According to the article, GoDaddy lost 21,054, but they also gained 20,034, for a net loss of 1020. Given their scale, that doesn't exactly sound like a massive exodus. Also, without any further information, for all we know, this is just a regular day of churn that happened to end negative.

They were both: a desperation move that only lead to more desperation.

On AT&T, the iPhone 3GS is available for 1 penny with 2 year contract. Sounds real cheap to me. (Yes, that requires a data plan, but so do Android phones, so it's a wash). I imagine when the next iPhone comes out in 2012, the iPhone 4 will drop to a penny on Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T.

What does it matter what percentage of people used it? They advertised it as a feature, Then they took it away as a condition of continued use of the paid-for product. That's called a bait and switch, and is illegal.

Yes, HP is a US company. So is Dell, which is also a mass computer company.

It's actually pretty easy to image the Lion installer on to a USB key or an SD card. It's a good idea to keep one around, so if you need to reinstall for whatever reason, you can just boot from it and you're on your way.

In addition, every machine that ships with Lion has a feature called Internet Recovery. Basically, if your hard drive is completely blank, the Mac will download the recovery partition from Apple to get you up and running again. Once that's downloaded, you'll have access to the same tools the regular recovery partition would give you: Restore from a Time Machine backup, or download and install Lion from scratch.

And out of the dozens of manufacturers (including some open source), none of them leaked anything to the press about said deals?

Based on job postings over the years, it's more than likely a combination of various Unixes and Linux. It's definitely NOT Windows (or OS X for that matter).

Speaking of, if you search their job listings for the word "iCloud", almost every hit explicitly mentions Linux or UNIX, and most of the rest mention Perl, Ruby, Python, and other UNIXy applications. I didn't look at every single one of them, but the only one I saw that mentioned Windows at all was for testing the sync to iCloud functionally on Windows. I don't think I'm buying this story.

It is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It is a battle for choice and informed consent.

So you're going to try to take away my choice to use Facebook?

Have you actually used PgAdmin on a Mac, or just used it on Windows and/or Linux? The Mac port is hardly a quality piece of software.

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  It does database operations in the main thread, causing the GUI to lockup whenever an operation takes a long time. I'm not sure if this is distinct from the other versions, but it's nonetheless aggravating when you have to sit and wait for a doomed connection attempt to timeout before you can do anything else.
• It only supports vertical scrolling from the mouse, despite the fact that 360 degree scrolling of table view windows would be a perfect fit.
• You get exactly one main database browser window, and closing it closes all other opened windows. This may be SOP in Windows, but it's totally out of place on a Mac. It also really messes up your workflow when you're working on 2 or 3 things at once with each on a separate workspace.

PgAdmin does get the job done, but compared to the other applications I use in my day to day workflow (Transmit, Chrome, MacVim, Terminal, OmniFocus, etc.), it really stands out as a pain to use. I wish I had another Postgres GUI I could recommend, but unfortunately, I've yet to find one. Navicat would be a step up, but the pricing on their pro version is so absurd it's laughable, and the lite version is licensed for non-commercial use only. Any of you guys have a good, quality Postgres GUI for Mac to recommend?

OS X and iOS merging, Apple branded television, Macs switching to ARMs, subscription based iTunes, iTunes steaming, etc., etc. These things have been predicted by members of the media constantly for years, with subscription based iTunes being rumored for nearly a decade now. Why is this news? When drivers for Macintosh hardware start showing up in prerelease builds of iOS, then you've got a story worth printing. Until then, your argument has about as much weight as me saying they're switching to BeOS on Itanium based chips.

You did notice this article is talking about Australia, right?

The antitrust inquiry is for their search product, where they have an overwhelming percent of the market (to the point where Googling is a common verb, even among non-techies). Priority Inbox is a feature of their largely unrelated email product. While Gmail has a nice chunk of the market, it's hardly overwhelming. Hotmail and Yahoo both have nice chunks of market share as well.

If the Taliban manage to make off with one of Pakistan's nukes, then the stakes are bit higher

Sure, but what does that have to do with nude body scans and groping four year olds at the airport?

They claim you need to install a codec not because you actually need one, but because the vast majority of users have no idea what a codec is. They simply recognize it as some nerd term and take it as fact that they need it if they want to watch the video. The program that gets downloaded probably doesn't install a codec at all. It merely installs the virus. For that matter, the advertised video may not even exist. Sure, the user will get upset when they go though all that work and never get their video, but it doesn't matter. The damage is already done.