So where's Apple now? Every big player should launch their service right now. It's way harder for the music industry to fight back then.

So you didn't even read the summary?

Go do it. There are such existing already. But don't cry if nobody follows you because it will break their existing internet. There is no way in hell all ISP's and companies would change to yours. Hell, it was tried back in the 90's when internet was still a new thing, and it didn't work back then either.

A bookshelf like that makes the room look nice. It's not always about functionality. It's a status symbol.

I was talking about online casinos, because Live and Steam are online services aswell.

I doubt your local shop sells you virtual TF2 hats. Since that's all you use virtual currency in steam for, the actual games you buy with real money just like before. Besides, you can't transfer most retail games to Steam unless they're Valve's own games (+ a small list of exceptions that allow it)

Do you mean pushing back the money? Bank accounts, sure. Credit cards, I guess most work. Point cards, no.

But because of anti-laundering laws, you cannot allow customers just decide where they want to send it. It will create huge problem with money launderers, credit card theft and other related things. People already do it in poker tables and they try to have sophisticated systems to prevent it. Someone loads money to an account (with stolen credit card or other illegal funds) and loses it in table other player who then withdraws it. Only reason they have to lose it first if because they also cannot just directly transfer it elsewhere or it will trigger fraud alerts.

And since there really is no harm done for MS, Sony or Nintendo to just leave the few dollars sitting in the accounts, I'm not sure they want to get into all of that.

For example for the comment box, which is quite nice with its real time updating, image adding etc.

Yeah yeah, we get off your lawn now...

That's why it's inevitable that everything will soon be moved to cheaper countries. That's why US is fighting so hard to get strict copyrights all over the world now, because entertainment is basically the only thing US still has major lead in. But growing amount of people are starting to understand there might be better entertainment than the bubblegum hollywood stuff. The giant is falling and trying to fight back off its inevitable end.

I personally find this good solution. You get the stability of Ubuntu, eye-candy of Mac and the security of Windows.

A few years ago I was really actively working on porn industry, but against common believe it's not really that dirty. Well, for the women maybe. But otherwise it's really professional and actually a fun industry to work on.

Even if they go via bit.ly the referrer still shows them coming from Twitter.

It's a stupid comparison anyway, people go to Drudge to read news (I guess, I've never used it before) and Twitter isn't the same. Also Drudge only contains links to news sites, so there isn't anything else to click on anyway.

Well, slashdot includes actual content like summaries and lots of comments. I do understand why the report it says it brings a lot of traffic to news site tho, since there is nothing else than external links to click on. Social media is a lot more than that.

Crypting your data won't save it from rootkit...

Date format is stupid all around the world. Everyone should just use 2011-05-08 15:00. Yes, drop the stupid am/pm stuff too.