Actually it's more like Bill Gates wanting to park out on the street so that he can visit someone, and the business who have their HQ on that street saying "Nu-uh, customers only."

It's a public street. They don't get to decide who can use it.

MS are acting more like a creepy stalker than a software company nowadays. I used to poke fun at Steve Ballmer's odd public image and seemingly strange behaviour, but he ran a better MS than Nadella could ever dream of. Admittedly that is the perspective of a user rather than a shareholder, but you need to please one group in order to please the other. Maybe it is because Ballmer has somewhat more history with the company. Maybe he learned how not to alienate people. Even though people used to joke that MS were evil, they always made the product I wanted and needed. Their business practices could often be subject to vaild criticism, but their operating system was typically the best option at least for me. That has all changed. I don't need or want Windows 10. I've tried it, and it isn't too awful on the front end, but the shenanigans behind the scenes are too much for me.

Your face gets rubbed in the poop no matter what. It isn't as though the US can go without a president. If you don't decide, you let everyone else decide for you.

My bank have a device for home use which (when the PIN is entered) can generate a single use code. I believe this is what you're referring to? It is used for transactions through their own online banking service, but sadly not for anything else.

"Vehicle", you say?

The Met certainly have never created a "vehicle" fitting that description.

Client-side Java applets for the web is, and always was, an abomination. It already isn't a thing, not sure why you think it is. Server-side Java ain't going anywhere fast. Silverlight is rapidly dying, but then it never really got started properly. It was pretty bad. I don't understand why you're unhappy with anyone using the .NET framework for the web, though. That's all server-side stuff though, and not in any way comparable to Flash.

Not if you put up an explicit message saying "This site is not available on Windows 10".

Google (googol) isn't really a made up word, though. It is word deliberately misspelled for branding purposes, and that's fine... it just isn't a made up word.

It is of course possible that the name registered 14 years ago was an original word and that the "well-known domain" came later.

I often wonder this. I know that in some parts of Asia, Yahoo Auctions is the default for that kind of business rather than ebay, but is that all? I can't think of anything else.

The word 'separate' probably meant to imply "separate from BT", rather than "separate from all other parties". They may well be owned by Telefonica, but they have absolutely no current connection to BT.

They have PHP, which is not a CGI language. It may not be as popular with the kids as Ruby or Python, but it is still a language with which you can do basically any website you might need.

Beats is worse than either though, by a long way.

That principle hardly holds true for "all things in life". If I claim that the world is flat, and only 4000 years old, while you claim that it is round and actually millions of years old, the truth does not like in the middle. I would be wrong.

What gives you any reason to doubt that they will?

Things don't enter the public domain anymore, sorry.