Yeah, because there's never been a security or privacy exploit on a Linux-based OS made by Google.

Come now. You know that's not how it's going to work.

The household things will not talk direct to the Internet. They'll connect via NAT to a hub-like base station device you have to buy separately and connect to your broadband router. It will use a proprietary protocol that bears a striking resemblance to something open-source (except with extensions on it) to talk to the devices. You will communicate with the devices via a custom website or smartphone apps. Your access to your devices will be contingent on you paying your monthly subscription fee for said service, of course. Even when you try and control the devices from your own LAN the commands will be routed out to $connectedhomeprovider and then back to your home's hub device, so if your Internet service is down (or their servers) you will still have no access to your connected IoT devices, even when they are sitting right next to you.

If they can't make a profit without bombarding people with ads, maybe they fail at being entrepreneurs. It's not my job as a consumer to prop up bad business plans.

There's Amazon Prime for Business?

The website should be a way for the business to reach new potential customers. Not an ends to producing profit in itself.
I buy plenty on Amazon despite blocking those affiliate third-party retailer ads at the bottom of the pages.
There are porn websites that operate on giving away short video samples, and subscribers paying for full videos.

I block ads on ALL websites.

Using this technique, can they tell us if the NSA did write the Regin Malware now?

You might also note this is going entirely off Apple's numbers. We haven't added the money from the markets of Android and other platforms.

It is for Microsoft. If they don't make a new Windows release visually different in some significant way most people will see no reason to upgrade, which will make the product a commercial failure (or at least, not enough of a success to make Wall Street happy). Now, it's true, if Microsoft were do make a new version of Windows significantly faster performing and more secure then they might get a bunch of people on board even if it had the same interface as before, adding shiny to software is much less work than actually improving the product itself.

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.