19 May 2009
Monorchic European dictators: Part II

Hilarious - reads like HL Mencken or PJ O'Rourke...

It's becoming increasingly evident that a prerequisite for establishing a European dictatorship is that the candidate surrender a testicle in the heat of battle.

(link) [The Register]

20:19 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link

Microsoft Patents Crippling Operating Systems

Does this mean they have a patent on Windows? That's a crippled OS if there ever was one...

Ridiculous.

On Tuesday, Microsoft was granted US Patent No. 7,536,726 (it was filed in 2005) for intentionally crippling the functionality of an operating system...

(link) [Slashdot]

20:07 /Copywrongs | 0 comments | permanent link