First you can't assume something is named as *you* would expect it. More often than not operations are named by people who know what they are doing, but the people using the software only have a faint idea about their task. That's normal: as users search for the best/easiest way to accomplish a task they learn the vocabulary and methods of the specific field, thus becoming specialists themselves. Regarding documentation, take a look at GUI users, they have to read this GUI. It's basically a book, think formulary: You have to read every menu to "know" the software. Users take a spatial approach, remembering places to click on. This explains why nobody wants to use the "new" MS Office, they don't want to memorize the menus again. And to be honest, to really know a GUI you have to click them all and see how these menus and dialogs interact. Anyways, both systems have their strength.

You basically start an X server inside wayland and are done with it.

Actually my provider does: If I'd buy internet, phone and TV these would be three different vlans.

64bit flash beta worked fine, but with all this bugs around and the beta closed.. no more flash for me. Never touching this nspluginwrapper crap again. Guess I just go and build myself an ffmpeg enabled chromium browser to watch youtube..

Not everybody has a boss. Especially in large government organizations it might be difficult to find your boss. If you're a department head, or project lead it's more a question of who is in charge of what.
In a complex organizational structure sub-systems often fight against each other for control of key infrastructure and personnel.

That's not insightful, that's funny.

How do you get these ideas? Firefox has never been as popular as it is now. And except chrome all the alternatives you named have been around for ages. And besides Chrome is just another webkit browser like Safari.

No, I don't think they ever liked it. From the start Google wasn't offering all its products and had a differianted position on the state censoring and human rights violations. They werren't offering blogs, for example, since they didn't want to cooperate with the chinese police on that issue. This was stated publicly by Google. Competing with a state owned search gigant, while the same state steals your property, can't be much fun for Google.

They want you to do their work.

Wait till you see the 64-bit version of flash, it has twice the number of bits!!

fdisk an elegant tool for a more civilized age.. no wait. fdisk is antiquated and we only use it, because we are afraid to leave the msdos partition table behind out of the irrational fear some other software would stop working.

Horde is the main reason why no one likes university email systems and institutes switch to ms exchange and google/yahoo. Hordes 'new' ajax frontend looks better, though.

Yes, outsourcing your infrastructure to a private company is always "chillaxing". It keeps the costs down, users don't pick up on service quality and in-house experience and development is unwanted.

Normally bans like that include not only video, but fotos, drawings, comics, written stories, computer games, ... It's really hard to say what any given government will ban once they have the infrastructure to do so in place.

No, there is no reason to support IE6. Your not supporting Mosaic, Netscape 3 or some other historic piece of software. Ask yourself how much work is it to support IE6, how much is overall functionality decreased by limiting yourself that much? Is it worth the effort? IE6 numbers will continue to get lower and lower. Sure there are a few companies out there which haven't yet upgraded their deployments, but they will have to redeploy at some point. The same goes for old software which depends on IE6, there is no future there.