As any self-respecting marketing specialist will tell you, there is no such thing as bad advertisement. Any advertisement, be it angry consumer smashing expensive smartphones because of some anoying adds poping, translate to better sales.

Ok this thing is creepy and could be in your next spy blockbuster, but isn't the assured retarliation the whole point behind nuclear submarines?
They are roaming the seas and nobody knows exactly where they are, and could certainly be triggered if some catastrophic event happened to the mother country. Certainly radio transmissions are less reliable in nature (interrupted transmission doesn't mean a severed wire) but some system could certainly be worked out. And anyway MAD is a lot more likelly to bring the world to its doom via paranoÃd reaction or plain human mistake than it is by technological failure.
I'll stick with the submarines.

I am not an OS guru but it seemed to me that Solaris is by far the most powerfull kernel available for the x86 platform. Good kernel don't mean good and user friendly OSs, but Solaris has, IIRC, virtualisation and filesystem features that linux and windows could only dream of. It's Unix firepower for your home.

With Oracle swalowing Sun I'm afraid we'll live the same situation as with DEC back in the days: a decade from now, we will look back at Solaris and Java technologies and say 'man, they really invented everything'.

On a side comment I wonder how such companies manage to remain largely unprofitable with such good technologies in their portfolio.

I know it's kind of off topic, but you'd be surprised at how good you can get at playing popular music with little effort. You can even get to compose good popular music with minimum training.
Also I like the way you put Adam Jones and Tom Morello in your list. Know what they have in common? They compose GREAT music that's relatively simple to play - 70% of what i play as a beginer come from one or the other, actually.
So if you are into psycho-prog-rock-metal, you could very well be the next Adam Jones.

I think it is equally harmless to suggest people to try the real thing. If they like music they could be missing something under the false assumptions that it's 'too late' or 'too difficult'. Like I did during so many year (although me finally picking the guitar is not related with Guitar Hero games).

I second this statement. What I learned in my short time studying computer security is that there is a potential for large damage to be made.

I would even go so far as to say i'm surprised no large scale attack ever happened. We can be thankfull that the bad guys switched from a "damage dealing" to a "money making" state of mind.

What's even funnier is that all the technology and good practice are readilly available to *greatly* mitigate the risks but there is a clear lack of skill and will in most places.

Drawback #1: I can't have sex with anybody.
Do I need to go further?

Keeping the sex in mariage is a moral answer to a medical problem. Can't work.
Teaching 'safe sex' is a much better approach. You are advised not to sleep carelessly with someone but without the moral incentive.

That's like saying abandoning cars are the solution to car related death, all the while considering it a sin to move faster than what speed god gave you at birth.
If you can't find the drawback then stick with monogamy and sex in marriage, it's fine by me.

We have had this tax for a couple years here in france. AFAIK any device that could possibly display a TV program makes you elligible for the tax.
Most people try to get away with "I don't own nor watch TV I swear!" though.

The best entertainment related tax in france is still the tax on blank media. Whenever you buy a CD, DVD, Hard drive or whatnot you get to pay a Tax to support the recording industry. Because we KNOW you are going to pirate stuff, you thief!

As far as i know, TR is the first artist ever credited with having used a Mac in the actual recording process (citation needed). He allways has been a great supporter of apple products, and it looks like a major turn down. I wonder if he will make the move to open source software? He's a geek for sure but not the kind to enjoy hacking into JACK all day long.

At least we can hope for swift reaction if the president elect of the USA is unable to listen to music while on hollydays.

Windows seems to be a good-enough choice for any military application. Except that your average security guy will warn you of the 'security through obscurity' : closed source doesn't mean safe source. I do think the U.K. had to review the kernel's code a fair bit before doing that, or else we are in trouble.
I am more concerned by the fact that the windows kernel is somewhat poor security wise, and that the average windows developper can't do shit if its program doesn't run as root err administrator. Trying to mingle Windows and security is difficult for this reason alone.