I think all engineers/hackers have a certain amount of idealism in them. When they see something that is badly broken they want to fix it, and many are willing to give their time/money/talent generously.
Terrorists, in an admittedly warped sense, are idealists too. I'm an Iraqi, I think the US is a massive "bug", so I'm going to try to fix it at all costs. If I'm convinced the US is a massive bug in the software system that is the world, it makes it possible for me to want to obliterate 3,000 innocent Americans.
I'm no shrink and it sounds sacrilegious, but kernel hackers and Mohammad Atta's pals may have a lot in common. Each group is trying to make the world better, at least in their own minds.
With 71 percent of the United States search market (and 90 percent in Britain), Google’s dominance of both search and search advertising gives it overwhelming control.
So Google is a monopoly then. Won't they hear from anti-trust regulators if they abuse that position and try to gain an advantage in other markets like comparison shopping?
I don't mean to troll, but can Gordon Brown please apologize for even more serious crimes against humanity? Such as this one?
Have you used the unintuitive piece of shit called "iTunes for Windows" that makes zero sense to those unfamiliar with the OS X UI?
Apple does that so that they can say to Windows users: "If you know how to use iTunes/Windows, you already know how to use a Mac. So, switch"
Is there any other company with it's perception of viability so closely linked to a single living individual?
Berkshire Hathaway?
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin