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Ballmer: Microsoft will power the mobile devolution

Someone should let him know he is too late. And devices that can use this won't be out for another 8 months… at least… wow.

Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Management SCMDM 2008. Rolls of the tongue huh? In another demonstration as to why marketing cannot be allowed to run amuk, Microsoft has once again developed a fully branded letter and word jumble. Since it's from microsoft… it must have microsoft in the title. They are also pushing system center hard at the moment… so it has to be there to. Mobile is a key marketing term for the windows mobile division… they probably tried and failed to throw windows in the title. Of course we can't forget the year. Without adding the year… how will people know they need to upgrade!!! Gotta have that churn. Why would you want to run any thing from last year?

It's just too simple to name applications what they really are.

Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill – washingtonpost.com

Could someone please explain to me why you would need to grant legal immunity to the phone companies if they are not breaking the law? 

UPDATE – Looks like someone woke up and stopped this madness for a moment.

Exclusive: Senator Chris Dodd Will Put A Hold On Telecom Immunity Bill

We having been using VMware here at work for quite a while now. We have the full setup, and it all works really good. But we have had a very annoying problem with VMware convertor for some time now. It migrates virtual machines to ESX server from Virtual server just fine. Also handles Physical-toVirtual great as well. But after you get the VMs on to your ESX box, and you want to reconfigure them, or move them back to virtual server, you can't. You get this error "unable to determine guest operating system". After search the forums and such, we found little advice. But a small line at the bottom of a discussion board on a third party site had the answer. "unplug your usb drives". What? Bullshit. That can't be it. I took a look around my computer, and sure enough I had a USB floppy plugged in. I removed it and tried again… It worked.

So. If you use VMware convertor… UNPLUG YOUR USB DRIVES BEFORE RUNNING!

Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners – CNN.com

The response from our fearful leaders is, "Our position is clear. We don't torture. It's just sad to hear a former president speak like that."

Indeed.