Quite frankly, having the source doesn't help exploits much, or at least nearly as much as it helps in correcting exploits. The reason for this is most of the common methods for injecting code into privileged apps are extremely complex and rely on several different parts of the code to be in a certain key state to take place. So save from 1) being a literal genius or 2) having a ton of experience in knowing where security problems in coding tend to pop up(and even here, you will miss most), code review doesn't help much in finding actual exploits.(although it can be instrumental in determining if the architecture of the code is exploit prone, so again, better for the whitehats than blackhats)

The easier way to look for exploits now is to automate the app and then find ways to make it crash or otherwise misbehave/not behave as intended. If you can find a way to make it crash, especially segfault etc, you have found a bug that is likely to be exploitable. Many security researchers and firms have clusters of automated programs crunching night and day trying to find ways to make them crash/trigger unusually high exceptions/looking for other signs of misbehavior.

Another good way is to look for certain patterns. For example, a .net app that makes lots of disorganized unsafe calls to unmanaged code is a good shot(probably a newb or incompetent programmer(disorganized) treading on dangerous ground), and you can monitor all of this just fine if not more easily sans-source, with standard debugging tools for the OS you are on(doesn't matter which).

For the 3rd generation of Natal, they will look at a much more precise version of control that has the minor inconvenience of requiring a physical effector and control surfaces to enhance sensitivity and prevent unintended actuations. The industry will be wowed by this amazingly accurate control system which is not confused by the dog walking in front of the TV again.

It is worse because it suddenly makes one of the proposed strengths of the *nix platform look obsolete, and this is Slashdot.

I still think this is concerning. While this particular law is contingent on a sale, the overall point is that the Judge made a ruling based on his legal opinion of the fitness of software for a given application based on a law which could just as well not have required such a condition, as many don't require. Other laws not contingent on a sale having occurred but rather just the distribution of a product or service could therefore be applied to software in general based on this case.
And don't go pulling the "put some pseudo-legalese magic incantation in my code saying its not fit for even the reasonably-implied purpose and all the trouble will magically go away" card because that won't work in the exact high-liability suits(i.e. someone dies, the stock market crashes) it intended to defend the developer against, in the real world.

The exe is only necessary to allow Windows shell integration with the online Office service, i.e., so you can double click on a docx on your desktop and have it open in the web office.
If you want to go through the same hassle to open local files you go though with other online office suites, it is not required.

My graphing calculator is under half the size, about 1/8th the weight, and about 100 times the battery life of the iPad. That just can't be argued with. Your logic is flawless.

1) WoW is not really purely GaaS, as the actual software itself is still both in reality and in concept purchased separately. The services is the actual service that allows the software to be useful. Think of this like your PC/OS(product) and ISP(service) combining to give you web access.
Games on Demand would be more like GaaS, but they aren't really that common, at least, where the consumer pays. Many flash games on the internet which are ad-supported are probably the biggest mainstream pure GaaS.
2) Pandora an Last.fm is not really MaaS, they are just analogues of radio. "Owning" CD's and digital files for music clearly had customer value in the Radio era and don''t address direct access to music libraries(I can listen to what I want when I want rather than something like X, often). A true example of MaaS would be something like ZunePass or Rhapsody, and both probably denote the failure of appeal of MaaS vs. the bigger iTunes and Amazon stores.

Play dumb. One problem geeks seem to have in these situations is they are so high on their horse they have to act like freaking experts of everything all the time.
Just do exactly what the agent says, complying 100%, but don't offer any advice or claim any insight into what is going on at all beyond your legal responsibilities. If you use whole disk encryption, you are probably required to type in the key for that but beyond that ignorance will get you far. When they say "Oh, you run Linux?", say "Um, at my work we use something called U-buntu I think". If they ask you if you have any encrypted files or something, just respond with something like "I don't know much about encryption.". Make them do their job while remaining honest, and they will just leave you alone. Act like a smartass and they won't...

I don't think it makes much sense to allow anyone to dig all the lines they want. To the extreme, it just wouldn't work as it would become an unmanageable mess, and to the norm, it just makes no sense as one or two relatively cheap fibers to every home is all we will need for a decade or two. The current system works, except for the illusion that some company owns the lines connecting your home to the world, which doesn't work and requires oppression by either the provider or the government, neither of which is very desirable.
It should be a common community asset leased to service providers, much like the airwaves.

Except the majority of the cost is fixed in the rockets to escape Earth and the spacecraft to reach mars, so a longer lasting robot is always better so long as it remains a minority of the cost of the exploration system.

Umm, you realize you can do math on greater than 32 bits values in Matlab, just not using the 64-bit platforms's ability to natively handle 64 bit datatypes. After all, I can do make on 64-bit values on an 8-bit micro-controller just fine, it will just take more than a few instructions.
And as stated before, this matters little as it is a performance issue, and matlab still offers the best performance of its class, even vs. those who do have this feature.

Not to mention, Microsoft's online services probably serve as a pretty good dogfood, if not marketing, program for their servers and tools business, which does make money. I don't think as many people out there would have Silverlight or other MS technologies installed on their machines if it was not for MS's own services pushing them.

The Big ISP argument is probably that they can't expand into rural areas unless they can throttle/control bandwidth either through rate limits or charging by use, because to do so profitably(or equally profitably) would mean to offset the greater cost of connecting rural populations they'd need to reduce costs on routers and other backend hardware to service the same number of users, with means throttling by either policy or cost incentives.
That said, I think that case is BS. Companies in all sectors will take on unprofitable business for a minority of the market if it means stopping that share from going to the rivals or being a source of startup revenue for new entrants into their established market. After all, if the DSL and Cable companies leave rural areas alone long enough, it will only allow WiMax providers and other innovators to gain share through these customers to the point where they can become powerful enough to be a threat on the home urban turn of the bigger players. That is why this just isn't true, and the established companies will continue growing their networks no matter what, as soon as they can afford it again.