opendns is doing that but I think it's limited to websites hosted on cloudflare that enabled this warning so probably not many

according to wikipedia Finland has a very low density and most of the population lives in the south of the country, the mountains in the south are quite small as well and Finland is still very small compared to the US

that's the average speed though, Netherlands is quite small and there are no mountains as far as I know, the US on the other hand is huge, you can't expect fiber optic connections in rural areas, that's also the reason why South Korea and Japan come out on top, they are very small country, of course they are also usually better than the rest of the world when it comes to technology

maybe in the US, in Italy it's not uncommon to find tons of paper ballots in the junk a week after the voting
it doesn't matter if it's electronic or paper both people and machine can screw up either intentionally or not but machine are usually better than humans, that's why we use them for other crucial tasks, the problem is that there is no proper testing because they don't really care if the wrong guy get elected, it's not as bad as a plane crashing or a missile hitting the wrong target

correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't quicksync use the integrated gpu of sandy/ivy bridge cpus?

yeah I really don't understand why vlc is so popular, aside from not having hardware acceleration the video colors are wrong, smplayer/umplayer is better but I still had some issue when seeking x264 videos, right now I'm using potplayer and it's probably the best video player, mediaplayer classic hc is really good as well

well microsoft just bought skype, it's not like they'll change all their servers in a few months just because they don't use their own products, it would have been a totally different story if microsoft used linux for something like bing

I'm not american but the US dept. of the interior doesn't sound like a college to me

does libre office provides you with an email client and server, cloud storage and document collaboration?
as usual slashdot readers don't actually read neither the article nor the summary

I'm no expert but the 727 is an old plane maybe it's just not possible to fly it remotely

because they are using the kinect api to do voice recognition they didn't write their own

here http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl

explorer is the shell not the window manager, also unlike linux where desktop composition is sluggish most of the times, aero with gpu acceleration is much faster than gdi+, if the gpu is too old and can't run aero fast enough you can still disable it(like the win7 starter edition that's used mostly on netbook) or switch to the classic theme(like windows server)

I don't know about gnome, but kde release a new version every six months since 4.0

actually most pirates that use sites like rapidshare are premium users, why do you think a lot of people cried when megaupload was closed also the free download speed is already below 200k most of the times, there is no point in using them if they are gonna be slower than torrent