I like political news as it pertains to technology (e.g., DMCA, ACTA, George W. Bush's daughter giving him an illegal mix CD for his birthday). I'd rather not block all stories filed under politics to avoid non-tech stories such as this one.

A quick Bing search could have saved you a /. post.

I don't want to read this kind of stuff on Slashdot. I come here for tech news that has some bearing on the world. This story is specifically about American politics and should have no place on this site.

The URL I posted had a download link. I hope your favourite video player supports WMV.
 
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YES, Microsoft is changing their business model big time. Steve Ballmer announced in his recent University of Washington speech that Microsoft is dedicating 70% fo their software engineers to creating cloud-based versions of their local software, and by next year it will increase to 90%. They were slow to adopt the cloud but plan to become a big contender in a short amount of time.

The speech is about 90 minutes long and is very interesting, for those who care to watch. He's quite a good speaker with a very good knowledge of the industry, and he handles people's questions directly and in detail. What impressed me most was that he openly praises other companies and their cloud apps like Salesforce and Google.

Yeah, I know. The Steam EULA refers to me as a "subscriber" not a "customer". Goes to show how good Steam is, since I'd rather be one of their subscribers than an owner of a physical medium.

I stopped pirating PC games when Steam came out. The convenience of ownership outweighed the convenience of piracy.

I have a few pirated games on my DSi XL because I hate lugging cartridges around. I own several DSiware titles because shopping was convenient and I don't need cartridges. Beef up the DS's storage and make games intangible and they'll have sold me.

Bad example.. the memory consumption gets closer as you open more tabs.

I agree with your alternatives, but I still attest that your privacy is unquestionably comporomised to some degree by joining the address and search bars. Other browsers have the same functionality while retaining your privacy by breaking these bars apart. All I'm saying is that there are some URLs people will not want to share with Google.

I made this conclusion based on the Windows task manager. It showed Chrome using upwards of 300MB of RAM or even more, seconds after starting up with 7 or 8 tabs open. This is in stark contrast with Firefox which sometimes gets as high as 250MB with the same number of tabs open, but drops considerably if I close and restart the browser.

Thanks for correcting me. I mean, my analogy was about a tiger and a lion, and that your steak would be safe with neither, but you cleverly inferred my hidden implication that a shark would deftly steal your steak and place it in the nearest freezer.

So you trust a tiger infinitely more with your steak than a lion?

Seriously though, between Microsoft and Google, which company's revenue is more reliant upon user profiling for advertising networks? If I were to make a rash (and perhaps outdated) generalization I'd say that Google is more dangerous to individual privacy, whereas Microsoft is more dangerous to ethical competition with other businesses.