And I thought "focus" was what I needed! Thanks! I'm pouring the methylphenidate down the toilet. Wandering mind here I come! No effort needed.

Sure, many people would still get the ripped version, but I'd bet a large amount of people if they COULD GET a legitimate copy even with some ads in the video stream would.

Of course, how you have ads that cover everybody worldwide is another story. I suppose if it were for something like Coke that would be easy since it's sold everywhere.

So what? the nearest star that can explode as a supernova? What good will knowing that mean if it's millions of years away?

The RIGHT question is:

  What's the closest star we can SEE with the naked EYE go supernova that has a reasonable chance of any of us slashdotters viewing in our lifetimes. That IS important as it matters to the average person who might just look up.

Not sure why these things are called "Web App" when it's really an "IE APP".

Hopefully (probably not) this will leave a bad enough taste in people's mouths NOT to create applications that only run on one vendor's browser and even worse one vendor's browser at a specific version.

Seems like the people dumping on Google Plus are the same people who hate Facebook. That is, they didn't use google plus much before and didn't want to like the site before they ever typed in the URL.

So...there is absolutely NO surprise that people who hate social media websites hate google plus. Big deal. Move on.

I also don't recommend reading HP Lovecraft to her...

I actually disagree. Direct democracy results in mob rule. Athens failed for that reason. (among others). A majority has no problem voting a minority into ovens. It's happened.

power should be distributed as widely and as feasibly possible.

Another point is that the "corporation" is a creation of government. The entity is defined by law which in turn is made by government.

"The government is supposed to break up and prevent monopolies, not enforce and encourage them."

Welcome to the world of Mercantile Corporatism sponsored by Government. Nearly all attempts at "fixing" the problem of Government being in bed with Corporations results in corporations manipulating government even more.

More government control = more corporate control

In the series the screwdriver can do just about anything as long as it's not wood that it's working on (or some biological stuff). The good Doctor uses it to do just about everything. I seriously doubt we have the ability to create a magical device that can by pointing at a computer made by an alien species do what we want.

"that's borderline illegal AND morally corrupt."

That's practically speaking redundant. "borderline illegal? Something is legal or not (as determined by court). The term implies immoral already.

Why don't you say "The tax law is immoral" because that is what you are ACTUALLY saying. Of course it's easier to dump on people doing what their elected officials purposely design the tax law to allow them to do then the actual elected officials.