I wish I had mod points right now. +++++

iPads are sold all over the place.
You can't buy Surface anywhere but Microsoft Store/Online from Microsoft.

You sure seem to have an intimate knowledge of this neighbour.

If you own the trademark on the name used in the domain name, you might be able to get it back by going directly to ICANN with a trademark complaint.

However, if you can't access your hosting company's files and your contract doesn't describe how they guarantee access to your data then (for static sites, i.e. no dynamic content or web applications) you can use the `wget` command available on GNU/Linux to crawl and download the entire site as it exists currently.

This would not help you in recovering files that aren't linked directly from the public website nor recover defaced files.

Never let your hosting company be the point of contact/owner for your domain registration.

Presumably any site that receives enough traffic to necessitate a CDN is going to be able to afford to do just that, or even as-is-needed.

In fact, I do use a CDN (albeit a paid 3rd party in this case) to run a social networking site: http://rok.yt/

And I run another myself where I have servers in Europe connected via a VPN to the application servers, whose resources they cache.

In either case, it's trivial and low-cost.

Also, it's not like you can't host your own CDN. I do.

I guess it's too bad no one has invented a way to encrypt HTTP connections.

Yeah, CDNs are a Facebook-proprietary-technology that no other website in the world could possibly ever hope to use.

It's the Equalization of Opportunity Act!!!

My experience, exactly. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked to look into a problem with a web server only to find that their logs are packed with failed login attempts pointed at /phpmyadmin. It's bad enough that it blindly installs itself as a subdirectory in every Apache vhost you run; but their lack of default password attempt limits and bans (especially given its popularity and the level of access it provides) is downright irresponsible.
There are literally botnets that do nothing more than cruise around the internet looking for phpmyadmin installations.

The difference is that the Samsung products all competed directly with the product that Apple created. With these watches/clocks, the Clock.app isn't competing with their market for expensive wristwatches and industrial clocks. While they may be able to reach some agreement to license the design itself, it won't result in the same sort of trade-dress/injunction legal issues.

I doubt you'll be able to properly merge the spreadsheet via git.

Google and Microsoft both already operate out of Waterloo and Facebook is heading there from Toronto.

The rationale is that the bar being at the top of the screen provides an infinite targeting area. You just have to push your mouse up until the pointer will no longer move then go left or right until you've gotten to the right menu. I find myself spending a lot of time and concentration trying to target menus in Windows because they're so slight compared to the rest of the interface. I imagine that's one of the things the ribbon is trying to solve in light of high-resolution displays, a rather garish way to increase the targeting area.

At least someone is going to have to start taking responsibility for what's going on over there. QNX is going to be interesting to see on their devices next year. I think the big thing driving smartphone sales right now is price, and RIM hasn't been able to release an appealing device with a price point low enough to drive people away from the alternatives.