I mean honestly isn't this a little sad? OTOH maybe he is just trying to placate shareholders. MS is ubiquitous in the workplace and I'm sure that represents a fair amount of money. Once you've achieved world domination, what more is there?

I say, let the yuppies play with this little do-dad over the weekend. You know Monday morning they're coming back home to momma.

Seems like the same old story to me: Apple is a music store and Microsoft sells hardware.

Apple stood if full support of the new bill, stating that they have been ahead of the game on this one. Even going so far as to sacrifice minute usability for the health of all their customers and the world as a whole.

I have trouble even comprehending "record and retain all citizens' communications traffic." To think that someone would tolerate a government spying on web traffic, I mean it's not like we're talking about cell phones here.

Agreed, there is no way he was acting on his own on this one. In other news, The United States has been removed from the world trade empire and branded rebels.

Why does it look like the case is alligator skin? I'm not sure, but don't they give a shit about things like that? Aside from that little oversight, this could be the last nail in the American-technology coffin.

Homeland Security will be an ever increasing beast. I'm already surprised at everything that falls under their authority. OTOH...This is not really something new for us. Who knows maybe they get funding from the "War on Drugs," the American public's interest is waning and the jailed population is going up. Maybe chasing down bloggers will keep us out of ground wars. A lot more than this would have to happen for us to stop cowering.