both myself and the courts would beg to differ. While it's true that the Constitution of the United States DOES only cover government, it also covers cases of abuse by corporations. Remember that the court system itself IS an arm of the government...

Heh...i'll take this a step further (just for the hell of it.) In America, if the CIA, FBI, Army, Navy, etc. blows you to bits, your family sues the government for billions. Illegal immigrants have no similar protections and anyone else is a gray area. Compare that to china, if you look at the chinese miliary the wrong way, you are probably going to die.

p.s. even thought this, and the above comment, will be modded down...I'm just going to throw this out there. Linux ignoring, or trying to be like in some cases, windows and/or os-x isn't going to work. As a power user, developer, and gamer, i want to get useful stuff done. I don't want to tweak config files, i don't want to mess with sorry ass UIs (*cough* gimp, open office, libre office) and i don't want a shitty ass GUI (ubuntu, fedora / anything gnome 3.x based. Now, i don't care what you try to target, just please know that you won't have me, or others like me, using your OS or apps. I use windows 7 and office at work, os-x/office at home, and i'm pretty happy, even though i don't *want* to use either OS or an office suite owned by MS.

It's not the document format. It actually IS the UI. Office 2010 was fucking amazing. I'll say that as a windows, linux (ubuntu, fedora, and zorin os user). It's all about the ribbon yo. If you want linux on the desktop you have to copy that ribbon mentality. if you don't...welll continue listening to the anti microsoft crowd. BTW, the sidebar in OO and LO sucks, just like Windows 8.

Really? Because i'd argue freedom of speech. Let the court strike THAT down...I would take it to the supreme court...Yeah blizzard, be glad i'm too lazy to write bots for your games...

Want my take on what really happened? The guy wasn't making any money off his site...so he blamed the USA for his shit business model.

Disclaimer: I didn't read the article. I call bullshit. If the good ole US of A came knocking on my door threatening me, i'd tell them to stuff it, and alert every major media news outlet in the country to the fiasco. You want my users' info? Sure, get a warrant and get in line pal. Sounds like scaremongering to me. Just wanting to stir up the slashdot crowd. Note that i'm not siding with the government at all, but this scaremongering has to stop if anything is going to get done.

You pay them alot? Certain big name company I work for (that i manage the google shopping experience for) has over 6,000 products on google base. We pay less than $250/mo and it generates over $35,000 in revenue ALONE. you call less than 1% of revenue a lot? Cheapest sales person you'll ever hire. Remember that.

I don't know, i find dish to be better than directv. Everyone I've known who has had directv (about 8 people so far) has had issues with them silently renewing contracts and charging the customer an ETF when they want to cancel. We had no such issues with dish when we cut the cord.

Considering that I am the king of my country...I don't think i'm spying on myself? :) Could be wrong though....

long run* sorry buys, sleep deprivation due to 2 year old ;)

It's actually all due to the perceived threat of piracy. Rather sad actually. I'm sure it was misused more often then not, but I think it will hurt more than help in the long wrong. My employer wants to can my MSDN subscription due to moving to open source...was going to try to talk them into a technet subscription so we have access to test the latest versions of windows, exchange, office, etc. but now it looks like that won't be an option. Keep in mind that I've had a personal technet account for a while. It went from 10 cd keys to 5 cd keys to 3...i knew it would be gone soon. Still sad though :(

Huh? Skipping mod points to say you are definitely wrong. The Chrome (chromium by it's open source name) source code is here and the android source code is here. nice try though.

Yep, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Md9b6XbVtQ Oh sure, it's slow as balls, but considering the CPU in that phone was probably about the speed of an 8088 or something...runs pretty well.

If i were him, i'd appear before court via a video feed. If they actually say he committed a crime, he would simply need to say he was a whistle blower. Lets see them counter that.