I may add to this, when you're traveling it usually costs ~$1/day for some megs of data roaming (5-50mb i've seen), which is more than enough to send lots of messages, while ONE roaming SMS may cost the same. Again, probably not very common in the US to travel abroad, but think about Europe how much people travel and live in any other European country other than their own and where they have most of friends/family. You'd use Whatsapp (or something similar) lots more if you had to pay roaming charges to send SMS across states in the US.

So let me get this straight, dropbox has the ability to identify individual users on the amount of files that they have which are identified as "pirate" files?, no matter if they match your files against hashes or whatever (and they aren't actually scanning each individual file), but I'm concerned I'm boing flagged as a pirate for uploading to my private folder any kind of file I have.

So no, I'm not doing it. Maybe I'm paranoid but I can accept my phone requiring an iTunes account, but I will not put an apple account or anything on my personal computer.
I also suspect that this means that to get these security updates I will need to be logged in to get updates, even if I got mavericks from another "source", so not gonna happen for me, that's my limit...

Depending on your needs this might not be the right choice, as stated on their home:

Great:

Frequently changing project files, like text, office documents, and images
Tracking and syncing files edited by multiple people
Reverting a file to any point in its history
Preventing spying on your files on the server using encryption

Not so great:

Full computer backups
Storing your photo or music collection
Large binary files that change often, like video editing projects

For general purpose Dropbox replacement I recommend ownCloud

I don't agree, it really depends on the kind of training and the time and money that the company is investing in it. I think that the company should always invest on some kind of ongoing training (whether it's sending people to training, organizing internal training, paying for materials and certifications for self study, etc), and this shouldn't necessarily mean that I'd have to sign a contractual agreement. The company HAS to invest to keep an ongoing operation. If they don't do so and the employees don't agree to study on their own time or sign an agreement then it will lower the work quality, does the company really want that?, well, many seem to think so, but they have to realize that an ongoing operation requires additional investment besides salary.

The only reason they have to care about physical dimensions is because it's not a machine that is intended to be on a DC!!, for any other machine, there is a standard: 1u, 2u, 3u, etc... (yes, some servers can go deeper than others in the rack, but that's usually not a problem)

Many robberies are committed at gunpoint or another kind of weapon as a deterrent for the victim to try anything stupid. I know the situation is a delicate one, but very often everything will end up without personal harm if you just stay quiet and let them do whatever they want and very simple things could turn things up into something much more serious, someone entering the scene with a gun, unless 100% effective, would be disastrous.
Obviously, you have to know what place you live on and how are the crimes on that area/country, if you live in an extremely violent place where they'll shoot you anyway, I'd say please come and interfere, but if that's not the case I'd prefer you stay out of it instead of endangering us with your heroic gesture.

Oh yes, because interfering on a situation where a person and his 5 year old daughter are pointed up at gunpoint is going to end up well, sure... the BEST you can do in a situation like this is to just let them take whatever they want. Unless someone is at risk or the situation is going beyond the robbery, it's not worth the risk to do anything about it.

Can someone explain why should we care about this profile?

From what I see there is no hardware decoding for it yet, so it doesn't seem like something I'd use for the moment. Is there anything that hi10p provides that the previous profile couldn't achieve with a slightly larger file size?

You mean negative subjective information?, I wouldn't like something like that. While what you're saying may be mostly true for a majority of people, "better mexican food" is really a matter of opinion. Maybe I'd accept an article stating that the food is more or less authentic in some place, comparing it to the original, which while still rather subjective, it can be measured or compared on specific ingredients, way of cooking, etc.

From the FAQ:

Is it true that Wikivoyage's content came from Wikitravel?
It's true, more or less: when the English language Wikivoyage was founded in 2012, we brought over the travel guides from Wikitravel. (This is both legal and moral thanks to the free licence both sites share!) In fact, Wikivoyage was founded by a very large contingent of editors and administrators from Wikitravel—the very people who originally wrote much of the content we imported.

If you're interested in the gory details of why we forked the project, we have a page that provides a recap. But we are our own project now, and we're moving forward with great new content. As time goes on, our content will resemble Wikitravel's less and less—hopefully, by being more up-to-date, better organized, and more integrated with the other wikis of the Wikimedia Foundation.

There are very good reasons for the fork (IMHO), more here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Migration/FAQ

Maybe you should try hrping or some other high resolution ping utility, you'd be surprised. (Hint: latency to your first hop is much less than 1ms)

Facebook has stated more than once that they don't want it transformed into a dating site.

Anyone that tags me in a photo that doesn't have my face should pay. Put that technology into good use.

I honestly have no idea what they are talking about. I admit I'm not a big Facebook user, but I enter some times a week and never saw such voting.

Can someone clarify?, is this a US only thing?