More likely to be bought out, especially if it's been in business for only a few years. There are a lot of these guys that start the business with the sole intention of building up the subscriber base and selling it to the highest bidder. Find a local company, *with its own central station*, that's been in business more then 10 years. Look around for their customers, which you can find by looking for their window stickers. Ask them about their reputation.

There are a lot of whores and trunk slammers in this business, but they're usually easy to spot if you know what to look for.

http://news.discovery.com/space/why-does-a-star-explode.htm

This is the first result for the Google search "Why do stars explode".

The same setup can be used with a remote linux client using x11vnc.

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/faq.html#faq-reverse-connect

I use this at work to support Laptop users in the field.

No reentry. It wasn't falling from space. Put it in orbit next time and see what happens.

We used to run Kolab at the office until we switched to Google Apps. It wasn't bad.

Will someone with mod points please mod the parent up?
Only Fox News is trying to connect this with the Higgs... the bastion of science reporting that they are.

Don't they have geographically disperse redundant data centers to avoid an issue like a tornado taking them completely down?

Google Talk has a Voice & Video plugin for the three major platforms. It works right in the browser. You can even do video chat from an android tablet.

Try Spideroak. 2GB free. They encrypt client side and have no access to your data.

Resistive Touchscreen, not quite enough RAM. Videos I found show it not rotating automatically, and performance a bit choppy. Slightly outdated Android 2.1.
So close though.

More then likely he was confusing a specific distribution with Linux itself. It seems plausable that he meant "[Distro X] is near end of life, so now would be a good time to create our own Distro to replace it, managed by us." I mean, if Linux itself was out of date, then why build your own OS from it? Also, the article mentions Red Hat several times. It seems thats the distro they are using now, which again reinforces my thought that they are talking about a distribution being out of date, not all of Linux.

currently consumers overwhelmingly choose to rent a box from their cable provider
Back when I had cable a couple years ago, there was no choice. If I wanted the deal, I *had* to rent the box. It sat under my sofa for a year, collecting dust and costing me money until I just had enough of it and canceled the service.

Of course it's outrageously expensive. They are taught by other lawyers.

As far as I know, that is not correct. PDF is an open format, and anyone can write software to create PDF's without needing a licence from Adobe. The reason PDF export isn't built into MS Office is because MS decided not to do it.