The french minister sent an answer to Maurice Taylor (who is known to be a troll btw). I couldn't find an english translation but it's a well written answer. (sorry, only pdf's and jpg available at this time)
answer page 1
answer page 2
About the 3h/day of talking, the factory was in a transition period where they temporarily switched their production line from tires for car to tires for truck, and the production line for car tires wasn't fully operational anymore. Taylor would have sent the workers home without payment, but the french union refused. That's their difference.
Of course french workers are not allowed to chat for 3h/day, anyone with a sane mind and who have worked in real life understands this.

"This is a new campaign. It's not like the other ones you read about where everyone can tell it's China," the first person said." I'm a bit lost with all attacks, java security alerts, java patches, java this, java that. Could we give each java alerts a feminine first name like we do with tornado ?

Are you serious, and why not invite hackers to your birthday party ? I did ALL the above, plus I've added "rm -rf /" to the bash_profile of the root user, so in case SSH source code is compromised, my machine will self destruct on a successful hack! (make sure you use sudo btw)

Check how unique your browser is:
http://panopticlick.eff.org/
This will show you that logged in FB or not, your browser signs your unique presence for you. No really, you don't even need to have an account on FB to be known by FB. Now add the data collected by other sites and I'm quite sure that FB could automatically fill in your first name field and last name field for you during the account creation.

This is racism: When the shop owner thinks that this woman, because she is from another ethnicity, will sell the iPhones outside of the US, then it is racism. Asking this woman to leave is like asking a black person to leave because of some random reason, because he is going to sell the iPhones in Africa for example.
The police, who arrests this woman because she refuse to leave the shop (why couldn't she do the same thing than the other people), is just doing the dirty job of the shop owner.
And the ending with the tazer is just the climax of this chain of stupidity.

At leastst my asd45WSd558_315 takes more than 1 peek to be memorized, and people just don't try to watch since it's seems so complicated anyway. If you watched me type the horse thing you would have my password by now.

Is this fee paid to the German government of partially to GEMA ? Because it's so high that it could push to crime.

True. "I had my old machine loaded with all sorts of tools I had custom crafted for my needs. DSP stuff. Digitizers and digitizing software. Unusual displays. Dual disk drives and RAM drives, along with drivers of my own design. Assemblers. C++ compilers. Schematic capture and PCB layout software. SPICE circuit simulators. Mathcad. Thermodynamics software. Disassemblers and debugging tools just in case something didn't work like it oughta." Does you job involve using these tools ? If yes how can you justify you were fired ? In my job I have to install/configure/update this kind of programs, because my users are supposed to use these tools. If not, then it's just like bloatware to me. Maybe useful for a specific task but certainly non-critical. I give some "marge de manoeuvre" to people, because they know better than me how they work the best. But I can also recognize when people are requesting useless privileges/tools. And no, whining never made me install something. Prove me a tool is useful for your job and I'll do all the IT you need.

What an horrible way to die for a phone: Being bent to death (with the cracks and such) by it's owner, raging at the device not reacting while it was in fact not turned on.

Wouldn't "Firefox with Bing for Workgroups" sounds more like a Redmond product ?

Patenting the fact that you can restrict what will be bought with a gift card ? And we lived until now without it ? Really, Graham Bell and Thomas Edison have found their master here.

Maybe it's the whole purpose of this lack of apps: To make you captive from the blackberry. They might think that the tablet fashion can lead to more blackberry sales ? don't know, just trying to explain some really bad strategy...

They understand the problem. But it might be too little too late.

Booting speed is fine for any OS. But how about the delay between entering your credentials and getting a ready-to-use firefox window ? On my machine it easily doubles the boot up time.

Did you have a look at Java 7 already ?