Microsoft would have to restructure a part of their OS to make that possible but with 'turning IE off' you can effectivly hide IE from the user completely so it's not a bad deal, the average user will never know it's still there.

To get the new ipods filled completely it would cost you a couple million dollars. If you really paid for all your music you must have a small collection and you basically waste 90% of the thing with empty space.

... They want to replace the ministry of defence with the ministry of feast and use to money currently allocated to new defence systems to provide the people with free beer. You really want to be associated with that?

You don't get it Microsoft wants to be able to scan their own books too. They don't want to use books scanned by google. Letting someone else foot the bill is not the issue here.

Yes. It is called copyright law. I don't understand why people keep repeating this strange talking point. Copyright prevent companies from digitalizing books, Google will be the sole company exempt from this through a class action lawsuit. Of course theoretically other companies could try to get a similar agreement with the writers guild but what incentive does the writers guild have to renegotiate the same agreement with other companies? None I say. In fact it would go against their interest so it's a classic case of a monopoly and anti-trust legislation is preventing this.

Extradition happens when when I commit a crime in another country and then flee. In this case the guy did something in another country and the US still seeks to impose their laws on the man that's insane. If you do something in Texas witch happens to be illegal in Germany is Germany going to seek extradition?

Availability of data is way more important than data not being 100% private. Your private data in a super secret NSA database somewhere vs your private data going to people you know. I know what I'd pick thank you.

Independent testing shows time and time again that LED lamps produces less lux than adversed They don't actually last for 19 years. The lamp itself will but the LED lights also need a bunch of resistors and other electrical components to function, these last considerably less long and if they fail the whole lamp fails. Also LED lamps are heat sensitive too high temperatures and they fail so you better be careful with your led lamp since you just invested 40$ in them. I say the reservations of the public are entirely justified given how flexible with the truth the LED industry has been.

When it comes to interfaces it isn't just about sums to do testing etc. It's also ideological. Open source projects usually want to make the user in control, giving them an insane amount of options, especially if you don't really know what you are doing this can scare you off. Even if they developer realizes this he still doesn't want to put the options out of his program because the whole spirit of the project is to create 'freedom' for the end user and lock everything down and be patronizing like the property alternative.

Yes it is! Nobody gets punished for things they aren't charged for. If she also happens to have killed an old man that she wasn't charged for that doesn't mean this fine is more just because it's also punishment for killing an old man.

Well I don't know about America but in the EU this would certainly be illegal I think you wouldn't even have to file a civil suit they would just be prosecuted But I know in America companies have much more freedom to fuck over their customers so maybe this was legal with you.

Just use aluminium foil I suppose tin foil hats finally serve some practical purpose. Seriously though the German state of (???forgot) actually gave specially made passport pouches with the passport to prevent leaking of signal

No you cannot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Usage_tracking

I'm just not going to give google more info about me by using their browser.

They are in the European Free Trade Association most EU rules apply to them and in exchange they get free movement of people in the EU, trade without restrictions with EU member states, etc. It makes them a virtual member of the EU just one without any influence.