I don't give a flying crap because this isn't about the law. It's about common decency. You would be cursing said law instead of citing it if the same thing had happened to you.

Mistakes happen. They weren't expecting them so it shouldn't be too heartbreaking to return them. I'll probably get flamed for this, but you have to be one self-entitled little twerp to expect to be able to keep it. As long as Zawi pays for shipping they have every right to want them back. If you mistakenly shipped something expensive to the wrong address, would you be miffed if they refused to return it? Who wouldn't?

Hence why I plan to replace XBMC with it eventually. I can't wait to see what it matures into.

Indeed. People really ought to look at it as a gaming equivalent of XBMC or something along those lines.

It's reasons like this that Google decided to blaze this trail in the first place. Stunts like this pulled by incumbents are often enough to kill smaller startups and projects, whereas it will likely only be a hindrance for Google.

But I think it is pretty obvious that this is more about restoring their brand images than anything else. I don't doubt that they are geniunely miffed about some of the NSA's shennanigans, such as having their private wan connections tapped, but going on about the 'Rights of the individual' seems kind of ludicrous when the reason the government gets information from them in the first place is because they already have it neatly packaged up for the taking. In a nutshell they say "This needs to change because of the rights of the citizens bla bla bla" and all I hear is "This needs to change because the fallout is bad for business." Still, it's better than nothing being done at all right? Those in power can only get away with abusing it by tricking the public into letting them, which they have become very good at, unfortunately.

Famous last words for so many big companies............

Fear will keep the local journalists in line. Fear of this data center.

How many of these devices will actually get patched by their users?

Hence why even non-gamers were so excited about Valve's gambit. Even with the few games released so far, it has brought tons of much-needed development effort to the areas GNU/Linux was lacking in. Imagine how things will be if SteamOS & Co. succeed and it becomes a major gaming platform. Free software purist or not, everyone is going to benefit.

It's easy to see why Linux Mint has been increasingly blazing their own separate trail. I tried Ubuntu 13.10 and liked it in some ways, but got extremely turned off when I spent an hour trying to customize the executed command on a Unity launcher to no avail. Making the interface simple to use is great, but that should never come at the cost of functionality, and there is no reason for it to.

Darn. Someone beat me to it.

Said the spider to the fly.