As massive licence buyers are heavily negotiating the official prices, we won't get a Linux landslide... do not expect those prices to be applied to governments or big companies.

Yup that how it works in my humble French town (as in most French towns and cities) and it does works. Every vote is counted twice by a two different persons, and anyone can look over the shoulder of the people counting. Anyone can participate, I did twice. And it works.
Of course, sometimes fraud does happen, but it's usually spotted quite early and the fraud scale is rather small.

On Android, most devices do not have app2sd. But some, like the HTC ChaCha/Status have it. It's a vendor issue.
You can install it if you root your device. Same goes for Windows RT, without the rooting part, you can use junctions to work around this stupid limitation.

Many commenters here oversimplify the problem. Do not forget that Google is in a monopolistic position. Deindexing newspaper web pages could be considered as Google using their monopoly as an advantage.
And then, it becomes much more interesting as Europe is constantly probing many companies for such evil monopolistic behaviors. Europe could force google to index these newspapers, and France has much more legislative influence over Europe than Belgium which attempted the same kind of tax, several years ago.

I should have made myself clearer: I am not American , therefore the potential backdoors may be harmful to my country.

Why? Is my data safer when monitored by NSA made backdoors than by Chinese ones? Are the American ones of higher quality?

Jobs has been dead for a year and I don't care. His being dead was news, but this is no news and totally uninteresting.
Has any new line of text popped up in his biography? No.

Nope.

My father use to work for the French national police force. It's a half police, half military police corp.
One day, he visited a nuclear power plant for whatever security reason. With a group of people, he walked around one of these famous pool, then just clumsily fell in it. He was of course decontaminated as soon as I happened, and well, he still has no cancer decades after, even as a heavy smoker.
Sadly, he did not get any superpower either, just a smart kid, years later ;)

I know that truth is not really popular around Slashdot, but nothing was actually hacked, as said here
A software alarm popped up for unauthorized login and that's all. It's just that it looked like a hack attempt of a critical national institution.
BTW, looking at the comments, it seems like people did not understand that Banque de France is not a real bank. It's a national administration, just printing money, loaning money to banks and insurance for collateral and managing over-indebtedness.

If you got loads of money and stacks of disposable fine paper, print at home. In any other case, print elsewhere.
Home printing is an enlightening experience, but a hard and incredibly expensive one.

About the same kind of technology emerged in France, It was actually quite popular (France wide), until the Internet superseeded it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
You could rent the terminal for a real cheap price (about 50 cents) then you had pay per minute scheme for services.

A friend of mine used to work for a French special effects company and he had to work on this. He told me that this is basically a world of pain and it produces great piles of smocking shit. It just sucks, even when done properly by highly trained people. Can you imagine making 3D out of a 2D tree? Make every background 3D or properly cut out the character to get the desired effect?
It sucks, it's mostly manual, get over it.

As far as I can see, what we get on small apps store is 45 shitty apps. Have a look at the OVI app store. Did I make my point?
I do not know about the Window Phone 7 app store, but I bet that's the same.

Of course quantity != quality, but you have more quality apps on the android and on the iphone store than on any other application store. Furthermore, most people don't care about quality. They want their generic apps (Facebook, XYZ newspaper, etc...) and a lot of other apps, mostly free.
Does Apple advertise apps quality or quantity? Think again.