Sounds like Zuckerberg forgot to change the default privacy settings from public to private.

Megaupload is being taken for a ride in the Party Van and Filesonic has chosen self obliteration, though there is no shortage of competing services. On first glance Wikipedia lists 70+ of the most popular file hosting services.

I recall the Adobe loading screens on older Acrobat versions. One time while waiting for Acrobat to load its bloated carcass into memory I actually paid attention to the loading messages and noticed "movie.api" among others being loaded. That was the nail in the coffin.

While switching to non-Adobe PDF software may not be in the power of everyone, you can blacklist the Adobe PDF plugin from running in your web-browser. Apart from improving your internet experience it may also help prevent some drive-by PDF exploits.

But the point is banks could have access to see if a number was recently ported. If they detected a number was ported they could take further action or require additional authentication. The banks choose not to use this information, and customers are defrauded.

A Hardware Token (such as RSA Securid) would have prevented TFA's fraud. SMS is clearly not a good replacement for real Two-Factor authentication, though it is cheap for the banks to implement compared to other options.

So the banks say it's not their problem, it's the fault of mobile operators for making numbers portable. Yet the banks were offered access to the national mobile database so they could check if a number was recently ported, but declined to use the information. Meanwhile the fraudsters are getting away with their winnings...

I think SMB or FTP would choke, both in terms of bandwidth and in terms of concurrent user limitations if your server became even remotely popular in that situation. Also it's hard to play games while your server is being thrashed.

And Bing's search engine is Google.

Subsidising .xxx domain names to protect Americans from the foreign porn invasion terrorists. I'd love to see the President announce this with a straight face.

The solution to protecting a trademark is to register domains in every possible TLD. This message brought to you by GoD*ddy.

I'm still interested to know how you defend your trademark when you're not aware of it being used?

Jobs didn't have the "regular" adenocarcinoma that has a 5% five-year survival rate, he had a rare form that has an estimated 80%-90% ten-year survival rate when detected and acted upon early.

Alternative medicines on the whole are snake-oil treatments that sucker the desperate and ill-informed. Anecdotes do not make science. Unsurprisingly some hold the opinion that there is a greater than zero chance that Jobs would be alive today had he not attempted to treat his cancer with alternative therapies.

Not sure if you are sarcastic or ignorant.

Apple sued to try and prevent other software companies from using similar GUI elements including the Trash can, and were partially successful.

So the coalition wants to give an electronic "pigeon hole" to every citizen which will allow communication from "government agencies and other related organizations". This sounds to me like a reboot of the National Identity system that the same government tried to create in 2006.

Published APIs are important, nay, necessary for "cloud" applications and services to be useful to developers to build upon. Open source is necessary for community based development of the underlying applications or services.

Open source software is completely irrelevant in this instance and this appears to be a simple strawman attack from Microsoft against the open source movement.

I was under the impression that Steve Jobs had invented magic, hence all their revolutionary products/patents. /trollin'