The US elected W as their president. So I would say that Texas is good at churning out politicians that have a chance at the federal level.

I started seeing excitement about this late 2011, as Guild Wars 2 started to do its road show, demoing it at various conferences. There was a lot of hype behind GW2, but when they did their first Beta Weekend Event, it really blew me away.

ArenaNet was smart and didn't show the game off to people (in beta form) until they felt it was really ready to show to the public. Their beta wasn't a place to test it while it was still alpha quality. Their beta events were there for people to experience the game, stress the servers, and test some of the more detailed mechanics that needed work.

Even in the beta events, it's a well polished game with very few rough edges. All the classes feel unique, and have a lot of different play styles available to them (depending on how you equip/spec your character). It's really hard to describe a large MMO in just a few words (as there is so much content), but it is really worth giving it a try if you like MMOs.

The biggest selling point that I've been using with friends is how they split up PvP. In the PvE (player vs environment/enemies), there is no fighting other players (pvp, player vs player). When I run around the PvE world, it is really one of the first games where I will help out random people. They did a great job to guide you into helping others. It really helps build a feeling of community within the PvE adventure.

For PvP, it's all in an instanced area. So you never fight against people in the PvE world. They have 2 PvP modes. One is a battleground style PvP (much like they have in World of Warcraft with battlegrounds). These are quite fun. But then they have a persistant PvP zone (a massive zone at that), where 3 servers fight against each other for control of the areas. For people that played DAoC (dark age of Camelot), it feels much like the RvR in that.

The story and lore of the universe is quite fun (I started reading up on GW1 lore, it's a pretty decent fantasy story). But it doesn't get too much in the way for people that don't want to take part in it.

they were just announced, it'll take a bit for review sites to dig into those sorts of details.

Apple mentioned they worked on making the fans quieter, but I'd be interested to know the heat and noise level of the machines.

Or you go to the website of the email address: http://donuts.co/

From their Team page:

From their about us page:

Looking at their investors, they have a lot of VC money. Looks like a startup trying to cash in on this. Though, it could be looked at in another light, that they are trying to provide a multitude of TLDs for people to use.

A news story about the company: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/seattle-area-startup-raised-100m-series-financing/
They have $100 million in funding.

The 2 companies I've worked at were both very security focused. Though, one was big expensive SAN systems (they had been encrypting network traffic since at least 1998 for the device management), and the other company does network security (IPS/IDS) and they are extremely paranoid with how data is stored and transmitted around.

I guess it's a matter of the type of company you work at and the background/enthusiasm of the people you work with.

Flame may not be using the same tech, but it is highly advanced and uses a lot of the same attack vectors that Stuxnet and Duqu used. It definitely wasn't developed by the team behind those 2 malware packages, but more of a parallel project that used some of the same tricks.

It still feels very much like an NSA lead attack on the middle east.

For the individual consumer that actually pays for content, it is in their best interest to get other consumers to pay for content. The more people that pay, the more money that goes to the creators, so they can hit their break even point and then make a profit. If producers can guess they will have more people purchasing their product, the initial price may be lower.

Even on Lua's site (which Fox links to), they have a section explaining how to spell and pronounce the name.

You think they'd at least get that part right (when they link to the website).

This was the same thought that came into my head as I was reading this as it was plastered all over the internet. Sure, it makes some huge claims (that many of us already suspected), but there isn't any direct proof. This tells a good story that seems to fit with the facts we know, but doesn't seem to go any further in offering proof that certain governments were involved.

I didn't see you mention Google Apps. My company (500'ish people) are all on Google Apps and I really like it. Plus its free for up to 10 users, so you could at least give it a test drive. It integrates email, calendar, docs, and contacts all into one package (with names shared between each).

I'd recommend looking around to see what other anti-virus products there are. There are a few good review sites out there for antivirus:

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/test-reports/
http://www.av-comparatives.org/en/comparativesreviews/summary-reports

BitDefender, Kasperskey, Norton, and F-Secure all seem to be putting out good products.

I have a friend that's been part of Google's product review team for a few years. From my understanding, they do not do content scraping for reviews when associating them to products. Websites must actually subscribe and push the data to google to have it included (or present an XML feed for google to fetch or something similar). Google has live humans going through and making sure that the people who sign up to populate product reviews are legitimate (spammers try to push crap comments to the system).

What you are describing basically sounds like what NGFW (Next Generation Firewalls) solve. These are standard firewalls, but add more "smarts" to them, like detecting certain applications, telling you which users access them and when. So you'll want something inline to do it properly.

A lot of traffic to the web may also be going over an SSL connection, so you would probably need an SSL module in-line to basically man-in-the-middle all the computers on the network and snoop the traffic.

Check out the NSS report (costs money to buy the report) on NGFW appliances.

It was money made in the US, and people in the US that make money legally need to pay income tax on that money.

If Saverin want's to go make billions in another country and pay taxes there, let me. But I don't think he should be able to enter the US, be part of a team that builds a business in the US, then when he makes a lot of money on it, leaves without paying his share of taxes. I'd say he's exploiting the opportunity he was given in the US without paying his share of income tax.

Accord to their feature site, the auto-update is windows only?

So it's not really auto-update, just makes it a little nicer/easier for windows users.