The US seems to have embraced the concept of "guilty until proven innocent" in a lot of their dealings.

This is one of the biggest problems with our education system. We tend to teach memorization rather than understanding. I read a quote somewhere recently, "Our brains are factories, not warehouses" yet we, as a society, tend to treat them as storage devices...

I agree with your post, but I am a bit concerned that your accounting skills need some work...

no, I only turn on my speakers when I want to hear something, like watching a video...

or going the other way, maybe we could try to guess peoples wants and then just show specific ads on a site catered to that guessed want. We could call this process "targeting ads" Unfortunately I am not sure how well we could guess the wants of random users...

posting to fix a botched moderation, but also to say that I don't follow the methodology in the summary (no I have not RTFA). Just because advertisers are paying doesn't mean USERS are paying anywhere near that amount. I understand advertising and marketing better than many, but I I think most companies pay too much for advertising for too small a payback.

me too. Parts are on their way this week, so we will see...

FTFY

FTFY again

a properly managed windows box is good, a poorly managed windows box is crap a properly managed linux box is pretty much bomb proof, a poorly managed linux box is good.

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As an outsider, sometimes I wonder if the US is really trying to kill itself. Arrogant attitudes like this ruling make it more difficult for companies to do business there.

This deserves mod points. This is one reason many companies are leery of storing private data in the cloud (among other reasons)

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I would say the exact opposite.

My personal phone is a nexus 5. I was given a blackberry z-10 as a work phone. In almost every way I prefer the Android. Better keyboard, better predective text. better sound quality, better screen, better camera...

I do like the blackberry hub, and in some ways I like the Blackberry approach to email.

In summary, I would say the Blackberry is a decent communication device and a crappy pocket computer. The Nexus 5 is an excellent pocket computer and a decent communication device.