Why would you willingly watch ads?

I think you mean "pot calling kettle and all that".

[YouTube] now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE11, Apple's Safari 8, and in beta versions of Mozilla's Firefox browser. At the same time, YouTube is now also defaulting to its HTML5 player on the web.

You mean the web you browse with Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE11, Apple's Safari 8, and in beta versions of Mozilla's Firefox?
Am I missing something here, or are these sentences completely redundant?

You are familiar with the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, right?

Not a Nation of Wimps, a nation of media outlets run by large corporations that would like to cause a buying spree of disaster-readiness supplies.
Last time there was an ice storm in my area roads got shut down hard, we were just fine for food and only left the house, to walk to nearby store, because we were so damn bored staying indoors and wanted something to drink besides what we had. Water and food were not an issue with what we normally kept on hand.

I'm surprised no ones suggested building a dome over the White House yet.

Doesn't that only supports my opinion there is some obvious favoritism going on here? If the primary goal of the media is to get views then why wouldn't they be leaping all over a story about high-profile lobbyist being caught in a child sex ring? They normally like to report alleged pedophiles regardless of how strong the evidence. Why are they letting something so juicy stay under the radar?

Apple had it written into their carrier agreements they retained full control of the OS and updating it. Carriers simply are not allowed to block stuff like that. Plus, you can always update your phone through USB with iTunes.

Google gave the carriers more power to change Android and control things like software updates. Some of this was necessary (more hardware to support from different manufactures, requiring drivers and testing my those OEMs), but a lot of it was because it's what OEMs/carriers wanted (so they could differentiate their handsets from competitors and for business reasons).

Carriers wielded this power as a club to force people into upgrading their phones more. Lots of earlier versions of Android were, you have to admit, kinda half-baked. Google released new versions that filled in many of these gaps in the phone features, but carriers didn't make those updates available to current Android users as often as they should, preferring to make the new Android version a bullet point on the features list for new handsets (which defeats the whole purpose of a smartphone OS).

Why did Google make their agreements like this? It was easier to get agreements with carriers to support the platform at all. Remember that Apple had to work very hard to get in the door at all with the iPhone, eventually signing an exclusivity agreement with AT&T to get them to come on board. Verizon would plain not agree to Apple in a setup where they did not have the ability to customize the OS and disable features they didn't like (as they were famous for at the time), add carrier branding to the hardware, etc. Once the iPhone became the must-have device of the time and AT&T's exclusivity agreement ended it was only then the other carriers agreed to Apple's terms.

Then, to quote Harlequin80 above, why is it "there are too many cases of people being tried in the media and having their lives destroyed when they actually haven't done anything wrong"? Why isn't every case treated as this one was?

Yes, and isn't it interesting how the media has looked the other way in the case of Michael Centanni, but is happy to rake someone over the coals any other time? Sounds like the media is completely aware of how damaging the court of public opinion is, and are showing some favoritism towards those in power -- the very people we should be most vigilant about.

I don't think it would be right to call it "dormant" in the OS.
If the code is there, but not available to call to, that would be dormant.

Uh, It's right on the page he linked.
Does this make it easier for you?

I can't speak much for NVidia products, but Sapphire makes a short AMD-based card that would fit in an Elite 110 I'm sure there are others (might have to put the power connector into the cutout for the front panel if it's a card-rear power connector model),

Pleeze. That will be right out the window as soon as a rich parent takes the school district to court for "ruining their child's future" with an unconstitutional law.

How are you making money with social media, though?
No, I mean really. Facebook would like to know how to.