If your business is relying on an OSS project and it gets in a pickle because the project goes dead, then I don't understand. If it relied on the project to begin with, that means it already had the features you needed most, in which case progress (although pleasant) is unnecessary. Besides, you would have the option of forking the project and finishing it yourself! Unlike when you gotta go out and buy a "new" version of a game because some big company decided its customers didn't need to play that game online anymore...

Stop overreacting.
There are three kind of people when it comes to what they first think when they see an article like this:

1. the kind that thinks it's about protecting the young (prepubescent) kids.
   They tend to agree with the proposed measures, and they usually get upset when someone of the second category is upset about restricting the "kids" they think the article refers to
2. the kind that thinks it's about restricting the right of exploring and learning the world around them teenagers should have
   They tend to disagree with the proposed measures, and they usually get upset when someone of the first category is upset about them being upset about restricting the "kids" they think the article refers to (phew... that wasn't so hard now, was it?)
3. the kind that reads the article and gets upset when the first two categories rant.

I must admit, I'm usually in the second category. However, my point remains: chillax, bro!

Not to mention that depression may have a physiological root. For example, it is very well possible for your brain to not secrete a normal amount of serotonin. Or perhaps perhaps the receptors for this neurotransmitter (or another) don't function well. Here's a (perhaps unauthoritative) reference: Monoamine hypothesis.

What I'm trying to say is this: depression itself may be treatable, but the underlying cause of depression (which in that case would be a symptom) may not. Anecdote: my father has been diagnosed with depression, and he's been on medication for at least a decade now.

What you describe is pretty much how the linux kernel handles system calls. See this: How system calls work on linux/i86

For an example of what a single instruction CPU might look like, take a look at this: Building the Turing complete coffee machine: an adequate assembly langauge

Your point of view is that if you're innocent, you shouldn't mind having every single bit of privacy taken away. This really pisses me off, as it is tantamount to saying someone is guilty simply by virtue of desiring privacy. Just imagine applying this exact same way of thinking to criminal law: you are guilty until proven innocent.

Doesn't speech recognition software require you to train them before using it? I'm asking because if you let the person with a speech impairment train the software, said software won't know whether what's been said has been done so with clarity.

How did this get modded as a troll? This friend simply is/was a douchebag. Instead of stabbing people in the back like that, he could've simply refused to hand out his work. As a matter of fact, besides being a douchebag, I'd also call him a kissass.

That would actually be closer to a fifth of the people.

Well, then I recommend you read Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.

An onomatopeia comes to mind: whooooosh!

This is as good a time as ever to let you know that Neelie Kroes is a woman

Well, that's because the lowest common denominator in the group of windows users actually is ... wait for it... the enormous retard!

Good thing I don't live in France, because if this law were to pass, I'd have to admit to all my friends that this picture of my girlfriend was actually altered.

I hate being "that person", but what does this mean: -33% reductions (emphasis on the negative sign and "reductions")? That looks like a classic case of a double negative. Just saying.
That said, it is indeed interesting information.

1. Advertise a certain amount of bandwidth
2. Put a clause in the contract that allows you to change the advertised service at any time
3. Sell advertised product
4. Cap bandwidth to amounts clearly below what was advertised, on account of "1% of our users fuck the other 99%"
5. ?????
6. Profit!!!