However, if someone could develop a drop-in replacement for Windows which was compatible with all the APIs

Have you just described the goal of Wine?

There is also the question whether this video will influence more people to commit suicide. The Samaritans have a section on their website explaining how to report and dramatize suicides responsibly.
http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide

The problem is that it encourages other people to commit suicide too.
http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines/advice-media-copycats-and-social-contagion

Remember - we're comparing IPv4 with NAT against IPv6.

Yes the ISP allocates the IPv6 prefix, but then again with NAT every source packet has the same IPv4 address. The real difference is that with IPv6 every single request can be given a different source address. If the source addresses are picked randomly from the /64 pool then it should be impossible to identify individual hosts within the /64 based solely on IP address information. As you rightly point out there are other effective ways of doing this already, but that's not an argument against using IPv6.

I've never understood this concern. With IPv6 I have, say, 2^64 addresses to use. I could use a different source IP address for each and every HTTP request I send out. Even at 1000 requests a second we'll all be long dead before you had to reuse a source address.

IPv6 gives you loads of room to hide. This is my concern - address based blocklists will quickly become infeasible.

All these posts and no-one has mentioned it runs on FreeBSD?

Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

feel free to operate your own resolvers.

Preferably with DNSSEC turned on.

If the filesystem is already marked as clean, then e2fsck doesn't actually check anything. You might want to try timing "fsck -f ..."

Facebook are willing to sue. They don't want people to do this either. It devalues their service (even if the users are the "product", they still need to provide something of value to attract users).

Facebook probably wants to be able to charge companies for access to potential employees' data

businesses actually have a product if they're offering Cloud services, whereas dotcom companies generally did not.

If there is a Dotcom bubble and if it does burst, how many customers are the cloud services going to have left?

Does the operating system not provide the SSL libraries? Or do you actually have to code the encryption routines into each application on iOS?

I would have thought the export restrictions would only apply to the SSL libraries, not the application that uses them.

CRLs are revocation lists which used to be published by CAs and clients were able to periodically download.

As a concept they were replaced with OCSP (online certificate status protocol). Here the client requests the current status of a certificate each time they are presented with it. The idea was that it would be more timely and up to date and meant CAs didn't need to publish a complete list of revoked certificates.

Now it seems Chrome wants to go back to a bodged version of the old way of doing things where Chrome periodically requests the CRL from the browser vendor or Chrome is periodically updated with the latest CRL?

The CAs never see the private key material. When you apply for a certificate, you generate the private key and a certificate signing request (CSR). It's the CSR which gets sent to the CA to sign, not the private key. All the CA has a copy of is the CSR and certificate, which is public knowledge anyway.

One of Dilbert creator Scott Adam's books covers market segmentation. The market segment every business should aim for is the "stupid rich". The poor rich don't have enough money, and smart people aren't going to buy your company's product anyway. The stupid rich is where the money is made.

What surprises me is the number of people who use caps-lock instead of shift to type a single capital letter, i.e.
caps-lock on
type letter
caps-lock off
every single time.