Mail from third party servers doesn't pass through Google's servers to be visible in the GMail app. If it did, it would also be accessible from Inbox. All they did was added the IMAP/POP3 backend to GMail so the interface can be unified.

One great thing about Outlook is the ability to recall mails

????. One idiotic thing about Outlook is it gives non-technical cow-orkers the illusion that you can recall mails. Personally I get a bit sick of my mailbox being full of duplicate emails and recall notices because someone wanted to fix a trivial spelling mistake.

Alpine Linux uses 130 MB

The first version of Slackware I tried ran on two floppies - one for the kernel, and one for the userspace. This didn't include a graphical interface though - you needed to download the CD image for that.

2km? I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere about an ancient construction technique that can support structures up to 8,848 m.

If your wireless provider refuses to release updates, how are you expecting a backport of the fix to 4.3 to help?

When I've come across corporate internet pages that need "compatibility modes" to work properly in modern versions of IE, they mostly work fine in Firefox, as the developers already catered to standards compliant browsers, and put in exceptions for IE being broken. Dropping IE's compatibility modes would force the cleanup of all these legacy exceptions for IE, which can only be a good thing. Any remaining corporate webapps that were developed solely for old versions of IE without catering to standard browsers of the day, and have not been important enough to update over the past 8 years or so that more standard versions of IE have been available (I'm counting IE7 here, which may be a bit generous, but mostly it's applications made for IE5 and IE6 that are the problem) need to die already.

The main reason it is not remotely the same thing is that the web was not set up by Microsoft exclusively for their browser and reverse engineered by others to provide alternative browsers.

Really? Because I've never seen "liberal media" try to control interviews by shouting over them when its not going the way they planned the way Fox News presenters regularly do it.

You haven't noticed the beta program going on for Microsoft Cryptlocker?

Thats pretty skinny.

Maybe compared to the people around you, but it's actually smack bang in the middle of a "normal healthy BMI" according to NIH.

I submit that anybody who watches more than five hours of television a day is suffering from depression or some other condition that would lead to doing such a thing.

Are you sure you got cause and effect around the right way? Daytime television is particularly mind numbing.

It doesn't counter the effects of sitting for a prolonged time "after adjusting for the effects of regular exercise". Regular exercise is still a big part of a healthy lifestyle.

It depends how it is done. If, like the original Qt license, the license says that the software cannot be used on those platforms without paying the fee, then you are correct, it is non-Free software. But if anyone is free to compile the source themselves, but the authors make a convenient binary package available for a fee, then it is still Free software.

By measuring the actual emissions using regularly calibrated test equipment (not blindly trusting what the car's uncalibrated sensors are telling you). The visual inspection is to ensure that the emissions are not also coming out from other places they shouldn't be.

The US government holds that Bitcoin is property not legal tender.

Legal tender has a very specific and limited meaning relating to payment of debts - if you owe a debt, then an offer of legal tender to settle it cannot be refused. Not being legal tender is not a barrier to something being used in commerce, even by the government. If both parties agree, they can use whatever payment system they want (as long as the IRS is kept happy by declaring a US$ equivalent where required).