Ok, see the contradiction :
You : monopolist ... Microsoft used to be
You again : monopolist (which Microsoft is

Ok, so Google is not compelled to write Youtube application. They are going by your logic exactly, you should be happy.

Microsoft's refusal to help me write MS office for my Linux tablet has put obstacles in my path, even with such an advocate with such good offices with Microsoft as you have, where I am a potential competitor.

Wrong, refuted in your own next sentence, bold in my quote.

Like my 9 year old son, Google is being cautious with Microsoft after Microsoft showed it is not to be trusted. You should be happy about it.

Ok, so you forgot your own post. Reminding you for the first and last time.

"The appropriate term is "utilizing a de-facto monopoly in one area to crush competition in another area". It is illegal. It is evil. It is what Microsoft used to be. It is what Google is now".

I know. That is why the next paragraph has a reference to "future". Read all the three sentences of this post before replying.

I live in such a society, and your considerations are true. But retirement is equally valid and it is definitely considered. Hell, there are LAWS against not caring for your parents in old age.

Used to be? Thank God. I have a tablet platform that I want to sell, and I want MS office on it. Could you use your good offices with Microsoft to persuade them to help me write MS office for my platform? The platform can nearly accurately be described as GNU/Linux.

thanks

Ok, so MS are given permission by Google to write a YouTube app. MS goes ahead and allows users to download videos. When a 7th grader knows this is against Google's TOS.

When my 9 year old son shares his toys with a "friend", and that friend damages the toys, my son is more restrictive in sharing the toys with that "friend" in the future. Of course, being my son, he's a genius, but Google isn't bad here either.

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gpg: decrypt_message failed: eof

And. like the GP said, every neighbourhood changes over time. Some of the changes are not good for existing residents. Nothing special about buses or poverty or social involvement. ANY type of change may or may not suit existing residents.

Chose a barren area to live because you don't like trees? Suddenly landscape "improvement" project plants lots of trees in the area? Tough luck. Nothing illegal/immoral in planting trees, actually extraordinarily moral. Nothing illegal/immoral in transporting employees in buses, actually extraordinarily moral.

So don't live in such areas. Good for you. But if they move away tomorrow, leaving all plumbers for your company? For some morally and legally justifiable reason? You could move again, accepting the situation. Or you could crib about how "unfair" it is to you since these worthies have left your city.

Yes, Linux could have been one saviour of AMD. And how does AMD treat Linux? By crashy, poor performance drivers. Intel started merging into Linux codeline for haswell support a year before releasing the chip. AMD starts to provide reasonable open source drivers a year after releasing the chip, and it reaches Intel driver quality in maybe 5 years.

Power problems of 5 year old AMD chips have recently been fixed, with mixed results.

Yup, the bully getting his way is no surprise. An underdog (trying to) ordering people around is always funny.

ATI drivers? Desktops ? People here are talking about servers. Learn what servers are, try to keep up with the discussion before jumping in.

Do you routinely put the onus of proof on the wrong party, especially in the realm of information security?

And there will be accounts which you will use rarely. E.g. when most of your finances are "automated" like they should be, logging on to banking website may be rare - say once a month. There could be some important email accounts which are used rarely.

A password used once, a month ago, is not very likely to be recalled easily.

If a user understands that disabling JavaScript is important to preserve their privacy, how is the user "non technical"?

MD5 is still a very good and inexpensive hash. Just doesn't stand up to active attacks very well, but sometimes hashes are used for purposes where active attacks are not relevant.

E.g. MD5 is great for use in organizing / backing up / verifying / recovering from accidental damage etc. for your personal files.