with their acts against totally outmatched individual citizens. Entertainment corporate actually believe that the people who share these files would go out and purchase the DVD's or CD's. They would not. They would get a copy from friends or the library and copy them.
   
   It is fair use for a person at home to copy a DVD or CD for backup and their own use, and to copy TV programs for later personal non-commercial viewing as another commenter stated. That is still the law. Now, evidently, we all commit a crime if we give or show those copies to anyone else, even if we don't charge them for the privilege. What a waste of time, energy, and tax dollars.
   
   That said, when corporate music started suing 12 year olds for copying music, I guess the BitTorrent admin should have seen the writing on the wall.

5. Comment - Diebold Source Code Disks Mailed to Maryland Democrat

   (Oct 28, 2006 - 11:44 AM)

   Paper ballots work, so if you don't trust the voting machine, vote early with an absentee ballot (or is it too late for that). Also, if you don't like who is in charge of the government, it certainly will not change if you don't get out and vote.