You do understand the law is largely unenforceable, right? Sure Google and Microsoft might comply, but the information is still there and someone else can create searchable lists.

How about "I'm the president of the Andrew Tanenbaum Fan Club, and we wondered why you're such an asswiped for choosing a monolithic kernel."

A Theo de Raadt episode would be a lot more fun.

But seriously, I miss the Friday Star Wars and/or evolution stories.

Yes, ARM sees to have become what Java promised to be.

Which is the technical equivalent of allowing only researchers in the employ of the tobacco industry to research the risks of smoking.

Remember the old days when motive was a substantial part of a court's consideration of an alleged illegal act.

But that was in the days before lawyers became gods on earth.

And what ads are these? I use the Kobo and Kindle apps, and the only ads I see are in their home/library screens, where they have book recommendations (most of the time having nothing to do with anything I actually read). Once I select an ebook I don't see ads at all.

You must be using some weird hardware.

If all I'm doing is reading, my battery life is pretty damned long. As with any tablet, it's about all the other crap you might have running. I do agree that e-ink has its advantages depending on lighting conditions, but the first thing I learned was to switch to black background with white text, which solved some of the problems.

No kidding. I use both the Kobo and Kindle apps, and while they bring up recommendations if you are in their "home" screens, I never see them while actually reading the book.

For reading books, I'm not going to get a full blown Windows device that costs several hundred dollars. Heck, for just reading, I think my Nexus 7 is way overpriced, but because I use it for other things like remote administration, it serves multiple purposes.

That's odd. Since in the last year I've read several novels, not to mention technical papers, essays and a few non-fiction books... all on my Nexus 7. Don't install much in the way of apps, and see no more ads on it than I do on my notebook or desktop.

Oh, I get it. You had this incredible attack against tablets, and you're not actually interested how they may be used on the ground. Do carry on with your biased and self-serving arguments.

Because Kindles are cheap and Surface is not.

Well, I guess it's no fucking good at all, we should kill the site, eradicate the errors and force everyone to pay bazillions for equally dubious mainstream encyclopedias or megabazillions for medical references.

The summary basically amounts to "Do you answer leading question in the way writer of leading question wants you to answer?"

Not that I think ethanol is the answer, but this summary is your typical echo chamber nonsense.

Google is hell-bent on making a magic textbox that "does everything" but that forces people to use additional keywords like "near" or "loc", which basically transforms the "single textbox" in a poorly implemented command-line. This is bad UX, plain and simple.

What's wrong with keywords ? For me it works very well, while Bing seems like a modern incarnation of Altavista.