I guess people who bend over and buy DRMed music deserve this.

I guess this is one unsatisfied customer.

Now if they would just impose the same conditions on computer manufacturers regarding the OS.

If it takes a 300 Million $ Data Center to store that data, it'll take a 300 Million $ Data Center from MS or Google or whoever, regardless of Cloud or no Cloud. I don't see what cloud computing has to do with this. It's more like build your own vs rent one debate.

Well, I think Microsoft will solve the compatibility problem "a la" Windows7. Office 13 will load Office 2007 that will load Office2003 that will load OfficeXP and so on, and so on.

I have JS and Ads on, because I want to contribute a bit back, so I don't understand why I'm being "punished" like this (just using Opera with some custom filters, guess it's blocking some of the ads, so funny sig btw). But really, I'm quite upset right now, I hope this is the last time I'll see something like this, or I'm considering not "seeing" Slashdot anymore.
I might also be subjective, I really like OpenOffice.

Either I am really stupid (which is possible I won't deny it), or this is clearly a hidden advertisement on Slashdot for SoftMaker Office. To be anywhere near a fair comparison they should have included IBM Lotus Symphony, KOffice, StarOffice and others. Not compare OpenOffice to some commercial product I don't think many people ever heard about.

I don't understand why this has made it to the frontpage.

Am I blind or does Slashdot have no edit option after I submitted a comment. Anyway it was "out of", didn't sleep much, sorry.

Was nice knowing you... now, let's all move to some other tracker of of the thousands out there, and let it die like others did .I guess this cat and mouse game is going to last a while.

You could order one over the Internet....
Oh sh..
Well there is no way everyone could switch to this, but I'm pretty sure a lot of reporters, embassys etc. have this sort of equipment and couple provide internet access trough it. Plus there are shops that sell this stuff, I can buy that sort of equipment walking over the street and I live in eastern Europe, If not it can be smuggled in,

There already are various Satellite Providers that offer Internet Connectivity also in Iran, just try to :google it .
I'm pretty sure the US Army already has it's own satellite ISP that works in Iraq, which means it also works in Iran, they'd just have to be so generous to let the Iranis use it, they don't really need special equipment for this, they can buy satellite capable phones in Iran, they just need the access to the US army networks, or commercial networks. Just give them some access to satellite providers, then they can set up their own networks on site if they're the least bit organized, otherwise it's no use anyway.

Wifi from Irak isn't really possible, It would work around the borders, but that's all, Iran is a pretty big country, it's meaningless, satellite is the only option, either that or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers .

"I'll create a GUI interface in Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address."
Swedish Court Says: No you won't!

I for one welcome our new 800-core computer overlords