One word for you: Microsoft. Maybe two: Adobe.

Nonsense. Actually I was thinking in terms of sharing information and real time editing and collaboration. Those are the big advantages. We moved past that static document thing a while back. Emailing spreadsheets or docs is 1990's technology. Its the 90's equivalent of "sneaker net" at that, for people that haven't figured out there's a better way to share information. How do you guys with all that "technical knowledge" have multiple people in multiple locations edit the same file at the same time? I hope you don't use email for that too. That would suck from both productivity and data integrity standpoints.

So in a couple of years when the technology is embedded in lapel pins or other subtle wearables, and they are "always on", what do we do, ban jewelry and clothing accessories? This is like horse owners complaining about them new fangled motorized carriages because they are loud, dangerous and the money all goes to Detroit. Its just humans being humans.

I guess you have a definition of "small time", but I am thinking of alleged Chinese theft of Google source code. The "backdoor" was IE and very clever phishing.

The MS equivalent car is 20K, but breaks down more frequently, warranty sucks, guzzles gas, and has a funny smell that won't go away. So the 30K is a better value, and less cost over the product lifetime.

Exactly! Not even a moron would use their own name to conceal their identity.

It actually means Ballmer has left the building, and reality is staring them in the face. They've spent too much time fucking themselves. And now it don't feel so good.

Why would MS event want to give LInux on the desktop away? Its already "Free". They'd probably fuck it up anyway.

Just wondering if I could plug it into my Linux desktop, and copy files to/from easily or do I have to play for MS crapware to fully use. Just wondering, don't know, but that's part of the appeal for android for me, its pretty platform neutral. Including development tools.

Yea, but a lot of people have tried MS products. Why would they then buy a phone from them when there is low cost options?

That's probably because the ratio of dotnetnuke blogs with pingbacks enabled vs wordpress blogs with pingback enabled is a *illion to 1 or so. And if you were trying to use an amplification technique, dotnetnuke blogs probably isn't a good choice. You either use pingbacks or not. I don't believe there is a way to say "hey this is a good pingback from random stranger and this other one from random stranger2 over here is for malicious purposes". And probably one reason you don't want something to get too popular. Then it becomes a vehicle for stuff just because of its popularity. I host quite a few wordpress sites, and haven't seen any unusual traffic, so they are probably targeting large shared hosting operations with lots of WP sites.

Drupal probably does not do pingbacks out of the box. Its a blog thing, and Drupal's blog implementation is pretty weak. WordPress does allow pingbacks unless you explicitly turn that off.

If you had said you lived in a shithole sewer somewhere, I would have known not to bother.

Don't use Comcast .... For people on Comcast, does Skype work at all now? They used to throttle that to the point of uselessness.