The damage Mr. Ballmer has done to Microsoft in the past eight years is strategic and structural. His successor will have an enormous uphill battle to turn the company around.

Both the robber and Snowden took risks, risks that have possibly severe consequences. Completely the same.

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Snowden ran away, and is now hiding in Russia. Like a coward.

A bank robber who gets killed during the robbery sacrifices a lot, he lost his life and his future. Does that automatically make the bank robber a Patriot? Of course not.

At some point, if there does not exist already, there will be a market for MAC addresses and information that is linked to them.

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Marketeers like Acxiom and SurveySampling are probably lusting after the ability to link a MAC address to a social media account, or a person's demographics.

I disagree with the premise of the summary.

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First of all, it was not a Bill Gates BusinessWeek article, it was an interview with Bill Gates in BusinessWeek. Second, Bill Gates takes a swipe at technology deployment being done by a Microsoft competitor, without giving any substantiation of why technology deployment is bad. The BusinessWeek interview of Bill Gates shows just how short-sighted and self-centered his "vision" really is. He is unable to comprehend the benefits of anything besides what he is doing.

1) The wi-fi balloons will provide the needed networking infrastructure in those areas, infrastructure that assists the medical and other health professionals with their tasks.

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2) Gates is an individual, google is a corporation. Apples and oranges to compare the two.

Gates needs to look past his self-important blinders and see the whole picture.

The wi-fi balloons will provide the needed networking infrastructure in those areas, infrastructure that assists the medical and other health professionals with their tasks.

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Gates needs to look past his self-important blinders.

The legal system sits firmly a decade behind technology.

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Maybe the discussion needs to be whether or not technology advancement needs to be slowed down in order for civilasation to keep up with the changes......

When I buy a printed book, I own the book. I can read the book whenever and where ever I want.

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When I buy an eBook, I do not own the book. In order to read the book, I have to hope that some DRM server somewhere will authorize the eBook reader to show me the book I want to read.

I have books on my book shelves that are over 50 years old, and I can still read them fine. Can the same be said about eBooks 50 years from now?

If she works as a dev at Intel and is subject to such abusive language because of the work she does at Intel, then Intel could have a harassment lawsuit in their future.

Microsoft's Board of Directors need to fix the root cause of Microsoft's problems.

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Unless and until Mr. Ballmer is shown the door, he will just continue re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and Microsoft will continue its slow voyage to the bottom...

In one company where I worked, I was able to have the end users funnel all their bug reports through the company's internal education department. If the "bug" were actually a prevalent user error, the education department would note that and modify their internal courses to instruct the users on proper usage. If the"bug" were actually a programming problem, the bug reports we got from the education department were very helpful to resolving the problem.

FINRA tries to pass itself off as an independent regulator of the financial industry.

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Just take a look at the firms that make up FINRA and you will see what a farce it is to use FINRA and financial industry regulation in the same sentence.

I've restarted Firefox with the "Restart with Add-ons Disabled" option. And I still see the paralysis.

I cannot disagree.