They also are making a fair amount of revenue selling services. For example, my employer had so many problems with Microsoft Sharepoint that they switched to Google Drive. I use both Google and Microsoft's services. Microsoft's (at least Email) leaves a lot to be desired.

Google is also in the transaction business like Paypal and Amazon as well as hosting services.

For another organization I'm looking into Google services now to handle documents and email.

Amazingly enough, for OSX, the major kernel change occurred with 10.7 with the inclusion of GrandCentral. It's been 4 releases, and there's still bugs in that change, but they're getting ironed out slowly. The GUI changes on the last go round were... jarring. For the most part, I ignore them.

Perhaps they could then just call their OS {Windows} X?

What, again?

This is provably false. There are certain people, we'll call them rock stars, that you can stick in a room and they'll get a better solution out faster that addresses everything you need versus 100 lines of doesn't work for 20% of the cases code. Sometimes the rock stars do this to existing code with a 1 line mod. It's because they actually take the time to understand the problem and can visualize the system, instead of writing some boilerplate garbage cut and pasted from stackoverflow.

Removing party affiliation from the ballot would be an excellent first step. Why is it on there anyways? And removing straight party voting as an option. Each person voted for must be selected individually. Let's see how long parties survive locally when that happens.

How much money does the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation have again? What breakthroughs have occurred from that source and how long have they been at it?

So you go no cable, you're then paying 1 of the 2 telecoms.... That's "better"? They're all equally corrupt, and not even in meaningfully different ways.

As for music, you're fine, as long as you don't publicly perform nor distribute it. If you do wind up doing either, and there's a question of copying, pay the $0.01 cent per performance fee and you're good.

And men are more able to require paternity leave, hint it comes from having words with gender.

Illegal raids and rumored internal emails, you don't say? So, what you're telling me is that so far the gov is 0, megaupload 2. And they can't even get him to court legally, sounds like a witchhunt to me, much like the piratebay gang that were convicted as accessories to a crime that was never proven.

Sadly you cannot see that this isn't stealing - it's seizing evidence during a crime. Grabbing 8K from granny however is stealing. They are done under different laws.

Don't forget that any computers launched into deep outer space needs to be radiation hardened and that the development of radiation hardened components happens at a much slower rate then consumer products.

It's 6, they're having a super 20% off sale.

Unless he uploaded content himself, he's really only running a system that allows for that, much like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon allow for it by allowing connections to MegaUpload. Just think if they'd blocked MegaUpload's servers, they certainly have the ability. Much like guns, cars, or the internet, MegaUpload could be used both legally and illegally. If the gov has proof that he actually committed copyright infringement, claimed in the civil action, why don't they charge him with that? Perhaps because they have no proof?

Since the police make the decisions, and benefit from the forfeiture directly, yes, we start by blaming the police and publicizing all incidents and thus apply pressure to the politicians to stop this nonsense. No one is going to say the police are wrong seizing 100 tons of coke and coke covered $100M in a single bust. Grabbing $8K from granny or some business person, yes, and they deserve all the heat they get from that outright theft (you can call it whatever you want, it's still theft)