*phew* Until I saw that you were missing $, I was sure you meant Perl.

Not black at least, I've been roaming with various European model cell phones while visiting the US without any problems.

Indeed, not saying it's strange in that way. However, if you take a multi million users world wide system and basically shut down all marketing except in the US, you shouldn't be too surprised if your user base declines.

Not only that. AOL seems very US centric, the acquisitions they make (most striking example being ICQ) just seem to "stop existing" internationally.
ICQ was quite popular among the people I know (in Sweden), but since AOL bought them I've only ever heard of them in the context of being considered for sale or now being sold. The service works internationally for sure, but the little marketing I've seen for Live Messenger totally crushes anything I've heard about ICQ for years. In the context of the Internet, no news isn't good news. No news is abandonware.

Well, Virgin being involved, I'd not be so sure...

...and the moon landings never happened since you weren't there?

I'm in Sweden and I have quite a few unsubbed and legal channels both on-air and over satellite. There are some "accessibility requirements" for SVT (the government owned commercial free channel that charges a TV license fee) but even they aren't required to subtitle everything and many channels that do subtitle do so in English since few channels are dedicated to Sweden and Swedes in general have little problems with English.

So what you're saying is that the license accompanying the code shouldn't be trusted, you should always call and ask the original author if he changed his mind?

Umm... and the actual correct password hash traveling over the wire as a result is better how?

"Autogiro" being, essentially, a blank check saying "take as much money as you like when you want to from my account." I just won't accept that.

E-mail billing is... well, maybe a bit better than a physical bill but still I prefer getting my bill to my bank with all bill payment, PDF printable copies and records in one place. I actually "threw out" all places that want to bill me in other ways a few months back and sorry, at this point I'm not going back even for what I consider being a good cause.

I don't actually fileshare, but Bahnhof, you have my support and the day you support e-faktura (electronic bills & payment) I'll support you with my business too. /Actual Swede

3) You have to store encrypted data individually for each user. Most user won't fill their GDrive with their own unique data, most data will already be uploaded by someone else. This means the service can, if the checksum already exists on the server, skip both the upload and the storage of the file, it'll just add a reference to the existing one.

Money saved right there, and won't work with individually encrypted data. (and yes, it can be "abused", a hacked client could add a reference to a file you don't actually have - yet - if you know the checksum, so perfect for distribution of your "photo collection")

Admittedly not getting lost/damaged/stolen as much, but I've had two desktops stolen and one damaged in a fire while my laptop never had problems like that, mostly because I carry it with me so I can keep it safe. Not saying you're wrong in general, just that your mileage may vary.

Heh, you can but I see I linked to a non LCD TV in this case... :-P I'll find a new link and return ;-)