Whatever it is consumers have win. ARM, Android and Windows RT put enough pressure on Intel to force them optimize their CPUs for lower power consumption.

AMD does not own a fab anymore. It is just another priority customer of global foundry. It is sad that they are in the path of vanishing (if they cannot reinvent themselves in another market). They cannot compete with a company 50 times bigger than themselves forever.

If it wasn't for ARM we would now have no option other than Intel. I think every attempt to create competition even if it is a futile Windows RT (but open for native programming) is good for consumers.

I did not see rebels die. There were all kids and women and civilian.

The process of creating keys, encrypting and public key distribution is so difficult for public that not even 1% of my contacts have it.

We need really easy methods and software in order to make this happen. I am using this Firefox (and Chrome) plugin called Mailvelope. But even that one is difficult to understand for most people.

Besides, I think Gmail and others could possibly add a field to accounts where we could put our public key and it would be sent on the email header (if we assume! they really want to help). But I won't trust them on the encryption itself and I'll do it myself (possibly outside the browser).

If I remember correctly they had a directory (which was fee based and free) and a separate crawler. For the crawler you just needed to enter a seed URL while for the directory you were required to enter more information.

and the minus sign. It almost never works for me when I need to remove useless links from the results.

But even the photos and videos you take deliberately can be used to gather intelligence from you and they may contain totally private information.

I was thinking about it too. If you can produce some product you may even be able to earn some cash and produce enough electricity for non-connected essential electronics.

I still can do my scientific studies and research (the old way), can write books, design electronics circuits and even software (with the condition that it does not require me to be connected) even though I am not connected and that should earn me some money (my PhD field is computer science unfortunately).

And yes, aircon was not even available a few decades ago and people could still live.

I still should think about different aspects of it though.

you seem to be full from paranoia of being safe ad having privacy...

As a non-American, every bit of this information makes me puke. Specially since last night when your president unilaterally and illegally announced another war on another middle eastern country, even the word USA makes me feel bad.

I suggest using totally disconnected computers for the purpose. You can even use Windows XP and Word if you like but make sure no network device is attached.

Perhaps even close USB and remove DVD drives (use a second internal hard drive for backups) and print whenever needed.

How is that plan?

Then you shouldn't take and store photos and videos (obviously using and on your computer). You shouldn't use phone (since it has a microphone and possibly camera).. You shouldn't use Windows, ... and Android, ...oh and Linux and almost every connected device and software.

Basically it is a frightening fact that we can hardly run from ubiquitous surveillance since the whole connected electronics devices can be used for spying on us. Unless you leave in a farm, do not have communication devices and spend cash only. But I doubt even that would be enough.

Can we have Orwell's 1984 instead?

Are you ignorant yourself? We are talking about Windows 8 (a desktop and recently tablet OS). Linux desktop has less than %1 market share.

If it was a better product , users would prefer it with its free price. I have used Linux for 15 years (on servers) but I cannot bear it on desktop.

Or perhaps even brain traits be a bit different and therefore this new person comes up with different set of capabilities. Besides different education and society will form his personality.

Eventually you will have almost similar physics but very different outcomes. Smallest differences in two systems will chain and combine during the run time and produce totally different results.

Neither. An email service hosted in a data center in my own country by a local company.

For my company I will use my own dedicated server in a local data center.