Where I live (sweden) that would be illegal. In fact, every store that has security cameras must also have a clear note about it outside the door.

Maybe you're talking about the UK.. Yeah, they're same lunatics as Americans too.

Oh yeah, this poker censor too, as well as wikileaks and countless of others. And here you guys are saying how bad Chinese are...

At least the Chinese do something about it. Unlike Americans who sit down watching tv and drinking beer and bitching on slashdot (and never doing anything about it) while their government not only censors their internet connections, but the whole worlds.

This is why Americans are so fucking hypocrites. Do whatever you want on your own land, but leave rest of the world alone. We don't want your bullshit around here in Europe, and the rest of the world.

That's also what contracts and SLA's are for. Just FYI, Azure/Microsoft offers SLA. So does any other good company offering services for businesses.

What happened to

There's really never been any problem. I need to do business flights many times a year and I usually fly with Emirates (United Arab Airlines). The first class private suites are truly awesome and come with your own minibar, adjustable ambient lighting, big tv and lots of movies and a la carte menu. Drinks are free too and theres showers and spa. I have no idea why anyone would fly with American Airlines when you can have service like that.

I do also like flying with german airlines. If you fly business class theres always a specific person that serves whatever you may need - beer, your dinner and so on. And the service is great too - they usually assist me a guy, probably thinking I need some fun bro time while away from my girlfriend. Always had a great service too, like "my" guy asking me if I slept good (and they are sad if I didn't) and asking if I want more beer.

Eh, wtf are you talking about? There isn't just hosting at your house or hosting in the cloud - there's the normal style shared hosting, dedicated server hosting and co-location hosting too, which is what most people use.

Microsoft 58,867,097 18.83%

I think there might be some successful sites in that 59 million domains. In fact, since it requires payment for the licenses, most of them probably are rather successful. Linux and Apache you can install for whatever.

So what? He has UID 524434 so he has been around on slashdot for a quite while. That just shows he has past coding experience in Java, and quick google query shows he is coding with C# now. Java->C# is a natural progress (as the languages are similar, but C# is better) and Visual Studio 2010 and Windows environment makes a lot of sense for C#.

Uh, he specifically wants to spend more time on developing and not worrying about the hosting part. He also understands the risks in it. In that regard using cloud hosting and storage could be really good, as long as you calculate the price comparatively.

Since he is using Visual Studio 2010 for development, I even suggest using Microsoft's Azure. It integrates beautifully with VS and you can run your code directly in the cloud, while debugging too.

In the wild. That's how you rootkit your phone too. There's no reason why it wouldn't be used to install other crap on your phone.

I also find the comparison to Android funny;

Android has malware. And I think iPhone owners are better target money wise - mostly US rich kids.

Yes, because every marketing campaign is done out of "desperation".

No teen/twenties or anyone else will pick OSX instead of Windows if he/she plays games. Which is exactly the target audience with bundling PC and Xbox360.

Every year I spent half an year living in Thailand. With all the fine ladyboys and fun time around, I'm not surprised no one cares about the servers.

Rather than making assumption about the whole humanity, maybe we should make assumptions about the intelligence of your family when other brother replies to random emails with his cc number and the other one spends friday nights trying to socially-engineer and hack his brother.

How do you think that will work out? The bad guys will just craft their website to look like an update and the user will stupidly run it just like before.